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* The ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' doujin made by Creator/{{CLAMP}} ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, CLAMP]]), ''[=JoJo's=] Bizarre Married Life'', involves Kakyoin laying a large egg in his sleep that hatches into his and Jotaro's son, Jota Kujo. This is never explained and quickly forgotten. If not for Jota being a main character for the rest of the doujin, this would pretty much be a BigLippedAlligatorMoment.

--> '''Nick:''' Right, just like the ones that rooster was gonna lay. Only roosters don't lay eggs, do they?
-->'''Fetcher:''' Don't they?
-->'''Nick:''' No, it's a lady thing, apparently. Ask your mum.

** In "Planet of Poultry", aliens turn all the characters save for Garfield into chickens by aliens. At the end of episode when Garfield gets everyone back to normal, he tells the audience that [[WhaleEgg Jon still lays eggs as a human]], [[LampshadeHanging which is weird because male chickens don't lay eggs]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': The episode "The Bird Bot Of Ice-Catraz" has the cast dealing with an extreme explosion of the penguin population on Pluto due to a spillage of dark matter making them extra fertile. So fertile, that not only have the females been laying six eggs every fifteen minutes that hatch in less than twelve hours, but even the male penguins have started laying eggs.

** Discussed in the episode "The Milhouse of Sand and Fog", where the Simpsons try to deliberately infect the neighbourhood kids with Maggie's chicken pox. Ralph thinks he turned into a chicken and laid an egg (either because he [[PottyFailure soiled himself]] or just because he's a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}), apparently not realising that unless he also [[GenderBender turned female]] and aged up, that wouldn't be possible.
** At the end of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E10MarriedToTheBlob Married to the Blob]]" , Milhouse [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext (who's being visualized as a bird by a hallucinating Homer and Kumiko's father)]] lays an egg[[https://youtu.be/HaXLcueLFOY]].

** In "Golden Yeggs", a gold egg is laid at [[WesternAnimation/PorkyPig Porky]]'s farm, and he asks who did it. The one who did it is a goose with a male voice, but since he doesn't want to end up dead like in the story of the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, he pins it on WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck instead. Mobster Rocky reads about Daffy's alleged accomplishment in the newspaper and declares "We're going into the egg business!" After beating up Porky, Rocky and his henchmen kidnap Daffy and order him to lay a gold egg. Daffy tries to stall for time to plot an escape, although Rocky is smarter at each turn and blocks his escape attempts. In the end, after a time limit expires on when he expected to have laid the egg, Daffy is shot at ... and the shock somehow makes him actually lay a gold egg. Never in the cartoon is it questioned whether male birds should be expected to lay eggs, let alone gold ones … except Rocky apparently does ... as, at cartoon’s end, Daffy tries to leave but is stopped at gunpoint. Rocky escorts the duck to a warehouse where hundreds if not thousands of empty egg cartons are waiting; “Fill ‘em up!” Rocky snaps at Daffy ... to which Daffy faints dead away.

* Professor Bird Brain from ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' has laid eggs for comedic effect in several episodes, despite being a male blue-bottomed booby bird. Keswick the platypus has laid eggs as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'': In "The Deadly Maze", Chowder and Mung's former apprentice Gumbo are trapped inside the titular maze, menaced by Jeffrey, a bird-headed humanoid creature. After Gumbo is caught in one of his own traps, Jeffrey lays an egg. . . which hatches into a [[UncannyValley creepy-looking]] CGI pig/goat/baby.

* While Yoshi's case generally isn't [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in his ''own'' series, in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros4'' (and ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', where the conversation is re-used), [[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising Viridi]] can't help but wonder what the deal is and [[DiscussedTrope discusses it with Pit]], who wonders why Viridi can't figure it out considering [[MotherNature she's the Goddess of Nature]]. (Her response: "There's nothing natural about this guy!") Palutena [[HandWave concludes]] that all living things have both male and female elements, and Yoshi is no different. [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Snake and Otacon]] have a similar discussion in one of the codecs from [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]], where Snake immediately assumes Yoshi is female from his egg-laying ability, only for Otacon to confirm that, according to Yoshi, he is male.

* The ''Toys/{{Furby}}'' ''Boom'' can lay eggs regardless of what personalitu they're currently in, meaning that the male Rockin' and Jolly personalities can lay eggs. Averted in the ads, where when a Furby Boom is shown laying an egg, it's always in the female [[GenkiGirl Hyper]] personality.

* The page image is provided by ''WebAnimation/BHappy'', a Creator/CartoonNetwork web series. The main character is the Bluebird of Happiness, who is sent down to Earth in order to deliberate whether or not certain troubled individuals deserve happiness. In order to do this, he must lay the rather large "Egg of Justice". [[AssShove B. Happy does not particularly enjoy this aspect of his job]].

** Perry's theme song calls him a "semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action". He doesn't ''personally'' lay eggs, it's just referring to how his species are [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotreme monotremes]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'': In "Virtualodeon", there is a character in a children's show named Rob the Giant Chicken, a man disguised as a chicken who claims that he'll lay an egg unless the audience sings with him.

** Foghorn Leghorn was the victim of a cruel practical joke by the Barnyard Dawg, by being led to believe he actually laid an egg, in “Mother Was a Rooster.” (The Dawg had stolen an ostrich egg from a local wildlife hatchery and placed it underneath Foggy’s belly as he slept.) Dawg gets as much amusement from Foggy declaring he’s a mother as he does by viciously (and darkly) insulting the ostrich chick.

** Perry's theme song calls him a "semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action". He doesn't ''actually'' lay eggs, it's just referring to how his species are [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotreme momotremes]].

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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouthbrooder Mouthbrooding species]] are animals (mostly fish and frogs) who hold their eggs in their mouths until the eggs hatch. In some species, the male is the one to carry the eggs.
* In Basel, Switzerland, in 1474, a rooster was tried for witchcraft and sentenced to death after being suspected of laying eggs. At the time, a rooster laying an egg was considered a demonic sign.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Perry's theme song calls him a "semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action". Although this could just be a case of an unreliable singer, since he's never actually shown laying an egg. The episode "Perry Lays an Egg" deals with Phineas and Ferb incubating a bird egg under the belief that it's an egg Perry laid, which notably does ''not'' cause them to deviate from their assumption that Perry is male.

A form of AnimalGenderBender. SisterTrope to LactatingMale. Compare MisterSeahorse for when a biologically male character is revealed to somehow be pregnant, which can come in many forms, including [[{{Squick}} mammalian]]. If a presumed-male animal is discovered to be female after laying an egg, that's YourTomcatIsPregnant. If a creature that has ''no business whatsoever'' laying an egg still ends up laying one, it's WhaleEgg.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' there were a few instances:
** It is hilariously demonstrated in the episode ''The Duck Brothers'' where one of the duck brother triplets constantly lays eggs much to the intense chagrin of his other brother who asserts that shouldn't be possible due to being males and constantly demands he cut it out. At the end of the episode, all three brothers lay eggs much to the dissenting brother's displeasure.
-->'''Duck Brother #1''': I told you to stop doing that! Besides, we don't lay eggs! We're duck ''brothers''!
-->'''Duck Brother #2''': Stop telling me what to do!
** In another episode, ''The Uncommon Cold'', in order to cure Muriel's cold, Courage has to imitate a chicken and he, somehow, laid an egg, despite being a male [[WhaleEgg dog]].

** In another episode, ''The Uncommon Cold'', in order to cure Muriel's cold, Courage has to imitate a chicken and he, somehow, laid an egg, despite being a male [[WhaleEgg dog]].

** One episode has Red Guy tricking Chicken into thinking he's laid an egg. Chicken initially freaks out, but quickly accepts that he's a "mother".

* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'': Played with in a sequence where Super-Cow is blasting Red Guy with milk. Equally annoyed by the villain's antics, Chicken decides to join in by pelting him with feathers ripped from Chicken's own body. Of course the bird eventually runs out of feathers, to which Red Guy mocks Chicken for being unable to produce anything like milk with which to keep up the barrage. Cue two eggs smashing right into Red Guy's face followed by a cut to a very satisfied looking Chicken.

** In another episode, ''The Uncommon Cold'', in order to cure Muriel's cold, courage has to imitate a chicken and he, somehow, laid an egg, despite being a male dog.

** In another episode, ''The Uncommon Cold'', in order to cure Muriel's cold, courage has to imitate a chicken and he, somehow, laid an egg, inspite being is a male dog.

** In "Golden Yeggs", a gold egg is laid at [[WesternAnimation/PorkyPig Porky]]'s farm, and he asks who did it. The one who did it is a goose with a male voice, but since he doesn't want to end up dead like in the story of the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, he pins it on WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck instead. Mobster Rocky kidnaps Daffy and orders him to lay a gold egg, but after trying to escape, he is shot at and the shock somehow makes him actually lay a gold egg. Never in the cartoon is it questioned whether male birds should be expected to lay eggs, let alone gold ones … except Rocky apparently does as, at cartoon’s end, he stops Daffy from leaving and, escorting him to a room where hundreds of empty egg cartons are waiting, he orders the duck to “Fill ‘em up!” To which Daffy faints dead away.

* Hilariously demonstrated in the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode ''The Duck Brothers'' where one of the duck brother triplets constantly lays eggs much to the intense chagrin of his other brother who asserts that shouldn't be possible due to being males and constantly demands he cut it out. At the end of the episode, all three brothers lay eggs much to the dissenting brother's displeasure.