MATT JACOBSEN: When city folk are transplanted to the woods of Vermont, they get slaphappy.
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It's just too bad that there was nothing slaphappy or delightful about either of these men in real life.
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Granted, aside from O'Dowd (whose slaphappy, "whatever, man!" attitude vaguely recalls his beloved slacker role in The IT Crowd), the cast is more suited for drama than comedy.
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There's so much of each kind of thing that a viewer's response may shift from fascination to impatience, and then, perhaps, to something like a slaphappy Zen satori.
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But, in the years after that European tour, NOFX honed a slaphappy version of punk rock, fast but surprisingly catchy, with Burkett delivering his sneering lyrics more or less in tune.
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And, when you get to that point when you're so exhausted from all the work and slaphappy from cleaning supplies fumes that no amount of spring cleaning expert advice can help, turn to spring cleaning memes.
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Slaphappy Sleuths was filmed on April 11–14, 1949Slaphappy Sleuths at threestooges.net and released 19 months later in November 1950. The gag of a third Stooge acting like a bloodhound and tries to sniff out the tracks of enemies was also used in Goofs and Saddles (1937) and Phony Express (1943).
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As she sported a genuine French accent, she was often cast as a "Fifi," in films such as Hugs and Mugs, Pest Man Wins, A Missed Fortune and Loose Loot.Nanette Bordeaux She also had to hide her French accent under an American one in such films as Slaphappy Sleuths and Income Tax Sappy.
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Slaphappy Sleuths is a 1950 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 127th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who appeared in 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
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Life Magazine covered it with a three-page color-photo spread."The Love for Three Oranges: A Slaphappy Fairy Tale Makes a Smash-Hit Opera", Life Magazine, Nov 1949. The New York company took the production to Chicago. Prokofiev's opera was brought back by popular demand for two more successive seasons in New York.
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Established in 2006, their first project was fiction drama The Boat People, starring Raquel Cassidy and Nabil Elouahabi. They proceeded to make the UK Film Council funded short film Domestics in 2008, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The same year, their microfilm Slaphappy, directed by Tim Plester won best film at the Belfast Film Festival in the 15 second category.
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As staged by Vladimir Rosing and conducted by Laszlo Halasz, the production was successful. Life magazine featured it in a color photo spread. The New York City Opera mounted a touring company of the production, and the opera was again staged in New York for three successive seasons."The Love for Three Oranges: A Slaphappy Fairy Tale Makes a Smash-Hit Opera", Life, 2 October 1950.
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Additional products Sloan has crowdfunded include a flexible vibrator known as Slaphappy, a male masturbator known as 3Fap, and Autoblow A.I., the first sex toy that uses artificial intelligence to replicate human movements. In June 2015, Sloan launched a worldwide vaginal beauty contest in order to find vulvas to replicate onto the top of the Autoblow 2. Three million votes were cast from 191 countries across 110 vulva photo submissions.
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Blystone is best known for his appearance in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, playing Paulette Goddard's father, and several short films starring The Three Stooges. Some of his more memorable roles were in the films Half Shot Shooters, False Alarms, Goofs and Saddles, Three Little Twirps and Slaphappy Sleuths. His final appearance with the trio was Of Cash and Hash in 1955. He also appeared in several Laurel and Hardy films.
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The new production, directed by Vladimir Rosing, turned into a smash hit and was brought back for two additional seasons."The Love for Three Oranges: A Slaphappy Fairy Tale Makes a Smash-Hit Opera", Life Magazine, November 1949. Also in 1949, Halasz scheduled the world premiere of David Tamkin's The Dybbuk to be performed by the NYCO in 1950. However, the NYCO board opposed the decision and ultimately the production was postponed for financial reasons.
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The 1980 discovery of scripts for this 1932–33 series led to publication by Pantheon Books, as described in The New York Times in 1988: > Now, one of the funniest "lost" radio shows of the early 1930s — Flywheel, > Shyster and Flywheel, Attorneys at Law, starring Groucho and Chico Marx — > has been unearthed. Not the voices; in those years radio programs were not > regularly recorded. But the transcripts of 25 of the original Flywheel > episodes have been found in the archives of the Library of Congress. For > viewers and listeners who want to discover — or rediscover — what comedy was > all about in those more slaphappy days, the actual scripts of Flywheel, > Shyster and Flywheel, edited by Michael Barson, will be published in October > by Pantheon Books.
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Geoff Willmetts of the website Sfcrowsnest regards "Flight to Atlantica" as ("story-wise") one of the best episodes of the series, arguing that it "would work in any medium". He adds that it marks "one of the rare times when the Spectrum captains are less than formal, with elements of arrogance and slaphappy showing how well disciplined they normally are." Shane M. Dallmann of Video Watchdog magazine describes the episode as "amusing" and adds that it contains "plenty of character-breaking moments". He expresses surprise that Scarlet is "treated as a hero" in the final scene given that it was he who arranged the unauthorised champagne party (an "unbelievably bone- headed blunder" on his part) and is therefore indirectly responsible for the near-total destruction of Atlantica.
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The film was placed at No. 4 in the list of top-grossing movies for 1942 in the USA. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times liked it: "Let us be thankful that Paramount is still blessed with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, and that it has set its cameras to tailing these two irrepressible wags on another fantastic excursion, Road to Morocco, which came to the Paramount yesterday. For the screen, under present circumstances, can hold no more diverting lure than the prospect of Hope and Crosby ambling, as they have done before, through an utterly slaphappy picture, picking up Dorothy Lamour along the way and tossing acid wisecracks at each other without a thought for reason or sense...The short of it is that Road to Morocco is a daffy, laugh-drafting film. And you’ll certainly agree with the camel which, at one point, offers the gratuitous remark, “This is the screwiest picture I was ever in.” Variety commented: "Crosby, Hope and Lamour have done it again. Their click in Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar is eclipsed by Road to Morocco... Crosby, of course, is still more or less straighting for Hope’s incessantly steaming gags.
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