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this man is one of the alumni of sctv and after making several films he is back
on television
with this program we've been talking about tonight maniac mansion you can see
it on sunday nights on
the family channel ladies and gentlemen please welcome joe flaherty joe are you
back there
having seen you in a long time thank you very much for being here good i just
want to get this out of
the way yeah okay oh that's right oh you get the count out of the way you used
to be count floyd on
the sctv yes i did i was count floyd on sctv and you were also a guy caballero
the station manager
yeah yeah so two more characters that i'm sure share never heard of either no
no i'll tell you
that woman she chaps my kilt you come out here joe flaherty maniac mansion
stone just a stone face
that's all right not even a who's he yeah but in 20 years where do you think
the two of you will oh
never mind um uh who else was on that sctv show let's run them down quickly you
john candy johnny yes
uh uh uh oh i can't rick moranis rick moranis of course um uh dave thomas dave
thomas yeah catherine
o'hara catherine o'hara andrea martin andrea martin martin short martin short
and myself yeah and this
show is one of those things that will run in perpetuity and and every time i
run across an
episode of one of these it's fascinating it's all great great comedy yes you
well you like the show
even from the very first everybody liked the show yes you were a big fan yeah
yeah is there i know this
is a stupid question uh but is there ever anybody talking about let's get
everybody back together and
we'll have a kind of a movie with all of the folks oh eugene levy we're leaving
out oh yeah eugene yes
yes yes um well he's not doing anything these days screw him he hasn't worked
in a long time
no no he's fine he's directing films yeah um now you said yeah uh get together
i we tried that movie or
something yeah we got together for a little while and uh um you know it was
that old thing well who's
gonna well who's gonna write it who's gonna do this who's gonna do that and you
know we just kind of
threw up arms what the hell is this leave leave that in your dressing room
whatever i called up
your mother and got some information
that was your uh your potty training you know this this maniac mansion is is a
very entertaining
program explain to people the the premise and kind of highlight some of the
characters in it for
us okay well it's um let's see it's based on a a computer game a lucas george
lucas a computer game
which uh it's has nothing to do with not remotely a thing to do with the
computer yeah i don't know
how it started that way but anyway um i play dr fred edison this somewhat uh
eccentric um scientist
we have a mansion over a meteorite that has these mysterious uh properties that
that kind of
you know that it has an energy field that can mutate things basically that's so
uh given that
premise of course that we can mutate things and all hell breaks loose yes yeah
uh let's let's we have
uh some videotape of the show sure you know what we're gonna look at uh this
was actually the first
show of this season and i was talking about the different directions the show
was going to go in
because we weren't happy with the direction it was going in so this is the way
the show was going to
look now are you happy in this direction or not happy in this no no we bond in
this one okay here it is
uh whatever maniac mansion watch closely i can't spoil you put the squeeze on
me what's for dinner
anyway i'm not here to ask you for money
i knew it i knew it i'm dead most times do but what i really need is the car
oh now case how many times have i told you the brakes need
oh
but now that's that's that's not the show that's you doing like married with
children right
the show actually you know what we do is we do a lot of parodies on the show
yeah we're slipping
more and more of those in mutations and parodies they seem to go hand in hand
what are we doing
now oh i've been told we must do a commercial we'll be back here with joe flarity
right after this
are we finished we must leave the airwaves ladies and gentlemen my thanks to joe
flarity
marv albert and of course the lovely share good night everyone