Five mismatched folding chairs form a loose circle on a scuffed floor in warm orange light.

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John Bender

So it’s sorta social, demented and sad, but social. Right?

— The Breakfast Club  ·  1985

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker finds one consolation in a situation they also call demented and sad: at least it's social. Repeating that word makes the defence sound shaky but determined. The final question invites someone else to agree that even this counts as human company.

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