@XOIIO – Strange Brew was a comedy from the early 80s that sprung out of the Canadian sketch comedy show “SCTV”, which aired from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s. It launched the careers of many comedians and comic actors such as John Candy, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara and Martin Short. SCTV featured a sketch called the Great White North…about the most famous “episode” of which can be found here. The sketch was about brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie, two Canadian “hosers” who had their own talk show and were obsessed with beer (oh, and they weren’t too bright). The McKenzie’s were played by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, and from the sketch above came the inspiration for a spin off movie “Strange Brew”.
Strange Brew was about the McKenzie brothers who try to get some free beer with the mouse in a bottle trick, and end up working for the brewery. It’s kind of like a Scooby Doo thing where some evil doers have nefarious plans to take over the brewery, and they plan on doing so by drugging the beer in a way which makes people into subservient zombies when they hear certain keys played on a keyboard. This is the part to which I’m making reference.
So, see Strange Brew, one of the funniest movies of the 80s.