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Long Underwear and Back Bacon
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Bob opens Great White North by announcing two topics and introducing his brother Doug as the guest expert on long underwear, teasing that Doug gets them dirty. Doug's expertise amounts to pointing out that the legs go all the way down and that thicker pairs are for colder days, before the brothers move on to food as a reward. Bob shows off a strip of back bacon shrivelled on the Coleman stove, they bicker over who started frying it in beer, and they wonder why nobody makes back bacon-flavoured gum. After calling it the worst show they ever did, they decide it was a good one after all, because it had two topics.
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Highly quotable.
Go long underwear and then food as a reward.
Why is there no back bacon-flavored gum?
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
SCTV Guide notes that this Great White North segment, like the episode's Vikings and the Beekeepers movie, was cut from the syndicated version of The Godfather episode.
Script
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- 00:01
Oh, good day. Good day. Good day. Good day,
- 00:07
Bob McKenzie
Good day, how's it going? I'm Bob McKenzie, this is my brother Doug.
- 00:11
Doug McKenzie
How's it going, eh, today?
- 00:12
Bob McKenzie
We got two topics today, back bacon and long underwear.
- 00:15
Doug McKenzie
Like, they're different topics, right?
- 00:17
Bob McKenzie
Okay, first topic, well, I don't know which one should be first. Which one should...
- 00:21
Doug McKenzie
Uh, go long underwear and then food as a reward.
- 00:26
Bob McKenzie
Okay, long underwear is our topic today, and my guest is my brother.
- 00:31
Doug McKenzie
How's it going, eh?
- 00:32
Bob McKenzie
Just like on real shows.
- 00:33
Doug McKenzie
yeah
- 00:33
Bob McKenzie
my guest today is my brother Doug McKenzie how are you
- 00:38
Doug McKenzie
he's a day
- 00:39
Bob McKenzie
he's like an expert right on long underwear
- 00:42
Doug McKenzie
that's right
- 00:42
Bob McKenzie
because he like dirties so much okay no seriously though long underwear right well how do you know when to use it
- 00:51
Doug McKenzie
well what I don't dirty than me
- 00:53
Bob McKenzie
no I was just kidding how do you know when to use it well simple when it's cold out right okay the other topic
- 00:59
Doug McKenzie
Wait, I thought I was the expert.
- 01:01
Bob McKenzie
Oh, okay.
- 01:02
Doug McKenzie
Don't I get to have a view here?
- 01:04
Bob McKenzie
Yeah, right, a view. Okay, go.
- 01:06
Doug McKenzie
Well, for long underwear, the difference is that instead of ending here, it goes all the way down here.
- 01:12
Bob McKenzie
Oh, they know that. But go on.
- 01:15
Doug McKenzie
And then you can get them, like, thick or thin, depending on how cold. If it's real cold, you get thick. If it's real thin, you get thin.
- 01:22
Bob McKenzie
Or you could wear two thin pairs.
- 01:23
Doug McKenzie
Cold, you get thin.
- 01:24
Bob McKenzie
What? You could wear two thin pairs.
- 01:25
Doug McKenzie
Geez, I'm getting scared now.
- 01:27
Bob McKenzie
What?
- 01:27
Doug McKenzie
Food.
- 01:29
Bob McKenzie
Okay, next topic's back bacon, and look what happens when you overcook it. It shrivels up, right?
- 01:34
Doug McKenzie
You put beer in that, that's why I did that.
- 01:36
Bob McKenzie
No, I always put beer in it.
- 01:38
Doug McKenzie
You know, we used to use margarine, now we use beer.
- 01:41
Bob McKenzie
Well, I always use beer.
- 01:42
Doug McKenzie
For, like, eggs, eh? To keep it from sticking to the pan, you pour beer in.
- 01:45
Bob McKenzie
Like, why is there no back bacon-flavored gum? That'd be great, eh?
- 01:49
Doug McKenzie
Mm.
- 01:50
Bob McKenzie
So that's our show for today. It's a good day.
- 01:55
Doug McKenzie
I think that was, like... The worst show we ever did.
- 01:58
Bob McKenzie
No. Oh, it was a good show because we had two topics.
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