Word: spoofed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gossamer tale of juvenile heartbloom and heartbreak called Happy Days is one of the strongest-running sitcoms on the tube. Weightless romance, to be sure, has always been a TV staple, but now the lovelorn soaps have gained such a galvanized following among old and young that television can spoof itself with an unsavory parody of the genre called Soap. Public TV found out not long ago that it could gather its most zealous audience ever with the quality soap opera called Upstairs, Downstairs. Many radio stations, meanwhile, have discovered that it is possible to ignore rock and develop sizable...
Burns has received critical acclaim for his understated performance as the cigar-smoking deity in the spoof...
...Love My Wife. A musical spoof of wife swapping. Michael Stewart's book and lyrics and Cy Coleman's music deftly plunge two would-be swinging couples into sex, but they only manage to get their toes wet. As a howlingly funny (k)night errant, Lenny Baker lies in a bed he has not made...
...score by Kander and Ebb is staunchly melodic; professionalism runs in this pair's musical bloodstream. Hollywood, California is a saucy spoof of the West Coast gossip queens, City Lights is a dithyrambic salute to New York, and My Own Space is a pensive, meditative ode to the beauty of possessing one's territorial declarative. Halston's costumes blaze like sun-kindled autumn leaves, and the dance team of three women and four men are, collectively, a card hand of sev en aces. One member of the chorus, Roger Minami, provides ebullient comic relief in Arthur...
...attuned to the absurd and the ridiculous. Only such a mind can distinguish between the real and the fantastic among the cases that are increasingly popping up in the crusade against discrimination. Many complaints, as the quiz is intended to make clear, are more farfetched than the most bizarre spoof...