A glass flask on a metal stand contains a folded paper figure, with lilac liquid pooled inside and a drop below.

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Scott Evil

I hate you! I hate you! I wish I was never artificially created in a lab!

— Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery · 1997

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A familiar angry outburst takes an absurd turn when the speaker wishes away an artificial laboratory origin. The repeated declaration of hatred sounds like an ordinary family quarrel, but the final complaint changes its terms completely. That collision between everyday resentment and an extraordinary origin supplies the joke.

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