"You two may get good grades, but your last skit fell as flat as a pancake." What is the connotation of the phrase "fell as flat as a pancake" in this sentence?

Extremely level especially to much so. For example, There are no hills; this terrain is flat as a pancake. this simile dates from the 1500s and has survived it's contemporary,flat as a flounder. it is sometimes used either disparagingly or ruefully,to describe a small breasted woman.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

the noun in this is person