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Screaming Plane Baby
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The characters board an airplane or other public transport. Almost inevitably, a baby will start crying. Babies are new to this world and 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. This Real Life situation is often used in fiction when the characters are forced to take public transportation. It may just be an offscreen wail, or the parent of the child may be shown desperately trying (and failing) to hush the infant, or callously ignoring the kid and the pained reactions of those around them. It can also be used as a characterization moment, with the character being a Jerkass to the harried parent, or demonstrating an ability to soothe the child. A similar effect happens in theaters, auditoriums, churches, and other crowded buildings, but in these cases, it's usually possible to remove the baby and alleviate the problem. (In fact, these places often have specifically designated "crying rooms" for this precise purpose.) This is very common on a Plane Awful Flight. |
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Somebody I Used to Know: Ally can only be resigned when a mom with a crying baby sits next to her on the plane. She passive-aggressively asks to get some sleep. However, she is later shown up when her cat makes a mess and she has to clean it up. | |
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In the first issue of 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 seen coming over to offer help while the people next to her plug their ears. | |
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On The Simpsons, Bart complains about being seated next to a crying baby on a plane. The camera then reveals that said baby is his sister Maggie. | |
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In "PTV", while watching a school production of God and His Magical Rainbow Suspenders, God starts explaining his rainbow suspenders "through interpretive dance!" To escape, Brian punches Stewie, who starts crying. "Oop, crying baby, I'll take him out." | |
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In an episode of What the Fuck Is Wrong with You?, Nash and Tara come across an article about a man who got jail time for slapping a toddler on an airplane (as well as calling it racial slurs) because it wouldn't stop crying. Needless to say, Nash and Tara are appalled by the man's actions, pointing out that not only is the changing air pressure hard on a baby's ears but to a small child, being stuck inside a flying metal tube and everyone else acting like it's normal is probably terrifying. | |
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For Better or for Worse: Michael had to sit next to one once. Fortunately, he knew how to calm the baby down (he credits his sister April, who was born not long before this strip). | |
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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). | |
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In Baby Blues, this happened during Zoe's first plane trip when the family went to visit Wanda's parents. Wanda's method of apologizing to the other passengers was to stand up and shout "HEY! Count your blessings! I could have had TWINS!" | |
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Whateley Universe: Ayla and the Late Trevor James Goodkind: | |
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A variation can be found in Go West (1940), being set in the Wild West and instead happening in a carriage. Quale asks a mother why her baby is screaming its head off in the horse-drawn carriage, she responds that it "can't stand the jerks." The Panello Brothers immediately try throwing themselves out of the carriage, only for Quale to stop them. | |
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A similar situation happens in an episode of American Dad!, where Stan, Francine, Hayley, and Roger, who is disguised as a little girl, are stuck on a grounded plane. Because of his disguise, Roger can't order any alcohol and becomes very upset, wailing his head off and annoying the other passengers. | |
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In Hannibal, Hannibal Lecter is at one point pestered on a plane by a family consisting of a mother, a bratty kid, and a crying baby. | |
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Eek! The Cat has an episode with Eeek's family traveling by plane, with their seats being just behind the the row with crying babies. | |
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Natural Habitat Shorts: In "Airport", a black-footed ferret has to endure a plane ride where the only two passengers that aren't screaming opossum babies are him and the mother opossum. To make matters worse, the baby seated behind him kicks his seat non-stop. | |
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At one point in Mama Is a Fourth Grader, Natsumi has an Imagine Spot of her potential future career as a flight attendant, and it's her baby (strapped to her back) that starts screaming. | |
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Final Destination has one of these briefly, prompting Tod to comment on how it makes the flight less likely to go down. Alex, however, is not reassured. | |
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An episode of The Ricky Gervais Show had a segment in Karl's Diary where Karl wrote about how he had to sit next to a crying baby on a plane. | |
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The Flintstones TV movie Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby has a scene where Fred gets annoyed by a crying baby on the plane to Hollyrock, then having to take care of it when its mother goes to refill its bottle. | |
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In They Live by Night, Bowie is seated next to a screaming baby on the bus when he and Keechie run away together. | |
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New Girl: In the episode "LAXMas", after their flight to Chicago is delayed, Winston and Nick scheme to discourage other passengers from getting on the one available flight so they can steal their seats. Winston makes a bundle out of some blankets, sits at the terminal, and loudly talks to it as if it's a cranky infant, specifically referencing this trope: | |
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On 30 Rock where Liz is on a plane that keeps on waiting for take-off, the longer she waits on the plane, the more babies cry. | |
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Game Grumps: Dan recounts having to fly onboard a plane with an unusually high number of infants. He describes the experience as "a chorus of human suffering." | |
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Big Wave Dave's: 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 The Stinger 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. He just finds the fat sweaty guy and mother with a crying baby with a vacant seat between them. | |
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In the Young Sheldon episode "Ants On A Log and a Cheating Winkler" Sheldon has to deal with one that screams for several hours on the flight home from Germany. | |
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A Robot Chicken sketch spoofing Children of Men ends by cutting from the soldiers fawning over crying Dylan, to Theo, Kee, and Dylan flying on an airplane, where the baby's bawling annoys the hell out of another passenger. | |
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On Modern Family, Mitchell and Cameron try to keep Lily awake before their flight to Hawaii so that she sleeps on 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 Billy Elliot. | |
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Slug Days Stories: In Penguin Days, Lauren's family travels to Lincoln, North Dakota to visit relatives. The last time they went, Lauren was three and spent the whole flight screaming, so this time her family decides to drive instead. | |
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Parodied in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "Plane to Sea"; Squidward, an adult, is roped into flying on a plane to Bora Bora bottom with SpongeBob and Patrick. At one point, he cries, and a nearby baby tells him to keep it down, as she's trying to sleep. She then hits him with her rattle. | |
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In Daredevil: Road Warrior, one of the perils that Matt Murdock must face on a six-hour flight in economy class is a crying baby. Did we mention that Matt has hypersensitive hearing? | |
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In the Yes, Dear episode "Greg, Don't Leave Home Without Him", Greg gets roped into flying on an airplane with Kim, Sammy, and the Hughes to Kim and Christine's parents' house. During the flight, Sammy will not stop crying. Meanwhile, Jimmy gives Dominic and Logan some Benadryl to get them to fall asleep so they won't bother him on the flight like Sammy is doing to Greg. Greg then finds out from Kim that Sammy needs a diaper change, so he takes Sammy to the bathroom to change his diaper. | |
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Love in the Villa: Part of what makes Julie's flight to Verona so unpleasant is the screaming baby in the row behind her and another child kicking her seat. | |
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Done more than once on Family Guy. 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?!" From "Brian Does Hollywood" : In "PTV", while watching a school production of God and His Magical Rainbow Suspenders, God starts explaining his rainbow suspenders "through interpretive dance!" To escape, Brian punches Stewie, who starts crying. "Oop, crying baby, I'll take him out." In the episode, "Big Man on Hippocampus", Stewie complains about having to move to a small, run-down apartment, saying he belongs there no more than a baby belongs on a plane. The Cutaway Gag that follows is a father on an airplane calming his crying baby, which seems to work, until the flight attendant announces that their in-flight movie is Hancock, which causes both the father and the baby to cry. In "Screwed the Pooch", a cutaway gag references a police-documented incident in December 1996 where Brian slowly lost his temper after listening to a baby crying at a South Attleborough Denny's and ultimately snapped. Overwhelmingly livid, he started mocking the baby's crying and screamed at it to shut up. |
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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. Upon learning this, Frasier tells her that when he and Lilith had to take their infant son on a plane for the first time he promised to buy the entire cabin a drink if the baby cried. Partway through the flight, he woke up from a nap to find the passenger behind them poking the baby to try and get him to cry. | |
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