Concerning My Highly Edjamacated Tastes
So I had an opportunity to watch Hamlet on Masterpiece Theater tonight.
I didn't. I watched SCTV on DVD instead, because all my taste is in my mouth and I have no appreciation whatever for high culture =P . (I suppose I could just read it if I really cared to, on account of I have one of my grandfather's teaching copies of the complete works of Shakespeare. I don't get to enjoy David Tennant hammin'* it up if I just read it, but oh well.)
Anyway. SCTV is actually pretty damned great, thanks in no small part to its extremely solid cast. And Dave Thomas. ...Okay, that was mean. He's a fine Mackenzie brother, and he's the only cast member who could pull off a convincing English (and Scots!) accent. Speaking of the Mackenzies, I'd only ever known Rick Moranis from the Ghostbusters films, Strange Brew and Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (which is actually a really stupid title now that I've had to type it out). I've been watching SCTV on DVD for a while now, and I'm still pleasantly surprised by just how much more he could do. Also, absolutely nobody does "hilariously sad drunk" better than Joe Flaherty. Just watch a few of those "5 Neat Guys" bits where he's screwing up the simplest choreography and blinking blearily at everything. And those examples are just off the top of my head: there's also sterling work from John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Eugene Levy--everyone on this show is more or less at the top of their game.
I also like the way the show occasionally throws something completely strange at the viewer: Farm Film Report, What Fits Into Russia, and possibly the best dog food commercial ever barely scratch the surface of the marvelously strange things you might see in a given episode. (That dog food commercial in particular never fails to crack me up.)
So seriously. I recommend you go check out some SCTV while I restrain myself from finishing off this post with a slew of quotes and references like a dork. (It gets more difficult by the minute, really it does.)
*Hamlettin'? No but really, during the few minutes I caught, Timey-Wimey Tennant left the scenery full of toothmarks.
I didn't. I watched SCTV on DVD instead, because all my taste is in my mouth and I have no appreciation whatever for high culture =P . (I suppose I could just read it if I really cared to, on account of I have one of my grandfather's teaching copies of the complete works of Shakespeare. I don't get to enjoy David Tennant hammin'* it up if I just read it, but oh well.)
Anyway. SCTV is actually pretty damned great, thanks in no small part to its extremely solid cast. And Dave Thomas. ...Okay, that was mean. He's a fine Mackenzie brother, and he's the only cast member who could pull off a convincing English (and Scots!) accent. Speaking of the Mackenzies, I'd only ever known Rick Moranis from the Ghostbusters films, Strange Brew and Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (which is actually a really stupid title now that I've had to type it out). I've been watching SCTV on DVD for a while now, and I'm still pleasantly surprised by just how much more he could do. Also, absolutely nobody does "hilariously sad drunk" better than Joe Flaherty. Just watch a few of those "5 Neat Guys" bits where he's screwing up the simplest choreography and blinking blearily at everything. And those examples are just off the top of my head: there's also sterling work from John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Eugene Levy--everyone on this show is more or less at the top of their game.
I also like the way the show occasionally throws something completely strange at the viewer: Farm Film Report, What Fits Into Russia, and possibly the best dog food commercial ever barely scratch the surface of the marvelously strange things you might see in a given episode. (That dog food commercial in particular never fails to crack me up.)
So seriously. I recommend you go check out some SCTV while I restrain myself from finishing off this post with a slew of quotes and references like a dork. (It gets more difficult by the minute, really it does.)
*Hamlettin'? No but really, during the few minutes I caught, Timey-Wimey Tennant left the scenery full of toothmarks.