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Rabbit Test is a 1978 comedy motion picture about a nobody guy who rockets to celebrity status after a one-night stand leaves him pregnant. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Comedy is the use of humor in the performing arts. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Celebrity is an abstract word stemming from the Latin celebritas, itself from the adjective celeber famous, celebrated. A celebrity is a person who is widely recognized in a society. ... A pregnant woman Pregnancy is the process by which a mammalian female carries a live offspring from conception until it develops to the point where the offspring is capable of living outside the womb. ...

Directed by Joan Rivers, Rabbit Test is about a night class teacher - Lionel Carpenter (played by Billy Crystal) - who has bad luck with women, remaining a virgin until his brash cousin Danny returns from the army and sets him up with the only woman desperate enough to sleep with him. Afterwards, Lionel starts feeling nauseous and throwing up, eventually doing so over one of his immigrant students - Segoynia. This turns out to be a blessing in disguise, as it gives him an excuse to ask her out for the evening (after she's cleaned up, of course), and he ends up at her family home, where her mother works as a fortune teller. Jump to: navigation, search Joan Rivers (born on June 8, 1933) is a United States comedian, talk show host, and celebrity. ... Crystal on Hollywood Squares. ... Jump to: navigation, search A virgin is most commonly seen as a person who has not engaged in sexual intercourse. ... Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. ...

It is here that it is revealed by Segoynia's grandmother (played by Roddy McDowall in drag) that Lionel is the world's first pregnant man. The rest of the film is an almost non-stop barrage of pathetic gags - such as the sideplot of Lionel being forced to flee from both the public eye due to harrasment and from the army, as the president is afraid of what effect the widespread ability for men to conceive, carry and bear children will have on the population boom. Roddy McDowall as a child actor. ... Jump to: navigation, search Drag in its broadest sense means a costume or outfit that carries symbolic significance, but usually refers to the clothing associated with one gender role when worn by a person of the other gender. ... A pregnant woman Pregnancy is the process by which a mammalian female carries a live offspring from conception until it develops to the point where the offspring is capable of living outside the womb. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image of a man on the Pioneer plaque sent to interstellar space A man is a male human adult, in contrast to an adult female, which is a woman. ...

A failed attempt at Mel Brooks-style humour means Joan Rivers offends just about everyone - most of the jokes are about religion or are fat jokes. This is most obvious in the ending sequence, which is based around the Nativity, where Lionel goes into labour. The camera shoots to heaven where God announces to the viewers the successful delivery: "Oh my god... it's a girl!" Jump to: navigation, search Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is a Jewish-American actor, writer director, and theatrical producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and parodies. ... Jump to: navigation, search Joan Rivers (born on June 8, 1933) is a United States comedian, talk show host, and celebrity. ...

The cover consists of Joan Rivers pointing at the bulge of pregnant Billy Crystal. This was Joan River's first attempt at direction, Billy's first starring role and is widely regarded as one of the most unfunny comedies ever produced. The question of how he got preMost who see this film quickly ask themselves 2 questions: 1- how exactly did he get pregnant? and 2 - why wasn't this movie ever included in the worst film lists?

Rabbit Test's lack of success is due not only to its genuine lack of real humour, but also because its directed like a spoof- so there are a lot of unanswered questions. Whereas Junior at least explained how Alex got pregnant (artificial insemination into a transplanted uterus), in Rabbit Test this area is never delved into; Lionel simply has sex, then the next thing he know's his daughter is playing havoc with his waistline (the film's catchline is: Where can you get maternity jockey shorts?)

This film was the second to utilise the idea of male pregnancy, the first being a science fiction film Enemy Mine, the third was Rabbit Test's 'karmic successor' - Junior, made in 1994 and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (karmic successor in that not only is the plot almost identical, so is the cover ). This film may have initiated the fanfiction term MPreg. Jump to: navigation, search Bold textMale pregnancy, (abbrev. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Jump to: navigation, search Enemy Mine is a science fiction story by Barry B. Longyear. ... Junior (released in 1994) is Arnold Schwarzeneggers second-ever comedy, which features him teamed up with Danny Devito, following their previous collaboration, Twins. ... Jump to: navigation, search Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947 in Thal, Styria, Austria) is an Austrian-American actor, Republican politician, and bodybuilder, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. ...

External link

• Rabbit Test at the Internet Movie Database