Amazon's reboot of the sketch comedy classic The Kids In The Hall brings back a number of the original series' most popular characters to Prime Video.

Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Amazon's The Kids In The Hall.

The Kids in the Hall and its legendary comedy troupe of the same name are back in a reboot series from Amazon, and they've brought back many of the beloved characters from the original show. This is ironic, as the five comedians making up "the Kids" originally avoided recurring characters in their work, preferring a more improvisational style of comedy. Despite this, The Kids in the Hall came to create a number of memorable characters while avoiding the overtly political humor and catch-phrase spewing caricatures of other sketch comedy series.

Originally founded in 1984 as an improv comedy group, The Kids in the Hall are to Canada what the Monty Python's Flying Circus series is to England. Comprised of Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson, The Kids in the Hall developed a devout following among live comedy aficionados in Toronto, Canada, eventually catching the attention of Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels. Under his tutelage, the troupe produced a one-hour HBO special, which led to a regular series, appropriately titled The Kids in the Hall, which ran for five seasons.

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The Kids in the Hall have continued to perform together in various projects and live tours, but they have not had a regular television series since 1995. Their new eight-episode revival TV series on Amazon's Prime Video is largely devoted to the same style of unique, anarchic comedy that was the Kids' hallmark. Yet the new series also features the return of some familiar faces from the original Kids in the Hall. Here's a guide to all the recurring characters appearing in Amazon's Kids in the Hall reboot.

Popular culture abounds with demons who, if not inspiring sympathy for the Devil, at least make him into a likable rogue. The Devil portrayed by Mark McKinney is a metal-loving dark lord who engages in guitar duels for the souls of young rockers when he isn't helping sinister salesmen and television network executives with their work (reportedly, he's responsible for The Golden Girls and its many spinoffs). McKinney's Devil appears in the premiere sketch of the Kids in the Hall reboot, howling as the curse that kept the Kids off of TV is finally broken after 27 years.

The Kids in the Hall attempted to follow in the footsteps of their spiritual predecessors from Monty Python's Flying Circus, hoping to go on to make movies together after the success of their show. Unfortunately, their first film, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, was also their last. The first sketch of the Kids in the Hall reboot makes reference to Brain Candy (which bombed as badly as the Saturday Night Live Coneheads movie). Mark McKinney and Dave Foley reprise the roles of Brain Candy's chief antagonists, corrupt executive Don Roritor and his yes-man, Marv, commenting throughout the season on what changes Amazon wants made to make the reboot more marketable.

A frequent collaborator of Scott Thompson and a writer for The Kids in the Hall, Paul Bellini became the original series' mute mascot. He starred in such sketches as the "Touch Paul Bellini Contest" and "Bellini Day," in which a futuristic utopia was shown to worship the unflappable, towel-clad Bellini as their god and savior. He never spoke until the series finale, where he literally danced on the show's grave after saying "Thank God that's finally over." Naturally, Bellini returns to man the backhoe that digs the Kids up for the new series.

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Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney frequently played a duo of incompetent Toronto Police Department patrolmen, whose antics parodied true crime shows like COPS. Their cop characters return, as witless as ever, in a number of sketches throughout the new season of The Kids in the Hall.

The Kids in the Hall parodied corporate culture with several recurring characters who worked for the fictional company AT & Love. The premiere episode of the new Kids in the Hall brings back AT & Love office workers Kathie with a K (Bruce McCulloch) and Cathy with a C (Scott Thompson) as they mourn the company's decision to stop using their beloved fax machine. Another sketch brings back Scott Thompson's Danny Husk, Mark McKinney's Nina Spudneeyak, and Dave Foley's Boss as part of a Zoom meeting to discuss the problem of employees masturbating during Zoom meetings.

One of the new Kids in the Hall sketches ends with an alien duo blowing up the Earth (a la Looney Tunes' Marvin the Martian character). The aliens, played by Kevin McDonald and Dave Foley, previously appeared in the Kids in the Hall season 4 sketch "Career Crisis," in which one alien questions his coworker as to the ultimate purpose of their job traveling across the galaxy to administer anal probes to randomly abducted rednecks.

Several sketches in the Kids in the Hall revival center on a trio of waiters, Cory (Foley), Dory (McCulloch), and Tory (McKinney), and desert chef Rory (Thompson) as they deal with numerous disasters in their high-class restaurant. While they were not recurring characters in the original Kids in the Hall, all four characters originally appeared in the season 5 sketch "Desert."

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Known as Buddy to his friends, colorful gay bar owner Charles Budderick Cole was one of the few Kids in the Hall characters to maintain a presence after the series ended and likely could have starred in a Saturday Night Live style solo movie had Brain Candy not bombed so badly. Scott Thompson continued to play Buddy Cole as part of his one-man stage show and published Buddy's autobiography with Paul Bellini in 1998. Buddy Cole returns in the second episode of the Kids in the Hall revival, leading the effort to have a local glory hole declared a historic landmark.

Buddy Cole enlists the aid of another famous queen, calling in a favor from Queen Elizabeth II (also Scott Thompson) to save the last glory hole in Toronto. Buddy's close friendship with the Queen of England was previously established in the Kids in the Hall mini-movie "Chalet 2000," which took up an entire season 4 episode.

Gord (McCulloch) and Jeff (McKinney) were a duo of dishonest salesmen who attempted to shill unlikely merchandise and sell people on Ponzi schemes promising easy money. The new Kids in the Hall series reveals they are still up to their old tricks, trying to sell a device called the Gut Spigot, which claims to siphon the fat from out of your stomach and into your gas tank.

The original "Hotel La Rut" sketch centered on two French prostitutes, Michelle (Thompson) and Silvee (McKinney), as Michelle wondered about a lost love named Tony. The new Kids in the Hall series finds Michelle and Silvee similarly beset with ennui, too depressed to get off their couch to pick up an iPad that is recharging on the other side of the room.

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More commonly known as the Head Crusher, Mark McKinney's Mr. Tyzik character watched the world from afar, pretending to crush peoples' heads between his thumb and forefinger. The new Kids in the Hall series transforms Mr. Tyzik into an unlikely nerdy supervillain, who holds Toronto's CN Tower hostage with his threats to crush it. Only the even more unlikely superhero called Super Drunk can save the day.

Bruce McCulloch's Gavin character is a prepubescent boy with a rough home life who pesters many adults with his weird questions and non sequitur stories. Gavin briefly appears in the new Kids in the Hall series, disturbing a pregnant woman with an allegedly true story about a woman who gave birth to a boy with a mouse's head.

A fiery Latinx couple who have appeared in several films together while somehow holding positions of authority in the government of Argentina, Bruno Puntz Jones (Foley) and Francesca Fiore (Thompson) enjoyed a long, troubled, and incredibly confusing romantic life in the original Kids in the Hall series. The reboot finds them seeking sex therapy counseling to save their marriage. Naturally, this process involves them abducting a world-renowned marriage counselor.

Gordon (McCulloch) and Frank (Thompson) were a typical suburban couple, who frequently had problems with their sarcastic teenage son, Brian (Foley), in the original Kids in the Hall series. The reboot finds Brian, all grown up, trying to help his dad out with his plans for celebrating his wedding anniversary by doing everything he failed to do during his honeymoon. Unsurprisingly, things don't go well.

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The Eradicator is notable for having become a fan-favorite character, despite only appearing once in the original Kids in the Hall series pilot. Not to be confused with the Eradicator from the Superman comics, this Eradicator seeks to secure a place atop the squash tournament ladder at his local gym. The new series reveals that the Eradicator spent the last 20 years in a coma, still having upheld his Luchador-style code of honor that forbids him from unmasking in public unless defeated in honorable combat on the squash court.

Mark McKinney is notable as the only comedian to be both a Kid in the Hall and a regular cast member of Saturday Night Live. The Kids in the Hall revival honors this connection by allowing McKinney to revamp one of his SNL characters, the super-positive and hyperactive Taddli. Originally a talk-show host who went over the top in presenting an anti-drug message, Taddli is now doing PSAs for children regarding the evils of smoking, the joys of recycling, and why dancing on a Wednesday is just plain wrong.

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The Kids In The Hall is streaming on Prime Video.

Matt Morrison has been writing about comics since before the word "blogging" was coined. He got his start writing for the legendary DC Comics digital fanzine Fanzing, before receiving his own column, The Mount. Since then he has gone on to write for over a dozen websites, including 411 Mania, Comics Nexus and The Cult of Nobody. He holds both an MS in Information Science from the University of North Texas and a BFA from the University of Texas at Arlington. Known as a font of comic book history trivia, he has delivered lectures on the history of American Comic Books, Japanese Manga, Doctor Who, and Cosplay at over a dozen conventions and served as an Expert In-Residence for a course on Graphic Novels for Librarians at the University of North Texas. In addition to his work for Screen Rant, Matt is currently the Editor In Chief of Kabooooom.com and writes reviews for No Flying, No Tights – a graphic literature and anime review site aimed at teachers and librarians. He also maintains a personal blog – My Geeky Geeky Ways – which hosts his extensive episode guide for the television series making up The Arrowverse as well as his comedic Let’s Play videos. What little spare time he has is devoted towards acting, role-playing, movie-riffing and sarcasm. You can follow his adventures on Twitter, @GeekyGeekyWays.