History Main / MistakenForPregnant

** Used at the end of "Ties That Bind", when Lincoln eavesdrops on his parents and hears his dad shouting, "What do you mean you got a bun in the oven?!" Lincoln runs off to tell his sisters, and misses his dad shouting, "[[LiteralMetaphor You know I'm gluton-free!]]"

* In ''Film/PsychLassieComeHome'', Shawn discovers a positive pregnancy test in Juliet's car, making him assume it's hers and he spends most of the movie freaking out about being a dad. When he tells Juliet he's not ready for a child, she's utterly confused and it's revealed the test actually belongs to Selene.

* Averted and played straight for two different characters in an episode of ''Series/RoyalPains''. One character has some WackyCravings and a friend immediately gets her a pregnancy test. However, the main characters see ''her'' buying the pregnancy test and start making assumptions. However, this mistake [[spoiler: causes them to realize their patient is pregnant.]]

* In one of the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' novels, a court fashion of elaborate and extremely heavy veils (Which required the ladies wearing them to walk while leaning backwards to support the weight on their heads) met an abrupt end when a man new to the court asked the two ladies who started the fad when their babies were due.

* Blanche Devereaux from ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' mistook menopause for a pregnancy.

* In ''Series/TheCatherineTateShow'', Elaine spends series 3 trying to get pregnant via a sperm donor. When she misses her period, she thinks she's finally pregnant; but turns out to be having very early menopause.

** Daphne is again mistaken for pregnant as she prepares to marry Donny. Her brother Simon assumes her stress eating is a sign that she's expecting; she's actually just extremely frazzled over her newfound feelings for Niles. (Ironically, her actress Creator/JaneLeeves ''was'' pregnant at the time.)

** When Chandler and Monica agree to move in together everyone they tell assumes the "big news" they're sharing is that Monica's pregnant. After the third time it happens Monica snaps that she's going to throw away the baggy shirt she's wearing.

* In ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'', Angie took a pregnancy test, thought she was pregnant, and told George. Initially stunned, George welcomes this development, but then Angie learns the first test was wrong. However, because George seemed so happy about having another child, Angie fakes it and tries to get pregnant quickly to cover. George winds up getting {{Squick}}ed out by having sex with a supposedly pregnant woman. When he hears the truth from someone else, he has a little fun with it.

** Though less dramatic than in this story, in November 2022, after the pregnancy rumors had been flying for a while, Hailey Bieber had to come out and say that no, she wasn't pregnant, she had an ovarian cyst the size of an apple that was making her look bloated.

* Hal from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' does this to a prospective employer, rubbing her belly and playfully asking "Oh, and what have we ''heeeere?''" to which the woman replies in mocking singsong that it's her big, fat stomach. Not surprisingly, the scene quickly jump-cuts to Hal's next job interview.

* In ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'', Lucy is at one point mistaken for pregnant by the family who believes she's engaged to their comatose son (she isn't). This leads Jack, the man's brother, to announce this [[AWorldwidePunomenon misconception]] to all of her friends at a New Year's Eve party when he tries to [[OneDrinkWillKillTheBaby prevent her drinking an alcoholic beverage]]. Not surprisingly, Jack ends up with a lot of apologizing to do.

* A variant appears in ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' where Clyde thinks that his [[HasTwoMommies dads]] are adopting a baby. It actually turns out they were adopting another ''cat''.

* Keitaro has to deal with this in ''Manga/LoveHina'' when he and everyone else wake up to find Mutsumi sleeping naked in his futon with him. Mutsumi's comments about last night being great and the test being "positive" has even Keitaro himself thinking he knocked her up. Actually, she just fell through the hole in Naru's room, decided to sleep where she landed and was referring to Keitaro's help in studying. When Keitaro expresses mild regret about the misunderstanding, of course, he's chased off by Naru (vowing to personally neuter him).

* In one story of ''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors: Tokyo'', a woman has cancer. When she tries to tell her boyfriend (who is drunk) about it, she gets as far as saying she went to the doctors, before he thinks she's pregnant and kicks her out, not wanting responsibility and angrily thinking it could be someone else's kid. He realizes his mistake when the doctor calls and apologizes while promising to help pay for the treatment.

--> '''Counsel''': Is there anything about your physical condition that might make it difficult for you to serve in this case?
--> '''Juror''': No.
--> '''Counsel''': You don't have doctor's appointments today or the next couple of days?
--> '''Juror''': No.
--> '''Counsel''': Do you have any physical problems with your pregnancy?
--> '''Juror''': I'm not pregnant.

* One Jughead story from ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' has the Joneses buy too much groceries from a sale. Jughead ends up borrowing some of Veronica's spare rooms to store the mountains of stuffs they've gotten. When Mr. Lodge walks into one of the rooms where Jellybean's food and diapers are stored, he mistakenly believes that his wife is pregnant.
* In one issue of the ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' comic, [[CuteMonsterGirl Charlotte]] the [[WingedHumanoid Harpy]] is mistaken for being pregnant when she staggers off of a plane, groaning in pain and looking distressed with her stomach bulging. A doctor immediately starts prepping her for delivery, after some mild shock at discovering her race, only to discover that she's not pregnant at all: Charlotte had [[BigEater (seriously) overindulged on complimentary peanuts and pretzels]] while aboard the plane. What he mistook for labor pains was the resultant stomach-ache from hell after stuffing herself into a BalloonBelly. [[TheDitz Charlotte]] herself is somewhat disappointed when she's told this means she is ''not'' going to have a baby.

** Happens ''retroactively'' in the fic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8765149 Do You Hear That, Love?]]'' When Chat Noir shows up to an akuma attack with a baby in a sling strapped to his chest (Adrien's recently orphaned niece Adeline), the public overwhelmingly assume the baby must be Ladybug's, with ''no-one'' except Marinette herself questioning whether she could even have hidden a pregnancy in the suit.

* In ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'', Lucy is at one point mistaken for pregnant by the family who believes she's engaged to his comatose son (she isn't). This leads Jack, the man's brother, to announce this [[AWorldwidePunomenon misconception]] to all of her friends at a New Year's Eve party when he tries to [[OneDrinkWillKillTheBaby prevent her drinking an alcoholic beverage]]. Not surprisingly, Jack ends up with a lot of apologizing to do.

* Liz Lemon in the second season finale of ''Series/ThirtyRock'' mistakenly thinks she's pregnant, caused by eating one too many bags of Sabor de Soledad. It's played with in a scene when she goes through calendars, stating that she should cross off the days when she last had her period "like people do in movies." Jenna also discovers the positive pregnancy tests, and is distressed because "someone's going to get more attention than me!", and Dennis, the presumed father, hangs out in Liz's apartment (uninvited), listens to her voicemail, and immediately lays out his plans for the baby, such as naming it [[Film/TheMatrix Morpheus]].
* ''Series/AllyMcBeal'': Georgia thinks she's pregnant and they discuss it with Billy whether they're prepared to be parents. When they get excited about it, it turns out to be not a false alarm.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', Louise suspects she is pregnant. She has told Samantha but no-one else. Larry catches his wife and Samantha visiting the doctor together, draws the conclusion that Samantha is pregnant, and tells Darrin what he saw. Later as the four of them are having dinner together when Louise broaches the subject, Larry kicks her under the table, then admonishes her that this is sensitive and personal information that Samantha should be the one to tell Darrin.

* When CousinOliver is about to join ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', the rest of the family misunderstand Carol's "We're going to have an addition to the family" as meaning she is pregnant.

* In an early episode of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', Phoebe finds the box from a pregnancy test Piper had taken in the trash, and touching it gives her a vision of a demon child being born (the first warlock they fought after discovering their powers turned out to be Piper's boyfriend, adding a bit more credence to the idea). Typical comedic misunderstandings ensue until Phoebe confronts her with "I'm going to have to kill you before you can give birth to the prophesied demon, but it's okay, because I haven't found the specific knife yet, so we've got some time." Piper is, of course, not pregnant, and is more offended by that implication than the death threat.

** Niles half-hears a conversation between Daphne and Frasier about the need to keep Roz's pregnancy a secret, and concludes that Daphne is pregnant and Frasier is the father. Things escalate from there until he drunkenly challenges his brother to a duel for Daphne's honor.

* In ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'', Angie took a pregnancy test, thought she was pregnant and told George. Initially stunned, George welcomes this development, but then Angie learns the first test was wrong. However, because George seemed so happy about having another child, Angie fakes it and tries to get pregnant quickly to cover. George winds up getting {{Squick}}ed out by having sex with a supposedly pregnant woman. When he hears the truth from someone else, he has a little fun with it.

* ''Series/JoanOfArcadia'' included an episode where Helen has a positive return on a pregnancy test. However, Luke finds the test, believes it's Joan's and spends most of the episode panicking about being an uncle. As with ''Friends'', unusual in that someone actually ''was'' pregnant (although the episode ends with Helen revealing she had her period that evening, indicating an early miscarriage. Or a false positive. They're fairly common.)

* ''Series/LifeOfRiley'': In the second episode, Maddy, Katy and Danny's girlfriend are each assumed to be pregnant at some point after Maddy and later Jim discover a pregnancy kit Ted had stolen from the chemists.

* Averted and played straight for two different characters in an episode of ''Series/RoyalPains''. One character has some WackyCravings, and a friend immediately gets her a pregnancy test. However, the main characters see ''her'' buying the pregnancy test and start making assumptions. However, this mistake [[spoiler: causes them to realize their patient is pregnant.]]

** Female hosts of Texas Tummy Twisters, a repulsive parasite that takes root in the stomach and creates a significantly distended gut, can often be mistaken as being simply pregnant, and sometimes may be compelled to claim that they are by their parasite in order to disguise what's actually happening.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'' had this happen in the episode "Lil' Wrinkly One", where Granny eats some cocoa-patches that look like cigarettes and becomes bloated, but everyone else in the family assumes she is expecting. Eventually, everyone in the family (including their dog) except Lil' One and Pa, and Cassandra [=McBrisk=] has eaten the cocoa-patches and become bloated while being assumed to be pregnant. Lil' One eventually discovers that he can make the bloating go away by pressing against their stomachs, which makes them lose the excess bulging by passing gas. At the ending, Lil' One gives Pa one of the cocoa-patches, leaving him bloated and self-expectant.

* In the fourth episode of ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'', Harley returns to Poison Ivy's apartment seeing a banner that says "It's a boy!" and baby stuff all over the place, causing her to think she's pregnant and having a baby shower. She rubs Ivy's belly and congratulates her, but Ivy tells her she's not pregnant and doesn't know why the stuff is there. It turns out to be a prank set up by The Joker mocking Harley for having Robin, a preteen boy, as an arch nemesis.

** In one episode Hank and Peggy (who've been trying for a second child for a long time) are helping Cotton and his pregnant wife shop for baby supplies and furniture. [[InnocentlyInsensitive An overeager and friendly saleswoman sees Hank and Peggy, thinks they finally have another child on the way and comments to Peggy that she's showing!]] The average built and athletic Peggy is not amused.

* Certain medical conditions cause weight gain to be located in certain areas. Type II Diabetes causes people who have it to be trunk heavy. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), which is also characterized with insulin resistance, causes unusual weight gain, particularly in the belly. It is also a leading cause of infertility, making any assumption that the woman is pregnant MUCH more painful than an implication on her weight.

* There was a woman who appeared to be pregnant and was assumed to be so by many people and doctors, even though said woman took a pregnancy test and it came back negative. It wasn't until she was passing out multiple times that she went to the hospital to get herself checked out that she found out the reason for her stomach being extremely large; the large belly and her weakness was due to an abnormally huge ovarian cyst that was growing against her stomach.

* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Film/{{Clueless}},'' where the somewhat geeky girl tutoring the protagonists keeps leaving to throw up. They assume she has an eating disorder; it turns out she's pregnant.

* This happened in ''VideoGame/UmJammerLammy'' after the main character Lammy [[BalloonBelly ate too much pizza]].

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** In the season 2 finale, when Ted and Robin have a big secret they are trying to hide at Marshall and Lily's wedding, Barney thinks that Robin is pregnant with Ted's child [[OneDrinkWillKillTheBaby after seeing her drink a bottle of water]] (there was also a flashback showing Ted and Robin having unprotected sex on the couch, which further adds up Barney's suspicions). However, it turns out that Robin isn't pregnant and they broke up.

* In a moment during Whale Island's (鯨魚島樂隊) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-v_D0SXfIk "Just Eat It"]], this happens to S.
-->''Every day I eat, [[BalloonBelly my stomach gets bigger]]''

* Inverted early on in ''[[http://bridgette.comicgenesis.com/ Bridgette's Belly]]''. Bridgette actually is pregnant, but her friends mistake her eating habits and morning sickness as bulimia.
* ''Webcomic/CollegeRoomiesFromHell'', [[http://crfh.net/d/20091211.html here]]. Blue's talking about class periods and Dave takes it the wrong way. The woman should not say, "I missed my last period. I'm LATE."

* In a commercial for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAkYuEH2uI0 Jamochas cafe]], it was just a {{Gasshole}}.

** Another ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fic, ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10391451/ Phase Eight]]'', has Alya finding out that she's pregnant, but when her test is discovered by Adrien in his and Marinette's apartment, well...

* Creator/DaveBarry once said in his column that you should never assume a woman is pregnant unless you see a baby coming out of her at that specific point in time...

* This happens in ''Series/GilmoreGirls''. Jackson is convinced that Sookie's mood swings and cravings are a sign that she's pregnant. He finds out from Lorelai that Sookie decided to stop taking birth control and didn't tell Jackson, assuming that he had a vasectomy and that there was no chance of conceiving. Of course, Jackson didn't get the vasectomy but lied about it, and it turns out Sookie really is pregnant and is basically the last one to find out.