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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: And how!
* [[And Starring]]: "And Dave Thomas as The Beaver." Doubly deconstructed: Dave Thomas wasn't any more famous than anybody else in the cast, he was just alphabetically last; also, he did not, in fact, play The Beaver when ''SCTV'' did its ''[[Leave It to Beaver]]'' sketch, [[John Candy]] did.
* [[Breakout Character]]: Bob and Doug MacKenzie were created to be strictly filler to satisfy, and make fun of, Canadian Content broadcast rules, but they became the most popular characters of the series. In fact, the show itself lampshades this in "The Great White North Palace." In that episode, Guy Cabellero realizes how popular Bob and Doug are, and gives them their own variety show to shore up the flagging network. This is [[The Peter Principle|completely outside the brothers' comfort zone]], however, and the show is an instant failure.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Taken to a truly extreme length in the episode "The Sammy Maudlin 23rd Anniversary Show", where the station has to pipe in broadcasting from the [[CBC]] due to budget cutbacks. The resulting footage skewers several Canadian films and series (including ''Goin' Down The Road'', ''Front Page Challenge'' and the "Hinterland Who's Who" nature commercials) and makes fun of established institutions like curling and Prince Edward Island.
* [[Canadian Accents]]: Bob and Doug McKenzie, probably the most "Canajun" Canadian accents ever aired, eh?
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