"It was charming the way we found it," Mr. Formby said, "because it had such a relaxed beach house feeling, but it was furnished with tacky 70's and early 80's sort of fake Danish furniture, rust-colored upholstery mixed with gold wall sconces, bad blinds and bad reading lamps screwed into the walls".
It's funny and stupendously tacky; Ian Spurling's costumes are a happy assault of body-hugging spandex and dazzling color in which dancers, male and female, light up the stage like sexy sirens.
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But then the "real" design of the period is not much better: if Michael Young's aluminium and vinyl Magazine sofa, which belongs in a tacky nightclub's VIP area, is the pinnacle of 1990s furniture design, the decade itself was not a high point).
But nothing can explain (or excuse) the sheer skull-scraping ugliness of this relentlessly tacky Britain's Got Talent spin-off.
Stay at the lovely Secret Garden campsite in St Just (01736 788301, secretbosavern.com) before cruising around the coast (giving tacky Land's End a miss) to the Old Farm at Praa Sands (01736 763221, theoldfarmpraasands.co.uk).
No one will ever expect your tacky clock's real purphase is spying.
This truly tasteless show echoed an equally tacky Reader's Digest annual feature by the same name, which trivializes the tremendous suffering experienced by individuals diagnosed with serious mental illness and their families.
"Weird Al" Yankovic, the king of the parody song, released his 14th studio album last week, Mandatory Fun, featuring spoof's of recent hits including Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines (Word Crimes), Pharrell's Happy (Tacky) and Lorde's Royals (Foil).
