History Film / DeathToSmoochy

* TheIrishMob: PlayedForLaughs.

%%* DepravedKidsShowHost: The movie '''''breathes''''' this trope.

%%* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rainbow Randolph. He's still crazy, though.]]

%%* InterruptedSuicide: Rainbow Randolph.
%%* TheIrishMob: PlayedForLaughs.

%%* LargeHam: Creator/RobinWilliams, natch.

%%* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Rainbow Randolph.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Rainbow. BIG fucking time away from the camera.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Rainbow. BIG fucking time.

* DepravedBisexual: Randolph, maybe.
* DepravedKidsShowHost: The movie '''''breathes''''' this trope.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rainbow Randolph. He's still crazy, though.]]

* InterruptedSuicide: Rainbow Randolph.
* TheIrishMob: PlayedForLaughs.

* LargeHam: Creator/RobinWilliams, natch.

* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Rainbow Randolph.

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

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Creator/RobinWilliams as Rainbow Randolph, natch.
* VillainProtagonist: Creator/RobinWilliams as Rainbow Randolph, natch.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In-universe example. During Rainbow's opening song -- "Some like to toss, while others to catch" and "One might say grab while the other says snatch."
** "Golly gee, size doesn't matter when you want some friendly patter."
** Also, the infamous Cookie scene, where Sheldon manages to get this situation past the radar by deducing the phallic cookie to be a rocket ship, until Randolph storming in attempts to subvert this.

* ConcertClimax: Filled with kid show hosts, assassins, and an [[NarmCharm incredibly silly yet still very touching]] ice show that's happening during the climax.

-->'''Roy:''' [[{{Squick}} Then we took his head and played a little...]]

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

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

** Smoochy's purity is most likely contractual, seeing as how the producer ordered Frank Stokes to find someone "''squeaky FUCKING clean''!"

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 [[Sereies/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]]), played by entertainer Sheldon Mopes (Norton).

* 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."

* VillainProtagonist:: Creator/RobinWilliams as Rainbow Randolph, natch.

* OffWithHisHead: The ultimate fate of Merv Green when TheIrishMob chop his head off in retaliation for assassinating Spinner Dunn. Overlaps with CringeComedy when Sheldon learns what happened.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sheldon is undoubtedly the nicest character in the whole film but he doesn't exactly care for people using him and killing his friends. [[spoiler: The Moochie is killed...]]

* StrawFeminist: Nora Wells, the executive producer for Smoochy the Rhino.

* CuteBruiser: Sure, Spinner may be adorably naive with the simple mind of a five-year-old, as Sheldon says, but it's obvious he's no pushover during his last moments when he manages to fight back against the hitmen who mistake him for Smoochy, who only get the upper hand on him because they outnumber him three-to-one and brought lead pipes.

''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's profound cursing outbursts throughout the film.

* 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 (the cop with the megaphone does say "This is an unlawful assembly"), but performing a police raid on a peaceful Nazi assembly just because it's a Nazi assembly is illegal.
** Let's not even get into how New York police can break up a rally in ''New Jersey.''

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sheldon is undoubtedly the nicest character in the whole film but he doesn't exactly care for people using him and killing his friends. [[spoiler]] The Moochie is killed... [[/spoiler]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sheldon is undoubtedly the nicest character in the whole film but he doesn't exactly care for people using him and killing his friends.

* PlayingAgainstType: In films before this, Ed Norton mostly played very strong and angry dramatic characters. Here he's a goofy hippie.

* DentedIron: Spinner, who "owns" a restaurant now that he's retired from boxing.
-->'''Burke:''' Fried beans. But hey, you don't retire with a record of 81 and 59 and end up the Governor.