zaniness

As in most ads featuring Snoop, zaniness ensues: Suds-covered women crawl out of the dishwasher, a pair of piano players appear out of nowhere and the bored 20-something becomes no longer bored.

There are screen-based offerings as well, but the emphasis is often on the communal, as evidenced by the anyone-can-be-an-artist zaniness that is “Sloppy Forgeries.”

It was all a good reminder, I thought, of how most voters actually perceive the political realm on a day-to-day basis: just another overwhelming addition to the zaniness of reality.

When reimagining the fraught elevator drops of The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror into Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout at Disney California Adventure, for instance, the sudden lifts and nosedives were played more for laughs to match the zaniness of the franchise.

Who can blame her for wanting to finally ship the overworked ethnic-family jokes, tired cultural references and forced zaniness from the Chicago suburbs to the picturesque homeland of the title?