#mark mckinney

[girl-drink-drunk]

you would fuck that old man. i would fuck that old man. we are the same. hold my hand

[charlotterenaissance]

at any given moment

[oldshowbiz]

December 1988.

The Vancouver Sun reviews a new program called The Kids in the Hall

[astralbondpro]

The Kids in the Hall // S01E09: Preacher

[brilliancetheory]

Superstore (2015-2021)

Glenn + Jonah being too beautiful to exist

[ofkithandmckinney]

Mark officiating at the wedding of his Superstore co-star Nico Santos is the sweetest thing ever. 💖😭

[favoritestrangers]

constantly thinking about how hard mark mckinney and scott thompson served face in this sketch

[thebeesareback]

Superstore episodes for all occassion

When you want to laugh

Spokesman Scandal (s2e5)

Workplace Bullying (s3e4)

Gender Reveal (s3e20)

Baby Shower (s4e2)

Also all of them, tbh

When you want to cry

Brett's Dead (s3e2)

Employee Appreciation Day (s4e22)

Cloud 9.0 (s5e1)

Myrtle (s5e12)

California Part 1 (s5e21)

All Sales Final (s6e15)

When you're feeling romantic

Tornado (s2e22)

Sandra's Wedding (s5e14)

When you're feeling political

Shots and Salsa (s1e3)

Labour (s1e11)

Strike (s2e2)

Guns, pills and birds (s2e4)

Health Fund (s3e6)

Town Hall (s3e22)

Maternity Leave (s4e6)

Sandra's Fight (s4e21)

Negotiations (s5e10)

Essential (s6e1)

Hair Care Products (s6e5)

When you want to leave the store

Cheyenne's Wedding (s2e21)

Golden Globes (s3e9)

Manager's Conference (s4e8)

Quenceanera (s4e18)

When you want shenanigans

Color Wars (s1e7)

All-nighter (s1e9)

Olympics (s2e1)

Ladies' Lunch (s2e13)

Video Game Release (s3e13)

Blizzard (s4e12)

Customer Safari (s5e20)

When you want a holiday episode

Halloween Theft (s2e7)

Black Friday (s2e10)

Valentine's Day (s2e14)

Christmas Eve (s3e7)

Costume Competition (s4e4)

Lovebirds (s4e13)

Easter (s4e16)

Trick or Treat (s5e6)

Spring Cleaning (s6e11)

[pleasedonttellmymom]

[magentagalaxies]

"tour of duty" (the filmed version of their 2002 tour) in general is just kind of a bizarre point for kids in the hall that i haven't really talked to any of them about but is hard not to notice when you look at their entire canon. like it's certainly good - there are some tour-original sketches that i highly enjoy and some live versions of filmed sketches that take a fun creative spin on it, but in general things just feel noticeably strange.

buddy cole specifically tells the fur trappers to "fuck off" (buddy very rarely swears and across all the buddy material i've watched for the documentary he's only said "fuck" 3 times across forty years). danny husk wins an award for being a high school vice principal and at&love isn't acknowledged in the bit. the "is he?" sketch has been revised to pack in as many euphemisms for gay as possible, putting the bit on top of another bit. and of course i have my chicken lady thoughts but i don't want to bias anyone else bc i genuinely want to know what your takes are before i share mine.

and again these aren't all bad choices - i think the danny husk vice principal monologue works really well and may not work as well as a different character despite contradicting the Husk Lore™️. but they're all very distinctive choices

idk there's two reasons i personally give for why tour of duty is so strange (to me at least, maybe other people don't notice). the first is that it comes less than 3 years after their other tour-film, the 1999/2000 tour "same guys new dresses" (also available on youtube!) i fucking love SGND and i'll be up front that it's my preferred kith tour video. but part of what makes SGND so special is that it's not just a recording of the live show, it's a full tour documentary following the guys traveling across the country performing together, occasionally showing full sketches but also delving into the stories behind why the sketches played out the way they did. and, sure, sometimes that means cutting out a sketch that i wish i could've seen in full (rip power of the suburbs) but my life is so much better for having seen the "laser eye surgery gossip" or knowing how much drama that goddamn robot-dog-prop caused.

so to then see tour of duty as a straight-up recording of the live show leaves that element of mystery, that we don't get to know why choices were made because we only see the end result. there was a conscious decision not to shoot tour of duty like SGND - the tour doc didn't do well financially, and they also had more of a reason to document that tour since it was their first time working together since the disastrous fallout of "brain candy," and first big national tour since the show ended. the circumstances were just very different

and that's true both personally and politically bc the second suspected reason for tour of duty's weird tone is you can obviously tell 9/11 just happened. two sketches directly reference it - bruce and mark's businessman characters sell scam patriotic products that are all just a rubber band, and buddy cole visits the middle east and ends up having sex with saddam hussein (tho fun fact this concept was written BEFORE 9/11). but the event casts an obvious shadow, especially since both the buddy cole bit and the danny husk monologue were recycled pieces from scott's cancelled one-man-show which was set to debut in new york city on september 19th 2001.

it's also interesting comparing this to SGND. the late 90s are often remembered through rose-tinted glasses due to a generally good economy in the united states and a lot of the social tensions with disenfranchised groups still bubbling under the surface rather than being talked about openly. SGND doesn't reference contemporary events much, but the closure of AT&Love from the KITH finale is undone since the economy has re-entered "rock-on fashion," and buddy cole comments on the Y2K computer bug being underwhelming. (i also went on a super long tangent on how the original show reflected the socioeconomic climate of the 90s but that's a whole other topic i need to go to bed)

i don't know how the KITH feel about "tour of duty." i can't know how much this strangeness was felt for them backstage, and i think in some regards it can only be picked up on as an outsider, albeit an outsider who has watched so much KITH content to know how their work evolved even when not on television. all in all, i'm glad "tour of duty" exists and even the swings that didn't really land for me are still admirable as creative choices.

it's also cool to analyze as someone who has now been to a KITH live show over 2 decades later and got to see those behind-the-scenes conversations play out. the bellini benefit also featured a lot of strangeness, caused by a limited rehearsal schedule and one of the cast members being unable to attend due to illness, but they absolutely exceeded these limitations to put on a very fun show. we did film the performance and rehearsals and that show is going to be released eventually (i'm not in charge of it but the person who is also works on the buddy cole doc so i'm involved). i don't know if it's going to be presented more like SGND or tour of duty or something completely different, but it'll be cool to be part of KITH live show canon

[crownofbegonias]

Kids in the Hall couples :)

[girl-drink-drunk]

i do sexy things like rotting in bed while fantasizing about hot old men

[vintagetvstars]

Mark McKinney Vs. Colm Meaney

Propaganda

Mark McKinney - (The Kids in the Hall, Slings & Arrows (season 1)) - He may have once done a sketch about not having sex appeal but he was INCORRECT. Also I feel very bisexual about his characters in the Hotel La Rut and Pyromaniac sketches.

Colm Meaney - (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - wife guy. man of the people. appeared in more star trek episodes than anyone except worf (225 in total). suffered more than jesus.

Master Poll List | How to submit propaganda | What is vintage? (FAQ)

Additional propaganda below the cut

Mark McKinney:

CW: several threats of violence some with weapons and brief scene that suggests sex (NSFW)

Colm Meaney:

[oldshowbiz]

Mark McKinney in CBS StereoSound

[astralbondpro]

The Kids in the Hall // S01E15: Death Row

[brilliancetheory]

Superstore S3E2: Brett's Dead

-"And then Jerusha made us stay because it was our date night and tickets were non-refundable."