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Rick Moranis, Max von Sydow, Paul Dooley, Lynne Griffin, Angus MacInnes, and Dave Thomas in Strange Brew (1983)

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Strange Brew

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Featured in

    • Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary (TV Movie 2007)

      Clips used
    • "WatchMojo" Top 10 Hilarious Movie Drunks (TV Episode 2013)

      Bob & Doug McKenzie are #4.
    • "WatchMojo" Top 10 Movie Bribing Scenes (TV Episode 2015)

      Doughnuts, Eh? is #5.
    • "WatchMojo" Top 10 Movies You Didn't Know Borrowed from Shakespeare (TV Episode 2016)

      Strange Brew, which borrowed from "Hamlet", is #7.
    • "WatchMojo" Top 10 Most Unrealistic Car Jump Scenes in Movies (TV Episode 2017)

      No Point in Steering is #7.

Features

    • The Little Orphan (Short 1949)

      Pam watches it on Television as Claude is talking to the Inspector
    • The Flying Cat (Short 1952)

      Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie watch it during the scene after the opening credits,
    • Asteroids (Video Game 1979)

      Game appears in this film

Followed by

    • The Animated Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie (TV Series 2003)

    • Bob & Doug (TV Series 2009–2011)

Referenced in

    • "Saturday Night Live" Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas/The Bus Boys (TV Episode 1983)

      Plugged by the McKenzie Brothers
    • "Mystery Science Theater 3000" Santa Claus (TV Episode 1993)

      Servo sings a portion of the title theme as a riff when Santa presents the cocktail of rememberance.
    • The Pandora Directive (Video Game 1996)

      "Take off you hoser!" said in the secret passage in The Mayan Ruins.
    • Z (Video Game 1996)

      The two red beer-loving robots are loosely based on the characters of Doug and Bob McKenzie.
    • Coven (Short 1997)

      In the scene with the speed dealer there is a small strange brew movie poster on the wall.

References

    • The Seventh Seal (1957)

      The name of the brewery in this film is Elsinore Brewery. Max von Sydow, who played the Brewmeister in this movie, was also in the film The Seventh Seal (1957). In that film he and his squire were heading towards the village of Elsinore, but decided not to because the plague was there.
    • Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (TV Series 1963–1988)

    • Goin' Down the Road (1970)

    • The Omega Man (1971)

      "I was kinda like a one man force eh, like Charlton Heston in Omega Man. Did ya see it, it was beauty!"
    • The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)

      Title is identical with names changed and added moniker Strange Brew

Spin-off from

    • SCTV (TV Series 1976–1981)

    • SCTV Network (TV Series 1981–1983)

      Movie adaptation of Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas' characters The McKenzie Brothers.
    • SCTV Channel (TV Series 1983–1984)

Spoofed in

    • "Canada's Worst Driver" Slippery When Wet (TV Episode 2018)

      Andrew does a spoof of Bob and Doug McKenzie in the Great Wide Course segment.

Spoofs

    • Mad Max (1979)

    • Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

    • Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

      When Dave Thomas, and Rick Moranis were in the hockey rink preparing for the game, Dave exclaims to Rick, "I am your father, Luke". "Give in to the dark side of the Force, you knob!".

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