Super Dave

Storyline

Super Dave is billed as an "accomplished" stuntman, though he rarely succeeds when performing his elaborate stunts. Typically the character will perform outrageous stunt performer / daredevil stunts which often go disastrously awry resulting in the appearance of grievous bodily injury. These include such mishaps as being knocked off the top of the CN Tower, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, after determining it was too windy to do a cabled jump or being run over by a steamroller after failing to escape from a locked trunk. After such a mishap, Super Dave would usually appear torn apart, stretched, or otherwise grievously injured. Although Super Dave initially exhibited and was injured during wild stunts, in later appearances, he would often be injured in mishaps involving much more mundane events during which danger was not anticipated. His signature logo, a drawing of his head inside a crash helmet directly atop a pair of crushed silver boots with no visible body, was from an iconic early sketch, "Balloon Ball", a "stunt" which consisted of his standing in a hole in the ground reciting "balloon ball" as a mantra which was supposed to imbue him with the ability to not be harmed by anything, as a mobile pile driver rammed the top of his helmeted head multiple times. When pulled out of the hole, he was as his eventual logo depicted: his helmeted head sitting directly inside the crash helmet atop his smashed silver boots, the whole of his body supposedly compressed down between boots and neck. Super Dave is often accompanied on his various exploits by a loyal friend, sidekick, and assistant stunt coordinator Fuji Hakayito (comedian Art Irizawa), and his segments are introduced and commentated on by former sportscaster/actor Mike Walden. Fuji typically initiates whatever stunt Dave is performing. Super Dave runs the fictional "Super Dave Compound", a combination resort, theme park, learning center, and anything else needed for the plot-line of any particular episode. Many of his misadventures have been based on demonstrating various aspects of the compound. Another characteristic was the utterance of the phrase "Holy Chim" (a bowdlerized version of "holy shit"), usually when the stunt was ongoing and he realized he was in over his head, notably his barefoot fire-walker stunt. When reflecting on the failed stunt, Super Dave would, in annoyance, call Walden a number of Yiddish names. Trademark components of the Super Dave character include his frequent thumbs-ups and his many jump suit uniforms - most of which include red, white and blue, yellow stars, and stripes - which are reminiscent of those worn by daredevil [[Evel Knievel]]. It was often specified Osborne's safety harnesses or seatbelts were made of "genuine [[Saskatchewan]] [[sealskin]] bindings". Seals are not indigenous to the landlocked province of Saskatchewan, and are therefore part of the comedic juxtaposition predicated on the eventual failure of the stunt by being both "genuine sealskin" and from Saskatchewan.