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'Blessed Event/Dress Rehersal' totally unrealistic

posted 12 years ago by Maxmacrubymimi
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Wilma doesn't have any contractions or anything when the baby's coming. She's not even in any pain. When women go into labor, they're in a lot of pain and usually scream "OMG, contractions! Ah! The baby's coming!!!" But... When Wilma breaks the news to Fred and Barney, she cheerfully yells, "Oh, Freeed, I'm ready!" without the tiniest hint of pain in her voice. It's like she chose when it was time to go to the hospital. Wilma still hasn't gone into labor on the car ride to the hospital. By this time, people have started their breathing they do when they're in labor. Also by this time, they're complaining that the contractions are coming even faster. But not Wilma. She just sits in the car, talking about how the baby will be seven by the time they get to the hospital. Also, in the hospital, Wilma gets checked in, but Fred has to sit in the waiting room with Barney, and they pace around until a doctor goes to get them. Usually men are in the delivery room with their wives. The people at Hanna-Barbara were probably scared that if they showed Wilma giving birth, people would be mad at them. There is a way that you can show a woman giving birth without showing anything explicit. Hanna-Barbara also had to put Wilma in Fred in separate beds after Pebbles came along because now that it was a family show, they couldn't show Fred and Wilma in the same bed anymore. That's just stupid! Anyone else agree with everything I said?

[–] gpicto 12 years ago

It was a rip-off of I Love Lucy and the scene where Lucy was in labour. I never realized it until years later, when I saw ILL, which was manyyears before the Flintstones.

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[–] bedrock1960 12 years ago

You're complaining that an episode of an animated cartoon series about "modern" stone age people was unrealistic? Unbelievable!

[–] Tresix 12 years ago

You beat me to it, bedrock1960! Never mind that this show has mammals and dinosaurs together (dinosaurs were extinct many millions of years before warm-blooded creatures appeared on Earth). It's totally fiction, get over it!

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[–] hillbrian2005 12 years ago

This show was made in the 1960's and back then men were in the waiting room while they waited for their babies to be born, I think it was the 1970's when men started being with their women in the delivery room. The pain thing was true though. I mean even Lucy acted and sounded uncomfortable rather than in terrible pain, but they probably didn't want to put all that in an older cartoon back then.

[–] gcarras 11 years ago

Right on! Can't even think of any men today being comfy with it (thinking of Katharine Heigl in "Knocked Up" from 2007 when she's ticked about any men in the delivery room with her.). I'd be uneasy with any wife of mine in the docto'r sroom, I'd prefer the waiting room (it's just as well okay qwith everyone, men don't HAVE to see the baby being delivered....oh, for the STORK to exist LOL!) BTW many people aren't too happy about Pebbles being born at all as it ruined the show's premise, though some "best of's" I gave in that Best of thread involved Pebbles...BUT Pebbles is the center of concern in those...(I prefer the ones even older, the childless 1960-1962 ones.)

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[–] Oddark123 10 years ago

They went more realistic when Pebbles had her babies in the 90s. There all in the delivery room and she makes traditional labor sound effects.

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[–] brunhilda2013 10 years ago

Maybe Wilma wasn't in labor yet, her water had broken. That doesn't hurt. As for why Fred wasn't in the delivery room with her, it was the 60s and most hospital didn't allow that at the time.

[–] gpicto 10 years ago

It was a pretty funny episode, though, with Fred & Barney switching Wilma from one car to another & Wilma's remark that the baby would be age 7 by the time they reached the hospital lol

And the hotel clerk telling Fred, "We don't want any trouble."

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[–] esskayess 10 years ago

Nope. I dozed off halfway through it.

[–] ExplorerDS6789 10 years ago

They couldn't show stuff like that on TV back then. Heck, they were lucky that an animated show was allowed to have a character get pregnant. You couldn't even say "pregnant" on TV back then.

It wasn't until the '70s where not only could you say "pregnant", but "knocked up."

[–] gcarras 10 years ago

Yes, that's why it's still the favorite show of modern day viewers and crap like Pnieas and Ferb and SpongeBob are fading.

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[–] tinkerbell_jonna 9 years ago

This is also a world where telephones, electricity, etc existed in the stone age. The rules of this cartoon universe isn't exactly real life.