The above image is from one of the funniest scenes in the 2002 film About A Boy. In it, 12 year old Marcus is on an excursion to the park with his mother's friend Suzie and Will, her prospective date (and professional loafer). Marcus' hippie-dippy mother Fiona has sent along a loaf of her inedible, rock-hard health bread for his snack. Unable to gnaw even a corner off of the brick/loaf, Marcus attempts to break a few bits off to feed to the ducks but it's too hard to do that, either. In a moment of frustration, Marcus hurls the entire loaf into the water where, with the consistency of a cannonball, it accidentally hits and kills a duck. The three of them are gazing in stunned silence at the floating duck corpse when a park warden arrives to investigate the death.
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