I recently watched a decent portion of "Meet the Parents". This movie one of the greatest examples of having a soon-to-be-in-law that is over protective and has extremely high-standards. It is about Gaylord Focker - and yes this is his birth-given name. He does his best of impress his soon to be father in law Robert DeNiro, but no matter how hard he tries he doesn't meet very many of the standards.
He lies about facts of his life, said that he could milk a cat or anything with nipples. As a response to this, DeNiro's character responds with "I have nipples Greg, can you milk me?" Great scene in the movie! But he rebuttal with the best example he could because Greg had not based his claim on fact.
Through out the movie, Greg does try to pull a lot of those attempted fact claims only to get shot down by DeNiro (hint: he is a retired CIA agent).
Greg had not established good ethos with his fiancee's father. Making it harder for what he was going to say to be believed by anyone. Though it doesn't mean he was such a bad guy, he was just trying to impress his In-Laws.
Meet The Parents
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