SCTV - Pre-Teen World Telethon: "My Girl" (Chilliwack, aka "Gone Gone Gone So Long")

[spiff8082ms]

Love how John Candy gasps for air mid sentence...and then misses the downbeat coming back in on the drums at 1:35. Hilarious, and the perfect representation of pre-tean awkwardness!

[lowlander333]

and by the way, all the people in this vid are giants

how could you NOT love Catherine O'Hara

[mississauga0909]

Classic!!!!!

[StoneyMcJuicyBuds]

He didn't reverse the strings he just flipped that bitch, they're all playing real instruments live, that's very rare, I like it.

[jventimusic2]

Rick Moranis = Ben Folds

[GermFreeAdolescents2]

who are the 5 numbnuts without a sense of humor?

[AndrewRudin]

"the Recess Monkeys"  LOL. Fabulous.

[fredhetz]

@AndrewRudin, I've always been very fond of that name for the band!

[SonOfTamriel]

Thank you, loved this show!  I miss John Candy!!

Funny how goofy Eugene Levy can be, he seems so serious and not all that funny IRL!

[fredhetz]

@SonOfTamriel, Levy has always been the king of expressions, reactions, etc. His face and posture sometimes convey more humor than the words he uses.

[antoniotitus]

Great song I loved it. I'm just a fan of Rick Moranis.

[blind51de]

Or just his career.

[unqtious]

John Candy was great. Miss that guy.

[fredhetz]

@unqtious, big time.

[Ramonajunie3]

1:29

[baronessdouglass]

Best. Guitar solo. Ever.

[tbskms]

Weezer?

[fredhetz]

@tbskms, many people have said the same thing! Perhaps this was the inspiration for Weezer.

[MikeDiamond69]

@tbskms Better then Weezer!!!

[darrius15]

LMFAO!!!! Love with their voices crack at 2:48sec lol

[robbiestewart89]

I never knew that Rick Moranis played the guitar or that John Candy played the drums. I knew that Rick was a southpaw from his Ghostbuster and Honey I Shunk The Kids movies, but not a guitar player. Maybe he could have been Canada's verson of Jimi Hendrix if he had stuck with it. This is a good cover of this song and by a comedy act at that.

[cntower01]

@robbiestewart89 What's so cool is that Rick is actually playing the guitar "backwards". In other words the guitar wasn't re-strung to adapt to Rick's needs.

[robbiestewart89]

That's b cause some southpaws don't restring their guitars what right-handers call backwards mostly b cause it takes 2 much time 2 do so, so they take a right-handed guitar and learn how 2 play it backwards 2 southpaw style, much like the late Jeff Healy used 2 play his on his lap. The late Albert King, who was 1 of Stevie Ray Vaughan's idol also played his this way and they even recorded a session 2 gether 4 a candian tv station back in '83 called In Session

[cntower01]

@robbiestewart89 Good to know!

[Kohntarkosz]

Lots of left handed players have learned how to play on right handed instruments that they flipped over without reversing the strings. Then, when they start play guitars that were designed to be left handed instruments, they have to reverse the strings. It looks like Rick actually had some experience with the guitar before this skit. So I'm guessing that's how he learned how to play. Hell, that might even be his personal guitar he's playing in that clip.

[34airflow]

LOVVVVVE iT!

[jwmellott]

Was this from when the song was a hit or later on?

[fredhetz]

@jwmellott, it was about the same time.

[UberObsessed]

I love you, Rick!! XD You're so funny and short.

[747p38]

Great memories!!! I loved that show! God bless John Candy, he left us too soon!! There was soooo much more to laugh at but a BIG thanks for what we have! VERY FUNNY!!!!

[fredhetz]

@747p38, thanks for your wonderful comment!

[devtrev]

More punk than Green Day. John Candy at 1:33 - funniest thing ever.

[longfootbuddy]

tight

[mcrusader1]

OMG! John Candy, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, hahahahahaha this is awesome!

[brotherdarek]

Recess Monkeys rock my world!

I remember watching SCTV in the 70's...was it as early '76? Wasn't on CBC I don't think. It was on Global (airing from Toronto).

[hibeango]

John Candy ftw 1:33

[benjaminrowley78]

John Candy was awesome!!!!

[mnvro7989]

Rick Moranis... LOL. thats all I have to say.

[miniredsatan]

this is actually a better version than the original!

[cantfinditgrindit]

awsome SCTV skit, very funny !!!!!!

[timbulb]

Rick Moranis plays like Dick Dale!

[GlobalPunditOrg]

ht tp://youtu. be/fmQynvXqx_E 1 hour of SCTV NETWORK 90 from 1980!! enjoy!!

[agnamaracs]

This is every junior high school band. Also, Catherine O'Hara is absolutely adorable in the intro.

[fredhetz]

@agnamaracs, I must agree on both counts.

[Wolzt9]

@agnamaracs

[shinyglanz]

the recess monkeys LOL

[adelis1985]

Rick Moranis reminds me a little of Rivers Cuomo

[GlobalPunditOrg]

@adelis1985 I thought that exactly too! it's pretty amazing actually...

but now I even watch the Simpsons and think they ripped of SCTV!!...

[RainySundayEvenings]

Is this the Hollies? :) Awwww John Candy, I miss him so much still. He will always be my favorite.

[urbanstruggle]

Wow, this is so good, it could be on a Messthetics comp. If someone pressed this on a 7" I would buy it.

[Neville6000]

@urbanstruggle: Get the MP3/video maker program for Firefox, and make a MP3 out of this (it's called Conversion Wizard, just Google it.)

[wsaylors]

I used to stay up till 12.30 on Fridays to watch this on NBC (I liked it lots better than Sat Night Live).  I loved Pre-Teen World. Does anyone remember the name of the kid Eugene Levy played? He was hilarious.

[pvalaquez]

so fun 

[Tawroset]

OMG! *cringe* What a great show that was--SCTV I mean, not this disaster lol!

[pottymouthed]

NBC??? This wasn't an NBC show.

[fredhetz]

@pottymouthed, SCTV was on NBC from 1981-1983. It aired on other networks as well during its existence. 

[captaintrips2017]

@fredhetz I was lucky to grow up in a bordertown in the early 80s so I could watch on CBC and NBC. Double dose every Friday!

[fredhetz]

@captaintrips2017, good deal! 

[unstabledavid]

hillarious...

[Haloplayer20]

most amazing guitar solo i have ever seen at 2:48

[Klog7792]

Fake

[mondocaneman]

I remember this !!! lolol...I used to sing it..."gone.. gone.. gone.. gone so long.." lol

[grantjames333]

John Candy at 1:33 fuckin hysterical, great stuff!

[BubbaGanoush2]

My girl is just a mammary? Sexist pigs! LOL

[BettyVanSneeIV]

Just to clear up the left-handed thing -- back in the day, southpaws generally had to learn their chords upside-down. That's what Rick's doing here ...

Eventually, we'd buy a guitar, file out the heavy-string grooves, and play "normally."

But Jimi -- didn't matter much to him. You can see him playing upside-down, or with a "rightie" strung left. Wasn't a strummer anyway, and his hands were bigger than most peoples' feet. Jimi was Jimi .

But Jimi wasn't your average guitarist, was he?

[BettyVanSneeIV]

Nice Teeth, too.

[TubeScrewed]

Rick Moranis is Left-Handed. You see left handed guitarists do 3 different things.

1 - play the guitar upside down like Rick M. is doing here, but re-string the guitar so the Big E is on the top. (Jimmy Hendrix)

2 - Get a left handed guitar.

3- Play the guitar Upside Down and change nothing like Rick M. Is doing here.  This last way has always amazed me. If you play guitar you know why.

Left-Handers have it hard growing up in right handed world but they end up being more flexible.

[amribs6]

Rick Moranis's left-handed guitar is upside down...lol. It looks like he's actually playing it; so I guess he just strung the strings in reverse order.

[crlaw75]

My five year old daughter loves this.

[fredhetz]

@crlaw75, that's neat.

[swingarm001]

@fredhetz Ha ha. That's sweet. SCTV knew how to have fun.

[mikey42]

My brother and I fell into a sort of depression when SCTV was cancelled.

[PositiveLastAction]

@mikey42 SCTV was "funny" personified..so I am not surprised!

[marjar1985]

:) Love it. yes. yes. yes. They were so good. (and I love the original - Chilliwack).

1:34 makes me laugh everytime.

[fredhetz]

@marjar1985, it's a classic moment.

[maffers7087]

@marjar1985

I miss John Candy :(

[marjar1985]

:) Love it. yes. yes. yes. They were so good. (and I love the original).

1:34 makes me laugh everytime.

[SouthShoreProduction]

ITS COMING TO THE COMEDY NETWORK! :D (canada folks)

[8010cookie]

HAHAHA

[cx1designs]

Love this!! Look at the teeth on Levy, and the hair on Candy!!! LOL.

[ftsjr]

I've said it before. I MISS SCTV!!!

[fredhetz]

@ftsjr, welcome to the I MISS SCTV support group.

[loyaldude10]

@fredhetz ---count me in---they were so brilliant and zany. Really difficult to purposely play and sing this badly

[verbusen]

It's hard to act badly on purpose and be funny doing it, they did a great job!

[Ditte100]

I love you Rick!!! <3 They were amazing in SCTV!

[rodneybuffalo]

uh gawd im laughin so hard here..

[sleece6]

John Candy GIFT!!!!!!!

[spaceyrules]

love the big swallow in the middle of the drummer's turn!!!!

[tfronauer]

Eugene and John singing their "solos"...I can't stop crying. Everything nuance is just right in this sketch, even the band name pun.

[WizardGlik]

Is this The Weezer band?

[aimtrue45]

John Candy gulping in the middle of his vocal is priceless!

[kyolym]

love this! watch it at least twice a month..I wish they had a bunch of little girl dancing and screaming around them like they were all dream boats...LOL

[Bagelbutcher]

2 funny for words!!!

We need a new generation of SCTV these days.

[melodicdreamer72]

They did an awesome job on this....and frikkin funny, the way it should be!

[fredhetz]

@melodicdreamer72, thanks for the comment. I enjoy your guitar-playing, btw!

[goffmen]

My god this is quite possible the funniest thing I have seen from SCTV... being a fan of all the actors and of Chilliwack . Watching this makes me wish I grew up in the 80s... thank you so much for posting this simple piece of genius

[fredhetz]

@goffmen, my pleasure. So glad you enjoyed it.

[loyaldude10]

hilarious. some of these acts blow SNL away

[kanelitwiniec]

John Candy's wig is priceless. I miss the energy of SCTV

[PositiveLastAction]

My God do I love this show!!!!!

[Gabriellius]

My sense of comedic appreciation is chortling genially. My sense of music appreciation is screaming in terror, trying to drown out their version of the song :)

[fredhetz]

@Gabriellius, you have to admit there's some wicked tambourine-playing going on here.

[FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0]

john candy auditioned for loius tully for ghostbusters

and wanted to use his german sheppards in the film

so ivan reitman dissmissed john's idea because the terror dogs

were scripted for the movie and john turned it down and rick moranis

won the role for the movie and rick got on well with sigourney weaver.

[Crackrzz]

I thought this was going to be much worse but this was pretty funny. They could have actually played it if they were serious hehe.

[axional]

Hilarious !!!

especially if you know the original song they are singing.

I love these guys !

[ukraininoak]

lmao !

[ferociousgumby]

Recess (rhesus) monkeys!

[marjar1985]

The best! Love the song and this version esp. I love when J. Candy has to swallow at 1:36 that happens to me now, and I always think of this. SO GOOD.

[filmphobia]

Nothing better than SCTV.

[roell29]

It's actually kind of an interesting song. Rick Moranis is really talented musically. I'm guessing he wrote it.

[Flash604]

@roell29 "My Girl (Gone Gone Gone) is a hit song by a Canadian '80's hair band called Chilliwack. This particular song was a #1 hit here in Canada, but also made it to #22 on the US charts. As of late the band is doing reunion gigs. You can the original video, their 80's performance on "Solid Gold" and recent performances on Youtube.

[roell29]

@Flash604 Thanks, must have missed that one when it came out.

[crlaw75]

Love this sketch, especially between the 1:30 - 1:38 mark. Rick, Eugene and John are all very talented.

[crlaw75]

Love SCTV skits.

[rumplestiffskin]

They totally nailed the awkwardness of young kids in their first band. The clusterfuck at the end was hilarious.

[ThatNeilDude]

I love this shit

[Testiteub]

mdr rick at 2 : 14 to 2 : 18

[darkoanton5]

Stefan Seally. lmao

[oberheimob12]

Now I see where Weezer got there act.

[1994secret]

rick moranis left hand??rispect....^^

[starwarscomic]

Weezer = The Recess Monkeys!

[fredhetz]

@furtfurtfurt, if you mean "Fred Willard," he was on SCTV at some point though I don't know if/where it is on DVDs.

[furtfurtfurt]

@fredhetz No, I mean Willard Green from the Art Department for "Phantasm", 1979. Yep, I mean Fred Willard, the most sincerely sarcastic actor since Larry Miller. ( I actually had to look up Willard G. on IMDB, hope you appreciate the sarcasm :) Thanks, I'll have to look out for Fred.

[SaskRider2]

@fredhetz It's in Volume 4, Disc 1, Episode 107 (Indecent Exposure). It was when Caballero forged a check in Willard's name to build a new wing to his mansion.

[MorbidReligion]

I couldn't recognize Eugene Levy without his glasses, god, I miss John Candy though. SCTV was a great show.

[fredhetz]

@MorbidReligion, I appreciate and agree with your comments.

[bLainekelley]

canada's contributions to the arts so often seem overLooked here in america.

what a shame, Lame.

[bnsomin]

everybody knows half the comedians down here are from canada

[bechir1967]

I just howl looking at John Candy behind that drumkit, especially when he tries to sing (gulp) his part. Beautiful.

[bigkellyr]

This was probably the first introduction to Canadian TV that most Americans ever had. I wonder what possessed NBC to run SCTV? Don't get me wrong I'm glad they did as I used to thouroughly enjoy watching SCTV every Friday night.

[fredhetz]

@bigkellyr, I checked Wikipedia (I realize it's not the be-all, end-all source of info) and it only says that SCTV was picked up as a mid-season replacement after the cancellation of NBC's "The Midnight Special." "The series (The Midnight Special) was canceled by NBC at the request of Dick Ebersol as part of a deal for him to take over then-ailing Saturday Night Live."

[bigkellyr]

@fredhetz Your probably right. I was about 16 or so years old when The Midnight Special was cancelled and I remember SCTV started coming on Friday nights. From time to time over the years NBC would run a late night half hour SCTV episode. Just recently PBS ran a special on SCTV during a pledge drive but I missed it.

[theknightlynews]

This is not an NBC show. This was a CBC show that NBC, and other stations, bought.

[mikekingjr]

Just found the original Chiliwack version here on YouTube. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer the version by the Recess Monkeys. :)

[59simonh]

imitation the best form of flattery..this is great..and i`ll bet the band is howling with laughter!!!LOL!!

[mikekingjr]

Rick Moranis actually wrote this song!

[fredhetz]

@mikekingjr, you sure about that? My information is that the songwriters for the song are Bill Henderson and Brian Macleod.

[mikekingjr]

@fredhetz AH! You are correct sir! I thought I remembered Cartherine O'Hara (or somebody) saying something to that effect on the DVD commentary but I realize that was in error! It's a Chiliwacks (sp?) song if I'm not mistaken?

[fredhetz]

@mikekingjr, every once in a great while, I'm right about something. :o)

[Rusfi16]

Kind of giving Spinal Tap a run for thier money.

[fredhetz]

@Rusfi16, those two bands would be the perfect concert bill.....

[Phineas1996]

Oh that's just beautiful!

[fredhetz]

@Phineas1996, thanks for your comment!

[hns123192]

lol  Great video!

[fredhetz]

hns123192, glad you enjoyed it!

[mrjiveyjr]

This was the best comedy show on TV.

[Rudee66]

1:32 is so funny I'm almost in tears from laughing.

[jarasitis]

I LOVE THIS. My voice still does the 1:34-1:35 and I always think of this. So good. This show changed my life. This is pure genius.  A great Canadian gem.

"It's after midnight and I am still awake."

[fredhetz]

jarasitis, so glad you liked it!

[BMOCroc]

thats Gold Rinry! Gold!

[sponsoredwalk1]

Haha this is hilarious & I just seen that Rick Moranis is left handed! That guy rocks just a little harder now lol

SCTV, SCTV :p

[RetroCaptain]

Talent outta Toronto, EH!

Gotta love it

I remember watching that show on CBC as a kid!

Funny stuff!!

Their Christmas show was a riot...

They poked fun at everybody!

[chaotix567]

LOL when Chris Farley sang I almost died!

[fredhetz]

chaotix567, I assume you mean John Candy, the drummer in the video?

[chaotix567]

Yeah I don't know what I was thinking, I can be so frieakin' stupid sometimes!

[fredhetz]

No worries, chaotix567.  People make mistakes.

[chaotix567]

Some of us more often than others. :P

[fredhetz]

To paraphrase an old saying, "That's why they put erasers on pencils and delete keys on keyboards."

[KingofStarfox]

Its not hard to absently mix them up, if your mind's elsewhere, they're both large, hilariously talented comedians who died way too young. I miss them both.

[TheLorelei]

Way to go, fredhetz! This is hilarious!

[fredhetz]

Thanks, TheLorelei!

[luigijules]

This is great. Really made my day! Thanks for posting!!!

[fredhetz]

What a kind comment! The pleasure was mine.

[JoelinApex]

This is exactly what Chilliwack sounds like live!

[wmbrown6]

F.T.R., the name of Catherine O'Hara's character in these "Pre-Teen World" bits, Alexis Shannon, came from the first names of her two nieces. It is amazing, that the age ranges of Ms. O'Hara's characters spanned "tween" to senior citizen (at the point she first impersonated Katharine Hepburn, the veteran actress was already 70 years old). Small wonder she's been called a "chameleon." ;)

[MeIancholyMan]

that's me on the drums..... :PPP

RIP John, you dear dear man

[fredhetz]

Indeed, MelancholyMan

[fredhetz]

flatuswalrus, thanks for your kind comments!

[xxxIronLeexxx]

I love the "yay, way to go" at the end, LOL...