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This is my basketball court. I don’t want to see any double dribbles. I don’t want to see any three second violations.
— Parks and Recreation · 2009
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker claims the basketball court as personal territory and lays down rules in advance: no double dribbles, no three-second violations. The comedy comes from treating a game's technical fouls as offences against their own authority, delivered with proprietary, deadpan seriousness.
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