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...Bruce's mechanical ingenuity, they've managed to keep their dog Friday with them secretly the whole time. Their latest foster parents, Lois (Lisa Kudrow) and Carl (Kevin Dillon) Scudder, are such dimwits, they haven't noticed Friday swiping the bacon off their breakfast plates. (Apparently there are characters dopier than Phoebe Buffay and Johnny Drama...
...class but the working poor. Ralph earned $62 a week driving a bus; Norton worked, as he liked to say, as an engineer of subterranean sanitation-in the sewer system ... Ralph was even louder, brasher and more abrasive [then] ... Alice was also louder and more argumentative, and Norton was dopier, unlikely as that may sound. Why does The Honeymooners remain so appealing? 'I have two answers, and they're very simple,' says Gleason ... 'First, they're funny. And second, the audience likes the people in The Honeymooners. Once you get an audience to like you, you're home...
...even louder, brasher and more abrasive than in the shows now being seen, according to Peter Crescenti, co-founder of R.A.L.P.H. (Royal Association for the Longevity and Preservation of the Honeymooners), an organization of friendly fanatics formed in 1983. Alice was also louder and more argumentative, and Norton was dopier, unlikely as that may sound...
...looking guy." As cartoonists, they all seem grateful for the mobility in Reagan's face. Mike Peters currently sees Reagan as a "Cheshire cat-he's there, but he's not there." As Oliphant draws him, "his eyes are getting closer together. He's looking dopier." Conrad, having caricatured him for 20 years in California, finds Reagan "more than ever-I don't want to say imbecilic-but he's not the brightest man who ever lived." MacNelly says, "I'm more in tune with Reagan than lots of the guys...
...Kiss Me, Kate, and I'm told there's also a direct quotation from an all but totally obscure pre-Gilbert opera by Sir Arthur Sullivan--but the tunes aren't very memorable, and O'Donnell's lyrics ("We're not exactly in Utopia. Our queen could scarcely be dopier") don't seem up to the rest of his script, either. In the second act, the silliness of having songs at all often lends them a certain amount of sense, as in the case of a ballad sung in suitably Gilbert-and-Sullivanish style by Greg Minahan, as a response...