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* EpicTrackingShot: Early scenes introducing the various characters are connected by long tracking shots through buildings and down into the earth.
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* TitleDrop: The reason why everyone starts pointedly referring to Gleemonex as "The Drug" is because that's what the film's title was supposed to be. It got changed after filming and before release. No one ever says "Brain Candy."
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Don Roritor is heavily based on Mark [=McKinney's=] imitation of producer Lorne Michaels. Also counts as BitingTheHandHumor.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
** Don Roritor is heavily based on Mark [=McKinney's=] imitation of producer Lorne Michaels. Also counts as BitingTheHandHumor.
** Don Roritor is heavily based on Mark [=McKinney's=] imitation of producer Lorne Michaels. Also counts as BitingTheHandHumor.
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-->'''Drill sergeant:''' Pyrzynski! You see those two enemy by the wall?
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-->'''Drill sergeant:''' Pyrzynski! Terzinsky! You see those two enemy by the wall?
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-->'''Drill sergeant:''' ''(to Wally)'' You go over there and fuck them. We'll stay here and masturbate. Go, go, go!
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-->'''Drill sergeant:''' ''(to Wally)'' You go over there and fuck them. We'll stay here and masturbate. Go, go, go!
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-->'''Drill sergeant:''' ''(to Wally)'' You go over there and fuck them. I'll stay here and masturbate. Go, go, go!
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-->'''Drill sergeant:''' Pyrzynski! You see those two enemy by the wall?
-->'''Wally:''' Yes, sir!
-->'''Drill sergeant:''' ''(to Wally)'' You go over there and fuck them.I'll We'll stay here and masturbate. Go, go, go! go!
-->''(Wally charges the enemy, bare-assed)''
-->'''Drill sergeant:''' Now there goes a ''real man''.
-->'''Wally:''' Yes, sir!
-->'''Drill sergeant:''' ''(to Wally)'' You go over there and fuck them.
-->''(Wally charges the enemy, bare-assed)''
-->'''Drill sergeant:''' Now there goes a ''real man''.
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* YourMindMakesItReal
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* YourMindMakesItRealYourMindMakesItReal
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* TranslationYes: Inverted in the title sequence. Mark McKinney makes a long, poetic, nihilistic speech to his therapist, in German with English subtitles. The therapist tells him his doesn't understand German. McKinney replies, "scheisse," which is subtitled, "The nipples of Mother Hope have run dry."
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* TranslationYes: Inverted in the title sequence. Mark McKinney [=McKinney=] makes a long, poetic, nihilistic speech to his therapist, in German with English subtitles. The therapist tells him his doesn't understand German. McKinney [=McKinney=] replies, "scheisse," which is subtitled, "The nipples of Mother Hope have run dry."
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** Grivo may be a parody of Glenn {{Music/Danzig}} - at very least he shares Glenn's hair style, goth/metal image, and tendency to go shirtless.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chris is probably at his apex when he comes out to present an award and the MTV Music Awards. The song they play to bring him out is "Spiralling Shape" by TheyMightBeGiants, a ditty about how folks' lives are ruined by some mysterious object that drives them insane and happy. Things start to fall apart shortly thereafter.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chris is probably at his apex when he comes out to present an award and the MTV Music Awards. The song they play to bring him out is "Spiralling Shape" by TheyMightBeGiants, Music/TheyMightBeGiants, a ditty about how folks' lives are ruined by some mysterious object that drives them insane and happy. Things start to fall apart shortly thereafter.
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* DrugsAreBad: Subverted. One of the story's morals is that some people ''need'' antidepressants. They aren't for people who've just had a crummy day, but for people who don't have it in them to so much as get out of bed in the morning.
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* DrugsAreBad: Subverted. One of the story's morals is that some people ''need'' antidepressants. They aren't for people who've just had a crummy day, but for More like "Drugs Are For People Who Really Need Them," people who don't have it in them to so much as get out of bed in the morning.morning, not just people with a couple of daily gripes like missing a bus or running out of milk.
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* TheCameo: BrendanFraser as a drug tester (who knows he's getting the placebo) and Creator/JaneaneGarofalo.
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* TheCameo: BrendanFraser Creator/BrendanFraser as a drug tester (who knows he's getting the placebo) and Creator/JaneaneGarofalo.
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* NoControlGroup: Averted and discussed [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], as Brendan Frasier's [[TheCameo cameo]] appearance figures out that he's part of the control.
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* NoControlGroup: Averted and discussed [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]], as Brendan Frasier's Fraser's [[TheCameo cameo]] appearance figures out that he's part of the control.
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* DrugsAreBad: Subverted. One of the story's morals is that antidepressants are for people who ''need'' them, who can't get out of bed in the morning. They're not meant to just make you feel better after you've had a crummy day.
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* DrugsAreBad: Subverted. One of the story's morals is that antidepressants are for some people who ''need'' them, antidepressants. They aren't for people who've just had a crummy day, but for people who can't don't have it in them to so much as get out of bed in the morning. They're not meant to just make you feel better after you've had a crummy day.morning.
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* DrugsAreBad: Subverted. One of the story's morals is that antidepressants are for people who ''need'' them, who can't get out of bed in the morning. They're not meant to just make you feel better after you've had a crummy day.
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* TranslationYes: Inverted in the title sequence. Mark McKinney makes a long, poetic, nihilistic speech to his therapist, in German with English subtitles. The therapist tells him his doesn't understand German. McKinney replies, "scheisse," which is subtitled, "The nipples of Mother Hope have run dry."
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[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kids_in_the_hall_brain_candy_poster.jpg]]
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After the end of ''TheKidsInTheHall'', there was one last project that the troupe wanted to perform - their own movie.
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After the end of ''TheKidsInTheHall'', ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'', there was one last project that the troupe wanted to perform - their own movie.
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* CompressedVice: People later in the film end up trapped in their [=GLeeMONEX=] TailorMadePrison much faster than those earlier in the film. It's hinted that Roritor increased the potency of the drug in later iterations.
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* HappyPlaceHappyPlace: [=GleeMONEX=] works by forcing its user into this, making them recall their happiest memory. The problem comes when [[TailorMadePrison they later prove unable to leave]]. [[spoiler: Inverted in the last scene, when Chris Cooper figures out a drug that forces the user into their saddest memory and can break them out of their [=GLeeMONEX=]-induced happiness coma.]]
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Until it's revealed just why you don't want to [[TerminallyDependentSociety rush an antidepressant out the door.]]
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Until it's revealed just why you don't want to [[TerminallyDependentSociety rush an antidepressant out the door.]]
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* TestosteronePoisoning: Wally's happiest moments are of getting berated by his drill instructor and doing calisthenics. He also has what is apparently a fantasy involving a mission to have sex with enemy beefcakes.
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* TestosteronePoisoning: Wally's happiest moments are of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbTKbp1eueI getting berated by his drill instructor instructor]] and doing calisthenics. He also has what is apparently a fantasy involving a mission to have sex with enemy beefcakes.
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* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Wally, of course. When he's brought home by the police completely nude, his wife asks if the handcuffs were really all that necessary. The cops tell her that Wally insisted on them.
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->"''Shove '''this''' up your mind.''"
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chris is probably at his apex when he comes out to present an award and the MTV Music Awards. The song they play to bring him out? "Spiralling Shape" by TheyMightBeGiants, a ditty about how folks' lives are ruined by some mysterious object that drives them insane and happy. Things start to fall apart shortly thereafter.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chris is probably at his apex when he comes out to present an award and the MTV Music Awards. The song they play to bring him out? out is "Spiralling Shape" by TheyMightBeGiants, a ditty about how folks' lives are ruined by some mysterious object that drives them insane and happy. Things start to fall apart shortly thereafter.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Don Roritor is an insane millionaire.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: CloudCuckoolander: Don Roritor is an insane millionaire.
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* HelloSailor: Wally and another guy are dressed as sailors when Wally collapses.
