https://torontosun.com/2015/07/14/john-candys-widow-finds-lost-video-of-sctv-stars-playing-softball. Thought this was pretty cool. (Video isn’t showing tho……..sorry).
So it turns out there was baseball in Melonville after all.
Rose Candy - John Candy’s widow - has found and shared Super 8mm footage of the cast and crew of SCTV playing a softball game at Edmonton City Park (a.k.a. Melonville Stadium) in 1982.
The eight-minute video was posted to SCTV's YouTube page.
Melonville was a fictional town in the SCTV world, a sketch comedy show that aired from 1976 and 1984 and launched the careers of Candy, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara, Harold Ramis, Andrea Martin and more.
The newly unearthed clip captures a playoff game featuring the Wolverines and the Melonville Mexicans, with play-by-play courtesy of Moranis and Thomas.
“I don’t want to get cocky,” Mexicans’ fielder ’Joseph A.’ Flaherty says at one point, “but I think we’ve got them.”
John Candy reprises his Johnny LaRue character in the clip and boasts the only Melonville Mexicans jersey, who went on to lose the game.
“John Candy really lost the game for us as the crummy Johnny LaRue character,” writer Chris Cleuss says with a straight face.
John Candy being interviewed by Rick Moranis in old footage captured in 1982. (YouTube)
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