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The audience members are animated too, all exaggerated eyebrows and silly facial features.
We are no longer in the cartoon theater.
That combination is beguiling.
The frazzled, imaginary joke Notaro is already so visible in the minds eye.
Whynotgo the next step and give her swirling, frightened spiral eyes and frantic, twisting cartoon fingers?
So many of Notaros jokes inDrawnare about her body, which is key to the specials power.
It goes beyond that recent history, though.
But in most sequences, the animation compensates for what has been lost.
The animation is decorative, a flourish, a feature that adds to the humor.
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