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Knitting Pregnancy Announcement
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A woman learns that she's expecting a baby. Does she directly inform her husband of this? Not necessary. She just sits there looking smug and knitting something (usually a sock or a sweater), and he gets the message. Basically, knitting = pregnancy. This is based on some cultural artifacts from an older time period: Since store-bought clothing wasn't always as readily available as it is today (and could also be rather expensive), most clothing was made and mended by hand—and hand-me-downs were commonplace. A new baby would obviously need new clothes. Whether or not they actually had children, knitting was a common hobby/activity for women. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Often used in works made before it was considered okay to discuss the subject of pregnancy, as it has the benefit of also informing the audience that the woman is pregnant without actually having to say it out loud. This is hardly a Dead Horse Trope or even a Forgotten Trope today, as any person (man or woman) who knits in public will tell you—and, in fact, may have been rescued by the resurgence of knitting as a hobby. Contrast Needlework Is for Old People, where the knitter is (presumably) far too old to be having a baby. |
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It happened in Enemy Mine, when the parthenogenic (read: self-fertilizing) Jeriba revealed he was knitting some small garments. | |
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In the Sookie Stackhouse novel Dead and Gone, Sookie knows her fairy-aunt Claudine is pregnant when she sees her knitting baby clothes. Though Claudine also tells Sookie straight out that she is expecting. | |
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One of Foghorn Leghorn's suitors decides she wants to have a baby and starts knitting, much to the annoyance of the other hens. IIRC, she found the egg, rather than laying it. | |
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In 1937's Shall We Dance?, the Ginger Rogers character is assumed to be pregnant because she's seen knitting. She's actually repairing a dog sweater. | |
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Smurfette does this with her husband Hero in the Hero: The Guardian Smurf story "A True Miracle" when she was yearning for a child to have with him in her old age. | |
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This happened to Daffy Duck once. In the cartoon, Daffy finds his wife knitting a sweater. Assuming it's for him, he takes it and tries putting it on. Suffice to say, the sweater's too small for him and he can hardly breath through the tight garment upon putting it on. | |
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In The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "The Chaser", a man gives a love potion to the gal he is truly-madly for, but within months grows tired of her cloying devotion. He plans to kill her with a "glove cleaner" sold to him by the same mysterious old man who gave him the love potion. However, he drops the poisoned drink in shock when she presents him with a tiny knitted bootie. | |
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Lady and the Tramp. Lady tells Jock and Trusty that her female owner, "Darling," is knitting booties. Jock and Trusty realize that Darling and her husband, Jim, must be expecting a baby (specifically their first child) and the two older dogs try explaining what a baby is to Lady. | |
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At the start of the third series of Call the Midwife, Shelagh is shown sewing a baby's nightdress. Subverted in that she isn't pregnant yet, and later finds out she can't get pregnant because of complications from TB. There's also a Double Subversion in that she and Dr Turner adopt a baby girl in the third season finale, and Sister Julienne returns the nightdress to the Turners. | |
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College Roomies from Hell!!!: This is the first indication that Hazel is pregnant after she became a surrogate for April and Mike/Satan's baby. | |
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The second Thin Man movie, After the Thin Man. Nick has just solved a very complicated mystery, but has yet to deduce that his wife, Nora, is expecting a baby—until he realizes that she is knitting a baby's sock. | |
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Parodied in a later The Honeymooners episode, may actually have been a reunion show. Ralph thinks Alice is pregnant when he finds her knitting materials. However, rather than a sock, she's apparently knitted a baby's sweater — complete with one hole for the head and two for the arms. The holes are unrealistically tiny, but then again, a baby is small. What Alice was really knitting was a cover for Ralph's bowling ball. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Misread by Miss Brooks in "Little Visitor". The fact that Mrs. Conklin hasn't been seen at school for months, and is known to be knitting many of tiny outfits leads Miss Brooks to jump to the conclusion In fact, the only thing the Mrs. Conklin is expecting is to take care of her sister's pet monkey for a couple weeks. | |
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The Flintstones had a sort of "false alarm" in this regard. At the end of one episode, Fred accidentally sits on Wilma's knitting needles, and finds a bootie. Fred jumps to conclusions and runs out of the house with it (he had told his rich uncle that he had a kid named after him; he didn't, but now it looked like things were different) before Wilma can tell him that it was for Betty's sister, who recently had a baby. Of course, later on that season, Wilma showed him another "bootie" which Fred mistook for a nose cover, but this time... In the TV movie Hollyrock-A-Bye Baby, Wilma learns that Pebbles is expecting a baby of her own and immediately gets to knitting booties for the new arrival, using wool coming straight from a nearby sheep. Then it fades to the next scene, in which the Flintstones and the Rubbles are on a plane heading to Hollyrock...and Wilma is somehow still knitting, to the point that what started out as booties have now become a long lump of fabric reaching the floor of the plane. |
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Exploited in Chicago, where Roxie is made to knit during her public trial to play up the claim of her being pregnant. | |
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Joey Maynard does this in Mary-Lou of the Chalet School, in order to explain to Mary-Lou why she can't deal with Jessica Wayne herself. She shows Mary-Lou some baby clothes she's been knitting. | |
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In Little Johnny Jet, an airplane finds out his wife is expecting when he catches her knitting a little plane-shaped sweater. At the end she has a long line of them after the government orders ten thousand more. | |
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By 1940 and Kitty Foyle, this was old enough to be lampooned. In the satirical prologue, the wife reveals that she's pregnant by making a needlepoint that says "Baby." | |
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The Goofy cartoon "Fathers Are People" ends with Goofy saying that, despite all the hardships of having a kid, he wished he had a million of them. Then his wife shows him a tiny sweater and Goofy gasps in horror...then sighs with relief when she puts it on the dog. | |
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Invoked by Bender from Futurama when he was "pregnant" with beer. He was knitting beer bottle cozies. | |
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Superman & Batman: Generations: When Bruce Wayne's wife goes to tell Bruce she is pregnant, she holds a pair of knitting needles with partially knitted booties on them behind her back. | |
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In Terms of Endearment, Aurora Greenway freaks out at the news she'll be a grandmother, with her clueless son-in-law asking "Does this mean you won't be knitting the baby any booties?" | |
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Smurfette does this in two alternate timelines in the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story series with her two alternate timeline husbands (Hefty and Papa Smurf), only instead of it being used to announce a pregnancy, she does this to signal a yearning for a child from her husband in that timeline, after the husband originally assumes that Smurfette is knitting something for Baby Smurf. Both husbands respond by just picking her up from the chair and taking her off to be alone with her. | |
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In The Addams Family, the wife revealed she's pregnant by knitting a four-legged onesie◊ before its occurrence in the movie. | |
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The Handmaid's Tale : Subverted and played with. Serena spends hours knitting scarves with human figures in a motif along the bottom, and Offred comments that these are the only children Serena is making these days. She also hypothesizes that the scarves get sent out, unraveled back into yarn, and re-knitted. | |
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Tex Avery MGM Cartoons: In Little Johnny Jet, an airplane finds out his wife is expecting when he catches her knitting a little plane-shaped sweater. At the end she has a long line of them after the government orders ten thousand more. In "The Flea Circus", Francois comes home to find his wife Fifi knitting a flea-sized sweater with human-sized knitting needles (they also have a human-sized home and Fifi delivers in a human hospital). In the final scene, Francois enters Fifi's dressing room and is shocked to see her knitting away again. |
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The 1935 adaptation of David Copperfield makes it clear that Clara Copperfield is pregnant by showing her embroidering a pillow wit the words "Bless The Baby". | |
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The Addams Family. Gomez realizes in the last scene that Morticia's pregnant again when he sees her knitting a baby's jumper. With three legs. | |
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Being Two Isn't Easy: Subverted. One of the conflicts between the parents has been about whether or not to have another baby, with Chiyo wanting one and Goro not. Near the end when Chiyo brings it up again, Goro says he's OK with it—then he notices her knitting something. He excitedly asks her if she's going to have another baby. She says of course not, she's knitting something for little Taro. | |
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Lampshaded and Subverted in I Love Lucy. Lucy and Ethel think their husbands are going to join the army, and decide to take up knitting as a hobby. Their husbands notice them doing this, and naturally assume they're both pregnant. | |
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