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{{quote|''"Today we celebrate outstanding achievement in film [[Self-Deprecation|with me, the fourth leading man]] from ''Death To Smoochy''."''|'''Jon Stewart''' hosting [[Academy Award|the 78th Academy Awards]], 2006.}}
{{quote|''"Hello. It's Danny. It's been, um... I guess now a few months since the release of ''Death To Smoochy'', so the mourning period is over."''|Director '''[[Danny DeVito]]''', opening the [[DVD Commentary]].}}
''Death To Smoochy'' is a 2002 dark comedy film starring [[Robin Williams]], [[Edward Norton]] and Catherine Keener. It also features [[
Williams plays Rainbow Randolph (aka Randolph Smiley), a children's television show host. On-screen, he is a lovable, friendly character, but in his personal life he is almost [[Depraved Kids' Show Host|an antithesis incarnate of himself]] -- rude, irascible, and with a propensity for violence. Unfortunately for Randolph, his show is canceled after he is caught by the FBI taking bribes from parents to put their kids on his show and he is replaced by another show featuring a purple anthropomorphic rhino named Smoochy (a clear parody of Barney the Dinosaur), played by Norton.
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* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Randolph, maybe (see [[Foe Yay]], below).
* [[Depraved Kids' Show Host]]: The movie '''''breathes''''' this trope.
* [[Disc One Final Boss]] The Corrupt Parade of Hope founder, Merv Green. He starts out as a potential [[Big Bad]], pissed that Sheldon/Smoochy didn't want to do the Ice Show. He gets even more madder when Sheldon decides to do the Ice show but keep it clean. {{Spoiler|In an attempt to kill Mopes, his men kill Spinner/Moochy by mistake. Once Spinner's Irish Mob relatives catch wind of his part in the Murder he's [[Off with His Head|swiftly dealt with]]. Leaving Burke and Stokes to take over and try to kill Sheldon.}}
* [[Dying as Yourself]]: {{Spoiler| Spinner Dunn goes through this when Merv Green's thugs assaults him. He first shows he's still got it, in the boxing department. Managing to fend them off briefly with some good punches. They overwhelm him with pipes though and the quote below ends up being his last words, with no sign of his damaged laden child-like personality. Had they not shot him afterwards that last blow to the head would [[Percussive Maintenance|have probably cured him.]] }}
{{Quote|{{Spoiler|'''Spinner:''' Hey what round is it!?}} }}
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: Much of why Randolph is obsessed with Smoochy/Sheldon is because he doesn't believe him to be the genuine [[Nice Guy]] and tries to prove it otherwise. {{Spoiler|However when it seems legit, he does end up trying to save him from Buggy Ding Dong.}}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In-universe example. During Rainbow's opening song -- "Some like to toss, while others to catch" and "One might say grab while the other says snatch."
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Rainbow Randolph. He's still crazy, though.}}
* [[Hope Spot]] / [[Ignored Epiphany]]: Randolph is framed for Spinner's murder, he finds himself hiding in an abandoned building. Here he realizes that he should give Smoochy a chance, believing that an intervention from a former fan of his during his suicide attempt, is a sign from god that he should just move on and admit Smoochy's the better man. However after seeing an ad for the Ice Show which specifically shows Smoochy with Nora, he's back to his Anti-Smoochy ways vowing to tear him apart with his bare hands.
* [[Informed Judaism|Informed Christianity]]: Very few moments with Rainbow Randolph show that he may be Christian. When he talks to Angelo, he believes the Devil sent Smoochy to mock him for his failure. When he's hiding from the cops he mentioned wanting to be a priest before he became a kid show host. When Sheldon tries to talk him out of shooting, him and Nora, he does a Yul Brynner impression of [[The Ten Commandments|Pharaoh Ramses]] quoting his speech in Exodus.
* [[The Irish Mob]]: Played for laughs.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Jerks with Hearts of Gold]]: Tommy and the Irish Mob. They start out merely intimidating Sheldon into letting Spinner be on the show. However due to his good nature they grow to love and cherish Sheldon like he's one of their own. Even after {{Spoiler|Spinner dies}}, they still watch out for his well-being and even {{Spoiler| talk Sheldon out of killing Burke.}}
** Rainbow Randolph is one too. He does naturally care about kids and while it takes some prodding he does eventually come around and help Sheldon out. {{Spoiler| Even saving him from Buggy Ding-Dong.}}
* [[Large Ham]]: [[Robin Williams]], natch.
* [[Made of Iron]]: Played with regarding Rainbow Randolph. Throughout the entire movie, he's often been punched, kicked, thrown, fallen and even knocked out a couple of times. While it does leave him, [[Dented Iron|bruised]], bleeding and even missing a [[The Tooth Hurts|tooth]], he never gives up. At one point when the Irish Mob interrogates him and breaks a coffee table with his body, he threatens to sue them rather than talk. Only talking when they break out [[Drop the Hammer|the hammer]].
* [[Nice Character, Mean Actor]]: Rainbow Randolph.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Played with. Of the dozens of entertainers mentioned as characters in the movie, none of them are real. However, at one point, Randolph refers to Smoochy as a "bastard son of Barney." Also, there are a few implications that Randolph is an [[Expy]] for [[Pee-wee's Playhouse|Pee-Wee Herman]].
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* [[Not My Driver]]: How Randolph got Mopes.
* [[Old Shame]]: Jon Stewart brings this up a lot, almost to the point where you might make the mistake that he's actually ''proud'' of the movie but is afraid that liking it will make him not cool.
** In-Universe, Nora had an infatuation with kid show hosts, to the point where she slept with hosts [[Really Gets Around|including but not limited to]], Rainbow Randolph, Jingle Jackson, Wally the Whale, Buggy Ding Dong and Smoochy. She says she's not proud of it and it's implied that out of all of them, Randolph and Smoochy were the only ones she was seriously in love with. She left Randolph when he became corrupted, but stayed with Smoochy, because he was a nice guy both on and off screen.
* [[Preemptive Declaration]]:
{{quote|'''Sheldon:''' Oh, you didn't have to get off the phone.
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'''Sheldon:''' I am still here.
'''Nora:''' I'm hoping to correct that }}
* [[Rule of Three]]: While it was well
** Sheldom Mopes aka Smoochy is a [[Nice Guy]], who wants to make a difference, [[Beware
** Rainbow Randolph is a [[Fallen Hero|failed kid show host]], who let corruption and greed get to him until his initial bust and is slowly [[Sanity Slippage|driven insane]] when he sees Mopes get more fame. But as time goes on he does show he is a [[Hidden Heart of Gold|good man]] at heart and is still well loved by some fans. {{Spoiler| This eventually leads to his [[Heel Face Turn]]}}
** Buggy Ding Dong is considered the low point in kid show host stuff. It really goes to show that Randolph, A man who had framed Smoochy for Nazism is still an upstanding guy compared to Buggy. Buggy used to be the best kid show host, but unlike Randolph, whose only crime prior to his fine was accepting bribes and not living up to his Iconic status, through his heavy drinking and insane personality; Buggy became a heroin addict and a disgrace which cost him his job. To make matters worse, while Randolph did have homicidal tendencies against Smoochy, he never tried anything physical in front of the kids. Buggy on the other hand, was planning to snipe Smoochy and while {{Spoiler| Randolph did stop him,}} it was shown early on that his heroine induced narcolepsy caused his eyes to be blurry. This in turn would have him running the risk of shooting a co-star or an audience member by mistake.
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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
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