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Richard Fish

I'm nothing if not redundant! I also repeat myself.

— Ally McBeal • 1997

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker boasts of being nothing if not redundant, then immediately proves it by saying they repeat themselves. The joke is the self-demonstrating loop: the second sentence echoes the first, turning a confession of wordiness into a deliberate piece of comic repetition.

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