History Main / ScreamingPlaneBaby

* In the first issue of ''ComicBook/XMen'' (2013) by Brian Wood Jubilee is taking the baby she rescued from Bulgaria home on a plane when this happens, and a stewardess can be seen coming over to offer help while the people next to her plug their ears.

* In ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}'' (the book anyway), Hannibal Lecter is at one point pestered on a plane by a family consisting of a mother, a bratty kid, and a crying baby.

* In the ''Series/YesDear'' episode, "Greg, Don't Leave Home Without Him", Greg gets roped into flying on an airplane with Kim, Sammy, and the Hughes to Kim and Christine's parents' house. During the flight, Sammy will not stop crying. Meanwhile, Jimmy gives Dominic and Logan some Benadryl to get them to fall asleep so they won't bother him on the flight like Sammy is doing to Greg. Greg then finds out from Kim that Sammy needs [[TheDiaperChange a diaper change]], so he takes Sammy to the bathroom to change his diaper.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[WesternAnimation/TheHighFructoseAdventuresOfAnnoyingOrange The cabin pressure's murder on their delicate, baby ears.]]]]

->"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

* Creator/BillCosby did a variant in ''Film/BillCosbyHimself'' in which his flight held an annoying four-year-old who went up and down the aisles disturbing all the passengers on a red-eye flight who are trying to sleep. The passengers got their revenge when the kid finally went to sleep himself shortly before landing, so they all took turns telling him to wake up as they left the plane.

'''Stewie:''' Pipe down, Lois. ''[slaps guy on head]'' Hey, big man, turn around! Oh, you can't hear me now. Fine, I ''was'' going to watch the in-flight movie, but forget it! For the next 5 hours, you're my ''bitch''. ''[begins furiously kicking guy's seat]'' ''WAAAH! WAAAH!'' My ears are popping, and there's no way to console me! I'm hungry, or possibly teething! Maybe I'm wet; who knows? I'm a BABY! A-''WAAAAAH!''

* At one point in ''Manga/MamaIsAFourthGrader'', Natsumi has an ImagineSpot of her potential future career as a flight attendant, and it's ''her'' baby (strapped to her back) that starts screaming.

* At one point in ''Mama Is a Fourth-Grader'', Natsumi has an ImagineSpot of her potential future career as a flight attendant, and it's ''her'' baby (strapped to her back) that starts screaming.

-->-- '''The Noise An Airplane Makes'''

!!Fictional Examples

* In the first issue of ''Comicbook/XMen'' (2013) by Brian Wood Jubilee is taking the baby she rescued from Bulgaria home on a plane when this happens, and a stewardess can be seen coming over to offer help while the people next to her plug their ears.
* In ''{{Comicbook/Daredevil}}: Road Warrior'', one of the perils that Matt Murdock must face on a six-hour flight in economy class is a crying baby. Did we mention that Matt has hypersensitive hearing?

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' gets stuck behind a whole bunch of them in one strip (their moms are flying to the Mothers of Colicky Babies Convention or somesuch).
* In ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues'', this happened during Zoe's first plane trip when the family went to visit Wanda's parents. Wanda's method of apologizing to the other passengers was to stand up and shout "HEY! Count your blessings! I could have had TWINS!"
* ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'': Michael had to sit next to one once. Fortunately, he knew how to calm the baby down (he credits his sister April, who was born not long before this strip).

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* Comedian/folk singer Martin Pearson gives a hilarious account of this on his album ''Too Close for Comfort''.
* Creator/BillCosby did a variant in ''Film/BillCosbyHimself'' in which his flight held an annoying four-year-old who went up and down the aisles disturbing all the passengers on a red-eye flight who are trying to sleep. The passengers got their revenge when the kid finally went to sleep himself shortly before landing, so they all took turns telling him to wake up as they left the plane.
* Creator/EddieIzzard once theorized that if a plane didn't have any screaming children on it, the crew would find one and put them on board before takeoff.

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* Mentioned in the note underneath [[http://wondermark.com/504/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}'' strip. The characters in the strip obliquely express a desire to shake a crying baby, and the note reads, "Anyone who is offended by this was not on my flight last night."
* [[http://www.johnnywander.com/comics/88 This]] ''Webcomic/JohnnyWander'' strip.
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* An episode of ''Radio/TheRickyGervaisShow'' had a segment in Karl's Diary where Karl wrote about how he had to sit next to a crying baby on a plane.
* In an episode of ''WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou'', Nash and Tara come across an article about a man who got jail time for [[WouldHurtAChild slapping a toddler]] on an airplane (as well as calling it racial slurs) because it wouldn't stop crying. Needless to say, Nash and Tara are appalled by the man's actions, pointing out that not only is the changing air pressure hard on a baby's ears but to a small child, being stuck inside a flying metal tube and [[DissonantSerenity everyone else acting like it's normal]] is probably terrifying.
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/163-ayla-and-the-late-trevor-james-goodkind Ayla and the Late Trevor James Goodkind]]:
--> Then, for the last half hour of our flight, as we descended into Chicago, we were serenaded by the screams of a baby whose mother didn't seem to grasp fundamental concepts, like 'air pressure differential' or 'Eustachian tube'. Poor little kid. I'll say one thing. That kid had the lungs of a full-grown howler monkey. I wondered if the people sitting next to them would be deaf by the time the plane touched down.
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'''Stewie:''' Pipe down, Lois. *''slaps guy on head''* Hey, big man, turn around! Oh, you can't hear me now. Fine, I ''was'' going to watch the in-flight movie, but forget it! For the next 5 hours, you're my ''bitch''. *''begins furiously kicking guy's seat''* ''WAAAH! WAAAH!'' My ears are popping, and there's no way to console me! I'm hungry, or possibly teething! Maybe I'm wet; who knows? I'm a BABY! A-''WAAAAAH!''

'''Francine:''' ''(turns around, speaking like a {{sassy black woman}})'' Oh no! You do NOT tell me how to raise my child!\\

* On a Creator/CartoonNetwork episode of ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'', Pear gets on a plane and is seated next to a crying baby. After he grumbles to himself about it, [[RuleOfFunny the baby says]] that if he has a problem with his crying he should just say so, instead of being passive-aggressive about it. He politely asks if he'll stop crying, and the baby refuses because he's uncomfortable.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Roz dressed up her daughter as a turkey (it was a ThanksgivingEpisode) for the flight home so people would think, "Aww, how cute!" and wouldn't be so annoyed if she started crying. Upon learning this, Frasier tells her that when he and Lilith had to take their infant son on a plane for the first time he promised to buy the entire cabin a drink if the baby cried. Partway through the flight, he woke up from a nap to find the passenger behind them poking the baby to try and get him to cry. Needless to say, Frasier did ''not'' buy the man a drink.

Babies are new to this world and have no language skills to articulate their discomfort or understand instructions on how to relieve it. So when they're faced with air pressure changes, unusual loud noises, the presence of strangers and the other hazards of public transportation, they're left with the default of screaming their lungs out. Plus, the child may be ill and in pain, and there's always hunger and dirty diapers to cause further discomfort.

A similar effect happens in theaters, auditoriums, churches and other crowded buildings, but in these cases it's usually possible to remove the baby and alleviate the problem. (In fact, these places often have specifically designated "crying rooms" for this precise purpose.)

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* In ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}'' (the book anyway), Hannibal Lecter is at one point pestered on a plane by a family consisting of a mother, a bratty kid and a crying baby.

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* On ''Series/ModernFamily'', Mitchell and Cameron try to keep Lily awake before their flight to Hawaii so that she sleeps in the plane and avoids this. Mitchell tells the story of how he sat next to a crying baby on a flight from New York, then reveals that the baby was Cameron whining about how they couldn't get tickets to ''Theatre/BillyElliot''.
* ''Series/BigWaveDaves'': Marshall has to go back to the mainland from Hawaii for a business meeting. In a throwaway joke he says he doesn't want to, because he knows he'll have to sit between a fat sweaty guy and a mother with a crying baby. In TheStinger he's boarding the plane; when the flight attendant asks him if he'd like help finding his seat, he replies no thanks, he knows where it is. [[CallBack He just finds the fat sweaty guy and mother with a crying baby with a vacant seat between them.]]

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Roz dressed up her daughter as a turkey (it was a ThanksgivingEpisode) for the flight home so people would think, "Aww, how cute!" and wouldn't be so annoyed if she started crying. Upon learning this, Frasier tells her that when he and Lilith had to take their infant son on a plane for the first time he promised to buy the entire cabin a drink if the baby cried. Partway through the flight he woke up from a nap to find the passenger behind them poking the baby to try and get him to cry. Needless to say Frasier did ''not'' buy the man a drink.

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* Comedian/folk singer Martin Pearon gives a hilarious account of this on his album ''Too Close for Comfort''.
* Creator/BillCosby did a variant in ''Film/BillCosbyHimself'' in which his flight held an annoying four year old who went up and down the aisles disturbing all the passengers on a red-eye flight who are trying to sleep. The passengers got their revenge when the kid finally went to sleep himself shortly before landing, so they all took turns telling him to wake up as they left the plane.

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* In an episode of ''WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou'', Nash and Tara come across an article about a man who got jail time for [[WouldHurtAChild slapping a toddler]] on an airplane (as well as calling it racial slurs) because it wouldn't stop crying. Needless to say, Nash and Tara are appalled by the man's actions, pointing out that not only is the changing air pressure hard on a baby's ears, but to a small child, being stuck inside a flying metal tube and [[DissonantSerenity everyone else acting like it's normal]] is probably terrifying.

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** In one episode, Peter, Joe, Cleveland and Quagmire are sapped, and flown to a mysterious island on a private cargo plane. Despite the fact that they're flying to the secret headquarters of a shadowy organization, on a private plane, there is an indignant mother with a crying baby accompanying them, to which Peter replies, "Really?!"

'''Stewie:''' Pipe down, Lois. *''slaps guy on head''* Hey big man, turn around! Oh, you can't hear me now. Fine, I ''was'' going to watch the in-flight movie, but forget it! For the next 5 hours, you're my ''bitch''. *''begins furiously kicking guy's seat''* ''WAAAH! WAAAH!'' My ears are popping, and there's no way to console me! I'm hungry, or possibly teething! Maybe I'm wet; who knows? I'm a BABY! A-''WAAAAAH!''

* A similar situation happens in an episode of WesternAnimation/AmericanDad, where Stan, Francine, Hayley and Roger, who is disguised as a little girl, are stuck on a grounded plane. Because of his disguise, Roger can't order any alcohol and becomes very upset, wailing his head off and annoying the other passengers.

'''Stewie:''' What did you just say?\\

'''Stewie:''' Pipe down, Lois. *''slaps guy on head''* Hey big man, turn around! Oh, you can't hear me now. Fine, I ''was'' going to watch the in-flight movie, but forget it! For the next 5 hours, you're my ''bitch''. *begins furiously kicking guy's seat* ''WAAAH! WAAAH!'' My ears are popping, and there's no way to console me! I'm hungry, or possibly teething! Maybe I'm wet; who knows? I'm a BABY! A-''WAAAAAH!''

'''Stewie:''' Pipe down, Lois. (Slaps guy on head.) Hey big man, turn around. Oh you can't hear me now. I was going to watch the movie, but forget it. For the next 5 hours, you're my bitch.

* Creator/BillCosby did a sketch on a variant in which his flight held an annoying four year old who went up and down the aisles disturbing all the passengers on a red-eye flight who are trying to sleep. The passengers got their revenge when the kid finally went to sleep himself shortly before landing, so they all took turns telling him to wake up as they left the plane.

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'''Francine:''' (turns around, speaking like a {{sassy black woman}})'' Oh no! You do NOT tell me how to raise my child!\\

--->'''Angry Passenger:''' Hey, can you shut that kid up?!\\

Babies are new to this world and [[NoSocialSkills have no language skills to articulate their discomfort or understand instructions on how to relieve it]]. So when they're faced with air pressure changes, unusual loud noises, the presence of strangers and the other hazards of public transportation, they're left with the default of screaming their lungs out. Plus, the child may be ill and in pain, and there's always hunger and dirty diapers to cause further discomfort.

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Babies are [[CaptainObvious new to this world]] and [[NoSocialSkills have no language skills to articulate their discomfort or understand instructions on how to relieve it]]. So when they're faced with air pressure changes, unusual loud noises, the presence of strangers and the other hazards of public transportation, they're left with the default of screaming their lungs out. Plus, the child may be ill and in pain, and there's always hunger and dirty diapers to cause further discomfort.

* On a Creator/CartoonNetwork episode of ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'', Pear gets on a plane and is seated next to a crying baby. After he grumbles to himself about it, [[RuleOfFunny the baby says]] that if he has a problem with his crying he should just say so, instead of being passive aggressive about it. He politely asks if he'll stop crying, and the baby refuses because he's uncomfortable.

--> Then, for the last half hour of our flight, as we descended into Chicago, we were serenaded by the screams of a baby whose mother didn�t seem to grasp fundamental concepts, like �air pressure differential� or �Eustachian tube�. Poor little kid. I�ll say one thing. That kid had the lungs of a full-grown howler monkey. I wondered if the people sitting next to them would be deaf by the time the plane touched down.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Roz dressed up her daughter as a turkey (it was a ThanksgivingEpisode) for the flight home so people would think, "Aww, how cute!" and wouldn't be so annoyed if she started crying. Upon learning this, Frasier tells her that when he and Lilith had to take their infant son on a plane for the first time he promised to buy the entire cabin a drink if the baby cried. Partway through the flight he woke up from a nap to find the passenger behing him poking the baby to try and get him to cry. Needless to say Frasier did ''not'' buy the man a drink.