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* ''Everything'' to do with the Crummles' theatre company in the 1980 stage version. To add a little context, this is the Royal Shakespeare Company (which at the time contained some of the best theatre actors in the UK) taking the concept of BadBadActing and dialing it UpToEleven. The bowdlerised version of ''Romeo & Juliet'' they present at the end of the first half is utter hilarity at its finest.

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* ''Everything'' to do with the Crummles' theatre company in the 1980 stage version. To add a little context, this is the Royal Shakespeare Company (which at the time contained some of the best theatre actors in the UK) taking the concept of BadBadActing and dialing it UpToEleven.up to eleven. The bowdlerised version of ''Romeo & Juliet'' they present at the end of the first half is utter hilarity at its finest.
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-->''Mr. Kenwigs started from his seat with a petrified stare, caught his second daughter by her flaxen tail, and covered his face with his pocket-handkerchief. Morleena fell, all stiff and rigid, into the baby's chair, as she had seen her mother fall when she fainted away, and the two remaining little Kenwigses shrieked in affright. \\
"My children, my defrauded, swindled infants!" cried Mr. Kenwigs, pulling so hard, in his vehemence, at the flaxen tail of his second daughter, that he lifted her up on tiptoe, and kept her, for some seconds, in that attitude. "Villain, ass, traitor!"''

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* ''Everything'' to do with the Crummles' theatre company in the 1980 stage version. To add a little context, this is the Royal Shakespeare Company (which at the time contained some of the best theatre actors in the UK) taking the concept of BadBadActing and dialling it UpToEleven. The bowdlerised version of ''Romeo & Juliet'' they present at the end of the first half is utter hilarity at its finest.

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* The Kenwigs family. Every scene of them is nothing short of hilarious. Especially their reaction to Mr. Lillyvick's marriage.
* ''Everything'' to do with the Crummles' theatre company in the 1980 stage version. To add a little context, this is the Royal Shakespeare Company (which at the time contained some of the best theatre actors in the UK) taking the concept of BadBadActing and dialling dialing it UpToEleven. The bowdlerised version of ''Romeo & Juliet'' they present at the end of the first half is utter hilarity at its finest.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Theatrical Emotion of Mr. Vincent Crummles'']]
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* ''Everything'' to do with the Crummles' theatre company in the 1980 stage version. To add a little context, this is the Royal Shakespeare Company (which at the time contained some of the best theatre actors in the UK) taking the concept of BadBadActing and dialling it UpToEleven. The bowdlerised version of ''Romeo & Juliet'' they present at the end of the first half is utter hilarity at its finest.
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* In the 2001 film, John Browdie gets a funny moment at Fanny Squeers' expense.
--> '''Fanny Squeers:''' ''[to her friend Tilda]'' Oh, I'm in no hurry [to get married], Tilda. I can wait.
--> '''John Browdie:''' So can the young men, it seems.
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