| The diatribes, which often show the influence of seriocomic writings of the 3rd-century-bce satirist Menippus, are simple and vigorous. |
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| Menippean satire, seriocomic genre, chiefly in ancient Greek literature and Latin literature, in which contemporary institutions, conventions, and ideas were criticized in a mocking satiric style that mingled prose and verse. |
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| Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead is a seriocomic romp through the summer of a group of teenagers. |
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