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Homer

Yeah, Moe, that team sure did suck last night. They just plain sucked! I've seen teams suck before, but they were the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked!

— The Simpsons  ·  1989

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A rant that piles the word 'suck' on itself until it collapses into nonsense: 'the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked'. The humour is in the escalating repetition, as the speaker keeps reaching for a stronger insult and can only reuse the same one.

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