Arnold Schwarzenegger spent time in doctors' waiting rooms to learn how pregnant people behave.
The campus in the film is called "Leland University". The actual location was the University of California at Berkeley, whose sports rival is Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California, which was named after Leland Stanford.
Larry:
You think you're the first clown whoever woke up and said "I'm bored, I think I'll have a kid!"
[Dr. Hesse has to explain why he looks so 'masculine']
Dr. Alex Hesse:
When I was a sportswoman on the East German Olympic Track and Field team, they dispensed anabolic steroids as freely as here in America they dole out Gator-Ade.
Noah Baines:
Let me shake hands with the man who would be Mom.
[Dr. Reddin has found out Alex is carrying her baby]
Dr. Diana Reddin:
Why should I be upset! You lie to me. You... STEAL from me. You engage in a utterly selfish, IMMORAL, arrogant stunt without any regard for my feelings whatsoever. What am I supposed to be, grateful? This is just SO MALE!
Dr. Diana Reddin:
What do you mean, what am I doing here? It's my baby, not yours!
Larry:
Hey. I put it in there.
Dr. Diana Reddin:
It's MY EGG!
Larry:
Yeah, just 'cause your egg's in some guy doesn't make you the mother!
Dr. Alex Hesse:
My body. *My* choice!
Dr. Diana Reddin:
Do you have your own room?
Dr. Alex Hesse:
Yes. Why?
Dr. Diana Reddin:
Well, call me old-fashioned, but I'll be damned if I'm having a child with a man I've never even slept with.
Dr. Alex Hesse:
[to Diana] Does my body disgust you?
Dr. Alex Hesse:
Oh I feel the baby, the baby!
[deep voice]
Dr. Alex Hesse:
Oh SHIT!
Dr. Alex Hesse:
I've noticed that the side effects of pregnancy are greatly amplified... With the dosage of Expectane that l've required. The morning sickness, the mood swings. Sleepiness, sexual appetite.
Larry:
Sexual appetite?
Dr. Alex Hesse:
Yesterday, just scooping the middle out of a honeydew melon gave me a - A "Steifen".
Larry:
A what? Oh. That's normal. I get 'em all the time.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Alex and Larry argue about whether or not Alex should keep the baby, Larry is speaking but his lips aren't moving.
Revealing mistakes: When Diana is trying to sneak Alex into the hospital, his fat suit is visible through his shirt.
Continuity: When Alex pushes Noah Banes into a stack of shelves, equipment is knocked to the floor and a leg is broken off the stack of shelves. The next shot shows the equipment is in different positions and there are another two legs broken off the shelves.
Continuity: When going into Larry's waiting room, the shot before entering Alex's sleeves are pushed up, but when they switch angles his sleeves are down.
Factual errors: At different times both Alex and Diana pick up a vial containing an egg from a liquid nitrogen container with their bare hands. Such containers are always handled with heavy gloves and metal tongs, because the extreme cold (-346ºF) would freeze the skin off of bare fingers.
Factual errors: Dr. Larry Arbogast performs a cesarean section (c-section) so the baby can be born, but he also tells Dr. Alex Hesse to push, when having a c-section, there is no need to push.
References
Seitenstechen (1985)
Referenced in
The Planet of Junior Brown (1997)
Featured in
MST3K Little Gold Statue Preview Special (1995) (TV)
The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1995) (TV)
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