History Main / GlorifiedSpermDonor

* Averted twice, first by the father, then by the son. Superman is not at all happy that someone cloned him, and refuses to claim responsibility for Superboy. If you keep up on the comics, you know that [[spoiler:Superboy has two fathers, and the other is Lex Luthor]]. And when he shows up, he clearly wants to instigate this kind of relationship with Superboy ([[ManipulativeBastard for his own ends, as you'd expect]]) and Superboy turns him down flat. [[spoiler:The trope is later played straight to a point when Superman accepts Superboy as a little brother, a relationship both of them are okay with after their initial awkwardness.]]

->'''Sour Cream:''' Dad?!
->'''Marty:''' Sour Cream?
->'''Sour Cream:''' W-What are you doing here?
->'''Marty:''' Uh... S.C. Oof! Just look at you. When did you get so tall?
->'''Sour Cream:''' Uh, like nine years ago.
-> '''Marty:''' Whoa! Ahem, sorry I've been gone so long, but you know how the music biz can be, riiight?

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[[TheTalk In order to create a baby, a man and a woman need to have sex.]][[note]] Barring artificial insemination, cloning, or the odd MysticalPregnancy. [[/note]] Strictly speaking, this is an act of minimal investment for the father, since he can (and sometimes does) skip town long before the consequences come due. Unless the mother-to-be terminates the pregnancy ([[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion which she only very rarely does]]) or puts the resulting infant up for adoption, she is the one left holding the bag... er, baby.

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* ''Literature/{{Contact}}'' (by Creator/CarlSagan): [[spoiler: The man Ellie thought of as her curmudgeonly stepfather turns out to be her biological father, and her late, loving "dad" was merely the man who raised her. When Ellie learns this, she immediately starts referring to her biological father as "her father", a practice which most RealLife people who were adopted as children don't actually engage in.]]

* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Some of the kids at camp get this; many of the kids in the Hermes Cabin are not Hermes's children but unclaimed by their actual divine parent, or who have a divine parent who does not have a cabin at camp, and this does lead to bitterness and resentment among some campers.
** [[spoiler: In ''The Last Olympian'', Percy puts a stop to this policy by asking, as his reward for stopping Kronos' uprising, for the gods to acknowledge their children at age 12, and that all the gods have their own cabin for their children. The gods aren't all that pleased about it, but Percy did just save all their hides, and that resentment fueled a great deal of the conflict, so they agree.]]

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* When Nathan Petrelli on ''{{Series/Heroes}}'' finds out that the daughter he thought had died as an infant is alive and well it leads to this exchange with his mother:
-->'''Nathan''': I'm this girl's father, Ma!
-->'''Angela''': You're a [[TropeNamers glorified sperm donor]]. Don't get emotionally attached.

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* Some portrayals of the [[Characters/ClassicalMythology Hercules]] myth show Zeus as being distinctly hands-off, allowing other Gods to harass Hercules at will. Admittedly, Zeus' parenthood here is glorified for good reason, since his parentage is what makes Hercules a Greek SuperHero. In fact, more often than not in Greek Mythology, the spawn of the gods get some kind of nifty powers which at least make the being dumped off by your parents pill a little easier to swallow. Zeus and ancient patriarch and/or warrior gods in general have a habit of leaving little bundles of Demi-joy all over the mortal landscape and then doing bupkis about them. And while other Greek gods didn't see their children picked on as much as Zeus', their children typically didn't see much of the divine parent, either. Which might've done them a favor, since Hera often [[WomanScorned actively hounded]] the ([[DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal often unwilling]]!) mothers and children, with other gods sometimes having to step in to try and save them.
** Also, as it turns out, ''not'' getting the attention of Zeus is far better than the alternative. When Zeus finally took a good look at the mortal world, he decided there were far too many demigods running around, and '' orchestrated the Trojan War to thin their numbers out almost to nonexistence.''

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-->And I'm not looking for your love, I'm only sniffing out blood\\
Just a little taste of where I came from

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* In both of Creator/WhiteWolf's [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse Werewolf]] [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken lines]], it's noted that werewolves aren't typically the most involved parents, given that they've often got duties that put them in the line of fire on a constant basis, a feeling about them that unsettles normal humans, and Rage that's constantly threatening to boil over. The games also note that this isn't exactly a guilt-free matter for the parents - as they've got wolf-life aspects in culture and mindset, they feel a need to protect their mate and young. It's just that sometimes, the best form of protection involves staying away, no matter how much that sucks.

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* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Adventure Time}}'' when Finn finds out his human father is alive and trapped in the Crystal Citadel as a prisoner/criminal in an alternate dimension. Despite having a caring (if demanding) stepfather, Finn is determined to find and form a relationship with his biological one, probably thinking he had a good reason for not being in his life. Turns out his father, Martin, is an immature jerk who treats Finn's attempts at emotional bonding with little more than irritation, only baiting him with paternal affection when it leads to him getting what he wants. In the end, Martin completely abandons Finn with a group of other escaped interdimensional convicts, directly causing Finn to lose his arm and leaving him and Jake alone to deal and nearly get killed by the Lich. Needless to say, Finn is left utterly devastated after all this.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''. Sterling Archer was in a coma for a good chunk of his daughter A.J.'s life. Played for laughs when he finally meets her after waking up and she tells him that her mother Lana once called him a "sperm delivery device".

* Averted twice, first by the father, then by the son on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. Superman is not at all happy that someone cloned him, and refuses to claim responsibility for Superboy. If you keep up on the comics, you know that [[spoiler: Superboy has two fathers, and the other is Lex Luthor]]. And when he shows up, he clearly wants to instigate this kind of relationship with Superboy ([[ManipulativeBastard for his own ends, as you'd expect]]) and Superboy turns him down flat. [[spoiler: The trope is later played straight to a point when Superman accepts Superboy as a little brother, a relationship both of them are okay with after their initial awkwardness.]]

* Implied in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''. In a FullEpisodeFlashback, we see that Greg's manager Marty had a fling with Vidalia and a year later she was the single mom to a baby boy. The episode "Drop Beat Dad" confirms that Marty is Sour Cream's father, but implies that he only saw him occasionally until he was six, and then Marty abandoned Sour Cream entirely until the events of the episode.

[[TheTalk In order to create a baby, a man and a woman need to have sex.]][[note]] Barring artificial insemination, cloning, or the odd MysticalPregnancy. [[/note]] Strictly speaking for the man this is an act of minimal investment since he can (and sometimes does) ditch the woman and leave her holding the bag (or baby, if you will). Unless she gets an abortion ([[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion which she only very rarely does]]) or puts the baby up for adoption, she either has to raise the child alone or with the help of a stepfather.

This trope is what happens when the sperm donor, having been absent for most of the child's life, is revealed to be the father and all of a sudden everything is chillin' between him and his long-ago Love Child.

* What [[spoiler:John Constantine]] is in [[spoiler:Wanda Maximoff]]'s eyes in ''FanFic/ChildOfTheStorm''.

* Averted twice, first by the father, then by the son on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''. Superman is not at all happy that someone cloned him, and refuses to claim responsibility for Superboy. If you keep up on the comics, you know that [[spoiler: Superboy has two fathers, and the other is Lex Luthor]]. And when he shows up, he clearly wants to instigate this kind of relationship with Superboy ([[ManipulativeBastard for his own ends, as you'd expect]]) and Superboy turns him down flat. [[spoiler: The trope is later played straight to a point when Superman accepts Superboy as a little brother, a relationship both of them are okay with after their initial awkwardness.]]

[[TheTalk In order to create a baby, a man and a woman need to have sex.]][[note]] Barring artificial insemination, {{cloning|Blues}}, or the odd MysticalPregnancy. [[/note]] Strictly speaking for the man this is an act of minimal investment since he can (and sometimes does) ditch the woman and leave her holding the bag (or baby, if you will). Unless she gets an abortion ([[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion which she only very rarely does]]) or puts the baby up for adoption, she either has to raise the child alone or with the help of a stepfather.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', [[spoiler:the Comedian, who is referred to positively by the end of the book by both the first Silk Spectre (the mother) and the second Silk Spectre (the daughter) though she spends most of the time after she learns her true parentage conflicted about his (lack of) role in her life and the circumstances that led to her conception, since he had first attempted to rape her mother but later began a consensual affair with her after he reconnected with her and she believed that he had changed, but he's still viewed as a douchebag by most of the cast and an AssholeVictim at worst.]] This is greatly due to the GreyAndGrayMorality that ''Watchmen'' enjoys.

* A justified example of this happens in ''ComicBook/{{Katmandu}}'', when Markree, the younger brother of the main protagonist Liska, had to basically play this role in order to giving her elder sister's [[GirlsLove wives]] children. The justification runs with the fact that none of Liska's wives want to had children with neither of the latter's male mates, and also the fact that the setting takes place in their world's equivalent of the 18th century, and as such, they don't have other modern methods to conceive children.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fanfiction ''[[http://dark-solace.org/elysian/viewstory.php?sid=4134 The Light of the World]]'' plays with this, in that it's revealed that Dawn, Buffy's magically created sister, was created from Buffy (making her the "mother") and Spike (making him the "father"). Spike slipping easily into the life makes sense because A) Dawn currently doesn't know he's her actual father, and B) even though she appears to be fourteen (and remembers fourteen years of her life) she [[YoungerThanTheyLook really isn't that old at all]].

* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines''. The youngest of the infamous Seven Brothers of Orre, some of the most heinous criminals in the ''Pokémon'' world, has traveled to just about ''every'' region, and left his mark by impregnating women all over the place, siring hundreds of children, including [[spoiler: Ash Ketchum, of all people]].

* ''Fanfic/TheLastSon'' has a reveal in Book Four that Black Canary, Siryn and Banshee are half-siblings, sharing the same father, with the implication that they might have more half-siblings elsewhere they might not know about.
* Zigzagged in the ''Film/CabinFever'' fanfic [[https://www.wattpad.com/story/197976919-cabin-fever-promises-to-keep Cabin Fever:Promises To Keep]]. Practically since [[OneNightStandPregnancy her daughter's conception]], Marcy relegated her one-time lover, Paul, to this status in her mind, largely so that she wouldn't have to deal with the grief of [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy him dying shortly after she became pregnant]]. But at the same time, she has been raising their daughter to be proud of him. Over the course of the story, Marcy reconciles her complex web of emotions surrounding Paul and ultimately comes to regard him fondly, as both a personal hero, and as an excellent (though justifiably absent) father to her child.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica'': Beavis and Butthead are wandering the desert, and happen upon two men who bear an uncanny resemblance to them. The two men reveal that they were once roadies for Music/MotleyCrue, and that 15 years prior, they had stopped in the boys' hometown of Highland and "scored" with two chicks. (Beavis and Butthead's [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen unseen]] biological mothers.) They leave, and neither duo knows that the two roadies-turned-drifters were the boys' fathers. (Which is probably for the best, considering how poorly Butthead's father spoke of both Highland and the boys' mothers.)

* ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'': It is considered completely normal to have a sperm donor as father, as men are very rare. Women of the lower classes usually go to so-called "cribs" to get pregnant, and the sperm donor is documented to avoid inbreeding. Only from middle-class up do people have an actual ''father''. The Whistler family has a shared grandfather and shared father, and may not be otherwise related at all -- Jerin suspects that his grandmothers just pretended to be sisters, in [[ItMakesSenseInContext order to be able to rise to middle-class.]]

* ''Series/{{ER}}'' does it with Sam's son Alex. Just as Luka (Sam's boyfriend) has become a suitable role model and father figure, his felon birth-father Steve appears for the first of several times, causing a lot of conflict. The long plot has its ups and downs including Alex visiting his dad in prison and ending dramatically with Steve abducting Alex and Sam, raping the latter and being shot by her.
* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' devotes a full episode to that. Will's birth-dad Lou comes and Will's excited about taking a trip with him, only to be abandoned again. The episode ends with Will sobbing in Uncle Phil's arms and realizing he's the closest to a real father he could ever ask for.

** Jaime sired all of Cersei's children but wasn't a father figure to them from fear that people might get suspicious about their paternity. As of Season 5, he begins to regret this. Cersei tells him he has no right to call Myrcella his daughter, and Myrcella herself says he doesn't really know her.

** Subverted with Declan Murphy, the father of Amanda's oldest daughter, Jesse. While he knew she existed, he basically got Amanda pregnant and left, though since Jesse was the product of a one night stand, it hasn't caused Amanda that much angst over the intervening six years. They cross paths again in season 23, and Declan awkwardly brings up the fact that he bailed and has missed Jesse's entire life. He's done a lot of soul searching (and therapy) since then and recognizes that he never should have slept with Amanda (being her superior) and that he regrets leaving her and Jesse. But he doesn't insist on seeing Jesse or try to insinuate himself into her life, and seems satisfied when Amanda reassures him that she and Jesse are happy.

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' had Aku do this unintentionally, and not in the way you'd expect: [[spoiler:Aku discovered an all-female cult that worships him, and as a reward he dropped a portion of himself into a chalice before leaving. Then, the HighPriestess of the cult ''drank'' the whole chalice, (doing such would normally turn someone into an Aku clone like it did Jack) which magically impregnated her and caused her to give birth to seven half-human daughters]].
* Implied in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''. In a FullEpisodeFlashback, we see that Greg's manager, Marty, had a fling with Vidalia and a year later she was the single mom to a baby boy. The episode "Drop Beat Dad" confirms that Marty is Sour Cream's father, but implies that he only saw him occasionally until he was six and then Marty abandoned Sour Cream entirely until the events of the episode.
* The titular character's father in ''WesternAnimation/TrollHunters'' abandoned him the day before his fifth birthday. He is referenced only once or twice in the show and its subsequent spin offs and is portrayed as a dead beat. It was implied that he left his family for another woman. An inversion of the original story in which it was Jim's mother who walked out on her family. While his father raised Jim as a lone parent.

** Subverted, though in this case it's an egg donor. Rachel eventually does learn that Shelby Corcoran is her biological mother, but she can't see her as a mother figure, and Shelby simply isn't fit to be a parent. Rachel keeps living with her [[HasTwoMommies dads]] and doesn't see Shelby again.

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* Poor Matthew Roberts, the man who made headlines when he found out his biological father ''might'' be UsefulNotes/CharlesManson (not only that but according to his mother, he was [[ChildByRape conceived by rape]]). When Manson found out, he sent him a letter saying "I didn't know my father either" which all things considered [[AssuranceBackfire is not particularly comforting]].
* UsefulNotes/GeraldFord's father, Leslie Lynch King, was essentially like this. They only met once, and all that King had to give the boy was ten dollars to get "something he normally wouldn't get". And that is why Gerald legally changed his name to that of his stepfather.
* A Dutch TV show, which aired in 2011, attempts to take (voluntary) DNA tests of everyone who has donated to or was conceived by artificial insemination.
* The purpose of family law is in significant part avoiding this. In most countries, the law has expansive powers to take money from fathers to support their children, and fathers are encouraged to see their children. This doesn't always happen, of course, but technology has made it harder than ever for fathers to avoid their responsibilities.
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->'''Sour Cream:''' ''Dad?!''
->'''Marty:''' ''Sour Cream?''
->'''Sour Cream:''' ''W-What are you doing here?''
->'''Marty:''' ''Uh... S.C. Oof! Just look at you. When did you get so tall?''
->'''Sour Cream:''' ''Uh, like nine years ago.''
-> '''Marty:''' ''Whoa! Ahem, sorry I've been gone so long, but you know how the music biz can be, riiight?''

* In ''FanFic/TheNewRetcons'', Wilf starts regarding both [[ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse John and Elly Patterson]] as this, once Elly loses her mind and claims that her youngest daughter April isn't her daughter at all and throws her out, and John doesn't try to seek treatment for Elly and gives up on convincing Elly that April's her daughter. April's own feelings on the matter are...complicated.

* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' it is considered completely normal to have a sperm donor as father, as men are very rare. Women of the lower classes usually go to so-called "cribs" to get pregnant, and the sperm donor is documented to avoid inbreeding. Only from middle-class up do people have an actual ''father''. The Whistler family has a shared grandfather and shared father, and may not be otherwise related at all - Jerin suspects that his grandmothers just pretended to be sisters, in [[ItMakesSenseInContext order to be able to rise to middle-class.]]

* Used twice in John Varley's ''Literature/SteelBeach'' when Hildy refuses to inform her baby's father that she's pregnant even though her own mother's constant refusal to identify ''her'' father causes her considerable angst. [[spoiler: After the baby dies her reasoning shifts from a selfish "mine, all mine" to "why ruin his [the father's] day?"]]
* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', this is a ''grave'' insult among Mandalorians. As in "make out your will beforehand" insult. A Mandalorian father who does ''not'' stick around to raise and train his kids is violating one of the six actions central to their society and therefore considered a ''traitor.''
* In ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', some of the kids at camp get this; many of the kids in the Hermes Cabin are not Hermes's children but unclaimed by their actual divine parent, or who have a divine parent who does not have a cabin at camp, and this does lead to bitterness and resentment among some campers.
** [[spoiler: In The Last Olympian, Percy puts a stop to this policy, requiring the gods to acknowledge their children at age 12, and that all the gods have their own cabin for their children. The gods aren't all that pleased about it, but Percy did just save all their hides, and that resentment fueled a great deal of the conflict, so they agree.]]
* In Creator/CarlSagan's ''Literature/{{Contact}}'', [[spoiler: the man Ellie thought of as her curmudgeonly stepfather turns out to be her biological father, and her late, loving "dad" was merely the man who raised her. When Ellie learns this, she immediately starts referring to her biological father as "her father", a practice which most RealLife people who were adopted as children don't actually engage in.]]
* In ''Literature/TheGoblinEmperor'', Maia's father, the elven emperor, immediately banished his mother, Chenelo, to a country estate when she got pregnant, for no better reason than that the marriage had been arranged and he had really loved his recently deceased wife. Of course, Chenelo being a goblin didn't help any. The only time Maia ever met his father was at Chenelo's funeral, eight years later. When the emperor and his three eldest sons die in an accident, Maia succeeds to the throne and has to pretend that he is sad about his father's death, wearing full court mourning and all.
* {{Subverted}} in the ''Literature/KamalAndBarnea'' series. When Danielle tells Ben she's pregnant, he's excited about being a father again and having a family with her, but she wants to raise the baby alone, convinced that a child with a Jewish mother and Palestinian father would be an outcast.
* Max from ''Literature/SavingMax'' is the product of a short-lived affair with an [[AwfulWeddedLife unhappily married]] attorney who doesn't know he exists.
* ''Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels'': Cormoran is the illegitimate son of Jonny Rokeby, a rock star who fathered Strike with a groupie and only met the boy twice. When Rokeby, ill with cancer, tries to make amends and connect with 39-year-old Strike, Strike refuses.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Harry was this to his daughter for the first eight years of her life, albeit [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou through no fault of his own]], since his on-again-off-again lover [[HotScoop Susan Rodriguez]] didn't bother to tell him the girl existed until she got kidnapped by some of Harry's numerous enemies. Harry was ''not'' happy with her mother about this.
* Nate Hunter from ''Literature/YouLookDifferentInRealLife'' is the product of a TeenPregnancy by a guy who left town before he was born. He knows his father only from old photographs.
* A rare female example in ''Kismet 2''. Savannah refers to her estranged mother, Trisha/Peaches, who abandoned her as a toddler as "the ho that donated her egg"
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** Discussed in ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'' when Robert mentions he once threatened to bring his oldest known bastard, Mya Stone, to court and acknowledge her. Cersei [[ShameIfSomethingHappened implied doing so might be 'unhealthy' for the girl]] and the matter was dropped.
** Robert was also this to his only acknowledged bastard, Edric Storm. While he left him entirely in the care of the castellan of Storm's End (as bringing him to court would have been 'unhealthy'), Robert made token efforts to look after him. Edric, on his end, wishes Robert would pay more attention to him.

->''"I'll be a better single parent than all of my high school girlfriends combined!"''
-->-- '''Captain Hero''', ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''

* Poor Matthew Roberts, the man who made headlines when he found out his biological father ''might'' be UsefulNotes/CharlesManson (not only that but according to his mother, he was [[ChildByRape conceived by rape]]). When Manson found out, he sent him a letter saying "I didn't know my father either" which all things considered [[FalseReassurance is not particularly comforting]].

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In "The Seven," Bolt's father Blaze conceives his son after first digging under and then jumping over two fences to have sex with Cheyenne, a puppy mill female. Immediately after doing so, he runs away to avoid the puppy mill owner, who chases the interloper away with a baseball bat. Blaze never sees Cheyenne again, nor does he participate in raising the pup.

** Also, as it turns out, ''not'' getting the attention of Zeus is far better than the alternative. When Zeus finally took a good look at the mortal world, he decided there were far too many demigods running around, and ''[[{{KillEmAll}} orchestrated the Trojan War to thin their numbers out almost to nonexistence.]]''

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* In ''Film/AboutScout'', Scout tells her father Ray that the only fatherly thing he ever did was knock up her mom. Which doesn't stop him from getting custody of Scout's little sister Lulu after she almost overdoses on Gram's medication.

* Used in ''Film/MammaMia'' with a generous dose of LampshadeHanging. No one else on the island thinks the heroine's desire to find her GlorifiedSpermDonor makes a whole lot of sense, and she even realizes this herself at the end of the movie. At the end all three dads decide they're willing to be her dad at the end, too. One-third of a kid isn't bad...

** Discussed in ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'' when Robert mentions he once threatened to bring his oldest known bastard, Mya Stone, to court and acknowledge her. Cersei [[AShameIfSomethingHappened implied doing so might be 'unhealthy' for the girl]] and the matter was dropped.

-->It's no stretch to say that you were not quite a father
-->But a donor of seeds to a poor single mother
-->That would raise us alone
-->We never saw the money
-->That went down your throat through the hole in your belly

-->And I'm not looking for your love, I'm only sniffing out blood
-->Just a little taste of where I came from
* ''Music/{{Heart}}'''s "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" is about a woman whose partner is unable to impregnate her, so she picks up a hitchhiker to perform the honor.

* UpToEleven in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines''. The youngest of the infamous Seven Brothers of Orre, some of the most heinous criminals in the ''Pokémon'' world, has traveled to just about ''every'' region, and left his mark by impregnating women all over the place, siring hundreds of children, including [[spoiler: Ash Ketchum, of all people]].

* Martin Silenus' father in the ''Literature/HyperionCantos'' is this trope UpToEleven: Not only was he completely uninvolved in Martin's upbringing, he was completely uninvolved in his ''conception'', as well; ''long after he died'', his wife decided to hop onto a machine "part squirt gun and part dildo" to squirt his preserved seed into her "at the magic touch of a trigger" when "the moon was full and the egg was ripe." Yeah.

* ''Film/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica'': Beavis and Butthead are wandering the desert, and happen upon two men who bear an uncanny resemblance to them. The two men reveal that they were once roadies for Music/MotleyCrue, and that 15 years prior, they had stopped in the boys' hometown of Highland and "scored" with two chicks. (Beavis and Butthead's [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen unseen]] biological mothers.) They leave, and neither duo knows that the two roadies-turned-drifters were the boys' fathers. (Which is probably for the best, considering how poorly Butthead's father spoke of both Highland and the boys' mothers.)