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The rest of the episode combines bloody, frantic action; a thriller; an absurd stage play; and “choreography and merriment.”

There shall be no more merriment, and in the words of Nat King Cole, it is time to straighten up and fly right.

Watching their bloodied, bruised heroes emerge from whatever piles of flaming wreckage they’ve wrought amid so much forced merriment has a way of boosting our morale out of the humbug doldrums.

Ahead of the annual letters complaining that the Dodgers celebrate the winning of a mere division title with Champagne and much merriment, a reminder:

But in L.A., the kids began running around the stage in wild merriment, still playing, still on the beat.