Friday A/V Club: Rock 'n' Roll Commie Werewolves

The '50s as filtered through SCTV

This 1982 SCTV sketch mashes up a monster movie with the Red Scare and a bunch of '50s moral panics, from the rising tide of juvenile delinquency to the alleged evils of rock 'n' roll. The story also incorporates a musical number by former Rockpile guitarist Dave Edmunds, and it's interrupted midway through so a tattoo-faced John Candy can advertise a sex shop. Oh, and Eugene Levy is basically playing Lenin. In short, it just might be the best 15 minutes of '80s television ever aired:

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