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: