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This guy is not normal. I’m telling you. Did you see his eyes? He’s got crazy eyes. He’s a lunatic. I’m telling you, we are goin into the wilderness being lead by a lunatic. He’s behind me, isn’t he?

— Mitch · City Slickers

A potted cactus with two large round eyes stands on orange ground against teal.
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Mitch is spiralling with nervous humour, insisting the person in charge seems unhinged because of the eyes. The joke builds as the worry escalates from odd to lunatic, then ends on a sudden dread: the speaker wonders whether the lunatic is standing right behind them, listening.

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