A small painted rotary telephone with its cord tied in a bow on a mint-green surface against a coral background.

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Buffy

It is a statistically impossible for a 16-year-old girl to unplug her phone.

— Buffy the Vampire Slayer · 1997

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Buffy exaggerates a teenage girl's attachment to her phone by calling unplugging it statistically impossible. This is comic hyperbole rather than a measured finding about teenagers.

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