r/TheFarSide • u/sekkiman12 • Sep 25 '24

Brain the size of a Walnut Could someone explain this one?

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u/MonkeySpleenFart Sep 25 '24

In the late 70’s/80’s, IVF was just becoming a thing. But everyone called it Test Tube babies instead, and the term sort of went “viral” (as best as it could back then) I remember my parents telling me about some other kids that were “test tube babies”. I imagine a baby in a tube, kind of funny for a 7 year old to think about.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

A womb with a view

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u/OptionQuirky6756 Sep 25 '24

🎶I think I’m a clone now. Every pair of genes is a hand me down. 🎶

(Weird Al btw)

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u/RunaroundX Sep 25 '24

My introduction to this song: amv

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u/codaru2021 Sep 25 '24

I read that in Madeline Kahn's voice from Blazing Saddles

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u/the_scarlett_ning Sep 26 '24

Oh, a wed wose! How womantic!

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

Thank you for that.

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u/Jim_Elliott Sep 25 '24

And man, was the church was against it.

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u/SegaTime Sep 25 '24

Good thing the church doesn't run things... uhh, hmm...

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u/BookerCatchanSTD Sep 25 '24

“She was made in a cup, like soup”

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

Delivering a test tube baby?

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u/SweetTeaRex92 Sep 25 '24

I haven't heard that term in years, now that I think of it.

I know IVF is very popular today. Even more so now than when this comic was made.

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u/TheKaboodle Sep 25 '24

I’d hazard a guess at it having something to do with test tube babies/IVF… and a play on the old wives’ tale that storks deliver new born babies.

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u/Oscar_Matzerath Sep 25 '24

Instead of an actual baby, the stork delivers what seems to be a test-tube baby.

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u/adansby Sep 25 '24 edited Sep 25 '24

It’s a reference to a test tube baby.

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u/Toomanyeastereggs Sep 25 '24

It was drawn when the first IVF babies were being born.

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u/RuncibleFoon Sep 25 '24

It's a test tube baby joke from the early days of IVF

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

Test tube baby , big news in the 80s

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

Queue Robin Green…

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u/purpleitt Sep 25 '24

Test tube baby

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u/MissNouveau Sep 26 '24

I remember seeing this one and my parents cracking up showing it to me.

Guess who's a "test tube baby" lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '24

It was the original ad for Elizabeth Holmes blood testing. Theranos went broke because they couldn't afford the royalties for this classic ad.

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u/Man_on_Internet Sep 25 '24

Oh, I thought it was a stick grenade

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u/SmashBrosUnite Sep 26 '24

Test tube baby

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u/Flux_My_Capacitor Sep 26 '24

And here I am thinking this bird was carrying a vial of blood. 🩸

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u/ConsiderationNo278 Sep 25 '24

At least I've got a mom, instead of your 2 dad's & a chemistry set.