A sanitized or movie-edited substitute for mother fucker
The film "Die Hard: With a Vengeance" was released in 1995
staring Samuel L. Jackson (as Zeus Carver) and Bruce Willis
(as John McClane); but this film was later edited for TV...
While the term "mellon farmer" probably appeared in other
edited films, Jackson's character made it quite funny and
memorable ... even though the original unedited movie was
far better ... the editors got a bit lucky, this time.
An example line from the edited film:
Zeus: Now that's low, even for a white mellon-farmer like you.
Alternative to the term "Motherfucker". Known to have been used as such during Samuel L. Jackson movies that air on cable television. The ultimate irony is that the lipsinc is a sliver away from perfect.
"Look, all brothers don't know how to shoot a gun, you racist melonfarmer."
-Samuel L. Jackson
Censored version of "Die Hard: With a Vengeance"
"motherfucker" euphamism- derived from bad television censoring in which "motherfucker" was substituted with "melonfarmer." Needless to say, the lips didn't quite match up and it became an hysterical in-crowd joke amongst college kids of the 90s.