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I’ve already given you a Flashback Friday entry on a Canadian import that was just so very, very wrong.<\/a> Now it’s time to do one on a Canadian import that was VERY <\/strong><\/em>right. <\/p>\n If there was one thing that I think pushed me the most in my crusade for cable television when I was little, it had to be You Can’t Do That On Television<\/a><\/em>. All the cool kids on my block were always talking about this show. We even would sometimes “play” YCDTOTV (yeah, I don’t really know how to explain this one other than to say this involved sitting in our friends’ dad’s fishing boat, playing different characters from the show [I was always “Moose”] and shooting each other with a water hose…these were far simpler times, eh?). <\/p>\n Needless to say, my crusade was successful (probably more so because my dad wanted the Discovery Channel, but I like to think I was just that convincing a debater, even at the young age of 10). Those daily visits to the Childrens Television Sausage Factory were a bit like ABC Afterschool Special<\/em> by way of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.<\/em> Each show focused on a topic like divorce or personal hygiene in a “very special” way that only a bunch of Canadian kids hanging out in school lockers, Blip’s Arkaid, or Barth’s Burgers could possibly do. It was simple, silly fun and, other than a sliming or watering (or the occasional pie to the face), no one ever was hurt…just left in need of a shower. <\/p>\n Some of you may also be aware that before she sought musical retribution (against, apparently, Dave Coulier, of all people \ud83d\ude2e ) on a dance through the desert in black leather pants, Alanis Morissette was on YCDTOTV. I don’t remember her, but A) I think I had stopped watching by the time she became a cast member, and B) I think she was only on five or six episodes. <\/p>\n What brought this show to my mind this week was actually some sad news that I read at my favorite Canadian correspondent’s blog.<\/a> Les Lye, who played every single adult male role on YCDTOTV throughout its entire run, passed away at the age of 84 on July 22.<\/a> Whether as Christine McGlade’s constant foil, Ross, or Barth, the purveyor of the scariest burgers that side of the Canada\/U.S. border, Les was a wonderful comedian and a major player in this awesome part of my childhood memories. <\/p>\n