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I'll show you mine if you show me yours! This trope occurs when young children are pretending to have a checkup at the doctor. Sometimes the checkups become quite (or uncomfortably) thorough. Children tend to be very curious about things, including what the opposite sex looks like under their clothes. So naturally, sometimes they try to satisfy that curiosity by negotiating with someone roughly their own age. It's called "playing doctor", since it's frequently put in the form of a game where one child is the doctor and the other the patient, who takes off their clothes for examination like at the real doctor's office. For legal reasons, this game is almost never played all the way in visual media: it is mentioned happening off stage, or is interrupted before too many clothes come off. A common "bit" is for a parent to catch the children doing this and completely overreact, making the kids more confused and traumatized than the game ever would have. A common subversion is for precocious or overly intellectual children to actually be roleplaying medical professionals without any intent of taking off clothing. Indeed, this subversion is much more common in media than the "straight" use, as you'll see in the examples section. It's considered kind of cute for very small children to do this, less so as they get older, and if either participant has hit puberty, they've lost the Children Are Innocent excuse. Indeed, if anyone from puberty on up suggests "playing doctor," it's an Unusual Euphemism. And if one child participant is significantly older than the other (e.g. a 10-year-old with a 5-year-old), it's usually a bad sign. Not to be confused with "playing The Doctor", Playing Dr. Mario, Playing House, Playing House, playing House or I'm Not a Doctor, but I Play One on TV. |
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X-Men has Lillandra misunderstood when she asks Charles to play doctor. When he yells, she clarifies she's talking about actual medicine. | |
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The very first chapter of A Centaur's Life contains an older example than usual when the three main characters, all middle school girls, engage in a round of "I'll show you mine if you show me yours". The motive is still "find out what the others look like under their clothes" since the three girls are an Imp, a Satyr and a Centaur respectively and the whole goal was to assure the centaur that her genitals, which she has never seen, don't resemble a cow's. | |
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Arrow: Played for drama when Oliver Queen is shot, and the others have to patch him up themselves as they can't afford to take him to a hospital where the police will ask awkward questions. Given the Running Gag of Felicity saying That Came Out Wrong things to Oliver, the innuendo version is inevitably used for a Call-Back of this incident. |
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An episode of Maude, in accordance with its then-edgy subject matter, had parents reacting to finding their kids, a boy and a girl, naked playing doctor. | |
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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 this more fondly than their first date, because he "got further". | |
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Sandcastle: After aging into teenagers, Zoe (who is mentally five) inspects Louis's "nice new hair"… and winds up giving him an erection, which she finds cool. | |
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Subverted in Ozy and Millie as it's used to parody health insurance ('Thanks for sitting here by yourself for an hour. Here's a referral.'). 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. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has a take on it, but instead of MD, they play PhD. | |
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Washu gives this reasoning when Mihoshi walks into her lab and catches Washu in a nurse's outfit and Tenchi stripped to his boxers (and Washu's hand in his boxers) in the seventh episode of Tenchi Muyo!. Mihoshi, being The Ditz, takes it as meaning "the game" and ponders about joining in before causing trouble for the poor scientist. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: A strip has Calvin playing doctor with his neighbor Susie Derkins. Of course, this being Calvin and Hobbes, it is presented in the style of Rex Morgan, M.D. to showcase just how weird Calvin is, and Susie storms off due to the excessive treatments Calvin suggests from the symptom of "My foot hurts, doctor." Another time, it gets implied when after Playing House with Susie, Calvin gets fed up and takes off his clothes so he can go play "Jungle Man" by himself. This leads to his mom getting a call from Susie's parents about how he took his clothes off at her house. |
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Keima winds up on the wrong end of this in The World God Only Knows. During an arc where Keima is undergoing Mental Time Travel to when he was six, a first grader with a Precocious Crush discovers one of her grandfather's porn magazines and wants to copy them with Keima. Keima is fully aware of and Squicked by how just plain wrong this situation is. He successfully turns it around and arranges the situation such that they wind up having a chance to meet the grandfather, whom Keima needed to speak to. | |
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Supernatural. As a preteen, Sam falls for the Girl Next Door after he saves her from bullies. She lampshades the trope when giving him an After Action Patch Up. "Time to play doctor." | |
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A rather surprising example came from King of the Hill between Bobby and Connie. The two of them, after a large misunderstanding about Connie thinking Bobby doesn't like her because she hasn't developed yet, decide to take off their shirts in front of each other and see each other's bodies. While Bobby gets his shirt off, Connie is interrupted by her father entering the room. Being that Kahn doesn't like Bobby already, and hates the idea of Connie being exposed to what he assumes to be rednecks, he's pretty pissed off. This example is very strange because the two of them are clearly at that age when they're starting to notice the opposite sex, and experience sexual urges, and are at least partly playing the game because of those urges, and yet the entire affair carries a clear feeling of innocence. There is the fact that sex wasn't on Bobby's mind at all. He thought couples took their clothes off and looked at each other, nothing more. | |
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In Technotise Edit I Ja, Edit's memory of an instance of this is the cause for Edi's appearance. | |
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Inverted on The Big Bang Theory, when Leonard and Penny come into the apartment to find Sheldon and Amy playing doctor, Star Trek style; both are fully clothed, Sheldon is lying on the couch and Amy is running a medical tricorder over him. | |
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A variation and ultimate subversion occurs in X-Men: First Class, Erik and Charles are recruiting mutants, one of which, happens to be a stripper in a swank lounge. They bring her into the VIP room and say, "We'll show you ours if you show us yours." She takes it the wrong way until she realizes he is talking about mutant powers. | |
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In SHUFFLE!, Mayumi uses this to explain a situation she got in with Rin. Specifically, she fell and landed with her panties in his face, and when she didn't like his reaction she decided that she'd get revenge by taking his pants off. Even though Mayumi was at fault, Rin wound up getting in trouble when Primula told the teacher what Mayumi'd said. | |
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A mild example in Galaxy Angel II that's played for laughs and not for titillation due to the franchise focusing on innocent romance. Nano-Nano and Kazuya play doctor as the latter takes off his shirt and the former examines Kazuya's chest. Then Nano-Nano offers to take off her shirt so that Kazuya can have a turn examining her chest... but Kazuya, who unlike Nano-Nano is very much aware of the Always Female Double Standard Fanservice ramifications involved with examining a girl's naked chest, runs away screaming. Nano-Nano just wonders what got into Kazuya all of a sudden, too naive to realize the implications of what she was asking him. | |
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Happened in a movie called Anatomy of Hell. You actually saw the genitalia of the little girl playing doctor, Carolina Lopes. | |
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InCryptid: When Antimony and Sarah were kids, they "played cryptozoologist" so Annie could learn about cuckoo biology. Angela (Sarah's mom) and Evelyn (Antimony's mom) were pissed when they found their daughters naked in the barn. | |
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The "Heartland Values with Nurse Bob" segment on LCFR in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories has a father calling into the show on how he keeps catching his children playing doctor, and he punishes his kids by calling a timeout, which he cites as being effective. | |
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Black Lagoon: In one of the Omakes, Hansel and Gretel play doctor with little Garcia, Roberta's young master. Hansel and Gretel being… you know… Hansel and Gretel, they decide to play the real kind of doctor with him, much to poor Garcia's distress. They were also keen on playing doctor like the adults do… | |
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Weird Science: "Cyborg Sam I Am" referenced this in passing when Wyatt recalled a girl he knew during his childhood. | |
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A straighter example of "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" is from the movie The Ice Storm, starring a young Christina Ricci. (It's consistently the most popular clip on Hulu.) | |
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The Dagashi Kashi anime has a flashback in episode 6 of Saya and Kokonotsu playing doctor, with Saya very unsatisfied by Kokonotsu's pill-dispensing quack who refused to "examine" her (at the moment, he was fascinated by a candy that came in pill-like blister packaging). | |
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El Chavo del ocho uses a variant in the episode where Quico is sick. El Chavo wants to play doctor by doing the "hit the knee with a hammer to test reflexes" part. Hilarity Ensues when Quico's reflexes result in him raising the other leg, or the arm. | |
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On M*A*S*H, Hawkeye would regularly use "want to play doctor?" as a pick-up line on the nurses. | |
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One Lanfeust Spinoff Babies has Lanfeust and Cixi find an out-of-the-way spot to "play mommy and daddy"... meaning beat the crap out of each other while yelling about his coming home drunk every night or her flirting with the fishmonger. | |
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In Titeuf, the protagonist is asked by a girl to play doctor, he takes it literally and proceeds to simulate an injection... with a sharpened pencil. | |
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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. Megumi is a hermaphrodite. | |
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The Most Popular Girls in School: In Episode 53, Trisha 2 thinks that Deandra and Saison are doing this when she first walks into the cafeteria. In actuality, Saison is about to give birth. | |
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A similar variant occurs in Alter Ego (1986), where a childhood scenario has you and a friend of the opposite gender stripping to examine each other. Your friend's mother walks in and is horrified, while your own mother passes it off as innocent play. | |
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Life in Hell: One comic listing a bunch of children's experiments ends with a male character looking at a female and wondering "What's under that dress?" | |
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There is one example in Le Petit Spirou... only it turns out both of them are cheating. Also, the cover for Tome 3, as pictured above (the shadow is l'abbé Langelusse catching them in the act, with the follow-up image being Spirou using his stethoscope on the fainted reverend). | |
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Subverted in a FoxTrot comic in which Jason and Eileen simply role-play various medical bureaucrat lines to each other. | |
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In The Very World of Milton Jones, he takes it extremely seriously, ordering various things of his "nurse" (oh yeah, they're technically playing "doctors and nurses", behind the bike sheds); his final line is: | |
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In Teeth, the horror-comedy about the girl with 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. | |
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Blade Runner: While talking to Rachel about her memories, Deckard reminded her about the time she and her brother played doctor. Her brother showed her his, and when it got to be her turn, she chickened and ran. The memories were actually implanted in her: they came from Tyrell's niece. | |
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Doctor Who. Amy mentions playing quite a few games of doctors and nurses with Rory while they were growing up. There's a Love Triangle subtext given Amy's long-standing obsession (including sexual) with the Doctor, whereas Rory now works as a male nurse. | |
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Person of Interest: Referenced as part of a Les Yay Ship Tease joke, one of many that happen between Root and Shaw. | |
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Parodied in the South Park episode "Hooked on Monkey Phonics" when the Homeschooled Kid Rebecca plays "doctor" with Kyle, which freaks out her overprotective parents, but it turns out she's literally playing doctor, pretending to give him brain surgery. | |
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Referenced in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, of course. As children, Willow and Xander played doctor in the same way as the FoxTrot example, and Willow doesn't know that there's another way to play it, leading to a bit of confusion when she references those games. When Willow asks Buffy how it's supposed to be played, Buffy looks embarrassed and claims she never played (Cordelia gives her a "Yeah, right!" look). | |
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A really disturbing example happens in Forest Hill, when a 5 year old girl named Talitha forces 4 year old Hunter to do this against his will, although she calls it playing house. Hunter's father is very upset when he hears about this. This becomes even more disturbing when it is revealed that she has been watching her father's adult movies and that her father is one of the people that Benni's abusive father forced Benni have sex with for money. | |
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In one episode of Family Guy done In the Style of The Little Rascals, Rascal-Peter sees Rascal-Lois enter the classroom and muses to himself, "Wow, I'd like to play doctor with her… and remove her appendix before it burst, causing sepsis." | |
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In Always Coming Home,it is mentioned sexual games are actually encouraged among the Valley kids to such an extent, that by the age of ten, they tend to be well knowledgeable about contraceptives. | |
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There exists an episode of My Wife and Kids in which Michael Kyle educates Kady in self-defense, cautioning her of boys who offer to "play doctor" with her. At the end of the episode, one of Kady's classmates approaches her and requests to play doctor with her in the most innocent (and literal) sense of the term… but this doesn't stop Kady, who misinterpreted her father's warnings, from knocking the poor kid to the ground. | |
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In the series I Don’t Like You at All, Big Brother!!, 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. | |
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In Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors there is a following dialogue: | |
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On The Goon Show: | |
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In Secrets Not Meant to be Kept, this "game" has nothing to do with innocent childhood curiosity and everything to do with adults using it as a pretext to molest toddlers. However, one of the protagonist's friends does recall playing the usual version of the game when she was a kid. | |
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