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Everything they do is so dramatic and flamboyant, it just makes me want to set myself on fire!
— Lucille • Arrested Development
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker condemns other people's drama and flamboyance with an extravagantly dramatic image of her own. That contradiction supplies the joke. Read as dark exaggeration, the threatened response makes the complaint itself an example of the excess it claims to find unbearable.
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