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Wonderful! My wife and I just showed this movie to our kids last month, and they loved it. I'd always assumed "Your mother was a hamster and your father stank
by daoboy 3y ago
Wonderful! My wife and I just showed this movie to our kids last month, and they loved it.
I'd always assumed "Your mother was a hamster and your father stank of elderberries" was just a meaningless bit of Monty Python absurdity.
When my wife explained to the kids that meant your mom is a slut and your dad is a drunk I was flabbergasted. I had never reevaluated that iconic insult from my initial ignorant teenage assumptions.
- mrosett 3y agoAnd now I’m having the same experience
- nicwilson 3y agonot just a drunk, a cheap drunk.
- dylan604 3y agoBut isn't it a deeper commentary into English culture with Gin since the elderberry is what is used to make Gin from just alcohol? They didn't make a joke about grapes=>wine, or peat moss=>scotch.
- julian_t 3y agoI thought the basis of gin was juniper berries, not elderberries (although you can make elderberry gin in the same way as sloe gin)
- dylan604 3y agoThe "good stuff" is made with juniper berries. Gin can be made from whatever is around.
- gandalfian 3y agoThe traditional basis of gin is basic industrial alcohol. The berries are just the flavouring.
- dekhn 3y agohttps://www.bythedutch.com/genever/ https://www.bythedutch.com/genever/
- lostlogin 3y agoThis changes everything. Can you have her explain the whole movie to us?
- daoboy 3y agoEdit: Misunderstanding that was cleared up. Thank you!
- f001 3y agoI would watch that livestream
- genter 3y agoDon't worry, it took me years to figure out that "South Park, Bigger Longer and Uncut" was a double entendre.
- xatax 3y agoFor me, it was the Blink-182 album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket.
- tombert 3y agoYeah, I didn't get the masturbation pun for that one until like three years ago; it always seemed like a pretty innocuous title until someone laughed when I mentioned it.
- BytesAndGears 3y agoWow I’ve listened to that album since I was a teenager and still never figured that out until right now
- gskye 3y agoWow. One of my favorite albums from my youth, I never got this until you just mentioned it!
- m463 3y ago"If you see Kay, will you tell her that I love her?"...
- rightbyte 3y agoIs there a word play in the title I am missing or what do you mean? :/
- CoastalCoder 3y agoBigger, longer, and uncut can all refer to a human penis, or to a movie release.
- npsomaratna 3y agoI reevaluated this in my 20s and 30s - and I still learned the true meaning only just now.
- Hitton 3y agoCould you ask your wife if there is also some deeper meaning to "My hovercraft is full of eels"?
- xref 3y agoWoah buddy this is a family site
- embedded_hiker 3y agoI got the elderberries part because Elton John had done a song about elderberry wine. The hamster part, I learned just now.
- crazygringo 3y agoMaybe I'm dumb, but why does hamster mean slut? I'm trying to google it and look in slang dictionaries and I'm not finding a thing. (Elderberry wine makes sense.)
- nickserv 3y agoHamsters breed like rodents, because they are.
- jghn 3y agoAs a teen I got in trouble once because I said that as a not at all serious insult to someone. I also didn't know it meant anything. The trouble was he *did* know what it meant but did *not* know it was a movie quote. So he went to the teacher and complained, and such is life.
- rendall 3y agoHuh! Amazing. In my high-school we insulted each other's mothers every day. Going to the teacher about it would have been inconceivable. Was it common practice at your school, an anti-bullying initiative or something? Was this in the US?
- rendall 3y agoHmm. I don't find that theory convincing. That sort of humor does not really fit in with their body of work, but random absurdity definitely does. Hamsters aren't really known for promiscuity. Fecundity perhaps, but then the insult is "your mother had a lot of kids"? Doesn't meet the MP standards. Elderberry wine smells no more like elderberries than wine smells like grapes, so getting from "...your father smelt of elderberries" to "he was a drunk" is quite a stretch. Why not "it means he ate too much elderberry strudel" if we're going for alternate explanations? Top marks for creativity though.