I still sing this version of I'm Turning Japanese

@atworkstation

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

cha pah neece

@dirtydingoringo3121

Жыл бұрын

I cant not sing this version

@kenelkins1841

Жыл бұрын

Same here.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

Dee doo-doo-doo-doo-doo bop bop bop bah-dee-dahhh ... is all I want to say to you

I had no idea of how awesome Rick Moranis really was until now.

@NormAppleton

7 ай бұрын

True, Canadians just took it for granted.

@NormAppleton

6 ай бұрын

This is all about Toronto. Crazy Joe's and Gerry Todd being a valium addled DJ for CHFI, the radio staion for White people that don't want to see ANYTHING real and don't wan't to admit they are boring and old.

@mm860

5 ай бұрын

This new generation has no idea what they missed

@sjpsjpsjp3

5 ай бұрын

@@mm860 totally. I also remember those morning shows like The Gerry Todd Show. Feels like an eternity ago.

@jamescarlin4244

3 ай бұрын

This is brilliant. Just kills me how great this cast was.

This show was sick. No wonder every actor on it did well after it was over. Genius talent across the board.

@gerrydooley951

9 жыл бұрын

no, no it wasn't sick, it was good.

@Neville60001

9 жыл бұрын

Gerry Dooley: 'Sick' means amazing or cool these days.

@gerrydooley951

9 жыл бұрын

Neville6000 Thank you, now I'm embarrassed .

@vocabularrygood9025

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@commentatron

10 ай бұрын

@@gerrydooley951Gud and phat

There was nothing quite like SCTV. Their dead on parodies were brilliant.

If actual TV was like the skits on SCTV (even Gerry Todd), I'd probably start watching TV again.

@TJ-kk5zf

4 жыл бұрын

it would be the 70s

@canaisyoung3601

3 жыл бұрын

Most of them are broad parodies of the kind of bad to mediocre TV that was popular in the 1970s into the 1980s. You might as well stop watching TV for the rest of your life.

I miss this show. Rick Moranis was one hell of a talent, but I fully understand his reasons for departing from TV and film. Loved his impressions too.

Crazy Hy's was based on Crazy Joe's, a textile chain in Toronto. Their 1970s commercials were exactly depicted in Crazy Hy's only it was fabric...two men of Jewish decent where one is doing the talking with the other in the back ground motioning with his hand to show the size of the store. Classic, funny and brilliant comedy.

@RyanSchweitzer77

8 жыл бұрын

Interesting--I always thought it was a send-up of Crazy Eddie's electronic stores in the eastern US.

@ChristopherSobieniak

6 жыл бұрын

For those of us in the states, we'd probably think Crazy Eddie's as well (or at least on the East Coast).

@zoolzool1

5 жыл бұрын

This is the first time I'm seeing "Crazy Hy's" and since I grew up in the LA area, it reminded me of Crazy Gideon's.

@skippbitman

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the history (I also grew up in TO back in the day). Here is one of the originals - kzread.info/dash/bejne/mp2JpLGooNywk6g.html

@TimBurVlogs

5 жыл бұрын

Yep. Joe is still at it! Or is it a son? He has a channel on KZread

I think Gerry Todd is my favorite Rick Moranis character. The Tom Monroe lounge singer character is hilarious.

@waynej2608

4 жыл бұрын

Kind of like what Bill Murray did with Nick the lounge singer, on SNL. Both were, awesome, hilarious.

@mayomonkey3810

Ай бұрын

The original Richard Cheese.

I love the overall concept of Gerry Todd. It's hard to describe why If you didn't grow up in the Eighties... Imagine a cheesy hipster Easy Listening AM or FM radio station from the Seventies, only re-envisioned in the hot new format of consumer video, in a world where we all carried tiny TVs or had them strapped to our heads like oversized Google Glasses, instead of carrying ghetto blasters or wearing Walkmans. And in this era, LP-sized videodiscs were the ultimate medium, and ruled the landscape long before CD/DVD/PVR/VOD. (I had a friend who was like Gerry Todd in his undying love for those huge old videodiscs, and he forever touted their advantages, even when DVD finally emerged.)

@themoviedealers

8 жыл бұрын

Catherine O'Hara Skyping in at 2:25. Someone forgot to tell her that Skype wouldn't be invented for 30 more years.

@kevinmoore2929

7 жыл бұрын

The Movie Dealers the idea of the video phone was around well before Skype came along.

@richardgates7479

7 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe And long before that there was Videotelephony

@milascave2

5 жыл бұрын

sean: Yea, It was before MTV, so the video was still a pretty new medium. Punks, mostly art punks, were the only ones making music videos. They were cutting edge hip. It was a different world.

@goudagirl6095

4 жыл бұрын

I'll allow it. :)

This version of turning japanese should be playing at your local mall.

@mikew3027

2 жыл бұрын

there is a scene in an SCTV waiting room where Guy is interviewing pilot movies, and you can here Tom Monroe playing in the background.

Still one of my fave shows after all these years. SNL hasn't aged anywhere as well.

@fjccommish

7 жыл бұрын

You're wrong. Maybe the liberal SNL hasn't aged well, but the classic has aged well - killer bees, Samurai whatever, etc.

@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113

6 жыл бұрын

At least you do not have to watch a 15-30 second ad, prior to every SCTV sketch. 15-30 fewer suicide committing Actors and/or Actresses, on SCTV, too, or, also.

@fjccommish

4 жыл бұрын

@John M Smythe Yes, they were. But the humor became more one sided against the right when Tina the Fey became head writer, and the show has remained there since.

@charlesandrews2360

3 жыл бұрын

Phil Hartman years at SNL were brilliant. The Belushi Aykroyd Radnor years have aged horribly. Saying that Saturday Night Live is more liberal now than it was at the beginning is like utterly ridiculous Fake news ding dong

@lulzalfest

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesandrews2360 It's sad that Fox News and other conservative talking heads have brainwashed their listeners so much that anything NOT constantly Conservative is Liberal...and now socialist. I wonder what will be next?

You can really tell Rick Moranis worked as an actual Disc Jockey for a while.

Missing you Rick Moranis... Please bring yourself back into the industry.

@arladicey

4 жыл бұрын

@MorbidManMusic he's still alive; he left show business to raise his kids, after his wife sadly passed away from cancer. However, he has done some voice acting. His kids are basically young adults now, so he may return to onscreen work.

@callumknight6343

4 жыл бұрын

hes in the Honey I shrunk the kids remake.

@stephaniecarrow4898

Жыл бұрын

@@arladicey That is sad. He sounds like a really decent guy, in addition to his talent.

I've never heard Turning Japanese done better!

@0okamino

8 жыл бұрын

I really think so.

Rick Moranis at his very best. Wish he'd bring this character back with all the new advances in "VUdeo" technology.

@TimBurVlogs

3 жыл бұрын

Could happen!

@selfwitness

3 жыл бұрын

I had a friend who used to pronounce "VUdeo" just like Gerry. He never even saw SCTV (and he was a video fanatic like GT). Every time I watched Rick Moranis do GT, I laughed extra hard because I actually experienced something like him in real life!

funnier than ANYTHING on TV today!!!

Now forgotten trivia, but Rick Moranis was actually a Top 40 rock deejay in the late '70s in Toronto. (I've heard aircheck recordings, and he plays it 100% straight, using this Gerry Todd voice.)

@IronMan-tk8uc

9 ай бұрын

Moranis is a Canadian treasure (and I'm not Canadian).

@jdolew

3 ай бұрын

That makes sense. He's got the smooth patter and stylings down pat. Great choices for Tom Monroe smooth jazz versions of Police and The Vapors too.

never heard of this stuff but i am now addicted to sctv.

If anyone ever asks how the '70's affected me, I'll point them to this video.

@tertommy

8 жыл бұрын

completely....japanese

@waynej2608

4 жыл бұрын

I think this was more early 80s. Well, it was early 80s when I first saw this hilarious show from the Great North, hey.

@hoibsh21

3 жыл бұрын

vuhdeo.....yeaaaahhhh!

Gerry Todd is such a freakin hipster. Love the effects. Especially the floating heads.

@chuckcookus

3 жыл бұрын

Gerry Todd is one of the weirdest concepts Moranis ever came up with. The conceit was a radio DJ with the addition of video, so instead of just a station jingle sung by anonymous performers we get anonymous disembodied heads singing the jingles.

I love how he's always fiddling with the video special effects LOL

Also Jerry Todd’s cover of The Police’s ‘Da Doo Doo Da’ is so incredibly…mellow! 😂

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

And aaaaaaalll ... that's truuuuuuue AHH!

@cessnaverdi

Жыл бұрын

It's all I wanna be saying to you...

@c.s.mcleod7383

Жыл бұрын

You mean 'Tom Monroes' cover!

Turning JapanEES, tunrning JapanEES, I really think so.

@mysticwolf75

4 ай бұрын

Completely Jap-anees!

@MrPontificator

Ай бұрын

He sings it with such ease...

This brings back memories. Great way to end the week late night on Friday. When MTV came along with its VJ format, The Gerry Todd Show immediately came to mind. It's like a parody of MTV, but it actually aired before MTV launched. Great to see again.

Great memories of watching SCTV late Saturday nights when I was around 14 years old. I would do my best impressions of Andrea Martin's characters for my high school classmates to try and make friends. And, it worked because I got pretty good at it. I expanded my repertoire to include other cast members. It became a favorite game among my family members at gatherings, and to this day we still perform our favorite skits. Thanks for the post; it elicits the warmest memories.

@aeyb701

Жыл бұрын

As an early teen in southern Ontario me and my brother came across this on the just-new Global TV network, before the Bob and Doug days. Bill Murray even appeared before his SNL turn.

Crazy Hy’s would be a great name for a cannabis dispensary.

I was so sad when Gerry Todd said he was retiring from show business. I watched his show for over 25 years.

@fjccommish

2 жыл бұрын

I wondered where I'd get a 19 inch TV for 19 dollars.

@negro722

Жыл бұрын

@@fjccommish da hood

@fjccommish

Жыл бұрын

@@negro722 I'll give it a try.

@negro722

Жыл бұрын

@@fjccommish go head n get u some crack while u ther so u aint got 2 go back - ax 4 my boy Dantravius -

@fjccommish

Жыл бұрын

@@negro722 Does he sell the TV's too?

Rick was about 28 when he did this stuff. Amazing.

@neonfroot

10 ай бұрын

Its not amazing its just the usual for actors of his age

@Margatroid

5 ай бұрын

@@neonfroot LOL, no it is not.

Glad I was around when this came out originally. We loved the old SNL original cast then watched The Midnight Special every Saturday night. How lucky were we boomers for laughter and great music...

"The wee small ones of a Saturday", exactly when no one was watching, in the days of broadcast TV that signed off around 1 AM.

@brianboisguilbert6985

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, back in the day

Dave Thomas is way underrated.

Never understood why Tom Monroe never made it into the top 40.

@grumpyoldgraymetalhead2441

4 жыл бұрын

Steve Smith I thought for sure those white shoes would have put him over the top!

@quentinkirk3870

4 жыл бұрын

@@grumpyoldgraymetalhead2441 LMAO 🤣🤣🤣

@tnargskoorb1

4 жыл бұрын

Cmon it’s cause he didn’t write any of his own stuff. Granted, his covers were far better than the originals but still.

@clipobserver

3 жыл бұрын

Because SCTV and Rick didn't release an album. It would have sold in Canada for sure (unsure about the states but who knows, Blues Brothers released albums).

@FurtherReview

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he was vastly underrated as an artist. Sure, he didn't write his own songs -- but then, neither did Elvis or Frank Sinatra, and Tom's right up there with both of them.

Every time I hear a radio package intro with male & female voices harmonizing the name of a radio show, I picture these disembodied heads from Gerry Todd

The subtle sound effects they added when Jerry is dialing in the graphics are just awesome

The so talented Rick Moranis is also an admirable man - how many at the height of a film career would, upon becoming a widower - walk away to raise his children?

We loved this sketch to pieces back in high school.

Happy 65th Birthday Rick Moranis!! :D

The request line with a young Catherine O'hara....5 easy pieces, The Gerry Todd "singers" and all the Gerry Todd videos...CLASSIC..thanks for posting these all together

@axelkyster2642

3 жыл бұрын

All together??? Ummm...it's all one sketch...

The world needs more Rick Moranis

@Trig242

3 ай бұрын

Still to this day ❤

I have watched this at least 10 times and I am still laughing my butt off!!!

Nothing says "late 70's/early 80's lounge music" like Fender-Rhodes electric piano with tremolo, chorus, and flanging effects! *LOL!*

I want an entire album of Tom Monroe!!!

That Tom Monroe kid has got some pipes.

@alanmurr6562

7 жыл бұрын

I think they got the idea of Tom Monroe from Von Monroe a great singer before the war that my Dad used to like a lot but yes that Rick Moranis was one heck of a comedian and singer too if he wanted to be.

@alanmurr6562

7 жыл бұрын

I meant Vaugh Monroe. He was a giant in the 40's. Tom Monroe sounds like the successful name of a superstar. A group called the Vapors did a song called "Turning Japenese" back in the early 1980's when SCTV recorded this show.

@Muddyrich

7 жыл бұрын

Sure you don't mean Matt Munro? Who sang 'From Russia With Love'?

@alanmurr6562

7 жыл бұрын

No, I think that it is a reference to the great Vaughn Monroe a very popular singer in the 30's and 40's. He sang the song "There I've said it again" a song that someone in the 60's did over again, but my Dad reminded me that it was Vaughn Monroe that did that song before WW2.

@anthonybakker2567

6 жыл бұрын

It's a shame that Richard Cheese stole Tom's schtick . . . no respect.

These guys were brilliant. So talented and funny. Saturday Night Live can't hold a candle.

Rick Moranis is my biggest inspiration

tom monroe for rock n roll hall of fame!!

2:55 proves that Dave Thomas foresaw the emergence of Bobby McFerrin, but did nothing to warn the rest of us.

@josephblowenstein3497

6 жыл бұрын

The fact that i actually liked dont worry be happy the first couple times i heard it makes me feel so dirty.

OMG, surfing SCTV clips and.......Turning Japanese, Well done Rick and others!

They made so much with little money...talent...and hard work goes a long way.

Wuhan pandemic idiocy, been furloughed from work, sheltered in place, thankfully l can binge watch SCTV's Gerry Todd.

Thank you, Canada.

The Gerry Todd Show is just about the most hysterical thing I've ever seen. Watch it now with the whole family.

This was shot in Edmonton you can tell because it looks a bit dismal and grey just like Edmonton, I did some acting work at the ITV studio and other places around Edmonton in the early and mid 80s my father was in the film and video business In Edmonton, I think he did some camera work on this show but didn't tell me what he worked on, if you were watching TV in Canada in the 80s and 90s you saw my Fathers work on commercials every day, he passed away but this was our favorite show we always watched it together he was amused by my impressions of Ed Grimley

@aguycalled80

2 жыл бұрын

This is definitely Hawerlak Park. Good chance that you're seeing Oiler owner Daryl Katz's house across the river in the background at 0:53

Dave Thomas: "We didn't know we'd never get the chance to anything like this again."

Love how he brings in his own chyron - man, this show was brilliant and takes me back to my college days!

Surprise that wasn't a MTV show for real. Also, Rick Moranis should have done an album as Tom Monroe.

This show is similar to something you would find on Adult Swim at 2:00 AM. XD

@OfficialSCTV

9 жыл бұрын

Brendan Matthews That's a great call! I'd watch that every night.

@bodhibaby5371

9 жыл бұрын

Brendan Matthews Where do you think they got it..down to the efx!!!!

Great show, and memories!

Rick Moranis started out as a DJ in Tornonto and I can't help but wonder if he was basically Gerry Todd on the air.

So Dave Thomas basically invented beat boxing.

By the way, Happy Birthday to RICK MORANIS!

Hey I like that Tom Monroe and his vuddy-o. His stuff really swings and that "Doo Doo" song is catchy.

right---such a versatile and incredibly talented performer

There needs to be a reunion show before it is too late.

@lynnfisher3037

10 ай бұрын

Why? Already too late

@MCowie

10 ай бұрын

@@lynnfisher3037 Possibly. But if all but Candy could return, I think it would still be good.

@QuadMochaMatti

9 ай бұрын

@@MCowie Candy is a major loss, but then again, Harold Ramis wouldn't be involved, which wouldn't be so bad. He just wasn't very funny.

Since I saw this in first run I have laughed until I cried so many times - THANKS to Rick & everyone involved in this comedy GENIUS!!!

Some of the very best! Gerry Todd and Tom Monroe...just great!

The Vapors and the Police, love it!

Tom Monroe has a fine head of hair and is a snappy dresser!

@jerrygerardi8552

3 жыл бұрын

and gets all the ladies too!!!

30 years of broadcasting later and some DJ's still sound like this.

@hankkingsley2976

Жыл бұрын

Best advice I ever got as a young DJ was don't try to be a DJ be yourself I was very close to being fired because I was trying to be a DJ and they told me that and I made the change and the rest is history sort of they were like we wouldn't have hired you if you didn't have something naturally that we like in you so quit trying to be a jock

@hankkingsley2976

Жыл бұрын

And the funny thing is most people got me they understood that I was a little bit off center and a bit Goofy but it served me well and I would not approach it any other way if I had to do it againThere's only one thing that I know how to do well And I've often been told that you only can do What you know how to do well And that's be you, Be what you're like, Be like yourself,

There has been no comedy that has ever been able to meet the bar that was set by SCTV. These people were brilliant and each one still holds the standard for hilarity.🤩🤣

used to be call in shows exactly like this during the 70s. better times

this is just pure entertainment which happens to be hilarious too!

"Tom Monroe on a New Wavelength". Sheer comedy genius.

@jpcpm1340

4 жыл бұрын

Sharp dresser that man.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

@@jpcpm1340 She's got laaaaaaaygs, she knows to use them! She never bay-yay-yegs ...

@neonfroot

10 ай бұрын

iromy is, the way tom monroe is hiw alot of thise new wave bands dressed

Jerry Todd has a great Radio Voice.

Wow, Dave thomas can really beatbox.

So brilliant and ahead of its time. A complete and accurate prediction of what was just ahead in the next decade for music and music video. Rick Moranis, what happened to you? You used to bring the funny like nobody's business.....

Crazy Hy was a money making MACHINE! The last I heard,he was selling HD tvs and computer equipment at his new warehouse. What a salesman!

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

The shop relocated to the ISS. Crazy Hy's is higher than ever with low low prices! HUD nav systems this week only $17

Rick Moranis actually worked at a Toronto radio station as a DJ for a periord of time in the 70's (CHUM radio)--I think his inspiration for Gerry Todd came from that job. Would love if I could see the clip of how Gerry Todd found his wife ('Priscilla"--played by Andrea Martin)-on a video service--and the hassles she had to put up with during the early part of their marriage---that was a hilarious spoof!!! LOL

The end with "The innocence and all that's tru-ue Wah!" Was hilarious.

Loved Gerry Todd!

SCTV! The height of sarcasm. 😂 😅Pure gold. Hilarious

I bought my satellite receiver dish from Crazy Hy's at 4650 Landsdown. I also picked up a deal on that 17 foot tv screen. The thing was, the commercials featuring Crazy Hy never really gave you a proper idea of how loose and, well, crazy he was in person. But when it came to bargains, this guy wasn't talking schmegegge.

"Turning JapaNEESE" "Jerry Todddd..... Weatherrrr"

@waynej2608

4 жыл бұрын

Time for another cash call.

My favorite SCTV original character, Gerry Todd! I love to watch this again and again, thanks! BTW, Crazy Hy is selling 19" TVs for $19, lol. I used to sell at a bait and switch place in the late 80s that advertised 20" for $199! I would have to switch them to a 19" for $239, OMG. Memories.

Years ago I had to do my imitation of Jerry Todd saying “turning Japanese” for my friend and coworker at least once a day coincidentally he was Japanese, great memories.

Hysterical - and they absolutely couldn't do those commercials today.

Oh yeah SCTV was so cool! I loved the Bobby Bitman skits.

E everything platinum with SCTV 💫💯

I would wake up to the Gerry Todd Show

This never gets old......lol.

Love it! Loved it then too! God Bless Rick Moranis.

My favorite theme song ever

Tom Monroe rocks! LOL

Brilliant.

Awesome!!

So far ahead there were doing parodies before music videos even existed on the air.

@Muddyrich

7 жыл бұрын

MTV was just about to start, but promo clips and shows made up of such had been around for a while

The first, and greatest vudeo jockey, Gerry Todd.

this is just sublime...sheer perfection!

"Smoke another one Vic!" Best line ever. LOVE SCTV.

Landsdown near Pape joke...love it