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Tampon Run
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Alice just started her period and has run out of tampons. She is busy so she nonchalantly asks Bob, her boyfriend, to get them for her. Bob just stares in horror. Alice explains that she can't go, but she needs them as soon as possible so he would have to get them. Bob freaks out as he embarks on the most horrifying journey to the store that he will EVER have to face: the Tampon Run. Can also apply to menstrual pads (or sanitary napkins). Played for Laughs, this trope exemplifies just how much of a big deal men stereotypically make out of menstruation. For whatever reason, testosterone makes men think that this naturally occurring event is the most terrifying thing in the world. He may be seen talking to himself, shouting to nobody in particular upon finding out that "they come in sizes?!?!?!", and trying to hide it. Men might try to play it off by asking if they come in larger sizes. Bonus points if he sees another guy in the same boat or if the sales clerk calls for a price check effectively announcing to the whole store that Bob is buying tampons. Compare to Wacky Cravings where it is also often exaggerated by the husbands or if the writers are guys and to All Periods Are PMS where the poor unfortunate guy is being sent on the errand because every 28 days his loving mate turns into an evil conniving bitch. Contrast No Periods, Period. Trojan Gauntlet will often involve many of the same embarrassing circumstances and might be the closest possible thing to this trope's Spear Counterpart. |
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In Season 2 of The Real World, one of the male housemates cringes when one of the women mentions not feeling well because of her period. She tells him to get over it as odds are he'll have to do this for his girlfriend or wife someday and proceeds to give him a lecture on the different types of products. | |
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Blossom did it to herself when she had to go buy tampons for the first time. She chickened out when she saw that a cute boy from school was the clerk. | |
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The Ghost and Molly McGee: Season 2's "A Period Piece" has a B-plot involving Pete and Scratch going shopping for period products because Libby just got her first one at Molly's sleepover, and his wife Sharon is out of her own products. While in a bit of a rush to help his daughter's friend, he's initially calm about the whole thing... until he realizes his wife's preferences might not match Libby's, causing him to start overthinking and ultimately empty the whole aisle into his shopping cart. | |
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ThugBoy had to do this for Empowered. | |
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In Miss Congeniality 2, to lose the three FBI agents escorting her back to Quantico, Gracie faked a sudden period and ran off to the toilet with Sam. The three remaining agents were tasked with getting the tampons. | |
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Mentioned on The Orville when Kelly admits that Ed (her ex-husband) was the kind of mellow guy that could always be relied upon to make a run for "bagels or tampons" without any fuss. | |
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Carly alludes to sending Spencer on one in "iDate a Bad Boy." | |
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In On the Fastrack, Wendy sent Art the first time their daughter needed them. This being a family comic, she didn't speak directly — and Art tried hard not to know what she meant. | |
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A Fullmetal Alchemist fanfic has Ed go pick up tampons for Winry. | |
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In the Sweet Valley Twins book when Elizabeth gets her first period, the girls go to the store to buy pads, and end up horribly embarrassed when the clerk does a price check. | |
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King of the Hill: Hank is forced to do this for Connie, the next-door-neighbor girl because she gets her first period when her parents and his wife are away and she's staying at their house. Being Hank, he creates an organized detailed binder with everything a man needs to know about shopping for products in the "feminine aisle". When Connie's parents get home, he gives it to Kahn Sr. to help him deal with his daughter's new monthly cycle. Alluded to/ subverted in another episode when Hank is about to go to the store and is aghast that Peggy included her "feminine items" on the list... which turns out to be diet soda. |
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Married... with Children. Peggy asks Bud to do this for her. He's horrified, naturally. | |
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The scene in Jack & Sarah where Jack has to buy some sort of lactation-related product (either nipple pads or nipple shields) for his pregnant wife is similar in spirit. | |
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My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister has a variation: Satori is asked to deliver tampons to his older sister Erika, who forgot to take them with her to school. He's embarrassed but does it for the opportunity to see Erika even more embarrassed. | |
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From Not Always Right: Why Cashiers Should Rule the World. How the cashier handles the poor guy's heckler: she pretends that she's the buyer's affected girlfriend, gives the buyer her employee discount, and closes the register in the heckler's face under pretense of going to the bathroom. This entry turns a tampon run into a task worthy of Mission: Impossible. |
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Monroe from the same-named strip in MAD, in an early strip. | |
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Happens in Stone Soup when the family is on a camping trip...miles away from any store. Wally is the one who has to go to the store for them, much to his chagrin. | |
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Baymax! has the titular character go on one of these in the third episode to help a girl get over her first period. However, Baymax isn't the one embarrassed (as he's a health-care robot whose role is to get medical supplies for Sofia, the one embarrassed over it all). He meets up with both female and male customers who bring up their own suggestions in an open manner, and he ends up buying everything without complaint. | |
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Implied in Seinfeld, when Jerry asks George "Is there any Tampax in your house?". When George reluctantly replies "Yes", Jerry declares, "You've got yourself a girlfriend". | |
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In The Proposal with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, Bullock says a line something like "If you don't go along with this, everything you've been through, all those late-night Tampax runs, will have been for nothing." | |
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Referred to on an episode of NCIS, where despite the plethora of women's clothing, the lack of tampons or any other women's toiletries in a suspect's apartment makes Kate think that his relationship with his girlfriend wasn't that serious.note The guy turned out to be a crossdresser. The clothes were his. | |
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Man of the House does this with dignity and with making it a plot point, as the romantic interest helps our hero out. | |
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Young Sheldon: After Missy gets her first period in "A Docent, a Little Lady and a Bouncer Named Dalton", George has to buy tampons for her. Luckily, the female store clerk is willing to help him. | |
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Terri Runnels once sent D'Lo Brown on a tampon run - which of course resulted in a price check for extra humiliation. This was part of a Vince Russo crafted storyline in which Terri got pregnant, supposedly with Val Venis. He then revealed that he'd had a vasectomy and dumped her, so she formed an alliance with D'Lo and Mark Henry. D'Lo accidentally knocked Terri off the ring apron causing her to have a miscarriage. D'Lo promised to do anything to make it up to Terri, so she started forcing him to do various humiliating jobs. It later turned out that she was never pregnant in the first place, and was just screwing with D'Lo. This angle ended up being inducted into WrestleCrap, for the record. | |
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Mr. Mom: Jack runs into this while checking his list when out grocery shopping. He tries to covertly pick them off the shelve, then gets really embarrassed when the clerk gets on the loudspeaker to call for a price check... | |
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On ER, Mark Greene's daughter Rachel starts her period unexpectedly while at Elizabeth Corday's apartment for Thanksgiving dinner. Elizabeth is reluctant to give her tampons given how young she is (ten and change) and tells Mark's father that one of them will have to stay with Rachel while the other goes down to the corner drug store to buy sanitary napkins. He quickly volunteers but slips on the ice coming back, suffering a minor head wound and having to go to County (where Mark is working). He grumbles about the confusing variety while being stitched up. | |
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Transcendent features one when Olive, a young transgender girl, is sent to get her mother some tampons. When the clerks assume she's a late bloomer just starting her own period and start overloading her with information, Olive freaks oit and just buys one of everything in order to get out of there. | |
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South Park: Stan's sister makes them go get her some tampons while they try to watch "Russell Crowe Fighting 'Round the World" in order to see the trailer for the new Terrence & Philip movie. When they return home after failing to accomplish the mission, a torrent of blood gushes forth from the door. | |
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For pads in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.; Gretchen's mother only uses Tampax, so she has to go out and buy pads for her daughter when she starts her first period. She' not disturbed by it, of course. | |
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A variant occurs in Wandering Son. Takatsuki is a middle school-aged closeted trans boy and is asked by his mother to buy pads. It's uncomfortable and embarrassing. It gets even worse when a teacher of his (who he potentially has a crush on) helps him grab the package. | |
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In American Restoration, Rick Dale sends his son on one when he finds himself restoring a Kotex vending machine. | |
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