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My eyes don’t work, paint me a word picture.

— Gene · Bob's Burgers

A glass marble with an eye-like center resting on dark cracked paving.
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Gene says his eyes aren't working, so he asks for a word picture instead. Painting with words means describing something so vividly that he can see it in his head. It's a funny, dramatic way of asking someone to narrate the scene.

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