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Count Floyd is a TV character played by comic actor Joe Flaherty . He is a fictional Horror Host in the tradition of TV hosts on local television in the United States. The Count Floyd character originated on the Canadian sketch show '' SCTV '', but also later appeared on Cartoon Planet and '' The Completely Mental Misadventures Of Ed Grimley '', as well as Rush 's '' Grace Under Pressure '' tour. As originally conceived, Count Floyd was the alter-ego of another SCTV character: Floyd Robertson, co-anchor of the SCTV News sketch. (The premise was that employees at this very low-budget TV station had to double up on jobs.) He was the host of SCTV's ''Monster Chiller Horror Theater'', wearing a cheap vampire costume and speaking in a bad stereotypical Transylvanian vampire accent. (Oddly, although he was supposed to be a vampire, he would also open each show howling like a werewolf.) The main running gag of the sketch was that the station would usually provide films for the show that were not in the least bit scary, forcing Floyd to struggle to hype them to his mostly juvenile audience. ("Vow, kids...vasn't it SCARY vhen the vaitress put ketchup on those french fries?") He would also show cheezy 3D horror films as a means to sell 3D Glasses which would vary in price from show to show. During the ''Grace Under Pressure'' tour, a video played on the rear screen of Count Floyd introducing "The Weapon", "a scary song with real special effects" which could only be enjoyed if the listener was wearing 3D glasses. 3D glasses were actually given to the fans during the Toronto shows of the tour, most likely because these shows were filmed for the Grace Under Pressure tour video. An edited audio portion of the Count Floyd introduction was included on the single version of "The Weapon". Although a parody of the typical 1950's-1960's local TV horror host, the real-life hosts were often themselves so silly and "over the top" that Count Floyd wasn't really too far off the mark. |
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