Bob and Doug McKenzie - C/D

5 Golden Toques!

Julio has that song on cd!!! He should have brought it to the fap and played 'You Are Our Guest' to the joy of all.

Oh yeah, CLASSIC.

x-post I said Half Baked was better than Strange Brew.

You hosers can all take off!

Awesome -- Glenn Kenny asks MAX VON SYDOW about his role in Strange Brew:

http://glennkenny.premiere.com/blog/2007/12/more-max.html

"I wouldn't say that the brewmeister in Strange Brew is a comedy character really. He's not--well, he's a fantasy crook, I would say...It was wonderful to do it. And it was wonderful to work with those two guys, Rick and Dave."

Even better:

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - The Fox network will help to develop "The Animated Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie," a Canadian primetime cartoon that reunites Second City TV alumni Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas.

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Thomas said Monday that Fox became involved in the pilot episode of a cartoon based on the SCTV characters Bob & Doug McKenzie, to be voiced by himself and Moranis.

The animated sitcom is based on the beer-addled Bob & Doug characters, who began as a two-minute SCTV skit in 1980 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

The "hoser" characters, played by Thomas and Moranis, grew a cult following as they went on to star in TV commercials and the 1983 dumb-buddy feature film "Strange Brew."

Thomas said the Canadian cartoon series will add friends and family and a fictional town setting for the Bob & Doug characters.

Canada's Global Television already has ordered 13 episodes of the show for its 2009 schedule.

Also starring in the animated series are Canadian actors and comedians Dave Coulier ("Full House"), Colin Mochrie, Pat McKenna, Derek McGrath, Ron Pardo, Jayne Eastwood and Ho Chow.

I've actually participated in a game of "The Beer Hunter".

Watched Strange Brew tonight for the first time since I was a kid. Still funny, though where 8-year-old me laughed at the bathroom humour and the overall buffoonishness of Bob and Doug, 37-year-old me now mostly laughs at all of the meta antics that open the film, Max von Sydow's completely straight performance as the villain, and the very fact that the whole thing is a retelling of Hamlet. 8- and 37-year-old me both love Hosehead's heroic concluding flight.

My favourite line in the whole film, however, goes to typically invaluable Paul Dooley: "Just because I don't know what it is, doesn't mean I'm lying."

need to resee, but i think Max plays that villain more seriously than his Blofeld in the Bond movie he did.

I've never seen the whole movie, I should. I love the idea of Bob and Doug, and I loved the album when I was in high school. Plus as a Western New Yorker, we felt kind of part Canadian anyway. The McKenzies and SCTV were kind of a cultural trapdoor -- like Monty Python or SNL, but next door.

An irrelevant and possibly embarrassing addendum: watching the film again also clued me in to where I came up with that "steamroller" game that I often play with my dogs.