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Don't call me irrational. It makes me crazy when you do that.

— Frasier · 1993

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker protests at being called irrational, then says the accusation makes them crazy. The joke turns on that verbal contradiction: the attempt to defend their reasonableness borrows the very language of losing it, without establishing that the accusation is actually fair.

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