YMMV / Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Don Roritor's Happy Place is revealed to be enjoying a (unknowingly) piss-filled cappuccino made for him by Marv and complimenting him for it. While sharp-eyed viewers may notice from the newspaper he's holding that this sequence takes place soon after GLeeMONEX soars in the market, the fact that he most fondly remembers drinking the coffee Marv made for him in that moment rather than the success of his drug could be taken to mean that he values Marv's companionship more than he does money.
• Awesome Moments: Chris fakes swallowing a GLeeMONEX, then when Roritor lets his guard down, grabs his crotch and squeezes. When Roritor screams in pain, Chris spits the pill into his mouth, giving Roritor a bit of Laser-Guided Karma.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Cancer Boy would be in poor taste if not for his strange speech patterns and how matter of fact he is about his circumstances, not to mention that his name is Cancer Boy.
  Cancer Boy: I'd like to thank you for your marvelous drug.
  Chris: Oh, are you on it, Cancer Boy?
  Cancer Boy: No. There is no hope for me. But my parents are on it, though. They were so very low. Not just because of me, but because my brother was born with his heart on the outside of his body.
  Chris: ...Is that a fact?
  Cancer Boy: Yep.
• Cult Classic: A Box Office Bomb that was panned by most critics upon its release, it has since become recognized as a worthy entry in the Kids' library by fans and enjoys popularity with non-fans for the cutting satire of its subject matter.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Cancer Boy only appears twice, but is one of the most fondly remembered parts of the movie just for how line-crossingly hilarious he is.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Marv's thinly-veiled contempt for Don Roritor despite being his most loyal sycophant is made a bit less funny knowing that his actor Dave Foley was on bad terms with the rest of the troupe throughout the movie's production and refused to speak with them when the cameras weren't rolling.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: Roger Ebert's scathing review of the movie is often cited by his detractors as proof that his opinions shouldn't be taken as law. Humorously, Gene Siskel felt much of the same and was visibly upset by his partner not enjoying the movie as he had.
• Heartwarming Moments: While played for laughs, it's still very heartwarming to see Wally's family be so happy and supportive of him when he finally comes out, which is immediately followed by his whole neighborhood doing the same.
• Questionable Casting: While he does his best with the part, Kevin McDonald, most known for playing neurotic and expressive Butt-Monkey type characters, is not who would come to mind for most people to play the movie's Everyman protagonist Chris Cooper. This was an example of Real Life Writes the Plot, as the part was originally written for Dave Foley before behind the scenes disputes forced McDonald to step in to the role.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Some were disappointed that the Kids in the Hall's big screen debut didn't carry over any of the most popular characters from their television series. Just how would Buddy Cole, the Chicken Lady, or the head-crusher react to GLeeMONEX?
• Vindicated by History: A bonafide disaster at the time of its release, it is now seen as a Cult Classic for retaining the Kids in the Hall's signature brand of humor while telling a dark and enduringly poignant story about using medication to avoid experiencing negative feelings.
• The Woobie:
  • Mrs Hurdicure: She's a kindly old woman who is introduced so severely depressed that she voluntarily allows herself to be a test subject for experimental mood-altering medicine to escape her pain. When she takes GLeeMONEX, we learn that her happiest memory is a Christmas visit from her deadbeat son, indifferent daughter-in-law, and bratty grandkids that lasted all of thirty seconds. And as Patient Zero for the drug, she's the first person to become trapped in a glee coma and rendered catatonic. While she's also the first person to be cured at the end of the movie, this means that her crippling depression from the beginning returns in full force, and the last thing we see her doing is sobbing uncontrollably.
  • Cancer Boy's entire family. He's a small child with untreatable cancer on top of a whole host of other maladies (he uses a wheelchair, mentions he was born with very little marrow, and seems to speak using some kind of vocal synthesizer), his brother was born with his heart on the outside of his body, and their parents are incredibly depressed by their children's situations.