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Years later, a disturbed comics artist named Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne) murders his wife's lover in a fit of passion, and as a result is sent to prison. For escape (of the mental, not physical type), Jack draws a comic book based on the dreams he is continually having of the Cool World and a woman named Holli Would (Kim Basinger). We first meet Jack when he is being released from prison upon the successful completion of his sentence. Through means that are never adequately explained, Holli manages to pull Jack into the Cool World and seduce him, her goal being to become a Noid and be able to experience the pleasures real people enjoy. Having broken the Cool World's law, however, Jack and Holli start a chain of events that could result in the destruction of the world. It falls on Frank's shoulders to face his demons, return to reality, and save the day.

Contrast ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]''.

Contrast ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''.

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* [[Crapsack World]]

* [[Cult Soundtrack]]: The soundtrack is the most popular thing to come out of this movie.

* [[Death By Sex]]: The entire universe, courtesy of Jack and Holli. Well, [[Epileptic Trees|supposedly.]]

* [[Death by Sex]]: The entire universe, courtesy of Jack and Holli. Well, [[Epileptic Trees|supposedly.]]

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: The MOTHER of all non-[[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] deus ex machinas. It just so happens after Frank is killed that when a Noid is killed by a Doodle, they become a Doodle themselves, permitting him to live again.

* [[Executive Meddling]]: See above. The movie was intended to be an erotic horror flick about a cartoonist fathering an angsty [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half-Doodle daughter]] with a Doodle by the name of Debbie Dallas, but producer Frank Mancuso Jr. and Kim Basinger nixed that at the last minute to make it [[Completely Missing the Point|more kid-friendly]] and the into the complete and total bomb we know it as.

* [[Femme Fatale]]: Holli.

* [[Gainax Ending]]: The SNES game. As in many other [[The Problem ~~With~~ Licensed Games|licensed games]] of that era, [[A Winner Is You]] was in full effect. {{spoiler|1=The game ends with the protagonist's fall into Cool World... ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6ijsDn3i2U only reversed.]''}} That's it, really.

* [[Gainax Ending]]: The SNES game. As in many other [[The Problem with Licensed Games|licensed games]] of that era, [[A Winner Is You]] was in full effect. {{spoiler|1=The game ends with the protagonist's fall into Cool World... ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6ijsDn3i2U only reversed.]''}} That's it, really.

* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]: The Goons, Slash, Crash, Bash, and [[Everything's Better ~~With~~ Bob|Bob]].

* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]: The Goons, Slash, Crash, Bash, and [[Everything's Better with Bob|Bob]].

* [[Groin Attack]]: Two times, one to Jack and one to Harris, by Holli.

* [[Grotesque Cute]]

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* [[Self Insert]]: Jack Deebs is a cult-popular cartoonist with a small but dedicated fandom, who hasn't had a real success in years and is mostly known in the mainstream as a dark weirdo. He longs for hot cartoon women and his idea of utopia is a roiling chaos of cartoon insanity with distinct sexual overtones. Yeah, more than a few people have connected the dots.

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Frank has a very brief war flashback after the accident.

* [[Sitting Sexy On a Piano]]

* [[Sitting Sexy on a Piano]]

* [[Shout Out]]:

* [[Shout-Out]]:

** Some of the background cartoon characters that are wolves [[Tex Avery|look very familiar]], Ralph Bakshi had stated that he as well as his workers were fans of [[Tex Avery]].

** One part of the movie had a black and white dog that looked [[Betty Boop|Bimbo]], while another scene of the movie had a big character that looked like Bluto(from Popeye).