A yellow rubber duck suspended above a red diving board beside a bowl of turquoise water on a pale yellow background.

Original artwork, not a still

Lucas

In the immortal words of The Doors, 'The time to hesitate is through.'

— Empire Records • 1995

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

A character borrows a line from a band and presents it with grand flourish: the time for hesitating is over. It's a playful push toward action, wrapped in a nod to a song lyric. The "immortal words" phrasing adds a mock-solemn tone.

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