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If she were a hot guy, I would never be that smooth. It’s ironic. It’s like the gift of the Vagi.
— Cameron Tucker ‧ Modern Family
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker notices that his smoothness would disappear if he were talking to someone he found attractive. The joke describes confidence arriving in the less useful situation. Its final phrase twists 'The Gift of the Magi' into a bawdy pun on that irony.
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