Word: grumped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: Another excellent adventure by the great grump of travel writing...
...slimeball tycoon named Donald Grump (played with ooze and flair by Tom Hughes) is trying to cheat a nice old lady named Isadora Jarr (Jeremy Nye) out of her casino, the Tropicana Pure Premium. Jarr needs a million bucks to escape bankruptcy. Coincidentally, Grump's Chicken McNugget Casino is hosting the Miss Fortune Beauty Pageant--first prize, $1,000,000! Coincidentally, the Tropicana's headline trio of tonsorially challenged sisters--Mona Lott (Mark O'Keefe in a big red wig), Liza Lott (Mike McNeal in a big black wig) and Cara Lott (Peter Ferren in a big blonde wig)--have...
...plot--or at least the reasonable facsimile thereof--thickens. Grump is backing his own babe, Delia Cards (Aaron Zelman), the thoroughly corrupt golddigger with whom he sings "It's Good to Be Evil." (Sample lyrics: "Being kind is kinda stupid/ Being just is just as dumb.") So Grump tries to blackmail the pageant's judges: Wyatt Stinksinhere (a Yosemite Sam parody played by Michael Rosenbaum), Austin Tation (a Don King parody played by Todd Kessler) and Ali Caneet (a Muhammad Ali parody played by Skip Sneeringer...
Meta-Humor: This Pudding show never lets you forget you're watching The Pudding show. "I feel like breaking into an orchestrated song with lots of choreography," Henderson says at a particularly romantic moment. Searching through Grump's office in the dark, the characters happen upon...a nine-piece band. When Jeannie Ality reveals that she is in fact Prince Spaghetti, the response is automatic: "A man dressed as a woman? Silliest thing I've ever heard...