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You know, what this room needs is a really big oversized poster of Atlantic City...oh wait, there's one.

— Charlie • So I Married an Axe Murderer

An empty wooden picture frame leans against a pale wall beside a vase of dried stems, books and draped cloth.
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The speaker proposes a huge poster, then points out that the room already has one. The delayed recognition can be read as mock praise of something hard to miss. The joke draws attention to the poster by pretending to discover it.

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