History Film / DeathToSmoochy

** In a way, the Smoochy ice show as well. Instead of the usual combined sweetness and humor of an ice show for kids, Sheldon wrote a full opera [[RealitySubtext about everything that happened since he got his TV show]], complete with suits throwing money at him, two hundred foot Nazi banners, and a prima donna in full Viking gear singing a lament for Moochy.

** In a way, the Smoochy ice show as well. Instead of the usual combined sweetness and humor of an ice show for kids, Sheldon wrote a full opera about everything that happened since he got his TV show, complete with suits throwing money at him, two hundred foot Nazi banners, and a prima donna in full Viking gear singing a lament for Moochy.

->''"Today we celebrate outstanding achievement in film [[SelfDeprecation with me, the fourth leading man]] from ''Death To Smoochy''."''

Williams plays Rainbow Randolph (aka Randolph Smiley), a children's television show host. Onscreen, he is a lovable and friendly character, but in his personal life, he is virtually [[DepravedKidsShowHost the antithesis incarnate of himself]]: rude and irascible 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 entertainer Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton).

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-->''"Today we celebrate outstanding achievement in film [[SelfDeprecation with me, the fourth leading man]] from ''Death To Smoochy''."''

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Sheldon and Nora are talking at the end, one of the scrolling headlines reads "Rainbow Randolph: Paranoid lunatic with a heart of gold"

* InterruptedSuicide: Rainbow Randolph

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

* 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.

The film was a commercial and critical bomb, but like [[SoBadItsGood some comedies that fall under that category]], it has developed a cult following.

''Death to Smoochy'' is a 2002 dark comedy film starring Creator/RobinWilliams, Creator/EdwardNorton, and Catherine Keener. It also features Creator/JonStewart and Creator/DannyDeVito, who also directed the film. ''Death to Smoochy'' is known for its outwardly vulgar and profane humor, particularly Williams' profound cursing outbursts throughout the film.

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

''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 also directed the film. ''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 and friendly character, but in his personal life, he is virtually [[DepravedKidsShowHost the antithesis incarnate of himself]]: rude and irascible 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.

The film was a commercial and critical bomb, but like [[SoBadItsGood most comedies that fall under that category]], it has developed a cult following.

-->'''Sheldon:''' (''excitedly'') Hold the phone. You're telling me that [=KidNet=] is finally ready to pursue a show of Smoochy quality? I mean, to commit to Smoochy caliber?

-->'''Henchman:''' Then we took his head and played a little...

* BlatantLies: Merv Green's insistence that he put a hit on Smoochy's head because he only cared about the children. Tommy resorts with the fairy tale about "the worthless prick who got his head chopped off with an axe."

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

** And God help you if you try to mess with the mob's control of the ice show racket.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tommy Cotter, leader of the Irish mob and very protective of those she considers her friends and family.