Yellow trousers drape over a cream armchair beneath a small paper party hat.

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Brick Tamland

I would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party.

— Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy • 2004

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

A stiff, formal invitation becomes a clumsy sexual proposition when the event is called a pants party. The comic mismatch lies between the elaborate courtesy of the opening and the blunt innuendo at its end. The wording makes a suggestive approach sound like an official invitation.

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