If you grew up in Chicago in the 50's and 60's, you could hear this same type of accent from many Slavic people, especially from Poland. I know this is a satirical skit, but it rings true in so many ways. There were Polish tv and radio shows, especially polka variety shows on channel 32. I watched some of everything.
@klmullins65 Also don't forget the tradition of taking off of the shoes, because "HE is the VISITOR"! I do believe this is also a universal custom, except in cultures where shoes are not worn or shoes are forbidden!
My take on that schtick is Stan’s linguistic clumsiness. Most native English speakers would emphasize the first name (Stan) with less emphasis on Schmenge, to differentiate from his brother, who’s already stated their last name.
I'm Bulgarian-American, not too familiar with a lot of the traditions there, but every time I learn of one it reminds me of this skit. I just learned that we are supposed to bake bread and put a coin in it and see who gets the coin. Dental insurance not included.
This was/is my favorite late night comedy show of all time. Every Saturday night as a kid in the 70’s being able to stay up late and watch SNL (when it was actually funny) then SCTV was the best night of the week!
3:21 They do have the most beautiful artificial trees in Leutonia as you can see in this footage. Cabbage rolls and coffee and artificial trees. Life in Leutonia is truly magical. =)
Makes me nostalgic for an innocence and goodness maybe in traditional ethnic families, maybe they were sending them up but you got the feeling the actors loved them too
So charming. My Wife's parents immigrated to Seattle from Norway in the 1950's and started their Family. Eventually their Parents and her Moms Brother and family settled in the same Seattle Neighborhood. Being from Europe their customs were a little different than ours here, and they dressed more formally than Americans do now on most occasions. I even learned to play the Accordion that my Aunt had given me years before and would inflict a few Polka's and Christmas songs on them at get togethers!
Thanks for sharing my great grandfather came from Norway leaving family there 10 years ago we reconnected with them. His two sons and one daughter moved to Spokane WA. His oldest daughter, my grandmother, stayed in Minnesota.
YES, that is truly the case. When you said it must be "Epic", I totally Agree. And the name should be spelt : Mrs. Vilve Yachke . This generation of ladies of Mrs. Vilve Yachke, they are all great Artisans. Practically all Lutonian women are would be Artisans. And Mrs. Vilve Yachke truly perfected the ART of cabbage rolls!
@@picobarco4407 I can vouch fer Vilve Yachke. Her stuffed cabbage rolls and coffee killed! Every year at da warm und fuzzy holidays we held down da Leutonian pupulation dis vay.... Vlad P.O. Box 12 New Leutonia AARP 23Z GARP
@@ulpana And A Great THANK YOU Vlad! For further reinforcing the fact that Mrs. Vilve Yachke is truly one of the Greatest woman Artisan, and even is the Top Artisan, beating out also all the Men Artisan, especially when it came to the Cabbage Rolls. I am so happy that you, a Leutonian would come here to give her such great PRAISE! Glory Be to You Vlad! It is a great honor to know a person who knew her great Artisan food so well! Truly Appreciate your response. I feel so so honored that I can see from a Leutonian in person, telling me how great Mrs.Vilve Yachke! I feel so filled with Happiness and Joy to hear such great respect ! I have tears of the JOY when I hear such beautiful Praise VLAD! Thanks so much! And remember, in Leutonian culture, they do the Christmas, Especially for the Children!
I love the outdoor Christmas lights. You used to be able to buy one Christmas bulb that blinked and put that bulb on a straight burning set of lights. So you could mix randomly blinking lights and non-blinking lights on the same string.. I don’t know why they stopped making them. It was fun to see one or two blinking lights on out door lights.
I had a great-uncle who got drunk every Christmas, but his tradition every year was to trip and fall into the tree and knock it over in a crowded living room. He was Hungarian-American, rather than Leutonian, though- must have been a slightly different ethnic practice.
I think my family would enjoy a 15 lb cabbage roll lmao. Absolute legends!!!! I grew up with SCTV and when I found out SCTV was filmed where I lived!!! my young mind was blown. Thanks for sharing this wonderful, funny video. Merry Christmas to everyone!
U mean to say you live way out on the dark side of the Canadian Prairie?!?!?! Hope u saw the feature length VHS rental video of this Christmas Special with da Schmenges and also their SCTV documentary DA LAST POLKA: Broke my stuffed cabbage heart to learn they were hangin' up dere lederhosen and retiring from da record biz......However I value the tracking of the Schmenge legend from their modest roots and formative years back home in Leutonia...on da dark side of da Balkans! ua-cam.com/video/D4BNYcrZzU4/v-deo.html Gosh I hope dey all get back on da Falafel Circuit when dey tire of da re-tire biz..................Even Robbie Robertson is back on da road now that nearly the rest of The Band has transitioned. Truth is once they went on da road wid all three of da Lemon Twins the writing was on da tour bus. Yours from Melonville, Tio Mitchito Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee
Ok seriously I think what makes me laugh is this seriously is NOT too far off from some actual hilarious European traditions. My Czech friend for example told me they would keep a carp in the bathtub feed it bread, until Christmas where grandpa would club it and they would have it fir dinner. Lol. No shade either to Europeans cause some North American traditions are silly too.
Well, the tub wasn't tradition as much as the carp. The tub was probably the only place to keep the carp till Christmas. I'm part Italian, and we have the feast of seven fishes Christmas Eve. And my grandfather used to make baccala, salt cod, at Easter, for dinner Holy Saturday. That has to be soaked for a couple of days, to soak out the salt before cooking it. So he used the bathtub. Fortunately, he had expanded the house and there was more than one bathtub, eventually! 😄
@@theBaron0530 your grandfather was a brave guy soaking the baccalà indoors. I never knew anyone who didn't keep it outside in a washtub. My father said that in his old neighborhood, there was more pollution in the week before Christmas than the steel mills cranked out during the entire year.
Yeah, but keeping the carp in the tub isn't the tradition, eating it for dinner Christmas Eve is. It's like the Italian custom of the Feast of Seven Fishes, a seafood dinner for Christmas Eve. And you have to park the fish somewhere till then.
Ah I so remember the exchanging of the socks on Christmas Day. Such good times. I remember once, I was 12 and my cousin was 49, his feets was size 15 and my feets de was the size 5 . His socks were so big and he had bad smelly foot disease . How we laughed and laughed when he put my sock on his feets. . I still have his foot disease and I remember him on every Christmas. So much good memories.
Thanks for sharing! What a great Christmas sketch from an even greater late-night comedy show. SCTV had plenty of holiday-themed sketches during its run, but this one really takes the cake. I hope you all have a safe, healthy, and (most of all) happy holiday season!
Can you imagine the stink... smelly socks, BO with all that plaid polyester and 15 pounds of cabbage cooking... 😆😆😆 Well, it wasn't all that different because we had the 7 fish on Christmas eve with the whole house smelling like baccalà and burnt oil, plus all the men would light up huge air polluting cigars after dinner. At least they kept their shoes on. 😉
Josh Smenge and Stan Smenge! The Polka brothers! Lithuanian Christmas 🎄 is fun if not altogether different! He really sold it to me! Their doing something with an 🥚 Egg! I thought the Eggs were for Easter but what do I know. Next to nothing! Hee Hee! Cabbage Rolls and Coffee! Delicious! The exchanging of the socks 🧦! What a Great Tradition! Hilarious!
Hah! If you play the Leutonian greeting backwards, you can hear "and a happy new year... SAMSIRC! we wish you a merry SAMSIRC!..We wish you a merry SAMSIRC!"
Some Leutonian Facts Part 3: The Happy Wanderers were Jimi Hendrix's favorite Polka band. Not many people know that Jimi was slated to contribute several guitar solos to the album that Yosh and Stan were recording in 1970,right before Jimi's death. What a loss!
I love learning new history. Now I know that artificial Christmas trees come from Leutonia. I always wondered where they originated. Cabbage rolls and hot coffee for everyone!!!!!
Probably is. I’ve seen a number of SCTV bits that I can identify as Scarborough. “Maudlin’s 11” intro is Kennedy and Eglinton. Even the beer store scene in “Strange Brew” is Midland and Eglinton.
@@canaisyoung3601 No Canais, they are not Germanic... they are parodying Western Slavs: Ukrainian, Slovenian, Slovakian, Czech, Polish or less likely Baltic. Great skit by great Canadians.
more : Some Leutonian Facts Part 3: The Happy Wanderers were Jimi Hendrix's favorite Polka band. Not many people know that Jimi was slated to contribute several guitar solos to the album that Yosh and Stan were recording in 1970,right before Jimi's death. What a loss!
I hear their cousin Gus Polinski is the polka king of the midwest. At least I have to think they're cousins, Gus definitely looks Leutonian. You can hardly tell him and Josh apart!
Some Leutonian Facts Part 6: In Leutonian culture, great respect is given to the Artisans, especially women Artisans, because the women are usually more skilled than men in the Artisan space, so hence one of the most famous Artisan woman in Leutonia is Mrs. Vilve Yachke. And the common way to give great praise to Artisans is to give Thanks. SO here is a famous saying in Leutonia to the greatest Artisan of these times< the phrase is :: "And once again, thank you to Mrs. Vilve Yachke for the cabbage rolls and the coffee..."
This is one of the greats phrases of Artisan Respect in the Leutonian Culture! I just wish to educate the peoples of the internet the cultural ways of Leutonia!
Here are some more facts that I have found out: Some Leutonian Facts Part 7 : For the "Melchek" one needs to have a Christmas budgies . BUT where did Leutonians get the budgies? This is not very well known even in Leutonia. But recent investigations into this, has revealed this FACT:: The company run by Tex & Edna Boil, made a fortune smuggling budgies into Leutonia! The government of Leutonia is currently conducting investigations into this, at the moment the government has "No Comment" to the media, as it is still conducting the investigation.
From the Article on : The "Schwarznegger Vegetable Soup Diet!" The former seven-time Mr. Olympia has previously said he follows a mostly vegan diet, and his last meal of the day is always a big bowl of vegetable soup. Schwarzenegger shared the basic recipe in his newsletter for the "very delicious but light" dinner. It includes olive oil, lemon juice, cumin, salt and pepper, chickpeas, broth, plain low-fat yogurt, and fresh herbs. The recipe also calls for garlic, onion, zucchini, and spinach, although he has previously said you can use your favorite veggies or whatever you have on hand. Schwarzenegger has said he'll add a drizzle of pumpkin seed oil as well.
Who made all of the cabbage rolls? I guess we will never meet the Mrs. Vilve Yachke. She is always uncredited. Lots of new t-shirts I see on eBay from SCTV just in time for the season
Since Arnold is from Austria, that means he is close to Leutonia SO, I believe he got this vegetable soup from "Mrs. Vilve Yachke!" He got Mrs. Vilve Yachke's recipe for the Leutonian Vegetable Soup
Every year, for the last 40 + years, I watch this over and over again . Just takes me back to a happier time and place. :)
It just wouldn’t be the same without cabbage rolls and coffee ( mmm mmm good ) would it ?
Me too.
Me too!!!! It's been a part of our family forever
1:00 Looks like a Christmas at my grandparents back in the 80's with all my Polish relatives.😄
Who doesn't love a plate of Cabbage Rolls and Coffee on Christmas Morning? 🤔
The plastic slipcovers!
Great with much affection
❤ i grew up to the sound of accordion music from my Italian mother & her parents! ❤❤❤ outstanding!! Loved rousing rendition of "Beer Barrel Polka" 😂
Cabbage rolls and coffee... can't be beat on Christmas!
It wouldn't be Christmas without this! I Watch it every Christmas Eve,
If you grew up in Chicago in the 50's and 60's, you could hear this same type of accent from many Slavic people, especially from Poland. I know this is a satirical skit, but it rings true in so many ways. There were Polish tv and radio shows, especially polka variety shows on channel 32. I watched some of everything.
I’m the Executive Director of the Leutonians in Exile and this series always brings fond memories!
Yes the Sullivans of Leutonia, a great great family!
Yes the Sullivans of Leutonia, a great great family!
@@susieblu4152 ♥️🎉😆
@@susieblu4152 ♥️🎉😆
The traditional "Looking at the Christmas Tree" is a universal custom!
@klmullins65 Also don't forget the tradition of taking off of the shoes, because "HE is the VISITOR"! I do believe this is also a universal custom, except in cultures where shoes are not worn or shoes are forbidden!
I love how the brothers pronounce their surnames differently.
My take on that schtick is Stan’s linguistic clumsiness. Most native English speakers would emphasize the first name (Stan) with less emphasis on Schmenge, to differentiate from his brother, who’s already stated their last name.
I’m Stan SCHMENGE
christmas just isn't christmas without the exchanging of the socks
Don't forget the egg!
@@fjccommish are you the veeeeesitor?
Growing up Scandinavian Lutheran, I’ve had many cabbage rolls and much coffee.
How is it?
Polish American here. Cabbage rolls and coffee are a big part of polka culture in real life. That's why the Shmenges hit home for me.
I'm Bulgarian-American, not too familiar with a lot of the traditions there, but every time I learn of one it reminds me of this skit. I just learned that we are supposed to bake bread and put a coin in it and see who gets the coin. Dental insurance not included.
That's like the king's cake in New Orleans for Mardi Gras. The Germans have a similar custom, but that's for New Year's, if I remember correctly.
@@theBaron053012th Night Cake too a
This is just the best. I’ve watched this every Christmas since it premiered on SCTV years ago. RIP John Candy.
I've been watching it for forever. Why? Because I'm the vees-i-tor ! Can't be beat.
We do it yearly! My kids love when we together
This and Bob & Doug McKenzie's "12 days of Christmas" skit on Christmas Eve. Legendary.
I don’t know why, but the removing of the shoes tradition brings me great joy.
It brings you joy because you’re the visitor!
I’ve been following that tradition all my life! I had no idea it was Leutonian!
What about the egg?
This was/is my favorite late night comedy show of all time.
Every Saturday night as a kid in the 70’s being able to stay up late and watch SNL (when it was actually funny) then SCTV was the best night of the week!
Sctv was the best😊
So charming and gentle, yet great comedy.
If you've ever heard the Slovenian accent from a small town you couldn't get any closer.😀
yup. Maribor, Ljutomer, and all of the tiny villages in between
LMAO - "artificial trees came from Leutonia, where real trees are now extinct"
3:21 They do have the most beautiful artificial trees in Leutonia as you can see in this footage. Cabbage rolls and coffee and artificial trees. Life in Leutonia is truly magical. =)
Makes me nostalgic for an innocence and goodness maybe in traditional ethnic families, maybe they were sending them up but you got the feeling the actors loved them too
100% they did.
It's so weird being reminded that I grew up watching John Candy and he passed away almost 30 years ago.
I’m from Cleveland where polka is YUGE! ♥️ the Schmenges!
So charming. My Wife's parents immigrated to Seattle from Norway in the 1950's and started their Family. Eventually their Parents and her Moms Brother and family settled in the same Seattle Neighborhood. Being from Europe their customs were a little different than ours here, and they dressed more formally than Americans do now on most occasions. I even learned to play the Accordion that my Aunt had given me years before and would inflict a few Polka's and Christmas songs on them at get togethers!
Welcome to Ballard. Plz look up the Ballard school of driving. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thanks for sharing my great grandfather came from Norway leaving family there 10 years ago we reconnected with them. His two sons and one daughter moved to Spokane WA. His oldest daughter, my grandmother, stayed in Minnesota.
Most americans from europe if not count slaves and indians
Christmas at Mrs Vilvayatchke's place must be epic, with the cabbage rolls and coffee.
YES, that is truly the case. When you said it must be "Epic", I totally Agree. And the name should be spelt : Mrs. Vilve Yachke . This generation of ladies of Mrs. Vilve Yachke, they are all great Artisans. Practically all Lutonian women are would be Artisans. And Mrs. Vilve Yachke truly perfected the ART of cabbage rolls!
@@picobarco4407 I can vouch fer Vilve Yachke. Her stuffed cabbage rolls and coffee killed! Every year at da warm und fuzzy holidays we held down da Leutonian pupulation dis vay....
Vlad
P.O. Box 12
New Leutonia AARP 23Z GARP
@@ulpana And A Great THANK YOU Vlad! For further reinforcing the fact that Mrs. Vilve Yachke is truly one of the Greatest woman Artisan, and even is the Top Artisan, beating out also all the Men Artisan, especially when it came to the Cabbage Rolls. I am so happy that you, a Leutonian would come here to give her such great PRAISE! Glory Be to You Vlad! It is a great honor to know a person who knew her great Artisan food so well! Truly Appreciate your response. I feel so so honored that I can see from a Leutonian in person, telling me how great Mrs.Vilve Yachke! I feel so filled with Happiness and Joy to hear such great respect ! I have tears of the JOY when I hear such beautiful Praise VLAD! Thanks so much! And remember, in Leutonian culture, they do the Christmas, Especially for the Children!
I’m on a rewatch. SCTV was such a major part of my childhood.
My kind of people how much I can not tell you.
It's that time again, where the cabbage rolls and coffee are the best. Just googled Cabbage Rolls and Coffee tshirt and boom I was in the heaven!
a brilliantly fun clip...if not to some extent, different!
The gold tooth at dinner just kills me
John Candy & Eugene Levy. Genius.
I love the outdoor Christmas lights. You used to be able to buy one Christmas bulb that blinked and put that bulb on a straight burning set of lights. So you could mix randomly blinking lights and non-blinking lights on the same string.. I don’t know why they stopped making them. It was fun to see one or two blinking lights on out door lights.
I hope I don't forget to swap my sock back before I drive home
This is a classic in my family. Chicago 80s and 90s was the best.
I always wondered why my uncle put a hat on top of our Christmas tree. Just figured he was drunk.
I had a great-uncle who got drunk every Christmas, but his tradition every year was to trip and fall into the tree and knock it over in a crowded living room. He was Hungarian-American, rather than Leutonian, though- must have been a slightly different ethnic practice.
I can still smell the cabbage rolls and coffee! Mmmm Good!
"And of course, de egg symbolizes de Christmas breakfast."
I lost it at that moment.
you just can't forget the exchanging of the socks.
I think my family would enjoy a 15 lb cabbage roll lmao. Absolute legends!!!! I grew up with SCTV and when I found out SCTV was filmed where I lived!!! my young mind was blown. Thanks for sharing this wonderful, funny video. Merry Christmas to everyone!
De cebbege roll, end de coffee!
U mean to say you live way out on the dark side of the Canadian Prairie?!?!?!
Hope u saw the feature length VHS rental video of this Christmas Special with da Schmenges
and also their SCTV documentary DA LAST POLKA: Broke my stuffed cabbage heart to learn they were hangin' up dere lederhosen and retiring from da record biz......However I value the tracking of the Schmenge legend from their modest roots and formative years back home in Leutonia...on da dark side of da Balkans!
ua-cam.com/video/D4BNYcrZzU4/v-deo.html
Gosh I hope dey all get back on da Falafel Circuit when dey tire of da re-tire biz..................Even Robbie Robertson is back on da road now that nearly the rest of The Band has transitioned.
Truth is once they went on da road wid all three of da Lemon Twins the writing was on da tour bus.
Yours from Melonville,
Tio Mitchito
Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers
Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers)
Media Discussion List\Looksee
And a happy new year!
Coffee and cabbage rolls. Makes you feel gassy AF just thinking about it.
Ok seriously I think what makes me laugh is this seriously is NOT too far off from some actual hilarious European traditions. My Czech friend for example told me they would keep a carp in the bathtub feed it bread, until Christmas where grandpa would club it and they would have it fir dinner. Lol. No shade either to Europeans cause some North American traditions are silly too.
Well, the tub wasn't tradition as much as the carp. The tub was probably the only place to keep the carp till Christmas. I'm part Italian, and we have the feast of seven fishes Christmas Eve. And my grandfather used to make baccala, salt cod, at Easter, for dinner Holy Saturday. That has to be soaked for a couple of days, to soak out the salt before cooking it. So he used the bathtub. Fortunately, he had expanded the house and there was more than one bathtub, eventually! 😄
@@theBaron0530 your grandfather was a brave guy soaking the baccalà indoors. I never knew anyone who didn't keep it outside in a washtub. My father said that in his old neighborhood, there was more pollution in the week before Christmas than the steel mills cranked out during the entire year.
Right???🤣🤣🤣
Comedy genius!
I just hung my Leutonian Christmas budgee!
It's Melchek!
Tex & Edna Boil made a fortune smuggling budgies into Leutonia .
@@senorsardonico6153🤣
Two comic legends.Rest In Peace,John.
We look at this each year since the children were young. Why? Because to make it fun for them.
👏👏👏❤️
We laugh at some of this but some European traditions are seriously not too far off. (Ie Czechs keep a carp in the bathtub until Christmas).
The whole year?
@@JoeyJoJoJoestarJuniorShabadoo Right? Now I want to know too.
@@JoeyJoJoJoestarJuniorShabadoo Of course they do not take bath, and carp is completely ok.
Yeah, but keeping the carp in the tub isn't the tradition, eating it for dinner Christmas Eve is. It's like the Italian custom of the Feast of Seven Fishes, a seafood dinner for Christmas Eve. And you have to park the fish somewhere till then.
in my family (czech on my mom's side), it would probably be one of my uncles passed out in the bathtub on christmas.
3:20 - wait a minute. I thought they said there were no trees in Lutonia 😂
Ah I so remember the exchanging of the socks on Christmas Day. Such good times. I remember once, I was 12 and my cousin was 49, his feets was size 15 and my feets de was the size 5 . His socks were so big and he had bad smelly foot disease . How we laughed and laughed when he put my sock on his feets. . I still have his foot disease and I remember him on every Christmas. So much good memories.
A holiday tradition (watching it, that is) for my family for years. It never stops giving. Brilliant.
Agreed!
Im craving cabbage rolls and coffee for some reason
OMG..brought me back..so funny..miss you John
I have a Christmas budgie I've had one since 1981
Thanks for sharing! What a great Christmas sketch from an even greater late-night comedy show. SCTV had plenty of holiday-themed sketches during its run, but this one really takes the cake. I hope you all have a safe, healthy, and (most of all) happy holiday season!
Takes the cake, or takes the cabbage roll?
Beautiful!!
thanks for the reupload, i was getting scared that i wouldn't find it this year
A lot of religious satire as well. Genius on many layers
Stroke inducingly Funny!! Unreal.
Oh, we used to observed the exchanging of the socks and the giant cabbage roll!
Can you imagine the stink... smelly socks, BO with all that plaid polyester and 15 pounds of cabbage cooking... 😆😆😆 Well, it wasn't all that different because we had the 7 fish on Christmas eve with the whole house smelling like baccalà and burnt oil, plus all the men would light up huge air polluting cigars after dinner. At least they kept their shoes on. 😉
😅😅😅😅😅 Love the comment.
the little girl rubs John Candy's spit of her cheek after he kisses her. Oh the 1970s, special times.
Pretty sure kids still wipe spit off their face even though it's currently 1980 and the 70's have ended.
Josh Smenge and Stan Smenge!
The Polka brothers! Lithuanian Christmas 🎄 is fun if not altogether different! He really sold it to me!
Their doing something with an 🥚 Egg!
I thought the Eggs were for Easter but what do I know. Next to nothing! Hee Hee!
Cabbage Rolls and Coffee! Delicious!
The exchanging of the socks 🧦!
What a Great Tradition! Hilarious!
If someone from the Warsaw Pact countries saw this in the early 80s, they would probably think these people are living like kings.
Not true. Looks like typical houses in the 80s.
Funnier than any anything you would see on SNL post Eddie Murphy.
Eugene and John...so fun
Hah! If you play the Leutonian greeting backwards, you can hear "and a happy new year... SAMSIRC! we wish you a merry SAMSIRC!..We wish you a merry SAMSIRC!"
Some Leutonian Facts Part 4: Just in time for the Linsk Minyk reunion tour! (The Happy Wanderers)
Wonder if John Kricfalusi got some of his ideas of Rem and Stimpy from these two. XD
I'm driving to Deleware on Christmas Eve To see my Grandkids. I'll be sure to bring D eggs.
Ah, sunny Edmonton.
This should be Toronto. This is 1982
I would love to celebrate Luftonian Christmas 😄😄🤗, I would Kill for cabbage rolls right now.
That cabbage roll "must be 15 pounds!!"
"It's a lovely house! It's a lovely street!!"
"Cabbage rolls and coffee can't be beat on Christmas!"
Some Leutonian Facts Part 3: The Happy Wanderers were Jimi Hendrix's favorite Polka band. Not many people know that Jimi was slated to contribute several guitar solos to the album that Yosh and Stan were recording in 1970,right before Jimi's death. What a loss!
I love learning new history. Now I know that artificial Christmas trees come from Leutonia. I always wondered where they originated. Cabbage rolls and hot coffee for everyone!!!!!
I'm Leutonian and I'm offended! We always use a brown egg.
From the dark side of the Balkans?
@@slowuroll2000 Why yes. The dark side always has the best cabbage roles and coffee.
The Old Country!
Funny and quite true to the type.
@5:17: "Christmas, uhnranna wishiwill, Christmas uhnranna wishiwill, Christmas.... prayu needpah hadnaaaah!"
That looks like old Scarborough.
Probably is. I’ve seen a number of SCTV bits that I can identify as Scarborough. “Maudlin’s 11” intro is Kennedy and Eglinton. Even the beer store scene in “Strange Brew” is Midland and Eglinton.
@SpektakOne I had an uncle that lived off Danforth Road in the 70s, looks familiar.
@ I’m there right now visiting family for Leutonian Christmas 😊
I want to move to Leutonia
Genius
All those people eating cabbage rolls & coffee in that small room makes me glad there's no smell-0-vision.
Especially after eating a 15 pound cabbage role .
This is years ahead of Vic and Bob, but very much in the same spirit. Hilarious.
Cabbage roll and coffee at 4:40. It can't get better than that.
Now I know where Sacha Cohen’s Borat originated from!!!
But Borat is from Kazakhstan. These two are meant to be either German or Scandinavian.
@@canaisyoung3601 yaksamesh!!!
@@canaisyoung3601 No, more like Baltic, or Eastern European.
@@canaisyoung3601 No Canais, they are not Germanic... they are parodying Western Slavs: Ukrainian, Slovenian, Slovakian, Czech, Polish or less likely Baltic. Great skit by great Canadians.
more : Some Leutonian Facts Part 3: The Happy Wanderers were Jimi Hendrix's favorite Polka band. Not many people know that Jimi was slated to contribute several guitar solos to the album that Yosh and Stan were recording in 1970,right before Jimi's death. What a loss!
I hear their cousin Gus Polinski is the polka king of the midwest. At least I have to think they're cousins, Gus definitely looks Leutonian. You can hardly tell him and Josh apart!
They caught Schmenge Fever and started to Poka until they just BLEW UP! YEEEEE HAAAAAA!!..its like the Disco inferno only different.
Some Leutonian Facts Part 6: In Leutonian culture, great respect is given to the Artisans, especially women Artisans, because the women are usually more skilled than men in the Artisan space, so hence one of the most famous Artisan woman in Leutonia is Mrs. Vilve Yachke. And the common way to give great praise to Artisans is to give Thanks. SO here is a famous saying in Leutonia to the greatest Artisan of these times< the phrase is :: "And once again, thank you to Mrs. Vilve Yachke for the cabbage rolls and the coffee..."
This is one of the greats phrases of Artisan Respect in the Leutonian Culture! I just wish to educate the peoples of the internet the cultural ways of Leutonia!
The Christmas budgie!
Here are some more facts that I have found out: Some Leutonian Facts Part 7 : For the "Melchek" one needs to have a Christmas budgies . BUT where did Leutonians get the budgies? This is not very well known even in Leutonia. But recent investigations into this, has revealed this FACT:: The company run by Tex & Edna Boil, made a fortune smuggling budgies into Leutonia! The government of Leutonia is currently conducting investigations into this, at the moment the government has "No Comment" to the media, as it is still conducting the investigation.
From the Article on : The "Schwarznegger Vegetable Soup Diet!"
The former seven-time Mr. Olympia has previously said he follows a mostly vegan diet, and his last meal of the day is always a big bowl of vegetable soup.
Schwarzenegger shared the basic recipe in his newsletter for the "very delicious but light" dinner. It includes olive oil, lemon juice, cumin, salt and pepper, chickpeas, broth, plain low-fat yogurt, and fresh herbs. The recipe also calls for garlic, onion, zucchini, and spinach, although he has previously said you can use your favorite veggies or whatever you have on hand. Schwarzenegger has said he'll add a drizzle of pumpkin seed oil as well.
"The egg symbolizes the Christmas breakfast."
Who made all of the cabbage rolls? I guess we will never meet the Mrs. Vilve Yachke. She is always uncredited. Lots of new t-shirts I see on eBay from SCTV just in time for the season
Ve must alvays tenk Mrs. Vilve Yachke, for de cebbege rolls, end de coffee!
Trees are extinct in Leutonia? Probably because they didn't like having a hat placed on them.
The Russkies take them all every time they invade.
Since Arnold is from Austria, that means he is close to Leutonia
SO, I believe he got this vegetable soup from "Mrs. Vilve Yachke!"
He got Mrs. Vilve Yachke's recipe for the Leutonian Vegetable Soup
Ah, Leutonia! From the good side of the Balkans.
Bring on the cabbage rolls & coffee
"...to make it fun for them."
What can be said about Leutonian Christmas tradition that hasn't already been said?
Some Leutonian Facts Part 1: Few people remember when both Stan and Yosh won the gold medal for Lutonia in the Polka Olympics.
I wonder if Stan Schmenge still thinks about Yosh, every day?
To this day I call people who come to house "veezeetors", ah traditions 🤣👒🎄🧦🚶♂️🥬☕🤣
Does anyone know the song at 1:00? Thanks.
I remember that it was used in at least one Christmas TV commercial from the 70s. But I don't know what it is.
“Winter Sleigh Ride”, Simon Benson, 1978.
Trees are extinct in Leutonia. 😃😃😃😃
Yo Shmenge actually looks exactly like an old boss of mine. Dammit, I wish I knew that when I worked there. Hated that guy.