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Drawing a moral equivalency to some random event in some random contemporary work of fiction as a means of moralizing isn't some kind of awesome megadunk “own” or anything—it's actually pretty lame.


Why do you think it was attempting to be anything of the sort?


Guy 1 jokes about how he's so confident in himself he drives a minivan.

Person 2 says "ha that reminds me of a character in a story".

It's two people joking in a subthread.




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