One oddity, since Redmond's soaps frequently tested the prissiness of TV regulators, is how inoffensive his characters' speech is.
Happy-Go-Lucky triumphantly features a sweet-natured lead in a world full of anger and insecurity; here you get an inoffensive (but damaged) lead character surrounded by niceness.
(Late in the game, Joanna discovers that one of the robot-designers once worked for AOL. "Is that why the women are so slow?" she asks.) Occasionally, as in the film's clever, cautionary view of gay marriage, you might intuit a crackle of genuine satire, but for the most part "The Stepford Wives" is as cheerful and inoffensive as its title characters.
The "Prince of Persia" game that the movie was based upon was lauded by The Wire for its inoffensive depictions of Muslim characters, who are so frequently villainized in American video games.
Drawing with a simple, shapely line, Barsotti employed a set of recurring characters that seemed inoffensive, apolitical, even sweet — adorable hounds, therapized kings.
From the skimpy outlines of a cartoon, Mr. Lane manages to make his oily Gomez a distinctive and oddly lovable character, a tasty but inoffensive parody of the suave European of old Hollywood movies.
They're inoffensive for the most part, naturally.
"He has assumed an ever more childlike appearance as the ratty character of Steamboat Willie became the cute and inoffensive host to a magic kingdom," Gould wrote.
At the trial, held in mid-June, character witnesses testified that Dixon was "a harmless, inoffensive man, but destitute of business capacity" and "in reply to the question whether Dixon was non compos mentis, I consider him as being on the frontier line sometimes on one side, and sometimes on the other, just as the breeze of fortune happens to blow".
The cast is charming, the characters are believable, and Peter Silverman's dialogue is inoffensive.
