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But, Mulder, the new millennium doesn't begin until January 2001.
— The X-Files · 1993
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker interrupts with a precise correction about when the new millennium begins, naming January 2001. Addressing Mulder directly, the line brings calendar arithmetic into a conversation that apparently assumes otherwise. Its humour comes from puncturing a grand occasion with a carefully stated technical distinction.
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