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Trojan Gauntlet
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So your fantasy couple is finally going to consummate their relationship! Hooray for them! If the decision to have sex is a conscious, in-advance one, rather than a spur-of-the-moment twist near the end of an episode — and especially if it's going to be the character's first time (or the first time in a while) — the characters will often prepare. This means birth control. The acquiring of said birth control is where this trope comes into play. For some reason, buying condoms or getting on the pill is made a torturous experience that explains why most sex on TV is hasty, unplanned, and thoughtless. The pharmacist will give a character a hard time about buying his condoms, or an unrealistically insensitive clinic worker will make going on the pill the most embarrassing thing possible. Even worse is if a parent or parent figure finds out, and instead of berating the character, supports their responsibility... often with humiliating advice and anecdotes. In comedies, this will be milked for all its worth. Note that, should you ever be so lucky in real life, buying contraceptives is almost never like that these days if for no other reason than the advent of HIV & AIDS created a very strong imperative to make barrier sexual protection as widely and easily available as possible. You buy them off the shelf, and the person at the counter won't even glance twice at your purchases. (Unless, of course, you're buying only condoms, six feet of garden hose, Vaseline, maraschino cherries, and a rubber ducky.) And with self-checkout machines becoming widespread in the 2010s, it's even possible to buy them without interacting with another person. Between this and changing views on sexuality, this trope has largely become a Discredited Trope. However, not that long ago, it was normal for condoms to be behind the counter, so you had to ask for 'em. This was something of a rite of passage and sometimes is still considered this to a slight degree even today - the idea being that if you aren't mature enough to go and buy condoms by yourself, you aren't mature enough to be having sex either. In order to facilitate this trope (or at least its potential for hilarity ensuing) within these changing social mores, the trope may therefore be combined with A Simple Plan, in that what seems like the simple act of acquiring contraception will, through a collision of unrelated circumstances, become far more tortuous and complicated than it should be. Nevertheless, many still see it as being a bit embarrassing—or at least a bit gauche—to buy condoms and nothing but condoms. For one, given that even in these more sexually permissive days sex is nevertheless still seen as a rather private and intimate affair, the more modest and shy among us might be at least a little uncomfortable knowing that at least one complete stranger is going to know that sex is likely to be in their immediate future. So often the purchase will be mixed in with a number of other items, e.g. toothpaste or soap. For comic effect, should the other items themselves be unfortunately or hastily chosen this may often lead to a serious case of Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick, which in turn will also provide the possibility for ensuing hilarity and comic misunderstandings. Of course, being able to get condoms doesn't necessarily mean they will always work. A subtrope of Exposed Embarrassing Purchase. Compare Tampon Run, which is about buying tampons instead of condoms. Often involves a Cover-up Purchase. |
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In Carry On Camping, Bernie Lugg is too shy to ask for sexual magazines over the counter in the newsagents, especially when there's an attractive woman serving for the day, so he asks for toothpaste out of embarrassment, much to the amusement of his friend, Sid Boggle: | |
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Bottom does this in the first episode. | |
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A small example in Chuck. Chuck convinces Sarah to run away so that they can find his father. They stop at a motel and get a room with one bed. After sleeping in the same bed, they wake up and jump at one another. Just as it seems that their UST will be finally resolved... Chuck decides to play it safe and runs to the bathroom to put on the condom he keeps in his wallet. Only to find an IOU note from Morgan who has taken it. He runs outside to find a condom vending machine and gets caught by Casey, who was following them. | |
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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 a similar and kind of Inverted example: in one episode, Kitty provides Eric with a bag of condoms, which is embarrassing. However, later Kitty and Red are planning to have sex and realize that they're out, so Red sneaks into Eric's room to take one. Eric walks in, Red is angry/embarrassed, and Eric freaks out because he incorrectly believes that Red saw his marijuana stash. |
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Inverted in an episode of The Simpsons, when Homer openly buys a packet of condoms (and similarly embarrassing items like a disposable enema and pantyliners) while trying to cover up the fact that what he really wants to buy are fireworks (which are illegal in the state the family is currently vacationing in). | |
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Snopes has "The Blind Date" urban legend, which can be summarized as "Young man discovers the pharmacist who sold him condoms is his blind date's father." | |
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Inverted in a Sex and the City where it's Miranda needing to go off birth control (due to breaking up with Steve) that causes embarrassment at her gynecologist. | |
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Red Ears: There's a gag where various men buy condoms from a female cashier. They don't know their own size, so she has to, ehm, manually check them by putting her hand down their pants, then broadcasting stuff on the loudspeaker like "Size XL! Aisle 3!" or "Size M! Aisle 3!". The punchline comes when a nervous teenager goes to buy condoms: "Cleanup! Aisle 3!" | |
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For an unfunny example, in the pilot of Mad Men, the gynecologist prescribing Peggy her birth control pills thoughtlessly humiliated her throughout her exam. | |
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The title character on Felicity was humiliated repeatedly over the course of an entire episode over her decision to have sex with love interest Noel, including one Planned Parenthood employee's condom usage demonstration with a hilarious red plastic penis. | |
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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. | |
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In an episode of Head of the Class, as nerdy Arvid prepared for his date with the school bike, he ventured to the drugstore to purchase condoms. Of course, he was thoroughly embarrassed and thwarted at every turn. He finally prepared to leave the store when a completely random woman—who'd apparently figured out the reason for his nervousness—called him out, telling him "don't you DARE leave here without those condoms!" and proceeded to buy them for him, lecturing him on safe sex and responsibility. | |
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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. | |
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Jack & Bobby has one where Jack and his best friend are staring at the condom selection at the supermarket, trying to figure out what size to buy. Then his mom Grace winds up behind him in the checkout line. Of course, she compliments him on being responsible and tells the cashier to charge her for the condoms, which only compounds Jack's embarrassment. | |
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The Hairy Bird has a hilarious scene where a young couple struggles with opening a can of contraceptive foam. | |
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In Atypical, Zahid takes Sam to the drugstore to help him buy condoms for his first sex act. Sam picks up a box of condoms, and asks the pharmacist if he can try them on and return them, gives a fact that the first condoms were made of leather, and asks if "ribbed for her pleasure" is a guaranteed statement. The clerk responds by asking them to just take the condoms. | |
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Everybody Loves Raymond devotes a Halloween episode to this one. In deference to the relatively family-friendly nature of the show, the condoms are referred to as "the stuff." So Ray buys "the stuff" to prove to Debra that he can be responsible. Brightly colored ones, to be specific. Unfortunately, before Ray gets to use them, Frank sees them in the bag on the kitchen counter and, thinking they're colorful candy, gives them to the trick-or-treaters. | |
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iZombie: When Ravi is testing whether the zombie virus is sexually transmittable, he says the store clerk will look at you real weird when you buy every brand of condom they have. | |
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Seinfeld's episode "The Sponge" sees Elaine's preferred method pulled off the market leaving her desperate to find whatever sponges remain in New York. This, of course, leads to the catchphrase "Spongeworthy." This gets a callback in the final episode when the pharmacist is called to testify against her and her need for birth control is made to make her sound like a loose woman rather than one taking responsibility for her reproductive health. | |
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One of Mark Lamarr's intros on Never Mind the Buzzcocks (which all had the format "The pop quiz that likes to say '[line from song], [line that changes the meaning]") was something like "The pop quiz that likes to say 'And through it all, she offers me protection, but I always leave the chemists with a pack of indigestion tablets". | |
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Steven Merchant explained how he was too embarrassed to buy condoms from a 17-year-old checkout girl during The Ricky Gervais Show. | |
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Clueless: After a full series of him begging for it, Murray and Dionne are going to have Their First Time in the series finale. He goes to get condoms, and who should wind up behind him in line than the reverend from his family's church. | |
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Inverted in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, where a customer is extremely loud and proud to be purchasing condoms... but awfully discrete when he adds that he would also like the new single by Jason Donovan. | |
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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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The song "House of Fun" by Madness is made of this trope. The lyrics concern a sixteen-year-old attempting to buy some condoms with little success. Though this is in large part because he Cannot Spit It Out (and in the third verse, a Nosy Neighbor has entered the shop, making him more circumspect), and instead comes out with increasingly bizarre and ridiculous euphemisms for condoms that just confuses the chemist into thinking he wants to buy some balloons. | |
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The Blob (1988): Paul and Scott go buy condoms at the town pharmacy, where they also happen to run into the town priest, making the entire thing even more awkward. As it turns out, the pharmacist is actually the father of Paul's date Meg. Ribbed indeed. | |
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CollegeHumor: They parody this in the POV series where buying condoms is shown from both the guy's perspective and his girlfriend's. The guy finds it embarrassing and tries to hide it by buying half a dozen unrelated items. The girl doesn't know the guy's size so she just buys all of them. They also did another variation for their "Dating: It's Complicated" series. A young college-aged couple are at a party, and they get drunk and fall asleep or pass out in one of the bedrooms. They wake up at about 3 AM, and begin making out...and the girl says she wants to have sex. Her boyfriend is excited because he's a virgin (well, technically)...but he unfortunately doesn't have any condoms with him. The girlfriend replies that she has a condom in her purse...which is locked in one of the other bedrooms. She sends him down the hall to get it, and he is unable to get into the room, ask for help, or pick the lock. He proposes a number of makeshift condom ideas (balloons, beer bottle, plastic wrap), but his girlfriend shoots them all down. Then she asks him to go ask the apartment's owner for a condom, but he refuses because it's too awkward. So they decide to go with their old standby: the Everything But. When they finish and turn on the lights, there's a brand-new box of condoms right on the bedside table...and the owner of the bed/apartment angrily kicking them out. When they finally do get the opportunity to go "all the way," the girl is on her period and in a bad mood. |
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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. | |
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Summer of '42 has one of the better examples of this, justified in that the movie takes place in The '40s and the guy trying to obtain the rubbers is 15 years old. | |
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Freerunner, despite being set in modern times, invoked this for a joke about the scanner not working which turned out to be a Chekhov's Skill for the goal scanners. | |
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G.B.H.. Labor leader Mike Murray, eager to make love to the beautiful blonde waiting in his hotel room, tries to find a packet of condoms in the middle of a Doctor Who convention. Unfortunately, the hotel's vending machine is empty thanks to a large influx of firemen the previous night. Mike has to borrow some from the hotel's owner who's in his office with several conventioneers, including one dressed as a Dalek. | |
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One famous episode of EastEnders followed Alfie Moon's attempts to procure some condoms so he could have a passionate night in with his then-girlfriend Kat Slater. By the time he managed to get back with some, Kat had fallen asleep. | |
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The Golden Girls: In a Valentine's Day Episode, Dorothy, Blanche, and Rose reminisce about a time they went to a drugstore to purchase some items for a romantic cruise with their steady boyfriends. Blanche suggests buying condoms, much to Dorothy and Rose's chagrin, but she insists that they definitely won't run into any problems. Of course, the clerk immediately gets on the P.A. and loudly announces exactly what they're buying to an associate to check the price. Blanche recovers by grabbing the P.A. microphone herself and shaming the gawking crowd for their judgment, saying that they're proud of the fact that they're taking charge of their sexual health and making a responsible choice. | |
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Episode 8, Season 2 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Kimmy has to buy condoms in a convenience store. | |
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In If Looks Could Kill the protagonist Michael Corben is mistaken for a James Bond-type spy, and a Femme Fatale Spy turns up to seduce and then kill him. Eager to make love to this beautiful woman, Corben searches through the effects of the spy whose place he's taken and finds a metal tube labelled COMBAT CONDOMS. As he's in the bathroom struggling to get the tube open, another assassin turns up, and blows up the first assassin with a rocket launcher. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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Parodied in It's Walky!: the characters involved make the whole thing far more complicated and embarrassing than it would otherwise be. | |
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In Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards, Larry attempts to discreetly buy a "lubber" at a convenience store. The clerk talks him through a Long List of options before loudly "repeating" his order (intentionally getting it wrong, including giving the size as "extra small" regardless of what you said) to the entire store. Hitherto unseen people appear from behind the shelves to shout "What a pervert!" before disappearing again. | |
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