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The offensive zaniness of the first half gave way to unadulterated mayhem.
It had a tickling psychological edge, a blend of zaniness and violence.
But the zaniness also suggests a lack of confidence—in Mr McKay's audience.
Mr. Hochman remembers thinking how attracted he was to her confidence and zaniness.
What cut a clearer image was the zaniness of its larger-than-life personalities.
I believe the over-the-top zaniness of Belushi would have hurt the movie.
Whirring clocks accelerate and reverse time and sometimes become stuck, conveying a demented zaniness.
But through the evening, the beauty of her singing vied with an impulsive zaniness.
Indeed, the zaniness that seemed to ignite the trend has continued to fuel it.
I loved the zaniness, the silly gags, the outrageous conceits and, later, Groucho's double entendres.
What zaniness is available after the late news nowadays is generally of the carefully planned variety.
The problem is he can't resist the zaniness that got him attention in the first place.
Smith's mix of zaniness, duty, and empathy not only charmed fans, but broadened the show's audience.
And Way's Doom Patrol with artist Nick Derington is outright zaniness, with a backbone of strange humor.
The way it works: Movie names are recast to capture the zaniness that is the political world.
Given your success thus far, and the zaniness in the crypto world, why get involved in crypto?
" The Disney brand is a far cry from the punchy, at times punch-drunk, zaniness of "Mr.
The series was pretty standard issue, but showcased Mr. Reynolds's innate comic timing and gift for zaniness.
Visitors were spending time with sculpture that, despite — or because of — its enigmatic zaniness, inspired a slow look.
So much zaniness had already happened that many in the stands at Citi Field must have felt so, too.
Guerrasio: With his character in particular, would you two discuss between takes how far you could take the zaniness?
Ms. Perry will bring bursts of zaniness, while Mr. Richie will bring the sage perspective of an older generation.
It was the skits—these guys were having fun and unafraid of putting their inside jokes and zaniness and wax.
The zaniness resumes as she tries to impress Josh's friends by renting a party bus to take them to the beach.
Wilder had also worked in more serious roles, and he could ground his zaniness in a way that gave them heft.
But devour it for the unhinged zaniness it brings to your small screen, and all the terrible, terribly rich, people within it.
The Yippie attitude of zaniness was but a way of making engaging and entertaining the show's grand aims and seriousness of purpose.
It is possible to miss Ms. Castiglioni while acknowledging that Mr. Risso made a strong debut on Saturday, clever in its zaniness.
It's a terrific comic sketch, which I won't spoil, and somewhere around the fourth or fifth animal, it hits wonderful heights of zaniness.
A writer and occasional performer but mostly a director, Mr. Vaccaro made dozens of theater pieces of surpassing zaniness and barely controlled anarchy.
Acer's new Predator Triton 22.0 is a more affordable option that borrows much of the Predator 2700 X's zaniness, without taking things too overboard.
More than one person compared Vegas to the Wild West, not for its zaniness or licentiousness, but because its culture's clay is still wet.
The show was delightfully cast — Aaron Tveit, Nikki M. James, Danny Pino, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jan Maxwell, Tony Shalhoub — and everyone embraced the zaniness.
If none of them seem as resistance-minded as Broodthaers, who was young in a time of revolutions, all share something of his subversive zaniness.
The zaniness is pretty low-key, and what we witness is less the explosion of pent-up energy than the gentle affirmation of exuberant kindness.
It's that touch of zaniness that's lacking in this revival by Theater Breaking Through Barriers, a company dedicated to fostering actors and writers with disabilities.
But this isn't a platformer—it's a first-person puzzle-adventure steeped in the same warmth and zaniness that made the original game so special.
On top of those cold hard facts, Will & Grace was never about the trials and tribulations of parenting and relationships with a dash of comedic zaniness.
This game looks to feature a ton of awesome Marvel characters and all the zaniness we can expect from Lego to make for an awesome experience.
When the developers start talking to the player in that meta way, I wonder if this could be useful for something beyond mere reflection or zaniness.
Falling with a thud between two stools, it has neither the zip nor the zaniness of farce nor the airy vivacity of the best romantic comedies.
And the arrival of the Internet has allowed these conspiracy theorists to connect with one another, providing an infinite feedback loop of affirmation for their zaniness.
But on social media, and even recently in the real world, it's started to take on a tinge of something more — a squinty sort of DGAF zaniness.
She may not like some of the zaniness that goes on there these days, but she adores being part of its long history of deliberation and decisions.
Add that to the cast we were following in the first two episodes and the Looney Tunes zaniness of the Adrian Veidt sequences and — it's a lot.
The series' already high levels of zaniness and meta-humor are also ramped up this season with episodes that feel like extended tributes to writer-director Wes Anderson.
Mr. Rando, long an expert in comedy with a specialty in delirious zaniness, liberally sprinkles the staging with frisky bits of business that wouldn't be fair to spoil.
Knott was a poet of zany precision, the zaniness usually coming right away, often in the first line, followed by quite meticulous workings out of his oddball premises.
That kind of market zaniness makes it difficult to carve out a niche, but Scalar has a bit of an edge on this front, thanks to its founders' backgrounds.
It's packed with jokes, but they rely more on the characters and on general zaniness, rather than references to (say) The Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones.
Her big, round eyes telegraph ennui, and while there are moments of Rudolph's trademark physical zaniness, the show also reveals her particular skill for imbuing small gestures with anguish.
For Ron and me to circle back to each other and create an adult romantic comedy set against the zaniness of sports, it will be interesting if we're able to do it.
Part of the attraction was that there are lots of poignant and uncomfortable moments in the show that are sometimes being played for dramedy, and not necessarily just for zaniness or pure comedy.
It even has a professional esports league built around it, and for good reason: It's a game that has managed to capture some of the character-based zaniness of something like Super Smash Bros.
Still, there was something charmingly cheesy about the whole enterprise — a loopy, low-budget zaniness that helped turn Power Rangers into a surprisingly huge hit that ran for 24 seasons and spawned an entertainment and merchandizing franchise.
This is the kind of narrative challenge that can make or break a TV show, but creator Pendleton Ward's acolytes tackle it with the emotional honesty and zaniness that draws as many adults to the show as kids.
For sheer zaniness, the most memorable is Alberto Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian coffee heir and aviation nut who held aerial dinner parties (waiters had to be agile), and bar-hopped across fin de siècle Paris in a tiny airship.
If you're looking for an entry point to its outsider zaniness a brand new compilation called THIS IS THE ZODIAC SPEAKING... "I AM NOT TED CRUZ" by the net label H.V.R.F. CENTRAL COMMAND might just provide the perfect occasion.
The teams set a record for combined pitchers used in a World Series game: 18, not counting the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw, who lined out as a pinch-hitter in the 17th inning, just to add to the zaniness of the night.
This is some of what makes choosing the interiors that go into T such fun — broadly speaking, I'd say I have a higher tolerance for zaniness, and Tom for the undone and unfinished, but despite our personal proclivities, we rarely disagree.
The tonal contrast between the euphoric zaniness of the 773s sitcom and the stark sincerity of "The Handmaid's Tale" is a striking illustration of either how far we have come in the last 30 years, or how far we have fallen.
On this week's Popcast, a conversation about whether the newly updated Grammys are a better representation of contemporary pop than the old version, and whether a show of this nature can ever truly capture the zaniness and breadth of modern music.
The problem with more enthusiastic or even hallucinatory writers on the subject is that they just compound the zaniness at the heart of the thing; it's all too much of the same tone, like having George Will walk you through the tax code.
Advertising After the studied zaniness of a campaign with the tag line "None of this makes sense" — a reference to how a five-calorie antioxidant drink could still manage to taste good — Bai Brands is looking to cast itself in a mature, inspirational image.
Mr. Twist proposed the use of "humanettes," human-puppet hybrids in which the performers' heads are visible above the puppets' bodies; as a result, the Oompa-Loompas now appear more as a chorus line than an indentured work force, and the audience seems to appreciate the zaniness.
Once April takes on child-care duties, there are a handful of slapstick set pieces (she and young Jordan tangle in the school parking lot, perform impromptu Mary J. Blige karaoke in a fancy restaurant, ogle a hot eighth-grade teacher played by Justin Hartley) but never the full zaniness that the actors deserve.
Bursting with zaniness, it is filled with dated humor and antiquated references: cartoon characters hoist martini glasses and tell bawdy jokes through word bubbles, a Sergio Aragonés scene features sombrero-wearing banditos with bulging eyes ogling a maiden, and a caricature of Abe Beame depicts the former New York mayor as haggard and waving a beggar's cup (presumably in reference his shabby re-election prospects that year).
She shares with Sosa, 36, an unwavering commitment to zaniness, executed, almost paradoxically, with utmost precision, and the aesthetic they have cultivated together in their apartment, much like that of the interiors featured in Sosa's magazine (recent stories have showcased the homes of the painter and sculptor Fernando Botero and the Queens-born fashion designer Telfar Clemens) comes from their ability to create unlikely juxtapositions.
The Order could continue to combine the resigned way that the characters in Buffy treated life on the Sunnydale Hellmouth with zaniness, which it touched on when Jack asked a professor for an extension on a paper because his roommate had gone missing, and the professor and one of his colleagues pulled out custom Bingo sheets to see if they had "missing roommate" or "dead roommate" listed as a predicted excuse.
Iowans, seemingly overwhelmed by the zaniness, have decided to embrace it: A cartoonist has sketched out caricatures of his predicted caucus winners on live TV, rendering Mr. Sanders as a wild-haired, bucktoothed professor and Mr. Trump as an effete emperor with a oversize tumbleweed mane ("yuge," as he would say.) "This will be — probably — your hairiest caucus of all time," one of the show's anchors cracked wise to the cartoonist.
This zany starting point of Jacob Bacharach's new novel, "The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates," is more fun than it sounds, even if the zaniness is considerably toned down from Bacharach's first novel, the wonderfully frenetic "The Bend of the World," which dealt in conspiracy theories, U.F.O.s and the occult (though much of it turned out to be just one character or other eating too many mushrooms).
My take on it? It’s a movie with three thousand punch lines, but only a thousand jokes. There’s too much zaniness, and not enough human comedy. It’s just too bizarre.
Almar Haflidason of BBC Online rated it 4/5 stars and recommended it to Sammo Hung fans. J. Doyle Wallis of DVD Talk rated it 3.5/5 stars and wrote, "Iron-Fisted Monk moves briskly with some solid fights and a decent story". David Johnson of DVD Verdict wrote, "A lackadaisical start gives way to a relentless hand-to-hand spectacle of zaniness".
He hosted Making the Band for CBS television for western Colorado. His reputation for zaniness has given him YouTube celebrity status, where previews of his on-air acts can be found. He is a motivational guest speaker and humorist often called on by professional organizations. On Feb 8, 2008, Mathis performed for the One Show on BBC-1 in front of 5 million viewers.
I Love You, Colonel Sanders! received an overall lukewarm response from professional reviewers. In her review for Kotaku, Gita Jackson criticized the game's lack of emotional depth and over-reliance on "zaniness", comparing it unfavorably to other "goofy" dating sims like Hatoful Boyfriend and Nameless. Nicole Carpenter of Polygon reviewed the game in the context of KFC's apparent marketing strategy to distance the Colonel Sanders mascot from the actual person.
The major themes of her work are a childlike zaniness, cruelty and nostalgia. And, as we know from Dream Memo, included in the posthumously released compilation Nekojiru Udon 3, many of her bizarre works of fantasy were based on her own dream experiences. Psychedelic mushrooms and LSD also often appear in her works. Yamano Hajime, using the pen-name Nekojiru-y, took over Nekojiru's world, and continues to produce new works.
Naughty Boys & Soldiers is a 1996 Taiwanese comedy film directed by Kevin Chu and written by Kuo Cheng, set in a 1970s coastal town with a primary school and a military base. While most of the comedy is slapstick zaniness, the film also pokes fun at the many absurdities in Taiwan's White Terror period, such as schools encouraging children to idolize Chiang Kai-shek and regurgitate his anti-Communist rhetoric.
Variety gave the film a moderately positive review, calling it an "utterly silly yarn" that "lacks the zaniness of the original", and complimented Larry Miller's performance.John P. McCarthy, "Review: 'The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes'", Variety, February 15, 1995. People gave it a B+ rating and called it a "fun, facile remake" with a good cast.David Hiltbrand, "Picks and Pans Review: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes", People, February 20, 1995.
In an early 2015 preview, Polygon wrote that the game's control scheme appeared to balance accessibility for newcomers and tactical options for veterans. They added that it was the funniest title at the PAX East expo. PC Gamer noted the game's zaniness and the enjoyment of playing it. GameSpot described its gameplay and style as "chaotic" and "unabashedly lowbrow", in light of an objective based on destroying fecal matter.
The ceiling was recoloured in 1895 by Charles Eamer Kempe,Allfrey (1909). p. 34. a move which has been both extensively praised and criticised; one commenter in the 1970s remarked that "anything as strange and curious as Arts and Craft aestheticism overlaid on seventeenth-century fake Gothic, which in turn disguises a genuine fifteenth-century hammer-beam roof is certainly worth keeping - if only for the sheer zaniness of it all".
The brothers quit after filming the movie "Never a Dull Moment" in 1943 to concentrate on club dates. The Ritzes, among the first of the big-money acts in Las Vegas, made a few television specials in the early 1950s. They carried their zaniness on the road until 1965 when Al died in New Orleans where they were performing. Harry and Jimmy stayed together and by 1966 opened the new Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
Neil Jillett, film critic for The Age wrote, "There are some good gags along the way, and a few of the plot's twists have an entertainingly surreal zaniness. But there is much heavy going too. Most of the messages Serious loads into the film - protect the environment, hate violence and banks, mock the British, go for a republic, sneer at American fads and religious hypocrisy - are presented with a smugness that was missing from Young Einstein".
The older Menefee became the show's on-screen gimmick between 1988 through 1994. The Mel Menefee character was an ongoing feature as the producers used Menefee's zaniness to form comedic situations, while the other personalities were hosting the episodes. When the show returned after a year hiatus, Menefee was joined by other personalities, most notably Denise Yvonne (now using the name Dee Jones). Other personalities that appeared for a number of seasons were Marci Camacho, Sibyl Motley, Jennifer Parnoff, and Veronica Ornelas.
He gave "Rumours" a "good" rating of 7 out of 10, and wrote, "What made the episode at least mildly entertaining were the comedy bits. Brittany's 'Fondue For Two' segments were fantastic". Most other reviewers were similarly smitten with the "Fondue for Two" segments, including the aforementioned Reiter, Poniewozik, Semigran, and Respers France. Futterman praised the return of Chenoweth's character April Rhodes, and The Wall Street Journal Raymund Flandez said that she "brings such lightness, humor and zaniness that's endearingly button-nose cute".
Morning zoo is a format of morning radio show common to English-language radio broadcasting. The name is derived from the wackiness and zaniness of the activities, segments, and overall personality of the show and its hosts. The morning zoo concept and name is most often deployed on Top 40 (CHR) radio stations. A morning zoo typically consists of two or more radio personalities, usually capable of spontaneous comic interaction as well as competent delivery of news and service elements.
In 1987 Tor published his first novel, Napoleon Disentimed, a parallel-universe and time-travel story of some complexity. It is written with Peirce's characteristic wit, irony, and jauntiness and is almost Wodehousian in its zaniness and complications of plot. Two more novels followed swiftly. The Thirteenth Majestral, later reissued as Dinosaur Park, was another intensely complex time-travel novel, but this time written—in both style and theme—in the somewhat rococo manner of the great science-fiction stylist Jack Vance.
The nonaesthetic properties associated with cuteness - smallness, compactness, formal simplicity, softness or pliancy thus also index minor negative affects such as helplessness, pitifulness and even despondency. Ngai also argues that the term cuteness is a way of sexualizing beings while simultaneously rendering them unthreatening. She illustrates this by providing several examples of poems that deploy ‘cuteness’ as a means of rendering the overtly aggressive and sexual dimension of the theme unthreatening. If "cuteness" is symptomatic of the aesthetics of contemporary consumption, zaniness is about production.
The film had a positive reception. , review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 82% of critics have given it a positive review based on 44 reviews, with an average rating of 6.75/10. The critics consensus reads: "A manic, overstuffed blend of sci-fi, comedy, and romance, Innerspace nonetheless charms, thanks to Martin Short's fine performance and the insistent zaniness of the plot." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 66 out of 100 based on 15 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Dunham, Judith. "Foibles and Fabrications," Artweek, March 29, 1980. Critic David Winter likened their wit to English caricaturists such as Hogarth, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson, but "seasoned" with the authentically American influences of 1930s Realism and Mad Magazine zaniness. Stanley used mythological elements (in works such as Cupid Chastised or the Morning After or Leda and the Swan) to both flesh out her modern dramas and evoke the irrational, while camouflaging the personal; her humor functioned to demystify myths, puncture art-world seriousness, and balance darker psychological themes.
It also created, named, and maintains the DePauw Athletic Mascot, Tyler the Tiger. Finally, as a way to show leadership and belief that "DePauw Never Quits", a member of the TPB leads athletic teams out onto the field of competition with a large, black flag containing a gold D. With this variety of music, as well as custom-authored cheers, unusual outfits, cooperative performances with other bands, and unique auxiliary units, the Tiger Pep Band was said by one out-of-state journalist to have a "Division I zaniness".
The Burns and Allen act began with Allen as the straight man, setting up Burns to deliver the punchlines—and get the laughs. In his book Gracie: A Love Story, Burns later explained that he noticed Allen's straight lines were getting more laughs than his punchlines, so he cannily flipped the act over—he made himself the straight man and let her get the laughs. Audiences immediately fell in love with Allen's character, who combined the traits of naivete, zaniness, and total innocence. The reformulated team, focusing on Allen, toured the country, eventually headlining in major vaudeville houses.
Animal Crackers is a 1930 American pre-Code Marx Brothers comedy film directed by Victor Heerman. The film stars the Marx Brothers, Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo, with Lillian Roth and Margaret Dumont. It was based on their broadway musical of the same name, in which mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding. A critical and commercial success upon its initial release, it was filmed at Paramount's Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; it was the second of two films the Brothers would make in New York City.
"Stairmageddon" received mixed reviews from television critics, with praise going to the drama in the Jim-Pam storyline, while the zaniness of other storylines received more mixed opinions. The A.V. Club reviewer Erik Adams complimented the drama between Jim and Pam, writing that it has "been given just the right amount of weight". He criticized the episode for being "one of the loudest tonal clashes in the history of The Office", comparing it negatively to the previous episode, "Promos". He said that the other storylines seemed crammed into the episode, particularly due to the writers' decision to flesh out the supporting cast.
Lincoln received generally positive reviews. David Kissinger of Rolling Stone called the album "every bit as eccentric as its predecessor, and even more eclectic", though this was supplemented with the disclaimer that "[a]t times this penchant for the bizarre leads them into pointlessly sophomoric zaniness". Robert Christgau of The Village Voice described the band as "actively annoying even if intelligence is all you ask of your art-pop" and called the album's hooks "cleverness for cleverness's sake", nonetheless conceding that "damned clever they are." The album placed at number 78 on Pitchfork's 100 Best Albums of the 1980s.
Some of the first President's Choice products included Belgian biscuits, chocolate chip cookies, and passion fruit sorbet. The advent of PC also coincided closely with the appearance of a new marketing tool called Dave Nichol's Insider's Report, first published in November 1983. Described as a cross between Mad and Consumer Reports that combined "zaniness and food tips in a comic book format", the newspaper supplement was a quirky, tongue-in- cheek product review modelled after flyers from California supermarket chain Trader Joe's. As the popularity of President's Choice grew, along with the number of products, the Insider's Report became increasingly devoted to the promotion of the line.
The work had a run in London in an English version by F. C. Burnand as Hit or Miss, or All My Eye and Betty Martin in 1868, among other productions in London in the 19th century, and was also performed in various adaptations in Australia, the USA, Austria and Germany. It was performed frequently in France up to the beginning of the 20th century, however audience taste in operetta moved away from this style of extravagant zaniness to a more bourgeois kind of work and L'œil crevé became only rarely performed. The piece was revived in a new production at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris, in 1999, under its original title Vlan! dans l’oeil.
The series centered on Nick Chase, a 42-year old former drill instructor who has retired from the U.S. Marine Corps and is now taking advantage of the GI Bill to attend Saginaw University. He gets assigned to room with Matthew Wiggins, 14-year old "boy genius", who has also enrolled at Saginaw to study marine biology. Nick does not like this arrangement at first, but when he sees Matthew is serious about his studies, he appreciates avoiding the stereotypical raunchiness and zaniness associated with college students and sees the same discipline in Matthew that he saw in his recruits, and the two form a partnership, trying to help each other out. Among those shown were a trio of 'Singing Freshman' who sang through the hallways.
The show announced its focus on regional traditions, culture, values, customs, and manners with the characters speaking in classical Arabic. It was also announced that the much loved character No'man the camel and the bird muppet Melsoon were returning to the new run. They were to be joined by new muppets that would "include Shams, a quick witted 6-year-old girl who is full of energy and loves to express herself, as well as cute Gargour, a special resident on Iftah Ya Simsim who provides his trademark zaniness, comic chaos and a unique perspective on the world." It was announced that season one Muppet performers included six puppeteers: Abdullah Kassem, Asma Alshamsi, Natheer Khawaldeh, Maher Mozawak, Noura Sadaka, and Michel Jabali.
Avery, with the assistance of Clampett, Jones, and the new associate director Frank Tashlin, laid the foundation for a style of animation that dethroned The Walt Disney Studio as the leader in animated short films, and created a legion of cartoon characters still known today. Avery, in particular, was deeply involved. He crafted gags for the shorts, periodically provided voices for them (including his trademark belly laugh), and held such control over the timing of the shorts that he would add or cut frames out of the final negative if he felt a gag's timing was not quite right. Porky's Duck Hunt introduced the character of Daffy Duck, who possessed a new form of "lunacy" and zaniness that had not been seen before in animated cartoons.
Ebert praised the hellscape imagery and accused Siskel of being dismissive because of the genre, but having liked Batman, Siskel was unconvinced.Siskel & Ebert At the movies Season 11, Episode 47, Week of August 2, 1997 David Kaplan of Newsweek called the film "the summer's most spectacular concoction of visual effects and color" but said that those unfamiliar with the comics might find the story difficult to follow. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle criticized the weak story, and called the film a visual assault, "is all about style, which will appeal to some viewers and overwhelm most others". Of the cast LaSalle says only John Leguizamo stands out, his "zaniness seems in tune with the action" and he is "lucky enough to have a flashy part".
During the later half of the 20th century, the DePauw Marching Band was led by Director of Bands and Alumnus Dan Hanna, class of 1947. Prof. Hanna, loved by his students, strongly believed that the Tigers playing on the field or the court should always know that regardless of the score, the musicians were always behind them. Hanna led bands at athletic events as large as 100 and as small as 15. Affectionately calling his marching band the Stumblebums, Hanna instilled a little zaniness into each performance including once having the marching band form the shape of a banana, begin peeling itself, all the while playing the stripper as they "stumbled" off the field during the Battle for the Monon Bell - which was televised nationally on ABC.
Often referred to as New Journalism, Wolfe's characteristic writing style, characterized by florid prose and obsessive attention to detail, are on display throughout the book. Wolfe compared himself to British author Evelyn Waugh, who was known for his dark comedy. The New York Times however, suggested that Wolfe's latest effort most closely resembled the French author Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who in the early 20th century, wrote in a highly colloquial style, and delved deeply into the anxieties of his characters. Because Wolfe's subjects in Mauve Gloves were not people on the fringes of society, the New York Times critic argued that Wolfe had begun to rely more heavily on "writing qua writing," and less on the inherent zaniness of his subjects.
In its original American broadcast, "The Crepes of Wrath" finished 29th for the week with a Nielsen rating of 15.9, the second highest rated show on Fox. "The Crepes of Wrath" received generally positive reviews from critics. Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, said the episode was a "Tour de Force" and that this was "perhaps the first episode to make the viewer's jaw drop at the audacity and invention of the series' makers". In a DVD review of the first season, David B. Grelck rated this episode a (of 5), adding: "while the laughs are a bit dry in this episode, the over-the-top plot is indicative of zaniness to come".
The Prince of Wales attended one of the London performances and enjoyed Hervé's performance of the Chanson du jambon on horseback in the first act so much that he expressed a wish that he could hear it again so Hervé came riding into the second act scene of the throne room, again on horseback, and repeated the number. The operetta had several successful productions in London, including an adaptation by H. B. Farnie at the Empire Theatre in 1884 and was given in New York in 1874, in English. It was also given in various adaptations in Australia, in Berlin and in Vienna in the 19th century. By the beginning of the 20th century however audience taste in operetta had moved away from this style of extravagant zaniness to a more bourgeois kind of work and Chilpéric was only rarely performed.
Lombard was particularly noted for the zaniness of her performances, described as a "natural prankster, a salty tongued straight-shooter, a feminist precursor and one of the few stars who was beloved by the technicians and studio functionaries who worked with her". Life magazine noted that her film personality transcended to real life, "her conversation, often brilliant, is punctuated by screeches, laughs, growls, gesticulations and the expletives of a sailor's parrot". Graham Greene praised the "heartbreaking and nostalgic melodies" of her faster-than-thought delivery, whereas The Independent wrote, "Platinum blonde, with a heart-shaped face, delicate, impish features and a figure made to be swathed in silver lamé, Lombard wriggled expressively through such classics of hysteria as Twentieth Century and My Man Godfrey." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the 25 greatest American female screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema, and she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6930 Hollywood Blvd.

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