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* In ''[[NYPD Blue]]'', Det. Abbey Sullivan and her partner got Det. Greg Medevoy to donate his sperm.
* Played with in ''[[The Wire]]'': while her partner Cheryl avidly wanted a baby, Kima was initially unenthusiastic, and the baby is one of the many things that ends up coming between the two. The idea of being a mother eventually grows on her, and she ends up getting more involved in their son's life in season five.
* In an episode of ''[[Without a Trace (TV)|Without a Trace]]'', an unknowing pair of women assumed to be a lesbian couple finally receiving a baby to adopt have said baby taken away from them as it was the missing person of that episode - {{spoiler|they didn't kidnap it, they were just caught up in a conspiracy.}}
* Unsurprisingly in a show with a [[Cast Full of Gay]], ''[[The L Word]]'' covered this topic, but with only one of the many couples - Tina and Bette. When Helena is introduced, she bonds with Tina over motherhood, but her children are [[Put Onon a Bus]] after season two.
* The token lesbians in the US version of ''[[Queer Asas Folk]]'' decide to have a baby; naturally they select their friend, gay Heroic Sociopath Brian, to be the biological father.
** Which seems a bit less insane once you think about that that part of the plot was based on the British version, where Brian's counterpart is more of a nymphomaniac [[Man Child]] than [[Jerkass]] Brian.
** Later, in the third season, said token lesbians (Lindsay and Melanie) decide to have another child together. They select another friend, Michael, to be the baby's biological father, and, in a remarkably strange way of going about it, Lindsay ''actually uses a turkey baster'' to impregnate Melanie.
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** ''Averted'' in Friends, as Susan fell in love with Carol independently of her getting pregnant by her then-husband.
* The HBO series ''Bored to Death'' features a storyline about a lesbian couple who hit up one the male main characters for sperm in a coffee shop. [[Eddie Izzard|Like you do.]] When he obliges, they turn around and sell his sperm on the black market to all the other lesbians in the neighborhood, all of whom are also desperate to reproduce.
* This seems to be the catalyst for the breakup between Caitlin and Alicia on the cancelled ''[[Sex and Thethe City]]'' clone ''Cashmere Mafia''.
* Played with in ''[[Flash Forward 2009|FlashForward]]'' where Janice, a lesbian, quite bluntly says she does ''not'' want kids, but is pregnant in her vision of the future.
** Played straight later, however, when {{spoiler|after getting shot, she becomes obsessed with getting pregnant to the point of sleeping with her male best friend Dimitri to conceive the baby on time (there was a sort of deadline... yeah, it's a bit confusing). Moreover, said best friend is actually in a committed relationship... that he doesn't seem to remember when offering to impregnate Janice.}}
* ''[[Puppets Who Kill]]'' had a woman who seduced Buttons and brought him back to her apartment for what he assumed to be sex. Instead, she and her girlfriend hooked his crotch up to a vacuum-like device they had built to suck out his sperm. Naturally this process was purposely very painful in order to play up the [[Does Not Like Men|other stereotype]] about lesbians.
* [[GreysGrey's Anatomy]]: The conflict between {{spoiler|Callie and Arizona}}, eventually involving a breakup, hit this trope right on its head.
 
 
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' had an episode about gay adoption that featured homosexuals of both genders wanting kids. However, the episode's climax involved Stan kidnapping two children from their lesbian mothers.
** He also kidnapped the male couple's child. The lesbian couple try to get him to give her back by showing that gay couples can have a loving normal family.
* Played straight, if very much for laughs, in ''[[Rick and Steve]]''. Dana and Kirsten, the show's token lesbian couple, announce their plans to conceive in the pilot episode, and every one of their stories in subsequent episodes revolves around wacky sperm-seeking hijinks, pregnancy, and motherhood. The stereotype is tweaked a little bit, though, as it is clear that Dana really isn't all that into the whole "motherhood" thing.
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