melodramatics, conceits, improbabilities, pratfalls, triteness, coincidences, silliness, didacticism, cliches, digressions, slapstick, artifice, melodrama, implausibility, corniness, neuroses, convolutions, roundelay, gags, hackwork, unoriginality, mundanity, lunkheaded, seductions, deus ex machina, absurdities, absurdism, staginess, inanity, bathos, cleverness, tropes, plotline, tomfoolery, grandiloquence, cliffhangers, pastiche, epiphanies, fictions, high jinks, weirdness, artificiality, infelicities, denouement, hokum, manipulations, deceptions, daftness, dumbness, expository, gewgaws, creepiness, talky, sophistries, insubstantiality, sappiness, hilarity, picaresque, ennui, machinations, pathos, slyness, incongruities, crudeness, subterfuges, insipidness, tedium, woodenness, subplot, impossibilities, narrative, interludes, mawkishness, stratagems, whimsy, twists, outlandishness, lechery, sleights, grand guignol, tearjerking, maudlin, banality, gimmickry, cheesiness, grisliness, farces, metafiction, japery, smarminess, hijinks, superfluity, felicities, buffoonery, moralizing, bitchery, characters, farrago, entanglements, drollery, monologuing, elyot, contrivance, expedients, artifices, gadgets, conveniences, inventions, ruses, appliances, contraptions, expedient, tricks, disguises, dodges, gadget, means, playthings

contrivance, instrument, musical instrument