Much like the Ernie Kovacs clips I’ve been posting over the past few Fridays, SCTV was very much an acquired taste. If you got it, you got it forever. One of my favorite bits was Rick Moranis’s cruel (and impressively accurate) impression of Merv Griffin. They never did an actual segment from a Merv show–it was always a promo for an upcoming one. The above promo, featuring guests Yassar Arafat, Liberace and Loni Anderson, is one of my favorites. Happy Friday, dammit.