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Your wonderful and otherwise informative magazine is becoming seedy and trashy by covering the adventures of Ralph and Wanda. Paul W. Moran Alexandria...
...Peter (Rowan R.A. Sheldon ’08), a freshman whose roommate George (Kevin Ferguson ’08) has been kidnapped. He enlists the assistance of the detective Veronica (Nicole A. Buckley ’08) and her associates Yolanda (Alexis M. Pacheco ’08) and Wanda (Diana Y. Wan ’08) to help rescue him. Along the way, we are treated to songs on such topics as Annenberg, the travails of being a male secretary, and the inevitability of love in enclosed spaces...
...merrily over credibility gaps. The appearance of a refugee from “The Oresteia” at the end is a delightful non-sequitur that gets laughs for its sheer randomness, as does the argument that breaks out over who is the main character. In fact, Wan portrays Wanda with a similar flair, acting in an affected way that bears very little relation to any sort of reality, but is over-the-top enough to steal any scene she?...
Sykes and writing partner Crouther have lifted such reality-show tropes as participants commenting to the camera about what is to transpire in the next scene to juice the comedy. In one episode, Sykes' manager tells the camera that Wanda often comes up with crazy ideas that wind up hurting her; we then cut to Wanda deciding to fix her drinking-and-driving problem by getting...
Crouther says he realized Sykes' performing talents were greater than his (though, seriously, he was Pootie Tang) when they worked together as writers on Rock's show. "The first acting Wanda did was when she laid down on the street and pretended she got hit by a bus," he says. "It was like a shot to the brain. She was a great writer, and then she started performing...