Original artwork, not a still
Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right.
— Ghostbusters II • 1989
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker sarcastically frames grumpiness and rudeness as a kind of civic tradition, an entitlement bestowed from above on city dwellers. The joke is that surliness gets treated as a proud local right, half insult and half affectionate boast about a famously tough, unfriendly place.
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