Andrea Martin's dancing is my favorite part. In general, Andrea Martin was fantastic in SCTV and doesn't get enough credit for her talent compared to the rest of them (except maybe Dave Thomas, who also doesn't get enough credit).

It's all excellent though.

Rick Moranis on the drums back there is great, too. He's barely even visible and yet he's still contributing a lot.

But yeah, the Mrs. Dinky joke is so dead on that it might as well be a real Rusty Warren bit (if it isn't).

My Dad had a Rusty Warren record. I remember seeing this sketch on TV and thinking, wow I guess other people have the same record.

There is talk of a Netflix SCTV reunion though it could be a documentary. They did get together last summer for a charity benefit (if I had been willing to put together $1500 I could have seen the most expensive comedy sketches in the world) even Rick Moranis who nobody has seen in forever.

Knockers Up was a really successful record.

And Bottoms' Up!
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Polynesiantown is still a strong contender for the peak moment of TV sketch comedy.

Also, the very specific, detailed (and not always that obvious) pop culture stuff is the same thing that made the first few seasons of MST3k so good and the lack of it is what made the Sci-Fi Channel seasons so much less good.

Monty Python did it until Monty Python became self-referential.

It's what made more general pop-cultural parodies work on SCTV, getting the details right. For instance, their "The Days of the Week" soap opera parody - they really got the details of what modern soaps were like at the time proper - including the opening credits with the gauzy headshots of the cast set to soft instrumentals - even during the 1990s on sketch shows you would see what were intended to be soap opera parodies seemingly written by people only familiar with the concept after listening to a few clips of some stagey dramatic organ music-heavy radio soap from the 1940s.

Mr. Show did this well, too, but in a much different way. Comparing SCTV to Mr. Show is like comparing Best In Show to, I don't know, Zoolander or something. MR. Show tended to oversell the jokes but that was it's whole style. SCTV created its own internally consistent universe and played it very straight within that.

At its best, TV Funhouse (the show and the segment) and Robert Smigel also hits the specific pop culture notes well. Granted, there the standard Lorne Michaels tack of riding a successful bit until the cow drops comes into play at times...which TV Funhouse acknowledged in SNL's twenty-fifth anniversary special. Even under Lorne's Rules, something like Triumph successfully taps into the perpetual need for institutions to be pooped on through an insult comic.

Superego was successful at this as well. Gourley's characters, particularly, get very specific (the H.R. Giger sketches require a relatively arcane knowledge to even grasp).