"Problem? You can't get a girl pregnant. That's the dream! I'd give my firstborn to not be able to have children."
— Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother
Lily: (after Robin told the gang she can never be a "pole vaulter", instead of saying she is infertile) Are you okay?
Robin: Yeah, yeah. I guess this, erm... this "pole vaulting thing" is finally hitting me.
Lily: I don't get it Robin, did you really wanna be a pole vaulter?
Robin: No. No, I was, eh... I was always adamantly against having erm... a, a "pole vaulting career", even though, it's what most women want.
Lily: Most women wanna be a pole vaulter?
Robin: In Canada, it's very big up there. You know, it's, it's meet a nice guy, get married, "vault some poles". But I never wanted that. Of course, it's, it's one thing not to want something, it's another to be told you can't have it. I guess it's, it's just nice knowing that you... you could, some day, do it, if you changed your mind. But now, all of a sudden, that door is closed.
Lily: What about the one where you ski and shoot, at the same time? That seems like something you'd be good at.
Robin: Yeah, yeah. I guess this, erm... this "pole vaulting thing" is finally hitting me.
Lily: I don't get it Robin, did you really wanna be a pole vaulter?
Robin: No. No, I was, eh... I was always adamantly against having erm... a, a "pole vaulting career", even though, it's what most women want.
Lily: Most women wanna be a pole vaulter?
Robin: In Canada, it's very big up there. You know, it's, it's meet a nice guy, get married, "vault some poles". But I never wanted that. Of course, it's, it's one thing not to want something, it's another to be told you can't have it. I guess it's, it's just nice knowing that you... you could, some day, do it, if you changed your mind. But now, all of a sudden, that door is closed.
Lily: What about the one where you ski and shoot, at the same time? That seems like something you'd be good at.
— How I Met Your Mother, "Symphony of Illumination"
The rabbit dies for the wrong woman.
— TV Guide describing an episode of St. Elsewhere
Miranda: [on finding out she is pregnant] WHY didn't I use a condom?
Carrie: You didn't use a condom?
Miranda: He has one ball, and I have a lazy ovary! In what twisted world does that create a baby? It's like the Special Olympics of conception!
Carrie: You didn't use a condom?
Miranda: He has one ball, and I have a lazy ovary! In what twisted world does that create a baby? It's like the Special Olympics of conception!
— Sex and the City, "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda"
"I'm sorry you're so fertile and in a sexually active, loving relationship and now you don't want a family. I'm sure that's really hard for you."
— The infertile Princess Carolyn, BoJack Horseman, "Braap Braap Pew Pew"
