Doesn't the bear symbolize the old South and the new dog, the encroaching industrialization of the North?
10 seconds sound clip from the Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:00:53 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Oh, baby, that is a good one.
- Wake me up before you go-go. Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo.
- Wake me up before you go-go. Take me dancing tonight.
- Don't touch a one of them. They're mine.
- So, what do you think that story was about?
- Duh. But the question is, should the reader feel relief or sadness at the passing of the old South?
- Oh, I get it. Moral ambiguity. The hallmark of all early 20th-century American fiction.
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