Word: comical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took a few episodes for Miami Vice to hit its stride. The earliest segments were sprinkled with predictable character exposition and comic relief. Crockett, for instance, was an ex-college football star with a wife suing him for divorce and a "funny" pet alligator named Elvis. Two mid- season changes were crucial. The alligator, along with most of the comic relief, was dropped. And a riveting new character, the brooding Lieut. Castillo (played with remarkable power by Emmy Nominee Edward James Olmos), joined the show. Castillo, Tubbs and Crockett bear less resemblance to other cop-show protagonists than to classic...
Pleading innocent with an explanation is the comic lot of many Anne Tyler characters. The predicament is obviously shared by her readers, whose number has been growing steadily for 20 years. The reasons are not hard to fathom. The author's style has evolved from women's magazine fiction of the '50s and early '60s. Then the accent was on conventions and the theme of togetherness. But Tyler loosened the bonds to accommodate more expressive decades. Young lovers became old marrieds who became newly single. Squares turned into oddballs as her perceptions deepened and her imagination grew frisky...
...with the tongue still protruding. Daffy deftly pushes the tongue back into the beak (to a cork-popping sound effect), replaces the mandible, stalks over to Bugs and / mutters, "Let's run through that again." Bugs' cunning, Elmer's gullibility, Daffy's indomitable ego and Director Chuck Jones' comic artistry are all on display inside of 20 seconds...
...HERMAN'S humor is of a brand all its own. And nowhere is this more evident than in his first feature film. Pee Wee's Big Adventure. While this means bad things for those unfamiliar with the young comic's style, this means good news for Pee Wee fans across the country...
...same is true for funnyman John Candy. As the perverted older brother in Splash, he added life and silly comic wit to what was otherwise a fun, but not necessarily funny story. In Vacation, his brief appearance provided a welcome relief to Chevy Chase's not so funny slapstick...