Word: daffier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...birth to exploitation films. With the adoption of a Production Code in 1922, the major studios ostensibly promised to renounce the ribald. Into that vacuum crept sideshowmen like Dwain Esper, who directed (ludicrously) and promoted (brilliantly) the first grindhouse classics. The 1934 Maniac, about a mad scientist's even daffier assistant whose ailurophobia leads him to rip out a cat's eye and eat it ("Why, it's not unlike an oyster"), pretended to be a serious study of dementia praecox. Esper used the old carny come-on--it's so sinful you have...
Ostensibly that's the spoof campaign in Of Thee I Sing, the 1931 Gershwin brothers hit that became the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama. But is this joke election so much daffier than the real thing, with one contender playing the saxophone while another spouts platitudes about family values? Is a Vice President whom no one recognizes any more ludicrous than one who fluffs grade-school spelling...
...unspeakable degenerates (cigarette smokers) ask permission before they light up outside. While the city drifts, the board of supervisors issues wacky foreign policy statements. During the gulf war, the board declared the town a nuclear-free haven for draft dodgers. Across the bay in Berkeley it's even daffier: along with Fidel Castro, the city council is all that is left of the communist elite...