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What the hell’s gotten into you, I got my thingy stuck in my zipper and I got piss all over my pants!
— Tommy Callahan · Tommy Boy
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker angrily challenges someone else while describing an embarrassing zipper accident and a mess on their trousers. The collision between indignation and humiliation supplies the comedy. An accusation opens the outburst, but the details quickly turn attention back onto the speaker's own predicament.
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