I love how Jay's like "If you didn't know Kid's in the Hall was Canadian, knowing the filmography of these two minor film extras and then subsequently knowing that two of the films that they've been in were shot in Canada should be a dead giveaway!"
I was about to comment this, but you beat me to it. Thankfully you did, because I wouldn't have written it as funny. I would've just added that I never even heard of "The Kid's in the Hall" to begin with, before RLM mentioned the reboot. Kevin McDonald is just the voice of Pleakly, from "Lilo and Stitch", to me and I didn't even know his name.
@@zanpakutoman4225 I hadn't heard of Kids in the Hall until a few years ago. And at that point, in my mind, Dave Foley was just the voice of Flick from A Bug's Life and Kevin McDonald was the big head guy from Sky High (Dave Foley also had a great role in that movie)
@@NickHarron Oh, yeah! He WAS in Sky High! I knew there were more roles I remembered him in. Honestly, they all seem like they have "That Guy." type of roles. I've probably technically known about them since forever, but they're usually just side or minor characters. It's a shame. Since Jay pointed it out, they all play their types of roles perfectly.
I once say the Kids live at UCLA, and they were hysterical. I told Dave Foley that I had seen High Stakes. He shook his head, and said, “I’m so sorry.”
I remember telling Mark McKinney that I saw Brain Candy in the theater and how much I (mostly) enjoyed it. He said "that was you, thanks kid!" Also had a similar meeting with Paul Thomas Anderson once when I told him that I saw Magnolia twelve times in the theater. But thats a story for another RUclips comment.
The Siskel & Ebert clip was priceless. I don't think I've ever seen Siskel look so disappointed in Ebert. Siskel couldn't believe that he didn't think the bit was funny. 😂😂😂
@@jerrodbutali3990 being forced to analyze 5 or so movies a week with no choice what you get to see changes the way you view movies. Thier are only 9 or so different plots, and rarely are you going to be surprised
I was a big Kids in the Hall fan. I remember seeing the trailer for this online and being super excited for it, but then I never heard a thing about the movie coming out, until about a year later, I saw it in Blockbuster, and a begged my friends to rent it, which they reluctantly agreed. Everyone hated it, and from that day on, I was never again allowed to pick the movie.
@@RMMDanBobo The fact that he can reference Ezri Dax in a positive light just demonstrates how awful Picard is. Not that I dislike the character or Nicole de Boer, mind you. It was just an absurd decision to kill off Jadzia and replace her with Dax in a new host.
@@pseudotasuki In my mind I see it as them just having no idea what to do , but still feeling the need to not just have a void for the final few seasons. Which, to DS9's credit, it's only one of the few apparent times they just didn't know what to do about something.
As someone who owns this masterpiece on vhs, dvd and bluray, I'm ashamed to only learn about this workprint today. Found it in 10 min, will watch tonight. Thanks guys.
my first apartment was this studio spot in Philadelphia and my roommate was severely depressed. We owned this movie on DVD and watched it all the time and were constantly laughing and quoting it. I haven't seen it in almost 20 years but this is a great reminder to give it another go!
your roommate was a ghost. you are still locked in the asylum. there never was a kids in the hall movie. this is like your relapse when you said trump was president. society also abolished capital letters when america collapsed under mondale to show the proletariat all should be equal. am i getting through to you at all.
I can’t even begin to describe how happy it makes me that you guys reviewed Brain Candy. Here’s to all the new Kids in the Hall fans that’ll hopefully be hobbling in in droves after seeing this!
The early auditorium scene, filmed in Toronto. When the principal says "what the hell is going on here?!" You see the top of my head running past Frewer's shoulder. Blink and you miss it. RUclips URL: UlwdPOyd3w0 - At the nine-thirty mark, when dude says "Principal Moss." That is my contribution to contemporary culture. I was (and am) a huge Matt Frewer fan, but it was wise not to approach him. Tommy Chong's son was the big star in the room. Meanwhile, I'm two inches away from the future Hawkeye. Who knew? It was obvious even to idiot younger me that this movie was no one's vision based on this five-minute scene that they took twelve hours to shoot. The entire day on set around other "student extras" was like the customs department in Men In Black. Payroll was hours late coming in, and I was absolutely sure one or more people were going to wind up dead or hospitalized.
Thanks for giving 'Cancer Boy' his due. Fing hilarious. My friends and I would constantly rehash his scenes, laughing like maniacs. "It's ok, my marrow's just low", so fd up and so funny.
Same here… My friends and I used to say that all the time about the most random things. “The sandwich taste like crap!” “I’m so sorry my marrow was low”
Cancer boy sucked. Not because of the dark humor, but because the actor was trying way too hard and decided to inexplicably sound like a hokey robot for laughs. The "marrow is low" joke doesn't even make sense, it's just throwing in the word marrow because cancer. The bit itself might be funny if played by a better actor.
He always tried to be some guiding force of morals to let people know why something is bad/shouldn't be funny. He also constantly missed the fuckin' point of movies when he would said stupid shit like some scenes in sci-fi movies weren't "realistic." In short, he'd constantly act like he was smarter and a 'better' person than literally anybody else in the world.
@@LessDevoid You're always going to have people like that. The shocking thing was that he was held in such high esteem and shaped movie critique to "be a blowhard with rationalizations for all those icky feelings". He would have been more interesting as mega-church preacher.
@@LessDevoid That’s why Siskel was the perfect partner to him. He would always come down hard on Ebert when he started tearing a film apart for the wrong reasons. Siskel even had to defend Fear and Loathing on the phone while dying in a hospital bed because Ebert called it a terrible movie that will encourage drug use.
@@LessDevoid And unfortunately for him, all that anyone remembers about Roger Ebert is how often he had shitty takes on films that were actually masterpieces. That's what you get when you focus on morals as opposed to art and entertainment.
I'm really hoping they talk about Dirty Work at some point, it's well worth the Re:View treatment. Even if it isn't perfect (which it isn't), Norm Macdonald's performance is so great, and him and Artie Lange have such incredible chemistry (which isn't surprising, considering how close they were). EDIT: I think that might be a Todd Rundgren album cover that Josh is wearing, just "pop art"-ized. Good taste (as usual).
"HELL YEAH!!! ROLLING STONES STREET FIGHTIN MAN, GEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-SEEEEEVVVEEENNNNNNAAAAWWHHH" is my favorite chris Farley line ever. Norms pretty great in the movie too.
Saw this 3x in the theatre, and watched them perform a live script reading a few years ago. Brain Candy deserves so much more recognition than it receives.
It's hard to convey how much I love this movie, and it's also heartbreaking to know about the stuff that went on behind the scenes. If you haven't watched thier documentary called 'Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks' I HIGHLY recommend it. They break down everything that was going on with Brain Candy.
@@tph2010 Yup. There were a lot of things at play that caused it to flop. Eh, it was a success to me. I throughly enjoyed the hell out of it. It still holds up.
@@tommenno There were a lot of problems with the guys after Dave Foley got hired for Newsradio in 95. Not to mention Scott Thompson having cancer (though if I remember correctly that was closer to one of the tours they did in the early 2000s maybe) etc. And the guys hated making Brain Candy, at least as far as making a "movie" is concerned.
@@tph2010 I vaguely remember when Brain Candy was released and I could be mistaken but I recall it didn't get many bookings in the "big" movie theaters and multiplexes, it kinda got sidelined to the arthouse and one or 2 screen theaters in the city, at least that's what happened here in Atlanta. I don't think Paramount put much marketing into it.
Oh wow, the story about Dave Foley being somewhat resented for News Radio suddenly explains the News Radio episode. His character's college a Capella group promised they'd get back together in 5 years and he doesn't want to since he has a successful career at the station...woof.
Fun fact: the group is played by the actors of Mr. Show and one Bob Odenkirk says he stopped being a lawyer to continue the group, foreshadowing Better Call Saul!
There are a bunch of references in Newsradio to Dave being from “Wisconsin” and how he had to endure so much “Wisconsin” cold weather. Hard not to read it as a stand-in for Canada lol
Awesome! Have been a KITH fan since i was a kid. Loved this when it came out. "Baby i got bad news, i cheated on you". Girl hits him "Aww baby dont shoot the messenger" lmfao
I grew up watching Kids in The Hall. I dig the new season, and always liked the movie haha the original run of seasons still gets a lot of play every year or two at our house. Saw them live a few times and was so much fun. Glad to see this episode!
Something I never noticed about the artwork as a kid, but now sticks out to me as an adult, is that the imprinting on the candy is the format of imprinting on Bayer aspirin. Fuck, i'm old now.
That’s in my top ten . Remember the lawyers negotiating the terms of a date . The one attorney proposed that the only terms were that the girl consume 14 ounces of gin . “Oh, come off it, Gerald ! That’s panty-peeler and you know it!”
Interesting about Senior Trip missing its opticals/titles/credits. I've noticed this on at least two movies this past year -- documentaries, where these opticals are very important (like, who's talking?). One was The Celluloid Closet on the Criterion Channel. I contacted them and they acknowledged it, contacted the distributor and had it fixed in a few days (I also saw it on TCM a few weeks later with no opticals... amazing. TCM ignored my feedback). The other was the Automat, the new doc about, well, the Automat, on Kanopy. No opticals. And no credits... just a black screen where the credits were supposed to roll. There seems to be serious lack of quality control lately.
…great testament of the Criterion Channel being responsive though. Anyone can make a dumb mistake but to actually read a comment from a user AND then actually act on it is impressive (though should be the norm).
I still laugh my head off thinking about a movie being presented without its opticals like that, especially with the end parts where the text is supposed to give closure, but what you end up with is these completely inexplicable and now kind of ominous lingering stills. Completely changes the tone of the sequence.
Went to see Brain Candy with my parents when it first came out. My dad walked out of the theatre, but I will always love this movie. The DVD is still one of the jewels in my collection.
It's been 20 years since I've seen this film, but I've always remembered the taxi driver lamenting his mother's take on life, "Life is short, life is shit and soon we will all be dead". That great wisdom has always stuck with me 😆
I liked his explanation for how he thought the drug was made which was from monkeys being shown animal pornography. "Two dogs making love to a cat, or a bat in a bra." :D
My God I could almost hear Mike internally screaming in the background that not once did they mention that one actress was Ezri Dax on Deep Space Nine. How much you want to bet he practically held Jay at gunpoint to put that card in. lol
My favorite part about Summer vacation as a kid was watching Kids In the Hall reruns on Comedy Central all morning. Brain Candy was a movie I had to be snuck in to see when it was in theaters, and everyone I saw it with absolutely hated it. I felt like I was crazy for loving it as much as I did, but it was such a unique experience. Had no idea about the infighting until that documentary came out.
I never watched the Kids in the Hall TV series. I saw Brain Candy when I was working in a theater in college, along with the other employees. I thought it was really good and extremely prescient. I’ve seen it a few times in the intervening years and still think it’s good. I never understood why it didn’t get more exposure.
Growing up outside the US I'd never heard of KITH, but saw Brain Candy randomly on cable one day. Honestly I found it's humour so different and refreshing, I loved it. So wild to see it reviewed 20 years later.
One of the producers at Paramount had a relative who was dying of Cancer and asked the Kids in the Hall to remove Cancer Boy they refused and the film did not get a wide release.
I found kids in the hall on comedy central when I was in like 7th grade and I rewatch the whole series every few years. After all this time my favorite sketches have never changed "night of the cow" and the one where the cops and the crooks are in the diner and they start racing to eat, pay, etc
I got to see the Kids on Tour when they came to Seattle in 2008 (still have the autographed ticket), it was like seeing Python when they toured in the way they were able to transform their famous characters for a live setting and they held nothing back, super raunchy. Bonus was, before the show my friends and I agreed to meet up at a bar/restaurant across from the venue, and lo behold they actually walked into the bar hours before the show! (all except Scott Thompson) They were all really nice, except what struck me was the way Bruce McCullogh was 'acting?' He came in w/ a woman on each arm, and talked like he knew he was famous, aloof, an air of importance LOL. Fantastic show :) Never got to see Python live, I can definitely see their influence in the Kids' live show.
@@EnragedTofu Me and my friends have been Kids fans forever back when we were teens, so yes it was a great surprise, they even kindly signed out tickets (minus Scott Thompson's) which I now have framed :)
THE PROBLEM IS THAT THEY WERE NEVER ANYTHING BUT A BAD MONTY PYTHON RIPOFF, AND MONTY PYTHON HAD CEASED TO BE FUNNY LONG BEFORE THEY STARTED RIPPING THEM OFF. HORSES FOR COURSES, OF COURSE, BUT I FOUND THEM TO BE COMPELTELY INTOLERABLE AND UNFUNNY, AND STILL DO.
I'm glad someone finally looked into this movie on RUclips, I have owned this movie since it came out and it's one of my favorites. I always show people this movie when I have a chance to anyone who hasn't seen it.
When I was working a protectionist in ftlauderdale, Scott came into my theater with a date to see I am legend. It was dead so I started it early for him and he talked to me afterward for a little over TWO HOURS about movies, comedy...dating (there's more to that part). I was 19, was living at my friends house, literally sharing a bed with said friend because my girlfriend left me for a good friend of mine and kicked me out. When he camd into my theater, it had been 3 days since my break up and meeting and talking to him turned everything around for me. I actually- for a little bit- didn't want to die. I wish I could tell him how much that meant to me because it maybe even saved my life. I know ppl say that all the time but seriously
@@WPBrandon1972 Maybe Jay but if Josh didn't know, he oughta be ashamed of himself. I'm going to say the thunderstorm frightened them and they got distracted to bring it up.
Kids in the Hall was funny, but I didn't realize HOW funny in the 90's since I was so young... Watching it now I think it's actually gold. The new season is top tier with the rest of it.
I never thought the movie "petered out" because it's always hard for comedy movies to wrap up a story while being funny, and Brain Candy did it as well as any other comedy. Also the climactic sequence has "you don't look good in a yellow hat" and "good coffee marv" which is a phrase I say every time I drink coffee.
That's not even a problem with films. Many sketch comedy groups tend to have insane or flat endings because ending a sketch is hard. If you want an example check out Whitest Kids U Know. So many of theirs just end with insane things to wraps it up. A good example being "Kid Beer".
I infected my college dorm with this film back in 1999. We watched in numerous times in our dorm rooms, we set up a couch and TV outside one day near the building entrance and made a whole viewing experience out of it and even when we were just playing Tony Hawk and/ or drinking, we would have it playing in the background on mute. Can. Not. Get. Enough. Of Brain Candy.
Two friends and I must be the only three people who bought the DVD 😂 I love this movie. It's so quotable. My favorite scene might be Mrs. Hurticure's best memory, where her son (Dave Foley) comes to visit at Christmas. "Sorry we haven't visited, Ma, you know how the kids...hate old people." 😅 His family does a single lap around the room and leaves, handing his mom her present. "Oh I wonder what it is!" she says cheerily and the wife throws over her shoulder, "It's a harmonica." Then she shuts the door and sighs, "That was lovely." Seriously there's about 100 hilarious quotes to take from this movie.
I’M the guy that finally made them break even! After my video collection was ruined by my dad’s putting them in a metal shed without my knowledge, I finally bought it on DVD. Shortly thereafter, the new season came out. The first bit in the board room was funny. I quit after the horrors of seeing two of them in full frontal nudity.
Kids in the Hall has always been an acquired taste and Brain Candy is no exception. It's quite funny and mean and dark and an experience all of its own. Worth watching if for no other reason then to see cancer boy.
I loved KITH when I was growing up with the old Comedy Central. I got introduced to a lot of things that helped shape I and my sense of humor as an adult. I and my mom would watch it all the time and, it was funny, because the show wasn't really her style of humor. But, we both enjoyed it, together, and laugh. I don't remember this ever coming out, but I know, now, thanks to you all, and, thanks to RUclips, I'll get a to see it. BRB, gone roaming halls.
I remember feeling emotional as a kid when the last episode aired and they were digging a hole to bury themselves as the show,felt that reunion vibe when the newest show addressed that , took me a while to figure out that my fav show had stopped
Great movie. I'm not even a Kid's in the Hall fan, but this movie is the shit. I rewound the part with the scientist saying "it's a pill, for the world, to give worms, to ex-girlfriends" five times that first time I watched it...So many great lines/ small bits.
Yeah luv that gag... the last part where he gets up and goes to get out of the room and just does the biggest sigh and "yoohoo crazy" shot just kills me
The hilarious thing is that "National Lampoon's Senior Trip" has always been a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. It's just such a stupid low-end 90s comedy it's fun.
I bought a VHS with National Lampoon’s Senior Trip when I was 13. I never laughed so hard in my life ever again. I watched it on a weekly or monthly basis for several years, probably saw it more than 40 times. Then many years later I bought it on DVD and couldn’t finish it. At least I can say that I never expected Jeremy Renner to get as big as he is now after that movie.
29:23 Mike is SCREAMING at the screen because of the boys ignoring Nicole De Boer, who did have her own comedy series in Canada called Dooley Gardens where she ran a family owned ice rink arena...and was in the main cast of Star Trek Deep Space Nine
I've been calling anti-depressants "Brain Candy" ever since seeing this movie back in 96. Also, I now know where i got "did you see, did you see? the doctor and me"
I loved this movie since the first viewing and never had any issues with it. I'm not sure if it's just a coincidence, but I get a little bit of UHF vibes from the way it flows as well.
I’m just now realizing that the basic plot and ending of this film is basically the premise for the game We Happy Few Although that game takes itself more seriously with its story and it’s aesthetically different it’s funny how these two properties do share a things in common
"Though I am a little dizzy..." Brain candy is amazing! Me and my roommates in college used to watch it all the time... (Mid-90s). Even these days, I rewatch it every couple years or so.
Oh hell yeah. I can honestly say that I have watched brain candy more times than any other movie. This film is so important to me. I even, I watched it recently after years of not watching it. And it had me in tears, hyperventilating, because I went through some mental illness shit with my mom recently. But my point is I have seen it about 50 times, and it still is hitting me in totally different ways emotionally as I progress through my own life.
I loved the (short) discussion about A Night At The Roxbury, a film I have seen countless times, usually just before going out with friends. This has caused me to wake up several times with an extremely sore neck. Once, our group went for a beer at a place on an afternoon and the resident DJ who was setting up for the evening spotted us and shouted out angrily "I am NOT going to play Haddaway!". Apparently we had been there a few nights before...
I liked Coneheads and both Wayne's World movies. All three were fun. I did not know that Dave Foley tried to stay out of the film, that's crazy. Another notable thing about Senior Trip is it is one of the few live action performances of Tara Strong, one of the most prolific voice actors out there (a lot of DC roles). She plays the stoner who's face you cannot see through half the film. Also, the cigarette burn girl discussed in the video was apparently in it as well (saw her when I was confirming Tara Strong, it had been 27 years since I've seen it).
As a Canadian who was alive in the 90's, it's strange to see the Kids in the Hall looked at as a cult thing. They most definitely weren't / aren't here. Back then, it wasn't SNL that everyone quoted on the playground, it was KITH sketches. They were on the national broadcaster in prime time for 5 years, they toured all the time, etc. They were huge. But then, I also remember seeing Brain Candy opening night in a theatre of 8 other people...
@@ifeeltiredsleepy I think (and I may be remembering wrong) but Fuck was always beeped out on CBC. There's a line in the book (One Dumb Guy) where they mention how glad they were that they had uncensored versions of the tapes to put on DVD etc.
It's well-known enough in Canada that most people recognize the guys or the name of the show without ever having seen it. But most Canadians have seen it, especially if you were around in the 90s.
This movie was perfect, even down to the endless quotable lines. It's a shame that their comedy was so underappreciated. Any time I asked classmates in the 90's if they watched the tv show, the answer was usually, "what show?" Just when I think I have a favorite KID, the next one speaks and it changes.
It's one of the most missed movies. It's a Canadian Idiocracy. Society takes a pill that's rushed to market in order to guarantee happiness and they end up getting the worst of it. Lack govt oversight instantly approves of it. Take your Stummies!
@@Fadeout815 Siskel could be a sourpuss too, but even he told Ebert to lighten up in his review. Ebert reviewed it like it was one of the worst things he'd ever seen.
6:00 they were ringers from when they had to overhaul the SNL cast etc post-Sandler Clique. two of the guys were hired writers for the show much earlier. McKinney did another fun comedy series but it wasn't sketch - Hatching Matching & Dispatching (was on CBC mid2000s, now on Prime) about a family who operates a business in small town Newfoundland that handles weddings, funerals, midwivery and the local ambulance service. it's fine. worth a look at least.
@@philliptivis3082 that scene of the kid flying away and the "thanks for the COMA COMA COMA" where my only memories of this movie and made me seek it out some years back. This movie is my top 10 overlooked gems
As a bartender who has worked in night clubs I can definitely say a night at the Roxbury is a great representation of the hopeless nightclubers who so desperately want to seem cool and slick but come off desperate and always go home alone. Great film
Saw this movie ages ago. The "who are you? "Just some guy." bit has stuck with me through the years. Not exactly sure why other than I love weird stuff like that.
As a big KitH fan I was so psyched for this movie, then was disappointed when I saw in the theater. Then a year or so later, saw it at home and LOVED it. So much fun and funny.
I knew Mike could never let the Star Trek trivia go unmentioned but I'm deeply disappointed that he and Rich didn't bust through the wall Kool-Aid Man style screaming "EZRI DAX! NICOLE DE BOER PLAYED EZRI DAX ON STAR TREK DEEP SPACE NINE!!!" "OH MY GAAAAAAAAWD!!!"
as a teenager i rented this movie along with some cartoons. i returned the tapes and went back to rent more stuff the next week or whatever, and they had placed this movie alongside the cartoons in the kids section. i did not inform them.
I had the same issue as Jay with my iTunes version of Soldier (1998). The onscreen text is gone during the opening sequence of Todd’s training, but the sound effects that accompanied the text is still there.
At one point there was a very bizarre double feature DVD set that included Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, and the 80s family-ish movie "Back to the Beach" (which is a throwback to the 1960s beach movies starring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon) for some reason.
@@publius9350 The odd thing for me is that I actually bought that double feature mainly for Back to the Beach. I already had the stand alone Brain Candy DVD. At the time that I bought the double feature, I think both individual DVDs may have been out of print and going up in price on the after market, but Back to the Beach (which I was looking for at the time - it is a silly, cheesy family movie, but saw it as a kid and so it is sort of a guilty pleasure) definately was and the invidual DVD at the time was going for ridiculous prices. This double feature may have also been out of print at the time (not entirely sure on that), but was going for far less, I assume because of the very random pairing of these two movie that have nothing in common, with one movie on each side of the disc, and having the stand alone DVDs was more ideal. But since I didn't want to pay a ton for it, I went with this. It also gave me a back up copy of Brain Candy, so it could have been worse.
@@Futuredynamo The Humunga Cowabunga from Down Unda :D It still tickles me how concerned the surf punk leader was for Frankie when the Big wave came back ,"Dude, Come in! You're gonna get messed up!"
I actually think the original ending is a BIT too dark. Jay makes a strong point for why it's better, but it just veers a bit too cynical for my taste. The original ending does definitely feel rushed, but I think I just have a lame sense of humor. Miguel floating away on the balloons always made me laugh. Also, amazing Matthew Sweet track in the credits.
You made me want to watch this again so much, but I couldn't find it on streaming.. thank you for mentioning that it's on RUclips (at least for now) because now I know what I'm doing tonight. Cheers!
I often feel old on the Internet, being 33 and online 22 years or so. Not so while watching RLM. The TVLand of VHS. Now to watch 37 minutes of a review for a movie I will almost certainly never see.
I love Brain Candy. I've loved it ever since I was a tiny teen. 1996 would mean I was about 16 when I first saw it, and I enjoyed that someone made a comedy about depression and prescription drugs, two things I was dealing with at the time. I think little teen me would have loved the shit out of the workprint.
Hahahaha, fucking hell. I was using "Hurdicure" as a weird name for throwaway characters for ages and I was like "I know I'm ripping this name off from something, but what?" I can't believe it was fucking Brain Candy! That's great! But yeah, my friends and I were rabid fans of the Kids in the Hall so when Brain Candy came out we lost our shit. I don't think it was showing in a theater anywhere near us, but we got the VHS and watched the fuck out of it. Such that, much like the whole "Hurdicure" jawn I'd be quoting lines from it and whatnot for years, long after I'd forgotten the movie.
Quick note...Dave Foley was more or less stuck in the US, unable to return to Canada due to some insane judgement relating to his divorce. News radio started in 1995, the divorce was in 1997....
Blues Brothers was technically not an SNL movie the way the others are. Belushi and Aykroyd always appeared as the Blues Brothers on SNL as musical guests so the show wouldn't own the rights to the characters.
It appealed to me as a 14 year old in a peculiar way and would watch every Friday night with my old man. Those are fond memories for sure. What a show.
I love how Jay's like "If you didn't know Kid's in the Hall was Canadian, knowing the filmography of these two minor film extras and then subsequently knowing that two of the films that they've been in were shot in Canada should be a dead giveaway!"
My first thought was "that girl looks like Ezri Dax", so I'm glad Mike was editing.
I was about to comment this, but you beat me to it. Thankfully you did, because I wouldn't have written it as funny. I would've just added that I never even heard of "The Kid's in the Hall" to begin with, before RLM mentioned the reboot. Kevin McDonald is just the voice of Pleakly, from "Lilo and Stitch", to me and I didn't even know his name.
@@zanpakutoman4225 I hadn't heard of Kids in the Hall until a few years ago. And at that point, in my mind, Dave Foley was just the voice of Flick from A Bug's Life and Kevin McDonald was the big head guy from Sky High (Dave Foley also had a great role in that movie)
@@NickHarron Oh, yeah! He WAS in Sky High! I knew there were more roles I remembered him in. Honestly, they all seem like they have "That Guy." type of roles. I've probably technically known about them since forever, but they're usually just side or minor characters. It's a shame. Since Jay pointed it out, they all play their types of roles perfectly.
That's jay forgetting that not everyone is a film nerd
I love how Mike isn't even in this episode but manages to make a Star Trek reference in post - That's what we're here for.
And it went on way longer than it needed to.
@@wrenloco No it didn't. Star Trek is life.
When I saw Nicole DeBoer I knew the the reference was inevitable.
and he misspelled the series title too
Space Nine is my favorite Star Trek Deep show!
"The fries will never be ready!" Said Rich Evans as he nearly set his grandma's kitchen on fire.
Brain Candy was a first date movie for me and my (now) wife. Still married 24 years later. I've owned it on VHS and DVD. :D
I also choose this guy's wife.
Now that's Happiness Pie!
Sounds very nice .... Congrats to u and ur wife ...... the mark of strong minded people ...
How'd the two of you like the movie at the time?
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Loved it. Still do.
I once say the Kids live at UCLA, and they were hysterical.
I told Dave Foley that I had seen High Stakes. He shook his head, and said, “I’m so sorry.”
my god I saw that too...... I just got over it a few years back
I love that man
Dave Foley is a national* treasure
*American or Canadian, either one's true
Yes Man ? cool !
I remember telling Mark McKinney that I saw Brain Candy in the theater and how much I (mostly) enjoyed it. He said "that was you, thanks kid!" Also had a similar meeting with Paul Thomas Anderson once when I told him that I saw Magnolia twelve times in the theater. But thats a story for another RUclips comment.
I absolutely adore when Jay and Josh get together to explain something strange that only they love and that I've never even heard of. Pure bliss.
Their choices definitely serve a theme. They should consider a Jay and Josh spin off.
How have you never heard of KITH??
@@xp8969 That's what I was thinking.
team green rules!
Shame on you. KITH is a friggen comedy treasure!
The Siskel & Ebert clip was priceless. I don't think I've ever seen Siskel look so disappointed in Ebert. Siskel couldn't believe that he didn't think the bit was funny. 😂😂😂
Those guys were overrated, just lucky. They sh on a lot of great movies.
@@jerrodbutali3990 someone not liking a film you like doesn’t make them overrated.
@@BadGuyRants ehhh durrr duuurrrr dehhhhh durrrrr.
@@jerrodbutali3990 brilliant.
@@jerrodbutali3990 being forced to analyze 5 or so movies a week with no choice what you get to see changes the way you view movies. Thier are only 9 or so different plots, and rarely are you going to be surprised
Kids in the Hall is a lot like RLM in that my friends and family don’t get it and can’t understand how I can love these shows so much.
I was a big Kids in the Hall fan. I remember seeing the trailer for this online and being super excited for it, but then I never heard a thing about the movie coming out, until about a year later, I saw it in Blockbuster, and a begged my friends to rent it, which they reluctantly agreed. Everyone hated it, and from that day on, I was never again allowed to pick the movie.
Still worth it though.
I loved the show. The movie left me scratching my head more than anything.
"Friends" ...
If Jay was a Star Trek fan he'd know that that actor is also Ezri Dax.
Edit: Damnit, Mike!
lmao yeah I knew that was coming.
On the plus side there is still a glimer of hope that Mike will regain his love for Star Trek after he was forced to watch Picard.
@@RMMDanBobo The fact that he can reference Ezri Dax in a positive light just demonstrates how awful Picard is.
Not that I dislike the character or Nicole de Boer, mind you. It was just an absurd decision to kill off Jadzia and replace her with Dax in a new host.
@@pseudotasuki Nobody was less enthused by that than Ira Steven Behr, the effing showrunner.
@@pseudotasuki In my mind I see it as them just having no idea what to do , but still feeling the need to not just have a void for the final few seasons.
Which, to DS9's credit, it's only one of the few apparent times they just didn't know what to do about something.
As someone who owns this masterpiece on vhs, dvd and bluray, I'm ashamed to only learn about this workprint today.
Found it in 10 min, will watch tonight. Thanks guys.
Could you elaborate on where to find the workprint? I cannot find it for the life of me...
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Have you tried looking for 10 minutes?
@@samuelpipe88 🤣🤣🤣
I’m 100% okay with Mike’s Star Trek knowledge showing up in editing
my first apartment was this studio spot in Philadelphia and my roommate was severely depressed. We owned this movie on DVD and watched it all the time and were constantly laughing and quoting it. I haven't seen it in almost 20 years but this is a great reminder to give it another go!
your roommate was a ghost. you are still locked in the asylum. there never was a kids in the hall movie. this is like your relapse when you said trump was president. society also abolished capital letters when america collapsed under mondale to show the proletariat all should be equal. am i getting through to you at all.
@@mostlyguesses8385 such a combative guess...
I can’t even begin to describe how happy it makes me that you guys reviewed Brain Candy. Here’s to all the new Kids in the Hall fans that’ll hopefully be hobbling in in droves after seeing this!
I have become a fan after watching the new season on Prime and watching the documentary and the film.
I’m a lifetime fan after seeing they reviewed this movie 😂
I was an extra in National Lampoon's Senior Trip, and it was one of the weirdest experiences of my life.
Which scene(s) are you in?
The early auditorium scene, filmed in Toronto. When the principal says "what the hell is going on here?!" You see the top of my head running past Frewer's shoulder. Blink and you miss it.
RUclips URL: UlwdPOyd3w0 - At the nine-thirty mark, when dude says "Principal Moss."
That is my contribution to contemporary culture.
I was (and am) a huge Matt Frewer fan, but it was wise not to approach him. Tommy Chong's son was the big star in the room. Meanwhile, I'm two inches away from the future Hawkeye. Who knew?
It was obvious even to idiot younger me that this movie was no one's vision based on this five-minute scene that they took twelve hours to shoot.
The entire day on set around other "student extras" was like the customs department in Men In Black. Payroll was hours late coming in, and I was absolutely sure one or more people were going to wind up dead or hospitalized.
@@patrickglaser1560 Several were thrown to the gods on that one.
"Who are you?"
"Just some guy."
I always loved this movie.
Correction, "just a guy"
Thanks for giving 'Cancer Boy' his due. Fing hilarious. My friends and I would constantly rehash his scenes, laughing like maniacs. "It's ok, my marrow's just low", so fd up and so funny.
Same here… My friends and I used to say that all the time about the most random things. “The sandwich taste like crap!” “I’m so sorry my marrow was low”
Cancer boy sucked. Not because of the dark humor, but because the actor was trying way too hard and decided to inexplicably sound like a hokey robot for laughs. The "marrow is low" joke doesn't even make sense, it's just throwing in the word marrow because cancer. The bit itself might be funny if played by a better actor.
@@headphonic8 Sounds like someone's marrow is low.
I always love seeing Roger Ebert step up to white knight when its not needed. Its like a re:view tradition at this point.
He always tried to be some guiding force of morals to let people know why something is bad/shouldn't be funny. He also constantly missed the fuckin' point of movies when he would said stupid shit like some scenes in sci-fi movies weren't "realistic." In short, he'd constantly act like he was smarter and a 'better' person than literally anybody else in the world.
@@LessDevoid You're always going to have people like that.
The shocking thing was that he was held in such high esteem and shaped movie critique to "be a blowhard with rationalizations for all those icky feelings".
He would have been more interesting as mega-church preacher.
@@LessDevoid That’s why Siskel was the perfect partner to him. He would always come down hard on Ebert when he started tearing a film apart for the wrong reasons. Siskel even had to defend Fear and Loathing on the phone while dying in a hospital bed because Ebert called it a terrible movie that will encourage drug use.
@@DandyBrains to be fair aisle probably did some drugs, he was not close minded
@@LessDevoid And unfortunately for him, all that anyone remembers about Roger Ebert is how often he had shitty takes on films that were actually masterpieces. That's what you get when you focus on morals as opposed to art and entertainment.
I'm really hoping they talk about Dirty Work at some point, it's well worth the Re:View treatment.
Even if it isn't perfect (which it isn't), Norm Macdonald's performance is so great, and him and Artie Lange have such incredible chemistry (which isn't surprising, considering how close they were).
EDIT: I think that might be a Todd Rundgren album cover that Josh is wearing, just "pop art"-ized. Good taste (as usual).
I've never seen so many dead hookers in my entire life!
Conner is Wise.
BTW, how is Artie Lange still alive?
"HELL YEAH!!! ROLLING STONES STREET FIGHTIN MAN, GEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-SEEEEEVVVEEENNNNNNAAAAWWHHH" is my favorite chris Farley line ever. Norms pretty great in the movie too.
@@howzyerfather no kidding, how did Artie out live Norm???
Saw this 3x in the theatre, and watched them perform a live script reading a few years ago. Brain Candy deserves so much more recognition than it receives.
I'm surprised Jay doesn't think it's considered a cult classic.
It is muy funny
Omg a live script reading?! Id kill for that
It's hard to convey how much I love this movie, and it's also heartbreaking to know about the stuff that went on behind the scenes. If you haven't watched thier documentary called 'Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks' I HIGHLY recommend it. They break down everything that was going on with Brain Candy.
Yeah, I never realized it was considered a flop until a few years ago. This was THE comedy movie in my circle of friends as a kid.
@@tph2010 Yup. There were a lot of things at play that caused it to flop. Eh, it was a success to me. I throughly enjoyed the hell out of it. It still holds up.
I'm guessing it's the same basic things the studio/bosses did during the MST3K movie.
@@tommenno There were a lot of problems with the guys after Dave Foley got hired for Newsradio in 95. Not to mention Scott Thompson having cancer (though if I remember correctly that was closer to one of the tours they did in the early 2000s maybe) etc. And the guys hated making Brain Candy, at least as far as making a "movie" is concerned.
@@tph2010 I vaguely remember when Brain Candy was released and I could be mistaken but I recall it didn't get many bookings in the "big" movie theaters and multiplexes, it kinda got sidelined to the arthouse and one or 2 screen theaters in the city, at least that's what happened here in Atlanta. I don't think Paramount put much marketing into it.
Oh wow, the story about Dave Foley being somewhat resented for News Radio suddenly explains the News Radio episode. His character's college a Capella group promised they'd get back together in 5 years and he doesn't want to since he has a successful career at the station...woof.
Fun fact: the group is played by the actors of Mr. Show and one Bob Odenkirk says he stopped being a lawyer to continue the group, foreshadowing Better Call Saul!
There are a bunch of references in Newsradio to Dave being from “Wisconsin” and how he had to endure so much “Wisconsin” cold weather. Hard not to read it as a stand-in for Canada lol
@@wall8080 And later they discover that he was born in Canada.
There is a small documentary on amazon with the new season that they’re constantly referencing, its absolutely worth a watch
Canadian icons. They deserve a heritage minute.
CRTC approved comment
Theme song for national anthem?
A commemorative coin set available only at your local Canada Post outlet.
Lol!
I would also accept their faces honored on our currency lmao
Awesome! Have been a KITH fan since i was a kid. Loved this when it came out.
"Baby i got bad news, i cheated on you".
Girl hits him
"Aww baby dont shoot the messenger" lmfao
I grew up watching Kids in The Hall. I dig the new season, and always liked the movie haha the original run of seasons still gets a lot of play every year or two at our house. Saw them live a few times and was so much fun. Glad to see this episode!
New season's great! One of the rare reboots that picks up right where the original left off.
Something I never noticed about the artwork as a kid, but now sticks out to me as an adult, is that the imprinting on the candy is the format of imprinting on Bayer aspirin. Fuck, i'm old now.
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I still think “Girl Drink Drunk” is among the pantheon of the finest comedy sketches ever.
It's so fucking good.
That’s in my top ten . Remember the lawyers negotiating the terms of a date . The one attorney proposed that the only terms were that the girl consume 14 ounces of gin .
“Oh, come off it, Gerald ! That’s panty-peeler and you know it!”
Interesting about Senior Trip missing its opticals/titles/credits. I've noticed this on at least two movies this past year -- documentaries, where these opticals are very important (like, who's talking?). One was The Celluloid Closet on the Criterion Channel. I contacted them and they acknowledged it, contacted the distributor and had it fixed in a few days (I also saw it on TCM a few weeks later with no opticals... amazing. TCM ignored my feedback). The other was the Automat, the new doc about, well, the Automat, on Kanopy. No opticals. And no credits... just a black screen where the credits were supposed to roll. There seems to be serious lack of quality control lately.
I´m guessing thats because the criteria for streaming services now is: "CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT"
…great testament of the Criterion Channel being responsive though. Anyone can make a dumb mistake but to actually read a comment from a user AND then actually act on it is impressive (though should be the norm).
I still laugh my head off thinking about a movie being presented without its opticals like that, especially with the end parts where the text is supposed to give closure, but what you end up with is these completely inexplicable and now kind of ominous lingering stills. Completely changes the tone of the sequence.
Went to see Brain Candy with my parents when it first came out. My dad walked out of the theatre, but I will always love this movie. The DVD is still one of the jewels in my collection.
So, what did your mom think? Don't leave me hanging.
It's been 20 years since I've seen this film, but I've always remembered the taxi driver lamenting his mother's take on life, "Life is short, life is shit and soon we will all be dead".
That great wisdom has always stuck with me 😆
I liked his explanation for how he thought the drug was made which was from monkeys being shown animal pornography. "Two dogs making love to a cat, or a bat in a bra." :D
It sounds better in the original Croatian 😅
YES!!!!! Nice to know I’m not the only one who finds that nugget of wisdom so profound!
My God I could almost hear Mike internally screaming in the background that not once did they mention that one actress was Ezri Dax on Deep Space Nine.
How much you want to bet he practically held Jay at gunpoint to put that card in. lol
My favorite part about Summer vacation as a kid was watching Kids In the Hall reruns on Comedy Central all morning. Brain Candy was a movie I had to be snuck in to see when it was in theaters, and everyone I saw it with absolutely hated it. I felt like I was crazy for loving it as much as I did, but it was such a unique experience. Had no idea about the infighting until that documentary came out.
I feel lucky everyone I knew at that time loved it.
Kids In The Hall was fantastic, the pear sketch was one of the funniest things I had ever seen as a little kid.
I never watched the Kids in the Hall TV series. I saw Brain Candy when I was working in a theater in college, along with the other employees. I thought it was really good and extremely prescient. I’ve seen it a few times in the intervening years and still think it’s good. I never understood why it didn’t get more exposure.
Hope you checked out the show at some point, it's some Grade A sketch comedy, up there with Monty Python and The Whitest Kids U Know
Growing up outside the US I'd never heard of KITH, but saw Brain Candy randomly on cable one day. Honestly I found it's humour so different and refreshing, I loved it. So wild to see it reviewed 20 years later.
One of the producers at Paramount had a relative who was dying of Cancer and asked the Kids in the Hall to remove Cancer Boy they refused and the film did not get a wide release.
I found kids in the hall on comedy central when I was in like 7th grade and I rewatch the whole series every few years. After all this time my favorite sketches have never changed "night of the cow" and the one where the cops and the crooks are in the diner and they start racing to eat, pay, etc
Yes: “the night of the cow” so funny-“I’m gonna milk her again…” 😀
I got to see the Kids on Tour when they came to Seattle in 2008 (still have the autographed ticket), it was like seeing Python when they toured in the way they were able to transform their famous characters for a live setting and they held nothing back, super raunchy. Bonus was, before the show my friends and I agreed to meet up at a bar/restaurant across from the venue, and lo behold they actually walked into the bar hours before the show! (all except Scott Thompson)
They were all really nice, except what struck me was the way Bruce McCullogh was 'acting?' He came in w/ a woman on each arm, and talked like he knew he was famous, aloof, an air of importance LOL. Fantastic show :)
Never got to see Python live, I can definitely see their influence in the Kids' live show.
So envious. That’s rad.
@@EnragedTofu Me and my friends have been Kids fans forever back when we were teens, so yes it was a great surprise, they even kindly signed out tickets (minus Scott Thompson's) which I now have framed :)
I got to meet all of them in ‘94, and I told Brucio that I considered KITH to be my Beatles, which gave him a big smile.
Omg, I got to meet all of them but Kevin in 2002 on tour
THE PROBLEM IS THAT THEY WERE NEVER ANYTHING BUT A BAD MONTY PYTHON RIPOFF, AND MONTY PYTHON HAD CEASED TO BE FUNNY LONG BEFORE THEY STARTED RIPPING THEM OFF. HORSES FOR COURSES, OF COURSE, BUT I FOUND THEM TO BE COMPELTELY INTOLERABLE AND UNFUNNY, AND STILL DO.
I'm glad someone finally looked into this movie on RUclips, I have owned this movie since it came out and it's one of my favorites. I always show people this movie when I have a chance to anyone who hasn't seen it.
Hands down my favourite satirical (yes, it’s definitely a satire) movie of all time.
Also proves Kevin was always KITH’s secret weapon.
Kevin was the glue of the group.
@@DurkMcGerk Kevin was the glue, but Bruce was the insanely hilarious one. To me, at least.
When I was working a protectionist in ftlauderdale, Scott came into my theater with a date to see I am legend. It was dead so I started it early for him and he talked to me afterward for a little over TWO HOURS about movies, comedy...dating (there's more to that part). I was 19, was living at my friends house, literally sharing a bed with said friend because my girlfriend left me for a good friend of mine and kicked me out. When he camd into my theater, it had been 3 days since my break up and meeting and talking to him turned everything around for me. I actually- for a little bit- didn't want to die. I wish I could tell him how much that meant to me because it maybe even saved my life. I know ppl say that all the time but seriously
Also, surprised they didn't bring up Death Comes to Town, the little mini-series they did about 10 years back.
That had some great stuff in it too.
Yes! I was surprised too! Maybe they don’t know it exists.
@@WPBrandon1972 Maybe Jay but if Josh didn't know, he oughta be ashamed of himself.
I'm going to say the thunderstorm frightened them and they got distracted to bring it up.
They filmed Death Comes to Town in my hometown, I remember seeing them film the No Tell Motel scenes back in the summer of 2009.
They recycled a lot of material for that show.
@karbuncle Thanks. I forgot about this. Haven't seen it yet
Kids in the Hall was funny, but I didn't realize HOW funny in the 90's since I was so young... Watching it now I think it's actually gold. The new season is top tier with the rest of it.
Jay you take any opportunity to talk about Senior Trip. The world needs it.
Brain candy is one of my absolute favorites. Thank you for covering it. Learning Guitar, wish I had tabs for 'Some days its dark'
I never thought the movie "petered out" because it's always hard for comedy movies to wrap up a story while being funny, and Brain Candy did it as well as any other comedy. Also the climactic sequence has "you don't look good in a yellow hat" and "good coffee marv" which is a phrase I say every time I drink coffee.
3rd act is weaker compared to the first two, but still good.
Unpopular opinion: Zoolander and that Val Kilmer comedy he did at the very beginning of his career manage to keep up the pace.
I thought the ending was fine. I think the movie was a masterpiece, in the top 10 comedies of all time.
@@12ealDealOfficial Top Secret is the Kilmer film. Absolutely outstanding.
Also, a comedy film that ended well: UHF
That's not even a problem with films. Many sketch comedy groups tend to have insane or flat endings because ending a sketch is hard. If you want an example check out Whitest Kids U Know. So many of theirs just end with insane things to wraps it up. A good example being "Kid Beer".
I infected my college dorm with this film back in 1999. We watched in numerous times in our dorm rooms, we set up a couch and TV outside one day near the building entrance and made a whole viewing experience out of it and even when we were just playing Tony Hawk and/ or drinking, we would have it playing in the background on mute. Can. Not. Get. Enough. Of Brain Candy.
Two friends and I must be the only three people who bought the DVD 😂 I love this movie. It's so quotable. My favorite scene might be Mrs. Hurticure's best memory, where her son (Dave Foley) comes to visit at Christmas. "Sorry we haven't visited, Ma, you know how the kids...hate old people." 😅 His family does a single lap around the room and leaves, handing his mom her present. "Oh I wonder what it is!" she says cheerily and the wife throws over her shoulder, "It's a harmonica."
Then she shuts the door and sighs, "That was lovely."
Seriously there's about 100 hilarious quotes to take from this movie.
I’M the guy that finally made them break even!
After my video collection was ruined by my dad’s putting them in a metal shed without my knowledge, I finally bought it on DVD.
Shortly thereafter, the new season came out.
The first bit in the board room was funny. I quit after the horrors of seeing two of them in full frontal nudity.
Nice to see The Wizard again. He and Jay have great chemistry. More of those two, please.
Hi Josh
SMH. Josh has to make fake accounts to upvote himself
Said nobody ever.
It's a special occasion
Shit. Busted
Kids in the Hall has always been an acquired taste and Brain Candy is no exception. It's quite funny and mean and dark and an experience all of its own. Worth watching if for no other reason then to see cancer boy.
That’s ok, my marrows just low! hahahaha
Thank you Comedy Central for reruns of Kids in the Hall 20-25 years ago.
I loved KITH when I was growing up with the old Comedy Central. I got introduced to a lot of things that helped shape I and my sense of humor as an adult.
I and my mom would watch it all the time and, it was funny, because the show wasn't really her style of humor. But, we both enjoyed it, together, and laugh.
I don't remember this ever coming out, but I know, now, thanks to you all, and, thanks to RUclips, I'll get a to see it.
BRB, gone roaming halls.
Just got off the phone with the suicide hotline. The timing here is impeccable. thanks for another ~40 minutes of respite.
Just stay away from heroin and a bath tub in Paris
woah
I remember feeling emotional as a kid when the last episode aired and they were digging a hole to bury themselves as the show,felt that reunion vibe when the newest show addressed that , took me a while to figure out that my fav show had stopped
Great movie. I'm not even a Kid's in the Hall fan, but this movie is the shit. I rewound the part with the scientist saying "it's a pill, for the world, to give worms, to ex-girlfriends" five times that first time I watched it...So many great lines/ small bits.
Yeah luv that gag... the last part where he gets up and goes to get out of the room and just does the biggest sigh and "yoohoo crazy" shot just kills me
" You just dont get it!!" lmao, i felt special as a kid since nobody knew of the show and was always rivaled with SNL
The hilarious thing is that "National Lampoon's Senior Trip" has always been a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. It's just such a stupid low-end 90s comedy it's fun.
One of my favorite movies ever. Saw it in the theater and almost pissed my pants at Flipper Babies at 17 years old.
to be fair...
there were a few flipper babies
Thank you Mike for the note about Nicole De Boer playing Ezri Dax. It was killing me
I bought a VHS with National Lampoon’s Senior Trip when I was 13. I never laughed so hard in my life ever again. I watched it on a weekly or monthly basis for several years, probably saw it more than 40 times. Then many years later I bought it on DVD and couldn’t finish it.
At least I can say that I never expected Jeremy Renner to get as big as he is now after that movie.
29:23 Mike is SCREAMING at the screen because of the boys ignoring Nicole De Boer, who did have her own comedy series in Canada called Dooley Gardens where she ran a family owned ice rink arena...and was in the main cast of Star Trek Deep Space Nine
I've been calling anti-depressants "Brain Candy" ever since seeing this movie back in 96. Also, I now know where i got "did you see, did you see? the doctor and me"
I loved this movie since the first viewing and never had any issues with it. I'm not sure if it's just a coincidence, but I get a little bit of UHF vibes from the way it flows as well.
I’m just now realizing that the basic plot and ending of this film is basically the premise for the game We Happy Few
Although that game takes itself more seriously with its story and it’s aesthetically different it’s funny how these two properties do share a things in common
It's a trope to have everybody conform and take the pill and do the things because it's expected.
"Though I am a little dizzy..."
Brain candy is amazing! Me and my roommates in college used to watch it all the time... (Mid-90s). Even these days, I rewatch it every couple years or so.
This urine tastes great!
Of course Mike had to add a star trek note LOL classic Mike being classic
Oh hell yeah. I can honestly say that I have watched brain candy more times than any other movie. This film is so important to me. I even, I watched it recently after years of not watching it. And it had me in tears, hyperventilating, because I went through some mental illness shit with my mom recently. But my point is I have seen it about 50 times, and it still is hitting me in totally different ways emotionally as I progress through my own life.
I loved the (short) discussion about A Night At The Roxbury, a film I have seen countless times, usually just before going out with friends. This has caused me to wake up several times with an extremely sore neck. Once, our group went for a beer at a place on an afternoon and the resident DJ who was setting up for the evening spotted us and shouted out angrily "I am NOT going to play Haddaway!". Apparently we had been there a few nights before...
I liked Coneheads and both Wayne's World movies. All three were fun.
I did not know that Dave Foley tried to stay out of the film, that's crazy.
Another notable thing about Senior Trip is it is one of the few live action performances of Tara Strong, one of the most prolific voice actors out there (a lot of DC roles). She plays the stoner who's face you cannot see through half the film. Also, the cigarette burn girl discussed in the video was apparently in it as well (saw her when I was confirming Tara Strong, it had been 27 years since I've seen it).
As a Canadian who was alive in the 90's, it's strange to see the Kids in the Hall looked at as a cult thing. They most definitely weren't / aren't here. Back then, it wasn't SNL that everyone quoted on the playground, it was KITH sketches. They were on the national broadcaster in prime time for 5 years, they toured all the time, etc. They were huge.
But then, I also remember seeing Brain Candy opening night in a theatre of 8 other people...
We consider the entire nation of Canada to be a bit of a cult classic.
One of the things that always blows my mind when watching old KITH is that you could say f****t and fuck on the CBC at 9 pm uncensored.
@@ifeeltiredsleepy I think (and I may be remembering wrong) but Fuck was always beeped out on CBC.
There's a line in the book (One Dumb Guy) where they mention how glad they were that they had uncensored versions of the tapes to put on DVD etc.
MY PEN!
It's well-known enough in Canada that most people recognize the guys or the name of the show without ever having seen it. But most Canadians have seen it, especially if you were around in the 90s.
This movie was perfect, even down to the endless quotable lines. It's a shame that their comedy was so underappreciated. Any time I asked classmates in the 90's if they watched the tv show, the answer was usually, "what show?" Just when I think I have a favorite KID, the next one speaks and it changes.
It's one of the most missed movies. It's a Canadian Idiocracy. Society takes a pill that's rushed to market in order to guarantee happiness and they end up getting the worst of it. Lack govt oversight instantly approves of it.
Take your Stummies!
I love how Roger Ebert absolutely DESPISED this film.
He would. 🤣
@@Fadeout815 Siskel could be a sourpuss too, but even he told Ebert to lighten up in his review. Ebert reviewed it like it was one of the worst things he'd ever seen.
Siskel liked it tho
"TERRIBLE. STUPID. UNFUNNY. LABOURED. FORCED. PAINFUL." is going to be my new go-to review for anything i'm mildly annoyed by
I think it was the closeted father scene not Cancer Boy that got him upset.
6:00 they were ringers from when they had to overhaul the SNL cast etc post-Sandler Clique. two of the guys were hired writers for the show much earlier. McKinney did another fun comedy series but it wasn't sketch - Hatching Matching & Dispatching (was on CBC mid2000s, now on Prime) about a family who operates a business in small town Newfoundland that handles weddings, funerals, midwivery and the local ambulance service. it's fine. worth a look at least.
I actually found the "She's sad! She's sad!" ending to be pretty funny
It was objectively hilarious. It's like in Starship Troopers when they declare that the brain bug is afraid with unbridled demented glee.
As much as I enjoyed the whole movie, no scene broke me like her crying as her grandson floated away.
I'm a horrible person.
@@sabrinarei3052 omg, you are spot on
@@philliptivis3082 that scene of the kid flying away and the "thanks for the COMA COMA COMA" where my only memories of this movie and made me seek it out some years back. This movie is my top 10 overlooked gems
@@sabrinarei3052 That's such a perfect comparison.
As a bartender who has worked in night clubs I can definitely say a night at the Roxbury is a great representation of the hopeless nightclubers who so desperately want to seem cool and slick but come off desperate and always go home alone. Great film
Now that they tackled Brain Candy, I'd love to see them do a Re:View of Run Ronnie Run.
Saw this movie ages ago. The "who are you? "Just some guy." bit has stuck with me through the years. Not exactly sure why other than I love weird stuff like that.
As a big KitH fan I was so psyched for this movie, then was disappointed when I saw in the theater. Then a year or so later, saw it at home and LOVED it. So much fun and funny.
The fact you called it “KitH” makes me cringe out of my socks
How'd you feel about new season?
@@mrbludclot3798why
@@ottomattix86 not everything has to be abbreviated into modern day cringe acronyms. It’s never been called that…. Ever.
@@mrbludclot3798 dude I never ever ever spell full title. It's so long.
This convo is stupid as hell.
I knew Mike could never let the Star Trek trivia go unmentioned but I'm deeply disappointed that he and Rich didn't bust through the wall Kool-Aid Man style screaming "EZRI DAX! NICOLE DE BOER PLAYED EZRI DAX ON STAR TREK DEEP SPACE NINE!!!" "OH MY GAAAAAAAAWD!!!"
as a teenager i rented this movie along with some cartoons. i returned the tapes and went back to rent more stuff the next week or whatever, and they had placed this movie alongside the cartoons in the kids section. i did not inform them.
I had the same issue as Jay with my iTunes version of Soldier (1998). The onscreen text is gone during the opening sequence of Todd’s training, but the sound effects that accompanied the text is still there.
At one point there was a very bizarre double feature DVD set that included Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, and the 80s family-ish movie "Back to the Beach" (which is a throwback to the 1960s beach movies starring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon) for some reason.
Well they both had that overly-lengthy Fishbone musical number in the middle.
That is the copy of brain candy I own. One side has brain candy. The other side has the words "brain candy" in permanent marker.
@@publius9350 The odd thing for me is that I actually bought that double feature mainly for Back to the Beach.
I already had the stand alone Brain Candy DVD. At the time that I bought the double feature, I think both individual DVDs may have been out of print and going up in price on the after market, but Back to the Beach (which I was looking for at the time - it is a silly, cheesy family movie, but saw it as a kid and so it is sort of a guilty pleasure) definately was and the invidual DVD at the time was going for ridiculous prices.
This double feature may have also been out of print at the time (not entirely sure on that), but was going for far less, I assume because of the very random pairing of these two movie that have nothing in common, with one movie on each side of the disc, and having the stand alone DVDs was more ideal. But since I didn't want to pay a ton for it, I went with this. It also gave me a back up copy of Brain Candy, so it could have been worse.
@@Futuredynamo The Humunga Cowabunga from Down Unda :D It still tickles me how concerned the surf punk leader was for Frankie when the Big wave came back ,"Dude, Come in! You're gonna get messed up!"
The Todd Rundgren t-shirt explains absolutely everything I never slightly ever, even remotely gave a crap to know about Josh, in my life.
Huge Todd fan here LOL, I spotted it right away.
I never thought anyone would talk about this movie ever again, lol. I saw it when it came out, I liked it, but not enough to really remember it.
I actually think the original ending is a BIT too dark. Jay makes a strong point for why it's better, but it just veers a bit too cynical for my taste. The original ending does definitely feel rushed, but I think I just have a lame sense of humor. Miguel floating away on the balloons always made me laugh. Also, amazing Matthew Sweet track in the credits.
I remember Comedy Central playing and advertising it all the time when it came out.
You made me want to watch this again so much, but I couldn't find it on streaming.. thank you for mentioning that it's on RUclips (at least for now) because now I know what I'm doing tonight. Cheers!
I often feel old on the Internet, being 33 and online 22 years or so. Not so while watching RLM. The TVLand of VHS. Now to watch 37 minutes of a review for a movie I will almost certainly never see.
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Zoomies get out
I love Brain Candy. I've loved it ever since I was a tiny teen. 1996 would mean I was about 16 when I first saw it, and I enjoyed that someone made a comedy about depression and prescription drugs, two things I was dealing with at the time. I think little teen me would have loved the shit out of the workprint.
I love this movie, and I'm happy to see it get the attention it so richly deserves
that "Toast fucking" clip in contrast with the Halloween cop dialogue about what their having for lunch is an amazing thought to me.
Hahahaha, fucking hell. I was using "Hurdicure" as a weird name for throwaway characters for ages and I was like "I know I'm ripping this name off from something, but what?" I can't believe it was fucking Brain Candy! That's great!
But yeah, my friends and I were rabid fans of the Kids in the Hall so when Brain Candy came out we lost our shit. I don't think it was showing in a theater anywhere near us, but we got the VHS and watched the fuck out of it. Such that, much like the whole "Hurdicure" jawn I'd be quoting lines from it and whatnot for years, long after I'd forgotten the movie.
"Did you see, did you see? The doctor and me, did you see??!!" lived in my head rent free for probably a good 2 years
Still funny 25 years later
I love how Brain Candy has just become a running joke with the _KIDS_ by this point.
Cat on my head has always been my favorite kids in the Hall line for some unknown reason. Thanks for showing that scene!
The Christmas "Happiest Moment" Scene alays brings a tear to my eye. So wholesome.
Was watching an interview with Kevin McDonald, and he said the original ending for Brain Candy, discussed here, was inspired by the ending of Brazil.
Quick note...Dave Foley was more or less stuck in the US, unable to return to Canada due to some insane judgement relating to his divorce. News radio started in 1995, the divorce was in 1997....
"I think it was hard to see for a while"
Cut to clip
"Somethings in my eye!"
Great editing Jay
Blues Brothers was technically not an SNL movie the way the others are. Belushi and Aykroyd always appeared as the Blues Brothers on SNL as musical guests so the show wouldn't own the rights to the characters.
Thank you, Mike, for the DS9 reference - I legit would not have recognized the actress otherwise. 😂
I love this movie. Kids in the Hall were my childhood.
My uncle was eager to watch Kids in the Hall, until he saw it.
20 bucks is 20 bucks, but 30.....???
Broke my hand on a pineapple, din’even care..
I love it too!
It appealed to me as a 14 year old in a peculiar way and would watch every Friday night with my old man. Those are fond memories for sure. What a show.
Love it when these two get together on re-view. My absolute favorite.