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Friday, November 17, 2023
THREE MORONS AND A BABY
THREE MEN AND A BABY
dir: Leonard Nimoy
THREE MORONS AND A BABY
MAD#280, July 1988
w: Stan Hart
a: Angelo Torres
Peter (Tom Selleck), an architect, Michael (Steve Guttenberg), a cartoonist, and Jack (Ted Danson), an actor, are all living together, and are always having swinging bachelor parties at their home in New York. One day, as Jack leaves town for a film shoot, Peter and Michael find a baby on their doorstep, the result of one of Jack's trysts..
They panic because they know nothing about raising babies. There's a subplot, that while he're gone, Jack has arranged for them to take a package for a friend. Some guys come to pick up the package, Peter doesn't know the package is heroin and thinks it's the baby, and gives the guys the baby, which they think is a cover for the heroin and they think the talcum powder they were given is the heroin. Peter and Michael are being watched by narcotics officers who know there's a transaction going on.
After Jack's come home, he asks his mother (Celeste Holm) to take care of the baby, which she refuses to do to teach him a lesson. The Three Men come up with a scheme to trap the drug dealers in an elevator in one of Peter's buildings while Jack distracts them,and film the whole thing, then give the film to the officers. The drug dealer and the baby plot have nothing to do with each other, so this must have been intended as two different movies.
The doll in the middle left panel is of John Higgins from Selleck's Magnum P.I TV series.
The mother of the baby (Nancy Travis) comes to pick it up and go back to England and they're relieved, then they realize how attached they've become to the baby and run to the airport to get it back, miss the plane, go home defeated, go back home to find her there. They ask her to move in and the movie ends with the four of them raising the baby together.
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