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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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10Kate (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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