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* ''Webcomic/LoreOlympus'': After waking up from a nightmare in which she’s pregnant, Persephone freaks out, worrying that [[ChildByRape Apollo may have impregnated her.]] Fortunately, her test results are negative.
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* In the ''Manga/MobPsycho100'' gender swap fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13280868/1/Nothing-Breaks-Like-a-Heart Nothing Breaks Like a Heart]]'' Mob(female) and Serizawa have one in chapter 22. Despite being on birth control this is a very real possibility for them as Mob was never good about taking it at the exact same time each day and due to her powers, her periods are never regular.

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* In the ''Manga/MobPsycho100'' ''Webcomic/MobPsycho100'' gender swap fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13280868/1/Nothing-Breaks-Like-a-Heart Nothing Breaks Like a Heart]]'' Mob(female) and Serizawa have one in chapter 22. Despite being on birth control this is a very real possibility for them as Mob was never good about taking it at the exact same time each day and due to her powers, her periods are never regular.
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* ''Lovely Assistant'' by Geoph Essex: Blink and you'll miss it (it's just one paragraph in a [[DoorStopper long book]]). Jenny specifically notes a minor pregnancy scare before coming to the conclusion that she probably can't even menstruate [[spoiler:anymore, now that she's a [[TheGrimReaper reaper]]]].

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* ''Lovely Assistant'' ''Literature/LovelyAssistant'' by Geoph Essex: Blink and you'll miss it (it's just one paragraph in a [[DoorStopper long book]]). Jenny specifically notes a minor pregnancy scare before coming to the conclusion that she probably can't even menstruate [[spoiler:anymore, now that she's a [[TheGrimReaper reaper]]]].
* ''Literature/{{Stim}}'': Chloe loses her contraceptive pills during the second earthquake in ''Kaleidoscope''. When she suffers nausea, she worries it's morning sickness. [[spoiler:At first she thinks it might be the product of her ShowerOfLove with Angelo, until he tells her he had his tubes tied, meaning the baby must be Robert's. Then she goes to the doctor's for a pregnancy test, which comes back negative.]]
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* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'':
** In the episode [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS2E20ACDC ACDC]], Rosa thinks she might be pregnant. She and Holt use it as an excuse to cut the dinner party short, although they keep the possible pregnancy a secret until Rosa can take a test.
** In the [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS7E01Manhunter Opening Episode]] of Season 7, Amy is worried that she had missed her period and might be pregnant. It turns out to be a false alarm -- she got her period later and the test came out negative -- but she and Jake discuss trying to have children sooner than planned because they were secretly disappointed the test had come out negative.
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* In ''Film/{{Birdman}}'', the protagonist's girlfriend reveals to him that she missed her last two periods. His excitement is underwhelming which earns him a slap in the face. Later we learn that the girlfriend made her pregnancy up just to observe his reaction.

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* In ''Film/{{Birdman}}'', ''Film/BirdmanOrTheUnexpectedVirtueOfIgnorance'', the protagonist's girlfriend reveals to him that she missed her last two periods. His excitement is underwhelming which earns him a slap in the face. Later we learn that the girlfriend made her pregnancy up just to observe his reaction.
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* In ''Series/YoungSheldon'', Georgie and his girlfriend Jana go through this, with Jana thinking she's pregnant and Georgie panicking over the possible changes this will have on him. [[spoiler:The test comes back negative, with Georgie being relieved that he didn't have to marry Jana, with that last part deeply upsetting her.

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* In ''Series/YoungSheldon'', Georgie and his girlfriend Jana go through this, with Jana thinking she's pregnant and Georgie panicking over the possible changes this will have on him. [[spoiler:The test comes back negative, with Georgie being relieved that he didn't have to marry Jana, with that last part deeply upsetting her.
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* In ''Series/YoungSheldon'', Georgie and his girlfriend Jana go through this, with Jana thinking she's pregnant and Georgie panicking over the possible changes this will have on him. [[spoiler:The test comes back negative, with Georgie being relieved that he didn't have to marry Jana, with that last part deeply upsetting her.

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* In ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'', Makoto (pictured) has one when a girl he hooked up with tells him she's pregnant. He really doesn't want to get married and become a father, but everyone around him is supportive of him doing so. [[spoiler:It gets to the point that they run away while the Onibaku are fighting off her father's men, only to find out she's not actually pregnant. They stay together anyway.]]

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Makoto (pictured) has one when a girl he hooked up with tells him she's pregnant. He really doesn't want to get married and become a father, but everyone around him is supportive of him doing so. [[spoiler:It gets to the point that they run away while the Onibaku are fighting off her father's men, only to find out she's not actually pregnant. They stay together anyway.]]
** In Chapter 209, Nagisa goes to the hospital when her period is a few days late, and after Ryuji and his friends see her there they draw the obvious conclusion. She tries to tell them the truth, but they get carried away talking about parenthood and baby names. At the end of the chapter, she finds out she's not pregnant, but doesn't tell Ryuji until the next chapter, when he's already started remodeling their [[LivesInAVan bus]] to get ready for the baby.
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* Briefly mentioned in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode "The Staircase Implementation." After Leonard has, another, loud argument with Sheldon, he goes across the hall into Penny's apartment and tells her the story of how he moved in with Sheldon when he had just started at Cal-Tech seven years before, and how after a miscalculation with some rocket fuel, Sheldon decided not to rat him out for destroying the elevator. When Leonard asks Penny what she was doing seven years before, she says she was still in high school deciding her future and wanting to change the world, cut to a {{Flashback}} where she and her boyfriend are looking at a pregnancy test, and she squeals with glee when the result is negative.
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* In ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'', Makoto (pictured) has one when a girl he hooked up with tells him she's pregnant. He really doesn't want to get married and become a father, but everyone around him is supportive of him doing so. [[spoiler:It gets to the point that they run away while the Onibaku are fighting off her father's men, only to find out she's not actually pregnant. They stay together anyway.]]
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'', Emily thinks she's pregnant after she and Josh are caught in a PrimalScene in their car, causing the two to freak out as they have neither the time or money to have another child. The tests turns out negative, leading to the main plot of the episode where Josh contemplates getting a vasectomy.
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Then there's a pregnancy test -- which comes up negative (or perhaps it was all some kind of huge misunderstanding). They are usually relieved, although there's sometimes a bittersweet melange of disappointment that there will be no unexpected blessed event.

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Then there's a pregnancy test -- which comes up negative (or perhaps it was all some kind of huge misunderstanding). They are usually relieved, although there's sometimes a bittersweet melange mélange of disappointment that there will be no unexpected blessed event.
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* ''Series/{{MASH}}''. A subplot of "What's Up Doc?" has Margaret believing she's pregnant after having spent R&R in Tokyo with Penobscott, and worries that giving birth will result in an automatic discharge. For confirmation, Hawkeye borrows Radar's female bunny for Margaret's pregnancy test, which results turn up negative; apparently, Margaret was simply having gallbladder problems.

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* ''Series/{{MASH}}''. A subplot of "What's Up Doc?" has Margaret believing she's pregnant after having spent R&R in Tokyo with Penobscott, and worries which upsets her because a pregnancy would be the end of her career, not to mention that giving birth will result she and Donald are having problems and really shouldn't be starting a family in an automatic discharge.that situation. For confirmation, Hawkeye borrows Radar's female bunny for Margaret's pregnancy test, which results turn up negative; apparently, Margaret was simply having gallbladder problems.
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* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': Dr. Cox and Jordan think she might have gotten pregnant again and sweat out the test. It comes back negative, and Jordan comments how this actually makes her a little sad, only belatedly noticing that Cox has vanished. Cut to him ecstatically running down the middle of the street in traffic, still in his pajamas, yelling "IT CAME BACK BLUE! SHE'S NOT PREGNANT!"

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* In ''Film/{{Grease}}'', Rizzo and Kenickie's pregnancy scare is a major subplot. In this case, it averts ButWeUsedACondom, because Kenickie broke the condom while putting it on, and they do it anyway.


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* ''Manga/InThisCornerOfTheWorld'': Suzu experiences a loss of appetite and period, so her family tells her to "eat for two". When she comes back from the doctor diagnosed as not with child, she's forced to eat a very skimp meal (a small bowl of plain rice) to make up for the extra she had eaten earlier (her family isn't cruel, just being realistic in the face of wartime food shortages).
* In ''Film/{{Grease}}'', Rizzo and Kenickie's pregnancy scare is a major subplot. In this case, it averts ButWeUsedACondom, because Kenickie broke the condom while putting it on, and they do it anyway.

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* In a gender reversal played for laughs, the finale of Creator/HannaBarbera's ''WesternAnimation/WheresHuddles'' (a summer primetime show from 1970) had Ed's neighbor and Rhinos center Bubba [=McCoy=] getting an exam and is mistaken to be pregnant.

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* In a gender reversal played for laughs, the finale of Creator/HannaBarbera's ''WesternAnimation/WheresHuddles'' (a summer primetime show from 1970) had Ed's neighbor and Rhinos center Bubba [=McCoy=] getting an exam and is mistaken to be pregnant.pregnant.
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A couple has had sex. They enjoyed it. There was afterglow. In the heat of the moment, nobody considered condoms or birth control. Or maybe they did but were in a bit of a hurry. Or maybe there was a condom (see ButWeUsedACondom).

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A couple has had sex. They enjoyed it. There was an afterglow. In the heat of the moment, nobody considered condoms or birth control. Or maybe they did but were in a bit of a hurry. Or maybe there was a condom (see ButWeUsedACondom).



* In the ''Manga/MobPsycho100'' gender swap fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13280868/1/Nothing-Breaks-Like-a-Heart Nothing Breaks Like a Heart]]'' Mob(female) and Serizawa have one in chapter 22. Despite being on birth control this is a very real possibility for them as Mob was never good about taking it at the exact same time each day and due to her powers her periods are never regular.

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* In the ''Manga/MobPsycho100'' gender swap fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13280868/1/Nothing-Breaks-Like-a-Heart Nothing Breaks Like a Heart]]'' Mob(female) and Serizawa have one in chapter 22. Despite being on birth control this is a very real possibility for them as Mob was never good about taking it at the exact same time each day and due to her powers powers, her periods are never regular.



* In ''Series/{{The Rookie|2018}}'', Nolan's girlfriend takes a home pregnancy test and it comes up positive. She makes a doctor's appointment to get a definitive confirmation and tells him. He's supportive (already being a father from his first marriage) and tells her they'll get through it together. He's anxious throughout the episode about being a cop and having a child at his age, and gets even more anxious when his sergeant tells him about how hellish it was for him to go through the same thing. At the end of the episode, the girlfriend tells Nolan that it was a false positive but that she does want children. He expresses his reluctance to be a father at this point in his life and suggests they wait. Given her age, she tells him that it's pretty much a "now or never" situation. They realize they can't come to an agreement on this and decide to break up.

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* In ''Series/{{The Rookie|2018}}'', Nolan's girlfriend takes a home pregnancy test and it comes up positive. She makes a doctor's appointment to get a definitive confirmation and tells him. He's supportive (already being a father from his first marriage) and tells her they'll get through it together. He's anxious throughout the episode about being a cop and having a child at his age, age and gets even more anxious when his sergeant tells him about how hellish it was for him to go through the same thing. At the end of the episode, the girlfriend tells Nolan that it was a false positive but that she does want children. He expresses his reluctance to be a father at this point in his life and suggests they wait. Given her age, she tells him that it's pretty much a "now or never" situation. They realize they can't come to an agreement on this and decide to break up.
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* ''Fanfic/PredatorAndPrey'': After being raped by Alejandro, Bridgette fears she may have conceived his child (or contracted an STD) when she returns to the Aftermath. Thankfully, a trip to the doctor confirms everything is fine, and Bridgette will not have a ChildByRape.
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If she's actually pregnant, it's not a scare; [[ICantBelieveImPregnant that's another trope altogether]].

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If she's actually pregnant, it's not a scare; [[ICantBelieveImPregnant [[SurprisePregnancy that's another trope altogether]].
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If she's actually pregnant, it's not a scare; that's another trope altogether.

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If she's actually pregnant, it's not a scare; [[ICantBelieveImPregnant that's another trope altogether.altogether]].
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* In ''Series/{{The Rookie|2018}}'', Nolan's girlfriend takes a home pregnancy test and it comes up positive. She makes a doctor's appointment to get a definitive confirmation and tells him. He's supportive (already being a father from his first marriage) and tells her they'll get through it together. He's anxious throughout the episode about being a cop and having a child at his age, and gets even more anxious when his sergeant tells him about how hellish it was for him to go through the same thing. At the end of the episode, the girlfriend tells Nolan that it was a false positive but that she does want children. He expresses his reluctance to be a father at this point in his life and suggests they wait. Given her age, she tells him that it's pretty much a "now or never" situation. They realize they can't come to an agreement on this and decide to break up.
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* In the ''Manga/MobPsycho100'' gender swap fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13280868/1/Nothing-Breaks-Like-a-Heart Nothing Breaks Like a Heart]]'' Mob(female) and Serizawa have one in chapter 22. Despite being on birth control this is a very real possibility for them as Mob was never good about taking it at the exact same time each day and due to her powers her periods are never regular.
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* 'Lovely Assistant'' by Geoph Essex: Blink and you'll miss it (it's just one paragraph in a [[DoorStopper long book]]). Jenny specifically notes a minor pregnancy scare before coming to the conclusion that she probably can't even menstruate [[spoiler:anymore, now that she's a [[TheGrimReaper reaper]]]].

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* 'Lovely ''Lovely Assistant'' by Geoph Essex: Blink and you'll miss it (it's just one paragraph in a [[DoorStopper long book]]). Jenny specifically notes a minor pregnancy scare before coming to the conclusion that she probably can't even menstruate [[spoiler:anymore, now that she's a [[TheGrimReaper reaper]]]].
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* PlayedForLaughs in [[http://www.littleteacup.net/fallonme/2011/12/fall-on-me-273/ this]] ''WebComic/FallOnMe'', where the female character lies about it to scare the male character out of his hiccups.

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* PlayedForLaughs in [[http://www.littleteacup.net/fallonme/2011/12/fall-on-me-273/ this]] ''WebComic/FallOnMe'', ''Fall On Me'', where the female character lies about it to scare the male character out of his hiccups.
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* Happens to Emily on ''Series/AdamRuinsEverything''. [[spoiler: The test comes up positive, and she has a baby after the TimeSkip, before Adam reveals that that's [[ImagineSpot just one possible timeline]], and the test comes up negative.]]

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* Happens to Emily on ''Series/AdamRuinsEverything''. [[spoiler: The test comes up positive, and she has a baby after the TimeSkip, TimeSkip before Adam reveals that that's [[ImagineSpot just one possible timeline]], and the test comes up negative.]]
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A couple has had sex. They enjoyed it. There was afterglow. In the heat of the moment, nobody considered condoms or birth control. Or maybe they did but were in a bit of a hurry. Or maybe there was a condom see ButWeUsedACondom.

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A couple has had sex. They enjoyed it. There was afterglow. In the heat of the moment, nobody considered condoms or birth control. Or maybe they did but were in a bit of a hurry. Or maybe there was a condom see ButWeUsedACondom.
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* Happened to ComicBook/SilverSable in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse during her own short-lived series. She thought she was pregnant after sleeping with her ex-husand and starting making plans to retire from the adventuring business. It turned out to be a glitch in her cycle and her doctor pointed out this was probably for the best as the reckless actions she had taken while she thought she was pregnant indicated she really wasn't ready to be a mother.

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* Happened to ComicBook/SilverSable in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse during her own short-lived series. She thought she was pregnant after sleeping with her ex-husand ex-husband and starting making plans to retire from the adventuring business. It turned out to be a glitch in her cycle and her doctor pointed out this was probably for the best as the reckless actions she had taken while she thought she was pregnant indicated she really wasn't ready to be a mother.



* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's novel ''Literature/{{Barrayar}}'', Dru is very afraid that she's pregnant after sleeping with Lt. Koudelka. She doesn't tell him about it, but acts so nervous that he becomes convinced that he had been mistaken about her consent and had raped her.
* Happens to Tibby in the fourth ''Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants'' book, after a condom accident. Though it wouldn't have been quite so bad if she hadn't been juggling multiple {{Idiot Ball}}s during the whole thing. Without waiting for any indication that she was actually pregnant, she freaked out over the exact timing of when her period is due (is it one month after the last one began or after the last one ended?), and broke up with her boyfriend out of fear of the pregnancy.

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* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's novel ''Literature/{{Barrayar}}'', Dru is very afraid that she's pregnant after sleeping with Lt. Koudelka. She doesn't tell him about it, it but acts so nervous that he becomes convinced that he had been mistaken about her consent and had raped her.
* Happens to Tibby in the fourth ''Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants'' book, after a condom accident. Though it wouldn't have been quite so bad if she hadn't been juggling multiple {{Idiot Ball}}s during the whole thing. Without waiting for any indication that she was actually pregnant, she freaked out over the exact timing of when her period is due (is it one month after the last one began or after the last one ended?), ended?) and broke up with her boyfriend out of fear of the pregnancy.



* Used on ''Switch'' (a short-lived sitcom in which husband and wife swap bodies); after something over a month, the husband in the wife's body has not yet had a period, and they worry that he's pregnant. He goes to the gynaecologist's office and hears all sorts of horror stories about how painful giving birth is. Turns out he's just overstressed, which causes irregular periods.

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* Used on ''Switch'' (a short-lived sitcom in which husband and wife swap bodies); after something over a month, the husband in the wife's body has not yet had a period, and they worry that he's pregnant. He goes to the gynaecologist's gynecologist's office and hears all sorts of horror stories about how painful giving birth is. Turns out he's just overstressed, which causes irregular periods.



* On ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', Juliette has to have sex with Nick to restore his powers, but she has to do so while transformed into Adalind. Afterwards, she starts having headaches and stomach pains and Rosalee suggests she might be pregnant. It's not so much the possibility of pregnancy that worries Juliette, but the chance that the baby would have some connection to Adalind. It later turns out she's not pregnant. [[spoiler: Instead, the ritual turned her into a Hexenbiest.]]

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* On ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', Juliette has to have sex with Nick to restore his powers, but she has to do so while transformed into Adalind. Afterwards, Afterward, she starts having headaches and stomach pains and Rosalee suggests she might be pregnant. It's not so much the possibility of a pregnancy that worries Juliette, but the chance that the baby would have some connection to Adalind. It later turns out she's not pregnant. [[spoiler: Instead, the ritual turned her into a Hexenbiest.]]



* ''Series/{{ER}}'' did this with Doug and Carol. True to form, after they learned that she wasn't pregnant, they realized that they were disappointed rather than relieved.

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* ''Series/{{ER}}'' did this with Doug and Carol. True to form, form after they learned that she wasn't pregnant, they realized that they were disappointed rather than relieved.



* ''Two Pink Lines'' by Music/EricChurch has two barely legal teens having a summer fling, and when she is late, they go to a store and pretty much the rest of the song is the guy's thoughts during the long three minute wait for the test to finish.

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* ''Two Pink Lines'' by Music/EricChurch has two barely legal teens having a summer fling, and when she is late, they go to a store and pretty much the rest of the song is the guy's thoughts during the long three minute three-minute wait for the test to finish.



* In a gender reversal played for laughs, the finale of Creator/HannaBarbera's ''WesternAnimation/WheresHuddles'' (a summer prime time show from 1970) had Ed's neighbor and Rhinos center Bubba [=McCoy=] getting an exam and is mistaken to be pregnant.

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* In a gender reversal played for laughs, the finale of Creator/HannaBarbera's ''WesternAnimation/WheresHuddles'' (a summer prime time primetime show from 1970) had Ed's neighbor and Rhinos center Bubba [=McCoy=] getting an exam and is mistaken to be pregnant.
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Note that there are many reasons a period may be late or absent, ranging from menopause to diet or exercise programs to stress to health issues of various sorts. But in this trope, she always jumps straight to "I'm pregnant".

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Note that there are many reasons a period may be late or absent, ranging from menopause to diet or exercise programs to stress to health issues of various sorts.sorts, to just being late. But in this trope, she always jumps straight to "I'm pregnant".
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A couple has had sex. They enjoyed it. There was afterglow. In the heat of the moment, nobody considered condoms or birth control. Or maybe they did but were in a bit of a hurry.

Then the woman announces her period is late, or [[MorningSickness starts every morning greeting John]].

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A couple has had sex. They enjoyed it. There was afterglow. In the heat of the moment, nobody considered condoms or birth control. Or maybe they did but were in a bit of a hurry. \n\nThen Or maybe there was a condom see ButWeUsedACondom.

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the woman announces her period is late, or [[MorningSickness starts every morning greeting John]].

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