Who said you hoser

We want our lungs to be pink when they fry us. Hey, we told 'em we didn't want a lawyer. Chimp here probably just kill him anyway. Doug McKenzie : Lawyers are for sucks. Bailiff : Hey, McKenzie brothers. Your lawyer is here. Doug McKenzie : The power of the force has stopped you, you hosers.

Bob McKenzie : I do. Doug McKenzie : I do. Bob McKenzie : I guess we're married, clerk. Doug McKenzie : Oh. Bob McKenzie : Where's the honeymoon? The Judge : Order, Order! Bob McKenzie : Gimmie a toasted back bacon, hold the toast. Doug McKenzie : Don't make me laugh, eh. The Judge : I remind you not to speak, until you are spoken to!

Bob McKenzie : He's startin' to sound like the old man. Soon he'll be sending me out for beers. Doug McKenzie : [after taking multiple checks from the opposing hockey team] Ow, my left nut! Doug McKenzie : See, if you'd stick to your point maintinence program, eh, then we wouldn't have to jump-start you like this. Oh, no, you had to do it your way Doug McKenzie : [after pouring a beer for their dad into a glass from a dog dish] You take it to him.

Bob McKenzie : No way, you take it to him. Doug McKenzie : No, you. Bob McKenzie : [both holding the glass] No! I'm gonna let go. I'm lettin' go and you're takin it. Doug McKenzie : No! I'm lettin' go. Bob McKenzie : Let go then. The McKenzie Brothers sketches basically boiled down to two minutes of meandering bickering that were never quite as sophisticated as, say, the Smothers Brothers, but carried a definite appeal throughout North America.

They also carried a lot of Canadian slang. Their sketches were the first popular media to use the word hosehead , which the Bob and Doug characters threw around largely as a derogatory term while their characters were bickering, but in later sketches also used it as a term for Canadians, since it was starting to permeate popular culture that way.

Other Canadian-borne insults they used, like knob and sook , remained insults. The Bob and Doug fad swelled in the s.

In some parts of Canada, the Hoser Day Parade served to celebrate the characters. Bob and Doug released a recording of The Twelve Days of Christmas which is still frequently played on radio stations at Christmastime though more in Canada these days than in the States. They also had a hit single called Take Off , featuring the voice talents of Geddy Lee from the Canadian prog rock group Rush, which did well on both sides of the border.

Following the heyday of the fad, both of them went on to have successful careers in movies and television, seldom reprising their Bob and Doug roles. They appeared in a few Pizza Hut commercials in the s, thrilling fans by sparking rumors of a second McKenzie Brothers movie which never happened.

A series of commercials for Molson beer in the s still earn appreciation from the brewery, which regularly send the actors cases of the stuff. They have made other appearances since, but nothing like their original two-minute sketches. As popular as the McKenzie Brothers still are, perhaps their most pervasive effect on the culture is their popularization of the word hoser , which is known even by people who have never even heard of Bob and Doug. A typical "topic" on The Great White North segments.

By , at least, the influence of the McKenzies was still pervasive. And it still is. Post a Comment. Popular posts from this blog Bananadine. By Kurt Kaletka January 23, Hosers are nearly always white men. Feeding mainly on a diet of smokes, coffee, poutine and beer , the hoser is a colourful animal — and a slob.

A hoser likes to have fun. Laughing at Bob and Doug McKenzie — and emulating their attire and their eh -saying speech patterns — allowed Canadians to celebrate themselves in an ironic yet good-natured way. Had comedians from the United States or any other nation been the ones to come up with the image of a Canadian hoser, the reaction in this country would probably have been very different.

For example, many of the male characters in the popular TV series Trailer Park Boys which aired for 12 seasons, beginning in could be identified as hosers. The same is true with the more recent Canadian comedy series Letterkenny. The hoser was always an exaggerated symbol of an average white, male Canadian.

Given the changes that have occurred in both society and politics in the decades since, the symbol has become arguably problematic. In the 21st century, Canada is a much more urban, diverse and many-cultured country than it was in the early s see Population of Canada. Hosers are a distorted reflection of an older Canada. The idea that hosers could stand for all Canadians now brings with it an element of discomfort.