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There was an unfortunate RealLife case of this happening in 1997, where the mother, Melissa Drexler, dumped the baby into the trash and then went back to dancing.

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* ''{{MAD Magazine}}'' once featured a series of fake magazine covers, including one called "Prom Mom" with articles like "Drinking the spiked punch: What the hell, it's not like anyone expects good judgment from you at this point!"

* The movie ''{{Saved}}!''

* The LawAndOrder episode ''Denial'' played with this trope. The parents were college students, and the baby was actually born in a hotel, but shortly afterward, the parents attended a college dance as if nothing had happened.

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* The ''ColdCase'' episode "Family".

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* [[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986568,00.html Prom Nightmare]]

** Which doesn't make a lot of sense when you think about it, but ''FamilyGuy'' rarely lets that get in the way of a gag and/or a musical number.

There was an unfortunate RealLife case of this happening in 1997, where the [[CompleteMonster mother, Melissa Drexler,]] [[MoralEventHorizon dumped the baby into the trash and then went back to dancing.]]

There was an unfortunate RealLife case of this happening years ago, where the [[CompleteMonster mother, Melissa Drexler,]] [[MoralEventHorizon dumped the baby into the trash and then went back to dancing.]]

-->''"I'm just a prom night dumpster baby,''

-->''My story isn't long, but boy, it's awfully sad..."''

-->Baby's born on a bathroom floor\\
Her mother prays that it'll never cry\\
But nothing's wrong, you've got your prom dress on,\\
When they ask you'll say "it isn't mine"

-->''I'm just a prom night dumpster baby,''

-->''My story isn't long, but boy, it's awfully sad...''

-->''I got no mom or dad,''

-->-- '''The Prom Night Dumpster Baby,''' ''Family Guy''

There was an unfortunate RealLife case of this happening years ago, where the [[CompleteMonster mother]] [[MoralEventHorizon dumped the baby into the trash and then went back to dancing.]]

* On a related, but more innocuous, note: a persistent rumor states that WinstonChurchill was born in a cloakroom during a dance.
** This troper lives very close to the place he was born. He was not in fact born ''during'' the dance, but his mother went into (possibly premature) labour during it and he was born 24 hours later. She was carried from the dancefloor into a downstairs room, unable to get back to her bedroom. It was not a 'ladies room', nor a 'bathroom', but a regular reception room that just happened to be covered in cloaks and other articles at the time.
** When somebody asked Churchill if the story was true, he replied, "[[DeadpanSnarker Although I was present at the occasion, I have no recollection of the events leading up to it]]."

** When somebody asked Churchill if the story was true, he replied, "Although I was present at the occasion, I have no recollection of the events leading up to it."

* Gruesomely invoked during ''Film/CabinFever 2'', where one of the promgoers has an '''extremely messy''' childbirth in one of the public restrooms, after contracting a flesh-eating virus.

* Gruesomely invoked during ''CabinFever 2'', where one of the promgoers has an '''extremely messy''' childbirth in one of the public restrooms, after contracting a flesh-eating virus.

* Gruesomely invoked during ''Cabin Fever 2'', where one of the promgoers has an '''extremely messy''' childbirth in one of the public restrooms, after contracting a flesh-eating virus.

There was an unfortunate RealLife case of this happening years ago, where the mother [[MoralEventHorizon dumped the baby into the trash and then went back to dancing.]]

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* RealLife: [[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986568,00.html Prom Nightmare]]

There was an unfortunate RealLife case of this happening years ago, where the mother dumped the baby into the trash and then went back to dancing.