Mulaney's joke is innocent enough — it's sexism at its most banal.
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But what they really show is Trump at his most banal.
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Even the most banal insights, like "Twitter is stupid," you'll believe it.
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This seems like the most banal but also the most plausible explanation.
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The most banal question asked of artists after What is your favorite color?
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Here, Assayas turns one of the most banal, least cinematic elements of modern
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Some people I know are fascinated by the most banal people you can imagine.
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And frustratingly, it was in the most banal way possible: she became a mom.
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But the most banal details, often of a scatological nature, are the most disturbing.
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And what caused this stillness was the most banal, routine activity on my part.
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Each representation diminishes this complex, impressive creature to an object of our most banal imagination.
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To any halfway competent president, this is the most banal kind of political controversy imaginable.
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As a filmmaker, Lynch is known for injecting the uncanny into the most banal, innocent settings.
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Maybe it will be the most banal, anticlimactic series finale of all time: game night at Carrie's house.
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Now she hears the ticking menace latent in the most banal arrangements of weathers and objects and personalities.
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So much so in fact that even the most banal moments present a vast platter of nonsensical dimensions.
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It's the most banal problem in sports, really, and it explains a great deal, across the NBA landscape.
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This is the most banal of questions, but also one of the most difficult for physicists to answer.
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It seems only right it be accompanied by the most banal of content: The badly-shot Facebook Live video.
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Nail-biting is something most of us do idly, instinctively, in the most banal and stress-free of moments.
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Assigning blame for bad news and claiming credit for good is among the most banal but potent tactics in politics.
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But some experts point to the most banal explanation: In 1986, when he was 40, Mr. DeAngelo may have aged out.
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He spends an hour and a half huddled with his political advisers, crafting the most banal five-minute concession speech imaginable.
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I don't love Billy Joel because he's stupid, but rather because he knows how to sell even the most banal lyrics.
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"Suddenly I found myself living through the most banal of stories, as the neglected wife of a faithless husband," she writes.
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Therapists work to highlight the emotional experience couples have when discussing even the most banal subjects, which can turn into heated arguments.
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It is also what led some critics to write that McCullers was "before her time," that most banal and patronizing of descriptors.
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It is hardly possible to walk into a Whole Foods without feeling reduced to the most banal parody of your tastes and habits.
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The show attempts to mine humor from the most banal (kids swearing is high-larious) and offensive (gay panic is high-larious) subject matter.
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But the story first came to my attention in the most banal form imaginable: in the dry bureaucratese of legal documents and company reports.
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Even my most banal future, straightforward Easy PGD, might seem politically and practically impossible—a brave new world that people and their governments will reject.
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Taking the human voice away from a genre that's largely dependent upon it can result in the most banal café soundtrack music, like instrumental metal.
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Being a warrior one minute, on guard at all times, and minutes later answering the most banal questions: You know a good restaurant around here?
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Like idiotic diets and self-help books and aspirational lifestyle blogs, junk psychology commodifies and sells the most banal corners of our own minds back to us.
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I thought it was so cool that you couldn't tell between someone who spent their whole life virtuosically perfecting their instrument and the most banal electronic sound.
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Somehow, even the most banal possibilities — an empty hole in the ground, a trove of worthless junk, a find worth fighting over — are weighted with dread and suspense.
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If the tweet is popular or controversial enough, the traffic will increase the view count of fancams attached to even the most banal comments, heightening your fave's popularity.
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They document the mayhem spawned by the most banal of offenses: a push in a bar, a Facebook taunt, the wrong choice of music at a house party.
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Just down the street, at 58, rue Tiquetonne, is G. Detou, an épicerie that will make even the most banal cook dream of becoming an artisanal pastry chef.
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A "lone wolf," propelled by the malignancy of thought, can inflict the most damage with the most banal of weapons: a rented Home Depot truck and a paintball gun.
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I can see their value as part of a political campaign or meme — like, #oscarsowhite or #blacklivesmatter — but I hate when people add useless hashtags to their most banal posts.
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The most banal, and likely, answer is that he is ramping up tension with Brussels to help secure the greatest possible freedom to pump cash into the economy and stimulate growth.
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Your best bet is to shower them with compliments and pepper even the most banal sexual encounter with small romantic gestures, like giving a neck kiss during an extremely rushed nooner.
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Of all the ways for someone to describe their job, when that job entails orbiting more Earth than 200 miles above the surface, "I'm just an astronaut" might be the most banal.
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I'll be reading just the most horrible stuff that is happening in our world right now on Twitter, and it is interspersed with the most banal comments about life, or self-promotion.
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" As he disclosed at the re-opening of the Rose, in front of our Brandeis trustees, faculty, alumni, students and friends, he wanted to make a "mystery out of the most banal materials.
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This helps explain the cosmic reverence draped over so many billionaires, their most banal notions about innovation and vision repackaged as inspirational memes, their insights on markets and customers spun into best sellers.
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Just take away the anonymity, the second camera, the sense of fate, and the fruit intercourse (for now) and you get Facebook Live's new map—a digital panopticon fueled by our most banal impulses.
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Because mass cultural events are like heroin to my stupid, technology-addled brain, and if I feel left out of even the most banal monocultural monolith, I feel like tearing my fucking hair out.
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The risk of the see-now/shop-now strategy, as was apparent in New York, is that it can drive designers to the most banal common denominator: pieces they know will sell because they have sold before.
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In my experience of grief, the toughest moments have been triggered by the most banal experiences, like the jingle in a car insurance commercial, which somehow churns up painful emotions and reminds you that she's not here.
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And perhaps this is what Geist's medicine is really trying to erase: not his bloodiest memories but his most banal ones, the moments when he came to question the justification for fighting halfway across the world at all.
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The difference is that whereas the VS women always seemed to serve that gaze at its most banal common denominators (sometimes literally, in naughty maid costumes), Rihanna's women own it, manipulate it and crush it between their thighs.
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"In the aggregate of experiences, even the most banal ones, one finds a built-in poetry; this is how in washing one's hands successive times one can consider a bar of soap a sculpture," Tunga said in an interview.
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Slapping "BREAKING" on the front of even the most banal of social media posts has devalued the excitement factor to the point of near oblivion, and once that enthusiasm is gone, it will be practically impossible to get back.
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A train barreling toward a mountain tunnel, its windows a perfect symmetrical reflection; Lockhart and Hannah talking beside a mirror-like fountain pool; a slow dolly toward a seemingly empty therapy tub; even the most banal moments become opportunities for artistry.
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Environmental Collective's efforts to stealthily infiltrate bureaucratic institutions, through what the curators call "the most banal instructional and training methods," offer a fascinating lesson on the role artists and the media may play in subverting these bodies of power and influence.
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We know that the terrorists strike in places like Las Ramblas, where people of all ages and nationalities gather simply to enjoy themselves, and that they use the most banal instruments, like the rented van in Barcelona, to spread the greatest fear.
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Little flexibility is evident, however, in the enforcement of Thailand's strict lèse-majesté law, which in practice criminalises all but the most banal analysis of the palace's influence, and which can make it risky to intimate that esteem for royalty is uneven and nuanced.
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On the theoretical plane, Airas's account of the elusive presence of an artwork in descriptions and reportage has a conceptual richness about it that makes a phrase like "the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction" seem like the most banal truism.
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" Responding to Will's observation that we may need "a new vocabulary to discuss space" because investment in the space program is justified in the "most banal, utilitarian ways," Wolfe responded: "You put your finger right on it…the country has never had a philosophy of space exploration.
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Stephan was so gracious to answer my most banal questions, like how he uses Facebook (with a voice output or a connectable braille display) and if he ever goes to the cinema (yes, the app Greta describes to him exactly what's going on on the screen).
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While it's equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking to see the Wives simulating the act of childbirth — complete with soothing harp music, macarons and coffee — as the Handmaids do all the hard work upstairs, the most terrifying parts of the second episode are also treated as the most banal.
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President Obama tweets about his small-bore initiatives all the time, and while previous presidents have not had access to that particular platform, trying to draw the public's attention to one or another small bit of good news is one of the most banal tricks in the presidential playbook.
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And even while people strive to stay shocked by the most outlandish of Trump's behaviors, it's also worth stayed focused on his most banal failings — he's a rich kid and reality television star who seems somewhat talented at bilking people out of money, who for some reason wants to be president.
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And if Mr. Trump rejects the decades-old practice of the "pool," where journalists follow the president even to the most banal engagements, will he adhere to other traditions such as news conferences and press briefings that are meant to inform the public about matters of greater import, but are not mandated by law?
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Many of these well-publicized serial killers maintained an image of having the upper hand in some way: The Zodiac Killer and Berkowitz wrote taunting letters to the press and police; Bundy escaped from prison and immediately resumed his terrifying killing sprees; John Wayne Gacy hid his evil under the most banal of disguises, a friendly clown who performed for children.
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But while some Modernists seemed to arrive at the conclusion that existence was ultimately hollow, autofiction carried, on the balance, the optimism of a more therapeutic age, suggesting that meaning could be found anywhere we sought it, even in the most banal moments, such as a child's birthday party (Knausgaard's 2009-2011 series "My Struggle") or while bagging groceries at the Park Slope Food Coop (Lerner's 2014 "10:04").
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The true cost of illegal corruption, in countries where it is rampant, is rarely the direct one; it is the way even the most banal and minor forms of it erode the rule of law, introducing uncertainty into every dealing with the state and reducing it to the self-interest of its human agents: not just politicians but also customs inspectors, permit issuers, police officers, anyone vested with enough power to extract a dollar.
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This is in essence the "price." A sidelong glance with the head half-turned is characteristic of flirtation in its most banal guise.Simmel, Georg. 1984 [1923].
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Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict in a tangible way the solitude of humans and the insignificance of one's existence, while Cioran was a brilliant writer and philosopher.
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Actor Naveen Andrews portrayed him in the 2000 television movie The Chippendales Murder,Bianculli, David. "Murder Most Banal: Chippendales reveals little," New York Daily News (Nov. 7, 2000). and Shelley Malil portrayed him in the 2002 movie Just Can't Get Enough.
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In his review, editor Scott Jones criticized Ryan's inclusion in the Wii Punch-Out!!, calling him "one of the most banal characters in the game." He questioned why Nintendo included him and called him "forgettable." Complex ranked him as the "sixth- douchiest" video game character.
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Eugène Ionesco (; born Eugen Ionescu, ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict the solitude and insignificance of human existence in a tangible way.
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It is a story of love over the most banal situations between Halvard (Gad Elmaleh) and Pollux (Cécile de France). Halvard is completely in love with the beautiful Pollux. She is the woman of his life. Even when she disappears, Halvard doesn't get the idea of standing shoulder to shoulder out of his head.
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Just one line." Vincenzoni claims that he wrote the screenplay in 11 days, but he soon left the project after his relationship with Leone soured. The three main characters all contain autobiographical elements of Leone. In an interview he said, "[Sentenza] has no spirit, he's a professional in the most banal sense of the term.
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Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode four stars out of five, describing it as a "gripping and sincere portrait of human ugliness at its most banal". Shearman and Pearson praised guest star James Morrison's acting, noting that he was "the very humanity that the show is crying out for".
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The dhaaba where they meet the Pathan kid was half an hour out of Karachi as well. The writer was really particular about Neshmiya and Behzaad as these two characters were closest to his heart. With them, he could bring insanity to sane moments and humor to the most banal scenes. Actually, the first character trait he wrote about both of them on his thinking board was the same: 'unpredictable'.
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For a philosopher too, for that matter; in any case, someone who > thinks about reality in moral terms. Politicians do not usually do it, least > of all in my country. The great contemporary debates in societies such as > mine, about the legalization of drugs, about gay marriage, about abortion - > politicians are never able to take them to the field of moral discussion, > which is where they should be discussed. They discuss them in religious > terms, they discuss them in political terms (in the most banal sense of the > word).
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The most banal event becomes significant to Blondin; he has only to see it and write about it. He raised the status of the Tour by giving it his own cachet; it became a myth to be renewed every year. No matter how predictable the race, he could maintain the interest in it.Hinault, Bernard (1989), Memories of the Peloton, Springfield, UK Blondin was a bon vivant known for heavy drinking in the Parisian district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, playing at bull-fighting with passing cars and racking up numerous arrests for drunkenness.
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Blok, 1917, The Winter Palace The idealized mystical images presented in his first book helped establish Blok as a major poet of the Russian Symbolism style. Blok's early verse is musical, but he later sought to introduce daring rhythmic patterns and uneven beats into his poetry. Poetical inspiration was natural for him, often producing unforgettable, otherworldly images out of the most banal surroundings and trivial events (Fabrika, 1903). Consequently, his mature poems are often based on the conflict between the Platonic theory of ideal beauty and the disappointing reality of foul industrialism (Little Mess, 1906).
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The lyrics reconstruct a typical day – tentatively, because life has changed so much now the singer can hardly remember the her that used to be." Though adds "Agnetha sounds bereaved – the world she’s left, and is singing about, is obviously beyond recovery, and there’s a longing in her voice sometimes as she recounts even the most banal details. And...in place of the chorus there’s a series of ghostly choral howls, wordless cries filled with sorrow." It further explains "it’s about loss: an utterly ordinary lifestyle which turns out to be something worth mourning.
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After completing the album, the group's management were worried there was no obvious hit single, and booked De Lane Lea in early May 1970 so the band could write and record one. After struggling to come up with a commercial-sounding song, Blackmore started playing the riff to Ricky Nelson's arrangement of "Summertime", while the group improvised the rest of the structure. Gillan later said he tried to write "the most banal lyrics we could think of". The result was the single "Black Night", which became the group's first UK hit.
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The Western Railway at its Exit from Paris, 1886, oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cmCouple in the street, 1887, Musée d'Orsay, canvas, 38.5 x 33.0 cm Angrand's Impressionist paintings of the early 1880s, generally depicting rural subjects and containing broken brushstrokes and light-filled colouration, reflect the influences of Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Jules Bastien-Lepage. Through his interactions with Seurat, Signac, and others in the mid-1880s, his style evolved towards Neo-Impressionism. From 1887 his paintings were Neo-Impressionist and his drawings incorporated Seurat's tenebrist style. Angrand had the "ability to distil poetry from the most banal suburban scene".
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Steve is also attracted to Myra but he never grew to love her over the course of the show. He only agrees to date her, on the condition that his friendship with Laura remain intact. This frequently causes Myra to feel in competition with Laura for Steve's affections; Laura would often try to correct the misunderstanding but Myra would only become more convinced that Laura was after Steve. However, since Laura does not really show any attraction for Steve, Myra is willing to accept a truce, although the Laura-Myra relationship remains testy and adversarial, even in the most banal, non-Urkel situations.
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Professor Jonathan K. Ocko considers Ding a Confucian moralist, prudish but also upright. He strictly adhered to his own teachings, as well as Confucian custom down to the most banal detail. Though quoted as saying "Taoism to rule the people, Legalism the clerks", he only reluctantly issued demerits, considering quick reform unreasonable and punishments impotent. He demonstrated willingness to employ unlawful practices if effective or benefiting the people, for instance, in using beggars as substitutes for runners. Zeng Guofan considered him an evasive if charming fame-seeker, but some of Ding’s sarcasm may have been lost on magistrates that, in the first place, may have been as confused as Ding believed.
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Argyll was another role that became one of his favourites. His final professional engagement was resuming the role of Quatermass for the 1996 BBC radio serial The Quatermass Memoirs. This final performance was praised by The Independent: "This series has so far been hugely enjoyable - thanks in large part to Andrew Keir, who recreates the role of Quatermass in dramatic interludes; lesser actors would treat Kneale's downbeat script with a certain detachment, but Keir is prepared to charge even the most banal lines with a terror that's both a treat and a lesson." Keir died in hospital in London, aged 71, on 5 October 1997.
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" The Australian newspaper The Canberra Times described Blame It on Rio as "one of the worst movies ever made and definitely the most banal piece of rubbish to have Michael Caine's name on the credits—and he has quite a few bombs to his credit."Hugh Lamberton, "TV Movies" The Canberra Times, May 6th, 1991. (p. 36) Roger Ebert gave the film 1 star out of a possible 4, writing: "It's really unsettling to see how casually this movie takes a serious situation. A disturbed girl is using sex to play mind games with a middle-aged man, and the movie get its yuks with slapstick scenes [...] What's shocking is how many first-rate talents are associated with this sleaze.
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Yankovic felt compelled to write this parody because he felt the original was "brilliant and wonderful and ridiculous all at the same time". Yankovic would normally have considered taking the original song and making lyrics that were "more bizarre than they already are", but the original R. Kelly song was already bizarre to start with, according to Yankovic. Instead, to contrast the original, "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" uses the very dramatic structure of the original to tell an extremely banal tale of a couple's attempts to pick up their dinner one night, one of the most "banal and mundane" stories Yankovic could think of. Much like how the original was divided into various chapters (as of now 33) Yankovic's is also divided, into 3 chapters, although they are not divided on the album itself.
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In typical bureaucratic style, he is obsessed with paperwork and forces his staff and customers to fill in thousands of different forms for the most banal of things, such as lost property claims. Throughout the entire show, he remains blissfully unaware of his total incompetence as a manager and the negative effect he has on everybody around him. An example of Brittas's tactlessness is in "Temple Of The Body", where he suspects someone is having sex in the centre, telling Carol that she has nothing to worry about, because whatever is happening is only with "the younger and more attractive women, such as Linda, Julie and Laura".Brittas Empire, Series 2, Episode 2 - "Temple of the Body" Brittas is also extremely petty, insisting on over-complicated forms at reception, and ridiculous rules on what not to wear in the centre, only serving to frustrate potential customers and centre staff.
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The adventure film Tarzan, the Ape Man, loosely based on the novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, stars Miles O'Keefe (who would later become famous in the 1984 Conan the Barbarian knock-off Ator the Invincible alongside its sequel featured in two episodes of the cult TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000) in the title role and Bo Derek as his partner Jane Parker, and is told from Jane's point of view. Despite being a box office success, it was poorly received by critics upon its release, due to its poor screenplay, bad acting, and unintentional humor. Leonard Maltin, writing for his Movie Guide, stated that the film "lacks action, humor and charm", and considered it so bad that it "nearly forced editors of this book to devise a rating lower than BOMB". Leslie Halliwell was equally harsh; he described Tarzan, the Ape Man as "certainly the worst of the Tarzan movies and possibly the most banal film so far made; even the animals give poor performances".
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