Original artwork, not a still
They shouldn’t have called it “It’s a Wonderful Life,” they should have called it “It’s a sucky life and just when you think it can’t suck any more it does.”
— Friends • 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker jokingly says the film's optimistic title should be replaced with a bleak one: life is awful, and just when it seems it cannot get worse, it does. It is a comic exaggeration of pessimism, poking fun at the cheerful title.
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