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We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!
— Firefly ‧ 2002
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Wash is the pilot who gets the crew out of trouble every week, and here he is watching Jayne win a statue and a whole town for dropping a box of money. The line has become the stock complaint of anyone whose unglamorous work goes unthanked while someone else collects the credit.
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In context
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From "Jaynestown", written by Ben Edlund and directed by Marita Grabiak (first aired 18 October 2002). Serenity's crew lands on Higgins' Moon to smuggle a cargo and finds a mud statue of Jayne in the town square: years earlier he dropped a stolen box of money on the mudders' settlement of Canton and they made him a folk hero. Wash's complaint comes during the crew's time in the town, listed on the fan wiki just before Simon grumbles about his own unthanked deeds. Soon a crowd is cheering the "hero of Canton" outside the bar.
Sources (2)
- Firefly Wiki: JaynestownInfobox and plot summaryReference checked
- Firefly Wiki: QuotesJaynestown entriesReference checked
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