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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "Bad Eggs": Xander cheats by boiling his egg so it won't break. Lucky for him, because the eggs turn out to host demon parasites.
** He was also going to '''eat''' his egg, before he learned it had a demon parasite in it.
* ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]'', "Eggbert": Spike and Shane are partners -- appropriately enough, since he got her pregnant in a previous episode. The project helps bring out the worst in the entire cast.
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* ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'', "Bathrooms and Project Partners": Loomer steals the doll from Ned and Cookie, and threatens to send it back piece by piece if they don't do what he wants. Ned gleefully points out that they can just wait for Loomer to send all the pieces back, then put the doll together again. But their teacher moves the end of the project forward, before the doll's head is returned ....
** It should be noted that Ned takes a "Life Science" Class meaning he and Cookie have to raise a doll the whole semester
* On ''[[That '70s Show]]'', Jackie uses this as a test for Kelso. The egg is broken and replaced, but he manages to explain away the missing pencil mark as having given it a bath.
* Although this is usually played with high school age characters, (are) adult examples have popped up, usually among characters who doubt their abilities as parents (sometimes with good reason): ''[[Frasier]]'' used the trope in one episode, when Niles adopts a sack of flour to see if he is ready to become a dad. The humor comes in that the sack is singed, taped, glued, and otherwise maimed from a series of events that take place offscreen and are highly unlikely for babies to encounter (as Niles put it, "A real baby would have cried before bursting into flames."). Ultimately, the sack was chewed up by the dog and Niles treats the situation as if he had actually lost the child. He also had a dream where somebody kidnapped it and started sending him muffins in the mail.
** Also used with adults on ''[[Las Vegas]]'', where egg-sitting is a homework assignment for a couple's parenting class. The father-to-be's egg gets broken in his jacket pocket, while the expectant mother dresses hers up more like a [[Mr. Muffykins|pet chihuahua]] than a child. She also foists eggs off on other casino staff who aren't yet parents, so they can "share the life lesson".
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* In one episode of ''[[Charmed]]'', Paige rents a doll for expectant parents Piper and Leo to care for to see what it will be like to raise a child while constantly battling demons. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when the [[Monster of the Week|Demon of the Week]] shows up and the doll predictably doesn't survive in one piece.
* ''[[How to Be Indie]]'': The class gets an egg sitting assignment in "How to Get Gotten". Indie tries to dodge the assignement by volunteering to escort a seventh grader who is being trialed in the eighth grade for a week instead.
* An adult example occurs in an episode of ''[[Kenny vs. Spenny]]''. Each is given a lifelike doll that requires attention and records how observant the parent is. Kenny purposely mistreats and eventually “kills” his doll and then switches it with Spenny’s doll.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[South Park]]'', "Follow that Egg!": In order to spite her former lover, Mr. Slave, Ms. Garrison puts Stan and Kyle together for egg-sitting, expecting them to break their egg -- and thus provide evidence against the legalization of gay marriage. When they don't break it, she hires a hit man to kill the egg.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has Danny (secretly a half ghost) and Valerie, a fellow student, (secretly [[The Hunter]], trying to capture Danny) take care of a microchipped sack of flour that can simulate crying and defecation. Tucker had the idea of "babysitting" other student's projects for money, but his mother used all the flour for cooking, forcing him to pay everyone back with interest.
** Similarly, in ''[[O'Grady]]'', Kevin (the [[High School Hustler]] and [[Humphrey]]) babysits everybody else's dolls for money. Abby discovers that he's been reprogramming the dolls' memory chips to record that everything is fine. She responds by reprogramming them to scream twenty-four hours a day.
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