Word: witlessness
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...equivalent of Bugs and Daffy's "Duck Season! Wabbit Season!" - a stalemated schoolyard argument. You will recall that in the cartoon, Bugs Bunny, the great American trickster, won that exchange by the simple expedient of reversing the order and insisting that it was, indeed, wabbit season. Which led the witless Duck to insist, in his turn, that it was, damn it, duck season. BLAM...
...film poses a smug challenge: If you don't like our merry little prank, that makes you square and unhip. O.K., we'll bite. This is soft-gore porn, obvious in its strategies, witless in the play of its ideas, absurdist only in its pretense to seriousness...
...series, Don't Forget Me! and Locker 13, read like slightly more sophisticated installments of Goosebumps. Stine's prose is, as usual, simple, his dialogue attuned to the speech of the young ("awesome," "totally lost it," "Duh"). The plots of both involve Stine's trademark: teenagers being frightened witless in a context assuring readers that nothing truly dangerous will occur. As he admits, "There's more teasing than horror in my books...
...support of the raid. On Saturday a huge antigovernment march snaked through Miami. And proving once more how quickly our culture converts everything into entertainment, the creators of the bawdy animated South Park seized on the seizure and remade it for a Thursday-night prime-time audience as witless comedy: a bunny-suited Janet Reno points a rifle at one of the show's characters, who hides fearfully in a closet...
Jones has no such problem, so Ross was asked the chances for an aging dreamer who sometimes doubles over in the ring with a nicotine cough but has more personality than most of the witless drones you see on TV. "The chances for a guy like that are slim and none," Ross says, "and Slim's about to leave town...