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* In ''VisualNovel/DisgaeaInfinite'', Jennifer offers to give this to Laharl, since he's "at such a complicated age." He freaks out and refuses, but the prinny can make mind-control him into accepting.

* {{Invoked}} in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''. Gumball and Hot Dog Guy decide to do something as awkward as possible to get rid of the awkwardness between them, so [[Main/ItMakesSenseInContext Gumball becomes Hot Dog Guy's stepdad]] and starts giving him the talk before cringing so hard that it echos through time.

* ''Series/DifferentStrokes''. Mr. Drummond needs to give a version of this to Arnold after the kids come home from a camping trip and catch him and his girlfriend together. As it turns out, he's already given him the "Where babies come from" talk, but as he tries to explain that adults sometimes need to spend private time together, Arnold interrupts to ask, "You mean getting it on", thus revealing that he's fully aware of what grown-ups do, he's just thrown for a loop because he never thought of his father like that.

** In one punishment, Q had to give a lecture about the birds and the bees to a class full of students [[spoiler: ...only to find out that he was lied to, and he instead has to give the lecture to ''his parents'']].

* In "No Compass" from ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'', Shauna tells her best friend Jackie that [[TeenPregnancy she's pregnant]]. Jackie wants to know just how this happened.
-->'''Shauna''': Well, when a man and a woman...
* In a truly bizarre example from the 1995 ''[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E7TheHumanOperators The Outer Limits]]'', a young man who has never met another human being is given TheTalk by a ''spacecraft's AI''. With accompanying wire-frame graphics, and no more emotion or nuance than an engineering manual.

* In ''Literature/RedWhiteAndRoyalBlue'', after Alex tells his mom (the President of the United States) that he's bisexual and in a relationship with Henry, she gives him a hilarious and embarrassing "talk", complete with a PowerPoint presentation, that includes reminding him not to use any federal funds in the process of arranging to meet up with Henry. Alex cuts the conversation short when she starts telling him about the importance of using condoms for anal sex.

* Forms part of the title of the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk and the Birds and the Bees", where the title character gives this to Natalie's daughter; he is particularly ill-suited for it.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'', the title character gives this to Natalie's daughter; he is particularly ill-suited for it.

** In ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', a group of wizards have to try to explain to the God of Evolution what sex is. It leads to a very, very amusing conversation, and gets even more awkward for the wizards when the normally straitlaced housekeeper, Mrs. Whitlow, volunteers to explain "the facts of life" to the God (and prompts the wizards to wonder, out of morbid curiouity, what Mr. Whitlow's life was like).

* {{Parodied}} in the epilogue of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' fic "To Mend a Broken Hart", when Leodore Lionheart is asked by his deer LoveInterest where their adopted children will come from [[AdaptationalSexuality (they're a gay couple)]], and the lion launches into "When a mommy deer and a daddy deer love each other very much..."

* ''Series/ReadyOrNot'': Amanda accidentally [[PrimalScene walks in on her parents]], prompting them to separately attempt to have the talk with her.

** The first time characters talk about sex, Sir is [[StandardFiftiesFather explaining about it to Andrew]], who finds the idea messy and concerning, much like a child. Oddly, Andrew gets stuck on the idea that because only one sperm is able to fertilize the egg, the rest all die.

* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_GK6-YSDRo Vulture interview]] with the cast of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' leads to an improvised in-character scenario where Gene asks his parents to tell him how babies are made. Teddy helps by showing copies of ''Playgirl'' magazine from TheSeventies, thinking it's ''Playboy,'' with Linda remarking on how hairy everybody is. Gene is disturbed but intrigued enough to get a Grindr account.

* Inverted in ''Film/{{Pleasantville}}'', where Reese Witherspoon's character had to give "The Talk" to her mother (on the overly clean-cut TV sitcom from TheFifties [[TrappedInTVLand in which her and her brother have been trapped]]).

* ''Series/TheHoganFamily''. Sandy gives one to her nephews Mark and Willie after she finds the pornographic movie that they rented, gently but firmly telling them that while she understands their curiosity about sex, watching porn isn't the way to satisfy it--"It doesn't depict lovemaking in a real way, it takes something special and wonderful and makes it crude."

'''Comes in two flavors''':

* Subverted (like you'd expect any different) in ''[[Film/TheAddamsFamily The Addams Family Values]]''. Morticia is having a baby, so Wednesday and Pugsley are in the waiting room. As a young girl tells the story about a wish turning into a diamond that grows in the cabbage patch and turns into a baby as it's delivered by the stork, Wednesday, in one of Christina Ricci's best deliveries ever, baldly states "My parents are having a baby. They had sex."

* Subverted (like you'd expect any different) in ''[[Film/TheAddamsFamily The Addams Family Values]]''. Morticia is having a baby, so Wednesday and Pugsley are in the waiting room. As a young girl tells the story about a wish turning into a diamond that grows in the cabbage patch and turns into a baby as it's delivered by the stork, Wednesday, in one of Christina Ricci's best [[JustForPun deliveries]] ever, baldly states "My parents are having a baby. They had sex."

* In ''[[https://jeconais.fanficauthors.net/This_Means_War/2__Who_Wants_to_Play__Kiss_Chase/ This Means War]]'', Sirius decides it's his job as godfather to have this discussion with Harry. Most of it is off-screen, but [[INeedAFreakingDrink copious amounts of alcohol]] are involved on both sides.

* Charlie has an ''exceptionally'' awkward one with Bella in ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Eclipse]]''. Billy Burke and Kristen Stewart's reactions make it ''hilarious''.

* In the ''Radio/WhatDoesTheKStan For'' episode "Working for a Living", Michael's parents insist that they've given their children the talk, even though neither Michael nor his sister have any recollection of this. It eventually transpires that they waited until both teenagers had headphones on, to avoid any awkward questions.