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Apu, if it'll make you feel any better, I've learned that life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead!
— The Simpsons · 1989
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
An attempt to comfort Apu becomes a bleak account of repeated defeat, then veers into wishing Flanders dead. The sudden personal target makes the consolation absurdly unhelpful. The joke turns a supposed lesson about life into an admission of resentment toward someone else.
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