Parenting & Family Quote by Mike Myers

Myers is doing that sneaky comedian move where a throwaway gag gets treated like an underserved prestige drama. By insisting Dr. Evil was "shortchanged", he reframes a cartoon villain as a character with emotional budget cuts. The line works because it’s mock-serious: it borrows the language of auteur grievance and franchise revisionism to argue, with a straight face, for more screen time devoted to evil parenting logistics.

The specific intent is partly fan-service, partly self-parody. Myers is acknowledging how Austin Powers accidentally made its antagonist the scene-stealer, then pitching the sequel’s expansion as if it’s a moral correction. But the subtext is sharper: he’s pointing to the franchise’s real engine, which isn’t spy pastiche so much as family weirdness. Scott and Dr. Evil aren’t just jokes about therapy culture; they’re a way to smuggle in a familiar modern anxiety - that your parents’ mess becomes your personality - under a lava-lair aesthetic.

The phrase "evil single parent" is the comedic hinge. It takes a socially legible role loaded with sympathy and struggle, then stitches it onto a Bond-villain template. Suddenly the absurdity isn’t just Dr. Evil’s pinky pose; it’s the idea that even a supervillain can’t escape custody vibes, generational disappointment, and the humiliations of trying to connect.

Context matters: late-90s comedy was drenched in irony, but also increasingly interested in softening monsters into dads, bosses, and damaged adults. Myers is signaling that the sequel’s escalation won’t just be bigger jokes - it’ll be deeper, funnier stakes, because nothing deflates power like your kid calling you out.