Weird Canadian TV shows

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Everybody thought 'Terence and Philip' were funny because the idea of Canadians being offensive is supposedly an oxymoron. In fact, I think Trey Parker got the idea from some unbelievably crass and puerile Canadian TV shows of the 70s/80s (less commercials and censorship than American TV), which even (especially?) today would be considered so far beyond PC or 'taste' that I can't believe they were aired at 8:30 time slots! Any hoseheads on here remember 'Bizarre'? (Sample skit - the "USGFL, or US Gay Football League, featuring the 'San Francisco 69'ers'") There was also a French one ("Les Carcasses"), which had a skit called 'Kamikaze Olympics', in which people with 'slant-eye' masks pole-vaulted into walls, etc. (That, and 'Bizarre''s "Super Dave" - violent self-immolation is a recurring basis in Can-com) A secret history of pre-'Kids in the Hall' weirdness is waiting to be unearthed...

dave q, Wednesday, 29 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fazze

Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 29 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eight years pass...

trying to find the name of a canadian tv show, like 'the bachelor' except with the genders switched, the couple got a house at the end?

hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Monday, 23 November 2009 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

when was it from? do you know what station/network it aired on? I don't think I've heard of it but now I'm curious too.

salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 10:41 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

No idea where to put this...A couple of us posted about Elwy Yost's death on the RIP thread a couple of years ago; he was the host of a public-television show here called Saturday Night at the Movie, which in the '70s introduced a lot of young Torontonians to old movies. Now they're cancelling the show.

http://www.nowtoronto.com/movies/story.cfm?content=189666

clemenza, Friday, 16 November 2012 13:07 (thirteen years ago)

It introduced (very) young Ottawans to old movies in the 80s and 90s too!

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 16 November 2012 14:21 (thirteen years ago)

Tbh, I didn't even know the show kept going after Yost's death.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 16 November 2012 14:22 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, it would have been all across Southern Ontario. They've tried a few different hosts since Elwy retired; the last couple of years, there's been a real shift to newer films. By the way, it was called Saturday Night at the Movies, plural...

clemenza, Friday, 16 November 2012 14:44 (thirteen years ago)

SNAM introduced the young, impressionable me to Night of the Hunter, Bigger Than Life, Carnal Knowledge, The Lady From Shanghai, I Confess and countless others. This sucks.

Room 227 (cryptosicko), Friday, 16 November 2012 16:09 (thirteen years ago)


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