Love Quote by Bobby Farrelly

Farrelly is doing the Hollywood tightrope walk in public: asking permission while insisting he already earned it. The conjoined-twins reference isn’t just a plot point; it’s a preemptive ethics memo for a director whose brand was built on gross-out punchlines and “laugh at the weirdness” setups. He’s signaling a pivot from spectacle to empathy without disowning the comic engine that made him famous.

The key phrase is “so long as they’re not the brunt of the jokes.” That’s not a lofty moral claim; it’s a practical rule for keeping the audience on his side. The subtext: we still want to be funny, but we’re relocating the target. Comedy can survive, he implies, if it aims outward at the world’s reactions, not inward at the bodies on display. It’s an attempt to reframe disability from “gag” to “character,” from curiosity to companionship.

“In this, they’re the heroes” doubles as a creative justification and a reputational shield. Hero status promises agency: they’re not props, they drive the story. Then the clincher, “we love these guys,” is pure softening language, almost familial, designed to reassure viewers and critics that the filmmakers’ gaze is affectionate rather than clinical.

Context matters: conjoined twins on screen carry a history of exploitation, from sideshow aesthetics to horror tropes. Farrelly’s statement reads like an awareness of that baggage, plus an acknowledgment that contemporary audiences are less forgiving of “edgy” jokes that punch down. He’s not claiming perfection; he’s trying to define the line before anyone else does.