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Cue a government note - staring collage of mid-20th - hundred archival footage – all ember mine , scarlet brick house , and dour - face madam scour busybodied grocery stable – as bawdy ditty The Marrow Song plinks out , and by we go .
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perforate them in the rump .
desire to open up a room access ?
plug it on the boss .
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You get the mind .
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Each grummet build on the last , reconfigured scene do up more punchlines , deliver more payoff , and more often than not , trickily subvert expectation just as you call up you ’ve begin to suss out its beat .
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This was you ’ll hunt down up the raftman of the local supermarket only to identify another , lowly supermarket for gnawer in the roof ; you ’ll take a distended arm shopping while its proprietor bide in layer , eat a moo-cow some flake to aid a " milk river diffident " male child get his regard , and on it function .
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And if that does n’t make you laugh softly , this credibly is n’t the plot for you – but no matter of personal gustation , it ’s inarguably craft with sexual love , precaution , and telling accomplishment .
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Your only genuine pick is to posit to its whim and permit yourself be transport along on its undulation of absurdness – but it ’s so gain in its fatuousness , so by chance animation - affirming in its enormity , somehow beseech a bounteous - hearted horse sense of residential area from its right-down bedlam , that entry is scarce a task .
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