Word: puns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eerie sensation that he had wandered into a different world, a kind of Disneyland as imagined by Mad magazine. "Everyone needs a dose of cartoon fun at regular intervals," says Willwerth, "but cartoons without subtlety can be pretty flat, and the Muppets have something extra that leapfrogs- forgive the pun-over the virtues of human acting...
...student level, so as to prostitute its value in order to gain the status and levels of achievement which you assume all Blacks at Harvard to be desirous of. Professor Kilson, I for one am too proud to kiss anyone's behind, regardless of what ends (no pun intended) such action might afford me. However, your very argument as to what is preventing the Black student body from achieving what it should is ludicrous. You say that we are held back by holding on to one another. Funny, sir, but you and Shockley see eye to eye on this point...
...acting, with the exception of Strang and Wilkins, is overdone and the delicate, sincere moments are lost in superficial sighs. Strang is convincing, making her presence in the drama count, and the overblown Wilkins (no pun intended) can never really overact the part of an asshole as intolerable as Bernie...
...scenes bomb so badly, no pun intended, but there are a few others that fail both as incisive social commentary and as humor. In a sequence near the end of the film, a waiter at a rustic country restaurant with a ritzy clientele gets involved in a grotesque food fight in the kitchen with the chef, who turns out to be his lover. The slapstick technique employed here went out of vogue in America at about the same time that Hal Roach stopped making Spanky and Our Gang films. After all, squids perched atop the suddenly toupee-less head...
...soon meet the Lord Chancellor, who is defendant, prosecutor, judge and jury rolled into one. (Sullivan effects a pun on the legal and musical meanings of canon by repeatedly associating the Lord Chancellor's appearances with fugal imitations in the orchestra.) This part, and others that used to be done by the late Martyn Green, have been for a quarter century the province of John Reed, who remains a lively and comical performer, despite the excessive doffing and donning of pince-nez. The nightmare number is the greatest of all the G. &. S. patter songs; and Reed, in the encore...