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12 Worst Baby-Related Movies and TV Shows

Friday, December 5, 2008
filed under: paul starke

Why one dad hates watching baby-related shows after having a child.

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Guest blogger Paul Starke: I have a friend who's a New York City prosecutor who can't stand watching shows like "Law & Order," simply because they're not realistic enough for his tastes. I've heard that doctors and nurses feel the same way about "ER." These shows may be entertaining, but to the people who actually work in the professions portrayed, they just don't ring true. After being a dad for 7 months, that's sort of how I feel about baby-themed movies and TV shows. Here are, "The 12 Most Ridiculous Baby-Related Movies and TV Shows."

1. "Rosemary's Baby": There's no way that an unemployed actor would be able to afford a three-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side; oh, and the whole "getting impregnated by the devil" thing.

2. "Look Who's Talking?": Not sure what's more implausible: the talking baby, or the "sexual heat" between John Travolta and Kirstie Alley.

3. "Full House": Yes, the Olsen twins were adorable as babies, but all they did throughout the entire run of the series was provide witty comebacks to Bob Saget. Not once did they cry, break something, or poop themselves.

4. "Three Men and a Baby": That scene where Guttenberg/Danson/Selleck soothe the abandoned baby by singing a classic 60s song? Yeah, I've tried it and that doesn't work.

5. "Mork & Mindy": There was an episode where Mork (Robin Williams) delivers a baby (a middle-aged Jonathan Winters) out of his belly-button. Actually, my wife says that childbirth sort of feels like this.

6. "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids": The most preposterous thing about this film is that they made a sequel.

7. "Baby Boom": I know it was 1987, but how could Diane Keaton possibly have kept her equilibrium with those enormous shoulder pads?

8. "The Ten Commandments": My son can't stay in the bath for more than 30 seconds without freaking out, so I doubt Moses traveled down that river in a basket for several days.

9. "Family Ties": Ok, only avid watchers may recall this, but one season, baby Andrew Keaton was a newborn, and then the next season, he was like 5 years old. Methinks Steve and Elyse were spiking his milk with Human Growth Hormone.

10. "Parenthood": My dad's not as funny as Steve Martin, and my mom's not as sexy as Mary Steenburgen.

11. "A Cry in the Dark": The "dingo took my baby" excuse doesn't work in other aspects of life. "The dingo took my homework"... "The dingo took my rent check"... "the dingo took me to a strip club" etc.

12. "Sesame Street": Yes, it's a beloved national treasure, but having your children learn how to count from a ghoulish, undead vampire is going to cause some problems down the road.

Paul StarkePaul Starke is an Emmy-winning TV producer, and a co-writer of the #1 New York Times bestseller, An Inconvenient Book.


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6 comments so far | Post a comment now >>

 
Baby Boom and Three Men and a Baby are the best! What are you talking about! LOL
- LC
Posted 12/05/08 09:33 PM
 
LMAO.. HAHA… I work at a daycare and I have to do 1 hour of dumb Sesame Street a day and that is so funny to me what they said.
- Nikki
Posted 12/05/08 09:43 PM
 
Hey, get a grip! Im a mother of 4 (all grown now) and grandmother of 2,so far. These shows are only meant to entertain and sometimes allow you to escape “reality”. Lighten up! and simply enjoy. And sesame street actually works in teaching kids fundamentals in a fun way
- Anonymous
Posted 12/06/08 10:41 AM
 
The quote from A Cry in the Dark is actually “the dingo’s got my baby!”
- Brian Tristam Williams
Posted 12/06/08 11:15 AM
 
If i met you in real life I would hate watching movies with you. I am sure you feel this way about more movies then just the Baby catagory- your probable list of favorites include, “civil war reinactment collection vol. 1” and “National Geographics Archiological collection part three”. aka I hate you
- MJ.b
Posted 12/08/08 04:28 AM
 
> In the 1960s it would have been possible (rents were much lower then, even taking into account 1960s US dollars), especially since he is supposed to have starred in a TV commercial which was still being aired. Then, as now, TV commercials paid a lot.
- Brock Linahan
Posted 12/09/08 11:45 AM
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