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What's everyone's problem? I'm glad we're stranded. It'll be just like the Swiss Family Robinson, only with more cursing. We're gonna live like kings. Damn hell ass kings!

— Bart ‧ The Simpsons

A small metal pail wearing a gold crown rests on a teal cushion beside a loose gold ribbon.
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The speaker brushes off everyone's gloom and recasts being stranded as an adventure, comparing it to a famous castaway story, only ruder. The boast about living like kings is cheerful bravado, inflating a bad situation into something grand and swaggering, with crude emphasis for extra swagger.

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