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Who's FICA? And why does he get all my money?
— Friends ‧ 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Rachel treats the name attached to a deduction as a person receiving her money. Asking who he is makes the impersonal subtraction sound like a personal arrangement she has never agreed to. The joke rests on that mistaken identity, not on which paycheck she is examining.
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