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See also: [[But We Used a Condom]], [[Law of Inverse Fertility]], [[Surprise Pregnancy]].
 
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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** Played with in the episode "Joy to the World," where a woman is pregnant even though she and her fiance are waiting till marriage, and she swears she hasn't cheated. A skeptical House runs a DNA test and returns dumbfounded to tell them that there actually is no father, and the woman is the first ever case of human parthogenesis, an incredible phenomenon... except she's not, she just cheated on her fiance, and he's lying so that they'll be bowled over with elation and gratitude and get him a Christmas present, which he bet Wilson he could get a patient to do.
** Another episode includes a woman who miscarried a baby, but claimed she couldn't have been pregnant as she hadn't had sex in over a year. Turns out {{spoiler|she'd unknowingly been sleepwalking and having sex with her ex who lived in the same apartment building}}.
* ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]''. [[Half -Human Hybrid]] B'Elanna Torres is surprised when this happens with her human boyfriend Tom Paris, as the odds against a Klingon woman and a human man having children naturally is so high<ref> when we see the first such hybrid in ''TNG'' it had a human mother and Klingon father, which was also seen as surprising but not impossible</ref>. The actress playing B'Elanna had become pregnant several years earlier, which was hidden by having her [[Wrench Wench]] character wear a work smock with tools in the top pocket.
* Maude in ''[[Maude]]'' became unexpectedly pregnant at 47 while taking birth control, and later had the very first sitcom abortion.
* Claudia Black, who played Vala Mal Doran on ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'', got pregnant with her first child shortly into fliming for the ninth season. She was reportedly worried about being taken off the show or ruining the plot.. fortunately the creators were already planning a storyline involving her being pregnant. As a result, Vala ended up lost in the Ori's home galaxy for much of Season 9, and when she came back in the last few episodes, was revealed {{spoiler|to be pregnant with a [[Dark Messiah|child conceived by the Ori]] so as to [[Batman Gambit|get around the rules barring them from interfering with an Ancient-protected galaxy.]] }}
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'''Patient:''' ...it's a miracle!<br />
'''Becker:''' [[Sure Let's Go With That]] }}
* In ''[[Sugar Rush (TV)]]'', Kim's mother Stella becomes pregnant after getting back together with Nathan, even though in the first series she told her lover that he had {{spoiler|had a vasectomy}}.
* In ''[[Flash Forward 2009|FlashForward]]'', Janis sees in her flash-forward that she is pregnant. She can't believe this as she is a lesbian. Eventually she does become pregnant by {{spoiler|having sex with Demetri}}.
* ''[[Married With Children]]'' subverted this when a deceased relative's will stipulates that any family member that conceives a new child will get a $500,000 inheritance. Al and Peg naturally go for it, ''but'' Peg doesn't want to pregnant. She just wants regular sex, so she secretly takes birth control. Al finds out eventually and gets his revenge by faking Peg's home pregnancy test for a positive result. Peg goes into this mode, but Al twists the knife further by saying another relative beat them to the inheritance and reminds her of everything she went through with Kelly and Bud (morning sickness, weight gain and diaper changes). Peg effectively [[Goes Mad From the Revelation]], while Al is gleeful.
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