# TV Binge Watch (Part 2)

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**Created:** [October 4, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711 "2022-10-04T16:51:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4941 "2024-05-24T06:00:48Z")

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**Starring Movie Actresses**

1. Beauty and the Beast - Linda Hamilton
2. Damages - Glenn Close
3. Stranger Things - Winona Ryder
4. Homecoming - Julia Roberts

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**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4942 "2024-05-24T11:44:41Z")

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**Starring Movie Actresses**

1. Beauty and the Beast - Linda Hamilton
2. Damages - Glenn Close
3. Stranger Things - Winona Ryder
4. Homecoming - Julia Roberts
5. Grace and Frankie - Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4943 "2024-05-24T11:44:59Z")

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**Starring Movie Actresses**

1. Beauty and the Beast - Linda Hamilton
2. Damages - Glenn Close
3. Stranger Things - Winona Ryder
4. Homecoming - Julia Roberts
5. Grace and Frankie - Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin
6. Commander in Chief - Geena Davis

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4944 "2024-05-24T11:59:33Z")

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**Starring Movie Actresses**

1. Beauty and the Beast - Linda Hamilton
2. Damages - Glenn Close
3. Stranger Things - Winona Ryder
4. Homecoming - Julia Roberts
5. Grace and Frankie - Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin
6. Commander in Chief - Geena Davis
7. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - Hope Lange

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4945 "2024-05-24T13:20:18Z")

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**Starring Movie Actresses**

1. Beauty and the Beast - Linda Hamilton
2. Damages - Glenn Close
3. Stranger Things - Winona Ryder
4. Homecoming - Julia Roberts
5. Grace and Frankie - Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin
6. Commander in Chief - Geena Davis
7. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - Hope Lange
8. Murphy Brown - Candice Bergen

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4946 "2024-05-24T15:01:30Z")

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**Starring Movie Actresses**

1. Beauty and the Beast - Linda Hamilton
2. Damages - Glenn Close
3. Stranger Things - Winona Ryder
4. Homecoming - Julia Roberts
5. Grace and Frankie - Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin
6. Commander in Chief - Geena Davis
7. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - Hope Lange
8. Murphy Brown - Candice Bergen
9. The Munsters - Yvonne De Carlo

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**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4947 "2024-05-24T15:05:12Z")

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Yvonne De Carlo was in _The Munsters._ Carolyn Jones was in \*The Addams Family."

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4948 "2024-05-24T15:07:08Z")

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Thanks! I caught in within the edit window.

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4949 "2024-05-24T18:28:17Z")

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> [@](#):
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> **Starring Movie Actresses**

1. Beauty and the Beast - Linda Hamilton
2. Damages - Glenn Close
3. Stranger Things - Winona Ryder
4. Homecoming - Julia Roberts
5. Grace and Frankie - Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin
6. Commander in Chief - Geena Davis
7. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - Hope Lange
8. Murphy Brown - Candice Bergen
9. The Munsters - Yvonne De Carlo
10. The Donna Reed Show - Donna Reed

NEXT: **L&D Complications**

Even though a healthy baby nearly always results, getting to the delivery room is never easy on TV.

1. _All in the Family_ Gloria goes to a phone booth to call the doctor to let him know they’re going to the hospital, and the door gets stuck so she can’t get out. ETA: Guess I should mention for everyone under 55 that Gloria is having the baby. /ETA

I love this one, because even though it is as silly as any TV delivery complication, it does come as surprise-- when Gloria goes into the phone booth to make the call, you really don’t see the gag coming, back in the days when making a call from a public phone was common as dirt.

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4950 "2024-05-24T18:40:23Z")

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**L&D Complications**

Even though a healthy baby nearly always results, getting to the delivery room is never easy on TV.

1. _All in the Family_ Gloria goes to a phone booth to call the doctor to let him know they’re going to the hospital, and the door gets stuck so she can’t get out. ETA: Guess I should mention for everyone under 55 that Gloria is having the baby. /ETA
2. _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ Worf helps deliver baby Molly. “Congratulations you are fully dilated to 10 centemeters, you may now give birth.”

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**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4951 "2024-05-24T21:18:20Z")

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**L&D Complications**

Even though a healthy baby nearly always results, getting to the delivery room is never easy on TV.

1. _All in the Family_ Gloria goes to a phone booth to call the doctor to let him know they’re going to the hospital, and the door gets stuck so she can’t get out. ETA: Guess I should mention for everyone under 55 that Gloria is having the baby. /ETA
2. _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ Worf helps deliver baby Molly. “Congratulations you are fully dilated to 10 centemeters, you may now give birth.”
3. _I Love Lucy,_ “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” for the birth of Little Ricky, after much slapstick involving Fred/Ricky/Ethel panicking. Ricky re-packs the overturned suitcase including the telephone. (Later, he shows up at the hospital straight from the Tropicana in spooky tribal makeup for a voodoo number, scaring everybody until he faints at the baby-viewing window.)

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**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4952 "2024-05-24T22:45:22Z")

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**L&D Complications**

Even though a healthy baby nearly always results, getting to the delivery room is never easy on TV.

1. _All in the Family_ Gloria goes to a phone booth to call the doctor to let him know they’re going to the hospital, and the door gets stuck so she can’t get out. ETA: Guess I should mention for everyone under 55 that Gloria is having the baby. /ETA
2. _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ Worf helps deliver baby Molly. “Congratulations you are fully dilated to 10 centemeters, you may now give birth.”
3. _I Love Lucy,_ “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” for the birth of Little Ricky, after much slapstick involving Fred/Ricky/Ethel panicking. Ricky re-packs the overturned suitcase including the telephone. (Later, he shows up at the hospital straight from the Tropicana in spooky tribal makeup for a voodoo number, scaring everybody until he faints at the baby-viewing window.)
4. _Murphy Brown_ “Birth 101” - Murphy got knocked up during a one night stand with her ex-husband and chose to be a single mother to the consternation of the Bible beaters.

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**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4953 "2024-05-25T01:53:42Z")

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**L&D Complications**

Even though a healthy baby nearly always results, getting to the delivery room is never easy on TV.

1. _All in the Family_ Gloria goes to a phone booth to call the doctor to let him know they’re going to the hospital, and the door gets stuck so she can’t get out. ETA: Guess I should mention for everyone under 55 that Gloria is having the baby. /ETA
2. _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ Worf helps deliver baby Molly. “Congratulations you are fully dilated to 10 centemeters, you may now give birth.”
3. _I Love Lucy,_ “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” for the birth of Little Ricky, after much slapstick involving Fred/Ricky/Ethel panicking. Ricky re-packs the overturned suitcase including the telephone. (Later, he shows up at the hospital straight from the Tropicana in spooky tribal makeup for a voodoo number, scaring everybody until he faints at the baby-viewing window.)
4. _Murphy Brown_ “Birth 101” - Murphy got knocked up during a one night stand with her ex-husband and chose to be a single mother to the consternation of the Bible beaters.
5. _Psych_ “Shawn and Gus Truck Things Up”. Lassiter’s baby girl is delivered in the back of a food truck that’s racing to the hospital.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2024, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4954 "2024-05-25T05:26:37Z")

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**L&D Complications**

Even though a healthy baby nearly always results, getting to the delivery room is never easy on TV.

1. _All in the Family_ Gloria goes to a phone booth to call the doctor to let him know they’re going to the hospital, and the door gets stuck so she can’t get out. ETA: Guess I should mention for everyone under 55 that Gloria is having the baby. /ETA
2. _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ Worf helps deliver baby Molly. “Congratulations you are fully dilated to 10 centemeters, you may now give birth.”
3. _I Love Lucy,_ “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” for the birth of Little Ricky, after much slapstick involving Fred/Ricky/Ethel panicking. Ricky re-packs the overturned suitcase including the telephone. (Later, he shows up at the hospital straight from the Tropicana in spooky tribal makeup for a voodoo number, scaring everybody until he faints at the baby-viewing window.)
4. _Murphy Brown_ “Birth 101” - Murphy got knocked up during a one night stand with her ex-husband and chose to be a single mother to the consternation of the Bible beaters.
5. _Psych_ “Shawn and Gus Truck Things Up”. Lassiter’s baby girl is delivered in the back of a food truck that’s racing to the hospital.
6. _The Office_ - Pam and Jim try to hold off giving birth to their baby, even though Pam’s contractions are two minutes apart, just to gain an extra night at the hospital (per their HMO requirement).

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2024, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4955 "2024-05-25T05:39:23Z")

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Even though a healthy baby nearly always results, getting to the delivery room is never easy on TV.

1. _All in the Family_ Gloria goes to a phone booth to call the doctor to let him know they’re going to the hospital, and the door gets stuck so she can’t get out. ETA: Guess I should mention for everyone under 55 that Gloria is having the baby. /ETA
2. _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ Worf helps deliver baby Molly. “Congratulations you are fully dilated to 10 centemeters, you may now give birth.”
3. _I Love Lucy,_ “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” for the birth of Little Ricky, after much slapstick involving Fred/Ricky/Ethel panicking. Ricky re-packs the overturned suitcase including the telephone. (Later, he shows up at the hospital straight from the Tropicana in spooky tribal makeup for a voodoo number, scaring everybody until he faints at the baby-viewing window.)
4. _Murphy Brown_ “Birth 101” - Murphy got knocked up during a one night stand with her ex-husband and chose to be a single mother to the consternation of the Bible beaters.
5. _Psych_ “Shawn and Gus Truck Things Up”. Lassiter’s baby girl is delivered in the back of a food truck that’s racing to the hospital.
6. _The Office_ - Pam and Jim try to hold off giving birth to their baby, even though Pam’s contractions are two minutes apart, just to gain an extra night at the hospital (per their HMO requirement).
7. _Highway to Heaven_ - “Basinger’s New York” - It’s a cold Christmas Eve in New York City. Mary is very pregnant, and she and her husband Joseph cannot even afford a night at a fleabag hotel (which is full anyway), much less a hospital, which would be more useful. She might well have to give birth on the street. But Jonathan (the angel) arranges things (long story) so she can be admitted to a hospital, in the presence of three wise men (Mark, Basinger, and the Cabbie). Mary’s baby is the first born in New York on Christmas Day.

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2024, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4956 "2024-05-25T05:52:40Z")

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> [@Spoons](#):
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> _The Office_ - Pam and Jim try to hold off giving birth to their baby, even though Pam’s contractions are two minutes apart, just to gain an extra night at the hospital (per their HMO requirement).

Not so crazy–

My insurance company standard was 3 days in the hospital following a c-section (2 days following a vaginal birth). My son was born by emergency c-section at 11:55 on Oct. 10, so insurance tried to say that the 5 minutes from 11:55 to midnight on the 10th was my first day.

I’d labored for 27 hours before having the c-section under general anesthesia, and my son had meconium in his airway (suctioned), so he was in an isolette for 12 hours, and given antiobiotics, because he was at risk for pneumonia (he didn’t get). My doctor let the insurance company have it, and got me not just a full 3 days beginning on the 11th, but another day after that,

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4957 "2024-05-25T14:31:23Z")

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Even though a healthy baby nearly always results, getting to the delivery room is never easy on TV.

1. _All in the Family_ Gloria goes to a phone booth to call the doctor to let him know they’re going to the hospital, and the door gets stuck so she can’t get out. ETA: Guess I should mention for everyone under 55 that Gloria is having the baby. /ETA
2. _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ Worf helps deliver baby Molly. “Congratulations you are fully dilated to 10 centemeters, you may now give birth.”
3. _I Love Lucy,_ “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” for the birth of Little Ricky, after much slapstick involving Fred/Ricky/Ethel panicking. Ricky re-packs the overturned suitcase including the telephone. (Later, he shows up at the hospital straight from the Tropicana in spooky tribal makeup for a voodoo number, scaring everybody until he faints at the baby-viewing window.)
4. _Murphy Brown_ “Birth 101” - Murphy got knocked up during a one night stand with her ex-husband and chose to be a single mother to the consternation of the Bible beaters.
5. _Psych_ “Shawn and Gus Truck Things Up”. Lassiter’s baby girl is delivered in the back of a food truck that’s racing to the hospital.
6. _The Office_ - Pam and Jim try to hold off giving birth to their baby, even though Pam’s contractions are two minutes apart, just to gain an extra night at the hospital (per their HMO requirement).
7. _Highway to Heaven_ - “Basinger’s New York” - It’s a cold Christmas Eve in New York City. Mary is very pregnant, and she and her husband Joseph cannot even afford a night at a fleabag hotel (which is full anyway), much less a hospital, which would be more useful. She might well have to give birth on the street. But Jonathan (the angel) arranges things (long story) so she can be admitted to a hospital, in the presence of three wise men (Mark, Basinger, and the Cabbie). Mary’s baby is the first born in New York on Christmas Day.
8. _Mork and Mindy_ - “Three The Hard Way” - Exidor (who is working as a doctor) determines that Mork is pregnant. Mork gives birth to an egg via his navel. Mindy has trouble accepting that their child is in the egg. The egg grows and hatches a full grown, elderly man as Mork and Mindy’s baby (since Orkans age backwards).

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2024, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4958 "2024-05-26T04:10:48Z")

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**L&D Complications**

Even though a healthy baby nearly always results, getting to the delivery room is never easy on TV.

1. _All in the Family_ - Gloria goes to a phone booth to call the doctor to let him know they’re going to the hospital, and the door gets stuck so she can’t get out. ETA: Guess I should mention for everyone under 55 that Gloria is having the baby. /ETA
2. _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ - Worf helps deliver baby Molly: “Congratulations, you are fully dilated to 10 centimeters. You may now give birth.”
3. _I Love Lucy,_ “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” for the birth of Little Ricky, after much slapstick involving Fred/Ricky/Ethel panicking. Ricky re-packs the overturned suitcase including the telephone. (Later, he shows up at the hospital straight from the Tropicana in spooky tribal makeup for a voodoo number, scaring everybody until he faints at the baby-viewing window.)
4. _Murphy Brown_ “Birth 101” - Murphy got knocked up during a one night stand with her ex-husband and chose to be a single mother to the consternation of the Bible beaters.
5. _Psych_ “Shawn and Gus Truck Things Up”. Lassiter’s baby girl is delivered in the back of a food truck that’s racing to the hospital.
6. _The Office_ - Pam and Jim try to hold off giving birth to their baby, even though Pam’s contractions are two minutes apart, just to gain an extra night at the hospital (per their HMO requirement).
7. _Highway to Heaven_ - “Basinger’s New York” - It’s a cold Christmas Eve in New York City. Mary is very pregnant, and she and her husband Joseph cannot even afford a night at a fleabag hotel (which is full anyway), much less a hospital, which would be more useful. She might well have to give birth on the street. But Jonathan (the angel) arranges things (long story) so she can be admitted to a hospital, in the presence of three wise men (Mark, Basinger, and the Cabbie). Mary’s baby is the first born in New York on Christmas Day.
8. _Mork and Mindy_ - “Three The Hard Way” - Exidor (who is working as a doctor) determines that Mork is pregnant. Mork gives birth to an egg via his navel. Mindy has trouble accepting that their child is in the egg. The egg grows and hatches a full grown, elderly man as Mork and Mindy’s baby (since Orkans age backwards).
9. _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_ - Miles and Keiko O’Brien’s baby has to be beamed into the womb of Kira Nerys when Keiko is injured (the actress who played Kira was actually pregnant with the baby of the actor who played Dr. Bashir).

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2024, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4959 "2024-05-27T11:09:14Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Even though a healthy baby nearly always results, getting to the delivery room is never easy on TV.

1. _All in the Family_ - Gloria goes to a phone booth to call the doctor to let him know they’re going to the hospital, and the door gets stuck so she can’t get out. ETA: Guess I should mention for everyone under 55 that Gloria is having the baby. /ETA
2. _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ - Worf helps deliver baby Molly: “Congratulations, you are fully dilated to 10 centimeters. You may now give birth.”
3. _I Love Lucy,_ “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” for the birth of Little Ricky, after much slapstick involving Fred/Ricky/Ethel panicking. Ricky re-packs the overturned suitcase including the telephone. (Later, he shows up at the hospital straight from the Tropicana in spooky tribal makeup for a voodoo number, scaring everybody until he faints at the baby-viewing window.)
4. _Murphy Brown_ “Birth 101” - Murphy got knocked up during a one night stand with her ex-husband and chose to be a single mother to the consternation of the Bible beaters.
5. _Psych_ “Shawn and Gus Truck Things Up”. Lassiter’s baby girl is delivered in the back of a food truck that’s racing to the hospital.
6. _The Office_ - Pam and Jim try to hold off giving birth to their baby, even though Pam’s contractions are two minutes apart, just to gain an extra night at the hospital (per their HMO requirement).
7. _Highway to Heaven_ - “Basinger’s New York” - It’s a cold Christmas Eve in New York City. Mary is very pregnant, and she and her husband Joseph cannot even afford a night at a fleabag hotel (which is full anyway), much less a hospital, which would be more useful. She might well have to give birth on the street. But Jonathan (the angel) arranges things (long story) so she can be admitted to a hospital, in the presence of three wise men (Mark, Basinger, and the Cabbie). Mary’s baby is the first born in New York on Christmas Day.
8. _Mork and Mindy_ - “Three The Hard Way” - Exidor (who is working as a doctor) determines that Mork is pregnant. Mork gives birth to an egg via his navel. Mindy has trouble accepting that their child is in the egg. The egg grows and hatches a full grown, elderly man as Mork and Mindy’s baby (since Orkans age backwards).
9. _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_ - Miles and Keiko O’Brien’s baby has to be beamed into the womb of Kira Nerys when Keiko is injured (the actress who played Kira was actually pregnant with the baby of the actor who played Dr. Bashir).
10. _Xena: Warrior Princess_ - Xena must descend to Tartarus shortly before she is due to deliver, which is risky, because if she goes into labor and delivers there, the baby will be stillborn, so she has to go in and get out quickly. Meanwhile, Zeus is tracking her to kill her, because the baby will usher in a new age that ends the time of the Olympic gods, and Hercules is hot on Zeus’ trail to kill him first.

Topic has been up long enough-- ending it and

Passing

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**Post date:** [May 27, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-binge-watch-part-2/972711/4960 "2024-05-27T13:28:25Z")

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**Troublemakers (not _evil_, per se; just a little too high spirited, so to speak)**

1. Ernest T. Bass - _The Andy Griffith Show_

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