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I just watched it on DVD. It’s okay but I wouldn’t go out of your way to see it. Unless you like seeing films with dummies that look like Christoph Waltz.
Maybe the tiger ate a zombie and caught the virus that way. People don’t usually bite zombies, but maybe they would turn into zombies if they did, I guess all you need is for the virus to enter your bloodstream.
Oh right. Saucy. Thank you.
Marvellous, glad to help.
It’s not outside and it’s not done by a a henchman, but there are henchmen and a private eye present when a crime boss bottles his own girlfriend in The Long Goodbye. You can watch that scene here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7t7gG3XVqW0
After giving it more thought, I think what I mean is this:
Frank might just as well have said “booyaka”, but that has been overused and is a bit lame now. When he says “iko” it is unusual and unexpected and that makes it funny. Nobody says iko in conversation, but most people recognise the word. We get the meaning from the context of what’s being said, and recognise the word from the song (which is a uplifting song, which gives the word positive connotations, even if nobody knows what the word means). If he’d just said some completely made-up word that has never been said before it could have just been confusing. So it’s like:
Frank: Ha! I rule, baby! (This is the meaning of what he’s saying)
Frank: Ha! Booyaka, baby! (Lame)
Frank: Ha! Furtnurbet, baby! (Confusing)
Frank: Ha! Iko, baby! (Amusing)
I agree, knowing the background is unlikely. It may have come into popularity via the song, and people sometimes still say it say now and again, consciously or unconsciously referencing the song; it may have stuck with people of a certain age and background. Reading about it, it sounds like it existed in the southern States outside of the song. Maybe in twenty years someone will say “shizzle” and nobody will have any idea why. People in the 18th century used to say “quoz”. It didn’t mean anything, but if you were losing an argument, you could say “quoz” and everyone would laugh and you’d win the argument.
In summary, I’ve no idea.
My guess is it’s a reference to the song Iko Iko, and it’s just a fairly meaningless but positive exclamation like ‘shamone’ or ‘word up’. The writer of the song said he considered it a victory chant.
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Family Matters had someone called Urkel who did an odd dance.
I think it could be After the Promise. One of the reviews on IMDB mentions a son being sterilised.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0092519/?ref_=m_tt_urv
It sounds like Bushwick
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwick_(film)
Thanks huwdj. I must have overestimated his culinary skills, due to the omelette and him grinding the coffee beans. I'm going to try unblocking my ear with an omelette now.
If you scroll down on the page I’ve linked to the bit that says ‘live action TV’ there’s a lot of examples of programmes where this happens.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RashomonStyle
I think it may be an episode of Bone Chillers called Art Intimidates Life
https://melodys-media-library.fandom.com/wiki/Bone_Chillers:_Art_Intimidates_Life_(VHS)
It’s called People of the Air by Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi.
I don’t know if it’s available in English, I can’t find anything about it. Sorry you’ve had to wait four years for an answer.
Miracles from Heaven
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracles_from_Heaven_(film)
Committing
He looks a bit like Tracey Walter
It could be an episode of the crime series Wycliffe
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0751034/