Were they really that complicated in 1992? "So we wait 10 minutes then pour x into b"?? With glass vials and stuff? I was only 16 when this movie came out and thankfully never had to buy one at that point but I'm kind of shocked seeing it again now. Just wondering.
shareYes...they actually were pretty complicated back then. Not only were they that complicated, but it wasn't abnormal at all to screw up the 'mixing' and have your test go kaput. So the buying several different ones also rang true.
When I did mine in 1989 I remember the vials and you had to carefully pour pee into the vial and wait for a ring to form at the top of the liquid. If a ring didn't form, you weren't sure if you did it wrong, or if you weren't knocked up. That's when you did another test. wait wait wait.
shareNope. They really weren't. I was 19 at the time and unless they took a time machine back to the 70's or early 80's, they were the standard "pee on a stick" type of deal (see Clearblue Easy). Also, in the scene where he goes to the store & buys all the pregnancy tests? Yeah, except for the "Daisy" brand, all the ones he DOES buy are all fake. Back in the 70's/early 80's, those tests were, indeed, much more complex. You had to use only your morning first urine & pee into a vial, then add measured drops of chemical reagents into said vial. Then you had to wait an hour for the result to develop. And they weren't always accurate; as a matter of fact, most kits included two tests so that they were more "accurate" & you could be "sure" with two test results (you know, before you go all the way to your doctor's office to confirm it). Also, they weren't nearly that easy to read; they didn't have the "blue" result available for many, many years, & they even had to include a colour leaflet in the package to demonstrate what a positive result looked like! Also, the kits that didn't ask you to use your first morning's urine would ask you to hold your urine for up to four hours if you were doing it at any other time of the day, & instruct you not to dilute your urine by drinking too many liquids because it would dilute your readable hormone levels.
But for the purposes of this film, they were trying to illustrate just how complicated even the idea of pregnancy was to these two "kids" who weren't ready to have kids in the first place.
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I'm not sure. The first at-home test I did was 1990 and you had to let it sit in a glass and be the first pee of the day.
Before that there were so many places to get a free pregnancy test I wouldn't even have considered doing it at home. Teenaged girls were not required to have parental permission or anything. Just walk in and say you wanted a test.