Playing Doctor: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''Boy:''' Wanna play doctor?

'''Girl:''' I don't have insurance...~~|''[[Robot Chicken]]'', "The Munnery"}}~~

'''Girl:''' I don't have insurance...

|''[[Robot Chicken]]'', "The Munnery"}}

''I'll show you mine if you show me yours!''

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Not to be confused with "playing [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]]", [[Playing House]], [[Actor Allusion|Playing]] "[[House (TV series)|House]]", or [[I'm Not a Doctor But I Play One on TV]].

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== Anime & Manga ==

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Black Lagoon]]''

** In one of the [[Omake]]s, Hansel and Gretel play doctor with little Garcia, Roberta's young master. Hansel and Gretel being... you know... [[Creepy Twins|Hansel and Gretel]], they decide to play the real kind of doctor with him, much to poor Garcia's distress.

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* When Megumi from ''[[Boku no Futatsu no Tsubasa]]'' was little, she tried to play doctor with her cousin Hiromi and ended up giving her a seriously wrong impression. {{spoiler|Megumi is a hermaphrodite.}}

* In the series ''[[Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne!!|Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Ja Nai N Dakara Ne]]'', the main male character Takanashi did this a lot with his childhood friend Iroha when they were children, mainly an excuse to see her naked. Because of this, she now regularly stalks him under the belief they are a couple.

== Comic Books ==

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* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' has Calvin playing doctor with his neighbor Susie Derkins. Of course, this being Calvin and Hobbes, it is [[Art Shift|presented in the style of]] ''[[Rex Morgan, M.D.|Rex Morgan MD]]'', and Susie storms off due to the excessive treatments Calvin suggests from the symptom of "My foot hurts, doctor."

{{quote|'''Doctor:''' It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a hacksaw.}}

== Films -- Animation ==

* In ''[[Technotise: Edit & I|Technotise Edit I Ja]]'', Edit's memory of an instance of this is the cause for Edi's appearance.

== Films -- Live-Action ==

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* Schlocky horror film ''Milo'' has the title character, as a child, show a series of girls his abortionist father's collection of preserved fetuses (the children are all [[Nightmare Fetishist]] types) in exchange for one of them playing doctor with him. Unfortunately for the chosen girl, his idea of "doctor" involves scalpels.

* In ''[[Teeth]]'', the horror-comedy about the girl with the [[Vagina Dentata]], the step-brother has a scar on his finger, and it is revealed that this is from "playing doctor" with his step-sister in the pool as children.

== Jokes ==

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* Two babies, a boy and a girl, are lying next to each other under the covers. The boy asks, "how do you know which one of us is the boy and which one is the girl?" The girl looks under the covers and then back at the boy, and says "I'm the girl and you're the boy". "How do you know?" the boy asks. "Simple," the girl replies, "[[Pink Girl, Blue Boy|I'm wearing pink socks and you're wearing blue socks]]".

* Another old joke has a little girl's mother complain to a little boy's father about the children playing doctor. The man tries to dismiss it as childish curiosity, and the mother snaps, "He took out her appendix!"

== Literature ==

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* This occurs in the novel ''Rubyfruit Jungle'' by Rita Mae Brown when the protagonist Molly is young, and she starts ''charging'' for people to see her friend Brock's junk.

* In one of humorist [[Patrick McManus]]'s short stories, he recounts the time as a kid that he got invited over by his neighbor Olga Bonemarrow to "play doctor"; it turned out the girl was referring to a mindnumbingly dull medical-themed board game.

== Live-Action TV ==

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* In an episode of ''[[That '70s Show]]'', there's a flashback, where it's revealed that Kelso played doctor with Jackie when they were little. Kelso remembers to this more fondly than their first date, because he "got further".

* [[Subverted]] on ''[[Full House]]'': the kid yelled "don't open the door, Daddy" because she and a male friend were playing {{spoiler|eye}} doctor, and {{spoiler|the eye chart was on the back of the door}}.

* On ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|~~Mash~~]]'', Hawkeye would regularly use "want to play doctor?" as a pick-up line on the nurses.

* On ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'', Hawkeye would regularly use "want to play doctor?" as a pick-up line on the nurses.

== Music ==

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{{quote|''Brother says he's tellin, bout you playin' doctor with that girl

Just don't tell I'll give you, anything you want in this whole wide world'' }}

== Radio ==

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* On ''[[The Goon Show]]'':

{{quote|'''Bluebottle:''' ''(plaintively)'' I don't like this game! Let's play another game. Let's play Doctors and Nurses.}}

== Web Comics ==

* Subverted in ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' as it's used to parody health insurance. They wonder why they're so concerned about playing doctor and conclude it's out of worry it'd make them cynical. Keep in mind that Ozy is normally a [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]] anyhow.

* A [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] example from ''[[~~Ghastlys~~ Ghastly Comic]]'': [http://www.ghastlycomic.com/d/20030302.html "Paging Dr. Tang"] WARNING: While this particular link is "safe for work", the general content of the ~~webcomic~~ is ''not''.

* A [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] example from ''[[Ghastly's Ghastly Comic]]'': [http://www.ghastlycomic.com/d/20030302.html "Paging Dr. Tang"] WARNING: While this particular link is "safe for work", the general content of the web comic is ''not''.

* ''[[Lucid TV]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20120505162907/http://lucid-tv.com/077.jpg "I'll have you know none of the other children are board-certified"]

== Western Animation ==