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* A hilarious sequence in the film ''[[The Hairy Bird|All I Wanna Do]]'' involves the characters physically grappling with a can of contraceptive foam.

* A sequence in ''[[Amazon Women on the Moon]]'' features a youth trying to buy a package of condoms. After hitting some of the usual aspects of this trope (embarrassment because the pharmacist is a family friend, etc.), the trope is spoofed when the youth is surprised by the president of the condom company coming out of hiding and informing him that he is the condom company's one millionth customer. This "wins" him the privilege of being the condom company's public mascot for a year, at the cost of entirely spoiling his planned evening of passion.

* When Seth Green's desperate character finally convinces a girl to sleep with him in ''[[Can't Hardly Wait]]'', he immediately rushes upstairs to limber up, put on more deodorant, try on condoms, etc. When his (female) ex-best friend walks in on him, the bathroom door jams and they are stuck inside for almost the rest of the movie.

== Jokes ==

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* On ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'', Dawson Leery needlessly experienced this due to the incorrect assumption that condoms are still kept behind the counter in pharmacies and asking the pharmacist to give him some.

* Averted on ''[[Scrubs]]'' when J.D and Kim's offscreen inability to obtain a condom resulted in the pregnancy storyline that drove the sixth season.

* In an episode of ''[[That 70s Show]]'', Eric goes to the pharmacy to pick up some photos while his girlfriend's father is there to pick up her prescription, which he believes to be cough syrup. When the pharmacist tells him it's birth control, Eric bolts out of the store.

* In an episode of ''[[That '70s Show]]'', Eric goes to the pharmacy to pick up some photos while his girlfriend's father is there to pick up her prescription, which he believes to be cough syrup. When the pharmacist tells him it's birth control, Eric bolts out of the store.

* For an unfunny example, in the pilot of ''[[Mad Men]]'', the gynecologist prescribing Peggy her birth control pills thoughtlessly humiliated her throughout her exam.

* On ''[[Friends]]'', Monica and Rachel once had a long, hilarious scene fighting over the last condom in the bathroom while Ross and Richard awkwardly waited together outside for the two to come to an agreement.

* In the ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]'' episode "The Best Laid Plans", Wheels runs the [[Trojan Gauntlet]] while trying to buy condoms for a night with Stephanie. After various humiliations, he manages to buy some from a pharmacist who turns out to be Stephanie's mother, which gives the game away when he arrives at her door.

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== Real Life ==

* There have been a few well-publicized incidents of pharmacists refusing to dispense contraceptives on religious or moral grounds, with [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5490-2005Mar27.html an attendant controversy] over the rights of the pharmacist versus those of the customer.

* Back in [[The Fifties]], this was [[Truth in Television]]. Condoms were sold as a ''behind the counter'' item; you had to actually go up to the pharmacy counter and ask for them. (Not like today, where you just grab the kind you want off the shelf and go pay for them.) (And heaven help [[My Girl Is Not a Slut|a woman who attempted to buy them]], even if she was married.)

** Still [[Truth in Television]] at times; condoms tend to [[Five-Finger Discount|grow legs]] -- due to a combination of, among other things, being costly for their size, the embarrassment factor, and their resale value -- and some places keep them behind the counter for that reason.