Yet as Tieng asserts his new prerogatives, the comedy recedes into the background, as all three wives sense the earth trembling beneath their feet.
At face value, "Britney" is the statement of a young woman crossing into adulthood, claiming new prerogatives and accepting new risks.
Not that it will matter much now the margin may have been close, but you can expect Erdoğan to exercise his new prerogatives fully.
Among the contentious issues that have been agreed upon thus far are the new prerogatives of the president and prime minister, and the balance of power between them.
The spirit of the Lisbon Treaty is clearly present within this document, with the expansion of Parliament's responsibilities, the equal treatment for Parliament and the Council and Parliament's new prerogatives with respect to various matters.
In his book "Takeover," Savage quotes a vivid observation by the Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, who warned that once established, a new executive prerogative has a tendency to lie around, "like a loaded weapon ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need".
Using the new Democratic prerogatives to make progress should make those moments pass and, provided the White House becomes more politically adroit, bring a new season of accomplishment in Washington.
She isn't always right and, as her critics have pointed out, she's not above using the new-media prerogative of going into her archives and changing the bad call to a good one.
Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, proposed a set of revolutionary data-protection laws that would force sites like Facebook and Twitter to delete personal information at the request of users, establishing a new, and valuable, prerogative — "the right to be forgotten".
