Bob and Doug McKenzie were fictional brothers played Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. The sketch was called The Great White North and it was on SCTV.
The 1980-81 season was taped here in Edmonton. Awhile back the city unveiled this statue of Bob and Doug. It is located in the ICE District. I snapped a picture of it yesterday when I was down there.
I decided to put it together with this other picture. That picture was taken when I went as a Chaperone on a Springbeak trip with some high school students to California.
We were on Sunset Boulevard when we came across a movie being filmed.
When l saw Dave Thomas l got his attention. When he found out l was from Edmonton he invited myself and the student who was with me on to the set and as you can see we got our picture taken with him before we continued on our way . By the way the student's name was Doug.
What a great story! I didn’t know there was a statue of them in Edmonton. Fun fact - Rick Moranis went to elementary school with Geddy Lee of Rush, which is how Geddy came to sing on their on their song Take Off. So much Canadiana!
“Take off, eh! You hoser” lol. SCTV was my favourite show back in the day. Much better and funnier than Saturday Night Live. All the stars that started out there. Besides Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis there was John Candy, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Andrea Martin and Harold Ramis. Joe Flaherty didn’t graduate to post SCTV stardom but he was great on the show. Easily one of the funniest shows on television. Not quite Monty Python but very good. Cool that they have erected that statue honouring Rick and Dave. And what a great memory to have met and had your photo taken with Dave Thomas. Cool fun fact @ljmanning
(I’ve actually bee to Edmonton when our plane was diverted there because Moncton was snowed in!)
Ian
Totally wrong. We diverted to Moncton on the way to Frederickton. Thanks for keeping me honest!!! 😀😃😄