The show is difficult to place in a defined television genre: stylistically, it borrows the unsettling tone and supernatural premises of horror films, and simultaneously offers a bizarrely comical parody of American soap operas with a campy, melodramatic presentation of the morally dubious activities of its quirky characters.

His next two songs / videos, " Back to My Roots " and " A Shade Shady ( Now Prance )" both went # 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music / Club Play chart and furthered his campy persona.

The campy " Stand Back " video has since resurfaced several times over the years as a running gag between McMahon and any face wrestler he is feuding with at that particular time, and was included on the 2006 McMahon DVD.

He was one of the lead singers of the celebrity band " The Wide Lapels ", a band famous for its campy performances of the worst songs of the 1970's.

Whilst the characters and plot were well received, the special effects and costumes have been described as " campy ", but " par for the course of something of this level and budget ".

Most episodes of Pop Up Video play four or five music videos each, selected to include new, older, " classic ", and " campy " videos.

Many of the staff were fans of his work, and showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein had planned to use him in an episode called " Lisa and Camp ", which revolved around Lisa " discovering the joys of campy things ".

The broadcast segments traditionally were presented in a campy atmosphere, with each segment ( such as " rants ", " complaints ", " kudos ", etc.

Reruns aired on Nick at Nite from 1990 to 1993, on TV Land in 1996, and again on TV Land sporadically between 2001 and 2003, as part of the TV Land " Kitschen ", a weekend block of campy programming hosted by Mull and Willard that aired at midnight.

Movies called the film " an absolute trainwreck of a movie ", but that it had " some hilariously campy moments.

John Anderson of the Los Angeles Times referred to the film as " giddy mix of gruesome horror and campy humor ", while most others dismissed the film with negative reviews.

The relatively low-cost nature of much early children's programming has given it a campy reputation, which is a second source of entertainment for adults who, as children, were unaware of the medium's limitations.

The second type of surf movie would be the campy entertainment feature, also termed " beach party films " or " surfploitation flicks " by true surfers, having little to do with the authentic sport and culture of surfing and representing movies that attempted to cash in on the growing popularity of surfing among youth in the early 1960s.

Despite his campy television persona, Lynde never publicly came out as gay and the press generally refrained from commenting about it.

Fiennes ' film work has ranged from thrillers ( Spider ) to animated Biblical epic ( The Prince of Egypt ) to campy nostalgia ( The Avengers ) to romantic comedy ( Maid in Manhattan ) to historical drama ( Sunshine ).

The popular campy show ran on ABC from 1966 to 1968 ; a film version was released in 1966.

Scripts for the final sixth season did not hit the campy lows of the previous two years and reestablished a bit of the seriousness of the show, often with science fiction elements like a Kryptonite-powered robot ( a left-over prop from " The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters "), atomic explosions, and impregnable metal cubes.

The film met with generally negative feedback, garnering a 21 % approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus stating " John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars is not one of Carpenter's better movies, filled as it is with bad dialogue, bad acting, confusing flashbacks, and scenes that are more campy than scary.

GameSpot gave the game a 7. 3 out of 10, stating that " while Evil Genius ' dry, campy humor is often amusing from the start, it takes quite a bit of time and effort to pull off acts of infamy and establish your notoriety among global powers " and states " Evil Genius is hampered by some frustratingly haphazard pacing as well as issues with the artificial intelligence of your minions.

Initially, the seemingly final result was an altered version with a lot of campy humor that differed considerably from the original show.

Individual adventures, created by a wide range of authors, vary from the artful to the campy.

Some critics expressed concern with the music of Final Wars, arguing that Emerson's score would be better suited for a campy made-for-television movie or video games, while others pointed out that it made a refreshing change from the music of previous Godzilla films.

Although frequently aligned with the punk movement, the Rezillos ' ( later known as the Revillos ) irreverent glam rock image and affection for campy girl-group iconography, set them distinctly apart from their peers.

Alexis Petridis from The Guardian said that the song could have been more campy by addition of Liza Minnelli inspired vocals in the background and lyrics which talk about Larry Grayson.

" Allmovie gave the film two and a half stars out of five, noting that Blacula is " better than its campy title might lead one to believe ... the film suffers from the occasional bit of awkward humor ( the bits with the two homosexual interior decorators are the most squirm-inducing ), but Joan Torres and Raymond Koenig's script keeps things moving at a fast clip and generates some genuine chills.

" Lothor has a campy sense of humor, which is often reflected from his frustrations with his monsters / nieces when they fail to best the Power Rangers, or in some predictable occasions ( e. g. after making a monster grow, he stares at the camera and asks the audience if they really expected him to make it smaller.

Also in 1986, KNXV began producing Friday Night at the Frights starring " Edmus Scarey " ( portrayed by Ed Muscare ), a series of decidedly campy B-movie wraparounds.

Part of the U. S. appeal was due to the dubbing, which gave the show a campy charm that evoked English-dubbed Chinese kung fu movies of the 1970s.

A noted character actor with a distinctively campy and snarky persona that often poked fun at his barely in the closet homosexuality, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and Harry MacAfee, the befuddled father in Bye Bye Birdie – both the stage musical and the film-version.

Art Frahm ( 1907 – 1981 ) was an American painter of campy pin-up girls and advertising.

The film's final outcome was less a bona fide horror film and more of a campy superhero-spoof with extreme violence embedded throughout.

In issue # 2 ( Sept. 1964 ), the character was transformed into a campy, heavily muscled, green and blue costume-wearing superhero by writer Robert Bernstein ( Jerry Siegel ) and artist John Rosenberger.

A fan of the Batman series, Warhol's movie was a " homage " to the series, and is considered the first appearance of a blatantly campy Batman.

The movie was a deliberately campy sex change comedy that was both a box office and critical failure.

Before the pilot aired ( on September 12, 1959 ), the song sequence, deemed too campy, was edited out of the scene and instead the Cartwrights headed back to the ranch whooping and howling.

No strict decision was made as to whether it should be played straight or campy.

In the third and fourth season of the show another instrumental theme by Hugo Montenegro was introduced that was played during the show's campy scenes.

The game has a cartoon-like look to it, and was designed to reflect the style of campy 1960's spy films, such as the James Bond Movies, Austin Powers and Get Smart, as well as Westerns, such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die.

The band is known for their campy and foul-mouthed ballads, basic punk rock, and image which was heavily influenced by Jackie Curtis and the Theatre of the Ridiculous.

In 2003, an off-Broadway musical production of Road House was staged as a campy comedy by Timothy Haskell, as seen by its full title of Road House: The Stage Version Of The Cinema Classic That Starred Patrick Swayze, Except This One Stars Taimak From The 80 ’ s Cult Classic “ The Last Dragon ” Wearing A Blonde Mullet Wig.

The Theatre of the Ridiculous was a main point of contact between the underground campy, queer sub-culture and the style that dominated much of the 70s ( glam rock, disco, the Rocky Horror cult ).

He never felt that I was too pasty, corny, mannered, campy.

The movie, however, was a huge commercial success and eventually became a campy cult classic.

New Romantics tended to be slightly campy and fey, and there was a bisexual vibe to the subculture generally, regardless of the individual's sexual orientation.

When Channel 4 broadcast Ferrari's obituary on Eurotrash, it was transmitted with straight dubbing as a mark of respect ( Eurotrash < noinclude >'</ noinclude > s dubbing is normally campy, often playing it for laughs to get around the censorship regulations ).