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Cooking with Edith Prickley

SCTV
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

Edith Prickley hosts a cooking lesson set to the beats of her trusty Rhythm Ace drum machine.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

SCTV station manager Edith Prickley takes over the kitchen for a cooking segment aimed at the housewives at home, scolding them for lounging in front of the TV instead of preparing dinner. Her secret weapon is a Rhythm Ace drum machine: she shreds a head of lettuce to a bossa nova setting, then switches to disco while stuffing a turkey, flirting with the bird as if it were a man she met the night before. A slow ballad accompanies the trussing, which she treats with gleeful innuendo, before she sends the turkey to the oven and hands over to her sister Edna, who will explain where viewers can buy their own Rhythm Ace.

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Highly quotable.

You know, every meal can be a picnic if you just get off your buns and get back in the kitchen where you belong.

Because if you ain't in the mood, you can't cook the food.

Wait a minute. Didn't I see you around the corner last night?

We call this cuisine bondage.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

This segment introduces the Rhythm Ace sold in the first Tex and Edna Boil's Organ Emporium commercial, which follows it in the episode; Andrea Martin also plays Edith's sister Edna Boil. A short second part after the commercial shows the finished turkey.

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