And this week's Bay Guardian Wank of the Week-

This one's actually a tough one because I couldn't decide between two parts from the same article (actually, the entire column is one big huge wank-off). I could have gone with the 78 letter opening- hell the entire opening paragraph- but instead, I chose this tiny bit.

It's from a review of some obscure (natch) Japanese movie. In this segment, the author somehow starts discussing the "Carol Burnett Show."

Don't ask

"As anyone who grew up on a steady diet of The Carol Burnett Show might have recognized, such temptations toward inappropriately demolishing the ostensible intent of a given dramatic moment were one of the show's performative mainstays. Time and again, costars Harvey Korman and Tim Conway would go ham-to-ham with one another during a tepid send-up or straight-faced bit of satire, only to surrender themselves to chaos as their scowls began to melt into trembling sneers, shatter into seismic smirks, and finally collapse into all-out hilarity, destroying any potential narrative momentum that might have accrued, even as they managed to double the audience's in-on-the-gag sense of delight."

All that for The folks who gave us Dorf and Hedley Lamarr.