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SubTrope of UnequalPairing and SexForServices; in this case, the "service" is specifically better grades for a student. Do not confuse with the web series ''WebAnimation/ExtraCredits'', or the {{hentai}} titled ''Sextra Credit'' which surprisingly doesn't include this trope.

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* In [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOKMS1MURk a Gary Gulman bit]], he talks about role-playing one of these scenarios with his girlfriend in the bedroom. [[LostInCharacter He gets way too involved]] in his "firm but fair" professor character and starts chiding his girlfriend for her poor grades despite her repeated insinuations that she'll "do anything" to improve them. By the end, he's lost all interest in having sex, and is instead pressing her to study so she'll pass the class.
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* Mentioned in the Mirror Verse ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' fanfic "Wire In The Blood", where in keeping with Mirror Kirk's more brutal means of getting what he wants, instead of original Kirk being a TeachersPet at the academy, he got good grades by being great at blowjobs.
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* Subverted in the first episode of ''Magical Twilight'' in which Irene trades sex with the headmaster of the Witches' Academy for a passing grade on her finals. Unfortunately, she has sex with him ''[[WhatAnIdiot instead of taking the test]]''. As he points out, he can't exactly give her a passing grade on a test ''she didn't take''.

* Zig-Zagged in ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' when Sal attempts to invoke this with a teacher's assistant; she neglected to ask him for a better grade before sleeping with him (and she hit on him in an "I need to blow off some steam" way rather than an "I'll do anything" way), and he doesn't have the clout to give her one anyway. He eventually gives her work to another TA to mark to ensure there's no conflict of interest...and then admits he actually ''would'' have graded her better because they'd slept together.

* In ''Music/{{ACDC}}'''s "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" the [[ProfessionalKiller narrator]] offers to [[DeadlyEuphemism take care]] of a high school principal in order to preempt him from [[SexualExtortion extorting]] a graduation-for-sex deal from one of the narrator's potential clients.

* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Early in the game, evil volleyball coach Mr. Kamoshida tells both [[spoiler:Shiho Suzui]] and her best friend [[spoiler:Ann Takamaki]] to sleep with him, in order for [[spoiler:Shiho]] to keep her spot on the volleyball team. Not quite grades, but close enough.

* ''Film{{Popcorn}}:'' Sarah's classmate Tina is revealed to be having an affair with the film professor. Given the genre, this ends poorly for her.

* Subverted in the mainstream ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'' comics, on the other hand: the loopy young Harleen Quinzel is indicated to have had considerable psychological talent already, and rather than sleeping with a crooked professor suspiciously similar to the one shown in ''Mad Love'', is indicated to have blackmailed him for extra credit and eventually an internship at Arkham using a recording she made of a conversation with him in which she led him into saying some potentially incriminating things. (Of course, in both cases, it meant her diploma and grades weren't as legitimate as they seemed. The mainstream comics also revealed in a long-concealed video recovered from Arkham Asylum of her first "therapy" session with the Joker, she started flirting with him the moment they were alone with each other because she was planning to seduce him all along and only got the job in the first place in order to get into contact with him.)
* Subverted again in ''ComicBook/{{Harleen}}''. Harley was sleeping with one of her professors because she was genuinely attracted to him, she got her grades legitimately but people assumed this when the affair was exposed. As one character points out this trope doesn't actually work. Between multiple professors, peer review and outside marking the only way Harley could have got her qualifications is if she earned them legitimately.
* Parodied in the Italian graphic novel ''Venerdì 12'': the protagonist Aldo mentions that in high school there were rumours of the school's most beautiful girl passing her classes this way, but Aldo dismisses them because when he tried the teachers chased him out screaming.
* In the Horacio Altuna story ''Cat'' published in ''Magazine/HeavyMetal'', its VillainProtagonist, a nymphomaniac sociopath, at one point seduces one of her professors to bump up her grades. They're later caught, but she threatens the dean with making sure that [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney her wealthy father's handsome donations to the school will dry up]] and [[KarmaHoudini gets off scot-free]].

* Defied by the shy and nerdy CovertPervert VillainProtagonist Kevin Dornwinkle in the schlocky movie ''Film/TheInvisibleManiac'': though he's indeed using his invisibility serum [[PowerPerversionPotential to spy on the buxom cheerleaders in the showers]], and visibly aroused when one of his nubile young students gives him the "I'll do ''anything'' for an A" routine, he brushes her off and tells her to study more. It's the female ''Principal'' (who ReallyGetsAround) at that school who's into making these trades, blackmailing one of the handsome young boys into having sex with her by telling him he's failing badly, but that if he satisfies her "needs" she can see to it that he passes.

* Inverted in the Swedish film ''Film/AllThingsFair'', in which Stig gets into a sordid affair with his (married) teacher Viola. When various circumstances bring the affair to a bitter end, she vengefully flunks him for his chronic absences (which he'd spent being "tutored" at her house) and covers her tracks by destroying all her records of his actual academic performance, which had actually been fairly decent.

* ''Film/JasonX'': Janessa seduces and engages in kinky sex with her professor to make sure she passes her midterm. During a field trip on a space mission to Earth, by the way.
* ''Film/TheHazing'': This seems to be what Jill is angling for in the opening scene with her unsubtle seduction of Professor Kapps. Unfortunately for her, Kapps does want her body, but for [[HumanSacrifice a far more unsavoury purpose]].

* Zeb tells a story early in ''Literature/TheNumberOfTheBeast'' about a female student who was somehow flunking a course specifically rigged to let {{Dumb Jock}}s pass. The student made one of these offers to her male professor, but he didn't understand the offer and simply told her where to find a tutor. This turns out to be a minor PlotPoint when they learn the "Black Hats" are completely genderless and said professor was an undercover agent for them.
* In the Creator/SidneySheldon novel ''Nothing Lasts Forever'', it is revealed that Honey Taft spent most of high school, college, and medical school seducing her various professors in order to get good grades. Sure enough, as it becomes painfully obvious that she's nowhere near as qualified for her residency position as her high grades would indicate and her supervisors look to removing her from the program, she turns her charms on them as well.

* Done in ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', when Blanche is taking college courses to qualify for a promotion at work. When she's struggling with the class and asks her teacher for help, he suggests this. She's disgusted and angry and even more so when the dean can't do anything, as it's her word against his. She gets her revenge by studying like crazy to ensure that she passes with flying colors [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and tells him off]].

* A ''Series/OneLifeToLive'' storyline had a college professor being falsely accused of this by a student who'd been manipulated into believing that his genuine attempts at helping her were in fact sleazy advances.
* In ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', Sam takes a class and does this, except while he ends up sleeping with the teacher, he does ''not'' ask for better grades. She just gives them to him anyway. As he tells Diane when he confronts him, even ''he'' feels dirty about it.
* This is implied in "The Hook-Up Reverberation" episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', where Penny casually admits her high school PE coach turned out to have a close personal interest in her which amounted to an extremely inadvisable teacher-pupil crush. She took the young Penny to see a [[{{Lampshading}} Melissa Etheridge]] gig and Penny played along with the idea to ensure she got A-grades. Penny does not disclose [[DidTheyOrDidntThey how far she had to go to get those A's]] but casually says "it all worked out just fine".
* On ''Series/StrongMedicine'', after a classmate of Dr. Lu Delgado's son tests positive for an STD, she tearfully "admits" that her teacher demanded sexual favors from her in exchange for good grades. She's revealed to be lying when the teacher reveals that he doesn't have the STD in question or ''any'' STD, for that matter. (Being an experienced swinger, he takes meticulous measures to stay healthy.)
* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'': The VictimOfTheWeek in "[[Recap/MurderSheWroteS5E15AlmaMurder Alma Murder]]" is a graduate student who specializes in getting good grades by any means except studying. [[WhoMurderedTheAsshole One suspect]] describes her as "[[InsultToRocks giving tramps a bad name]]."
* Discussed in the ''Series/DoctorWho''-episode "The Pilot". Bill tells her foster mother Moira about how the Doctor offered to become her private tutor, leading Moira to ask if she should "break every bone in his body".
** The trope itself is strongly averted, as Bill is openly gay and the Doctor is only interested in tutoring her because he sees how smart and perceptive she is. While they do grow closer over the series, their relationship stays strictly platonic.
** Played with again in "Knock Knock", in which Bill pretends that the Doctor is her grandfather while he helps her move into her new lodgings, because if she introduced him as her tutor everybody would assume this.
* Subverted in ''Series/You2018'' when Beck is going to lose her TA position after rejecting a pass from her advisor. At Joe's suggestion, she locates other victims and records an incriminating conversation with the professor. This helps cement her relationship with Joe [[spoiler: who is an obsessive stalker who has targeted her and murdered her boyfriend. Oops.]]

* In ''[[VideoGame/TheSims2 The Sims 2: University]]'', one of the ways college students can improve their grades is by socializing with the professors of their major. Naturally, this includes romantic interactions and [[UnusualEuphemism WooHoo]]. What's more, Drama major professors often flirt autonomously with students, although ironically they cannot be schmoozed for better grades like the others due to a bug (a fix exists for that, though).

* Subverted at the very beginning of ''Webcomic/ErrantStory'', as Meji's attempt to pass her class under(!) the forbidding Professor Yukiri this way is rebuffed, leading to [[LongRunners ten years]] worth of hijinks, and eventually, her becoming something like a god -- and she ''still'' doesn't pass the class.

* Mentioned in the MirrorVerse ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' fanfic "Wire In The Blood", where in keeping with Mirror Kirk's more brutal means of getting what he wants, instead of original Kirk being a TeachersPet at the academy, he got good grades by being great at blowjobs.

** Double subverted in a later strip, which sets up the same gag as above but then has the young woman offering a new anything: She'll babysit the professor's kids for free. The professor folds immediately.

* Subverted in ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' when Sal attempts to invoke this with a teacher's assistant; she neglected to ask him for a better grade before sleeping with him (and she hit on him in an "I need to blow off some steam" way rather than an "I'll do anything" way), and he doesn't have the clout to give her one anyway.

* There's an old joke with an aversion. The female student comes into her prof's office, closes the door, and says "I'll do anything for a better grade." The prof responds, "Anything?" "''Anything''" she replies, licking her lips. He leans forward and whispers, "Would you...study?"

* In ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #13, Lucy Giles (who, like all of Indy's female student is HotForTeacher) proposes this to Indy, who politely turns her down.

* In a Gary Gulman bit, he talks about role-playing one of these scenarios with his girlfriend in the bedroom. [[LostInCharacter He gets way too involved]] in his "firm but fair" professor character and starts chiding his girlfriend for her poor grades despite her repeated insinuations that she'll "do anything" to improve them. By the end, he's lost all interest in having sex, and is instead pressing her to study so she'll pass the class.

* Inverted in the Swedish film ''Film/AllThingsFair'', in which Stig gets into a sordid affair with his ([[YourCheatingHeart married]]) teacher Viola. When various circumstances bring the affair to a bitter end, she vengefully flunks him for his chronic absences (which he'd spent being "tutored" at her house) and covers her tracks by destroying all her records of his actual academic performance, which had actually been fairly decent.

* ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'' has a [[https://notalwaysright.com/ill-do-anything-to-pass/33045/ Rage Comic]] that averts this.
* Referenced, but averted in one ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': In [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2545#comic one strip,]] a young woman in a low-cut dress goes to her professor and asks if there's ''anything'' she can do to improve her grade... only for her world-weary professor to explain that he's SeenItAll in 50 years of practicing sexual deviancy in his marriage ([[ComicSutra involving waffle irons, among other things]]), so there's nothing she can possibly offer to do for him that would interest him.
* Averted at the very beginning of ''Webcomic/ErrantStory'', as Meji's attempt to pass her class under(!) the forbidding Professor Yukiri this way is rebuffed, leading to [[LongRunners ten years]] worth of hijinks, and eventually, her becoming something like a god -- and she ''still'' doesn't pass the class.

[[caption-width-right:294:Harley did have to ''earn'' that grade... but not by any legitimate means.]]

* Subverted in ''Literature/TheEigerSanction'' when a pretty blonde student implies she'll sleep with RetiredBadass art lecturer Dr Hemlock, who unfortunately for her, is played by Creator/ClintEastwood.
-->'''Student:''' If there was anything I could do to get a better grade. I mean, I'd be willing to do anything. ''[Hemlock turns to look at her]'' [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre Anything at all, really.]]\\

''[the student walks off in a snit, giving the audience a MaleGaze look at her rear]''\\

* Subverted again in ''ComicBook/{{Harleen}}''. Harley was sleeping with one of her professors because she happens to be into older men, she got her grades legitimately but people assumed this when the affair was exposed. As one character points out this trope doesn't actually work. Between multiple professors, peer review and outside marking the only way Harley could have got her qualifications is if she earned them legitimately.