Word: cluelessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students, Mr. Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), who has decided that Ferris, the darling of his school, has made a fool of him one too many times. Rooney is modeled on a mixture of Inspector Clouseau and his boss, who, as you may remember, in one movie aspired to kill his clueless detective (you even get to hear a refrain of the Pink Panther theme...
What does threaten to turn our gaze from the central action between host and hostess is the shining performance of Jane Loranger. Loranger plays Honey not merely as a drab, "slim-hipped" hanger onto Nick, but as a mostly-clueless waif with occasional but unspoken real glimmers of insight. She delivers lines like "Oh yes, [Nick] has a very firm body" deadpan, and "I don't want any children, I don't want any hurt" with a hysterical intensity that brings on the shivers...
Having established themselves as utterly clueless, this oddball crew proceeds to deliver a rousing number, in which they equate the whole operation with a religious football game. ("We're special-teamin' for the Lord...") Their energetic pep-rally-cum-war-anthem is the production's first real show-stopper...
However, in the face of the cagers' fourth loss in their last five contests--the lone triumph since Thanksgiving break a 86-50 drubbing of a clueless MIT squad last Tuesday--Harvard did manage to salvage a glimmer of hope for the future...
Aside from these obviously clueless citizens, many normal people from all across the land had no idea the 102nd edition of The Game was almost upon us. Their responses were frighteningly uniform...