Mwahahaha, the Pile!

it's KiTH.

about the old man: which one of the cast members would make the most disturbing suggestively-sausage-sucking old men?

I dunno, I'm gonna have to go with Mark (although your reaction makes me guess Kevin).  Did you ever see that bit where he's playing a crazed old guy who lures some passers-by into his apartment in an attempt to get them to roll his wife over?

"Oh pleezge, pleezge, pleeeeezge!"

Heh.  Love them guys.

you mean mark? yeah, that was a funny character. i remember the sketch where that character goes into the lobby of the cable company with a jar of coins begging them not to shut his cable off becaus he's been looking forward to a documentary about insects.

but, nope. the old man in question was played by none other than scott thompson.

it was a really weird, moody, sketch, too.

bruce played this dude who lived with the old man (his father, i presume) and he worked at a sausage factory, where he'd spend his days daydreaming about one of the women who put authentic lipstick prints on the boxes of sausages.

very strange sketch, indeed.

Wacked.  Never saw that one.  God bless the Comedy Network for letting them live on in syndication.

I heard a wee lil' rumour that there's going to be some sort of new Kids material.  Dunno if it's another live tour, or a TV special, or what.  I'll keep my ears open.

huh.

that'd be wacky.

yeah, it was a truly strange sketch.

but please, tell me you saw that one long weird-ass episode where they were all stuck in a lodge way up in the uncharted territories...

it had beaver boy, the queen of england, buddy cole, and rip taylor.

weird stuff. i think it was called "ultralodge 2000", or something...

Yup.  Very sweet.  That was either just before or just on the heels of their reunion tour.

hey, did you ever see the sketch where bruce and mark were shoveling coal into a furnace?

it was pretty odd.