It might have been a rather amusing episode if it wasn't symptomatic of darker, Orwellian trends that have marked Harper's nine years in office.
Helena is a noble example of womanhood, and, in the comic part of the play, Hazlitt is especially amused by the character of Parolles, the "parasite and hanger on of [Count] Bertram's whose "folly, boasting, and cowardice [... and] false pretensions to bravery and honour" are unmasked in "a very amusing episode".
Eventually, Prof. Ara Darzi, a former minister of health, head of surgery at Imperial College in London and Britain's ambassador for health and life sciences, and Tom Kibasi of McKinsey & Company, an honorary lecturer at Imperial College, gently lectured American readers on this amusing episode and on the actual modus operandi of the N.H.S.
By John C. Mosher The New Yorker, February 16 , 1929P. 11 Amusing episode in the life of H.R.H. Lady gets a friend to bring him to a party, apparently without planning to do so, and when there, the hostess presents him with a watch with his initials and hers in diamonds.
This rather amusing episode demonstrates the secrecy that still pervades the trade deals.
It is rather a loosely rambling recount of touching and amusing episodes in the lives of a country parson and his inexperienced city-bred wife as they patiently devote themselves to the service of the people back in the hills.
One of the more amusing episodes of TOWIE saw the cast go "glamping" (complete with skyscraper heels, leopard-skin suitcases and a pink inflatable armchair).
Ed Liu of Toon Zone was critical of the episode and several other early ones from the series, citing them as "way too manic for their own good," but considered the song to be an "amusing video sequence".
In an amusing gimmick, several times an episode they'll have Mr. Cheadle literally step out of a scene — everyone else freezes while he does this — and address the camera to explain what's going on or define a bit of consultant-speak.
