Two champagne flutes lean together, one partly filled with amber liquid, against a plum background.

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Kryten

My goodness, I do believe I’m drunk. I suddenly feel the need to strut my funky stuff!

— Red Dwarf · 1988

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The polite surprise of “My goodness” gives way to the much looser wish to “strut my funky stuff”. That change in register creates the joke. The speaker links a sudden impulse to show off with the realisation that they may be drunk.

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