The personalized treat effectively gets the Funny Thing to quit eating doll heads, and the story ends with him sitting atop a mountain, spiky blue tail curling down "contentedly," eating jum-jills that are delivered to him, one at a time, by a procession of small birds.
Mr. Gordon-Levitt effectively translates that thesis into funny, eventually touching and dramatic terms in his movie, which shifts registers when Jon meets an almost ghostly older woman, Esther (a tender, true Julianne Moore).
It's the blundering rhythms and off-key melodies of the spoken dialogue that make it so memorable and funny, and that most effectively make Mr. Norris's unhappy but trenchant case for the emptiness of most human communication.
She added that she thinks the episode "pokes fun at Hollywood very effectively", and that "To top it off, funny favorite characters Rainier Wolfcastle and Lionel Hutz are also in the episode".
These techniques might seem funny but this works very effectively.
The evil-child movie has been with us at least as long as "The Bad Seed" (1956, gloriously funny) and "Village of the Damned" (1960, effectively chilling), and "Case 39" adds little to the diminutive-demon genre.
Choose a book that is happy, funny, or complicated enough that you will occupy your mind effectively.
Hamlet even speaks in funny voices at times, and for the most part it's an effectively playful approach.
This is all very funny when done at a party, but not so funny when the Internet effectively does the same thing with important factual matters relating to business or public policy.
Effectively inventing a second career as a droll curator of his first, he's the best funny uncle America has had since Paul Lynde's cackle on "The Hollywood Squares" was confusing innocents in less wised-up times.
