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If I could bottle the sexual tension between Bonnie Franklin and Shnyder, I could solve the energy crisis.

— Troy  ·  Reality Bites

An orange horseshoe magnet sits beside scattered paper clips and one clip suspended from a fine thread.
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Exaggerating comically, the speaker says the sexual tension between Bonnie Franklin and Shnyder is so charged that bottling it would end the energy crisis. Attraction becomes a fuel source, and the joke teases the pair while treating the speaker's observation as a world-saving invention.

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