Painterly bundle of golden grain beside a foaming wooden beer mug on amber.

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Homer

Homer no function beer well without.

— The Simpsons ‧ 1989

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Homer's garbled sentence says he can't work properly without beer. The scrambled word order sounds like a confession from someone whose brain has already stopped cooperating. The joke is how seriously he treats beer as a basic necessity.

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