Gator francais is a novelty number that could pass for chicken in its lemon-caper-white-wine sauce.

The Kobe beef appetizer, which cost $28 (twice the price of other appetizers), is a novelty number.

Marza got her signal from a guy in the booth, and they swung into a fast-paced novelty number.

He made an enormous contribution to the band repertoires including marches, overtures and novelty numbers.

While these songs are probably getting huge ovations from audiences right now, they may end up as novelty numbers.

The smaller novelty numbers convey plots or moods.

Some of us will always want hot dance music, others weepy ballads, still others clever novelty numbers.

And the songs, while percolating gently with Stynean tunefulness, are largely a parade of novelty numbers.

"Better hop out front and take over your band for that novelty number," Sam Burns muttered.

The song was a novelty number that played on the popularity of the TV series Father Ted.