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71 ain't a bad run. I hope whatever it was, was swift, painless and took you while you were sleeping, Ms. O'Hara.

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She had dextrocardia with situs inversus, a condition where her heart and other major internal organs are reversed from their normal positions.[39]

On January 30, 2026, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department said that the department received a call from O'Hara's home address at 4:48 a.m. regarding a woman believed to be O'Hara.[40] She was transported to hospital "in serious condition".[40] O'Hara died later that day in Los Angeles at the age of 71.[41][42][43]

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Read about her condition somewhere and I have heard of it before.

I grew up watching her on Second City TV. Also remember her speaking at John Candy's funeral.

Her characters on Second City were quite wild at times. SIX, maybe you should check some of them out. I am sure there are full episodes on YouTube. The show was only half an hour.

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Read about her condition somewhere and I have heard of it before.

I grew up watching her on Second City TV. Also remember her speaking at John Candy's funeral.

Her characters on Second City were quite wild at times. SIX, maybe you should check some of them out. I am sure there are full episodes on YouTube. The show was only half an hour.

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I watched some SCTV reruns with my old man and my brothers when we were kids, but they didn't have them on rerun a lot around us like they did The Best of Saturday Night. Been so long now though, all I really remember about the show is the cast outside of Bob and Doug.

John Candy was a legend too.

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I remember the Best of Saturday Night being run up here. Might have watched one.

Oh, yeah. Bob and Doug where great. Eugene Levy and Joe Flaherty used to do a news desk skit and that was really funny because all the stories took place around the fictional town the "station" was in. There was a town mayor and of course who could forget "Monster Horror Chiller Theater" with Joe Flaherty as "Count Floyd" and Eugene Levy as "Bruno" who was side kick to Dr. Tongue played by John Candy.

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I remember the Best of Saturday Night being run up here. Might have watched one.

Oh, yeah. Bob and Doug where great. Eugene Levy and Joe Flaherty used to do a news desk skit and that was really funny because all the stories took place around the fictional town the "station" was in. There was a town mayor and of course who could forget "Monster Horror Chiller Theater" with Joe Flaherty as "Count Floyd" and Eugene Levy as "Bruno" who was side kick to Dr. Tongue played by John Candy.

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My first exposure to Bob and Doug, probably unsurprisingly was their Christmas song... "And a beer... in a tree." I thought it was great to get to see them both on TV a few years later with those reruns. I totally remember Count Floyd, now that you mention it. I seem to remember a skit where John Candy and Eugene Levy were pulled over by the police while drunk, and they were trying to mask their breath with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups or something too. Pretty sure Joe Flaherty was the cop in that sketch. Don't know why that one sticks out to me like that, or what I found particularly funny about it that would make me remember that specific sketch one day.

Maybe I'll look SCTV up on YouTube and see what they've got up there now. I know that I knew Catherine O'Hara was in SCTV, but I might not have ever caught a skit that she was in.



It's funny you mention Dr. Tongue. Sounds like a character from a point and click adventure game series called Maniac Mansion that came out years after SCTV that my brothers and I were all excited for, and it starred Joe Flaherty and a few others from SCTV I believe and we were so disappointed. It was such a weird show... The theme song was so light hearted, and though the family was strange and had all the names of the crazy family that lived in the mansion, they behaved nothing like they did in the games and I don't even think they really were in a mansion either. Definitely not a scary old looking mansion that was kidnapping teenagers and a dungeon in the basement. I think they were just in a bigger than average sized suburban house that would be dwarfed by the McMansions they've put up all over our country in the decades since.



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She had dextrocardia with situs inversus, a condition where her heart and other major internal organs are reversed from their normal positions.[39]

On January 30, 2026, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department said that the department received a call from O'Hara's home address at 4:48 a.m. regarding a woman believed to be O'Hara.[40] She was transported to hospital "in serious condition".[40] O'Hara died later that day in Los Angeles at the age of 71.[41][42][43]

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I've got the CD that parody of the 12 days of Christmas is on and I think I have the vinyl as well. That is my idea of Christmas music. :laugh, smile:

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Haha... Yeah. I heard it because my Step-Dad had a Dr. Demento CD (he was some radio DJ that I believe helped make Weird Al Yankovich famous). It had a lot of Cheech and Chong stuff on it too, and my Mexican step-dad loved those guys.

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I don't remember that sketch but I probably saw it. I even posted a bit on here. It was John Candy and it was called "Hey, Yorgi!". The character wandered around his village talking to various characters. The SCTV satellite was taken over by a Russian satellite. Another skit from that episode was "What fits into Russia?" and the character host for that was Dave Thomas. Another skit was called "Farm Film Report" and the two for that were Joe Flaherty and John Candy. Once Catherine O'Hara was in the skit and she was playing a young Brooke Shields. So, she got up to do a song after telling them that her mom said no blowing her up. Well, they blew her up.

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Interesting. How young was Catherine back then? She couldn't have been playing THAT young of a Brook Sheilds, since Shields was already way too young to have been in that Blue Lagoon movie, at least by any of today's standards for sure.

But I was thinking about that when I replied last night. The reason I don't think I probably saw her in any of the SCTV skits I saw back then was because of how young she would have had to be. I don't think I ever saw her when she was much younger than she was in Beetlejuice.

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I've got the CD that parody of the 12 days of Christmas is on and I think I have the vinyl as well. That is my idea of Christmas music. :laugh, smile:

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Haha... Yeah. I heard it because my Step-Dad had a Dr. Demento CD (he was some radio DJ that I believe helped make Weird Al Yankovich famous). It had a lot of Cheech and Chong stuff on it too, and my Mexican step-dad loved those guys.

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I don't remember that sketch but I probably saw it. I even posted a bit on here. It was John Candy and it was called "Hey, Yorgi!". The character wandered around his village talking to various characters. The SCTV satellite was taken over by a Russian satellite. Another skit from that episode was "What fits into Russia?" and the character host for that was Dave Thomas. Another skit was called "Farm Film Report" and the two for that were Joe Flaherty and John Candy. Once Catherine O'Hara was in the skit and she was playing a young Brooke Shields. So, she got up to do a song after telling them that her mom said no blowing her up. Well, they blew her up.

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Interesting. How young was Catherine back then? She couldn't have been playing THAT young of a Brook Sheilds, since Shields was already way too young to have been in that Blue Lagoon movie, at least by any of today's standards for sure.

But I was thinking about that when I replied last night. The reason I don't think I probably saw her in any of the SCTV skits I saw back then was because of how young she would have had to be. I don't think I ever saw her when she was much younger than she was in Beetlejuice.

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I was really, really bad... I don't understand who it was made for, actually. Everyone I grew up with who loved that game when it came out for Nintendo hated the show. I know my old man didn't like it, and he loved SCTV when it had its original run, and wouldn't have known anything it was supposedly based off of, just as you wouldn't have. A lot of TV shows were pretty bad back in those days though, I suppose.

I got the intro to the video game and the theme song of the 1st season of the show here. Tell me if you think that tonally these two things would have anything in common other than the name.

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Sheez, I remember Dr. Demento. Don't know where I heard the name but I know it. Never really heard Cheech and Chong together. But I've seen them in separate things over the years. Cheech even worked on tv show with Don Johnson. They were both cops. Chong made a guest appearance.

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Really? Their old stuff together was great. All those movies. Quite a bit of audio together too, and my step-dad had most of it.

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No, I think Catherine's version of Brooke Shields was suppose to be in her early 20s and her spin on her was pretty funny. Throwing her arms around and trying to sing. Once stopped, she blew up. The tag line for that skit was, "She blow'd up real good." I've Seen Blue Lagoon and I don't remember how old Shields was in it.
I loved Beetlejuice.

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Holy Crap. You just explained the plot of the Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock movie Speed. I didn't know that it was a Catherine O'Hara SCTV sketch about Brook Shields before they made it a Hollywood Blockbuster! Keep that bus above 50mph, Mrs. Shields!!!

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Yeah, I wouldn't have known the game. And some shows were bad. Even the ones produced up here. Few kids shows like "The Littelest Hobo" was a kid's show. Apparently it wasn't bad but I was too old for it when it was running.

Watched both and really they don't. Saw it was partially written Martin Short in the credits. Must have been trying out his writing chops. Might have recognized the guy who played the fly but too small even with my glasses on the get a good look at him.

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Sheez, I remember Dr. Demento. Don't know where I heard the name but I know it. Never really heard Cheech and Chong together. But I've seen them in separate things over the years. Cheech even worked on tv show with Don Johnson. They were both cops. Chong made a guest appearance.

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No, I think Catherine's version of Brooke Shields was suppose to be in her early 20s and her spin on her was pretty funny. Throwing her arms around and trying to sing. Once stopped, she blew up. The tag line for that skit was, "She blow'd up real good." I've Seen Blue Lagoon and I don't remember how old Shields was in it.
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Holy Crap. You just explained the plot of the Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock movie Speed. I didn't know that it was a Catherine O'Hara SCTV sketch about Brook Shields before they made it a Hollywood Blockbuster! Keep that bus above 50mph, Mrs. Shields!!!

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Yeah, I wouldn't have known the game. And some shows were bad. Even the ones produced up here. Few kids shows like "The Littelest Hobo" was a kid's show. Apparently it wasn't bad but I was too old for it when it was running.

Watched both and really they don't. Saw it was partially written Martin Short in the credits. Must have been trying out his writing chops. Might have recognized the guy who played the fly but too small even with my glasses on the get a good look at him.

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Yeah... I can't remember who even played the fly. Thats another strange thing about it. They made the son look freakish with that forehead makeup which wasn't necessary. Weird Ed was weird, but he was the smartest and most grounded member of a really, really messed up family in the game's Mansion. But there wasn't any talking fly. I think somebody who at least knew about the game said "What the hell does any of this have anything to do with the game. The game is really, really weird. So David Cronenburg is a really weird dude who makes really weird movies and he made that really weird movie with weirdo Jeff Goldblum called The Fly 4 years ago. Let's put a talking fly in the show. The kids will love that!"

And then, if memory serves, it was just a Family Ties type of sit-com with some weird crap in it, and instead of wrapping up a normal suburban family's problem in a half-hour to a laugh track, the Edison Family had to solve weird problems for a half-hour hour to a laugh-track, and probably try teaching a moral lesson by the end of every show too since it had to have been made with children in mind.


The Edison Family was crazy. The father kidnapped teenage girls and ran experiments on them. At the behest of a meteorite that crashed behind their house and took over his mind. Nurse Edna, the mother, was an over-the-hill sex-fiend that spoke in innuendo and also locked up teenagers who wandered into the house, but for her own reasons... (heavily censored and watered down in the Nintendo release from the PC original). Though they never go into any real lore, you can only assume that she was once just as "normal" as her husband was before the meteorite crashed and made them all crazy.

The son was ROTC and still living at home. It's unknown if he was as much of a wannabe hardass before the meteor fell as he was after, but he loved making plans and bossing people around. He was by far the most grounded character of the only 3 residents of the mansion were... (If you don't count the two sentient tentacles). He seemed mostly unaware of or just completely detached from what either of his parents were doing, and will actually help you on occasion if you butter him up. Don't put his hamster in the microwave and give it back to him though or he will kill you.


It really is just so weird. Ironically, I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the rooms who greenlit this show back in the early 90's. I can only imagine how much cocaine had to be on those tables.




ETA: And although the chorus of that stupid theme song has somehow stuck with me all these years, now that I'm thinking about it, I hated that show from the first note of the first time I heard that theme song. It was quite possibly the first time I firmly rejected anything that immediate in my life.


I believe the kids today would say I "Noped right out of that".

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