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Long Underwear and Back Bacon

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The setup

Bob and Doug McKenzie try to cover two whole topics in one episode of Great White North: long underwear and back bacon.

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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.

ScriptEnglish · 42 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:01

    Oh, good day. Good day. Good day. Good day,

  2. 00:07

    Bob McKenzie

    Good day, how's it going? I'm Bob McKenzie, this is my brother Doug.

  3. 00:11

    Doug McKenzie

    How's it going, eh, today?

  4. 00:12

    Bob McKenzie

    We got two topics today, back bacon and long underwear.

  5. 00:15

    Doug McKenzie

    Like, they're different topics, right?

  6. 00:17

    Bob McKenzie

    Okay, first topic, well, I don't know which one should be first. Which one should...

  7. 00:21

    Doug McKenzie

    Uh, go long underwear and then food as a reward.

  8. 00:26

    Bob McKenzie

    Okay, long underwear is our topic today, and my guest is my brother.

  9. 00:31

    Doug McKenzie

    How's it going, eh?

  10. 00:32

    Bob McKenzie

    Just like on real shows.

  11. 00:33

    Doug McKenzie

    yeah

  12. 00:33

    Bob McKenzie

    my guest today is my brother Doug McKenzie how are you

  13. 00:38

    Doug McKenzie

    he's a day

  14. 00:39

    Bob McKenzie

    he's like an expert right on long underwear

  15. 00:42

    Doug McKenzie

    that's right

  16. 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

  17. 00:51

    Doug McKenzie

    well what I don't dirty than me

  18. 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

  19. 00:59

    Doug McKenzie

    Wait, I thought I was the expert.

  20. 01:01

    Bob McKenzie

    Oh, okay.

  21. 01:02

    Doug McKenzie

    Don't I get to have a view here?

  22. 01:04

    Bob McKenzie

    Yeah, right, a view. Okay, go.

  23. 01:06

    Doug McKenzie

    Well, for long underwear, the difference is that instead of ending here, it goes all the way down here.

  24. 01:12

    Bob McKenzie

    Oh, they know that. But go on.

  25. 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.

  26. 01:22

    Bob McKenzie

    Or you could wear two thin pairs.

  27. 01:23

    Doug McKenzie

    Cold, you get thin.

  28. 01:24

    Bob McKenzie

    What? You could wear two thin pairs.

  29. 01:25

    Doug McKenzie

    Geez, I'm getting scared now.

  30. 01:27

    Bob McKenzie

    What?

  31. 01:27

    Doug McKenzie

    Food.

  32. 01:29

    Bob McKenzie

    Okay, next topic's back bacon, and look what happens when you overcook it. It shrivels up, right?

  33. 01:34

    Doug McKenzie

    You put beer in that, that's why I did that.

  34. 01:36

    Bob McKenzie

    No, I always put beer in it.

  35. 01:38

    Doug McKenzie

    You know, we used to use margarine, now we use beer.

  36. 01:41

    Bob McKenzie

    Well, I always use beer.

  37. 01:42

    Doug McKenzie

    For, like, eggs, eh? To keep it from sticking to the pan, you pour beer in.

  38. 01:45

    Bob McKenzie

    Like, why is there no back bacon-flavored gum? That'd be great, eh?

  39. 01:49

    Doug McKenzie

    Mm.

  40. 01:50

    Bob McKenzie

    So that's our show for today. It's a good day.

  41. 01:55

    Doug McKenzie

    I think that was, like... The worst show we ever did.

  42. 01:58

    Bob McKenzie

    No. Oh, it was a good show because we had two topics.

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