As social media smart alecks have tirelessly noted, New Shepard looks like a dildo.
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I played into a caricature of journalists as smart alecks taking cheap shots from the cheap seats.
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YouTube has spawned its own industry of post-MST3K smart-alecks, gleefully trashing everything from video games to movie trailers.
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And not only are we bummed, but we're kind of worried about what will happen to the next generation of smart alecks yearning for validation.
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Play a lousy movie — the 23000 "Gremlins" rip-off, "Hobgoblins," or the 23000 Adam West thriller, "Zombie Nightmare" — then have three smart alecks weigh in on the lackluster acting and nonsensical plot.
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Beatrice and Benedick, the quintessential lovestruck smart-alecks, appear in "Knot Garden," the play on "knot" implying that these two will, in the end, "try" but not tie one: Like Beatrice and Benedick, I thought— As we went around the garden trying, with words, a precarious knot.
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But through 67 years and 13 presidencies, MAD magazine was there for every emerging generation of smart alecks and media saturated kids who felt both comforted and emboldened that somebody besides them noticed how even the pop culture products they loved the most were prone to hokum and overhype.
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This neo-noir buddy picture about a thief posing as an actor (Robert Downey Jr.) who joins forces with a private eye (Val Kilmer) on a murder case is Yuletide fun for smart-alecks, but not for A.O. Scott: I don't think "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" is an altogether bad movie.
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Smart Alecks is a 1942 American film directed by Wallace Fox and starring the East Side Kids.
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He warned against creeping changes in federal policy on non-African agriculture, and warned that this could lead to "a dangerous security situation". Colby told Armitage that his greatest problem would be the "conglomeration of smart alecks" at the Colonial Office. Colby left Nyasaland in March 1956. He died in Manchester on 22 December 1958.
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The bulk of Kirk’s early film career consisted of playing bit parts, often uncredited, in low-budget productions. Typical roles for him were "ethnic" Sicilian-Americans – gangsters, bartenders, bookies and henchmen. He appeared in several films produced by low-budget studio Monogram Pictures, including Spooks Run Wild (1941), Mr. Wise Guy (1942) and Smart Alecks (1942). Kirk appeared as the villager Schwartz in Universal's House of Frankenstein (1944).
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In total, 20 actors were members of the team at one time or another. Bobby Stone, Robert Greig, Leo Gorcey, and Huntz Hall in the film Million Dollar Kid (1944). Always the outsider, Gabriel Dell drifted in and out of the series as a gang-member, a reporter, or a small-time hoodlum (as in Million Dollar Kid). In Smart Alecks he's an ex-member who left the gang to pursue a life of crime.
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In 1942 he was loaned to Monogram Pictures and landed a recurring role as "Stash" in the ensemble cast film series, the East Side Kids. He appeared as an East Side Kid in Smart Alecks, 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge, and Ghosts on the Loose. Clements also appeared as a character named Stash in a few films unrelated to the East Side Kids, such as Right to the Heart, 1950's Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang, and Boots Malone.
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" "Gleason portrays a Parisian ragamuffin who, though trapped in a world of silence and poverty, finds great joy in just being alive." The unsigned piece observes that "Because he cannot speak, people think Gigot is a fool and constantly make cruel fun of him. But like all legendary simpletons, Gigot has a heart of 36-carat gold and when he outsmarts the smart alecks, many customers in a good many lands are going to have their happiest cry since Little Red Ridinghood....""Movies to melt the heart and thwack the funnybone: Genial Fables from Afar.
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Stanley Clements also appeared in Smart Alecks as well as 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge and Ghosts on the Loose. After Gorcey left the subsequent "Bowery Boys" series in 1956, Clements was chosen to replace him in the last seven films. Monogram (which later became Allied Artists) was notorious for its "Poverty Row" productions, and the East Side films were no exception. With a minuscule budget of around $33,000 per feature and a tight shooting schedule of only 5–7 days, the series churned out three or four movies a year (an astonishing 21 films in less than six years).
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Made between Mr Wise Guy and Smart Alecks, the East Side Kids go from being a gang of punks to a group of, as Danny puts it, "Junior G-Men" (an in joke as that was the name of two serials the gang did for Universal Pictures). The film captures the attitudes many Americans felt towards Japanese but this is tempered with the boys being chastised and shamed for attacking an innocent shopkeeper. Japanese American internment on the West Coast of America did not begin until Civilian Exclusion Order No. 346 was issued on May 3, 1942 authorized by Executive Order 9066. The Black Dragon Society was an actual Japanese espionage organization that first appeared in the Russo-Japanese War.
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The song starts with a spoken introduction by the band's keyboard player Sergio Conforti (a.k.a. Rocco Tanica), acting out the role of a seminarian talking to a group of people from a small church community, reminding them that subscriptions for an upcoming chestnut-gathering trip to the fictional "Filzetta Valley" (named after a type of cured pork meat) are being taken by "Father Egidio" in the parish, and warning "the usual smart alecks" that "no mass, no trip". A strummed acoustic guitar is heard while he finishes talking, but it is immediately interrupted by a four-on-the-floor bass drum and a sampled voice singing "Elio, Elio, E-E-E-E-E Elio (e le Storie Tese)" over a two-note melody. The voice belongs to producer Claudio Dentes's Filipino butler, known as "Tremoto", whose introduction for the band (in his own language) was used on their first album.
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