History Main / RawEggsMakeYouStronger

* ''Series/TheWire'': the Stevadore breakfast of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5vA4Rww7Uw a raw egg cracked into a pint of beer and a shot of whiskey]]

Note that some dishes are prepared by adding a raw egg to a hot dish just before serving, such as the popular Japanese breakfast, tamago kake gohan, which is egg rice. That is not this trope.

-->'''Gaston:''' ''When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large\\
and now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs so I'm roughly the size of a [[LargeHam baaaaaaaaaarge!]]''

* In a '"Series/LivingSingle'' episode where Khadijah is training to face off against an old high school basketball rival yurned professional [=NBA=] player, she initially trying to drink the raw eggs, only to eventually just pour them into an open skillet.

* Creator/SylvesterStallone and Creator/DavidLetterman drank eggs on ''Series/TheLateShow'' while Stallone was on promoting ''Rocky: The Musical''. Later in the show Letterman got Theo James (there to promote ''film/{{Divergent}}'') to drink them too.

* [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-06-05 Seymour]] on ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' drinks raw eggs as part of a TrainingMontage. The page image comes from this comic.

* A thing the Comicbook/RedHulk picked up with his tenure with Comicbook/TheAvengers was eating raw eggs whole (as if he needed it; and even if the writers remembered the real-life rule, there'd be no problem since, as a Hulk, he's got a HealingFactor and since Red Hulk also can raise his temperature, they probably just end up cooking inside of him anyway). Noh-Varr seems to like these too (well, he ''is'' an alien). Franchise/SpiderMan, on the other hand, is so disgusted he throws up with his mask on.

* [[Comicbook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] apparently drinks raw eggs for breakfast in ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''.

[[caption-width-right:300:Buff with [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome salmonella.]]]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "Enter the Outsiders!", RetiredBadass Wildcat is shown using raw eggs in his "Tiger Tonic." {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when Batman points out that it's actually incredibly unsafe to consume raw eggs, but Wildcat can't hear him over the sound of the blender. Wildcat heartily drinks the resulting gunk, but Batman tosses his into a potted plant, [[ThatPoorPlant killing it near-instantly]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "Enter the Outsiders!", RetiredBadass Wildcat is shown using raw eggs in his "Tiger Tonic." {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when Batman points out that it's actually incredibly unsafe to consume raw eggs.

** In the episode "The Great Snail Race", [=SpongeBob=] puts Gary through TrainingFromHell to win the snail race. At one point, he mixes Gary an "energy drink" which includes raw eggs, [[LampshadeHanging simply "because they're cliché!"]] Amazingly, one of the ingredients being ''[[LethalChef metal nails]]'' "for toughness" almost makes raw eggs seem downright sane..

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* Saeba in ''Manga/CityHunter'' drinks raw eggs every morning.

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* In ''Film/StandByMe'', this trope is subverted, where Lard Ass Hogan eats a raw egg to ready himself to vomit on cue.

* Referenced in the song "I Will Make You A Man" in ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/NeverBackDown''. The protagonist and his best friend are shown drinking eggs during a training montage, and the friend immediately chucks them back up, to the dismay of the hero.
* PlayedForLaughs again in ''Film/GrudgeMatch''. Lightning gives Henry "Razor" Sharp a glass of raw eggs, and Henry asks him if [[ActorAllusion fighters still do this.]]
* Parodied in ''Film/TheyCallMeBruce''. The main character tries to do it but decides it would be better to make egg foo-young with them.
* Played reasonably straight in ''Film/{{Hanna}}''. After being on the run and [[spoiler:having met up with Knepler]], Hanna asks if she can have an egg when being offered breakfast, which she drinks raw, displaying both her survivalist roots and how badass she is.
* Also parodied in ''Film/ThePrizeFighter'' with Don Knotts and Tim Conway. Tim is Don's coach and tries to make Don drink raw eggs. Don demands Tim drink the eggs first to prove that it works and Tim ends up making scrambled eggs.
* Variant, for vocal powers instead of stamina ones: in Brazilian biopic ''Dois Filhos de Francisco'', the children who will grow up to be a famous country duo (one of them, at least; the other dies young and is replaced by another brother) is forced to eat raw eggs by their father who wants them to be musicians.
* The serial killer protagonist in ''Film/HuntingHumans'' mentions once having a neighbor who saw herself as a health nut, so she ate raw eggs every morning. He puts her out of her misery by poisoning a few of them.
* Jimmy King tries to do this in ''Film/ReadyToRumble''. He spits them back out.
* In the 1930s silent film ''Film/IWasBornBut'', a boy brings a sparrow's egg to school and drinks it in front of his friends to show off how tough he is. This gets him in trouble and leads to him StandingInTheHall.
* In ''Film/MiracleRun'', Phillip tries to drink raw eggs like his hero Franchise/{{Rocky}}, only to immediately vomit them back up.
* The SerialKiller in ''Film/Angel1984''--who is a bodybuilding fanatic--is shown consuming a raw egg [[JabbaTableManners in the most disgusting way possible]].
* In ''Film/ElectraGlideInBlue'', Wintergreen's MorningRoutine includes drinking two raw eggs during his workout.

* Subverted and PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/That70sShow''. Kelso attempts to impress Jackie by working out and during a conversation with her announces that he's going to drink a cup of raw eggs. She tries to say something and he rudely stops her, drinking the eggs anyway. When he's done, she reminds him that he's allergic to eggs.
* Series/LizzieMcGuire's mother served her glasses of raw eggs as she trained for a rhythmic gymnastics competition, but Lizzie dumped the eggs into a frying pan instead of drinking them.

* Creator/SylvesterStallone and Creator/DavidLetterman drank eggs on ''The Late Show'' while Stallone was on promoting ''Rocky: The Musical''. Later in the show Letterman got Theo James (there to promote ''Divergent'') to drink them too.
* ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'': When Kimberly is training for the Olympics (she's a figure skater) Mr. Drummond feeds her raw eggs.
* This is Jin's signature meal in ''Series/KamenRiderAmazons'', but it comes with at least some justification: he needs high amounts of protein to fight the Amazon craving for human flesh and to keep himself energised enough to stay transformed, and by necessity he eats them right before transforming so has no time to heat them. On at least one occasion he gives Haruka one for the same reasons.
* ''Series/HospitalPlaylist'': Raw eggs make you sing better. Song-hwa, who insists on being the singer for the FiveManBand despite not being able to sing very well, drinks a glass of raw eggs before the band plays, to lubricate her throat. It doesn't help her very much.

* Done in the ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' episode about Queen and High telling anecdotes about Dodgers based on gags omitted from other episodes. One flashback has Marvin trying to invoke this trope, but finds out that Dodgers loves raw eggs and that the way he drinks it is [[{{Squick}} too disgusting for poor Martian eyes]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "Enter the Outsiders!", RetiredBadass Wildcat is shown using raw eggs in his "Tiger Tonic." {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when Batman points out that it's actually incredibly unsafe to consume raw eggs.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
** Subverted when Randy is trying to get in shape. In a scene lifted pretty much exactly out of ''Rocky'', he gets up early, staggers into the kitchen, cracks a couple of eggs into a glass...and then pours them into a frying pan and starts scrambling them. While cracking open a beer.
** Also subverted in an earlier episode; Jesus must train himself for a boxing match against Satan, and he refuses Kyle's offer of raw eggs.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': The episode “The Loudest Yard” [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructs]] this trope. When training Lincoln for football, Lynn prepares the typical raw eggs for him, however all they do is make Lincoln get sick and throw up. Another instance of this trope occurs in "Sitting Bull", where Lynn has a couple of little kids she's babysitting guzzle down some raw eggs after making them do strenuous exercises. One of the kids is seen puking up the egg he swallowed later, to which Lynn remarks that it was a waste of "two perfectly good eggs", implying that the boy's sister likewise threw up her egg off-screen.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' episode "Videolympics" has a scene during a TrainingMontage where Kevin drinks a glass of several raw eggs, much to the disgust of his teammates.
-->''Don't drink eggs! / They're high in cholesterol / They'll kill you dead!''
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Bill, Bulk and the Body Buddies" has Bill hiring three meatheads as his personal trainers while preparing for his army physical and he gets so into his weight lifting regimen that he ruptures his rectum while doing leg presses. Unaware of his injury, the meatheads just think Bill is fatigued and they pour raw eggs down his throat via a funnel to give him a boost. Needless to say it doesn't help.
* Parodied in the WesternAnimation/VeggieTales episode "Sumo of the Opera":

* ''Series/That70sShow'': As part of his training to get in shape for the police academy in the season six premiere, [[TheDitz Kelso]] drinks raw eggs. This being Kelso, he forgets he is allergic to eggs and has to go to the hospital.

* Hal on ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' trains for a race-walking competition by drinking a shake mixed with this, plus raw ground beef and some supplement powder.