Rectal temperature in movies

@OvertheRainbow

The Brady Bunch episode was an early one, I think ep. 8 or 9. I remember watching the re-run as a kid in the 1970s. I knew exactly what they were talking about. There is a later episode where Cindy is ill and Mrs. Brady is holding a tray and tells Marsha she's going to take Cindy's temperature. Marsha volunteers to help. It was probably an oral temp but still.

Madagascar - animated children’s movie. Overheard while my wife was watching it, Marty the Zebra finds a thermometer and sticks it in his mouth not realizizing it is a rectal themometer previously used on a Giraffe the proper way!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ8m2UqIgrE

I recall some movies and comic books with temperatures in them, but they were oral, even if the story took place in France at a time when most probably they would have been rectal! I suppose a respectable movie could not allude to a rectal temperature, let alone show it!

As I posted before I cited the movie “Romance” (filmed in France, French dialogue). There were intense sex and nude scenes and one in particular was the birth scene. That said, regarding the depicting of a rectal temperature taking; and I’m guessing, would not have been rejected had they one or more written into the script, considering some of the sex scenes depicted. Just an opinion.

@OverRainbow Romance was prohibited to under 16s in France.

Probably the same with the 1970 movie “Myra Breckinridge” which involved a rectal temperature taking (though insertion not shown). It was given an “X” rating.

@OverRainbow I think that in France, a X rating is considerably worse than a prohibited under 16. X-rated movies can only be shown in specific theaters (gosh, do they still exist today) and incur supplemental taxation.

Animated to be sure but an early Simpsons where Grandpa babysits Bart and Lisa. Bart feigns illness and grandpa says he's going to take his temperature where the sun doesn't shine. He then is shown holding a thermometer and tells Bart to turn over and think warm thoughts.

There was a much later Simpson's episode where Bart is faking sick and Marge takes his oral temperature. It's high but she doesn't believe it so she says, "Let's try another way." She ushers Lisa out of the room and shuts the door. A few minutes later she comes out and announces Bart has a fever. Lisa asks Bart how he did it and he replied that she doesn't want to know.

The Brady Bunch episode was in the first season and it was Jan and Peter who were to have their little bottoms penetrated. The father Robert Reed, a homosexual in real life, ironically made the comment that no guy wanted his temperature taken by a woman. He was having his temp taken with a flesh thermometer by men.

The entire scene made a huge impression on me as a young child.

The movie based off the tv show Recess had a reference to it. One of the characters runs into a sliding glass door and the mother rushes up to feel his forehead and says “I’ll go get the baby thermometer and the petroleum jelly!” He goes running up to his dad in the garage and his dad says “did you run into the sliding glass door again?” He runs off and the dad is like “come back, your mom’s gonna want to take your temperature!” The movie was called Recess School’s Out.

There was a cheap knock-off of the Steve Martin movie "Parents" in the early '90s. Two parents struggled to take their toddler daughter's temperature while she was face down on a bed. The kid's pajamas were positioned so you couldn't really see anything but the thermometer appeared to actually be inserted. The kid was crying up a storm. The girl was the real-life daughter of the movie's star who was one of the Brat Pack actors. I don't remember his full name but his first name was Robby (Not Rob Lowe).

Was it “ Modern Love” with Robbie Benson?

His daughter was in it,

@OverRainbow

Yes, that was it.

The Leave It To Beaver reference with the doctor making a house call, I believe was referring to not giving him a shot in his bottom. Beaver’s friend Whitey earlier is talking about the new doctor seeing him once, and talked about making him turn over for a shot. Beaver, Whitey, and a girl were all discussing how they hate having to turn over for a shot, so I assume that’s what Beaver was referring to. The doctor had figured out that Beaver was faking his illness.

The wildcat movie features an attractive blonde who is in the infirmary, is told, “roll over” which she does after her blankets come off and the surprise on her face indicates the thermometer went in her bottom. Then a few minutes later another woman enters the room and the camera is focused on the protruding thermometer which is removed again eliciting a response from the patient. Good scenes.

@OverRainbow Out of curiosity I looked up "Wildcat" and there are movies of that name in 2022 and 2023… Which is it?

@Jacana,

1980, the Title, “The Wildcats of St. Trinians”. A British movie.

I found The Wildcats of St Trinian's rectal temperature split scene at:

https://youtu.be/eAreP_A1c3E?si=c4gDJr5Jx-3bm5_1&t=1425

https://youtu.be/eAreP_A1c3E?si=DCLvGRPytAD8Sljd&t=1661

This movie seems to be what we call in French a "navet". 😉

Too bad they didn't make the Wildcats movie a skin flick and shoot the scene the way they did in Sexy Sisters.

@DoctorJohnny2 What the heck is Sexy Sisters?

@Jacana

A 1977 French/German softcore movie that has an actual on-screen RT on a blonde woman. Google it, there are copies on the internet. The interesting scene is about half way through the movie if I remember correctly.

@AnthonyRT Night shift nurses at 15'39"

https://tubepornclassic.com/videos/1033248/night-shift-nurses-1988/

@OverRainbow "A farewell to arms" indeed has a fun very short scene about a rude patent…

https://youtu.be/9X3lh8tvL4I?si=zkPANm1DEXDtMW_n&t=2661

Courtship of Eddie's Father

https://ok.ru/video/332064885496

39'26"

Myra Breckindridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apCXAicpzLU

1h 6' 45'

@Jacana

Thanks for the info. I have seen all three of those movies. But thanks.

Would have been nice to see a little bare bottom in the St. Trinians.

Thinking it was a RT scene from the British series, NO OFFENCE season 1 episode 1 which I initially saw about 2 yrs ago, , I re-watched it;

Female detective goes into river to save a girl. It’s Winter. She is brought to “ casualty” ((ER) and in seeing the scene, I thought she was getting a RT for hypothermia. It was actually a nurse administering a buttocks injections to the detective who is saying she was only in it 3 minutes. Obviously the nurse is giving her the hefty injection to stave off any potential infection as she says to the detective who winces as she’s injected and complains, “But people have been shitting in it for centuries!”

I didn't see the American TV show "1,001 Ways to Die" mentioned. It was a silly show that ran in the mid 2000s on VICE or some other low-rent channel. The premise was that three or four reenactments of people who died in stupid ways were shown each episode. Many were so ludicrous that they couldn't possibly be true.

One of these was a man admitted to the hospital who had a thing for sticking objects up his butt. He got into the rectal thermometers and shoved a large number inside. Unfortunately, he forgot they were in there and sat down on his bed, breaking some of the thermometers. According to the narrator, the man soon died of mercury poisoning, something that would probably take days if not months. If anything like this actually happened, he might have bled to death.

There were other stupid episodes like the one where the porn star who hurt her butthole having anal sex went to a proctologist for outpatient laser surgery. As the doc was firing up the laser, the girl farted, igniting the fart and fatally damaging the doc's lungs.