The scripts are increasingly reverting to little more than insubstantial anecdotes and overly cute character turns.

One affectation she cannot tolerate is overly cute food.

He would be entirely too smug, or would make cloying and overly cute comments about my displaying a "human side."

The show can get overly cute.

He thought the room itself was overly cute, with its glossy red hearts hanging from swatches of paper lace.

The overly cute interface becomes cloying when it runs slowly.

The text can verge on the overly cute ("I love my big brother, and he loves me") when it is not delivering slightly bogus observations.

It's overly cute and precious, and its an evasion.

He gets overly cute, slyly telling a suspect: "First day of a homicide, you wouldn't believe it.

The characters are real as life, but their overly cute names become irritating distractions.