Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy - re:View

[Music] well josh the kids in the hall are back it's true again so we're gonna talk about brain candy the little movie that couldn't i guess this was spurred on by the new series the first five minutes is dedicated to making fun of this film rain candy has made its money back i knew it would you know i thought it would take a week wound up taking 30 years well you're never wrong don the whole reason the whole thing happens is because brain candy's finally broken even which gives us a fantastic shot of lorne michaels aka mark mckinney aka whatever his name actually john reuter thank you who's still in the same boardroom still the same assistant and uh yeah so finally having broken even now we can talk about the movie itself yes because otherwise nobody wanted to talk about it it's weird this feels like one of those movies that eventually would gain some sort of cult following and it never really has no it's very interesting too because i was watching it with some friends and we were discussing like that there our general perception of it before we rewatched it was it was okay and it's really quite good i've i've always liked it since the first came out with a giant asterisk which is that the first two thirds are very funny yes consistently funny well i've invented a pill that gives worms to ex-girlfriends right and what's positive about that well it's a pill that gives worms to ex-girlfriends and then uh it's like they ran out of comedy ideas and they didn't know how to wrap up the story yeah so the last half hour has always been a bit of a slog and i was completely unaware of the work print which we'll get into probably a little bit later but that rectifies one of those two problems yes still not funny but it wraps up the story better a lot faster too yes you wonder if particularly after watching the work print how much they talked about or worried about how cynical it was going to going to end and was it going to be fairly cynical or extremely cynical and it turns out neither of those is particularly funny but that's okay no but story-wise i think the extremely cynical works better oh yes um but the movie is would you call it satirical it kind of is but it's just sort of like it's more in the concept yeah it's just like a blanket idea for a movie to hang all their their bits on yes and that's kind of one of the things that's very good about the movie not that they knew it but this is the topic could have been they could have shot it last week it's all you know very up to date with the worry about you know depression and drugs and prescription things and how that's affecting the world that's all still very very uh important in our lives unfortunately and companies uh taking advantage of people but yeah within that within that once you've got that framework it's just it's pretty wacky it's you know excuses to do silly characters not not a lot of characters from the tv show from the original series there's a few scattered but there's no like chicken lady no no no they don't bring back some of the the kind of most popular ones well i guess the cops yeah and they come back for the new series they do if they do again some things never change yes hey did you see that uh nina bedford show this morning yeah that uh thing about toast [ __ ] toast [ __ ] yeah it's a new thing where you [ __ ] her get [ __ ] with toast i think it'd be easy especially around the air because this was 96 right yeah and it was produced by lauren michaels and this was sort of the starting point of when he was making all those crappy snl movies yeah wayne's world had done well and the trail off was beginning yeah which is funny i was thinking about because like the blues brother is just the first snl movie yeah but there wasn't another one until wayne's world which was smart and then after wayne's world was so popular it's pat and uh stuart smalley gets his own movie for no reason tonight at the roxbury yeah people like that one though do they yeah oh yeah that's i didn't even know people like the sketch it's it's it's a thing that they can't would just keep doing well that's always the joke about the snl movies is that it's like a one joke character how do you flush them out to a whole movie yeah and with that the knight of the roxbury guys it's like half of an idea it's like a half of a joke they bob their heads that's what that so you've got to go you've got to expand on it as much as possible because you have nothing to start with that's fair all right so some people like that okay but whereas you end up with something like coneheads that's 20 years too late and yeah and the setup is already properly there and the joke is they have cone heads yeah they're from another planet are we are we good is it 11 55 can we go to the news but uh yeah so lauren michaels produced this and uh as he did the original kids in hall series yeah the original show and the current one so the kids in the hall as a tv show and as a comedy troupe it kind of ended a few years earlier uh and then they're like well what do we do next as a sketch troupe there was only one blueprint monty python and monty python did a few seasons of a tv show and needed a movie every three or four years after the series was over we all had a short vacation and then we all came back and tried to come up with ideas for movies i mean first off we could mention that dave foley was already in the us he was on news radio and he was doing just fine yeah and i guess the other kids in the hall kind of resented that they often did his own thing yeah it's like you're done yeah i don't i don't necessarily understand apart from a general sort of you know sticking to what you know why the other kids didn't necessarily go off and do other things i mean they did a little bit but not as much as dave did mark mckinney went on to snl which was very oh that's right he was on it for like a season or two yeah i think he did the chicken lady on it i think he carried chicken lady over i'm pretty sure there was at least one snl chicken ladies i'm sure it was fantastic but i remember seeing him on that and i was like what is he doing yeah this is it doesn't work that their humor does not work which is why they got their own show yes although uh a couple of them were writers on snl for a couple years yeah yeah and they were like we don't belong here yeah it was always weird when you'd see the um snl reruns on comedy central and be like bruce mccullough would just be like in the back of a film sketch filling [Laughter] well uh should we get into the movie itself the concept for the movie is perfect which is that it's a comedy about depression yes uh lots of dark comedy which is of course perfect for the kids that's that's where they're comfortable hi doctor i'm cancer boy i remember when the movie came out uh the roger ebert review he was so upset about cancer boy oh sorry i'm sorry that's okay my marrow is just low terrible no stupid idiotic unfunny labored forced all right painful roger which is just a dumb throwaway joke i mean i get it obviously cancer's not funny but that's why you poke that yeah but he's not any yeah he's not even the focal point like he he himself is deflecting like oh that's not why i'm here you know because my parents took the drug and they're happy now and they were so very low not just because of me but because my brother was born with his heart on the outside of his body is that a fact yeah for some reason just because of how not eventful that scene is it almost feels like a setup for the video joke later yeah where he's got he's got a number one full hip hop or rap video so it's weird how that just feels like a setup for the so you can do that later because otherwise that wouldn't you'd feel bad if that was the only cancer boy bit for some reason i don't know if i would it's still pretty funny [Laughter] did you see did you see the doctor and me did you see but yeah the setup it's you know as i said they were basing how to make a movie on monty python which is you come up with a basic idea a basic plot that is a good way to hang lots of random bits on yes and that's i think for whatever problems the movie has as a concept and as a setup it's perfect it really yes it sticks together just fine it sticks together yeah as well as like holy grail you know you're going you're going from the beginning of the end of the movie everything is hung on that framework enough yeah nothing strays too far away even more so in the work print yes there's lots of characters that show up earlier in the movie that end up having a bigger role in the last act of the work print that just kind of vanished from the theatrical cut yeah which is a bummer but the cops come back uh the nina bedford show the talk show comes back even the the homeless security guard with a gun i'm a security guard with the gun because the way i watched it this time i was i watched the work print than the than the finished movie and it was there was stuff that i was thinking wasn't the finished one that actually made it in which made me laugh really hard like there's stuff that's not in the work print that they decided to put back in for the final cut which is interesting yes that was surprising like the even the very intro of the drug is longer with the whole big like uh chalkboard gag yeah like that's not in the in the workplace at all it was like just a little bit um but what i was talking thinking about specifically was the the nina bedford intro where she comes on how do you like my outfit and they just boo her hi welcome to the nina bedford show i'm nina bedford do you like my new outfit happiness that's what i love about this movie so much is those specific little gags that just are non-sequiturs almost or just silly very silly i i want to be a scientist just like you what's your advice um work hard and stay in school [Applause] but the uh i guess so the setup is it's this pharmaceutical company run by not lauren michaels played by mark mckinney before i mentioned this and we talked about the new kids in the hall and half in the bag but this was before mike myers did dr evil in the way movies yes but unfortunately the board takes a narrow view and in their own narrow way they think that the company is losing money which in fact we are but again i think this is the narrow view so the kids in the hall beat him to the punch and mimikim lauren michaels and brought him back for the new series and he didn't have to wear a wig this time uh but he invented a drug called stummies which is basically tums and he built this entire uh empire on it but they're they're they're falling apart their company's falling apart they need they don't have a new drugs yep gotta have a new drug for uh the summer and or international women's day i love oh the dead pan of of rora tour as he's explaining how the board meeting went of course i told him to [ __ ] off good for you don but then out loud i said i'd consider it of course dawn exactly the right thing to do play with them like that's the way that he flip-flops back and forth through that whole bit is just so fantastic and then dave foley his assistant who just agrees he's like a like a smithers kind of character very much yeah uh which is the perfect role for dave foley oh yeah and she'll talk about how limited his roles in the movie are we can fight for reasons uh but so we're our our hero of the story is kevin mcdonald who's probably the perfect choice to play kids at the leads yeah he's he's the sweetest one and he's just in his voice is funny he doesn't have to do anything and he's funny he just goes up a little higher and yeah it starts starting starts getting funnier and you you took away my lap because you sure i lost my virginity but who do you think you pushed boy so him and his team have uh they're working on a drug that'll cure depression it'll lock into your happiest memory which leads to lots of fun little uh non-sequitur sequences and then it'll help you um you know be productive and and move out of the old folks home and go on one of those space things those gyro yeah yeah despite his qualms about they need more testing they're very worried about that but they're not going to have a lab if they don't have a drug so they can't do any testing so he says yes because the drug goes into production and that's your setup so we see all sorts of different characters that are taking the drug people that are prescribed the drug uh the effects of the drug oh the marketing of the drugs the marketing of this i love that bit because yeah uh oh bruce bruce mccullough plays the marketing head of marketing and he's just this slimy [ __ ] he plays it so good he ever every every line is just like insulting somebody my cap is looped lukewarm chris no luke skywalker you're [ __ ] in brad [Laughter] uh and yeah he's got he's got like he might have like an eyebrow piercing he's got like you know slick slick hair it's weird yeah it's not like a bowl cut but it kind of it's just combed straight forward yeah it's weird it's very weird looking and he does all that [ __ ] where like he talks about like i was driving in my 62 thousand dollar car i was driving around last night in my 62 000 car and i'm trying to think up a name for the drug and suddenly it hit me the name no a bird it hit my windshield and yeah the way that he characterizes that is so perfect and there's it's a great setting up of like the actual meeting that they're having is uh to discuss what color the drug is yeah and i love how that's just completely arbitrary yeah those sort of pointless meetings where they've already made up their mind they just have to give the illusion that they're accepting input right lots of good corporation jokes in this movie yes yeah well the whole the whole design of the corporation like the huge rooms the big meeting tables and even the like subterranean labs and how they kind of go on and on and everything like yeah it's it's really great and actually uh reminded us quite a bit of um soccer proxy kind of a similar feel yeah i can see that yeah someone who's not quite in charge loses control of his of his invention and loses sight of what he really wanted to do yeah and the fact that uh it's very broad but the fact that uh chris cooper and that's uh kevin mcdonald's name is chris cooper who's it's confusing because there's a professional actor named chris cooper too but their their whole team is they're in this like sub all the labs and stuff are like subterranean yeah then they go up to the big room and the big office with the big table look are we ever going to get the big table in here or do i have to go ahead and cut down that [ __ ] tree myself that's most of the plot at this point the drug goes out into the world it gets to a non-prescription level so everybody's taking it and then things go wrong at the end yeah yeah that's around the point where i picture them not really knowing what to do with the story yeah they figured it out things got to go wrong in the third act yeah i don't know comas sure they get stuck in the in the loop and you know i i get the first impression which is terrorists well that's in the uh the work print yeah yeah that's that special idea yeah so yeah i guess we'll talk about the work print ending might as well yeah because you would mention the work print which i never even heard of before yeah floating around the internet on the real real you know dubbed vhs i wonder where that originated from i wonder it's it's got the official paramount like crawl on the bottom so it's clearly initially came from the studio but uh i i was you you had said like because i had mentioned like i always liked the movie but the last act kind of falls apart and you and you mentioned the word print and i hadn't seen it so i was like oh there must be something to this because i remember there was like an hbo first look when it first was coming out in theaters and there were so many clips from the movie shown in that that weren't in the final movie so it's like what is all this stuff there's like uh it was i think the initial thing with the with the fries yeah dave foley as like a like a fast food employee the fries will never be ready he's like the fries will never be ready and i used to quote that from the hbo special even though it's not in the not in the movie at all and so i i assumed there was going to be like radically different things in the movie yeah and it turns out that's the genesis of the entire third act it's yeah the the most of the movie is the same except like we mentioned there's some stuff that was removed it's pretty minor and so it's like oh this is basically the same movie what's the big deal gets her line cut yeah janine garofalo's in the scene in the the work print yeah i think she's in one shot of the final thatcher yeah she's in the she's on the monitor yeah flirting with chris cooper but she's in the she's in the end credits though which is still funny oh really yeah because we're watching i was like but uh yeah so then you get to the third act and they must they just like re-shot stuff for the final theatrical cut because it's radically different yeah in the theatrical cut chris cooper discovers that the drug is putting a small percentage of people into comas you say five percent so yeah five percent and they they call it acceptable losses and then that's when he's like well okay people are in comas now what i guess we got to tell people yeah there's the the whole thing you still get the whole thing about that you gotta go to the media and you get all that you get the fantastic scene with the get to get your finger out of my face don't you touch my finger out of my face which actually that is one thing that ends up being funnier in the end cut but we'll talk about that when we get to it uh but yeah so that's at that point that's where the movie really diverges chris cooper is walking out you know kind of walking around town like he does but all of a sudden he gets kidnapped yes and taken to this to this church and there's the cult and and then and then kind of the same thing happens where they do go to the media yeah and there's he invites the media but it's just like like a college radio station yeah almost nobody shows up a weapons magazine and a teen girl yeah magazine and then he discovers oh the real press meeting is happening over here that's when they in the theatrical cut they say oh we're gonna give checks to the families of the people that are in comas wow that's a lot of money how pleasing and then they have a big parade at the end once a year they have a parade to celebrate the victims so that's the theatrical cut in the work print cut uh he breaks into a tv station he goes on the nina bedford show yes he gives a similar speech to what he gives in the theatrical which is he talks basically like you know people are supposed to be depressed sometimes and take your life back and all that um and just no one cares and no one cares yeah yeah which ultimately is the case in both cuts it's like the uh well there's the it's the it's the taxi driver that's the monologue people stop taking it no so did they listen to dr cooper and stop taking the drug nah they did not god damn it no people just kept taking it and at the end um although in the end of the work there's no like final button of they're trying to you know fight induce sadness like that's just gone no that's that's chris cooper takes gleam and x and he gets he's one of the five percent so they wheel him out in the parade every year you see him on the parade float yeah which is i think a better ending absolutely it's i mean it's very very cynical for the most part you like the chris cooper character just because it's kevin mcdonald and he's goofy and funny but he made a bad decision yes all of this has happened because of him yeah having him get some sort of comeuppance at the end as the result of his own creation like it works a lot better than he must keep working to try to find a cure for the thing he caused yeah which and then we don't have a good comedy bit to end the movie on so we'll randomly cut back to scott thompson's old lady character with her granddaughter who floats away on a balloon yeah her grandson but uh yeah she gives him yeah that's that's her saddest memory is that she gave him a bunch of balloons and he floated away but he was okay in the end how do you feel [ __ ] she's depressed yes yes she's stuff yeah she's sad yeah she's sad it's not even that funny no that's the thing is that's i when i first saw the movie i was like oh it just seems to peter out yeah i was like what is this final see with the balloon what is this although again it does set up and there's a very there's an past the end credits scene that i do that i do like a lot where's miguel i i thought it was with you well he's missed the clown i'm not going to say that the the the the finished movie the end you know the third act is complete disaster either because you get some funny bits you get uh if i could rorator with the with the brace on his finger and you don't get any you know obviously that's he's gone from the movie after that point in the in the work print so that style i really like that bit um and yeah you get some okay bits in there like it's not it's not as good but it's still decent slipped off my shoes yeah it feels like the momentum that the movie's been building up just it just kind of peters out yeah it does which is a shame we'll talk about funny stuff in the movie yeah i think the first as i said the first two thirds there's lots of good bits there's fantastic bits i mean a straight up from uh scott thompson plays wally a closeted gay man who's everyone knows he's gay except him [Laughter] uh-huh you are gay you you you are gay you are a homosexual mm-hmm i know it your family knows it dogs know what and i love again talking about set up and pay off i love the bit where you know the uh the cops manage to accidentally catch him because uh they have to go pee before they go back on duty after they're drinking beers and talking about toast photos [ __ ] but yeah so they managed to catch it's basically danny from the original series but now he's wally but he's a new character yeah um and he goes on the drug and he's you know he gets that whole showpiece i'm gay i'm gay he's gay the big musical number which is great but i love the bit that all you know when chris cooper's coming back to the office and all of a sudden that's the gay hangout yeah he freaks everybody out and everybody runs away again and then finally it's just it's just like all yours kevin i [ __ ] fell on the floor with that one oh i loved it geez and that's a good example of just like the silliness of it and which is the stuff that really grabbed me the most i think stuff like um well at the beginning after they've just discovered the uh the you know the drug works it's gonna be great and then you know everybody's like uh chris cooper said calm down calm down calm down you hear a voice just say jesus christ this is great and everybody i think we got it there you go he turns around there's dave foley over here i think we got it yeah and who are you just a guy well i love his his body language in that moment too because he like takes a step back and he kind of like goes to the side a bit like like i'm judging you guys yeah it's it's played so great but yeah like that feels to me like something that you'd when you're writing it's something that you joke joke about putting in there and then actually just put it in there yeah which i love like the queen of england approving the drug the drug is approved next it is kind of funny though that that particular bit with dave foley in retrospect and kind of knowing some more like the behind the scenes stuff of the movie where it's like oh he's he's the other guy yeah because apparently the story is yeah he was working on news radio everyone was not excited about the script of the movie yeah he actually tried to get out of being in the movie yeah yeah we noticed even straight away like he's the only one that doesn't have a writing credit on the movie because he didn't write it he wasn't there we couldn't agree on anything and any ideas i had i couldn't get into the script so i just said well i want to minimize what i'm doing on it because i don't want to be around these guys our manager called me up and said don't worry they're not going to make this movie paramount hates the script it's not going to get made but if you don't assign the contracts nobody's going to get paid for writing it and then lauren talked paramount into making it and then they have to worry about contractually obligated to be in it yeah and i had to sue him to be on the movie and everybody's like enthusiasm about the whole thing was super low which is so weird that you're like trying to make a comedy film and everybody's that miserable it's impressive scott thompson's brother like committed suicide yeah yeah and he said it was a nice distraction from that but it's like but you're making a comedy about depression and there's jokes about suicide yeah so like the the mindset of everybody involved in this movie it's amazing that it's funny and it's just very funny and the suicide bit is one of the funnier bits you know my father suffered from depression chris but yeah the suicide bit the way that's all set up is just so good just that that match cut to the little kid and that slow walk and when he hits this it's his briefcase on the railing it just falls open it's just the perfect timing but also the way he uh and he's like did you what is the first thing he says he's like did you clean the house while i was gone did you clean the house while your old man was at work today yep did you clean under the fridge yep yeah yeah yeah yeah he doesn't even like pat his head or he just kind of like rubs the back of his hand it's like he went with a cat what about the gun did you give the gun a good cleaning yep and then he does it a second time and the kid leans into it and he knows it's coming that is probably one of my favorite kind of elongated bits yeah in the movie yeah it run again reminded me a whole lot of uh the whole the the kids in the hall sketch where the the kevin mcdonald's the depressed dad that comes down in the morning you know his wife has left him but he can't fix the car without a whole lot of milk can't have cornflakes without a whole lot of milka well that's that's what i was excited about for the movie was on their show as it went along as the seasons went along they did more and more elaborate kind of pre-taped bits little mini movies yeah sausages is one of my favorite things ever absolutely and it was really fascinating in the in the new documentary to find out the why behind that a little more than just the way that's just the way it developed things finding out like bruce mccullough is like i should have a career after this yeah so start directing stuff yeah most of my favorite stuff on the original show is is the more cinematic things oh god the dream about the the peaches i don't remember those oh yeah oh no it was a pear my bad i had the pear dream again is i there yes i think i'm insane i know you are so i was excited about the movie because of that tonally the way the movie starts fits in with some of their more kind of abstract bits because it's like i mentioned that that kind of lingering camera just floating from from bit to bit very very cinematic with the whole like the you know watered down streets yeah well and it has a weird like ambience to it it's like there's like a thunderstorm it almost feels like a horror movie or something little bit that these little comedy bits happen but it's not there's no like goofy music yeah until it focuses into the rock club the suicide club grievo and this is how even if you didn't know that the kids of the hall were canadian which i don't know how you wouldn't but if you didn't this is one of the the things i noticed is the uh the groupies there's the two groupies well technically three because mark mckinney wants to be one of the cool groupies oh my god but the other two are like whenever i watch something that's shot in canada i'm like i recognize that person yeah all these like canadian character actors and one of those groupies is one of the leads in the movie cube oh wow okay and then the other one has a prominent role in george romero's land of the dead ole which was shot in toronto wow yeah well wasn't one of them i thought that the brunette was the one that was actually um the girlfriend uh what's the bobby yeah bobby i think she actually played bobby's girlfriend during the series at one point oh okay [Music] but i yeah so there's a connection there too like the one that uh uh burns her arm with the cigarette mark mckinney's very impressed by thinks she's cool by association she starts jamming out to the music that's another bit where it's like all the every one of the kids in the hall have like their thing when it comes to being a performer and uh they're very good at it yeah bruce mcculloch whenever he dresses up like a lady he's always so like flighty and airheaded i could have anyone i'm beautiful yeah the way he plays that character throughout the whole thing where oh after after the after the night out when they're back in the in the lab the next morning and and she's just i won't call you for a week and he's not talking about that at all is something wrong no [Applause] [Music] sorry oh runs away bumps into mrs here to hurt a cure and just keeps running and like still running throughout the background like freaking out that's something else i noticed in the work print is the the old lady character played by scott thompson it was great in that part oh i feel like god's rubbing my tummy uh her name is mrs herticure but i noticed in the work print they never say her name until the scene where chris cooper goes to her house yeah this is her cure and so as i noticed in the the theatrical cut whenever they call her mrs herdick here it's like dubbed over because i think they realized they never called her by name so when he's going to her house the audience is going to be like who's he talking about so they don't think that adr to edit the game mrs hurticure it's always like the voices uh like someone who's back is to the camera someone off screen yeah because they were like oh [ __ ] we never established that that's her name how are you feeling nine five seven how are you feeling dear how are you feeling nine five seven party how you feeling mrs hurdicure the the movie is directed by kelly macon who mostly a tv director okay he worked on the original show he works on the new show but he's done tons and tons of tv stuff okay but the year before this he directed the classic film national lampoon's senior trip also starring kevin mcdonald in a supporting role and i this is a complete aside but i'm going to bring it up because there will never ever be another opportunity for me to talk about the movie national lampoon senior trip nor should there be um but i i it was a movie i thought was very funny when i was like 15. sure that's the right age for something like that and then talking about doing the brain candy review i was like i'm going to re-watch national lampoon's senior trip oh hi hi so needless to say it does not hold up but here's the weird thing is i watched it streaming i think i rented it on amazon and i noticed something was off early on and i couldn't picture i couldn't figure out what it was i was like something doesn't seem right and then i figured out what it was at the end which is that the version that's available on streaming is missing all of its opticals which includes like credits whoa so there's all these like the opening of the movie is it's a high school movie and there's all these like long shots that kind of follow all the high schoolers outside the school going into the school and they're these long shots because they're meant to have credits over them yeah the credits just aren't there and then the end of the movie kind of like animal house so it says like what happened to all the characters after the movie yeah it has that but those titles aren't there so it's just all these like long shots that hold on like yearbook photos for no reason completely noticeable it's so weird so if you've never seen the movie before and you're watching it you'd be like what are these shots why are we seeing all these you just pull the wrong master i don't know it's the weirdest thing so i wanted to mention that uh so if you really want to get the proper senior trip experience i guess you got to go find an old dvd or something yeah but they should be about yeah they should be about a dollar each if you can locate one at your local mega media exchange who's in charge of the quality control of the streaming version of national lampoon senior trip i've done a terrible job this urine is great i'm sure you can hear that it's raining we're just gonna power through this i guess [ __ ] it pretend your uh streaming's bad in your audience bad that's what it sounds got a bad mp3 code sure sure um yeah uh it's just endless fun to to think about the little bits that get in there you know it's yeah it's not that you're gonna recount to somebody is like a great film or anything but it's definitely a lot of fun i would i would put it at fine i will will i revisit it much not a whole lot but i would happily revisit it if it was just on i think it was hard to see for a while something's in my eye well it's even right now it's not streaming anywhere oh really there's a blu-ray up recently yeah i think it's like a like a bdr like just a burned disc yeah but hey at least it's available yeah basically if otherwise if you want to watch it it's on youtube just like freaked yeah it's still up there yeah just sitting there no studio cares that little i guess they're not even going to copyright striking there you go yeah but so that's that's you know how it was regarded for a long time and and if there was i mean i remember there was a dvd like when it came out and then it just kind of disappeared into the dollar bins and it didn't have the the reputation that like a monty python movie would have yeah and you wonder too like yeah if it gets lost in all the other lorne michaels snl movies even though obviously it's a standout one it's completely different not related to saturday alive but if it just kind of you know if it probably would have shown up on all those like four movie box sets with like yeah stuart saves his family or something oh no i know i i hope that wasn't that's fair i don't remember but uh i wonder if that's part of it if it just kind of got lost in the shuffle there too i think it's just when a movie especially that era if the movie flopped that was just it's just done yeah yeah they just disappeared freaked like it was another one where it's like it just vanished yep yep yep who knows well i guess you can track it down because it's on youtube it's out there we don't endorse watching it that way go buy a blu-ray yeah that's how you should watch it if you can uh paypal the kids in the hall some move some money otherwise dave foley probably needs it he owes it to an ex-wife probably well i think he's allowed back in the us now so i think he's doing okay finally oh doesn't have to start in uva bowl movies anymore we got more tail running around here than the than the playboy mansion but but uh yeah no the new series maybe the new series being well received will get people more interested in brain candy as well i don't know i would be happy about that i would be happy if that would at least to be available legitimately streaming somewhere that would be nice sure it's a paramount movie yeah what about paramount plus is it on paramount plus i don't think so oh you just don't get it here [Music]

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Length: 37min 4sec (2224 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 14 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/Dry_Badger_Chef]

Mike isn’t even in the fucking video and he’s injecting Star Trek trivia in it.

[u/_kalron_]

Love Kids in the Hall, watched every episode from the original airings on HBO as a teen. Constantly rewatched them on Comedy Central after that. Brain Candy was exactly what I was looking for in a feature film from the boys. I even have a soft spot for Death Comes To Town.

The new Amazon series doesn't miss a beat. They are just as odd, dark and subversive with their comedy. And they still look beautiful in drag. So hoping for another season.

[u/Octofriend]

My biggest surprise from this video is learning that this film doesn't have a proper blu-ray release. This feels like the exact kinda movie Shout Factory would give a pretty good home media release. Ya know what I mean?

[u/RPDRNick]

"Where's your father?"

"He's upstairs masturbating to gay porn."

"Again?!"

[u/Joey-sack-of-hammers]

GLEEMONEX makes it feel like it’s 72 degrees in your head all the time

[u/Warhorse_99]

FINALLY a Star Trek reference….

[u/BaneReturns]

FYI, don't dismiss Coneheads just because of this review. I watched it on a whim a few years ago and I was surprised by how much I loved it.

[u/GGGilman87]

I read Paul Myers' book on KitH, "One Dumb Guy" which compiled interviews and materials from various sources and it went into detail about the acrimony that had been on set during the making of the movie. (Myers laid his cards out on the table in the intro - not only had he been seeing KitH since their stage shows in Toronto, he's also the brother of Mike Myers, who had been at the Second City workshops when Kevin MacDonald was there)

"I was used to being the fastest gunfighter in the West — meaning Mississauga — but then I met a guy who could outdraw me. I was a lumpy nineteen-year-old potato of potential, and I had to learn a lot. But at seventeen, Mike had it already. I was like Salieri to his Mozart; he was the guy I wanted to be."

Myers goes on to detail the troupe's breaking during the production of Brain Candy, a long process where the writing went through several discarded ideas before settling on the idea of a "drug". After that, the screenplay still had not taken real shape weeks afterword, and there was some drama building up - Dave Foley had gotten an offer for a TV pilot, for a show called "Newsradio" and it was a great opportunity he felt, and he didn't want to get tied up with a film production. Foley felt the movie project could be delayed for a year. This was just one point that lead hostility on the set when "The Drug" (later renamed "Brain Candy") actually lurched into production. Meddling by Paramount didn't help much either.

Due to some unforeseen issues, Foley ended up contractually obligated to appear in the film - this had apparently not been what anyone intended but Foley felt he'd been tricked and was not happy. People who'd worked on the show and had been brought in to work on the film noted how tense and acrimonious the atmosphere was on set compared to the TV show.

[u/Tarlcabot18]

Haven't watched the whole video yet so I don't know if they address it, but I'd KILL to get a high def version of all the cut material, particularly the subplot of Dave's existential burger flipper character.

"No, the fries aren't ready! The fries will never be ready!"