Five small bells stand in a row on purple felt, four gold-coloured and one tarnished grey.

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Leela

Impressive. They’re busting mad rhymes with an 80% success rate.

— Futurama • 1999

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker describes rhyming through a precise success rate, making a creative performance sound measurable. The opening praise sits beside a figure that leaves room for failure. One comic reading is that the statistical assessment sounds oddly restrained alongside the enthusiastic phrase about busting rhymes.

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