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Could I trouble you for a glass of warm milk? / You could trouble me for a warm glass of shut the hell up.
— Happy Gilmore ‧ 1996
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The joke is the whiplash: a sweet old lady's old-fashioned request answered with pure venom, delivered by someone who sounds almost bored. It is also what turns the story serious, because it tells the audience exactly why Happy has to win. As a quotable it is the polite-request-versus-rude-reply template, borrowed wherever someone asks too nicely.
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In context
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To keep her house out of the IRS's hands, Happy parks his grandmother Anna in a retirement home while he raises $270,000, not knowing the staff mistreat the residents and put them to work in a sweatshop. When Grandma politely asks the orderly for a warm drink, she gets abuse back. The orderly, Hal, was played in an uncredited role by Ben Stiller.
Sources (2)
- Happy Gilmore, Wikipedia (Plot, Cast)Plot, second paragraph; Cast notesReference checked
- Happy Gilmore, Fandom wiki (Cast)Cast sectionReference checked
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