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If you raise three children who can knock out and hog tie a perfect stranger, you must be doing something right.
— The Simpsons · 1989
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Marge treats three children’s ability to knock out and tie up a stranger as evidence of good parenting. The approval creates the disturbing reversal in the joke; it is not an endorsement of assault or a sound parenting rule.
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