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* IronWoobie: Sheldon Mopes. Sheldon can get annoying at times but really all he wants, ''all'' he wants, is to make a nice, fun, positive show that kids can enjoy. And yet he keeps getting crapped on for not wanting the money, not wanting to commercialize Smoochy, and not wanting to encourage kids eating stuff like cookies, hot dogs, etc. It just breaks your heart seeing his dream getting constantly sabotaged by corporate greed, mobsters, and a bitter, psychotic, jealous, ex-kids show host who really didn't deserve his fame to begin with. And yet despite all those setbacks, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments he never truly gives up who he is or his ethics throughout the entire movie.]] [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Sheldon does come pretty close to being as crazy as Randolph, when he hunts down the men responsible for his attempted murder.]] The "H-A-L-T" speech he gives Nora and the talk about Rickets the Hippo seems to imply that he had some pretty severe anger management issues at one point.
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* IronWoobie: Sheldon Mopes. Sheldon can get annoying at times but really all he wants, ''all'' he wants, is to make a nice, fun, positive show that kids can enjoy. And yet he keeps getting crapped on for not wanting the money, not wanting to commercialize Smoochy, and not wanting to encourage kids eating stuff like cookies, hot dogs, etc. It just breaks your heart seeing his dream getting constantly sabotaged by corporate greed, mobsters, and a bitter, psychotic, jealous, ex-kids show host who really didn't deserve his fame to begin with. And yet despite all those setbacks, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments he never truly gives up who he is or his ethics ethics]] throughout the entire movie.]] movie. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Sheldon does come pretty close to being as crazy as Randolph, when he hunts down the men responsible for his attempted murder.]] The "H-A-L-T" speech he gives Nora and the talk about Rickets the Hippo seems to imply that he had some pretty severe anger management issues at one point.
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* QuestionableCasting: It takes a ''weird'' sensibility to cast Harvey Fierstein, an openly gay actor known for playing [[CampGay flamboyant comic-relief characters]], as a murderous and unrepentantly evil gangster. [[NarmCharm He still manages to make it work though.]]
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* WTHCastingAgency: It takes a ''weird'' sensibility to cast Harvey Fierstein, an openly gay actor known for playing [[CampGay flamboyant comic-relief characters]], as a murderous and unrepentantly evil gangster. [[NarmCharm He still manages to make it work though.]]
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* CommonKnowledge: This movie is often mentioned as a textbook example of the often sadistic "anti-Barney humor" that was rampant in the late 1990s and early 2000s. However, unlike most of those contemporary Barney parodies, Sheldon/Smoochy is a sympathetic character the audience is meant to like as opposed to a subject of brutal mockery.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Sheldon's stepdad song just another earnest message he's trying to send to kids, or does he have a FreudianExcuse to teach that particular one?
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Sheldon's stepdad song just another earnest message he's trying to send to kids, or does he have a FreudianExcuse to teach that particular one?
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Why the film initially failed. A lot of critics didn't like how almost every character was either a cynical {{jerkass}} or an outright criminal, not to mention how the plot itself seemed to be capitalizing on the proto-edgelord "anti-[[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney]] humor" of the late 90s/early 2000s.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Why the film initially failed. A lot of critics didn't like how almost every character was either a cynical {{jerkass}} or an outright criminal, not to mention how the plot itself seemed to be capitalizing on the proto-edgelord "anti-[[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney]] humor" of the late 90s/early 2000s.2000s (ironic, as the Barney-analogue is played positively here and his haters are the ones portrayed in the wrong).
