History Film / TheRoadToWellville

'''Kellogg:''' Nurse Graves?\\

--> '''Kellogg:''' Nurse Graves?
--> '''Graves:''' Yes Doctor?
--> '''Kellogg:''' Take Mister Lightbody immediately to the [[MaximumFunChamber yogurt room]] and give him fifteen gallons.
--> '''Lightbody''': Oh no, no. I can't eat fifteen gallons of yogurt.
--> '''Kellogg:''' Oh it's not going in that end, Mr. Lightbody.

-->'''Will:''' ''You,'' sir! You were ''masturbating!''
-->'''Badger:''' I was not! I was massaging my colon!
-->'''Will:''' ''"Massaging your colon?!"'' I ''know'' where the colon is, and it doesn't ''stick up in the air!''

** The film's gag about Dr. Kellogg being so annoyed with his assistant dying in the sanitarium is actually a reference to the fact that the real-life Dr. Kellogg would never, ''ever'' knowingly take a patient who was ''actually'' seriously ill -- the main reason most of his subjects actually improved was because they were generally suffering from only "the sicknesses of the rich"; obesity, overwork and boredom. Any seriously ill patients were quickly sent away once their condition was found out -- one patient, famous African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth, was sent home and died several months later, as Kellogg's treatment had done absolutely nothing to cure her sickness. Which was basically an infection from sores on her legs.

** The Sanitarium's wacky looking diagnosis and exercise machines [[http://www.oobject.com/category/15-dr-kellog-contraptions/ actually existed.]]

Kellogg is played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins, and in his own way is almost as scary as Hannibal Lecter. Also starring are Creator/MatthewBroderick (who reportedly considers this film an OldShame), Creator/BridgetFonda, Creator/JohnCusack, and Creator/DanaCarvey.

* {{Fanservice}}: There's some attractive female nudity, and the group masturbation scene looks like fun.,

A comedic 1994 film, directed by Alan Parker and based on a novel by American author [[Creator/TCBoyle T. Coraghessan Boyle]], about some early twentieth-century visitors to a singular health sanitarium run by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the [[strike: crankish]] iconoclastic inventor of the corn flake.

* AnimalWrongsGroup: Kind of. Doctor Kellogg thinks it's possible to make wolves to vegetarians. Then, he proudly presents a quite emaciated-looking wolf who doesn't want to eat meat anymore. ([[FridgeHorror Even scarier if you wonder what he may have done to make the wolf abhor from eating meat.]]) This may have inspired a similar scene in ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}''.

* BunnyEarsLawyer Dr Kellogg himself, apparently.

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: Dr. Kellogg, dying of a heart attack while trying to prove how healthy he is. (Though only in the film. The real-life Kellogg lived into his 90s, as the book notes.)]]

* KickTheDog: Kellogg does this in the climax of the novel when he [[spoiler: drowns his rebellious adopted son George in a vat of macadamia nut butter.]]

* LargeHam Dr. Kellogg
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mrs Lightbody made her husband take a medicine against his lack of appetite. Which contained mostly alcohol, so he became TheAlcoholic. Wanting to fix that problem, she found another medicine that promised to cure alcoholism. Which it did - only problem: It contained opium.

** He really did make his patients undergo yoghurt enemas. True, it was only half a pint of yoghurt at a time rather than the 15 gallons in the movie. This was actually one of the ''less'' crazy things he did: yogurt bacteria is now known to be an essential component of gut flora and is used as a digestive aid to this very day (anything labeled "probiotic" probably contains it).

** Dr. Kellogg sincerely believed 90% of all illnesses could be traced to "intestinal corruption", which could be treated with regular enemas (water and yoghurt), eating bland foods and taking on plenty of fibre. The other 10% was caused by sex. Specifically, masturbation, though even procreational sex was bad for you. Result of this is that Dr. Kellogg advocated circumcising all boys or men he could get his hands on, as well as applying carbolic ''acid'' to the ''clitoris'' of any woman!

** If eating bland, fibre-rich food and enemas failed to treat his patients, he would sometimes remove lengths of their small intestines!

** The Red Onion was a actual restaurant in Battle Creek that catered to disgruntled sanitarium patients eager for a meat and booze fix.

* SteamPunk The medical gadgetry, theories & practices seem farfetched enough to count.
* TheUnpronounceable That's Mr. Unpronouncable

* UpperClassTwit Endymion Hart-Jones

Kellogg is played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins, and in his own way is almost as scary as Hannibal Lecter. Also starring are Creator/MatthewBroderick (who reportedly considers this film an OldShame), Bridget Fonda, Creator/JohnCusack, and Creator/DanaCarvey.

%%* HelloNurse

* CannotSpitItOut: Kellogg's assistant tries to politely warn him that George is throwing 'projectiles' at the sanitarium's guests. When Kellogg presses him as to what the 'projectiles' are, he panics and blurts out, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "HE'S THROWING BOXES OF SHIT AT THE GUESTS!"]]

* HosptialHottie: Will hallucinates seeing nurse Irene Graves nude. Soon after, she gives him an erection while administering an enema.

* BabiesEverAfter

* TheEdwardianEra

* FanDisservice

* FurAndLoathing
* HelloNurse

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory