朋友跟我探讨某部电影里的一段对白，问问我的理解。

先看原文：

在妮可的《致命拜访》里，母子这样对话：

母：Did you tell Gene you're staying at your dad's starting tonight?
子：Yep.
母：It's a good thing he still lives next door, huh?
      Imagine the pickle you'd be in if you didn't know any kids in the neighborhood.
子：Pickle.
母：Bread-and-butter.
子：Dill.
母：Kosher.
子：Sour.
母：Sweet and hots.
子：Gherkins, Garlic chips, Perkies
母：NO! That's not the one. Come on. Perkies?
      Anyway, you already won.
子：But why do people say "in a pickle" anyhow?
母：I think it's a baseball term.

我没看过这部电影，不知道情节，只是针对这段对白作了如下猜测：

I don't know the dynamics in that mother-and-son relationship, but it strikes me as a case of mother-son intimacy, a typical conversation between them that possibly stems from some childhood game, like "word association". And it starts with the idiom "to be in a pickle". But allow me some time to think of some good chinese equivalents (if at all possible).

几天后，我试了一下无厘头风格的翻译，进行了“本地化”：

母：你有没有告诉小金，今晚开始你要住你爹家？

子：说了。

母：幸亏他还住咱隔壁，是吧？想想看，要是这一带你连个小朋友都没有，那你就惨了。

子：惨，惨不忍睹。

母：睹物思人。

子：人云亦云。

母：云里雾里。

子：里应外合。

母：合纵连横。

子：横七竖八、八面威风、风流丑事......

母：不算不算，有没有搞错哇？“风流丑事”？好了，反正你已经赢了。

子：说人很倒霉，干吗用“惨”字来形容啊？

母：我觉得起先是香港人爱这么说，后来就传到大陆来了。