A miniature cardboard tower topped with a pencil, casting a long shadow on a grey-blue surface.

Original artwork, not a still

Danny

No one’s really an architect, that’s like a job guys have in the movies.

— The Mindy Project  ·  2012

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker treats architecture as a profession that belongs to film characters rather than real people. The sweeping denial makes the observation deliberately implausible. Its humour comes from allowing a familiar fictional image to stand in for the whole of everyday reality.

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