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The Peanut Butter Solution

135 statements
25 feature instances
8 referencing feature instances

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The Peanut Butter Solution	comment	The Peanut Butter Solution is an aggressively odd Canadian children's film from 1985, part of the Tales for All series, which many adults mistake for a fever-dream they had as a child. But no, it's an actual film that actually exists.The film concerns Michael, a regular schoolkid with an evil art teacher. One day, Michael meets some ghosts, which causes all of his hair to fall out. Luckily, these ghosts just happen to know of a magical hair growth solution. What are the odds? Of course, Michael puts too much peanut butter in the hair solution, and now his hair is growing too damn fast! "Well," you ask, "why doesn't he just yell at his hair?" Yeah, that would work, but he gets kidnapped first. Now I bet you're thinking, "It must be Michael's evil art teacher who wants to harvest Michael's hair to make magical paintbrushes." Wow, you're way ahead of us. Things get pretty bad for Michael and his buddies, but everything works out in the end. What an adventure!Notable for having songs performed by a then-teenaged Céline Dion, the English versions of which were the first English-language recordings she ever made (though she didn't speak the language yet).
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_11c754d8	type	Trail of Bread Crumbs
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_11c754d8	comment	Trail of Bread Crumbs: Connie jumps in the back of the Signor's truck and pours sugar out that back so Suzie can follow them to the Signor's hideout, but a street sweeper erases the trail.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_19660a62	type	Non-Specifically Foreign
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_19660a62	comment	Non-Specifically Foreign: It's never specified where the Signor and his brothers are from. They have thick Francophone accents and are played by French Canadians, but the Signor has an Italian nickname, and he used to go by Sergio, which also suggests he's Italian, but it's not clear whether even Sergio was his original name.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_2022e66d	type	Invasion of the Baby Snatchers
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_2022e66d	comment	Invasion of the Baby Snatchers: Many children are kidnapped including the lead character, Michael. Understandably, parents are worried sick.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_2a97ad3b	type	Never Trust a Hair Tonic
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_2a97ad3b	comment	Never Trust a Hair Tonic: The eponymous solution, which works a little too well with too much peanut butter.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_2d5400a9	type	Evil Teacher
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_2d5400a9	comment	Evil Teacher: The Signor, the evil art teacher.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_3bc22d58	type	Art Initiates Life
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_3bc22d58	comment	Art Initiates Life: The magic paintbrushes.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Michael's hair falls out, causing him quite a bit of anguish. Then his hair grows at a freakish rate.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_5148024	type	Locked into Strangeness
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_5148024	comment	Locked into Strangeness: Starting with the protagonist losing his hair in a haunting, and moving on from there...
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Suzie says that Billy is a hundred times smarter than "those old cops." It's up to the family and Connie to rescue Michael. When the family finally rescue the kids, it's Billy who jumps in first, followed by a few cops.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Imagination. Michael paints a fire around the Signor's dog because he imagines it, and the Signor chastises him to only paint what he sees. Michael's father paints strange pictures from his imagination. When challenged that a painting isn't realistic, he counters that if he wanted realism, he'd take a picture. Later, the captured kids discover that the Signor has been painting only fantastical scenes and must convince him to paint something that really exists. However, when Connie insists that the he paint Michael's fire, the Signor protests that the paintbrush has never "seen the fire" and therefore can't paint it.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: When Michael tries to hide his baldness under a wig at a soccer game, some of the other kids rip it off his head, causing him to run home and cry.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted. The Signor takes his dog everywhere and paints him into all of his paintings. But in the final act, he laments that he has no friends or children, just a dog.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License – Medicine: Michael loses his hair from getting "the Fright." The doctor explains, "The proper medical term is Hair-em Scare-em." It later gets passed on to The Signor during the climax.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_aa8d0ef0	type	Spell My Name with a "The"
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_aa8d0ef0	comment	Spell My Name with a "The": The Signor
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_cbaa9102	type	Signature Headgear
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_cbaa9102	comment	Signature Headgear: Connie wears a black porkpie hat whenever he's out and about, showing that he's a bold and confident kid.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Everyone tends to say "Holy shmoly," though the first time Billy says it, it comes out, "Holy sh..."
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_d35635e0	type	Rapid Hair Growth
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_d35635e0	comment	Rapid Hair Growth: The peanut butter solution causes this due to Michael using too much peanut butter.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: In the final act, Connie convinces the Signor to adopt him as his son, and the Signor immediately starts treating him and the rest of the kidnapped kids better. They're conflicted about their feelings about him when they defeat him.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_d429d0f6	type	Canada, Eh?
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_d429d0f6	comment	Canada, Eh?: Filmed in Montreal. Everyone speaks English, but there are signs and newspaper headlines in French, and a few characters have French accents. Plus, it has songs sung (in both the English and French versions) by Céline Dion.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone calls the Signor the Signor. Several people note that he has no other name, though it's eventually revealed that he used to be called Sergio.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: The kids in the brush factory have to make 500 brushes a day, which means the factory creates 10,000 a day. The Signor is apparently making all deliveries himself, from a single van, so it's anyone's guess how he's unloading these tens of the thousands of brushes he's apparently creating.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_dbb414ed	comment	Hand Wave: The Running Gag of Connie's pubic hair finishes off when he starts yelling at his hair to stop growing. I guess that's one way to end a plot thread.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Suzie and Connie just happen to buy a paintbrush for Billy while Michael is kidnapped, and it's a paintbrush made by the Signor out of Michael's hair.
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The Peanut Butter Solution / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Peanut Butter Solution / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: The peanut butter in question is Skippy brand.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

The Peanut Butter Solution	hasFeature	Art Initiates Life / int_d345ca51
The Peanut Butter Solution	hasFeature	Artistic License â€“ Medicine / int_d345ca51
The Peanut Butter Solution	hasFeature	Baldness Mockery / int_d345ca51
The Peanut Butter Solution	hasFeature	Canadian Movies / int_d345ca51
The Peanut Butter Solution	hasFeature	Evil Teacher / int_d345ca51
The Peanut Butter Solution	hasFeature	Never Trust a Hair Tonic / int_d345ca51
The Peanut Butter Solution	hasFeature	Rapid Hair Growth / int_d345ca51
The Peanut Butter Solution	seeAlso	The Peanut Butter Solution

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