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I like how they used the word "IT" when reffering to the baby (SARCASM)

posted 8 years ago by IsaacMovieBuff2000
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Does it bother anyone that when they talk about picking up the baby, feeding the baby, entertaining the baby they will say "pick it up" "no you're picking it up". "What the hell am I suppose to do? entertain it"...etc

It's not an *it* it's a *she* and she is a baby and a baby is a human being, not an object

[–] swaiminatrix 7 years ago

Ghost Boy is a "he". The baby is an "it".

[–] PaladinNJ (20308) 4 years ago

They're lifelong bachelors. They've been caught off-guard and now have to deal with a situation they were nevernready to accept.

[–] hurricane (1907) 4 years ago

I agree. It's in character.

The whole point is, they're supposed to be unaccustomed to handling babies.

[–] liscarkat (16483) 3 years ago

It's supposed to be funny, and it is. The joke of calling a baby "it" probably originated in "Christmas in Connecticut", starring Barbara Stanwyck, over forty years earlier.