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Would ya look at the size of that kid's head! It's a virtual planetoid and it has it's own weather system! Looks like an orange on a toothpick!
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Stuart is a man who has never met a head he could not turn into a punchline, and in his mouth the insult becomes affection: this is how a Scottish father says he loves his boy. The film became a cult favourite, and this bit of Myers' double act is one of its most repeated riffs, a ready-made mock for anyone with a big head. The site keeps the popular wording; the film says 'boy's heed' in Stuart's accent.
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The line comes from So I Married an Axe Murderer, the 1993 comedy in which Mike Myers plays both the commitment-shy San Francisco poet Charlie MacKenzie and his Scottish-born father Stuart. Charlie visits his parents for the Saturday football match on TV. Stuart, watching a replay, tells his son to move his head out of the way, then goes into a spiral of jokes about its size: an orange on a toothpick, a planetoid with its own weather. His wife May says he will give the boy a complex, and the family moves on to the news of Charlie's break-up with Sherry.
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- So I Married an Axe Murderer script, Springfield! Springfield!Parents' living room, soccer match on TV, before Charlie's break-up conversation with his motherReference checked
- So I Married an Axe Murderer, WikipediaLead and plot summaryReference checked
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