Original artwork, not a still
This life has been a test. If this had been an actual life, you would have received instructions on where to go and what to do.
— My So-Called Life · 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Angela compares her life so far to a test rather than the real thing. A genuine life, she suggests, would have come with instructions about where to go and what to do. The joke sits in that missing guidance, which nobody actually receives.
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