A small black paper bat perches on a pink heart-shaped cushion against pale lilac.

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I am a romantic comedy girl. Why go to horror movies when they come to us?

— Charmed • 1998

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

A quick quip about preferring gentle stories over frightening ones: the speaker likes romantic comedies and asks why anyone would seek out horror films when scary things show up on their own. The joke lands because it suggests real life already supplies the scares.

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