Plasmatics on SCTV with John Candy - The Fishin' Musician show

One of my favorite SCTV guest musician segments.



The Fishin' Musician skit is a spoof of a long-running sports fishing television show called The Red Fisher Show. Odds are pretty good that if you had a single television station in town, and it was saturday afternoon, you'd be forced to endure fishing yarns and videos of fishing yarns. Rare was the show where you'd see a station wagon filled with outdoorsy types drawing up to some secluded spot in the woods to camp. Instead, it was more likely to be one of those single-engine puddle-hopper planes of the north, swooping in to some distant lake, with two outfitters or guides, or both, waiting to whisk them further into places most Canadians can ill-afford to go, complete with cottage, options of 1,2, or 3-engine crafts, snowmobile, dog teams, yadda yadda. You know... Really Roughin' it at Scuttlebutt Lodge!

The Red Green show, while not a clone, has many elements that people familiar with The Red Fisher Show would recognize.

Another SCTV segment every Canadian should have memorized: The SCTV version of Guy Lafleur and Darryl Sittler having it out in a commercial for Cornabix cereal. A lot of these famous sketches have never made it to DVD, and were from the earlier days when SCTV was a single, half-hour show. It particularly catches the type of verbal animosity that might tumble from the lips of Anglophones at the time. The Pepsi reference, in particular, is spot on, and tore us up when my friends and I watched it back in the 80s.



The difficulty in locating it is memory. Even if you can remember Wheetabix, the odds of coming up with or recalling Cornabix is remote. The names Guy and Darryl do narrow it down. But what I believe prevents people from finding it is the Pepsi reference. People seem to recollect it as Darryl asking Guy if he would like (to drink) a Pepsi. Any searches that use likely phrases for this scenario are sure to filter out what people are after.