History Main / EggSitting

* Lillie in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' is assigned to watch over a Pokemon egg early in the Alola arc (which has a school setting and is is in Alola, an American-based region). A few episodes later, it hatches into an [[UndergroundMonkey Alolan]] [[AnIcePerson Vulpix]], which becomes her first Pokemon.

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' has Danny (secretly a half ghost) and Valerie, a fellow student, (secretly a HunterOfMonsters, trying to capture Danny) take care of a microchipped sack of flour that can simulate crying and defecation. Tucker had the idea of "babysitting" other students' projects for money, but his mother used all the flour for baking cookies, forcing him to pay everyone back with interest. Sam, however, passes with an A, while Danny and Valerie get a C for their cooperation since they are the only other students whose flour sack had not been used for baking.

* ''[[Disney/{{Hercules}} Hercules The Animated Series]]'' has the students taking care of eggs as part of their project. Despite his clumsiness and tendency to trip over his own feet and cause chaos and destruction everywhere, Hercules keeps his egg safe. Cassandra cooks her egg and eats it in front of everyone else.

* ''FanFic/{{Coyote}}'': Hound Dog has Izuku carry around an egg filled with blue glycerin; in order to pass, he needs to be able to care for it three full days without breaking it. In addition to helping him learn how to better control his SuperStrength, this exercise is also meant to teach him to defend himself, as [[TheBully Bakugou]] is perfectly willing to smash the egg just to spite him. The second time Izuko reaches a RageBreakingPoint with Bakugou in the story (although it's more of a "so fed up [[DisappointedInYou that he feels disappointment]] and stops caring about him" point)is when Izuku has to fend off Bakugou trying to smash the egg for the nth-time during the visit to the the USJ and firmly points out that even for Bakugou [[EvilIsPetty this has crossed into the realm of the extremely petty]].

* ''FanFic/{{Coyote}}'': Hound Dog has Izuku carry around an egg filled with blue glycerin; in order to pass, he needs to be able to care for it three full days without breaking it. In addition to helping him learn how to better control his SuperStrength, this exercise is also meant to teach him to defend himself, as [[TheBully Bakugou]] is perfectly willing to smash the egg just to spite him.

** And then when she got fed up and passed it on to him, he ended up [[spoiler:accidentally blowing it up when bad guy Omega Red attacked the ''Daily Bugle''.]]
--->'''Kitty Pryde: '''''[[spoiler:He killed our baby!]]''

* In "[=#ScrambledEggs=]" from ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'', the class is split into duos so that they can take care of eggs. The substitute teacher admits to not knowing about home economics, so he just looked it up online and used eggs because they were the first example that came up. When the main teacher comes back, she redoes the assignment with the ClassPet hamster's new babies.

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-->'''Max:''' Here's the bio and civics.
-->'''Nelson:''' Thanks, hon. How about the math?
-->'''Max:''' It's coming, stop nagging.
-->'''Terry:''' I get it. You're doing his homework so you don't have to take care of the baby.
-->'''Max:''' We opted for the traditional marriage: one breadwinner, one homemaker.
-->'''Nelson:''' Beats algebra.

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* In "[=#ScrambledEggs=]" from ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'', the class is split into duos so that they can take care of eggs. The substitute teacher admits to not knowing about home economics, so he just looked it up online and used eggs because they were the first example that came up.

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* Done more than once by [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Daffy Duck]].

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Bart gets himself emancipated and moves out due to Homer’s behavior. Homer does not take this well and tries to learn to be a better parent by caring for a bag of sugar. Somehow, the bag of sugar gets switched with a real baby.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'''s sister, D.W. has a Tamagotchi-like (though on-line) "Net Kitten" that is imperiled when the family computer breaks down. She asks her friend Emily to take care of it, then becomes jealous when Emily does a better job than she did.
* In ''WesternAnimation/LifeWithLouie'', Ora thinks she's pregnant and uses eggs to teach Louie and Tommy about babies. Since they think one of them will have to move out to make room for the new baby, they go to great lengths to prove who's more responsible.
* A ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' episode has Poof and Foop being paired to take care of an egg for a school assignment.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "O.T.: The Outside Toilet", Gene's class has this exercise with sacks of flour. Gene manages to destroy ''three'' of them [[EpicFail inside of a minute]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'': Students have to take care of robot babies. This leads to some rather unusual pairings having to take care of a child together, such as Chaz and Tina (who [[TeethClenchedTeamwork bicker the whole time]]), Brandy and Irwin (who end up getting along [[OddCouple surprisingly well]]), and [[HoYay Cam and Holger]]. And then there's Biffy, who gets unlucky and has to be a single dad with twins. At the end of the episode, we find out that the babies' real purpose is [[spoiler:planting bugs in the students' homes as a part of Cassandra's plot. Turns out [[TheCuckooLanderWasRight Holger wasn't really wrong]] calling them “evil robot babies”.]]
* ''Series/StrangeHillHigh'': In "Mitchell Junior". Mr Garden decides to teach the class a lesson in responsibility by getting them to look after electronic babies. Becky's keeps falling to pieces. Mitchell, who is late to class, gets an older model that turns out to be demonically possessed.
* There is a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch that inverts this when a pair of sentient eggs are given a human baby to practice parenthood. Once the male student is handed the baby, he drops it onto the floor, where it becomes a bloody mess. The teacher then quips "And there's your F."
* The ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' episode "M-m-my Bologna" has the students of Norrisville High practice parenting with huge bologna sausages.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Shell Shocked" has Lincoln and [[TheLadette Ronnie Anne]] assigned to take care of an egg, with Lincoln trying to keep the egg away from Ronnie Anne, believing she will smash it.
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'' has the episode "Daddy" where [[ThePrankster Andy]] and his class get paired up and each pair has to look after a robot baby. [[TheBully Lik and Leech]] get paired up and are very irresponsible "dads", and Andy is paired with [[RichJerk Jervis Coltrane]], who is actually a pretty decent father despite his smug personality.

* ''WesternAnimation/FutureWorm'': The episode "The Egg in the Family" has the student characters [[GranolaGirl Ruby]] and Paco raise one as mandatory extra credit for all C-students. But the egg got accidentally swapped with Danny and Fyootch's egg-shaped container for the world-destroying galactic criminal Solip Nihilos. The container breaks after the mix-up, and Ruby and Paco managed to reform Solip with their parenting (as Solip was born from a supernova, having no real parents) while Danny and Fyootch were waiting in line to turn in their "bounty". Ruby even managed to [[MamaBear scare off other bounty hunters]] going after Solip, including Danny and Fyootch once they realized their mistake.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}}'', the students have to take care of lifelike electronic dolls.

* An adult example occurs in an episode of ''Series/KennyVsSpenny''. Each is given a lifelike doll that requires attention and records how observant the parent is. Kenny purposely mistreats and eventually “kills” his doll and then switches it with Spenny’s doll.
* ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris'': Chris's class gets this assignment in the episode "Everybody Hates Eggs". Miss Morello, being the [[InnocentBigot naively racist]] teacher that she is, she gives Chris a ''brown'' egg and makes him do the project alone as a single father.
* ''Series/MyWifeAndKids'': Michael makes Junior take care of a water balloon to test if he is ready to be a parent. Junior draws a face on it and calls it Fetus Face. It is eventually destroyed when he slams down the hood of his car while arguing with Michael and the water balloon falls on the floor, followed by a montage of Junior and the water balloon together.
* in the ''Series/MaxAndShred'' episode The Half-Cab Robot Baby Bonk", the title pair must take care of a baby simulator that can be plugged into a computer to discover if anything serious happened to the baby.
* ''Series/TheGoldbergs'': Adam and Dana have to take care of a Cabbage Patch Kid for class. Beverly, [[MyBelovedSmother naturally]], meddles in and takes the doll to prove she can be a good "bubbie". She ends up losing it, and tries to replace it with a [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct Lettuce Crop Kid]]. [[spoiler:The teacher passes Adam after he tells off her mother for meddling. The teacher realized that the assigment was to see if Adam could be a responsible adult, and by standing up for himself, has technically proven himself as such.]]
* Referenced in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. When [[spoiler: Raj's father tells Raj he's cut off financially]] Raj protests that he can learn responsibility some other way. That is, taking care of an egg-by for a week.
* A non-school example in the ''Series/OneHundredThingsToDoBeforeHighSchool'' episode "Adopt a Flour Baby Thing!". In order to prove to her mother that she is responsible, CJ's mother gives her a bag of flour to protect. Crispo, Fenwick and CJ's father also participate although Fenwick takes care of a bag of chips as he has a gluten allergy.
* PlayedWith on ''Series/GirlMeetsWorld.'' Before Cory and Topanga leave Riley to babysit Auggie, they give her an egg. Riley assumes it's going to play out the typical way with her having to take care of it to prove she's responsible. Instead, Cory has Riley give the egg a name, face, and personality so Riley will become emotionally attached to it. Once she does, Topanga smashes the egg, to Riley's horror. Cory then tells her that if she's that upset over the egg, she should have an idea of how upset Cory and Topanga will be if something happens to Auggie on her watch.
* Played with during one of the challenges on ''Series/RockOfLove''. Each team of contenders took a baby doll through a roller derby course. The team with the least injuries to the baby at the end of the challenge won.
* On ''Series/ShamelessUS'', pregnant teen Debbie tries to prove to her older sister Fiona that she's responsible enough to care for a child by carrying around a sack of flour. (Admittedly, more the size and weight of a baby than an egg.) It goes about as well as expected.
* In the ''Series/SeeDadRun'' episode "See Dad See Dad Run", Emily takes care of a robotic baby doll for class.
* Plot point for a ''Series/{{Catwalk}}'' episode, in which the egg was named Lester... and eaten.
* ''Series/HankZipzer'': In "Who Ordered the Baby?", Hank is pleased when his mum says he can work in the deli to earn a new pair of the latest cool trainers. That is until he's given his latest school assignment, to look after a pretend baby for the weekend. Despite his best attempts, Hank can't juggle a crying baby and work. He decides to focus on getting the trainers, but disaster strikes when he accidentally ends up swapping his fake baby for a real one.

* ''Webcomic/OlympicDames'' - this is the strategy used by the god Pan as a cover story to explain how four high school girls all became very visibly pregnant overnight, one ludicrously so. He implants this into the minds of everyone they meet so as to make them think the pregnancy bulges are just fat suits and the bulges are part of an Egg Sitting assignment.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', "Follow that Egg!": In order to spite her former lover, Mr. Slave, Ms. Garrison puts Stan and Kyle together for egg-sitting, expecting them to break their egg -- and thus provide evidence against the legalization of gay marriage. When they don't break it, she hires a hit man to kill the egg.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' has Danny (secretly a half ghost) and Valerie, a fellow student, (secretly a HunterOfMonsters, trying to capture Danny) take care of a microchipped sack of flour that can simulate crying and defecation. Tucker had the idea of "babysitting" other students' projects for money, but his mother used all the flour for baking cookies, forcing him to pay everyone back with interest. Sam, however, passes with an A, while Danny and Valerie get a C for their cooperation since they are the only other students whose flour sack had not been used for baking.
* In ''WesternAnimation/OGrady'', Kevin (the HighSchoolHustler and TheBarnum) babysits everybody else's dolls for money. Abby discovers that he's been reprogramming the dolls' memory chips to record that everything is fine. She responds by reprogramming them to scream twenty-four hours a day.

* A ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode plays on this (and a really bad MeaningfulName joke/pun). Ron is entrusted with a sack of flour, which he's repeatedly forced to replace after a series of slapsticky mishaps. While he lavishes attention on "Sacky I" through "Sacky MCMXXXIIII", (Ron doesn't know his Roman numerals,) he ignores and deplores his new adopted baby sister Hana, whose name happens to mean "flower" in Japanese. In the end, he gets a failing grade because the sack he tries to pass as the one he was supposed to babysit is a sack of ''sugar''.
* The trope was featured in the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "Egg Story". Arnold and Helga get paired together and spend the entire assignment arguing, losing the egg in the process twice. The second time they find it, they put aside their differences to work together -- and then the egg hatches into a baby chick. The progress of the other students is also followed. Harold and Rhonda are paired together, for example, and she paints their egg to look like it has a baby's face and hair. She leaves to go shopping and Harold, [[Myth/ClassicalMythology who is apparently channeling Cronos at the time]], gets very hungry and eats it. They ultimately turn in the egg shell, taped together.
* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' subverts this by giving Toot an actual baby (from Nicaragua) for the experiment. [[spoiler:She gets pregnant. ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice And we don't mean Toot.]]'']]
* Subverted on ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey''. The students of Charles Darwin Middle School are given eggs to take care of. The eggs hatch into exotic bird chicks which must then be cared for.
* ''[[Disney/{{Hercules}} Hercules The Animated Series]]'' has the students taking care of eggs as part of their project. Despite his clumsiness and tendency to trip over his own feet and cause chaos and destruction everywhere, Hercules keeps his egg safe. Cassandra cooks her egg and eats it in front of everyone else.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' had an episode where the gang found an egg and tried to care for it until it hatched. Skipper was initially against it (though as Kowalski correctly points out, incubation of eggs ''is'' a guy thing for penguins.'') However, between Skipper's military perspective, Kowalski being a mad scientist and Rico being... Rico, Private was mainly the one who knew what he was doing, though they all did their best. Eventually, the baby was returned to its rightful mother. And then the duckling they hatched showed he had somehow [[AllYourPowersCombined absorbed the traits of the penguins]] while they were taking care of it.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' had Jake trying to protect a griffin's egg from the Huntsman and Huntsgirl, with Fu Dog's help. In the same episode, his class is given an egg-sitting assignment, which makes for a hilarious (but convenient) mix-up.
* ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'''s class uses actual dolls as a way of teaching the students responsibility. After spending most of the episode failing at being responsible, she leaves a crying "Irma" on Nikki's doorstep. When she gets home, she monologues about how irresponsible she is as she turns off the lights and TV and prepares dinner for her sister. When her mother arrives home and comments on how responsible she is, Pepper Ann retrieves Irma (who stops crying).
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "Perry Lays an Egg", the boys find an egg (that they accidentally knocked out of a tree) that they believe to be Perry's. When Perry disappears, they decide to care for it... to the horror of Candace, whose maternal instincts have been awakened by a nature documentary. She tries to teach them the right way to care for an egg, which apparently involves dressing up in a platypus costume.

* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' has Nanami taking care of an egg for an episode on her own initiative, but she thinks she laid it and gets a bit upset whenever anyone mentions omelettes or similar foods.

* In ''License to Wed'' the couple being tested by Creator/RobinWilliams' character are given a pair of extremely disturbing [[UncannyValley baby dolls.]] In addition to being equipped to scream and cry (very loudly), they are also capable of various other functions, including... You know what, let's not go there.
* Otis in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfMiloAndOtis'' is charged with caring for a chicken egg for a few hours and takes the role very seriously, watching the egg intently. It hatches on his watch and the new chick immediately assumes Otis is its mother.

* In Lisi Harrison's ''Literature/TheClique'', Claire's class takes care of synthetic babies; the data can later be uploaded to the teacher's computer.
* In the ''Literature/GirlTalk'' series, they had an egg-sitting episode, mostly for a "Not So Different" set up between [[TotallyRadical Zek]] and a quiet pianist. Though it's notable for the fact the AlphaBitch tried to cheat by boiling hers, and a guy accidentally sat on his.
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidTheUglyTruth'' had Greg do this with the rest of his health class. Every boy except Greg and Rowley destroys their egg in a free-for-all, the girls (and Rowley) decorate their eggs and make special pouches for them (and end up devastated when the teacher chucks them in the trash at the end of the assignment), and Greg does his best to protect his egg in order to not fail the class...[[spoiler:[[EpicFail except his mom cooks it for breakfast.]]]]
* In ''Literature/NothingButTroubleTroubleTrouble'', the plot centers around the narrator and her friend being assigned to care for either a pet or an egg for the weekend and write it all down. First they try to kidnap a rich, bratty neighbor's two nasty cats, then are forced to return them and use the eggs. Then their eggs break, so they quickly purchase a mouse to use. And then ''that'' gets loose. All of this is kept secret, owing to the fact that the narrator's younger sister is very allergic to all pets.
* Lifelike doll variant: In the ''Literature/AdrianMole'' series, Adrian rents one of these dolls for his sister Rosie [[spoiler:to help her decide whether to continue with her accidental pregnancy.]]
* Happened in a fairly good ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' book, ''Mary Anne + Too Many Babies''. It even had a completely unexpected turn in-universe and out when one day in class, Mary Anne notices a classmate who is sobbing and initially thinks she's upset because of the troubled "marriage" of a pair of students who have "work" conflicts. Then when the teacher calls on the crying girl and her partner, the girl says [[WhamLine "We lost our baby..."]]; the entire class reacts in shock and Mary Anne practically has a heart attack.
* The ''[[Literature/SweetValleyHigh Sweet Valley Twins]]'' book ''The Middle School Gets Married'' used this plot.
* The point of ''[[Creator/DrSeuss Horton Hatches An Egg]]''. A lazy bird doesn't want to spend her time sitting on her egg, so she cons Horton the elephant into doing it for her while she goofs off. Despite much teasing from his friends and being caught by hunters, Horton doesn't budge and eventually [[spoiler: the egg hatches into a bird-elephant hybrid.]]
-->''''Horton:''''I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
* In ''Literature/PlanetTad'', a regular feature in ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', later released as a book, Tad and one of his classmates have to do this. So many of the kids in the class break their eggs that the teacher says that anyone whose egg remains intact will get an A for the project. Tad and his classmate nearly get one, until the teacher learns that Tad hardboiled the egg.

* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'', "Bathrooms and Project Partners": Ned takes a "Life Science" Class meaning he and Cookie have to raise a doll the whole semester. Loomer steals the doll from Ned and Cookie, and threatens to send it back piece by piece if they don't do what he wants. Ned gleefully points out that they can just wait for Loomer to send all the pieces back, then put the doll together again. But their teacher moves the end of the project forward, before the doll's head is returned...
* On ''Series/That70sShow'', Jackie uses this as a test for Kelso. The egg is broken and replaced, but he manages to explain away the missing pencil mark as having given it a bath.

** During a Season 10 episode of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', Carla challenged Rebecca to take care of an egg.
* Also used with adults on ''Series/LasVegas'', where egg-sitting is a homework assignment for a couple's parenting class. The father-to-be's egg gets broken in his jacket pocket, while the expectant mother dresses hers up more like a [[MrMuffykins pet chihuahua]] than a child. She also foists eggs off on other casino staff who aren't yet parents, so they can "share the life lesson".
* So did ''Series/Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'': The simulation doll ends up being decapitated by a "safe" prop guillotine, then put back together (...mostly) by the prop department of the ShowWithinAShow.
* ''Series/FlashForward1996'': The main character, Tucker, has to take care of an electronic baby and babysit a live child at the same time. He manages to take care of the living kid, but the electronic baby is broken in an accident, which he tries to repair by using parts from movie monster kits that he collects.
* ''Series/EightSimpleRules'' used the 'Bag of flour' version: Everyone uses the flour for baking, leaving the "baby" deflated.

* Lucy and her boyfriend get this assignment on ''Series/SeventhHeaven''. When something happens to their egg, Ruthie advises them to write that they aren't ready to be parents, which is the whole point of the assignment, anyway.
* An episode of ''Series/ADifferentWorld'' had this once, where one of the characters was obsessing over the egg as if it actually WAS her child.
* In ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', Maddie and London do this with a baby doll. This runs into the problem of the baby constantly crying up to the point where they're so fed up with it they fight and end up throwing the baby out the window by accident.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': Alexis and her friend Paige do this with an egg ('Feggin'), asking Castle to egg-sit while she and the friend go to a party. Surprisingly, both Castle and Beckett manage to keep the egg safe. However, [[spoiler: after Paige gets drunk at a party and Castle calls her parents, she "accidentally" destroys the egg.]]
** Leads to a surprisingly tender moment between Castle and Beckett. While Castle is "babysitting" his "grand-egg" at the precinct, he gets an emergency call and rushes off. In the morning he discovers that Beckett took Feggin home with her. Castle thanks her and she says "He was easy. He didn't even fuss when I put him to bed."
* Something similar in ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch.'' Instead of being parents, they simulated marriage. [[AlphaBitch Libby]] naturally snaps Harvey up as her partner, and Sabrina is "stuck" with a nerdy guy.
* On ''Series/TheMiddle'', Axl ends up dismantling the doll to get it to stop crying, after earlier accidentally microwaving it. Needless to say, he fails the assignment.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', Paige rents a doll for expectant parents Piper and Leo to care for to see what it will be like to raise a child while constantly battling demons. HilarityEnsues when the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Demon of the Week]] shows up and the doll predictably doesn't survive in one piece.
* ''Series/HowToBeIndie'': The class gets an egg sitting assignment in "How to Get Gotten". Indie tries to dodge the assignment by volunteering to escort a seventh grader who is being trialed in the eighth grade for a week instead.

* Supposedly, one out of each classroom set of the dolls is a "meth baby" or "crack baby" which ''does not stop screaming''. The purpose being to teach kids why they shouldn't do drugs while pregnant. Because the fact it's annoying is way more important than the fact a child's in pain.
** Which is true because a baby being this annoying is much more likely to get hit or shaken or abused.

* ''Series/OneHundredThingsToDoBeforeHighSchool'': In "Adopt A Flour Baby Thing!", CJ agrees to adopt a flour bag baby for 24 hours to prove she is responsible enough to own a Guinea pig. A spirit of competitiveness cause Cripo, Fenwick and CJ's dad to join the contest. Because he is allergic to wheat, Fenwick has to parent a bag of potato chips. HilarityEnsues.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/Braceface'', the students have to take care of lifelike electronic dolls.

In the real world, the eggs have mostly been displaced by lifelike dolls, equipped with features to make them [[MostAnnoyingSound even more annoying]], like a battery-powered chip which makes the baby scream. Only some Egg Sitting episodes have made the switch. Occasionally a third option is used. A bag of flour or sugar, for instance, which more properly imitates the weight of a baby.

* Otis in ''Film/MiloAndOtis'' is charged with caring for a chicken egg for a few hours and takes the role very seriously, watching the egg intently. It hatches on his watch and the new chick immediately assumes Otis is its mother.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' had an episode where the gang found an egg and tried to care for it until it hatched. Skipper was initially against it (though as Kowalski correctly points out, incubation of eggs ''is'' a guy thing for penguins.'') However, between Skipper's military perspective, Kowalski being a mad scientist and Rico being... Rico, Private was mainly the one who knew what he was doing, though they all did their best. Eventually, the baby was returned to its rightful mother.
** The duckling they hatched showed he had somehow [[AllYourPowersCombined absorbed the traits of the penguins]] while they were taking care of it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TrollHunters'': In "Just Add Water", Jim and his friends have to babysit sacks of flour for a school assignment while also dealing with the MonsterOfTheWeek. All the students give their flour-sack babies {{Punny Name}}s like "Dwight D. Eisenflour", "Sir Isaac Gluten", and the more subtle "Petunia".

* The [[http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20080324 "It Could Still Make a Cake"]] strip in ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'' manages this whole trope in four panels. (There's also discussion of egg-sitting in TheRant.)

* On the American Series/{{Shameless}}, pregnant teen Debbie tries to prove to her older sister Fiona that she's responsible enough to care for a child by carrying around a sack of flour. (Admittedly, more the size and weight of a baby than an egg.) It goes about as well as expected.

** It goes even longer than that. The story of "[[http://tiny.cc/77pbgx Fitcher's Bird]]" by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm has a sorcerer named Fitze Fitcher who carries young women and gives them an egg, then tells them to carry it everywhere except the sorcerer's room and to be very careful with it for a few days before he can marry them. Failure to pass the test results in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the women getting dismembered]]. One of the women, however, is smarter than her two sisters that he has dismembered, so she has to hide it into a clean, safe place before she can enter the room and bring her sisters BackFromTheDead.