His next stop is at an upstate New York banquet hall that boasts an assortment of corny theme rooms and packs insufficiently crowded receptions with its own smirky, seen-it-all employees.
*When we dragged ourselves into Pit Stop 4 that afternoon and found the Broadway Babes (the crew picked a corny theme to distract us at each of the watering holes scattered along the route) singing, to the "Hello, Dolly!" tune, "So no kvetching, keep on stretching, you can walk some more".
Stampeding into view with a corny, jokey theme song, "Range" is intent on making "Blazing Saddles" look like "The Three Sisters".
But I'll never forget my first viewing of Episode Four in a shopping mall near Boston, Massachusetts in the summer of 1977 – excitingly, months before it had been released in the UK – and freaking to that irresistibly corny, syrupy, exclamatory theme from John Williams.
Buffett gives the people what they desire most, which is corny rhymes and theme-park dinners.
Heard live, the music of star bassist Christian McBride's quintet might swing, but this album (a tribute to the late double bassist Ray Brown, not that you'd guess) is strictly jazz for middle managers: the themes are corny or cute; the feel is too polite to be properly funky and the frontline of soprano sax and vibes sounds ingratiating rather than challenging.
Adopting the echo-laden dirge theme from Cornyn's original misfire, the parody ad lumbers through the DNC's oppo research, which is delivered by a narrator not quite as deep-voiced or (unintentionally) hilarious as the one in the original ad.
Views and Revues One evening, Alessandra and I went off to a log-cabinlike dinner theater called Oh Canada Eh?! Its themes are probably too corny, too kitschy and too Canadian for many American visitors.
Danny Peary and Schickel expected a film based on pulp stories and comic books to be light-hearted or corny, and Milius's introduction of Nietzschean themes and ideology did not sit well with them.
The nautical theme has been reduced to a corny joke in British seaside architecture, but there's a dignified restraint to it here.
