'It was a dark and stormy night' is the famous opening line of the 1830 novel Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, now considered a cliché of bad writing.
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Coots and Ladders
Season 11 · Episode 17 · S11E17
“It was a dark and stormy day... You can leave that out.”
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