901: Temperature
| Temperature |
 Title text: And the baby has a fever. |
Explanation
This is a simple play on the fact that many w:digital thermometers look similar to w:pregnancy tests. Cueball, feeling ill, is using a thermometer to determine whether he has a fever or not, and is surprised to learn that, apparently, he is pregnant. (Of course, men don't generally get pregnant.)
Since thermometers are typically used to measure fevers, the title text notes that, apparently, the thermometer gave this reading because it detected a fever in the baby.
Transcript
- [A close up of Cueball with a thermometer in his mouth.]
- [The thermometer beeps.]
- Thermometer: BEEP
- [A full-body shot of Cueball looking down at the thermometer.]
- [A close-up of the thermometer's read-out.]
- Thermometer: PREGNANT
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Apparently, male pregnancy is a thing. It requires surgery and artificial implantation, but it's a legitimate thing that yields live babies. Davidy²²[talk] 02:00, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_%28film%29 <-- reference 184.66.160.91 03:07, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
- That movie is fiction. Where is the reference to the actual fact? FlavianusEP (talk) 16:31, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_%28film%29 <-- reference 184.66.160.91 03:07, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
Just a bit of trivia: there's a photo online of a pregnancy test where the control line is not (or faintly) visible and the test line is very visible. Someone said that it can happen if there was so much of that hormone that the test line drained ink from the control line. 173.245.48.24 04:10, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
- If that happened you'd probably try again on a new test, possibly a different brand. If it kept happening it would probably want to see a doctor because something's going on there... -Pennpenn 108.162.250.162 01:52, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
18 days of elevated basal body temperature are a sign of pregnancy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_body_temperature, no source given there, but I’ve read this somewhere else™ before). 162.158.94.224 09:03, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
What if the pregnancy tests didn’t tell him he was pregnant, it just was already used? SilverTheTerribleMathematician (talk) 05:30, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
