Igor's Hump

Igor's Hump

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Kids, this is what happens if you don't have good posture and you sit too close to your laptop—you'll end up with a giant, hollow, moving hump and big googly eyes.

Or will you? Although Feldman's bug eyes are real (his trademark, a result of failed surgery for his Grave's Disease) the hump is fake. It's even fake for the character, moving around scene by scene. Igor's hump is probably the most obvious example of the film's absurdist humor. Feldman actually moved the hump himself until someone on the set noticed it. When questioned about it, Igor refuses to acknowledge its existence. If an Igor has a hump, but says "what hump?" when it's pointed out, does he have a hump at all? It's one of life's greatest existential riddles.