History Main / DeliveryStork

--> '''Little Girl''': "And then Mommy kissed Daddy, and the angel told the stork, and the stork flew down from heaven and left a diamond under a leaf in the cabbage patch, and the diamond turned into a baby!"
--> '''Pugsley''': "Our parents are having a baby too."
--> '''Wednesday''': ''(dramatic zoom in)'' "They had ''sex''."

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3406 the stork delivers the new year.]]

* Deconstructed in a scene from {{Creator/Nigahiga}} video "Censorship Makes No Sense!" where a little boy asks his father where babies come from. The father gives him the stork answer. The kid goes on to angst over how [[NiceJobBreakingItHero according to his dad's answer, he's adopted]]...for about three seconds because he then comes to the conclusion that he is also at least [[HalfHumanHybrid part stork]], which means he can fly. [[FromBadToWorse and then he jumps out the window]]

* Deconstructed in a scene from ''Creator/Nigahiga'' video "Censorship Makes No Sense!" where a little boy asks his father where babies come from. The father gives him the stork answer. The kid goes on to angst over how [[NiceJobBreakingItHero according to his dad's answer, he's adopted]]...for about three seconds because he then comes to the conclusion that he is also at least [[HalfHumanHybrid part stork]], which means he can fly. [[FromBadToWorse and then he jumps out the window]]

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* ''Creator/Nigahiga'''s video "Censorship Makes No Sense" had a scene where a little boy asks his father where babies come from. The father gives him the stork answer. The kid goes on to angst over how [[NiceJobBreakingItHero according to his dad's answer, he's adopted]]...for about three seconds because he then comes to the conclusion that he is also at least [[HalfHumanHybrid part stork]], which means he can fly. [[FromBadToWorse and then he jumps out the window]]
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'', Fozzie has an ImagineSpot of storks in an airport-like operation. When he and Rolf accidentally mix up the destination cards, many babies end up going to the wrong places.

* In WesternAnimation/BabyFollies Storks are the primary air travel in Baby City. They deliver babies to Earth when it's their time to be "born" in a sense.

* The set-up for ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' involves an attempted kidnapping of Baby Mario and Baby Luigi while they're being delivered by the stork. The stork is knocked out mid-flight by Kamek, kidnapping Baby Luigi, while the Yoshis find Baby Mario and vow to start a relay team to reunite the brothers. ''Yoshi's Island DS'' also uses the stork part, except it adds a few things such as a stop sign called a 'Stork Stop' where the stork allows Yoshi to switch which baby he's carrying on his back, storks carrying the babies back home after being rescued from Bowser's Castle and the stork itself in various cut scenes. ''Yoshi's New Island'' has the stork accidentally [[HappyEndingOverride bring Mario and Luigi to the wrong house]], then get literally beaten up by Kamek mid flight.

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* One book designed for teaching kids the "facts of life" is called ''It's Not the Stork''.

* In Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' novels, babies really ''are'' brought by the stork, though thanks to something called the Adult Conspiracy, the parents still have to "summon the stork" (i.e. have sex. ''Sigh.'') This only seems to apply to humanoids; centaurs apparently have offspring the mundane way, but they don't talk about it, and we're glad to comply. One villain is said (though possibly just rumored) to have proven too foul for the stork to handle; a basilisk is said to have delivered him.

** One famous sort-of-series during the 1950s involved a drunken stork, who would either be invited to drink with the new parents, or leave for his job directly from a roaring party at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stork_Club Stork Club]]. Since the stork would frequently be so smashed on the job, he'd deliver a baby (and at least once, a full-grown WesternAnimation/BugsBunny) to the wrong parents, [[HilarityEnsues with hilarious consequences]].

* ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' purposely subverts this trope by stating that the Smurfs in the series reproduce physically. A stork does appear in the series to deliver Baby Smurf, but it is revealed that Baby Smurf came from Smurfling Island, and from parents on the island where nobody ages. In-universe, it's suggested that Creator/{{Peyo}} must have {{Bowdlerized}} the account when he created ''Franchise/TheSmurfs'' after getting his hands on the memory crystal that was given to him. In the adaptation of "The Smurfs And The Magic Flute", Peewit suggest this to be the case when he sees that the village consists of all male Smurfs at the time he and Johan first visited them.
* ''Fanfic/HeroTheGuardianSmurf'' plays this trope straight, except in the case of the births of Hero's two children Saviour and Miracle, who were both born physically through their mothers Wonder and Smurfette through a GRatedSex [[MysticalPregnancy fertility blessing]] given to them by Mother Nature.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12701258/1/How-Lynn-clogged-the-toilet-for-the-first-time How Lynn Clogged the Toilet For the First Time]]'', which is a fanfic of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' set when Rita was pregnant with Lucy, Lynn Sr. tells his kids that the stork will soon bring another baby. The kids are wondering why Rita is sleeping a lot (she's having a "lethargic pregnancy"), and Lynn ''Junior'', who was five at the time, thinks it's because when the stork arrives, Rita will have to wrestle it, so she needs to rest up.
* As part of exaggerating her naivete, Ruby in ''Fanfic/ReactWatchBelieveYikes'' still believes in this. And her interpretation of abortion is the stork being shot. Yang promises to set her straight at some point.
* At one point in ''Being Female'', the sequel to ''FanFic/BecomingFemale'', [[Franchise/HarryPotter Umbridge]] takes over the wizarding world, and decides to [[NoSexAllowed ban sex]]. She adds, "From now on, all babies will be delivered by storks."

* Weiss in ''FanFic/MyAbominableMonsterClassmatesCantBeThisCute'' believes that babies are delivered by snipe. Jaune sets her straight.

* Parodied in ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues''. When Morticia is having a baby, one of the other kids in the waiting room with Wednesday and Pugsley claims ''their'' new sibling came from some bizarre amalgamation of the stork and seemingly every other baby euphemism in existence. Pugsley tells her, "Our parents are having a baby too." Wednesday then deadpans, complete with dramatic zoom-in, "They had ''sex''."

** In "The Storks" (1839), a family of storks raising their young on a farmhouse roof are repeatedly taunted by a group of children with a mean-spirited mocking song about storks. When the young storks are finally grown, they take revenge on the children by flying to "the pond where all the little human babies lie until the storks come to take them to their parents", and picking up a little baby sibling for every child who did not mock the storks, but none for the children who mocked them. The boy who told the other children to stop taunting the storks gets both a brother ''and'' a sister, and the boy who always started the song gets a dead baby for a sibling.
** JustifiedTrope in "The Marsh-King's Daughter" (1858) by Creator/HansChristianAndersen: A stork watches a princess being dragged into a bog lake by the Marsh King (a swamp creature similar to a nix). The stork keeps visiting the lake and eventually notices a water lily growing up from the lake; on the lily there forms a large bud which finally opens to reveal a human baby. Realizing that the baby is the daughter of the abducted princess and the Marsh King, the stork takes up the baby and delivers it to a childless family living nearby, by reaching through a window and laying it on the wife's chest while she is sleeping; the couple is happy to adopt the baby. The stork [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] by musing that since people say he is bringing the babies, he might as well for once do it for real.

* JustifiedTrope in "The Marsh-King's Daughter" (1858) by Creator/HansChristianAndersen: A stork watches a princess being dragged into a bog lake by the Marsh King (a swamp creature similar to a nix). The stork keeps visiting the lake and eventually notices a water lily growing up from the lake; on the lily there forms a large bud which finally opens to reveal a human baby. Realizing that the baby is the daughter of the abducted princess and the Marsh King, the stork takes up the baby and delivers it to a childless family living nearby, by reaching through a window and laying it on the wife's chest while she is sleeping; the couple is happy to adopt the baby. The stork [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] by musing that since people say he is bringing the babies, he might as well for once do it for real.

* The Creator/{{Disney}} short "Mickey's Nightmare" involved an ImagineSpot by Franchise/MickeyMouse about getting married to Minnie Mouse. He's out watering the garden, and a DeliveryStork drops a baby down the chimney. Then more arrive and do the same. He rushes in with Pluto to find Minnie lying in their bed, surrounded by a large number of baby mice, much to Mickey's dismay.

** Parodied in one episode. The woman is waiting in bed when a large stork arrives with his little bundle. When he opens it, however, it is just a red light bulb that he puts in her lamp. She confused asks, "where's my baby?", to which he replies, in the mellow voice of Michael Clarke Duncan, "Sweetie, you and me are gonna make the baby." Then he turns on porn music and struts over to the bed...

The myth has mostly died down, to the point where [[UndeadHorseTrope TV is usually the only place you'll see kids who believe in "the stork"]]. Showing childbirth in the media hasn't been taboo since the 50's, so most children know babies come from the mother, just not how it got there. But then again, [[FridgeLogic it's also never explained where storks get babies either]]. Nonetheless, the symbolism of storks and babies has persisted to this day, where the image of a stork with a bundled baby hanging from its beak is still a symbol of pregnancy, childbirth, and babies.

* Reversed in ''Film/{{Flubber}}''. Stork is [[spoiler:Weebo's last word before dying.]]

Compare PelicanPackagePouch and FlyingPostman.

* The set-up for ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' involves an attempted kidnapping of Baby Mario and Baby Luigi while they're being delivered by the stork. The stork is knocked out mid-flight by Kamek, kidnapping Baby Luigi, while the Yoshis find Baby Mario and vow to start a relay team to reunite the brothers. ''Yoshi's Island DS'' also uses the stork part, except it adds a few things such as a stop sign called a 'Stork Stop' where the stork allows Yoshi to switch which baby he's carrying on his back, storks carrying the babies back home after being rescued from Bowser's Castle and the stork itself in various cut scenes. ''Yoshi's New Island'' has the stork accidentally bring Mario and Luigi to the wrong house, then get literally beaten up by Kamek mid flight.