A small cardboard house with a cracked corner stands beside a drafting compass and a tied roll of plans.

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Otho

Don’t mind her. She’s just upset that someone dropped a house on her sister.

— Beetlejuice • 1988

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker waves off a woman's sour mood with breezy gallows humour, explaining it away as upset over a house landing on her sister. The remark treats a shocking loss as a casual excuse, so the comedy comes from the cheerful dismissal of her obvious anger.

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