Original artwork, not a still
According to the map, we've only gone four inches.
— Dumb and Dumber · 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker reports a distance measured on a map as though it directly described the journey itself. The joke turns on that confusion of scale: four inches of paper can represent much more ground. The apparently precise measurement therefore makes the report sound especially foolish.
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