You are in a minority here in America and, I imagine, everywhere else where people do not have the economic mentality of a prissy, doddering rentier.

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When Wiig finally breaks free, she has a ball imitating the prissy condescension that Byrne assumed for the role.

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But it is to confront a reality that sports is still prissy about: that games are entertainment, and entertainment is what the networks pay top dollar for.

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It's true that Fleming pokes fun at her rather prissy probity -- refusing to exceed the speed limit during a car chase, for instance -- but Nancy emerges with her virtue intact, as she always has.

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