Four pounds of back bacon comprised the Day Four gift. On the previous days, the gifts were a beer, two turtlenecks, and three French toast. On the subsequent days, the gifts were five golden toques, six packs of two-four, seven packs of smokes, and eight comic books. Bickering virtually eliminated the rest of the song, although by that time, “a beer” had become “a beer in a tree”.

Bob and Doug McKenzie were invented and portrayed by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas for their recurring “Great White North” segment on Second City Television. SCTV emerged from Toronto’s Second City sketch comedy troupe. The show depicted a fictitious television station in a fictitious town and ran on Canadian and then American television from 1976 through 1984.

The song is a spoof of the traditional Christmas song about someone giving the singer gifts on each of the 12 days between December 25 and January 6, Christmas and Epiphany on the Christian calendar. On each day of this season, the singer receives from “my true love” a gift in number correlating with the day’s number (for example, three French hens on the third day), as well as each of the gifts given on each of the previous days.

For clarification, back bacon is cured pork in a specific style, a toque is a tightly-knit hat, like a watch cap, a pack of two-four is a case of 24 (two-four) beers. The two fictitious McKenzie brothers put the single beer in a tree to match the original song’s Day One gift, a partridge in a pear tree.

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