Post #430426 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Jan 24, 2009 11:41 AM

Tread carefully now, there is the spectre of the so-called "Divorce Tiki"! :wink: A piece of primitive art that is so weird and cool to one partner, but so unbearably tacky to the other, that it elicits an "either this thing goes or I go!" reaction. I has been portrayed in the sequel to "Honey we Shrunk our Kids":

Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves" (1997)
"Wayne Szalinzki a wacky, absent-minded inventor, is back again but only this time he decides to use his infamous shrink machine just one more time. After when his wife Diane asks him to get rid of the "Tiki Man" a large tiki sculpture. Wayne refuses to get rid of it so he decides to restart the shrink ray and reduces the Tiki Man to pocket-size. However, after Wayne shrinks the Tiki Man the machine is accidentally activated and Wayne ends up shrinking himself and his brother Gordon!"

The Tiki in the film is actually a way overblown fiberglass likeness of an Andres Bumatay Tiki.
For the wife's verdict (from min. 4:02 on):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zttkAWPr1Vw&feature=related

...and, for the full Tiki view (minute 3:52)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YMy6zRcnk4&feature=related

BEWARE of the Divorce Tiki !