Daily Dialogue — December 15, 2015

Doctor: Somehow the Eastern medicine has worked and the fibroid has dissipated.
Debbie: That’s great. Wow!
Doctor: Yes, your fibroid shrunk and somehow… it allowed you to get pregnant.

Long beat as Debbie tries to process this shocking information.

Debbie: What?
Doctor: You’re going to have your third baby. Congratulations.
Debbie: Nope.
Doctor: Yes.

— This is 40 (2012), written by Judd Apatow

The Daily Dialogue theme next week: Denial, suggested by Liz Correal.

Trivia: The main characters from “Knocked Up”, Ben (Seth Rogen) and Alison (Katherine Heigl), do not appear in this “sort-of sequel”, but references to both characters are made: A picture of Alison can be seen on the wall and Pete plays Scrabble on his iPad with Ben and later mentions getting marijuana cookies from Ben. Three other, more minor characters from Knocked Up, do appear in this movie as well: Charlyne Yi’s character Jodi (an amiable stoner in Knocked up; now an employee in Debbie’s store), Jason Segel’s character Jason (one of Ben’s best friends with a crush on Debbie in Knocked Up; now Debbie’s personal trainer) and Tim Bagley reprises his role as OB/GYN Dr. Pellagrino.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Finding out you’re pregnant. When you didn’t think you could get pregnant. And you’re 40 years old. That “nope” is thick with denial.