FILM · 2008 · USA
Baby Mama
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- #001
Amy Poehler wears a different hairstyle in every scene she appears in and never repeats the same one twice.
- #002
Angie has a drawer full of TASTYKAKE cakes. TASTYKAKE is a Philadelphia-based brand that competes with Hostess, and since the film is set in Philadelphia, the snack choice is locally appropriate.
- #003
Greg Kinnear's Juice Shop was originally a tea shop, but it was changed because the staff thought juice would be more fun.
- #004
After the scene in the prenatal class, as the main characters walk through the park, an overhead shot reveals a raised flower bed shaped like a vagina.
- #005
Kate and Rob go to a cheesesteak truck, and Kate orders a cheesesteak "no cheese whiz." A traditional Philly cheesesteak is made with American cheese, provolone and/or a cheese blend.
- #006
Kate wants Angie to watch "Extreme Vaginal Delivery," which is about a woman who naturally gives birth to a 15-pound baby. The film was made for the movie, and as of the film's 2008 release, a 15-pound natural birth was not on record.
- #007
This is the second film appearance of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler together, following Mean Girls (2004).
- #008
A five-minute unbroken eye-contact scene was written. When the director shouted cut, Steve Martin kept joking, and the director kept the joke in and edited it, so instead of hearing his shout you hear a cell phone ring; Tina Fey's odd reaction was genuine because she did not know what to do.
- #009
This is the last work of orchestrator Steve Fowler before his death on August 17, 2010.
- #010
In the scene where Angie pretends to vomit, she is wearing a number 00 Eagles jersey. The team stopped using 00 in 1973, and 00 is now used for customized jerseys. Angie's surname is Ostrowiski, close to the player name Olszewski, one of the last players to wear the number 00 jersey before the number standardization.
- #011
Tina Fey plays a character named Kate in this film. She also plays a character named Kate in "Sisters." In both films she appears alongside Amy Poehler.
- #012
Angie names her baby girl Stefani, but although the baby comes to Stefani's birthday party, you never learn what Kate named her baby girl.
- #013
Both Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have voiced the lead character of a Pixar film: Poehler for "Inside Out" (2015) and Fey for "Soul" (2020). Coincidentally, both films are directed by Pete Docter and both won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
- #014
In the film Tina Fey plays a 37-year-old. In reality Tina Fey was actually 37.
- #015
When Kate and Rob eat the bowl of yeast at the vegan restaurant, it is actually colored fondant.
- #016
The mini motorcycle at the end of the film is actually electric.
- #017
Angie calls Kate's car a "stupid space car," but it is an Audi with child-proof locks on the passenger side.
- #018
The grocery store where Tina Fey works is most likely based on the natural grocery chain Whole Foods Market.
- #019
In some scenes of this film, Tina Fey's and Amy Poehler's characters act like siblings; in their 2015 film "Sisters," they actually play each other's sisters.
- #020
Carl tells Angie that while she is in the bathroom he is trying to win arena football tickets. Philadelphia's arena football team is the Soul.
- #021
The film is set in Philadelphia.
- #022
Near the end of the film, in the courtroom scene, Greg Kinnear's character mentions a man with the surname "Swanson." This is the same surname as a popular character from Amy Poehler's hit TV series Parks and Recreation: Ron Swanson, played by Nick Offerman.
- #023
Pregnancy count: 4 — Angie: 1, Kate: 1, Chaffee Bicknell: 1, Caroline: 1.
- #024
This is Alice Kremelberg's debut.
- #025
This is Kiley Liddell's debut.
- #026
Amy Poehler and Romany Malco had previously appeared in Blades of Glory (2007), but they did not share any scenes in Blades.
- #027
Both Tina Fey and Greg Kinnear are left-handed.
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