dismiss someone for that reason
It's illegal for them to fire me over it anyway, and I get three months maternity leave if I stay, so I'm just, you know, not gonna tell them.Knocked Up · 2007 — Capítulo 4 de 12 · 2'46" · B2
The White Bronco Escape, Explained: out the window
On the surface they debate hiding a pregnancy from work to keep the maternity leave. Underneath sits a worse fear: a child sends every other plan out the window. "I bust through the border and I'm a free man!" is confessed as only a flash, and the others have to decide whether that fear can be said aloud.
Qué pasa
Someone says they won't tell work about a pregnancy: firing them would be illegal, and staying means maternity leave. Others praise the plan, then undercut it with water breaking on Robert De Niro's shoes. Talk shifts to dreams going out the window and a year in India, then a flash of a white Ford Bronco racing for Canada. Allison gets pulled into a time machine joke.
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maternity leavegood plan untilout the windowonce you have a family
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out the window
suddenly discarded or ruined
Someone asks if having a kid sends every dream out the window, curious on the surface and final underneath.
Once the sitter canceled, the weekend trip went out the window.
También en esta escena
- maternity leave
time off work for childbirth
- good plan until
praise that immediately undercuts itself
- once you have a family
as soon as you have a family
- hauling ass
speeding away as fast as possible
- a flash
a thought that lasted an instant
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time off work for childbirth
Someone lays out a calm work plan, and maternity leave is one reason she thinks staying silent still pays.
It's illegal for them to fire me over it anyway, and I get three months maternity leave if I stay, so I'm just, you know, not gonna tell them.infinitive subject: It is a dummy; firing her is what is called illegal.
It's illegal for them to fire me over it anyway, and I get three months maternity leave if I stay, so I'm just, you know, not gonna tell them.gonna is going to squeezed short; don't fill it back in.
It's illegal for them to fire me over it anyway, and I get three months maternity leave if I stay, so I'm just, you know, not gonna tell them.fine until the next clause wrecks it
It is a good plan until her water breaks all over Robert De Niro's shoes.Tap the middle of water and move on.
It is a good plan until her water breaks all over Robert De Niro's shoes.messy newborn gunk — A gross joke, not for a serious birth talk.
"My shoes! Hey, there's all this baby goo on it."vomit, said bluntly — Fine in talk; use vomit in writing or at a clinic.
"Did you puke on my shoes?"get cancelled in one stroke not a real window; the dreams are simply dropped
Isn't it weird, though, when you have a kid and all your dreams and hopes just go right out the window?when clause: The when-clause is the weird part: a kid, then no dreams.
Isn't it weird, though, when you have a kid and all your dreams and hopes just go right out the window?with nothing changed at all
You do everything exactly the same.I like the work I have now
No, I mean, I love what I'm doing. Like, say...move somewhere and stay a while
Okay, say, you know, before you're married and have children, you wanna go live in India for a year.as soon as you have a family
A year in India is still possible in the first breath; once you have a family is the moment that plan shuts.
You can do it. But you can't do it once you have a family.learn something you didn't know
You know, honestly, like, when I found out about...a picture that hits all at once not a camera flash; a split second of running
I totally, like, I just had this flash of me,speeding off fast — Buddies can say it; leave it out at work.
like in a white Ford Bronco, and I'm just hauling ass for Canada, man.film the entire chase
The chopper's taping the whole thing, and I just...smash through without stopping
I bust through the border and I'm a free man!nobody left who can hold him not a legal status; the fantasy of being done
I bust through the border and I'm a free man!Put the weight on free and drop man.
I bust through the border and I'm a free man!the only thought on repeat
That's all I kept thinking, man.Leave I'm as one light beat.
You know what I'm saying? It was a flash!say the scary part out loud
- We can talk about our fears here. - It's not like he did it.he did not actually go through with it
- We can talk about our fears here. - It's not like he did it.stop short with a tire scream
I mean, honestly, like, if Doc Brown screeched up in front of you in the DeLorean.not even a corner of your mind
No part of your brain would have been, like, "You know, maybe we'll go back" "to that night and I would maybe put a condom on Ben's dick."past unreal: It keeps the thought hypothetical instead of real.
No part of your brain would have been, like, "You know, maybe we'll go back" "to that night and I would maybe put a condom on Ben's dick."Keep put against a and let the t move.
No part of your brain would have been, like, "You know, maybe we'll go back" "to that night and I would maybe put a condom on Ben's dick."penis, very crude — Only inside a dirty joke, never formally.
No part of your brain would have been, like, "You know, maybe we'll go back" "to that night and I would maybe put a condom on Ben's dick."relative clause: It names the guy instead of starting a new sentence.
Doc Brown is the guy who's Christopher Lloyd.have sex, thrown as an insult — It is an angry insult, not an offer to accept.
Why don't the two of you get into your time machine, go back in time and fuck each other?a heavy curse said fondly — Fond only between close friends, never with strangers.
You are a funny motherfucker, man. Jesus.the way someone's body carries them not just the movement; it is a flirt
I like the way you move.after a long stretch without it
I mean, this is, like, the most fun I've had in a really long time.The White Bronco Escape, explicado
What's really going on
The workplace plan is the easy part: keep the pregnancy quiet because firing would be illegal and staying brings maternity leave. The De Niro shoes joke laughs at the one moment that plan would go public. "Isn't it weird, though, when you have a kid and all your dreams and hopes just go right out the window?" The India year is denied a few lines later. "I bust through the border and I'm a free man!" sounds like a confession, then gets walked back: it was a flash, and that was all they kept thinking. Someone says fears can be talked about here, and that it was not actually done. The DeLorean offers Allison a ride and asks what she wants to do. The next line claims no part of her would have used it to go back and change that night. "This is my time machine!" turns the bit into a joke, and the talk ends on compliments and "This is fun!"
Theme
ParenthoodA child is treated as the moment dreams go out the window, from a year in India to a flash of fleeing the country.
SecretsThe pregnancy stays hidden from work, and the Canada flash is admitted only after it is labeled a thought, not an act.
Escucha con atención
- not gonna tell — gonna is going to squeezed short; don't fill it back in.
- her water breaks — Tap the middle of water and move on.
- a free man — Put the weight on free and drop man.
- what I'm saying — Leave I'm as one light beat.
It is a good plan until her water breaks all over Robert De Niro's shoes.The hide-the-pregnancy plan is praised and ruined in one breath, by picturing her water breaking across Robert De Niro's shoes.
Isn't it weird, though, when you have a kid and all your dreams and hopes just go right out the window?A child is cast as the thing that cancels dreams and hopes at once. The next line even asks which plans went out the window.
You can do it. But you can't do it once you have a family.Living in India for a year is the sample plan: possible before a family, impossible once you have one. Replies in the talk say they do not want to go.
I bust through the border and I'm a free man!Inside the flash, getting across the border is the moment he calls himself free. The following lines shrink it to a thought he kept having.
Why don't the two of you get into your time machine, go back in time and fuck each other?A jab that drops the time-machine hypothetical and tells the pair to go back and have sex with each other.
Preguntas sobre esta escena
Why hide the pregnancy from work?
The person says they do not have to tell them. Firing them over it would be illegal, and staying means three months of maternity leave, so they are simply not going to tell them. The next line calls that a good plan.
Did anyone actually run for the Canadian border?
No. The white Ford Bronco, the helicopter, and "I bust through the border and I'm a free man!" are told as a flash, the only thing they kept thinking. Someone else says it is not like he did it.
Why does India come up if nobody wants to go?
It is an example of a plan you could do before marriage and children and cannot do once you have a family. The following lines ask whether anyone wants to go live in India, and the replies say they do not.
Who is Doc Brown in this conversation?
A hypothetical driver. Someone pictures him screeching up in the DeLorean, opening the door, and asking Allison what she wants to do. Asked who that is, the answer is Christopher Lloyd, the man who made the time machine.
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