Characters often have rhyming or humorous taglines, such as Roger Mellie, the Man on the Telly ; Nobby's Piles ; Johnny Fartpants ; Buster Gonad ; Sid the Sexist ; Sweary Mary or Finbarr Saunders and his Double Entendres.

" Similarly, journalist Matt Taibbi has said of Friedman's writing that, " Friedman came up with lines so hilarious you couldn't make them up even if you were trying – and when you tried to actually picture the ' illustrative ' figures of speech he offered to explain himself, what you often ended up with was pure physical comedy of the Buster Keaton / Three Stooges school, with whole nations and peoples slipping and falling on the misplaced banana peels of his literary endeavors.

One notable added feature is the " New Mega Buster " ( often shortened to " Mega Buster "), an upgraded arm cannon that lets the player charge a regular shot into a much more powerful blast.

Parrish proclaimed, " Here's where the series starts to go off the rails a bit -- the Dr. Wily fake out was silly, the music was terrible, the bosses and weapons were uninspired, and the ability to charge up the Mega Buster is often cited as a game-breaking innovation.

Even though there was often no set release schedule, these series could be considered somewhat like a modern TV sitcom – lower in status than feature films but nevertheless very popular ( comedians such as Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton all ' graduated ' from shorts to features ).

In early issues Buster often referred to his father, and Andy was seen in the comic ( attempting to find a gas leak in three frames of the 18 June 1960 issue ; shown in two drawn photographs in the 2 July issue that same year, the first of which was displayed by Buster's mum with the pronouncement, " It's a photo of Buster taken with Andy!

Buster and Babs often react to Plucky's behavior by setting him up in scenes of extreme pain and embarrassment.

Babs also can speak in a deep, sultry voice, often used to seduce Buster.

Unlike Buster, Babs has far less patience for Plucky and often takes any chance to clobber or humiliate the duck when he steps out of line.

O ' Grady's use of animals has often been the target of criticism, citing it cruel to expose his pet dogs ( in particular Buster ) to harsh studio lighting for up to 55 minutes per day.

Bad Manners were a popular live attraction in North London, with their brand of humorous ska making them comedians of the ska revival scene, with Buster often wagging his large tongue at his audiences.

Elia Suleiman's cinematic style is often compared to that of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton, for its poetic interplay between " burlesque and sobriety ".

Comedians such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and the Marx Brothers often used visual humour because the technology used to record voices in film did not yet exist.

Punk retained his title with a Muscle Buster / rear naked choke combination, often used by Samoa Joe, who had come ringside to cheer Lethal on.

The two are often cast together as friends, most famously as Edd ( Vincent ) and Ed ( Hill ) from Ed, Edd, and Eddy, as the two protagonists of the Gundam SEED franchise ; Athrun Zala ( Vincent ) and Kira Yamato ( Hill ), and as Chris ( Vincent ) and Danny ( Hill ) from Monster Buster Club and as Aerrow ( Vincent ) and Finn ( Hill ) on Storm Hawks.

But if played on the normal or hard modes, Babs will appear at the end of the stage to tell Buster that her friend, Melvin the Monster ( from the episode " Hare Raising Night ", but not referred to by name in the game itself ) has been captured and taken under the control of the stage's boss, Dr. Gene Splicer ( also from " Hare Raising Night ", but referred to as the Mad Scientist in the game itself ).

Buster did not make any clearly defined appearances in Dreamwave Productions're-imagined Generation 1 universe, but he did exist, and was referred to as having taken the death of his father particularly badly, turning to alcohol and running up particularly large gambling debts.

Buster are policed by a group known as the Broad Busters, commonly referred to as BB, and must have at least a minimum level of 40.

His father was a tenant farmer, but shortly after the Ohio River flood of 1937, the family moved to Heath, Kentucky where Buster Carroll sold tractor implements and opened a automobile repair shop in 1940.

Ivor Lott has broken down in tears because his father has lost all of his money investing in the Buster comic, making Ivor and his family very poor.

As a child, Korine watched movies with his father, who rented Buster Keaton films and took him to see Even Dwarfs Started Small in the theater.

She has a father ( also seen only from the waist down ), who appeared in one episode as a monstrously large fellow who intimidated Buster when he dated Babs.

Her father was Clarence Lancelot " Buster " Noble ( 1 March 1913 – 1990 ), a comedian and singer ; her mother was Helen De Paul ( born Helen McGoulrick, 1921 – 2007 ), an entertainer, singer, dancer and comedienne on the Tivoli circuit.

Soon after Strike Force was cancelled, Noble returned to Australia in 1983 with her son Patrick because her father, Buster, was seriously ill. She re-established a career there as a theatrical actress.

Buster's parents are divorced ; in this series, Buster is seen with his father, Bo Baxter.

Postcards from Buster centers on Buster traveling to various places around North America, usually in the United States but also in the Caribbean, Canada – and other places – with his father, who is a pilot for a group of musicians.

The five-piece group of siblings from Romford, London were masterminded by their father and manager, Buster Pearson, in the style of The Jackson 5.

* Buster Cree – Dale's father

Buster takes him back to his family's automotive garage, where his father Sparkplug repairs the car, and is shocked when it transforms into a robot.

Richard's father, Franklin " Buster " Twiss was an enrolled member of the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota.

On November 25, 1974, in Columbus, Ohio, Billy Douglas, the father of future world heavyweight champion James " Buster " Douglas halted Danny Brewer in two rounds to win the Ohio Commission's version of the world junior light heavyweight title.

Buster is injured in a car accident, and father and daughter are reunited.

He appeared in other silent film classics such as The King of Kings ( 1927 ) ( as Peter ) and Steamboat Bill Jr. ( 1928 ) as Buster Keaton's steamboat captain father.

Buster's father plays a train engineer while Buster's infant son plays a baby version of Buster in the film's prologue.

Columbia offered theater owners an entire program of two-reel comedies ( 15 to 25 titles annually ) featuring such stars as Buster Keaton, Andy Clyde, Charley Chase, and Hugh Herbert, but the Three Stooges shorts were the most popular of all.

*" Bags of Fun with Buster "-Johnny Japes and His Jesticles ( 1987 )-single released by Viz comic featuring Andy Partridge and Dave Gregory of XTC

Columbia's short-subject department employed many famous comedians, including Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, Harry Langdon, Andy Clyde, and Hugh Herbert.

When the children's comic Buster was launched in 1960, its masthead character was entitled Buster: Son of Andy Capp.

He was also shown in two drawn photographs in the 2 July 1960 issue, the first of which was displayed by Buster's mum with the pronouncement " It's a photo of Buster taken with Andy!

In the Alan Moore graphic novel " 1969 " a man, dressed as Andy Capp, is seen moving through a London crowd seemingly accompanied by a boy wearing a similar cap, perhaps an allusion to the Buster comic.

** Buster Capp, eponymous star of the comic, son of Andy and Flo Capp

He was originally billed as Buster: Son of Andy Capp ; Andy Capp is the lead character of the eponymous Daily Mirror newspaper strip, and Buster wore a similar flat cap to reinforce the connection.

* Buster son of Andy Capp ( 1960 – 1961 )

Andy Clyde and Harry Langdon led Educational's release schedule for a few years, then Buster Keaton headlined a series that yielded 16 popular two-reel comedies.

Some notable ESPN. com columnists are John Buccigross, Chris Mortensen, John Clayton, Adam Schefter, Andy Katz, Bill Simmons, Jayson Stark, Buster Olney, Gene Wojciechowski, Scoop Jackson, Pat Forde, Jim Caple, and Michael Smith.