Bob and Doug McKenzie have become a part of Canadian culture…almost every Canadian has told someone to ‘Take Off, Eh!’ or called someone a ‘hoser’. My kids are all under 13 and know well the ‘intro music’ (see the clip below if you’re confused). Donuts (preferrably Jelly’s), toques, beer…and ridiculous buffoonery abounded with the McKenzie brothers! I loved watching Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas as the McKenzie Brothers on SCTV and even now I can still remember my favourite skits, my favourite lines and sometimes ponder putting a mouse in a bottle of beer in order to get a free case (do they actually make beer in bottles any more? That’s a side question for another post…). I had no idea though, how these two goobers ended up together, not to mention how they ended up with an album and massive ties to Rush! This article that I found though, sheds some pretty cool light on it though. A chance meeting with a school chum of Moranis combined with Thomas’s brother becoming a big deal in Canada (Ian Thomas had a couple of hits you can hear regularly on The Bay!) and one hell of a smart marketing/promotions campaign really boosted the popularity of the McKenzie’s. There was a LOT of ‘outside the box’ and innovative thinking that went into getting a couple of idiots firmly entrenched in the Canadian Consciousness!
Check out the article here!
