Fifteen years ago, I saw a sketch on Comedy Central about depression-era fish farmers, in which one farmer stabbed the other with a fish stick, while screaming "Die by trout-stick!" What show was this?
Random, I know. I'm pretty sure it was on Comedy Central in the summer of 1992. Perhaps as part of their "new fall season in July." They were running a lot of Kids in the Hall then, but I don't think that was it. As I recall, it was set in the 30's, the trout farmer was an evil scheming villain, and the noble salmon farmer was named Harry. I believe it was presented in a melodramatic, soap opera-like fashion. Google is only aware of a single occurrence of the phrase "die by trout stick," in
this MySpace page's comments. I do not have a MySpace account, or I would contact the poster of that comment.
At any rate, it was such a delightful non sequitur that my girlfriend and I will, to this day, occasionally bust out with "die by trout stick!" and wish we knew whom we were quoting. Ring any bells?
Exit 57 starred Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert before they made Strangers With Candy together.
posted by burnmp3s at 12:16 PM on December 12, 2007