Droping the Baby

The baby's neck? If it were my newborn I might have throttled Lenny's neck. Pope or no Pope.

And no I didn't laugh immediately. I was in shock at first. Then with my still racing heart I laughed by about the time Lenny was whisked off for another meeting.

Yes the baby's could have been broken but from the height of the drop and where it landed probably not. Babies are a lot more durable than they look. Still... Another shocking scene.


"Absence is presence". - Pius XIII (Lenny Belardo)

OMG! That scene was hilarious.

My roommate and I both had the same reaction, which was that our mouths flew open in shock, then we burst into laughter, paused it, laughed some more and asked "did that just happen?" Then we immediately played it back and laughed yet again at how awesome and crazy this show is.

I actually thought for moment as he awkwardly picked it up that he may drop the it, but then immediately dismissed the idea, because who does that?. It still caught me completely by surprise when it happened. Great moment.

I had JUST been thinking the day before about how I've never seen anyone drop a baby and was wondering if it really happens, lol, but lo and behold...
It was rather horrifying to me, I guess in a funny way. The immediate aftermath made me cringe in my seat a little too. Kudos, creators!

~Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results is not insanity. It's practice.~

Guilty! After I gasped with my hand over my mouth and realized it was a landing on a soft bed. A newborn is comparatively rubbery, and it looked like long straight drop right onto baby Pius' back--still awful but not nearly so bad as I expected when I hadn't yet seen the episode, but saw a thread title mentioning it.

The entire scene was so well done. Peter and his wife's looks, Lenny's abject horror of possibly hurting that innocent baby, and his almost child-like reaction at the whole situation. Then his commentary at the door about the change in Esther to a mother.

Jude Law has totally sold the wounded child in an adult's body in this character. And despite Jude's good looks, my immense affection that has grown through episode 8 for Lenny is strictly platonic.

I did.