1.   During the next four days, until the bloom wilted and shed, thousands of visitors jammed the normally tranquil botanical garden like gawkers at a carnival freak show.

2.   He ends up working for Don Rickles in a carnival freak show before plucking out his eyes.

3.   It was a carnival freak show.

4.   Today, elephants are treated more like oversized curiosities in a carnival show than with the respect they used to command.