A sub-trope of
Does This Remind You of Anything?, this is a scene where someone (
usually a man, though cases of
Mr. Seahorse don't count) goes through all the motions of a
Screaming Birth, complete with screams of "you did this to me" and someone on hand to give encouragement being common. But what's really going on is something much more
mundane or
ridiculous.
Occasionally the victim will simply be the
Panicky Expectant Father himself, struggling to get through the agony of
his wife crushing his hand to cope with her own pain.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
Film
- In Evolution, when the doctors have to get the alien insect that cut it's way into Harry's body by going in through the colon and pulling it out, and the scene plays out in this way.
- In Blankman, Blankman and his cousin Kevin help a woman trapped in an elevator to give birth. All three are screaming loudly as this happens, though. The woman, for obvious reasons, Kevin, because when he offered his hand to the woman, she grabbed his crotch instead and squeezed as hard as she could, and Blankman because, well... he's a bit of a dork who doesn't really know what's going on.
Live-Action TV
- In one episode of The IT Crowd, Moss climbs into a crane machine to get an iPhone that was dropped in but gets stuck. Jen manages to use the crane to get the iPhone, but Moss has to try and move to the side to let the iPhone slip through. When it finally gets out Moss exclaims "it's beautiful."
- Friends rather justifiably does this with Joey's passing a kidney stone, and for extra laughs directly juxtaposes it with Phoebe's actual labour in the same hospital.
- Truth in Television in this case. Many women who have given birth and also passed a kidney stone will tell you, the kidney stone is the more painful experience.
- In True Blood, the scene where Jason has to get blood drained from his dangerously engorged penis is staged very much like a scene of a woman in a hospital giving birth.
Western Animation
