# Bringing Up Baby and Planes, Trains and Automobiles

**URL:** <https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/bringing-up-baby-and-planes-trains-and-automobiles/3681>\
**Category:** Analysis and Review\
**Created:** [April 4, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/bringing-up-baby-and-planes-trains-and-automobiles/3681 "2022-04-04T01:01:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![geoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@geoff](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/geoff)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/bringing-up-baby-and-planes-trains-and-automobiles/3681/1 "2022-04-04T01:01:12Z")

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Bringing Up Baby has been mentioned amongst screwball comedies. Many of them emphasize romantic comedy, but “Baby” always stood out as different from rom-coms. What’s Up, Doc? is a 1970s update on the idea. So was Who’s That Girl? in 1987. I was reading a summary of Planes, Trains and Automobiles because Jim Hull’s Subtxt site labels it as comedy/buddy.

Then, I see the resemblance. Both movies advance by bad luck turns. It’s actually like a story long version of the action sequence technique wherein something good happens, “but” it turns bad, then something else good happens, then it turns bad.

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**Author:** ![MWollaeger](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/discuss.dramatica.com/mwollaeger/32/82_2.png) [@MWollaeger](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/MWollaeger)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/bringing-up-baby-and-planes-trains-and-automobiles/3681/2 "2022-04-06T16:18:13Z")

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Lots of stories have this pattern.