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Great White North: Calculators
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Bob and Doug stumble through the opening of their homemade Canadian talk show, arguing about its name and coaxing the camera into an increasingly close view of Doug. Bob finally raises his complaint: children can use calculators at school, a luxury the brothers never had. Their grievance soon gives way to hunger, back bacon and beer, while a scrolling account of their attempt to get an agent supplies a second conversation on screen.
The funny people
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Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Like we had like to use our fingers and toes, eh?
I think that was one of our best shows.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Originally broadcast in SCTV’s third-season episode “My Factory, My Self” on October 10, 1980. Episode guides also call this installment “Kanadian Korner 4: Calculators.” The closing text crawl about the William Morris Agency is part of the original sketch.
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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