Bringing ugly back.Larry King returns to voice the ugly stepsister barmaid Doris once again in this summer's Shrek the Third, but don't tell the antigay Christian right. The always alarmist a·larm·ist n. A person who needlessly alarms or attempts to alarm others, as by inventing or spreading false or exaggerated rumors of impending danger or catastrophe. Traditional Values Coalition The Traditional Values Coalition is a Christian Right organization that claims to represent over 43,000 conservative Christian churches throughout the United States of America. Headquartered in Washington, D.C. raised a stink about this character for 2004's Shrek 2, claiming that the movie's studio, DreamWorks, was subverting our nation's young with what the TVC TVC Traditional Values Coalition TVC Televisió de Catalunya (Catalan Public Broadcasting Company, Catalonia, Spain) TVC Television Commercial TVC Thrust Vector Control TVC Texas Veterans Commission TVC Total Variable Cost called a "transgender" character. (Representatives from DreamWorks didn't respond to requests for comment on Ugly's return and her unpopularity with right-wingers.) While we prefer the husky-voiced Jackie Kennedy look-alike Dr. Girlfriend on Adult Swim's The Venture Bros., there's no reason why Shrek's snarky snark·y adj. snark·i·er, snark·i·est Slang Irritable or short-tempered; irascible. [From dialectal snark, to nag, from snark, snork, to snore, snort fairy-tale world can't include some slightly manly ladies. And don't you just know that the TVC has at least one female member who sounds like Larry King? |
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