Word: duh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public school "we talked about plants," she says, "but never about why there are vascular and nonvascular plants." Nick Reisinger, a freckled 12- year-old, chimes in: "Here we get to talk about things instead of just listening to some boring teacher. I don't feel like 'Duh, what am I doing here?' anymore...
...actress named Kristy Swanson as BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and a piquantly mixed cast that includes Luke Perry and Donald Sutherland. By now, you are perhaps dreaming that this summer's most pressing need -- for a funny sleeper -- has been fulfilled. Wrong. Or, as Buffy says, "Does the word duh mean anything to you?" It does to director Fran Rubel Kuzui, whose frenzied mistrust of her material is almost total. Somebody should have given her a garlic necklace -- or a Miltown -- and told her to chill...
...Moore sitcom, had escaped into the ether and had been resurrected as a talk-show host. Dial scanners have to wonder: Is this guy kidding? Well, of course. Sometimes. As when he announces the Limbaugh neutron bomb: "It vaporizes liberals but leaves conservatives standing." Or when he bleats a duh-duh-lut duh-duh-lut fanfare, announcing a Pee-wee Herman news update to the tune of Michael Jackson's Beat It. Or when he handicaps N.F.L. games by political correctness: "The Eagles, an endangered species, will of course cover the spread against those pillaging, earth-destroying Cowboys." Or when...
This all takes place before Sam is killed by someone's--duh duh duh dumb--hired hand in what would seem to be your garden variety mugging. Not to worry--Sam's death does not appreciably cut Swayze's time on screen. It does however, cut down on his wardrobe. Swayze wears the same outfit when he meets the only person who can hear him, psychic Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg); when he has has Oda Mae contact Molly, and sting the man who hire his killer; when, finally, predictably, he saves Molly's life...