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Oh Lisa! You and your stories! Bart's a vampire! Beer kills brain cells! Now let's go back to that...building...thingie...where our beds and TV...is.

— Homer • The Simpsons

A beer glass and orange pom-pom sit on a table beside an armchair facing a glowing blue television.
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Homer dismisses Lisa’s claims, including the warning about beer and brain cells, then struggles to name home. That failure immediately complicates his confident dismissal. Remembering the beds and television while losing the ordinary word gives the exchange its pointed comic reversal.

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