An orange horseshoe magnet sits beside scattered paper clips and one clip suspended from a fine thread.

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Troy Dyer

If I could bottle the sexual tension between Bonnie Franklin and Shnyder, I could solve the energy crisis.

— Reality Bites  ·  1994

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Exaggerating comically, the speaker says the sexual tension between Bonnie Franklin and Shnyder is so charged that bottling it would end the energy crisis. Attraction becomes a fuel source, and the joke teases the pair while treating the speaker's observation as a world-saving invention.

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