Kids In the Hall’s Scott Thompson on Brain Candy, the KITH movie that flopped so badly it broke up the group: “We were all convinced it would be a huge hit, that it would be the beginning of our movie careers, and I knew we’d win an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Kevin [McDonald] and I would debate it endlessly, whether they would give us the screenwriting Oscar as a group or as individuals. We kept trying to figure that out. He’d seriously say, ‘But they don’t give the screenwriting Oscar to comedies,’ and I really thought we’d be the first.”