And yet somehow 30 Rock has a way of not making its guest stars seem perfunctory or like window dressing.
Today, navigation systems in luxury cars like the Acura MDX can respond to perfunctory commands, like "Find the nearest gas station".
The group's new album is "Live From Camp X-Ray," which is full of blaring horn parts and rather perfunctory songs like "Bring Us Bullets".
He smiled for the camera but in truth, putting on a happy face on this day was another perfunctory act, like putting on sunblock.
The show treated it like it was something that had to be done, a birth under crisis, and it did it in a perfunctory manner like they were trying to get it over with and tick it off their list of cliches.
These outreach efforts must go beyond perfunctory measures, like press releases, and instead generate impact by engaging victims and the public through a robust outreach and communications strategy.
From there, you have to schedule an in-person interview at one of 38 Global Entry Enrollment Centers, where a CBP officer will ask you a few perfunctory questions (like, why are you applying?) for a grand total of about seven minutes, under the guise of a "rigorous background check".
Raza Kazim admits only to being in his eighties, but he has a perfunctory, almost irritatingly child-like way of twining his thin fingers together while trying to define his love of country, his belief in the worth of Pakistan.
Our security detail offered us our perfunctory flak-jackets like he was passing out after-dinner mints.
Recent Allen films have tended towards the perfunctory, often looking like a succession of clumsy first takes.
