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No, but there’s a Fawlty Towers episode about it.
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I recognize the handyman’s technique from every HGTV show ever. “Let’s take out this wall and open up the room!”
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Science-fiction? The plot device goes back to (at least) the Agatha Christie detection story Blindman’s Buff.
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That mannequin got lucky, they were 2 feet from having a new job downstairs.
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Sounds more like Chuck Tingle than Agatha Christie to me.
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If you think that was wacky, wait til you see what happens when we remove this bridge support!
Load-bearing walls, eh? How do they even work?
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I would think that it’s more like the Floorboard Failure trope than the floor is lava.
Worker’s mistake, or tofu dreg construction?
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I bet it’s just a viral ad for the store’s “half off” sale.
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I hope the mannequin was given a closing credit. Without that dramatic flop on the ground, this whole film would have been pretty meh
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Why not both?
The word Chabuduo is offered as the cultural gravity point at hand. Meaning “close enough,” it is depicted here as a powerful and useful concept in earlier times (think: improvisation, effectiveness, ingenuity) that has become dangerous in the context of modern life (think: slapdash, jobsworth, irritable.)
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