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Drinking, crying, cops, well it must be Christmas.
— The O.C. • 2003
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A sardonic list of holiday ingredients: drinking, crying and police involvement add up, so it must be Christmas. The joke turns festive expectations upside down, implying the season reliably brings mess and drama rather than cozy cheer, and the deadpan "well" makes the conclusion feel wearily inevitable.
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