Throttlebottom

Since Throttlebottom is not married, he will be executed first.

In the "Trial of Throttlebottom" a military tribunal is underway.

The final scene brought a guillotine onstage into which little Throttlebottom thrusts his head.

Vice President Throttlebottom is a thoroughgoing nonentity who cannot spell his own name.

The United States loses the game after a controversial call by umpire Throttlebottom.

Next, the crowds gather to watch the executions ("Hanging Throttlebottom in the Morning").

The names of the two candidates, Wintergreen and Throttlebottom reflect this point of sensitivity.

Wintergreen is a dactyl; Throttlebottom, with four syllables, clatters and suggests instability.

But Throttlebottom was based on a platonic idea of Vice Presidents, not on anyone in the daily headlines.

Tweedledee shows up and Wintergreen gives his vice-president, Throttlebottom, to him, since he can't remember his.

Diana mournfully joins him, and Alexander Throttlebottom arrives bearing sweaters for the babies.

The ambassador calls Wintergreen a genius, and Throttlebottom is ecstatic as they pass Diana over to him.

Among the show's cleverest strokes is the creation of the invisible Vice President, Alexander Throttlebottom.

Alexander Throttlebottom, now Vice-President, sneaks into the White House with a tour group.

VP Throttlebottom agrees to marry Diana and forever etches his name in the dictionaries.

Kruger, the Army, and the Ball Players call for Throttlebottom's execution claiming he conspired with the enemy.

George Throttlebottom Bush was CIA.

It is also revealed that Diana Deveraux divorced Throttlebottom to marry the French Ambassador.

The Vice-Presidency, still in its Throttlebottom days, proved unsatisfying to a man who had preferred executive posts to legislative ones among all those he'd already held.

In Mr. Levine's script, Throttlebottom tells the story in flashback, appearing in character where appropriate.

Alan Hill exudes a quiet comic glow as the perpetually addled Throttlebottom, who wears an unwaveringly perky smile.

The best part of being Throttlebottom was that you could put on a uniform and lead a guided tour and no one would notice, no one at all.

After the end of his term, Wintergreen, Throttlebottom, and their associates start a business selling his wife Mary's blue shirts on "Union Square."

On the date of the ballgame the Supreme Ball Players, the League, and Kruger's army try to influence Throttlebottom to bend the rules their way.

Mr. Gilford's Throttlebottom is more positive than Mr. Moore's but he is rarely actually in character as part of the plays.