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The series did air in the United States but it may surprise some to know that, as shocking as the series may have been to many, it was still sometimes heavily edited for content, particularly for religious topics.
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
In 2020, Amazon Prime Video announced they were making a new eight-episode series to be aired in May 2022, with the original cast returning and Lorne Michaels acting as the executive producer.
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* [[Black Comedy]]: Sometimes.
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNJur5i6zaw "What if... we rape Kevin?"]
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* [[Blofeld Ploy]] - Parodied by the bank robber in "Things to Do"
* [[Body Horror]] - the beard
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* [[Flamboyant Gay]] - Buddy Cole, played by the legitimately gay Scott Thomspon. The troupe often dealt humorously with the topic of homosexuality in a variety of ways.
* [[Forced Perspective]] - "I'm crushing your head! Crush! Crush!"
* [[Freudian Slippery Slope]] - One [https://web.archive.org/web/20120102100539/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.
* [[Gender Bender]] - Bend? They pretty much broke it. The troupe would play roles regardless of gender, orientation, fetish, or species. This would extend to vigorous simulated sex with each other, rarely seen in other shows before then. In fact, they would only have real women portray a big part if it was deemed the part needed a level of attractiveness/style they couldn't hope to pull off, which only happened a few times. At least until [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|they got a bigger budget for the last few seasons]].
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* [[Serious Business]] - The game of squash to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJjMAeJxdYw The Eradicator]
* [[Sketch Comedy]]
* [[Stalker with a Crush]] - Kevin had his
* [[Studio Audience]] - "Screw you, taxpayer!"
* [[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion]] - the "Dave's I Know" song
* [[Suicide as Comedy]] - A sketch had a hit man [[Contract on the Hitman|hired to kill himself]].
** Another had an attempted suicide by a character Bruce played. [[The Woobie|His friends just skimmed his long and complicated suicide note]].
* [[That's All, Folks!]] Final episode 'Thank God, that's finally over!'
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]] - [[Madness Mantra|SAUSAGES]]!
* [[The Trope Kid]] - "The Toronto Kid"
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