A green knitted mitten with a gold ring around its thumb resting on a red-and-white striped cloth.

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Kitty Forman

Oh, my god. I married the Grinch. I'm Mrs. Grinch!

— That '70s Show · 1998

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

A comic moment of horrified realisation. The speaker has suddenly decided their spouse is a grump on the scale of a famous holiday curmudgeon, and that this makes them the grump's wife. The exaggeration and the punny 'Mrs.' title carry the humour.

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