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Obviously, the Discovery Channel show I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant, which as the title suggests is about real-life women who somehow did not know they were pregnant until the baby was born, is depressing. The name is depressing. The subject matter is depressing. The show itself is hilarious and bonkers and depressing. What the show says about us is depressing. The fact that it’s on the Discovery Channel, which I swear used to be about, like, whales, and who invented pepper, is depressing. So, it is unsurprising that the call sheets for actors to portray women who didn’t know they were pregnant in the show’s Dramatic Re-enactments are very, very depressing:
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The caveat that actors who have already been on the show should refrain from submitting again is fair, because you shouldn’t HOG THE PAINFULLY STUPID PREGNANT WOMAN RE-ENACTOR LIMELIGHT, but I hope that they bend the rules for 15-day-old babies, because the talented young woman who played newborn baby Shar Howard would be perfect for the role of newborn baby Tiana Marie. (Gross. Barf. This baby bottle is filled with Brawndo!) (Via @morgan_murphy.)
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whats the difference between a Baby Tiana Marie and a Cadillac?
well, they’re made in the USA. they’re both well-loved by their owners. they both have important history/heritage i’m going to say the difference is you usually know when you’re getting a Cadillac.
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no no no i want to know.
i dont have a cadillac in a box in my garage.
I’ve never gone to the bathroom, thinking I was sick to my stomach, and found myself looking down into the toilet bowl at a crying Cadillac covered in amneotic fluid.
This show has taught me to have an irrational fear of absolutely every even slightly abnormal feeling I experience. Headache? I must be pregnant. Nausea? Definitely pregnant. Back pain? I’m going into labor. Stomach pain? Excuse me, I need to go deliver the child I didn’t know I was carrying.
Don’t forget the irrational fear of toilets, since that is where the majority of these births seem to happen. (shudder)
This show is so incredibly crazily bad.
“i literally. gave birth. in my pants.” how is that depressing?
Yeah, you can only watch so many IDKIWP episodes before you tire of the stupidity of these women. I’ve never been pregnant, but I think I could tell the difference between a baby kicking my stomach and acid reflux (or whatever else they think they have). My favorite episode – a mother who already had 2 kids didn’t know she was pregnant with the 3rd. That being said, the dramatic reenactments are top notch.*
*top notch=low budget & hilarious
I’ve been pregnant. Recently. I have a five month-old baby, so the whole affair is pretty fresh in my mind. I can say categorically that these women are insane. Never mind the “acid reflux” and the “back pain”; in the final month of my pregnancy, I could sit and watch the distinct outline of a small human foot move across my gigantic abdomen. Other than Alien, there is no dismissible explanation for that. “Oh, it’s just the saag paneer I ate…” Fuck you, lady.
Ditto this comment. I am currently 8 months pregnant and my unborn daughter is busy building a fort inside my uterus, I suspect. Tons of movement, distinctly not the food I just ate. There is no way I wouldn’t know I was pregnant. Just none. If the show was called, “I Think I Swallowed a Cat”, it would be more believable. Truly.
I mean this in the least creepy way possible, Mazel Tov, Detriot Dutchgirl!! Pretty soon you’ll have your own BABY MONSTER! And baby monsters are the cutest.
Thank you, NC!!! I am hoping to have the best baby monster ever. After all, they will takeovergum when we’re all rocking in our chairs and gumming our Werther’s….right?
Now, I have never been pregnant [DUH DUH DUH] and don’t know what it’s like personally, but as I understand it, these women were blessed with both having very mild symptoms and not being the brightest bulbs in the box. ‘Hey, I gained weight? Must be getting fat.’ ‘I’m throwing up? Must be all the drinking.’ ‘A baby just fell out of my vag?’ ‘Must be the baby I swallowed.’
In their defense, just because a baby comes out of your love canal, it does not necessarily mean you were pregnant. Sometimes that’s only place you have to store a baby you found–you know, for safe keeping.
We’ve all stashed stuff away and then forgotten about it, only to be suprised by it later when it falls out of us. Right?
TLC, not content to play second fiddle to Discovery will launch its new series this spring: Little people who didn’t know they were pregnant with sextuplets.
irrelevant to the thread at large: what is with TLC and little people?! It is so weird and fairly disturbing. I assume there must be a market for this, a large viewing audience, since they keep rolling these shows out. Sort of creeps me out.
Not that watching torture and violence on 24 or bitch slapping on MTV is really that much better, but still.
On the up side, seems hollywood is finally giving Native Americans a little screen time.
“I Didn’t Know I Invented Pepper”
I didn’t know I was a whale!
(I’ll show myself out.)
[Gabe] LOOK-A-LIKE: Blogger, old man- Gabe was blogging on the internet, sharing with the world the newest and most up to date info with Topher Grace, when his back started to hurt. He’s old, so didn’t take much notice to the pain, old people hurt sometimes. Pretty soon he falls over, but luckily he is able to use his life-alert to call Dr. Everett C. Koop. As Dr. Koop shows up Gabe goes into labor and delivers a baby, which is definitely strange, him being an old man and all, luckily Dr. Koop has a great beard and knows what to do. The voiceover is the same as every other episode of this awful show and the narrator exclaims: “AND SHE DIDN’T EVEN KNOW SHE WAS PREGNANT” It turns out Gabe is a woman?
Sorry. The end.
I hadn’t heard of this show and had to look it up. I enjoyed this picture under their “Surprise Pregnancy: How Could You Not Know?!?” section.
Clearly she is too angry to be pregnant.
Somewhere, an actress is really trying to inhabit the moment of “see[ing] her mucus plug in the toilet.”
Tina Marie, LEAD. The babies steal the show in this carefully thought-out casting call. But will they have what it takes to keep this show out of the toilet.
We knew. We all knew. That’s why we asked “when are you due?”. But you just got mad and said we were being cruel.
I wish I could audition to play Carol just so I could give the performance of a lifetime. Hysterically slapping and crying just begs for an Emmy nod.
Actually, it is a TLC show that was spawned from a documentary special on Discovery Health Channel (different from the OG Discovery Channel). All of these stations are owned by Discovery Communications, which generally uses TLC as the dumpsite for the stuff too terrible to be on the regular Discovery Channel.
Signed,
Dr. Television III esq.
This totally one ups my piliot for
I didn’t know I had climidia, I swear.
Goddamn it
I love the warning “Please do not submit if you have already been on ‘I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant.’” Like, you know, there are actresses that’ll walk into the casting call & be like, well, I didn’t know I’d been on the show before, I forgot – these chicks didn’t even realize they hadn’t had their period for NINE MONTHS. Lemme have another shot at it, huh?
spinoff series: “i didn’t know i was already on ‘i didn’t know i was pregnant’”
Exactly. Exaaaactly.
I didn?t know I could not know I am pregnant.
I’ve always wanted to get into (reen)acting.
jeez. all i can think about now is that stupid juggalo funeral and i’m getting all weepy for the future of humanity.
ugh, i chose the wrong website to visit on my lunch break. im trying to eat my soup here, people! wtf is a mucus plug? also, file that under “questions i dont want to know the answer to”. a surprisingly large number of them have to do with babies.
What is a placenta and why would one eat it?
I didn’t know I was reenacting my own “I didn’t know I was pregnant” story. Is it possible to be that dumb and be an actress, Gwyneth?
I kind of want to apply for the role of Frank just to hear them tell me “you don’t look Native American enough” in the quest for the strangest afternoon I’ve ever had.
This could be an elaborate attempt at a viral for Pajama Jeans. “So comfortable, you won’t even know you’re pregnant!”
Wait, what happened to Jeff Daniels that he had to resort to directing this trash? I guess 103 Dalmatians isn’t happening?
It has to be his mexican, non-union equivalent. Says it right there under SERIES V.
I don’t know if this is as depressing or more depressing than the Prom Baby Epidemic of the middle-1990s.
When people had babies in bathrooms when I was young, they were polite and just put the baby down on the dirty tile, maybe covered in a copy of the Weekly World News, or nestled the poor thing in the trash can on a pillow of tissue. Now, people just plop them right in the water without so much as a second look. What is the world coming to?
Yes I watched this show one afternoon. It was a bad hour for me. A mix of horror at the thought of these poor babies not getting prenatal care and fascination with how the renactment of the birth was going to turn out.
Haha I’m an actress and I get breakdowns for this show all the time! Believe it or not, it’s not the worst thing I’m asked to submit for (women my age tend to get a lot of breakdowns for “HOT SEXY TEEN COMEDY SEEKS HOT GIRLS, BUSTY, OK WITH NUDITY, OK WITH KISSING OTHER GIRLS”). I skip both.
I sure am glad that the baby is listed as a lead.
ok i take the shot every three months .i been on it for almost 7 years now and just was wondering can u get pg on the shot cause i started spoting a little bit not much and it stop and i been a little tired just was wondering