History Film / KidsInTheHallBrainCandy

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: With the fresh approach of a happiness-induced coma. A good point, too. After all, mental health is not predicated upon happiness alone. It's about having the right emotion when it's needed.

* IdenticalGrandson: Dr. Chris Cooper amd his father are both played by Creator/KevinMcDonald (the latter in a flashback).

* IdenticalGrandson: Both Chris Cooper amd his father are both played by Creator/KevinMcDonald.

* CallBack: Cisco tells a story about a bird hitting his windshield. Later, a bird hits him right in the eye, forcing him to wear an eyepatch for the rest of the film.

* FlamboyantGay: Wally once he's on [=GLeeMONEX=].

-->'''Drill sergeant:''' Terzinsky! You see those two enemy by the wall? You go over there and fuck them. We'll stay here and masturbate.\\

'''Drill sergeant:''' Go, go, go!\\

'''Drill sergeant:''' There goes a ''man''!

With mixed personal sentiments about the film, the troupe went their separate ways until their reunion in 2000, subsequent tours in 2007–08, and the 2010 ''Series/DeathComesToTown'' miniseries.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: [[invoked]] "Happiness Pie".

* AnAesop: "The key to being happy is to know you won't be happy ''every single day''. La-la la-la la-la."

** Cancer Boy, as a chatty little boy with an unusual speech pattern played by Bruce [=McCulloch=], is Gavin.

** Mrs Hurdicure is Fran from the Gordon and Fran sketches as a cheery elderly woman played by Scott Thompson who is largely ignored and taken advantage of by her family.
** Alice is Kathie from the Cathy and Kathie sketches as a doe-eyed, flighty lady played by Bruce [=McCulloch=].
** Wally Terzinsky is Danny Husk as a mustachioed, seemingly straight-laced businessman played by Scott Thompson that gets dragged into absurd situations.
** Grivo is Bobby Terrance as a long-haired anti-establishment rocker played by Bruce [=McCulloch=].
** Cancer Boy is Gavin as a chatty little boy with an unusual speech pattern played by Bruce [=McCulloch=].

* OutOfFocus: Creator/DaveFoley's characters are noticeably much fewer in number more incidental to the plot than those of the other Kids. This was a side effect of Foley having effectively left the group at the time of the movie's production and not taken part in most of its writing.

* OutOfFocus: Dave Foley's characters are noticeably much fewer in number more incidental to the plot than those of the other Kids. This was a side effect of Foley having effectively left the group at the time of the movie's production and not taken part in most of its writing.

* {{Expy}}: While almost no characters from the Kids in the Hall's [=TV=] show are featured in this movie, many of its characters resemble some of the series' most recurring ones:

* EpicTrackingShot: Early scenes introducing the various characters are connected by long tracking shots through buildings and down into the earth.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Don Roritor is introduced helicoptering into his skyscraper while his minions hurriedly swap out the office carpets so that they will match his socks.
* {{Expy}}: The Kids created Wally Terzinsky to be an Expy of their sketch show's Danny Husk.
* FolkMusic: What Grivo ends up performing after starting [=GLeeMONEX=].

* AnAesop: "The key to being happy is to know you won't be happy ''every single day''. Tra-la la-la la-la."

-->'''Drill sergeant:''' Terzinsky! You see those two enemy by the wall?
-->'''Wally:''' Yes, sir!
-->'''Drill sergeant:''' You go over there and fuck them. We'll stay here and masturbate. Go, go, go!
-->''(Wally charges the enemy, bare-assed)''
-->'''Drill sergeant:''' Now there goes a ''real man''.
* 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 uses the phrase "Brain Candy."

* IDrankWhat: Don Roritor just loves the secret ingredient that Marv put into the coffee. Marv refuses to tell [[ToiletHumor what it is]].

* SuicideAsComedy: In a flashback, we Chris’ motivation for creating the drug: a young Chris’ depressed father comes home, asking if Chris cleaned the house while he was away… including the gun. When Chris answers in the affirmative, Dad trudges into the house, and after a few seconds [[SoundOnlyDeath a shot us heard]]… followed by Dad yelling in pain that he shot his foot. Another shot is heard, followed by Dad yelling that he shot his other foot. Chris then says that his dad finally got a vital organ… two hours later.

* TailorMadePrison: Every Gleemonex-user's HappyPlace.

* HappyPlace: [=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.]]

* 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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After the end of ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'', there was one last project that the troupe wanted to perform - their own movie.

Released in 1996, it tells the tale of Chris Cooper, a pharmacist who works with his love, Alice, trying to create the world's greatest antidepressant for his employer, Roritor Pharmaceuticals. It also details the lives of several people with massive issues (like death metal musician Grivo and repressed homosexual Wally Terzinsky) who eventually get put on this new antidepressant, [=GLeeMONEX=]. The drug is rolled out as Chris pushes it to keep from getting fired. And at first, everything is comically okay.

With mixed personal sentiments about the film, ''The Kids In The Hall'' went their separate ways until their reunion in 2000 and subsequent tours in 2007-08, and the 2010 ''Series/DeathComesToTown'' miniseries.

* TestosteronePoisoning: Wally's happiest moments are of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbTKbp1eueI 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.