horseplay

Cartoonish horseplay would have gotten a hardier laugh.

Fortunately, Wilson and Mandvi are adept enough comics not to fall into that trap even as they avoid the equally damaging peril of too much audience-pandering horseplay.

The horseplay this entails, though gamely performed, grows dizzying.

“It was kids being kids. Nobody was punching anyone. It wasn’t even wrestling. It was horseplay,” the parent said.

Video of the horseplay prompted a good deal of online hilarity, with even the transportation department getting into the snarky act.