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Timeline of this movie


I watched it last night after no having seen it for many, many years. I was wondering about the timeline of the movie.
Her water broke at their senior prom, which is usually around May? Then, when they move in with Darcy's mom, and Stan doesn't want to go to the lake to see everyone off before they go to school, that would be about August I'm guessing. So that baby would be about 3 months old at that point. She's sitting up in the high chair eating solid food. Ok, so then I thought maybe more time has passed and they are saying goodbye to their friends the following summer or something, which would make the baby over a year, and yeah, then sitting in that chair jives with my kids at least. But then Darsy is just getting her diploma from nights school, they are talking about how they aren't going to college and Stan's Cal Tech scholarship is still good and he can go. No way is that baby that old in 3 months! At the graduation she's clapping and holding her head up. NO!

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She announces her pregnancy thanksgiving which is November. 9 months pregnancy would have been August birth. Her water breaks during prom. I'm just noticing this too

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She was probably two months along when she announced the pregnancy, so that would mean a late August or early September conception. A May birth would be consistent with that. But you're right: no way was that baby three months old when Darcy graduated.

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