Woot!

Fans of the Great White North can take heart and take off! Again.

Bob and Doug McKenzie will soon be among us once more. Not in the flesh, but their animated facsimiles, voiced by Canadian comic actors Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis.

They invented the characters for the now legendary satirical SCTV skit “The Great White North” in 1980 and portrayed them in the feature film Strange Brew three years later. And they will be up to their old antics when The Animated Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie goes to air in Canada on the Global network in January.

Of course what they’re not telling you is that like all our childhood characters they’re coming back edgier, grittier and more eXtreme then we remember. For instance the fist episode has Bob and Doug going to Kandahar for a beer and bacon run.