CHUNIOR

JUNIOR (1994)
dir: Ivan Reitman

CHUNIOR
Cracked #298, May 1995
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan

Alex Hesse (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Larry Arbogast (Danny DeVito), two research scientists, are trying to get FDA approval for their fertility drug Expectante and turned down. Dr. Arbogast is also an ob/gyn and his ex-wife Angela (Pamela Reed), wants him to deliver her baby. She has been impregnated by a member of Aerosmith's crew.

Hesse and Arbogast have been let go from the university by their boss Noah Banes (Frank Langella) and been replaced by Dr. Diana Reddin (Emma Thompson), a cryogenics expert. She makes her entrance into the lab careening on a cart that has fallen of a truck and her fall is broken when she lands on Dr. Hesse. Dr. Hesse is upset that he has been fired and decides to go back to his native Austria. Dr. Arbogast convinces him to stay by telling him they have a grant to continue their research. They don't have the resources they had, so they have to experiment on each other. Dr. Arbogast injects Dr. Hesse with an egg he stole from Dr. Reddin's lab. The egg and the fertility drug were supposed to eventually break down naturally after the experiment, but Dr. Hesse decides to continue taking hormones because he likes the feeling of being pregnant.

Dr. Hesse experiences the mood swings a pregnant woman would feel. He has been living with Dr. Arbogast during his pregnancy and told to lay low. Eventually he feels cooped up and demands to go to a party for the pharmaceutical company backing the experiments, and does so on the condition that he hide his pregnancy. Later, at home, while waiting for Dr. Arbogast, Angela comes by for an appointment, and both of them gorge on cliched pregnancy cravings like pickles and ice cream. Eventually the cat's out of the bag and eventually Dr. Hesse's pregnancy is revealed. He has been dating Dr. Redden and has to tell her the egg he has been implanted with is her egg, which is actually an egg from her body, which means they have to raise the baby together. And since it was an experiment developed while Hesse and Arbogast were still at the university, it means the baby is the university's property.

The ape at Dr. Redden's lab is Magilla Gorilla

Dr. Hesse is taken to a pregnant womans' retreat but has to pretend to be a woman and the wife of Dr. Arbogast. His manly features are explained away. Here they make a joke about Janet Reno, then the attorney general, who was being joked about everywhere, most notably by Will Ferrell on Saturday Night Live. When Dr. Hesse goes into labor, he calls Dr. Arbogast, and is rushed back to the university hospital. At the hospital, Banes has called the press and is about to take credit for the pregnancy. Dr. Arbogast knows they'll be waiting for him when he gets there, so when he gets there he comes out with Angela and acts as if it's just a routine delivery, to distract while Dr. Hesse is being carried through another entrance.

The punchline in the last panel is that all other action stars are becoming pregnant now, but it's often hard to recognize Walter Brogan's likenesses, then drawing them as pregnant women takes them a step even further away. I can tell that's Steven Seagal in the middle, but I don't know who's on the left. Clint Eastwood? On the right must be Hulk Hogan, since he was kind of an action star. It also looks like Jesse “The Body” Ventura but he never starred in any movies and I think he was in politics by then.