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“Apples remind me of oranges,” Seth Rogen wrote on Twitter in an attempt to clarify a joke he made about “American Sniper” and a fake Nazi propaganda film. “Can’t compare them, though.” What this piece presupposes is, maybe you can? “Breaking Bad” (apples, I guess) and “The Office” (hello, oranges?) have few similarities except for one: idiot savants Saul Goodman and Michael Scott.
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