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First Zach gets a job in the gold mines--dehumanizing experience number one. Soon he loses that job, and in rapid succession he loses a few others--houseboy, gas station attendant, waiter, road crew--when the white employers become displeased with him. These contacts with Afrikaaners and Britishers--who insist on being called "Boss" or something equally demeaning--are typified in this encounter with the shrewish woman who hires, then summarily fires, Zach as her houseboy...
Williams follows his free-form chatter with enough wacked-out characters to people a spin-off of his spinoff. There is the French waiter at Chez Chuck, moving like a spastic Keystone Kop and offering customers such delicacies as "chicken lips with rice." Mr. Rogers, a takeoff on the dim-but-lovable kiddie show host, says: "Welcome to my neighborhood. Let's put Mr. Hamster in the microwave oven. O.K.? Pop goes the weasel!" Other bit players include Ernest Sincere, a redneck used-car dealer; Joey Stalin, a Russian stand-up comic; Little Sherman, a perverse little boy; and Walt...
...secret until the party is over. But the immediate cause of death may have been her discovery that no one beyond the immediate family has accepted the invitation. Seems they're still ostracizing the groom's mother because of a brief marriage years before to an Italian waiter. Of course that lady is a drug addict who gets her fixes from the alcoholic family doctor...
...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...
...young woman, in tears after midnight, confesses that she is going home to Louisiana after a tragic love affair. A black businessman muses somberly on the humiliations that clouded his childhood. A retired railroad executive recounts the great train trips he has made around the world. An elderly waiter talks of the days when he and the rest of the dining-car crew on some routes had to sleep at night on the tables they had tended all day. (Now they usually sleep in extra berths...