A number of years back in the US there was a crappy movie, a comedy about a guy who becomes a cop. In the beginning of the movie they show that the guy had a landscaping service. There were two police, a white male-female pair with Nazi overtones, who were trying to generally harass him and keep him from graduating the police course. The girl he meets is a rocket scientist at NASA, she says in one scene.
…At the end, a corrupt female blond judge gets arrested, and she first asks the arresting cop if he wants to play “hide the nightstick”, and then she calls everybody “pigfuckers” as she is being dragged out of the courtroom. None of the other actors were very big stars, but the blonde judge has been doing US TV/movie appearances for a long time. I can’t remember any of the names.
And that’s really the reason for this thread: the term “pigfucker” has become a favorite generic insult now among me and a few co-workers (-as well as many other people online-) and I am wondering where it came from. This movie was the first time I really remember hearing it. I can’t seem to type anything into IMDB or Google that is useful. Anybody know anything?
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I first heard the term “pigfucker” from Dream On, that early 90s HBO sitcom. I really liked the show, but that episode was far and away the best of the run: Uncle Bouncy.
Martin Tupper catches Uncle Bouncy in a compromising position, takes his picture, whereupon Uncle Bouncy promptly has a heart attack and dies. Our intrepid hero gets villified by the press for killing a beloved children’s performer, and eventually charged with murder.
Martin’s lawyer – his ex-wife’s boyfriend – is prepping him for court, and starts calling him all sorts of bad names to get him ready for a harsh cross-examination. One of the best exchanges:
Lawyer: “Pig Fucker!”
Martin: [bewildered expression]
Lawyer: “Okay, maybe that was a little harsh.”
Pigfucker was one of outlaw journalist[sup]TM[/sup] Hunter S Thompson’s favourite pejoratives. He used it often describing Nixon.
The earliest I heard of it being used was an anecdote concerning a senate race in the 1930’s. One candidate told his manager to spread the word that his opponent enjoyed the carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows.
“Christ, Harry, We can’t call him a Pigfucker and expect people to believe it.”
“yeah, but let’s make the son of a bitch deny it.”
In that movie, the dumb girl turns out to be a rocket scientist, and there are a couple who engage in S&M. A judge is in there, too. What a piece of crap.
Indeed, the description sounds just like Moving Violations – except the guy isn’t trying to become a cop, he’s going through traffic school. It came out in 1985, and starred John Murray (Bill’s little brother), Jennifer Tilly, James Keach, and Sally Kellerman (the blonde judge you recognized). It’s one of my favorite “B” movies.
I wasn’t sure enough myself to attribute it to Johnson, but you may well be right. I was thinking it might have been Truman, so I put a generic Harry in my version. I don’t currently own a copy of FALOCT72 to track it down.
I’m sure someone more Gonzo-erudite will be along to Dope-slap me.
