Ohmygawd...the Queen Haters!  I remember when they appeared on Mel's Rockpile as part of Mel's doomed attempt to appear hip and bring Punk Rock to masses.   I remember John Candy played the drummer; he was bald and was wearing clothes lifted from Captain Sensible's wardrobe. But the funniest part of his character was that he appeared stone face through the entire performance.  Not a facial muscle moved!  This skit was seared into my memory and I remember that the lyrics scrolled across the bottom of the screen (as you couldn't really understand Martin Short's take on a punky British accent).  I don't remember all of the lyrics, but some to them were:

I'd like to drown the Queen off the coast of Argentine.
Throw her off a battleship of her Falkland war machine
She taxes me to death
I can't afford me dope
I'd like to get her high....yeah, that would make me laugh....


Hilarious stuff!
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> I have been reminsicing back and forth with Scott Shaw about highlights from the 
> SCTV series. 
> Here are the ones I remember: 
> Teachers Pet (great parody/tribute to To Sir With Love featuring Eugene Levy's 
> Ricardo Montalban in place of Sidney Poitier and the Boomtown Rats (in place of 
> Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders) doing Elephant's Graveyard. (on Season 2 
> dvd) 
> Aforementioned Tubes on Fishin'Musician. 
> Plastics video (on the Gerry Todd video show along with Talking Heads-Once in a 
> Lifetime on season 2 dvd) 
> Queen Haters (Hilarious Sex Pistols take off) on Mel's Rockpile . Martin Short 
> doing his best Johnny Rotten spewing forth vituperative lyrics like "I feel 
> sorry for Princess Di for having to have such a terrible mother-in-law". (I see 
> that episode 85 on season 1 has a Mel's Rockpile 20th anniversary special so I 
> think that just might be it) 
> Aformentioned Plasmatics. (episode 89 season 2 dvd set) 
> There is so much great entertainment there not even counting all the non music 
> related sketches. Season 3 is due out soon as well. 
> -r 
> 
> 
> > Revisiting the SCTV stuff is a real treat. The Plasmatics also 
> > performed a tune and played along with the bit as well. 
> > 
> > Perry 
> > 
> > > > From: "Mark Eichelberger" 
> > To: 
> > Subject: Re: Tubes Question 
> > Message-ID: <008901c51aab$60f49a60$0300a8c0@mcehome> 
> > 
> > Was this a recurring sketch that featured John Candy as a fisherman who 
> > hung 
> > out at a fishing lodge with a group of musicans? And in between 
> > fishing, 
> > the musicians would perform a song or two? 
> > 
> > I recall an episode where Robert Gordon was hanging out at the lodge. 
> > It 
> > was cool to see/hear him perform Marshall Crenshaw's "Someday, Someway". 
> > 
> > As an aside, I think around the same (early 80's) NBC's Tom Snyder began 
> > hosting music acts on his late night show. I remember seeing The 
> > Ramones, 
> > The Jam, Adam and the Ants, U2 and the infamous Plasmatics perform on 
> > his 
> > show. I think that for most of these groups, his show offered them 
> > their 
> > first US appearance on TV. At the time, I thought he enjoyed having 
> > these 
> > acts on, but in later interviews, old Tom stated that the network brass 
> > pushed the acts on him in a failed attempt to boost ratings with the 
> > college crowd.> 
> > 
> > np: De Novo Dahl 
> >