History Main / PlayingDoctor

* A similar variant occurs in ''VideoGame/AlterEgo'', where a childhood scenario has you and a friend of the opposite gender stripping to examine each other. Your friend's mother walks in and is horrified, while your own mother passes it off as innocent play.

* There is one example in ''ComicBook/LePetitSpirou''… only it turns out both of them are cheating. Also, the cover for Tome 3, as pictured above.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'' has Lillandra misunderstood when she proposes Charles to play doctor. When he yells, she clarifies she's talking about actual medicine.

'''Mr. Cotswolds:''' Rebecca, don't play that perverted game!\\

* In one of humorist Creator/PatrickMcManus's short stories, he recounts the time as a kid that he got invited over by his neighbor Olga Bonemarrow to "play doctor"; it turned out the girl was referring to a mindnumbingly dull medical-themed board game.

-->'''Nurse Bob:''' ''This ain't a damn football game!'' It's a little pasttime called ''life'', dummy! We'll only call a timeout when the quarterback is bleeding, and-an-and has dislocated his shoulder 7 plays ago! (...) The only time your kids should be playing doctor is when ''you'' broke the other one's arm. If we don't teach our kids that our bodies are filthy, disgustin' and dirty, that women are sin, and that emotions ''can'' be suppressed by cold showers, how in the ''hell'' are they supposed to grow up well-adjusted?!

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Hooked on Monkey Phonics":
-->'''Mr. Cotswolds:''' Mark, where's your sister?\\
'''Mark:''' She's upstairs playing Doctor with that Kyle boy.\\
'''Mr. Cotswolds:''' Oh, all right.\\
'''Mr. & Mrs. Cotswolds:''' What?! ''(they dash to her room)''\\
'''Mrs. Cotswolds:''' Rebecca! Aaah! Aaaaah! Noo-hooo!\\

* They did this in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', sans the doctor role-play.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' done InTheStyleOf ''Film/TheLittleRascals'', Rascal!Peter sees Rascal!Lois enter the classroom and muses to himself, "Wow, I'd like to play doctor with ''her''… and remove her appendix before it burst, causing sepsis."

* In ''Film/JerseyGirl'', Ollie walks in on his daughter and a boy from school as she's "showing him her's." Amazingly, this is a rare example of the act actually being ''shown,'' as we're [[{{Squick}} treated]] to a shot of the boy standing up with his pants down (from behind, of course).

* In ''Film/{{Teeth}}'', the horror-comedy about the girl with the VaginaDentata, the step-brother has a scar on his finger, and it is revealed that this is from "playing doctor" with his step-sister in the pool as children.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Titeuf}}'', the protagonist is asked by a girl to play doctor, [[LiteralMinded he take it literaly]] and proceeds to simulate an injection... with a sharpened pencil.

* Still another, where a woman goes to the family physician: "Doctor, my daughter's playing doctor with the neighbors' son." "Oh, they'll grow out of it, nothing to worry about." "Well yes, but [[YourCheatingHeart my son-in-law would like to know when.]]"

-->'''Nurse Bob:''' ''This ain't a damn football game!'' It's a little pasttime called '''life''', dummy! We'll only call a timeout when the quarterback is bleeding, and-an-and has dislocated his shoulder 7 plays ago! (...) The only time your kids should be playing doctor is when you broke the other one's arm.
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'''Rebecca:''' I have to extirpate a lesion in his cerebral cortex, or risk ih-nfection to the synaptic responses.

* In the series ''Manga/OniichanNoKotoNankaZenzenSukiJaNaiNDakaraNe'', the main male character Takanashi did this a lot with his childhood friend Iroha when they were children, mainly an excuse to see her naked. Because of this, she now regularly stalks him under the belief they are a couple.

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' has Calvin playing doctor with his neighbor Susie Derkins. Of course, this being Calvin and Hobbes, it is [[ArtShift presented in the style of]] ''ComicStrip/RexMorganMD'', and Susie storms off due to the excessive treatments Calvin suggests from the symptom of "My foot hurts, doctor."

-->'''Hansel:''' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Let's play]] [[UpToEleven Unit 731!]] [[note]]For those unfamiliar with the name, Unit 731 was Japan's equivalent of the Nazi medical experiments, and posed a far greater ethical problem because despite their hideous cruelty, Unit 731 performed valid, well-documented experiments and obtained useful, meaningful data.[[/note]]

* In ''ComicBook/{{Titeuf}}'', the hero is asked by a girl to play doctor, and he proceeds to… simulate an injection.

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* ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'': In Episode 53, Trisha 2 thinks that Deandra and Saison are doing this when she first walks into the cafeteria. [[spoiler:In actuality, Saison is about to give birth.]]
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-->'''Hansel:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Let's play]] [[UpToEleven Unit 731!]] [[note]]For those unfamiliar with the name, Unit 731 was Japan's equivalent of the Nazi medical experiments, and posed a far greater ethical problem because despite their hideous cruelty, Unit 731 performed valid, well-documented experiments and obtained useful, meaningful data.[[/note]]

* Creator/JohnWaters' 1977 film ''Desperate Living'' features a brief scene early on wherein the kids of the psychotic housewife (anti) heroine are doing this. Said psycho housewife walks in on them and flips, accusing the son of rape and fretting that the daughter is pregnant. Like the rest of the film, this is so over the top as to edge into BlackComedy.

'''Girl:''' I don't have insurance…

* In ''Cider With Rosie'', Laurie Lee recounts playing doctor with a local girl named Jo Jenkins. The 1971 and 1998 film version provide rare examples of the game being played all the way in visual media, but the 2015 version avoids this by way of the FullyClothedNudity trope.