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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
No worries. It's a reliable conundrum. When a situation 'almost' fits a reference, do you stay true to the reference or adapt it to the situation and hope people forgive the bastardization?
Then if you overexplain you ruin the joke from the outset.
Happened tons of times.
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I would probably stay true to the reference, lest the reference lose proper meaning. But I don't think it's anything to worry over.