Gogol himself could hardly have devised a more farcical plot.
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The fight itself would prove to be even more farcical.
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It's more farcical than Cheers, with more a more erudite sense of humor.
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Then every left-of-center interest group piled on with more farcical opposition.
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Weiner plays like a raucous political farce (and it just keeps getting more farcical).
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At the center of "Perfect Skill" is a male duet, performed naked, which is more farcical than fanciful.
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How can a satire possibly be more farcical or bizarre or outrageous than the president's own words and actions?
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"Every single day Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif's reference to team B becomes more farcical and his credibility diminishing," Gargash said.
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"Every single day Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif's reference to team B becomes more farcical and his credibility diminishing," Gargash tweeted.
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Both writers wield a subtle touch when needed, which makes the more farcical moments of the whole enterprise land with greater comedic punch.
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Here the mood is more farcical, the score a skillful homage to Gilbert and Sullivan, and the well-heeled family is called the D'Ysquiths.
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Is the administration chaotic and unworthy of its place in a mighty tradition, but more farcical than corrupting—a madcap approximation of government by a reality-television star?
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There were so many sordid twists that it was more farcical than shocking, making it seem that the original incident needed to be pumped up in order to be truly horrifying.
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The conventional power dynamics of heterosexual love appear in grotesque extremity ("I want to live forever chained at your feet"), but Sylvie's wit and charm make them more farcical than troubling.
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That juggling act continues in Season 5, as Jimmy and Gretchen's fraught, sometimes agonizing progress toward adult responsibility is balanced by the more farcical subplots involving their small and motley collection of friends.
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On October 25th this supposed exercise in democracy became more farcical still when only two of seven Supreme Court judges arrived at work to hear a last-ditch plea to postpone the election yet again.
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The world right now is more farcical than the most ridiculous big- or small-screen comedy; more extravagantly and bombastically preposterous than any superhero franchise movie; and a whole lot scarier than any zombie apocalypse or paranormal shriek-fest.
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Both series centred on the relationship between Catweazle and the young lad from the present day who quickly accepts Catweazle as a friend. The second series had a more farcical character than the first. In the plaster fight scene in the episode 'The Enchanted King'. Cedric's parents were slightly unhinged gentry living in their family stately home.
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Brown face paint was not present. Le Corbussier et Papin continued to fart their way through more farcical situations. Slade went on a frequently disastrous camping holiday. First, Dave (Bob) got wrongly arrested for being a peeping tom, then Don's (Mark Williams) arse caught fire, and finally Noddy (Vic), Jim (Paul Whitehouse) and Dave were constantly attacked by bees and Don pretended to be a policeman.
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Spanky (George McFarland), Alfalfa (Carl Switzer), Buckwheat (Billie Thomas) and others form an army called "The Royal Protection of Women and Children Regiment Club of the World and Mississippi River". The group sees unexpected action when Union troops approach, engaging in battles more farcical than fierce. Using clowning tactics instead of military tactics, the kids stop the advance . . . and later save an adult friend from the firing squad.
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The manhunt for McGlinchey and his gang involved hundreds of soldiers and Gardaí, while the media "followed their trail around the Republic in some awe". A Gardaí patrol eventually discovered him accidentally in Cork City on 2 December 1983. Far from being a police triumph, the encounter was "one of the more farcical incidents" among what Dolan calls their "picaresque" manhunt. Two Gardaí knocked on the door and, receiving no answer, attempted to force an entry.
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The 17th century introduced the minstrel Alan-a-Dale. He first appeared in a 17th-century broadside ballad, and unlike many of the characters thus associated, managed to adhere to the legend. The prose life of Robin Hood in Sloane Manuscript contains the substance of the Alan-a-Dale ballad but tells the story about Will Scarlet. "Little John and Robin Hood" by Frank Godwin In the 18th century, the stories began to develop a slightly more farcical vein.
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"The Target" received mostly positive reviews from critics, with many praising the performances of Oscar Nunez and Angela Kinsey. The A.V. Club reviewer Erik Adams wrote that the episode was a perfect mix, between the more subtle, realistic style of the early seasons, and the more-farcical style of the most recent seasons. He named the Oscar-Angela plotline a "season highlight", and complimented Angela Kinsey's commitment to Angela throughout the plotline. He also praised the other storylines of the episode for showing the family-like bond between the whole ensemble.
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The scene becomes more farcical when Bob arrives as well, while Trixie is hiding; Jimmy conceals Angela under a blanket and says she is his girlfriend, a married woman whose name he will not reveal. Trixie reenters so that Bob will know the woman is not her. After the men leave, Trixie observes that Angela was caught in her own trap. She then says that the difference between them is that Trixie understands the things a man wants in a woman, and as long as she gives them to Bob, he will stay with her.
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The film becomes progressively more and more farcical as the characters find different ways of amusing themselves, mostly through the mixed cast of characters that come in through the gas station. However, it's only a matter of time before they start upsetting the wrong people. During the question and answer session at a screening during the 2000 Vancouver International Film Festival, director Kim Sang-jin indicated that the film inspired real-life copycats in South Korea. The young cast of then-little known actors would go on to bigger careers: Lee Sung-jae, Yu Oh-seong, Yoo Ji-tae, and Lee Yo-won.
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Section B1A (a subordinate of B section, under Guy Liddell) was formed and Robertson was put in charge of handling the double-agent program. Robertson's first agents were not a success, Giraffe (George Graf) was never really used and Gander (Kurt Goose; MI5 had a penchant for amusingly relevant code names), had been sent to Britain with a radio that could only transmit and both were quickly decommissioned. The next two attempts were even more farcical; Gösta Caroli and Wulf Schmidt (a Danish citizen) landed, via parachute, in September 1940. The two were genuine Nazis, had trained together and were friends.
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Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years is an animated science fiction television series produced by Harmony Gold USA. The series was created by Carl Macek by combining footage from Leiji Matsumoto’s Captain Harlock and Queen Millennia anime series. This is the second time the 1978 Captain Harlock series was treated for English language distribution. The first attempt was in 1981 with the lesser known ZIV International, who only released two volumes of two episodes each, the first (episodes 1 and 9) a relatively faithful adaptation, the second (episodes 2 and 3) retooling the approach to a more farcical one.
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One or two magical acts drove the plot, but Samantha often solved problems without magic. Many of the first season's episodes were allegorical, using supernatural situations as metaphors for the problems any young couple would face. Arnold stated that the two main themes of the series were the conflict between a powerful woman and a husband who cannot deal with that power, and the anger of a bride's mother at seeing her daughter marry beneath her. Though the show was a hit right from the beginning, finishing its first year as the number 2 show in the United States, ABC wanted more magic and more farcical plots, causing battles between Arnold and the network.
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Cellier, Leslie and Stephenson Although billed as a "comic opera" like the popular Gilbert and Sullivan operas on the London stage at the same time, Dorothy was a key forerunner of the Edwardian musical comedy, bearing many of the attributes of that genre. Its libretto is more farcical than W. S. Gilbert's satiric libretti, revolving around mistaken identities and topical humour instead of topsy-turvy plot absurdities. Dorothy anticipated George Edwardes's musical comedy hits of the 1890s and 1900s, and its remarkable success showed Edwardes and other theatre managers that audiences were ready for a shift towards the more topical pieces that soon dominated the musical theatre stage. In 1885, Cellier had composed a song, "There once was a time, my darling", for a piece produced by Edwardes, Little Jack Sheppard (1885).
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Paul Rogers has been TDA's main lyricist since the early 1990s and usually writes in a humorously observational and narrative style, covering such mundane topics as bowling, lawn decorations and the difficulties of tandem bikes while sometimes venturing into more farcical material about accordion-snatching extraterrestrials, the Loch Ness monster and Japanese monster movies. Some of the band's comic appeal comes from their frequent covers of songs from genres not typically associated with accordions, with a few of such covers being reworked as parodies – for example, hard rock band Grand Funk Railroads "We're an American Band" having been re-written as "We're an Accordion Band" on Squeeze This!. Despite the novelty nature of the band, TDA have always considered themselves "artists first and comics second". Nearly all of the accordionists have been classically trained pianists; among them, Rogers has a Bachelor of Music, and Suzanne Garramone holds a Master's degree in piano performance and works as an adjunct professor of music at the University of San Francisco.
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