Flipping off the audience: @JimCarrey and his penguins

Every time he used his mobile 'phone he held it in a REALLY WEIRD WAY. It was about five inches from his face and propped there by a tripod of fingers, one of which, the middle finger, was extended to his temple in a clear FUCK YOU. Was his character supposed to be such a dick that he'd give the bird to everyone in the vicinity including the flightless creatures grounded there?

Also...whilst I appreciate the nod to previous movies as amusing hat-tips to the cinephiles in the room, there were a slew of them in 'Mr Popper's Penguins,' so many that I wondered if they were intentional or whether Mr Carrey and his colleagues had forgotten these jokes had been used before...