Trivia / Death Comes to Town

Tropes

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: Crim Hollingsworth, Scott Thompson's First Nations^* but not really character, uses germ gel to get high. This was written as a loopy variant on the G-Rated Drug, but just as they were about to begin shooting, a news story came out about reservations actually having problems with people drinking germ gel. Keep in mind the gag had already been written in by this point.
• Enforced Method Acting: As Bruce pointed out, a Fat Suit is really heavy to wear.
• Real Life Writes the Hairstyle: One of Scott Thompson's characters is bald because Thompson's own hair was falling out from the chemotherapy he was undergoing at the time for cancer, and he found wearing a wig all the time very uncomfortable.
• Reality Subtext:
  • Scott Thompson was undergoing chemo for stage one non-Hodgkin lymphoma during production. Dusty's baldness was really his own, and he only portrayed a few characters to keep his work load from getting too heavy. Also, two of them die. Thankfully, he's fine now.
  • Buttonhole the cat was inspired by Kevin McDonald's 20-year-old cat that required very, very costly vet bills to keep alive. The cat is also doing fine, if you take nature's side.
• Role Reprise:
  • Once again, Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney play those two police officers.
  • Mark also appears as the Chicken Lady from the original TV series during the jury selection scene.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The miniseries was originally planned as a feature film, which would've served as a follow up to their 1996 movie Brain Candy.
  • As mentioned above, two of Scott Thompson's characters die, but originally it was supposed to be all three of them.

Fun facts

• Bruce McCulloch is the only main cast member to not play a woman in any episode.
• Dave Foley voiced Buttonhole the cat.