Sentences with phrase «clever running jokes»

With clever running jokes and story arcs that span episodes and even seasons, Arrested Development is the kind of show that's made for binge - watching.

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Full of ideas that are usually more clever than funny — e.g., the running joke satirizing lack of communication between men and women by having the characters speak jibberish, generic phrases, or different languages — but it should prove interesting and inventive enough to keep smart people watching to the end.

For four years, he and Cosby in their scenes together comprised one of the funniest comedy double acts seen on television, his innocent yet conniving Griffin Vesey making the perfect foil to Cosby's ill - tempered curmudgeon Hilton Lucas; another highlight of his portrayal (and a clever «in» joke referring back to his work in Cool Runnings) were Griffin's occasional attempts to impress women by passing himself off as a West Indian, affecting a Jamaican accent.

Thus begins the running joke of ex-theatre wunderkind Martin McDonagh's clever, savvy and enjoyable revamp of the odd - couple / gangster caper, a genre picture confident its own audience - pleasing verbal sparrings, joke - enabling moral sophistry and tongue - in - cheek classical and cinematic borrowings — from Hieronymus Bosch's «Last Judgement» to Nic Roeg's «Don't Look Now» and every belfry, picaresque canal and famous seventeenth - century building in the «Venice of the North».

Writers Steve Faber and Bob Fisher devise a number of clever ways to extend the joke of Wedding Crashers beyond the mere hit - and - run pleasures their characters derive, from having John and Jeremy bet on quoted scripture and ceremonial music (Johan Pachelbel's Canon in D, Richard Wagner's Wedding March Processional, etc.) to having them bound together by a leave - no - crasher - behind credo with all sorts of other rider attachments that eventually leads to a cameo by fellow Frat Pack member Ferrell as Chazz, the sort of mystical patriarch of this culture of uninvited party - hopping.