My wife and I talk like this all the time, and have actually done so in front of other people. It’s always in fun ‘one-upmanship’ spirit, but I’m pretty sure we’ve made other people very uncomfortable wondering if we’re fighting or not.
Karen hated Shawn to begin with and was happy to see him die. The prospect of his coming back, and to ‘haunt them forever’ no less? She’s having none of that.
Consider this a tribute to the old stickmen comics I used to draw as a kid. I usually had 3 pens / markers… a black pen that I’d draw the background with, and then a red and blue pen for the various colored stickmen who’d then kill each other by throwing knives, shooting bazookas, driving tanks, etc.
I had notebooks filled with them, and they morphed from single sheet scenes to notebook-spanning epic storylines, and were the direct link between simply drawing to drawing comics.
I really wish I’d have kept some. :\