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Then he performed a production number, “I Won’t Waste Time,” which featured a chorus of dancing Conans and the “sandworm from ‘Dune 2’ ” playing “Chopsticks” on the piano.

Belgian choreographer Damien Jalet, film editor Juliette Welfling and, of course, performers Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Selena Gomez were crucial to making each production number pop.

One episode begins with a seller of broadsides, the musical Twitter of its day — the series was originally titled “The Ballad of Renegade Nell” — that blossoms into a production number, tossed from singer to singer in a London street scene.

Whatever “I’m Just Ken” lacks in terms of movie-music gravitas, though, Gosling more than made up for with rock-star exuberance in a lavish production number that found him starting the song from his seat in the audience — pink suit, pink gloves, black shades to match his black cowboy hat — before joining an army of several dozen Kens preening and twirling on the Oscars stage.

Taylor Swift’s new television special Sunday, aka Super Bowl LVIII, carried live from Las Vegas on CBS and Paramount+, came with a football game attached, a musical production number and a host of comedy sketches masquerading as commercials — and they said variety was dead!