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Okay, what would Joe do at a time like this? He'd kill everyone and smoke some cigarettes.
— The Last Boy Scout • 1991
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Faced with a crisis, the speaker asks what Joe would do and answers with a dark punchline: he would murder everyone, then calmly light up. The joke treats mass killing as a casual reflex, paired with a smoke break, to mock a ruthless, unbothered tough guy.
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