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The KITH band ended their show in 1995, and afterwards produced a feature film, ''Brain Candy'', in 1996 to mixed reviews. The gang of five disbanded soon after, but recently regrouped to do several tours and, most recently, a miniseries ("[[Death Comes to Town]]"). The series remains a popular and memorable viewing experience in reruns.

* [[Adult Child]]: Bruce tended to play these. His monologues tended to be grown men with overly naive and idealistic views and prone to flights of fancy. Notable examples are "If Elvis was my Landlord" and "Romeo and Juliet"

* [[Anal Probing]]: One sketch [[Hangs a Lampshade]] on this trope, giving us the page quote at the top of this page. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz7sBTHtcLU The alien wonders if his Great Leader is just some kind of seriously disturbed guy.]

* [[Blofeld Ploy]] - Parodied by the bank robber in "Things to Do"

* [[Body Horror]] - the beard

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] - From [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJzFDBkFhdM&feature=related the "Sh*tty Soup" sketch:] "What an awful waiter." "What an awful ''actor''."

* [[Broken Heel]] - Parodied in the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] sketch to the point of [[Overly Long Gag]]

* [[Butt Monkey]] - This role was passed around by the five regular cast members depending on the sketch, but Kevin had it most often- notably in sketches 'behind the scenes' or when he addresses the audience as 'himself.'

* [[Camp Gay]]

* [[Canadian Series]]

* [[Cannot Convey Sarcasm]]: Inverted in a sketch where Dave's character has a speech impediment that makes ''everything'' he says sound sarcastic.

{{quote| '''Mark''': The memories, eh? They float in like ... like memories!}}

* [[Discriminate and Switch]]

* [[Don't Explain the Joke]] - Dave Foley [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDo4JeRsVE4 ruins a vaudeville performance] of "Who's on First?" by figuring out the miscommunication and laboriously explaining it to his partner.

** That one's more of an inversion, due to the reaction of his partner who, after having had to deal with Foley ruining two previous jokes in similar ways, is bearing a ''very'' strained grin as he tries in vain to steer the skit back on course.

* [[Egocentric Team Naming]]: in a sketch about the three-man garage band "Rod Torkelson's Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuk."

* [[El Nino Is Spanish for The Nino]] - One sketch has Dave Foley as a stereotypical Frenchman talking about how beloved Kevin MacDonald is in France, where is is known as "Le Poopie," which is French for "The Poopie."

* [[Evil Phone]]: Spoofed in one sketch. A guy refuses to answer the phone, reasoning it must be a wrong number. But as the phone keeps on ringing, it causes increasing hysteria in his friends. They convince themselves that something sinister about the call.

{{quote| "Or it's a very wrong number. 42 rings? What kind of FREAK is sitting there by that phone?" }}

* [[Freudian Slippery Slope]] - One [http://fliiby.com/file/734912/lus0tnz33z.html skit] has a businessman asking his secretary to write a letter for him. He is unable to speak five words without mentioning breasts in some way, and eventually forms a sentence almost entirely out of words for breasts.

** He can't dictate a letter to his ''next'', male secretary without mentioning penises.

* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]] - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSeZxjLhxV4 Daddy Drank]

** {{spoiler|Which led to Kevin being stalked for a while. See below for the link with [[Stalker With a Crush]].}}

* [[Jail Bake]]: A skit made use of this trope, and adds dramatic tension with the guard asking if he can have a piece of cake, while the prisoner sweats, hoping the guard's knife doesn't touch the saw inside. Of course the tension is then [[Overly Long Gag|taken to ridiculous heights]] with the guard eating most of the cake without finding the saw, leaving an obvious saw-shaped piece of the middle of the cake. The guard looks full and is about to give the cake to the prisoner, but then he decides to have one more piece... * clink* {{spoiler|And then the kicker: the prisoner was getting out later that day and just wanted to make sure he wouldn't be late for an appointment, so he gets released while his friend gets locked up.}}

* [[Jerkass With a Heart of Gold]]: Dave Foley in the skit where he welcomes a new guy at his company by telling horrible lies about him to the boss. Every single one of those helps him to connect with the boss and other employees and be accepted as one of them, such as telling the boss that the new guy ''sacrifices people to Satan'', the boss cheering that everyone at the company does that and inviting him to the weekend's ritualistic murder. At the end, he punches the new guy in the stomach... who doubles over in pain and finds a fifty dollar bill on the floor.

* [[Littlest Cancer Patient]]: "[[Creepy Monotone|Hi, Doctor.]] [[Uncanny Valley|I'm]]... [[Nightmare Fuel|Cancer Boy]]."

* [[Madness Mantra]] - "whole lotta milka..."

* [[Mistaken for Profound]]: Mark, Bruce, and Dave are sitting on a roof. Mark and Bruce take turns saying some things about the moon, Mark says something about romance, and Bruce says something like an angry beatnik poem. But when it's Dave's turn, he doesn't know what to say and just blurts out, "Gee, I wonder who owns that moon". Bruce and Mark act as though it's deep. Dave just shrugs and the skit ends.

* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: The heart of a few skits, like one where an employee at a meeting won't stop giggling while going over his report, leading to the revelation that he wrote the whole thing while naked, much to the disgust of everyone else there.

* [[No Bisexuals]]

* [[Noodle Incident]]: One involving a beaver is mentioned during the "Trappers" sketch. "[[Berserk Button|WHERE WERE OUR HEADS?!]]"

** Not really, since they're heavily implied to be French-Canadian voyageurs, and mention that they "must take care not to deplete the stock".

** He's credited as a writer on the show. He was probably the only one (other than the five cast members) willing to appear in public in nothing but a towel.

* [[Perspective Magic]]: "I'm crushing your head!"

* [[Right On Queue]] - Flying Pig

* [[Rockers Smash Guitars]] - Dave after failing to prove folk was better than rock.

* [[Running Gag]] - So many. The show even ended its run on one, with a bit of a [[Lampshade Hanging]].

* [[Sarcasm Mode]] - A sketch revolved around a man who is stuck in [[Sarcasm Mode]].

* [[Video Inside Film Outside]]

* [[Vomiting Cop]]

* [[Wimp Fight]] - Dr. Cooper and Don Roritor's fight in ''Brain Candy''. Corrinda Gablechuck and Heather Weather's "bar brawl" in ''Death Comes to Town'' also qualifies.

* [[Zombie Apocalypse]] - Brilliantly deconstructed in a sketch parodying zombie horror films, with an apathetic couple being chased by two bored-looking zombies who are easily killed by the female's ever-respawning shoes.