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There's some milk in the fridge that's about to go bad.........And there it goes.
— Bobby • King of the Hill
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The pause turns a prediction about milk spoiling into an announcement that it has happened. Treating 'going bad' as a precise event the speaker can catch in the moment gives the joke its absurd timing. An ordinary observation becomes a tiny countdown.
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