Wisps of heat rise from a red padded stool beside a leaning metal spatula.

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Del Griffith

Was that seat hot or what? I feel like a Whopper. Turn me over, I’m done and ready. I’m afraid to look at my ass. There’ll be grill marks.

— Planes, Trains & Automobiles · 1987

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Our interpretation.

The speaker jokes that a scorching seat has cooked him like a fast-food burger, asking to be flipped because he's done. His fear of looking at his backside for grill marks is pure comic exaggeration about how hot the seat was.

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