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Delivery Stork
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For many years, when a kid whose parents didn't think they were ready for The Talk asked the question "Where do babies come from?", a common answer was "the stork". For those wondering exactly how storks became associated with pregnancy: The tradition apparently started in Victorian Britain. The white stork was considered a symbol of happiness, fertility, and prosperity. Despite their large size, storks are also fairly unafraid of humans, and will readily nest on buildings unless disturbed. In Victorian England, they were even known to build their nests on top of chimneys, giving rise to the myth of storks dropping human babies down them to the hearth. The myth has mostly died down, to the point where TV is usually the only place you'll see kids who believe in "the stork". Showing childbirth in the media hasn't been taboo since the 50's, so most children know babies come from the mother's body, just not how it got there in the first place. But then again, it's also never explained where storks get babies either. Nonetheless, the symbolism of storks and babies has persisted to this day, where the image of a stork with a bundled baby hanging from its beak is still a symbol of pregnancy, childbirth, and babies. In Funny Animal related works, this trope may be invoked in spirit by depicting anthropomorphic storks working as midwives or in maternity wards, making this a type of Animal Occupation Stereotypes. Occasionally overlaps with One-Gender Race as an explanation for how procreation can occur without both sexes present. The rival story that new babies were found under a gooseberry bush seems to have died out, though some guy named Xavier did make a small fortune with the mythology of babies being grown from cabbages... Compare Pelican Package Pouch and Flying Postman. Contrast Circling Vultures, for a bird associated with death rather than birth. |
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The early drafts of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer included a delivery stork, but after the sponsors requested a Celebrity Voice Actor (Burl Ives) narrate to increase appeal, the stork was cut to make room. | |
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A baby Smurf is delivered by stork on a blue moon. Guess they really do only need one female after all. | |
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This might be referring to an episode of The Cosby Show, when Cliff took new step-granddaughter Olivia to see his office. When she asked him what he did, he explained that he was a doctor who delivered babies. Olivia cemented her Scrappy status by proceeding to tell a grown man that "no you don't" and giving him a lecture on how the stork does all that, insisting that he gets the babies from "heaven", and that "they're all in a line", acting increasingly exasperated with him for not knowing all this. | |
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Crusader Kings, a game about family lines and whole dynasties, uses these as a symbol to indicate that a character is, well, expecting. | |
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Discussed in House. When House posits that the patient might have two diseases, his team counters that one is simpler. To illustrate the point that one is not always simpler than two, House asks "what if I showed you a baby and told you that it's the product of either two parents or one stork?" | |
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In the Pixar short that accompanied Up, Partly Cloudy, this trope was used, and the question as to where the storks obtained the babies they delivered was answered: from living clouds who make them out of cloud fluff. The stork the short focuses on has the bad luck to work with a storm cloud who only makes dangerous animals. They're good friends, but the friendship gets really strained after the cloud makes a porcupine. And then Mr. Stormcloud shows off his (unfinished) shark... and the stork flies off to another cloud, only to return with a set of football armor, ready for more. | |
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Hotel Transylvania: The Series alludes to the idea of babies being delivered by storks by establishing that Death is also the personification of life, appearing as a stork when not wearing his shroud. | |
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Apparently Ned Flanders of The Simpsons fame has never told his sons about the Birds and the Bees, as when he and his children stumble upon the evolution display in the museum the kids ask if Maude was an ape, causing him to get flustered. He hurriedly went on about God and a stork, resulting in the duo kneeling down and praying to the stuffed stork in the corner. Ned is not amused. Another episode revealed Maude and Ned Flanders made sure the doctor delivering their sons was actually called Dr. Stork, so technically they wouldn't be lying to their kids. | |
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Played With in a episode of Full House. When Michelle posed the question of where babies come from, Joey casually replies "Cleveland." Fortunately, Michelle had no follow-up questions. | |
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Looney Tunes has featured storks delivering babies in dozens of cartoons: The 1933 short Shuffle Off To Buffalo uses a stork delivery factory as the setting. Ethnic stereotypes abound, including a Jewish baby who's stamped "Kosher for Passover" (!!). One famous sort-of-series during the 1950s involved a drunken stork, who would either be invited to drink with the new parents, or leave for his job directly from a roaring party at the Stork Club. Since the stork would frequently be so smashed on the job, he'd deliver a baby (and at least once, a full-grown Bugs Bunny) to the wrong parents, with hilarious consequences. Sometimes at least he had enough sense to realise he made a mistake and finds the real baby. Earlier, Bob Clampett parodied the concept with typical manic gusto in "Baby Bottleneck". It is worth to mention that on this cartoon a point was made about where do they get the babies: they're made in a factory. The storks there are overworked and unable to make deliveries, in which other animals pitch in to deliver the babies, and end up sending them to the wrong animal. |
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This is where babies actually come from in Cucumber Quest according to Word of God. | |
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Parodied in Cyanide and Happiness here (where the delivery stork intends to feed the baby to its own young), and here (where two storks are horrified to find themselves parents to a human baby). Later parodied in a short about a hunter deliberately hunting them down who has accrued a multi-ethnic family of children. In another short the factory where babies are made has problems with pelicans pretending to be storks to steal and eat the babies. The Stinger also shows an crocodile wearing a fake beak trying to sneak away after it sees a pelican getting caught. | |
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A reference to this is made in the 1776 song "But Mr. Adams", mostly because 'stork' rhymes with 'New York' and the New York delegate is the one singing: | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal In the strip for 2011-12-18, the child gets a rather strange impression after hearing both about how the stork brings babies and that they're the product of a man and woman having sex. In this one, the mother who tells her daughter that babies come from the stork ends up getting lost in a rant on fighting the storks to learn the secret of reproduction from them. When the girl asks her mother about the "naked wrestling" her parents do every Thursday night, the mother answers that it's how they prepare for that war. This one has a boy being told that babies are born when a stork is injected with the parents' parasitic larvae. |
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In the Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop episode "Pinball Wizard", Zombunny ends up taking the place of a baby yeti being delivered to his parents by a stork. | |
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Simon parodied this in YogLabs when they're trying to make a clone of him, which (due to the weird way the mod works) involves incubating an egg as the final step: | |
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The set-up for Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island involves an attempted kidnapping of Baby Mario and Baby Luigi while they're being delivered by the stork. The stork is knocked out mid-flight by Kamek, kidnapping Baby Luigi, while the Yoshis find Baby Mario and vow to start a relay team to reunite the brothers. Yoshi's Island DS also uses the stork part, except it adds a few things such as a stop sign called a 'Stork Stop' where the stork allows Yoshi to switch which baby he's carrying on his back, storks carrying the babies back home after being rescued from Bowser's Castle and the stork itself in various cut scenes. Yoshi's New Island has the stork accidentally bring Mario and Luigi to the wrong house, then get literally beaten up by Kamek mid-flight. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: One strip features Calvin hearing about and asking his father specifically about the stork. His father's response was that, yes, most babies were delivered by a stork, but Calvin was "unceremoniously dumped down the chimney by a big, hairy pterodactyl." Calvin is, needless to say, thrilled (to his father's lack of surprise). In another comic, Calvin's dad informs him that kids come in kits (some assembly required) from Sears. Calvin is upset by this, but his father tells him not to worry as he was "a blue light special at K-mart. Almost as good, and a lot cheaper." Calvin is less than thrilled. |
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Occurs humourously in Rocko's Modern Life. Rocko is driving Heffer and Filburt to Mrs. Hutchinson's birth in the hospital. While on the highway, they see the delivery stork's van (because all characters, including the stork, are Funny Animals) heading towards the hospital and race against the stork to reach the hospital first. | |
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SCP Foundation: Inverted with SCP-918, an abandoned mill that creates storks that steal infants and turns them into talcum powder. | |
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Hero: The Guardian Smurf: Played straight, except in the case of the births of Hero's two children Saviour and Miracle, who were both born physically through their mothers Wonder and Smurfette through a G-Rated Sex fertility blessing given to them by Mother Nature. | |
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The nursery building in Let's Build a Zoo has a large sign depicting a stork carrying a package. | |
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In Bonkers, Toon babies come from the stork, though Miranda's disbelief strongly implies this isn't true for real babies. | |
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A first-season MADtv (1995) sketch involved a couple going to a fertility clinic but not understanding what sex was. Turns out they "prayed to the magical stork." They were quite disgusted to learn the truth. | |
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In the I.N.K. Invisible Network of Kids episode "Lovestruck Stinkbomb" the teacher Ms. Macbeth tries to teach the kids about love. Unfortunately, it seems nobody ever taught her about it because she tells them babies come from the stork. Then the kids tell her that's not right and that they come from cabbages. | |
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In Krazy Kat, Coconino County has its resident baby-deliverer Joe Stork, who lives atop the Enchanted Mesa. He is older than all the strip's main characters, having delivered them as babies. In a running gag, characters struggle to fend off his deliveries; apparently, any two characters in a romantic relationship run the risk of getting a bundle dropped on them, which may in part account for the strip's lack of clear gender (one strip has Krazy loudly "breaking up" with Ignatz as the stork walks by for fear that he may take their relationship the wrong way). | |
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Disney's Dinosaur actually did this with a Pteranodon who apparently found Aladar's egg floating in a river after an Oviraptor accidentally dropped it while stealing it from Aladar's biological mother. | |
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One is featured in one of the plays from The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales. In it, he fakes his injury to laze around, leaving other animals to find the baby a home. The actor who plays him seems to be a similar Jerkass, brushing off his co-worker's concern and raving about an avant-guard play he'll be featured in. | |
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The parents in Litterbox Comics, a pair of cat people in a World of Funny Animals, had their baby delivered by a stork. As in a stork-man obstetrician. | |
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In Viva Piñata, after two Piñatas romance, their eggs are delivered to them... not by an actual stork, but by a lady in a vaguely stork-shaped outfit named Storkos. | |
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In an epic variant, Mamoru of GaoGaiGar was found in the mouth of a giant robot lion. His mother has a recurring nightmare about the possibility of the lion coming back to reclaim him. | |
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In Batman and Sons, Batman tells his kids that babies come from the cabbage patch. Only Tim really believes it, being the youngest; Alfred is frustrated that he insists on maintaining the lie, while Jason teasingly asks "Whose cabbage patch THIS time?". | |
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MAD: An article from several decades back compared sexual knowledge among youth of different generations. In the '50s, they show a whitebread kid talking with a greaser. A Don Martin cartoon has a couple of kids pondering the situation. One says "Charlie says the Stork brought us." The other shrugs "Ecch, Charlie, what does he know!" — then they both say "Hi, Charlie!" to a kid walking by with long skinny legs and neck, and a long pointy nose. |
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In the Zipi y Zape story El tonel del tiempo ("The barrel of time"), the twins use the titular barrel to time-travel to the day they were born. They come out of the barrel as babies, with the stork holding both of them... and have to pull off one of their shenanigans to prevent their own delivery from suffering a last-minute change of destination. | |
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A Moon and World Apart: Jokingly referenced by Pinkie in chapter 5, when she pops up in front of a very startled Sunset, resulting in the following exchange: | |
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The Perry Bible Fellowship: A stork delivery service representative is on the phone, taking complaints from a woman who hadn't received her baby. While he defends the reliability of his delivery storks, a glance at the line behind him shows a vulture in uniform amongst the storks. Another comic features a stork delivering a litter of kittens to a pair of cats — who all proceed to devour the poor bird. |
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Earlier, Bob Clampett parodied the concept with typical manic gusto in "Baby Bottleneck". It is worth to mention that on this cartoon a point was made about where do they get the babies: they're made in a factory. The storks there are overworked and unable to make deliveries, in which other animals pitch in to deliver the babies, and end up sending them to the wrong animal. |
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In Tony Comics, one comic has Tony's dad try to feed him the delivery stork excuse only for him to poke holes in it, leading to his dad to try to distract him with ice cream. | |
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Alluded to in Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme when Gordon Goose asks the Old Woman who Lives in a Shoe why she has so many children. The woman suggests that it could be that the stork likes her very much. | |
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In Spring Awakening (which takes place in 19th century Germany) Frau Bergmann is still trying to use this story with fourteen-year-old Wendlanote sixteen in The Musical, who becomes frustrated and insists her mother finally explain to her what really happens. She doesn't, and this ends very, VERY badly. | |
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In Baby Follies, Storks are the primary air travel in Baby City. They deliver babies to Earth when it's their time to be "born" in a sense. | |
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A '40s Blondie (1930) strip has Dagwood telling Cookie about this, but then Alexander butts in...◊ | |
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This book also contains what's essentially an early draft of Peter Pan as a story within the story. In this version Peter ran away when he was only a week old and failed to realize that he was no longer a bird. He could fly fine until he started to doubt that he could, and then became stuck, physically a boy but mentally stuck between species. | |
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At the end of Journey of the Cartoon Man, a stork delivers a cartoon baby to Roy and Valerie. | |
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In the Glee episode "Sexy", Brittany thinks she's pregnant because a stork built its nest on top of her garage. | |
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The Pink Panther: In the 1978 short "Pink Daddy", a stork mistakenly delivers a baby crocodile, meant for the zoo at 919 Main St., to the Pink Panther's house at 616 Main St. after a thunderstorm loosens the house number sign to read 919. | |
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One The Whitest Kids U' Know sketch is about the other side of this — apparently, the storks get the babies from a literal baby factory in the clouds (complete with what appears to be a moving assembly line, although the sketch only shows the final stop, at the guy who takes the babies from the line as they come in, hands it to the waiting stork, and tells the bird where to fly). | |
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"Little Johnny Jet", a baby plane is delivered by a stork-like helicopter. | |
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In Storks, after delivery storks decide on doing a less difficult job, they wind up going into the online delivery business. Part of what motivated the storks into giving up the job was a stork going rogue and trying to keep a baby, which led to the homing beacon being destroyed. The plot revolves around what happens when the girl they've been forced to raise and the stork supposed to fire her accidentally reactivates the old Baby Making Machine and have to get a new baby girl to her home. The storks have also updated their delivery mechanisms and do pods rather than swaddles. Events ultimately lead to them going back to their original mission of baby delivery, complete with the classic swaddles. | |
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In To Kill a Mockingbird, Dill tells Scout that you get babies from an island where they are gathered like flowers. Scout, who had previously been told that babies are dropped down the chimney by God, is skeptical. | |
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In the Disney cartoon, Lambert the Sheepish Lion, the titular lion was supposed to go to Africa on a stork delivery (the same stork that appeared in Dumbo), but is taken in by a ewe after none of the lambs delivered to flock choose her to be their mother. | |
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Cited in The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service as the reasoning behind the business's name: instead of the white stork that brings new life, they're the black heron ("kurosagi" = "black heron") that takes away the dead. | |
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In another Pixar film, Cars, judging by a painting on one of the courtroom's walls, it's implied that cars and other vehicles reproduce by getting baby cars that roll down to Earth on a golden highway coming from an ivory and gold factory in Heaven. | |
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Dumbo starts out with storks delivering baby animals to their mothers while their circus is headquartered in Florida for the winter. The babies have no (visible) fathers except for the tiger cubs. | |
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On Adam Ruins Everything, one of these (a parody of the Vlasic pickles mascot) appears to Emily (who has already had her baby), and hands her a black rock painted with the words "Postpartum Depression." He also hands one to Murph, explaining that men can get PPD as well. | |
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Pokémon: Word of God says this is how eggs are delivered to the Day Care Center. The Pokédex also implies that Celebi may be the stork. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet references the trope with Bombirdier, a white bird Pokémon who uses its long feathers as a makeshift delivery bag. Rather than delivering babies, however, it prefers to carry rocks (which it then drops on other people and Pokémon For the Evulz). |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: Flying delivery storks are a running gag. These have generally replaced aircraft in the background sky, and sound like them too. In the same series there is a chapter based around white lies, in which Kafuka suggests changing white lies into reality. After Chiri overhears Majiru being told that a stork delivers babies, a news report about a stork literally delivering a missing baby is broadcasted. |
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Rugrats: When Angelica asks the big question, her parents first start to tell her the truth (babies start out as tiny eggs), then chicken out and give the "stork" response. She relays this information to the babies, who are terrified that the eggs their dads are using to cook are "stork eggs" that they need to protect. The episode ends with Susie coming over and whispering to Angelica where babies really come from, but she doesn't seem to believe it. The season 1 episode "Special Delivery" has the Stu receiving a baby doll in the mail. The babies mistake it for a real baby. Phil and Lil get into an argument on whether babies come for the stork or the store. Noticeably Chuckie states that his mom said that babies come from the hospital, when future episodes show his biological mother died when he was very young. |
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In Moral Orel, Clay has a book called "Fake Facts of Life for Ages 5-15" that gives him varying responses of this trope's nature to give to a child, depending on the age of the child. The ones seen: babies are bowls of smiles that fell over in a garden, martians shot goo goo rays into mommy's tummy, fairies made them out of bubbles, they're made from skin that flaked off God's foot, babies are born when a stork gets pregnant, mommy swallowed a watermelon seed, and finally, God's chef injects mommies with his delicious glaze from his holy pastry bag. That last one has unforeseen consequences as Orel's told this story, thinks he's God's chef, and proceeds to impregnate the neighborhood women so he could masturbate and still go to heaven. | |
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The online game Super Sized Family has a stork flying above the family's house carrying a swaddled baby in the title screen. The weird thing is, this baby never appears in the game. | |
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The Code Geass parody comic "Legend of the Power Couple" (from the gag comic compilation Queen volume 1) has Suzaku and Euphemia believe in this as Character Exaggeration Played for Laughs. Suzaku believes in the Delivery Stork, while Euphemia believes that babies come from cabbage patches, and Lelouch, standing nearby, has a look on his face that's the non-verbal version of a Flat "What". Which gets even flatter and what-ier when they hop in the Lancelot to search cabbage patches and stork habitats for babies. | |
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Dilbert - Discussed. One episode has Dilbert listing this trope among the lies his mother told him when he was a child. | |
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In The Fairly OddParents! movie Abra-Catastrophe!, Timmy accuses his parents of always lying to him. In order to test this, they put on some home movies to see how long it takes for them to catch themselves fibbing. The first thing that comes up is them shouting "The stork!" at a younger Timmy. | |
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Toba Tatsuro, a new teacher at Kyosuke's school, introduced in Kimagure Orange Road's volume 14, believes in this. | |
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In one episode of Muppet Babies (1984), Fozzie has an Imagine Spot of storks in an airport-like operation. Unfortunately, when he and Rolf accidentally mix up the destination cards, many babies end up going to the wrong places. | |
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Parodied in a Nemi strip. The father of the kid she babysits pays her to tell his son about the birds and the bees, and she sits him down and tells him various facts about birds and bees. | |
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Nero: Adhemar and Clo-Clo are both brought by a stork. | |
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The Anne of Green Gables books contain a reference to the stork, too. It was used as a euphemism for the birth of Anne's son, Jem. It was a bit oddly placed, since Anne had already given birth — albeit prematurely and the baby did not survive — and though it wasn't gory, it was plainly written. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Parodied in "Karen's Baby" where a robot stork arrives at Chum Bucket to deliver Karen's baby (a calculator). | |
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Sea of Stars uses a different bird. Solstice Warriors are born on the summer and winter solstices. On the day, The Great Eagle flies overhead, and a baby drifts down. | |
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Everything Changes (Milkyway Scribbles): At age 9, Ash still thinks a Pidgeot dropped him at his parents' door. | |
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Used as the basis of an in-universe joke in the film Children of Men: | |
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MGM Oneshot Cartoons: The Wartime Cartoon "The Stork's Holiday" has a delivery stork complaining about a harrowing experience trying to deliver babies during the war, and contemplating retirement until he gets a pep talk from his reflection. | |
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The opening narration of the Mushroom Forest in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles gives "sprouting from the Mushroom Forest" as the setting's fairy-tale story of how children come into the world: | |
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In Brawl in the Family a stork with a bent beak and singed feathers quits the delivery service after having to deliver the Koopalings to Bowser. Yes, all seven at once. | |
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The Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Crooked World takes place on a planet that's like a children's cartoon. They have no concept of sex, and Fitz (who's a little bit of a Lovable Sex Maniac) takes it upon himself to try explaining to the Girl of the Week. She only understands it in terms of making babies, which is done on this planet by writing a letter to the stork, and gets confused by his explanation and even more confused when Anji tries to explain his explanation, and decides Fitz would probably appreciate it if she wrote to the stork. He gets kidnapped and the stork has a devil of a time trying to find him, and by the time it finds him, it has dropped the baby into the jungle to be raised by friendly wolves and ends up delivering him a bomb instead, which he seems about as (un)happy about as he would have been about a baby. One of the villains who has kidnapped him comments, when the "baby" is dropped into his lap, that if he'd written to the stork in French, the stork wouldn't have known what he meant and wouldn't have delivered it.note In case you're not up on your outdated euphemisms, a "French letter" means a condom. In the Novelization of The Twin Dilemma, the Sixth Doctor, temporarily under the delusion he's Sherlock Holmes, claims that as a child his parents told him the stork delivered babies, but he found this hard to believe as babies were common in London, but storks were rare. Upon hearing that a neighbour was about to have a baby, he observed the house closely, and didn't see a single stork. He did see a doctor entering with a black bag; obviously he had brought the baby. |
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As explained in the opening sequence of Skunk Fu!, Skunk first arrived at the valley when a stork accidentally dropped him as a baby and he landed in Panda's arms who was praying to God to help defeat Dragon. | |
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Asterix and Son shows that Obelix still believes this trope. At the beginning, he mentions a (slightly prophetic) dream that a stork dropped a baby off on his and Asterix's doorstep. Much to his mild (and Asterix's not so mild) surprise, there really is a baby on the doorstep! | |
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In Hägar the Horrible, Hamlet asks his mother The Question. She answers that the stork brought him. He wants to know about his big sister, and Helga gives the same answer. Then he asks about his dad, and Helga says: "Four big storks." | |
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Empath: The Luckiest Smurf: Purposely subverted by stating that the Smurfs in the series reproduce physically. A stork does appear in the series to deliver Baby Smurf, but it is revealed that Baby Smurf came from Smurfling Island, and from parents on the island where nobody ages. In-universe, it's suggested that Peyo must have Bowdlerized the account when he created The Smurfs after getting his hands on the memory crystal that was given to him. In the adaptation of "The Smurfs And The Magic Flute", Peewit suggest this to be the case when he sees that the village consists of all male Smurfs at the time he and Johan first visited them. | |
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet references the trope with Bombirdier, a white bird Pokémon who uses its long feathers as a makeshift delivery bag. Rather than delivering babies, however, it prefers to carry rocks (which it then drops on other people and Pokémon For the Evulz). | |
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In Once Upon a Mattress, the King gives The Talk to the Prince entirely in mime, but despite his best efforts, his son doesn't quite get it, and so, in the end he makes motions suggesting a stork. The Prince, however, finally puts it all together and realizes that "it isn't the stork at all." | |
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In The Bird Feeder #155, "Baby Children," Darryl states that in the story he told his children, it was actually a heron. | |
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The Bunsen Is a Beast episode "Adventures in Beastysitting" establishes that baby beasts are delivered to their parents by Monstorks. | |
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In Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "I Am Curious Ed", when Sarah and Jimmy ask the curious question, innocent, naive Ed shows he strongly believes in this trope, to the point where he flies like a stork and drops Eddy down a chimney, to Double D's disbelief. | |
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Unwind takes place in a future America where abortion has been outlawed, but mothers who don't want their newborn babies are legally allowed to drop them anonymously on the doorstep of another person, which is called "storking." | |
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Mafalda When Mafalda's mother warns her that a brother is coming, the children discuss a lot about the stork, including the fact that airplane delivery would be quicker. In a later strip, Gus, the above little brother, comes across a very fat man at the beach: he pats him on the stomach and asks if there's a little stork on the way. In yet another strip, Mafalda mocks Miguel's idea that he can get an honest answer about the Vietnam War from his parents, saying they'll just start talking about storks. |
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Tex Avery MGM Cartoons: The cartoon Farm of Tomorrow has the narrator announce "we crossed a stork with a long-horn elk, to accommodate you impatient newlyweds who are in a hurry for a big family." The stork in question flies across the screen with a baby dangling from its bill. The stork also has a large rack of antlers, with a baby hanging from each point. See it here, at 5:30. |
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Referenced in Flubber. Stork is Weebo's last word before dying. It turned out to be the name of a file on Brainard's computer that contained a final message from Weebo as well as plans for a new model, which she calls her daughter, making the file name "Stork" a Meaningful Name. | |
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At one point in Being Female, Umbridge takes over the wizarding world, and decides to ban sex. She adds, "From now on, all babies will be delivered by storks." | |
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My Abominable Monster Classmates Can't Be This Cute!: Weiss believes that babies are delivered by snipe. Jaune sets her straight. | |
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An early Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode has Buffy and Xander discovering Giles anxiously rehearsing asking Jenny out on a date, and proceed to give him unsolicited advice. Xander tells him "That business with the stork? It's just a smokescreen!" - Giles glares. | |
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Baby was delivered this way in the beginning of Guardian's Crusade until the stork was attacked and dropped it in a nearby village. | |
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In issue 12 of Urbanus, Urbanus is bribed into marriage because he presumably impregnated a girl. Not understanding where babies come from, he panicks when he sees a truck with cabbages and blows it up. Then he spots a stork, and promptly beats it up. When he gets home, there is an entire swarm of storks, and he shoots at them with a cannon. Loaded with cabbages. | |
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The Mighty Mouse short "Raiding of the Raiders" plays with this. A stork shows up to deliver a sack to a bunny couple, but at the same time an owl doctor shows up to assist in extracting the baby bunnies from the sack, which is played like a birthing scene. | |
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In Brazilian comic Penadinho (known in English as Bug-a-booo), along with the comedic Grim Reaper, Dona Morte (known in English as Lady McDeath), there is a Stork who leads the reincarnation sector. | |
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Family Guy: Parodied in one episode. The woman is waiting in bed when a large stork arrives with his little bundle. When he opens it, however, it is just a red light bulb that he puts in her lamp. She asks, confused, "where's my baby?", to which he replies, in the mellow voice of Michael Clarke Duncan, "Sweetie, you and me are gonna make the baby." Then he turns on porn music and struts over to the bed... Subverted in another episode, where Stewie is taken away from the Griffins because Child Services mistakenly thinks they're bad parents. When Chris sees people getting babies from a man behind a window, he asks if this is where babies come from. Brian deadpans that, yes, it is, prompting Chris to point an accusatory finger at Lois and shout "You told me I came out of your vagina!" |
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The Disney Junior series T.O.T.S.(short for Tiny Ones Transport Service) is about a company of storks delivering animal babies (even birds) to their parents. Specifically, it's about the first non-stork delivery team to take this job, a penguin and a flamingo. | |
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In the Sword Art Online, DVD commentary "Sword Art Offline", Yui asks how human babies are made. To get out of telling her the truth, Kirito gives the stork explanation. | |
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Frasier: In one episode Martin starts reminiscing about how he used to get through stakeouts by picturing his wife waiting for him back home. Frasier and Niles strongly object to hearing about their dad's fantasies, leading Martin to joke that he and his wife found the boys in wicker baskets by the river during a church picnic. | |
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Used as a joke in an uncut episode of Friends. It is in an episode (8-15) where Monica does not want to watch a birthing video with Rachel, because Monica already freaked out over the footage. When Rachel remarks that Monica also wants to have kids, Monica answers: "I do. But... the stork is gonna bring mine..." | |
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Coryoon has a stork that delivers powerup orbs. | |
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React Watch Believe Yikes: As part of exaggerating her naïveté, Ruby still believes in this. And her interpretation of abortion is the stork being shot. Yang promises to set her straight at some point. | |
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