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Its drama was manufactured — often while the cameras were rolling — and its emotional beats lacked authenticity, feeling like they had been plopped into the show to give it some resonant thrust.

“You’re doing a good job,” the man said as he plopped a bottle into a cardboard box.

Each of its brightly colored concentric circles would soon be occupied as children plopped down for story time and games such as Jenga.

You could plop her performance into a big Hollywood comedy and it would work just as well.

Those perfectly cut, firm, fork-able rounds are the easiest thing in the world to plop out and place on a platter.