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* In ''{{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.

** The third: While watching a school production of ''[[JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat God and His Magical]] [[{{Godspell}} Rainbow Suspenders]]'', God starts explaining his rainbow suspenders "through [[FelonyMisdemeanor intrepretive dance]]!" To escape, Brian punches Stewie, who starts crying. "Oop, crying baby, I'll take him out."

* On a CartoonNetwork episode of ''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.

** The third: While watching a school production of ''[[Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat God and His Magical]] [[Theatre/{{Godspell}} Rainbow Suspenders]]'', God starts explaining his rainbow suspenders "through [[FelonyMisdemeanor intrepretive dance]]!" To escape, Brian punches Stewie, who starts crying. "Oop, crying baby, I'll take him out."

** The third: While watching a school production of 'JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat' one character starts explaining his rainbow suspenders through [[FelonyMisdemeanor intrepretive dance]]. Brian punches Stewie who starts crying. "Oop, crying baby, I'll take him out."

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* PlayedForDrama in the last episode of ''{{MASH}}'', when Hawkeye had a HeroicBSOD as a result of this trope: [[spoiler:He was trapped on a bus full of refugees who are trying to hide from North Koreans when a baby starts to cry, and the mother chooses to smother her own child rather than risk exposing them to danger.]]

* In the first issue of ''{{Comicbook/X-Men}}'' (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 coming over to offer help while the people next to her plug their ears.

* In the first volume of ''{{Comicbooks/X-Men}}'' (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 coming over to offer help while the people next to her plug their ears.

Babies are [[CaptainObvious new to this world]] and [[TooDumbToLive 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.

NoRealLifeExamplesPlease (it happens every single day anyway).

* ''{{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).

** The third: While watching a school production of 'JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat' one character starts explaining his rainbow suspenders through [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous intrepretive dance]]. Brian punches Stewie who starts crying. "Oop, crying baby, I'll take him out."

[[AC: Advertising]]
* An E-Trade commercial features its now-famous stock-trading baby discussing his strategies on an airplane. He is then interrupted by an offscreen screaming baby, and shortly afterward, another baby turns around to complain to him about the racket.

[[AC: Literature]]
* In ''{{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.

[[AC: Live Action TV]]

* ''BigWaveDaves'' (a short-lived {{CBS}} sitcom): 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 ''{{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.

[[AC: Newspaper Comics]]
* ''{{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).

[[AC: Webcomics]]

* An episode of ''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.

[[AC: Western Animation]]
* Done more than once on ''FamilyGuy''.
** 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?"
** The second ''FamilyGuy'' example found (there may be three):

--->'''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.

* On ''ThirtyRock'' where Liz is on a plane that keeps on waiting for take-off, the longer she waits on the plane, the more babies cry.

--Liz: Where did all those babies come from?!

NoRealLifeExamplesPlease

* An E-Trade commercial features its now-famous stock-trading baby discussing his stratgies on an airplane. He is then interrupted by an offscreen screaming baby, and shortly afterward, another baby turns around to complain to him about the racket.

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

* In one episode of ''{{Frasier}}'', Roz dressed up her daughter as a turkey (it was a {{Thanksgiving}} episode) for the flight home so people would think, "Aww, how cute!" and wouldn't be so annoyed if she started crying.

!!Fictional Examples:*

!!Fictional Examples:

* On ''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 ''BillyElliot''.
* An episode of ''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.

* Comedian/folk singer Martin Pearon gives a hilarious account of this on his album ''Too Close for Comfort''.
* Done more than once on ''FamilyGuy''. 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?"
** The second ''FamilyGuy'' example found (there may be three):
--->'''Guy on Airplane:''' Oh great, I always end up sitting next to a damn baby.
--->'''Stewie:''' What did you just say?
--->'''Lois:''' Stewie, stop fussing.
--->'''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.

* In ''{{Hannibal}}'' (the book anyway), Hannibal Lecter is at one point pestered on a plane by a family consisitng of a mother, a bratty kid and a crying baby.
* {{Advertising}}: An E-Trade commercial features its now-famous stock-trading baby discussing his stratgies on an airplane. He is then interrupted by an offscreen screaming baby, and shortly afterward, another baby turns around to complain to him about the racket.
* 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.
* PlayedForDrama in the last episode of ''{{MASH}}'', when Hawkeye had a HeroicBSOD as a result of this trope: [[spoiler:He was trapped on a bus full of refugees who are trying to hide from North Koreans when a baby starts to cry, and the mother chooses to smother her own child rather than risk exposing them to danger.]]

* ''Big Wave Dave's'' (a short-lived {{CBS}} sitcom): 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.]]

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NoRealLifeexamples,please.

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