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The Pre-Natal Pageant

Mr. Show with Bob and David
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A mock documentary follows a cash-strapped couple who enter their unborn baby in beauty pageants.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Dale and his pregnant wife Rhonda travel the fetal pageant circuit, insisting their baby loves the attention. Between interviews in their trophy-filled home, the film visits a regional contest where entrants are judged by ultrasound, and a cosmetic surgeon who boasts of operating on babies before birth. Dale piles on jobs to cover the entry fees, from a pork rind factory to a portable toilet business to kissing elephants' rears at the circus, and a small cash prize barely dents the cost. Two weeks later their fetus is crowned at a Hollywood-themed pageant, and closing captions report what became of the family, the surgeon and one of the judges.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 13

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

That's a school where they teach you how to finish.

See, what I can do with these fetuses is literally a miracle, okay?

It's gonna go good.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

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