SCTV’s “Death of a Salesman”

One of the things I loved about SCTV was their willingness to take a weird premise and just let it play out.  There might be other sketch shows that would have thought of “Death of a Salesman” starring Ricardo Montalban and DeForest Kelly, but none of them would let it spool out, getting stranger and stranger, for over 7 minutes:

https://youtu.be/jjqVJwqd0zc

When I was in college there was a local channel that would play the full 90 minute SCTV episodes at 1 in the morning, which was the perfect environment for the bizarre dreamlogic fueling that show.  Absolutly brilliant.

And as a chaser, here’s Spock and McCoy in “Check Please:

https://twitter.com/hesbianspock/status/1660856163846483970

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