Poll: Ten Pregnancy (and Delivery) Clichés ...

Results of 888 votes:

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   Matthew Broderick in The Cable Guy (1996)

    

   Surprise!!! The news generally comes as a total surprise to the father who had no clue she could ever be pregnant. She generally struggles to reveal her pregnancy while he's too busy announcing some g…
2. 2.
   

   "The Exorcist" Linda Blair 1973 Warner Brothers

    

   Morning (or anytime) sickness: the first hints of pregnancy are generally conveyed through public puking in the middle of some social activity (in the toilet if she can make it)... when she doesn't st…
3. 3.
   

   John Hurt and Percy Edwards in Alien (1979)

    

   It hurts! There's no labour lasting for hours, no epidural, no quietness whatsoever during the delivery, like Churchill, the movie has nothing to offer but "blood, toils, tears and sweat", t…
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   Tim Robbins and Frank Darabont in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

    

   I've been slimed... not, you wouldn't tell the baby went through a river of slimy organic matters to come out perfectly clean on the side, well, if not totally clean, he doesn't look exactly like the …
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   Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs (1992)

    

   Is there a doctor in the house? Ah, good ol' dramatization, no matter how well-prepared she is, the heroine is always left alone at the crucial moment, far from any medical environment and it's too la…
6. 6.
   

   Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn in Aliens (1986)

    

   Get away from her (or him), you bitch... well, it's not said that way, but it comes to the same thing, the prospective mother, despite the agreement to give a couple her baby, finally changes her mind…
7. 7.
   

   Russell Crowe in Noah (2014)

    

   Splash! Someone bring a "Wet Floor Sign"! Waters have just broken, and from the noise (with or without the popping balloon sound), you can tell it's a loss of epic proportions and thank God…
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   Battleship Potemkin (1925)

    

   Watch your step! There's only one way to cause a miscarriage in movies: a good old dramatic post-fight stair-fall.
9. 9.
   

   Ewen Bremner in Trainspotting (1996)

    

   Panic Room. And that's an understatement, when he realizes that the labour has started already, the husband or friend is as excited as if he had just swallowed an entire bottle of ecstasy pills, whic…
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    Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe, Edmund Gwenn, Jerry Mathers, and Mildred Natwick in The Trouble with Harry (1955)

     

    Everything is fine... not... One of the most 'hilarious' 80's and 90's sight gags (besides the girl kicking the macho guy in the groin) was the guy who couldn't stand the sight of the delivery and ine…