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She was drunk, in the middle of the afternoon. I mean, it was like Sue Ellen on 'Dallas'.
— That '70s Show • 1998
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker exaggerates someone's daytime drinking by comparing it to a famously dramatic soap opera character. Sue Ellen becomes shorthand for that comparison, invoked purely through shared pop-culture recognition. The humor comes from borrowing someone else's reputation to describe an unnamed moment.
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