Lanning was engaged for the original darts and table skittles commentary and would later describe working on the show as "an outrageous blast of fun and spectacular characters".
There are so many theatrical magic moments in this show it is hard to choose, and that's without even taking into account a sizzling, red-hot performance of burning intensity from the actor who plays a lighted fuse, or the final firework contest - which Lila must win if she is to save her father's life - and which is one big explosive blast of fun.
Magnificently turned out in high 30s fashion, her presence added a blast of prewar fun to the routine proceedings of the Faber board.
But Parry's "Spaceship Earth" (inspired by Buckminster Fuller) has a dogged sort of poignance to it, and Jherek Bischoff's "Childhood's Retreat" (which sets to music a poem by Robert Duncan) is a blast of merry fun.
Estimates said that 10,000 would be attending this year's Festival No. 6 and, despite the wild weather (and a few locations that vanished overnight thanks to the high winds), it never felt less than full of people here for a last blast of festival fun.
I can't help but think of a woodchipper somewhere in a Hollywood boardroom, where the last decade of funny blockbuster films The Hangover, Crazy Stupid Love, This Is 40 are stuffed into its mouth, blasting the likes of Fun Mom Dinner and Rough Night out the other end.
While some people were attracted to his willingness to speak in such a blunt way, others who turned out to his events were drawn by his celebrity and to see a blast of show business fun.
And of course the cachaça-heavy caipirinha, which the Brazilians ignore in favour of caipiroska, a vodka-based alternative, which, to my sun-starved European tastebuds was a lime blast of feel-good fun in a glass.
Matthew Leyland from Total Film called it "a throwaway blast of solid, stupid fun" and gave it three out of five stars, particularly praising Joseph Gordon-Levitt's performance as the treacherous Cobra Commander.
Occasionally, even Donkey Kong shows up to wreak havoc, because why not? "Combining three classic games into one awesome mash-up, with multiple maps and cool retro music, Pacapong is a wonderful blast of retro arcade fun," Alpha Beta Gamer explains.
Critical reaction to "Golden Retriever" was generally positive and many reviewers commented on the track's glam rock style PopMatters described the track as a "a fun blast of glam rock", the NME called it "an irresistibly catchy... glam stomper", and The Guardian stated that the "unhinged glammy romp" cannot be faulted.
