 Dr. Marvello is named after a Klaatu song. The one in the song has a love machine that turns can't to can. This one just juggles. He spends a lot of time denying that he's just a juggler. He has to admit it at least once, though, because otherwise he's just someone who says he doesn't juggle (as opposed to a juggler with delusions of oriental magic).
 Why? Because there were a lot of vaudeville acts that tried to seem ethnic. I mean, look at Chico Marx. Anyhow, "oriental magic" sells more tickets than "Some local kid who bought a few things at the joke shop".
 Yes, Brisbane getting fired from acts before he gets hired was going to be a running gag. Then I stopped introducing new vaudevillains.
 This is more of a modern novelty song than a vaudeville novelty song. As I've mentioned, vaudeville novelty songs have long complicated choruses and many, many verses. They usually told complex stories and you had to listen to all five minutes of it to find out if Penniless Percy ever got away from the bulldog.
 Every writing guide says things like "Think about who's in your target audience". I hate that piece of advice. I don't think it's useful and I'm still not sure who my target audience is. It's not vaudeville enthusiasts; I don't think there's too many of them on the Internet anyhow. But my dislike for that kind of advice inspired Richard and Sinclair. They knew who their target audience was: people who like ice cream, for this song. That was going to be their routine, specifically targeted novelty songs. Sorcery pt 1
drawn by Isabel Marks
   
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