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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Hal from ''[[Malcolm in
* ''[[
* ''[[Friends]]'': "The One With Chandler and Monica's Wedding" and "The One After 'I Do'". In this one, Phoebe found a positive pregnancy test and Rachel (whose test it was) allowed everyone to assume it was Monica's. Then when Phoebe learnt the truth, but Rachel still didn't want to tell anyone, she claimed ''she'' was the one who was pregnant. This leads to Joey proposing marriage so she won't have to go it alone.
** Played for comedy in another episode where Monica kept getting mistaken for preggers. She blames the baggy shirt she's wearing.
* Let's try to list all the times someone was [[Mistaken for Pregnant]] on ''[[
* ''[[Joan of Arcadia]]'' included an episode where Helen has a positive return on a pregnancy test. However, Luke finds the test, believes it's Joan's, and spends most of the episode panicking about being an uncle. As with ''Friends'', unusual in that someone actually ''was'' pregnant (although the episode ends with Helen revealing she had her period that evening, indicating an early miscarriage).
** Or a false positive. They're fairly common.
* In ''[[Frasier]]'', Niles half-hears a conversation between Daphne and Frasier about the need to keep Roz's pregnancy a secret, and concludes that Daphne is pregnant and Frasier is the father. Things escalate from there until he challenges his brother to a duel for Daphne's honor.
* An episode of ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' had Lucy and Ethel convinced that Ricky and Fred were about to join the army. They decide to show their support by knitting socks; Ricky and Fred notice them knitting and assume that both their wives are pregnant.
* ''[[Dad's Army
** Not missing anymore! A copy of this episode has been discovered and is included (along with the other surviving Season 2 episodes) on the Season 1 dvd.
** Also happens in another episode where the platoon thinks Mrs Mainwaring is pregnant after a misunderstanding between Mainwaring and Jones. Mainwaring sets them straight at the end of the episode.
* When [[Cousin Oliver]] is about to join ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', the rest of the family misunderstand Carol's "We're going to have an addition to the family" as meaning she is pregnant.
* ''[[
* ''[[3rd Rock
* In the first season of ''[[Gossip Girl]]'', this is the catalyst for Blair's social downfall. Serena covers for her to buy her a pregnancy test, so she is initially [[Mistaken for Pregnant]] as well.
* Liz Lemon in the second season finale of ''[[30 Rock
* In a later episode of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Topanga's decision to go on a diet is mistaken for pregnancy when Topanga refuses breakfast, can't fit into ''Cory's'' pants, and Cory later overhears her talking to Eric about "getting through this". (Though in actuality he's agreed to go on a diet as well, though he doesn't fare nearly as well as she does.)
* An episode of ''[[Mad About You]]'' took this a step further. Not only was the suspected mother not pregnant, she was a ''he''.
* A scene in ''[[Are You Being Served?
* The second episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'' has a moment where JD is talking about Elliot's tendency to put her foot in her mouth when talking to people. One example is her turning to a woman sitting down and asking when her baby was due, to which the woman indignantly replies "What baby?"
* An episode of ''[[Bones]]'' had Cam worried that her adoptive daughter, Michelle, was pregnant due to a positive pregnancy test found in the trash. In actuality, it was Angela's test. And she wasn't pregnant after all, it was a false positive.
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* In one episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'', Kramer mistakenly thinks a friend is pregnant and even after she states that she isn't, he still is not entirely convinced.
* Happens to Audrey in ''[[Rules of Engagement]]'' as the result of a poorly phrased remark about a pregnant co-worker. Finding she enjoys the special consideration being pregnant brings her at work, she tries desperately to actually become pregnant. When she eventually comes clean and tells her co-workers that she is not pregnant, they mistakenly interpret this to mean that she has had a miscarriage.
* In the first segment of the season three opener of ''[[Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction?]],'' "Morning Sickness," a girl suffers symptoms of what her parents are convinced is pregnancy, despite a negative pregnancy test and the daughter's claims that she's still a virgin. At the hospital, doctors tell the parents that there's a tumor or cyst in the daughter's intestines, but during surgery to remove it, said tumor turns out to be a live baby octopus, resulting from when the daughter swallowed an octopus egg while swimming in the ocean. Thankfully, at the end of the episode, it's revealed that the story never happened, it's just a real popular urban legend.
* On ''[[That 70s Show]]'' Kitty mistakes herself to be pregnant, only for the doctor to discover it's menopause.
* On ''[[St Elsewhere]]'' Helen Rosenthal was excited about what she thought was a mid-life pregnancy, but it turned out to be menopause.
* Blanche Devereaux from ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' also mistook menopause for a pregnancy.
* On ''[[Eighteen To Life|18 To Life]]'' a positive pregnancy test keeps being misplaced and then found by someone else. By the end the three husbands believe that their wives are pregnant and the women think the same about each other. Turns out that the pregnancy test is actually really old and was kept as a keepsake by one of the women from her last pregnancy almost nine years ago.
* On ''[[
* In 1971 Lisa on ''[[As the World Turns]]'' thought she was pregnant but it turned out to be an ovarian cyst.
* In ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'', Angie took a pregnancy test, thought she was pregnant and told George. Initially stunned, George welcomes this development, but then Angie learns the first test was wrong. However, because George seemed so happy about having another child, Angie fakes it and tries to pregnant quickly to cover. George winds up getting [[Squick|Squicked]] out by having sex with a supposedly pregnant woman. When he hears the truth from someone else, he has a little fun with it.
{{quote| "Oh, look! You're showing!"}}
* A particularly disturbing version happens in ''[[
* A lighter version on ''[[CSI New York]]'' had Lindsay talking to Danny about being hungry and listing a bunch of foods she wanted him to bring her. Danny gives her a [[Oh Crap|look]], wondering if she's pregnant again, and she quickly responds that she isn't, she's just hungry.
* Averted and played straight for two different characters in an episode of ''[[Royal Pains]]''. One character has some [[Wacky Cravings]], and a friend immediately gets her a pregnancy test. However, the main characters see ''her'' buying the pregnancy test, and start making assumptions.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[College Roomies
* Inverted early on in ''[http://bridgette.comicgenesis.com/ Bridgette's Belly]''. Bridgette actually is pregnant, but her friends mistake her eating habits and morning sickness as bulimia.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In an episode of ''[[Goof Troop]]'' PJ and Pete saw that Peg was unusually cheerful one day and told them she had a big surprise for them. Later on Pistol (the daughter) asked Pete if she could have a little brother; Pete told her yes because he wasn't paying attention; she told PJ that they were getting a little brother and he tells Pete which causes him to freak out. At the end of the episode Peg comes back with a basket, causing Pete to run away. As it turns out she was so happy because they had received a paid trip to Hawaii.
* In an episode of ''[[
* Having little to no understanding of normal human biology, Beavis of ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' once thought he was pregnant due to a severe stomach cramp.. Hilarity ensues.
{{quote| '''Woman to pregnant friend:''' I can't believe you got yourself pregnant.<br />
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