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8 | ''Baby Mama'' is a 2008 film written by Michael [=McCullers=] starring former ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'''s ''Weekend Update'' [[ThoseTwoActors correspondents]] Creator/TinaFey and Creator/AmyPoehler. |
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10 | Kate (Fey), a successful, single businesswoman in her late thirties, hires a surrogate mother, Angie (Poehler). While Kate prepares to welcome the baby into the world, Angie shows up at Kate's door needing a place to live. |
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12 | !!This film provides examples of: |
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14 | * BookDumb: Angie, extremely. |
15 | * ButICantBePregnant: [[spoiler:This is Kate’s reaction to being told that she’s pregnant at the end.]] |
16 | -->[[spoiler:'''Kate:''' That’s impossible. Uh, I paid a man thousands of dollars to tell me that that’s impossible.[...] He said the chances were one in a million!]] |
17 | * DaddyDNATest |
18 | * DeadpanSnarker: Kate. Then again, it is Tina Fey. Also Oscar, Kate's doorman. |
19 | -->Angie: When's the best time to tell someone bad news? |
20 | -->Oscar: Yesterday. |
21 | * DumbBlonde: Subverted. Angie's not very smart, but she is a great clothing designer. |
22 | * DoubleMeaningTitle: Kate finding a surrogate mother through Angie, and finding out that said surrogate mother is a WomanChild. |
23 | * {{Fanservice}}: Tina Fey in that black dress. You know the one. |
24 | * EccentricMillionaire: Kate's boss is an aging hippie CloudCuckoolander, but gets away with it because he's a very successful businessman. |
25 | --> "I found this shell while running barefoot through the Toronto Airport. I want you to make our flagship store just like this shell." |
26 | * ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Kate and Angie's Lamaze class teacher. |
27 | * FakePregnancy: Angie is hired to be Kate's surrogate. Angie thinks the pregnancy doesn't take, but fakes pregnancy symptoms and begins wearing a [[PillowPregnancy false tummy]] so she can get money and lodging out of Kate when her boyfriend kicks her out. And then {{subverted}} when she goes for an ultrasound and discovers she really ''is'' pregnant, although she thinks the baby isn't Kate's but her own by her ex. [[spoiler:She turns out to be right.]] |
28 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: Kate and Angie by the film's end. |
29 | * {{Hipster}}: Kate's boss has several traits. |
30 | * {{Jerkass}}: Angie's boyfriend. [[spoiler:[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Though to his credit he is learning to be a better father to his and Angie's daughter at the end of the movie]]]]. |
31 | * LargeHam: Kate's boss. |
32 | * LawOfInverseFertility |
33 | * LittleBlackDress: Angie gets Kate into one and the result is a knockout. |
34 | * MistakenForGay: Kate and Angie are mistaken for a couple when they attend a pregnancy class together. |
35 | * NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[spoiler:Angie names her daughter Stefani, after Music/GwenStefani.]] |
36 | * OddCouple: Kate and Angie, in spades. |
37 | * OldMaid: Kate feels anxious about her age and not being married, nor having a child. She hires a woman as a surrogate mother. |
38 | * ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "''Bitch'', I don't know your LIFE!" |
39 | * UnexpectedPositive: [[spoiler: Angie's pregnancy ruse gets her into the obstetrician's office, and she discovers that she actually is pregnant]]. |
40 | * VolleyingInsults: Angie and Kate for the entire first act. |
41 | * WhosYourDaddy: Inverted - the identity of the child's ''mother'' is in question. |
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