When Quell dares to fart in his presence, Dodd scolds the new arrival as a "silly animal" and yet a moment later he joins in with the laughter.
He is referring to the method whereby recruits to the Cause can be cleansed of whatever faults and stains continue to foul their existence — nagging Freddie about his "past failures" and calling him a "silly animal".
Easily half the gags are silly animal puns, verbal or visual, like Broadway posters for "Fun Ham," kangaroo bellhops, or a painting of Manet's Olympia as a shark.
Or, to put it in more scientific terms, people's brains are simply not primed to see a man wearing a big, silly animal outfit.
Instead, I will watch one more DVD, Dick Sauce, because the silly animal hats the girls are wearing are oddly familiar they look exactly like the hats Belladonna and I wore to dinner with her preteen daughter and her daughter's friend when I was in LA last month.
One night I said: "If Bruce Lee was an animal, what's the silliest animal he would be?" It's an obvious joke: the fast-moving martial artist would be a slow-moving turtle.
Thankfully, there are enough silly baby animals in Life Story to refocus your attention, such as the jerboa, which jumps at every noise its huge ears detect.
For a while now, Jose Mourinho has been the hired entertainer at the biggest spoilt kids' party there is, and his silly balloon animals have been making everyone cry.
The site, Petside.com, offers a full menu of information about dogs and cats, from the serious (how to diagnose your pet's illnesses) to the silly (funny animal videos).
