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You idiots! These are not them! You've captured their stunt doubles!
— Spaceballs • 1987
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker rejects a supposed capture because the people caught are stunt doubles. The joke introduces the machinery of filmmaking into the situation itself: catching substitutes does not count as catching the intended people. The insult adds exasperation to that absurd distinction.
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