hooty

Kegel has a distant, underpowered chorus and a dull orchestra. Tempos are too rushed for effect, and the interpretation is downright delicate - totally inappropriate. A hooty, scratchy soprano and a stiff baritone don't help.

It's the kind of hooty melodrama Burnett used to spoof , but new series doesn't know where to look for laughs , with lame ideas lamely written ( a cavewoman discovers cows milk; Burnett is forced to impersonate her own celebrity look- alike ) and others ( a gay guy in Antarctica, Spike Lee ripoffs ) that are striving so hard to be hip.