But you also get fine visual comedy, such as the reflexive pasted-on grin Louie adopts whenever his date looks at him, and sudden sideways darts into something far more surreal.
He proceeded by a kind of osmosis or mutation, blending sights and sounds and material into something more seamless and Surreal.
It's unlike anything I've ever seen because it doesn't tip into irony; the writers, Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen — they also perform in the piece, which was directed and developed by Oliver Butler — are merely using "Leave It to Beaver," realities to get at something sharper and more surreal than the crinoline under the skirt and male posturing.
We dig into the group of lo-fi house producers who are rapidly moving into more fully realized pieces, a new generation of DJs who are slowly incorporating ambient music into their work, and a few musicians taking grammar of house tracks and turning it into something more strange and surreal.
"I think that evolved into something more anti-logic, and more surreal, that's easier to follow now".
After a streak of surreal episodes for Atlanta, we got something more grounded last night, a flashback featuring both cousins from back in their school days.
Once inside the theatre, mere trappings give way to something more interesting with designer Amanda Stoodley offering a wonderful, slightly surreal touch with a chandelier constructed of beer glasses, plus a grubby carpet and circular bar.
If it transpires that he did tweak something whilst bungy-jumping last Monday, it will rank among the more surreal injuries in English rugby history.
If you thought the pantomime of evil tower blocks couldn't get any more surreal, the city of Leeds can now prove you wrong, with its latest plot line like something straight from a Marvel superheroes comic.
This lively surreal satire, about a celebrity-studded dinner party given by a fluttery Martha Stewart-like hostess, turns out to be something more than a glib intellectual lampoon.
