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* Occurs in ''Series/FatherTed'', though not with a married couple. The priest's housekeeper Mrs. Doyle goes on a night out for the first time ever, so Ted and Dougal try to make tea and end up setting each other on fire.

->'''Father Ted:''' There's no button on the kettle! Where are the tea bags?\\
->'''Father Dougal:''' Fire! Put me out, Ted, will you?\\

->'''Father Dougal:''' Fire! Put me out, Ted, will you?

'''Father Dougal:''' Fire! Put me out, Ted, will you?
'''Father Ted:''' I just wanted a cup of tea! I just wanted my tea!

->'''Mrs. Doyle:''' Stop! Stop! Ladies! It's after seven o'clock. I think your husbands might be wondering where their breakfasts are!\\
'''Father Ted:''' Mrs. Doyle's right! Remember last year, Mrs. Dunn, when your husband tried to wash a cup, and burned the house down? And Mrs. Collins, when Mr. Collins tried to make the bed on his own... and lost a leg.

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** This was subverted in a series of adverts for Flash cleaning products during TheNineties, where the husband would show surprising competence in cleaning the house by using Flash instead of the generic BrandX stuff the wife normally used.

* Being a [[TheFifties 1950s]] sitcom, ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' did this a couple times. It also subverted the trope once; when Aunt Bee goes out of town for a few days, Andy and Opie do ''too'' good of a job as housekeepers, making her feel useless... until they trash the kitchen [[HardTruthAesop so she can clean up after them and feel happy again]].

* Back in TheEighties, Swedish comic ''ComicBook/{{Bamse}}'' had one story in which the titular character swapped jobs with his wife (who at the time was a stay-at-home housewife with three children) for a day. Naturally, he made a complete mess of things though some of it was because one of the kids unexpectedly got sick and needed extra care. However, at the end of the day, he suggested to his wife that they occasionally swap jobs so that she could get out of the house more -- and in later stories his housekeeping skills had improved drastically.

* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Deal", where Nicole spends a day in [[HouseHusband Richard's]] shoes after he goes on strike because she declared his odd methods of parenting to be insane. While his methods are odd, Nicole can't reign in the kids like Richard can, causing them to turn into gremlin-like creatures who cause problems throughout the house and neighborhood.

* ''Literature/RamonaQuimby, Age 8'' has a variation with children spending a night in their mother's figurative apron. After Ramona and Beezus [[PickyEater refuse to eat cow's tongue]], their parents make them cook the next night's meal to teach them to appreciate their mother's hard work in the kitchen. The cooking process is one panic after another, with lots of improvisation with unconventional ingredients, and the kitchen is a mess in the end, but the dinner turns out surprisingly well.

Usually an {{Aesop}} about how important and hard housework is and how men ought to be grateful for the work women do in the home.

* Being a [[TheFifties 1950s]] sitcom, ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' did this a couple times. It also subverted the trope once; when Aunt Bee goes out of town for a few days, Andy and Opie do ''too'' good of a job as housekeepers, making her feel useless... until they trash the kitchen [[HardTruthAesop so she can clean up after them and feel happy again.]]

* In ''Make Room for Daddy'', Danny's wife Kathy is summoned for jury duty, but feels she should get out of it because their maid is on vacation and there's no one to take care of the family. Danny makes light of housework and claims he can do her job easily, which pisses her off enough to let him attempt it while she disappears for several days. He makes such a total hash of housework and taking care of the kids (for school lunch, he gives one kid a can of tuna and the other kid the can opener) that he immediately hires cleaners, a butler, and cooks to take care of them while Kathy is gone. When she returns, at first he pretends to have cooked and cleaned himself, and the kids smack their lips over the gourmet meals they'd had. Kathy is devastated at being useless and runs crying into their bedroom, requiring Danny to coax her into the kitchen and reveal his joke by having the hired help serve her.