History Film / DeathToSmoochy

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Berke Bennet, Sheldon Mopes' agent and the guy who eventually tries to get him killed.

* DentedIron: Spinner, who "owns" a restaurant now that he's retired from boxing. "You don't go 81–59 and become the Governor..."
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Randolph accidentally reveals that he framed Smoochy when he says "You should have seen him sizing me up in the car."

-->'''Sheldon:''' (''excitedly'') Hold the phone. You're telling me that [=KidNet=] is finally ready to do a show of Smoochy quality? Of Smoochy caliber?
-->'''Nora''': Yes...I believe we're ready to push ourselves to that level.

-->-- '''Jon Stewart''', hosting the 78th {{Academy Award}}s, 2006.

%%* BewareTheHonestOnes
%%* BlackComedy

%%* ConcertClimax

%%* SubvertedKidsShow

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Smoochy's songs. They are all bouncy, upbeat tunes, exactly what you would expect on a children's show. Even the ones he is singing to junkies at a shelter. Do not listen to the words, though.

* [[ClusterFBomb Cluster Penis Bomb]]: The cookie scene. Bonus points for Williams' rant being delivered in front of kids, who crack up hysterically.

''Death to Smoochy'' is a 2002 dark comedy film starring Creator/RobinWilliams, Creator/EdwardNorton and Catherine Keener. It also features [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] and Creator/DannyDeVito, who is also the film's director. ''Death to Smoochy'' is known for its outwardly vulgar and profane humor, particularly Williams' profound cursing outbursts throughout the film.

Williams plays Rainbow Randolph (aka Randolph Smiley), a children's television show host. Onscreen, he is a lovable, friendly character, but in his personal life he is virtually [[DepravedKidsShowHost the antithesis incarnate of himself]] -- rude, irascible, and with a propensity for violence. Unfortunately for Randolph, his show is canceled after he is caught by the FBI taking bribes from parents to put their kids on his show and he is replaced by another show featuring a purple anthropomorphic rhino named Smoochy (a clear parody of Barney the Dinosaur), played by Norton.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The full-scale raid on the Nazi rally. Technically the police can be called to break up such an assembly if they didn't have a permit to hold it, but performing a police raid on a peaceful Nazi assembly just because it's a Nazi assembly is illegal.
* AtomicFBomb: Randolph's "Motherfucker!" after discovering Sheldon and Nora going out, also counts as SkywardScream.
* BerserkButton: Anything related to Smoochy ends up as this for Randolph, including a fundraiser to "Save the African Black Rhino".
* BewareTheHonestOnes
* BlackComedy

* ConcertClimax
* ContractualPurity: Not in the movie itself, but in-universe; the plot is kicked off when Randolph loses his job by getting caught taking a bribe to get a rich couple's kid participating in the episode. While it's possible that there was some kind of contractual reason he couldn't do that, the only apparent reason for losing the show is that taking a bribe makes him a bad role model.
** Smoochy's purity is most likely contractual, seeing as how the producer ordered Frank Stokes to find someone "''squeaky -- fucking -- clean''."

* DentedIron: Spinner, who "owns" a restaurant now that he's retired from boxing. "You don't go 81–59 and become the governor..."
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Randolph accidentally reveals that he framed Smoochy when he says "you should have seen him sizing me up in the car."

-->'''Sheldon:''' (excitedly) Hold the phone. You're telling me that [=KidNet=] is finally ready to do a show of Smoochy quality? Of Smoochy caliber?
-->'''Nora''': Yes... I believe we're ready to push ourselves to that level.

* TheIrishMob: Played for laughs.

* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: The basis of "My Stepdad's Not Mean, He's Just Adjusting." However, he tells the kids at the end that [[EvilAllAlong if he's ever outright abusive]] the magic number is 9-1-1.

* NotSoAboveItAll[=/=]ReallyGetsAround: If what Rainbow says is true, prior to Smoochy, the StrawFeminist Nora has slept around with every single kid show host including Randolph.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After [[spoiler: being framed as Nazi, temporarily fired from the show, and finding out that the Coney Island Methadone Clinic was closed]], Sheldon is seen eating a cheeseburger. Considering at the beginning of the movie he was eating and actively promoting soybean over greasy foods, this is a pretty clear sign he's depressed.

* SadClown: {{Zig Zagg|ing Trope}}ed. In one sense, Robin Williams is playing his usual role here, as a guy who's jovial on the surface but hurting inside. In another sense, he's playing wildly against type. Rainbow Randolph is less 'sad' than 'fucked-up and mentally unbalanced.'

** Apparently, kiddie TV shows are full of groupies, graft and corruption in every sense of the word and one honest entertainer can be a massive SpannerInTheWorks.

* SkywardScream: The AtomicFBomb mentioned above and another one before that: "Oh God! What does it all mean?"

* SubvertedKidsShow

''Death to Smoochy'' is a 2002 dark comedy film starring Creator/RobinWilliams, Creator/EdwardNorton and Catherine Keener. It also features [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] and Danny [=DeVito=], who is also the film's director. ''Death to Smoochy'' is known for its outwardly vulgar and profane humor, particularly Williams' profound cursing outbursts throughout the film.

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-->''"Hello. It's Danny. It's been, um... I guess now a few months since the release of ''Death To Smoochy'', so the mourning period is over."''
-->-- Director '''Danny [=DeVito=]''', opening the DVDCommentary.

* AtomicFBomb: Randolph's "Motherfucker!" after discovering Sheldon and Nora going out, also counts as SkywardScream.

* ActorAllusion: Randolph attempts to discredit Sheldon by tricking him into performing at a [[Film/AmericanHistoryX neo-Nazi rally]].
** Another [[Film/AmericanHistoryX AHX]] ShoutOut -- Sheldon pointing a gun at Burke and saying "You just fucked with the wrong rhino". Norton's character exclaims "You just fucked with the wrong bull" [[spoiler:before murdering the man who tried to steal his car.]]

-->-- '''Jon Stewart''' hosting [[AcademyAward the 78th Academy Awards]], 2006.

''Death To Smoochy'' is a 2002 dark comedy film starring RobinWilliams, Creator/EdwardNorton and Catherine Keener. It also features [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] and Danny [=DeVito=], who is also the film's director. ''Death To Smoochy'' is known for its outwardly vulgar and profane humor, particularly Williams' profound cursing outbursts throughout the film.

Williams plays Rainbow Randolph (aka Randolph Smiley), a children's television show host. On-screen, he is a lovable, friendly character, but in his personal life he is almost [[DepravedKidsShowHost an antithesis incarnate of himself]] -- rude, irascible, and with a propensity for violence. Unfortunately for Randolph, his show is canceled after he is caught by the FBI taking bribes from parents to put their kids on his show and he is replaced by another show featuring a purple anthropomorphic rhino named Smoochy (a clear parody of Barney the Dinosaur), played by Norton.

!! This Movie Contains Examples Of:

* ActorAllusion: Randolph attempts to discredit Sheldon by tricking him into performing at a [[AmericanHistoryX neo-Nazi rally]].
** Another [[AmericanHistoryX AHX]] [[ShoutOut Shout Out]] - Sheldon pointing a gun at Burke and saying "You just fucked with the wrong rhino". Norton's character exclaims "You just fucked with the wrong bull" [[spoiler:before murdering the man who tried to steal his car.]]

* BerserkButton: Anything related to Smoochy ends up as this for Randolph, including a fundraiser to "Save the Rhinos".

** Smoochy's purity is most likely contractual, seeing as how the producer ordered Nora to find someone "squeaky fucking clean."

* DentedIron: Spinner, who "owns" a restaurant now that he's retired from boxing. "You don't go 89-57 and become the governor..."

-->'''Sheldon:''' (excitedly) Hold the phone. You're telling me that Kidnet is finally ready to do a show of Smoochy quality? Of Smoochy caliber?

* LargeHam: RobinWilliams, natch.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Played with. Of the dozens of entertainers mentioned as characters in the movie, none of them are real. However, at one point, Randolph refers to Smoochy as a "bastard son of Barney." Also, there are a few implications that Randolph is an {{expy}} for [[PeeWeesPlayhouse Pee-Wee Herman]].
* NonindicativeName:

* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: The basis of "My Stepdad's Not Mean, He's Just Adjusting." However, he tells the kids at the end that [[EvilAllAlong if he's ever outright abusive]] the magic number is 911.

* NotSoAboveItAll / ReallyGetsAround: If what Rainbow says is true, prior to Smoochy, The StrawFeminist Nora has slept around with every single kid show host including Randolph.

* OldShame: Jon Stewart often alludes to his performance in this film to ''Daily Show'' guests as evidence that he's not much of an actor, going so far [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-march-26-2003/death-to-smoochy as apologizing for it]] in a bit on his show in 2003.

--> '''Sheldon:''' Oh, you didn't have to get off the phone.
-->'''Nora:''' If I didn't, you'd still be here.
-->'''Sheldon:''' I am still here.
-->'''Nora:''' I'm hoping to correct that

* SadClown: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]]. In one sense, {{Robin Williams}} is playing his usual role here, as a guy who's jovial on the surface but hurting inside. In another sense, he's playing wildly against type. Rainbow Randolph is not "sad" so much as "fucked-up and crazy."

* SkywardScream: The AtomicFBomb mentioned above and another one before that: "God! What does this all mean?"

''Death To Smoochy'' is a 2002 dark comedy film starring RobinWilliams, EdwardNorton and Catherine Keener. It also features [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] and Danny [=DeVito=], who is also the film's director. ''Death To Smoochy'' is known for its outwardly vulgar and profane humor, particularly Williams' profound cursing outbursts throughout the film.

* DidIJustSayThatAloud: Randolph accidentally reveals that he framed Smoochy when he says "you should have seen him sizing me up in the car."

* NotMyDriver: How Randolph got Mopes.

''Death To Smoochy'' is a 2002 dark comedy film starring RobinWilliams, EdwardNorton and Catherine Keener. It also features [[TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] and Danny [=DeVito=], who is also the film's director. ''Death To Smoochy'' is known for its outwardly vulgar and profane humor, particularly Williams' profound cursing outbursts throughout the film.

* OldShame: Jon Stewart brings this up a lot, almost to the point where you might make the mistake that he's actually ''proud'' of the movie but is afraid that liking it will make him not cool.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Among the auditionees for the part of Spinner, the brain-damaged boxer, was HenryRollins. Rollins tells the story of his audition here: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSm0LZhVSnE]].