A small plaster head is partly covered in pink layers beside a steel chisel and mallet.

Original artwork, not a still

Sarah

I’ve never seen anyone wear more makeup! How does she take it off? With a chisel?

— Peter's Friends · 1992

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Sarah is astonished at how thick someone's makeup looks and jokes that removing it must need a chisel. The exaggeration turns the face into a sculpture or a wall of plaster, and the humour is in the catty, vivid image of hacking it off.

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