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{{quote|''"We've been coming here for 50 years and performing [[Anal Probing|anal probes]], and all that we have learned is that one in ten doesn't really seem to mind."'' |Alien #1}}
Surreal, often transgressional [[Sketch Comedy]] show in the vein of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' and ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]],'' two shows to which it is often compared. The show was in fact initiated and produced by ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' mastermind Lorne Michaels. The show is often credited with kick-starting the [[Alternative Comedy]] boom of the 90s.
The five
The hallmark of the series was that it was never afraid to go over the line when it came to people's comfort levels. The cast not only appeared in drag regularly, they often did so without any attempt to make the crossdressing the point of the skit. It was often bemoaned by Dave Foley that he looked so much better dressed as a woman... something that would form the basis of an episode of his later hit ''[[News Radio]]''.
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The series did air in the United States but it may surprise some to know that, as shocking as the series may have been to many, it was still sometimes heavily edited for content, particularly for religious topics.
The KITH band ended their show in 1995, and afterwards produced a feature film, ''Brain Candy'', in 1996 to mixed reviews. The gang of five disbanded soon after, but
In 2020, Amazon Prime Video announced they were making a new eight-episode series to be aired in May 2022, with the original cast returning and Lorne Michaels acting as the executive producer.
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* [[Adult Child]]: Bruce tended to play these. His monologues tended to be grown men with overly naive and idealistic views and prone to flights of fancy. Notable examples are "If Elvis was my Landlord" and "Romeo and Juliet"
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* [[Black Comedy]]: Sometimes.
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNJur5i6zaw "What if... we rape Kevin?"]
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* [[Blofeld Ploy]] - Parodied by the bank robber in "Things to Do"
* [[Body Horror]] - the beard
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* [[Contemplating Your Hands]] - the stoned shoeshine boy
* [[Contract on the Hitman]] - Parodied in a sketch, where a hitman is contracted to take himself out.
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* [[Crosscast Role]]
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* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]] - Mark as the Chicken Lady in the "Chicken Lady Homecoming" sketch:
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* [[Discriminate and Switch]]
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr3E94fVifk Tammy's music video]
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* [[Dream Within a Dream]] - the pear dream
* [[DVD Commentary]] - Some of the greatest ever. Highlights include an improv game during the closing credits of one "greatest hits" episode.
* [[Egocentric Team Naming]]: in a sketch about the three-man garage band "Rod Torkelson's Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuk."
* [["El Niño" Is Spanish for "The Nino"]] - One sketch has Dave Foley as a stereotypical Frenchman talking about how beloved Kevin MacDonald is in France, where is is known as "Le Poopie," which is French for "The Poopie."
* [[Everything's Better with Cows]] - It was the night...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyOKubW6JZU The Night of the Cow!]
* [[Evil Phone]]: Spoofed in one sketch. A guy refuses to answer the phone, reasoning it must be a wrong number. But as the phone keeps on ringing, it causes increasing hysteria in his friends. They convince themselves that something sinister about the call.
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* [[Fashion Hurts]] - A fashion designer from the first season revels in this trope.
* [[Flamboyant Gay]] - Buddy Cole, played by the legitimately gay Scott Thomspon. The troupe often dealt humorously with the topic of homosexuality in a variety of ways.
* [[Forced Perspective]] - "I'm crushing your head! Crush! Crush!"
* [[Freudian Slippery Slope]] - One [https://web.archive.org/web/20120102100539/http://fliiby.com/file/734912/lus0tnz33z.html skit] has a businessman asking his secretary to write a letter for him. He is unable to speak five words without mentioning breasts in some way, and eventually forms a sentence almost entirely out of words for breasts.
** He can't dictate a letter to his ''next'', male secretary without mentioning penises.
* [[Gender Bender]] - Bend? They pretty much broke it. The troupe would play roles regardless of gender, orientation, fetish, or species. This would extend to vigorous simulated sex with each other, rarely seen in other shows before then. In fact, they would only have real women portray a big part if it was deemed the part needed a level of attractiveness/style they couldn't hope to pull off, which only happened a few times. At least until [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|they got a bigger budget for the last few seasons]].
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* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]] - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSeZxjLhxV4 Daddy Drank]
** {{spoiler|Which led to Kevin being stalked for a while. See below for the link with [[Stalker with a Crush]].}}
* [[Hunter
* [[Hyde Plays Jekyll]]
* [[Inspirationally Disadvantaged]]: the [[Oscar Bait]] sketch; 3 of the 4 actors nominated have some sort of handicap, including one with a railroad spike through his head. The fourth actor played [[Hamlet]]. {{spoiler|It ends up being a three-way tie, with the Hamlet actor being left out.}}
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* [[Magical Queer]]: Buddy Cole in some sketches, sometimes employing actual magic (or at least sparklers).
* [[Mistaken for Profound]]: Mark, Bruce, and Dave are sitting on a roof. Mark and Bruce take turns saying some things about the moon, Mark says something about romance, and Bruce says something like an angry beatnik poem. But when it's Dave's turn, he doesn't know what to say and just blurts out, "Gee, I wonder who owns that moon". Bruce and Mark act as though it's deep. Dave just shrugs and the skit ends.
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: The heart of a few skits, like one where an employee at a meeting won't stop giggling while going over his report, leading to the revelation that he wrote the whole thing while naked, much to the disgust of everyone else there.
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: The Chicken Lady, (natural) omelet-producing skills and all.
* [[No Bisexuals]]
* [[Noodle Incident]]: One involving a beaver is mentioned during the "Trappers" sketch. "[[Berserk Button|WHERE WERE OUR HEADS?!]]"
** Not really, since they're heavily implied to be French-Canadian voyageurs, and mention that they "must take care not to deplete the stock".
* [[Not Now, Kiddo]]
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Paul Bellini, though he does get a [[Day in The Limelight]] sketch in the "Touch Paul Bellini" contest.
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* [[Serious Business]] - The game of squash to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJjMAeJxdYw The Eradicator]
* [[Sketch Comedy]]
* [[Stalker with a Crush]] - Kevin had his
* [[Studio Audience]] - "Screw you, taxpayer!"
* [[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion]] - the "Dave's I Know" song
* [[Suicide as Comedy]] - A sketch had a hit man [[Contract on the Hitman|hired to kill himself]].
** Another had an attempted suicide by a character Bruce played. [[The Woobie|His friends just skimmed his long and complicated suicide note]].
* [[That's All, Folks!]] Final episode 'Thank God, that's finally over!'
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]] - [[Madness Mantra|SAUSAGES]]!
* [[The Trope Kid]] - "The Toronto Kid"
* [[Umbrella Drink]] - The Girl Drink Drunk.
* [[Video Inside, Film Outside]]
* [[Vomiting Cop]]
* [[Who's on First?]]
* [[Wimp Fight]] - Dr. Cooper and Don Roritor's fight in ''Brain Candy''. Corrinda Gablechuck and Heather Weather's "bar brawl" in ''Death Comes to Town'' also qualifies.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]] - Brilliantly deconstructed in a sketch parodying zombie horror films, with an apathetic couple being chased by two bored-looking zombies who are easily killed by the female's ever-respawning shoes.
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