Amen Thelma blasts her husband Reverend Reuben Gregory for his fawning and gushing over his father-in-law's gorgeous new girlfriend (played by Halle Berry, so you can't really blame him), angrily reminding him that he's married. He bluntly informs her, "Thelma, honey, I'm married. I ain't dead". He also frequently displays some Hypocritical Humor along these lines — among the men on the show, he is the first to chastise the others for eyeballing attractive women and making comments about them — before wholeheartedly agreeing with them.
In "Born to the Purple", Sinclair and G'Kar track down Londo to a burlesque show.
Londo: Gentlemen, of all things in life, are females not the finest? G'Kar: On that, Mollari, we can at least agree.
In another episode, a female journalist interviewing President Sheridan points out the button-camera next to her cleavage "so that men will look in the right direction". Then she has to go and throw up all over that nice dress. It's like she's never traveled through quantum space before.
In The Big Bang Theory, Howard follows the trope closely. Leonard has his moments, including being willing to go to Jennifer Aniston movies just to have sex. Subverted with Sheldon, who finds relationships baffling and repulsive.
Xander isn't a pervert but is shown to suddenly think about sex at random intervals. Which, thinking about it, strikes oddly close to home. The most prominent example takes place in Season 3's episode, "Earshot", where Buffy gains mind-reading powers.
Xander:[thinking] What am I gonna do? I think about sex all the time! Sex! Help! 4 times 5 is 30. 5 times 6 is 32. Naked girls. Naked women! Naked Buffy! Oh stop me! Buffy: God, Xander! Is that all you think about? Xander: Actually... bye.
And earlier in the episode:
Buffy: ...and the boys of this school are seriously disturbed.
And Wesley's thoughts, too, centering on Cordelia.
Wesley: I'm a bad man, I'm a bad bad man. [runs away]
Faith:[now telling the story about wrestling alligators] Xander: —So was this, um, ahem, also naked? Cordelia: Xander? Find a new theme.
In "Innocence", when Xander and Cordelia talk their way into the (rather less than) secure munitions storage on the local army base to steal a rocket launcher (partly by telling the guard he wants to show her weapons to get her excited):
Spike has his moments of perversion too, especially in Season 5. Highlights include breaking into Buffy's house to sniff articles of her clothing, stealing her panties, and ordering a Sex Bot made in her image. When Xander finds out about the Sex Bot, he says that it's every guy's dream. Faced by the disapproving looks of the female Scoobies, he says there's too many girls in their group. "I miss Oz. He'd get it. He wouldn't have said anything, but he'd get it."
Ryan: Staff just went through all the files, no other red flags. Any dark secrets in here? Esposito: Yeah. Dr. Leeds had a weakness... energy bars. Ryan:[snorts] Esposito: Volunteered at "Doctors International", did pro bono work; the guy's a boy scout. Hell, he didn't even have any porn on his computer. Ryan: That's weird. Esposito: I know.
Kate Beckett: Ahem. What's the deal with men and boobs, anyway? Rick Castle: Biological. We can't help it. Beckett: But doesn't it bother you that they're so obviously not real? Castle: Santa's not real. We still love opening his presents.
And in a later episode, there is a catfight between a man's wife and his fiancée... Castle asks to stop for popcorn on the way and Ryan wants him to take pictures.
An episode of Chappelle's Show has a parody of What Women Want called What Men Want, where a woman develops the ability to read men's minds. She walks into an elevator, and one by one, every man has some sort of thought about her looks. She's relieved when an eight-year-old walks into the elevator, but then he turns out to be even worse.
Britta: And you know the reason why we raised more money in 5 minutes of oil wrestling than we did in 2 days of fundraising? Annie: Because men are even grosser? Britta: And when we forget that, they win!
Jeff thinks that all women would be disgusted by men if they read their minds.
Jeff: Do you know what would be the best way to wipe out all of humankind if you were a space alien with a special mind-ray? Make all women telepathic. Cos' if they suddenly found out about the kind of stuff that goes on in our heads they'd kill us all on the spot. Man are not people! We are disgustoids in human form. Women think we are normal... like them, cos' we talk to them like normal people: 'Hello, how are you? Haven't seen you in this place before... What type of music do you like?' But all the time in our brains we got the word 'Breasts' on a loop. If we ever lost control for a second we all start shouting: Breasts! Breasts! Breasts!
Steve gets several glorious rants about how All Men Are Perverts And Proud Of It! In the same episode as the title quote, Steve is worried because Susan found one of his porn tapes (it was early in their relationship) and that she might think he is some kind of masturbating pervert, to which all three men immediately agree they all are. Steve made it very clear that just because he liked seeing porn in no way meant he was any less dedicated to Susan and their relationship.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Lampooned on "Josh's Ex-Girlfriend Wants Revenge" song "Let's Generalize About Men". Rebecca, Paula, Valencia, and Heather commiserate about their relationships, but instead of just focusing on the men in their lives who have wronged them, they fall into misandry and admittedly generalize that all the men in the world only think about sex, are disgusting, emotionally stunted, and don't listen to women — except for gay men.
Rebecca: There are no exceptions / All three billion men are like this Valencia, Heather, and Paula: All 3.6 billion men!
Devs: Stewart and Lyndon use their groundbreaking Devs technology to watch Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller have sex. When Katie catches them, she wonders why men always immediately try to use any new technology for porn.
In The Doctor Oz Show, Dr. Oz admits it's true: one guest stated that the reason most men would rather skip the foreplay is that, "to a man, sex is about having your penis touched and waiting to have your penis touched." He agreed with her quite readily.
Frequently seen on ER. Numerous scenes of the female staff ogling attractive male staff members, patients, or relatives of patients are presented as perfectly normal and healthy female sexuality. But when the genders are flipped, the men are made out to be jerks while the women react with disgust at their behavior. An especially bad example occurs when a male doctor is accused of groping a female patient during a breast exam (he didn't, but his attempts to put her at ease by joking about it backfire on him). Without ever hearing the man's side of the story, every woman in sight believes that he assaulted the woman. One even goes so far as to suggest that all male doctors go to medical school solely to have an excuse to ogle and grope women, and all sanctimoniously (and falsely) insist that they have never and would never harbor improper thoughts about an attractive male patient.
Family Matters plays it straight, with just about every guy Laura dated (except, of course, for Urkel) being a misogynistic pig. Maxine's pre-Waldo love life isn't much better. Even Urkel isn't exempt from this, with the revelation that his locker combination corresponds to Laura's bust, waist, and hip measurements. It borders on Fridge Horror to wonder just how he found that out, not to mention realizing that he must think about that every single time he opens his locker.
In "Sleeping with the Enemy", Frasier thinks his new Love Interest and rival is possibly using sex to manipulate him and calls her a "conniving Femme Fatale" which leads to this exchange with Daphne:
Daphne: Oh, come on Dr. Crane. It's not as if men have never used sex to get what they want. Frasier: How can we possibly use sex to get what we want? Sex is what we want!
In another episode, Roz is complaining about how she's been flirting with the guy who regularly sits behind her at professional basketball games, but he doesn't appear to fall into this trope. It gets so bad she begins to worry about whether there's something disfiguring about the back of her head that he can see but she can't. Frasier points out that he might be married, gay, or — inconceivably — attending a basketball game to actually watch the game and not trying to score with women.
Friends: The list of things done by Joey and Chandler is quite extensive. They give up their apartment in order to see Monica and Rachel kiss for one minute. They often go to great lengths for porn.
Dorothy: Blanche, the man is a priest! Blanche: The man is a man!
House. In "Fidelity", a female patient being examined by House turns out to have some impressive breast implants. House decides to call in Wilson for a second opinion just so he can appreciate them as well.
Barney Stinson of How I Met Your Mother has slept with almost every woman in New York, and will use elaborate schemes to get to that point. It helps that most of these women are gullible. Then there's also his long-term plan, involving hypnotizing Marshall and learning Teppanyaki in order to touch Lily's breast (who was pregnant at the time). And while he won't admit it, Ted will often go along with Barney's schemes or follow him to the strip club.
This is overdone in a season in which "Kaylee", is added to the cast and the three main male characters began falling all over each other to try to date her — despite that they all work in top positions at a Fashion magazine, where supermodels practically ooze out of the woodwork — and with whom Jack (and Elliot) regularly have affairs, and even the geeky Dennis Finch is able to marry a supermodel played by Rebecca Romijn. In contrast, "Kaylee" is rather psychotic, and is fairly average-looking, being short with a heart-shaped face.
It's also parodied in the episode "Two Girls For Every Boy" in which Finch is able to get a ton of errands taken care of and get numerous men to assist him upon explaining that he needs to get these things done in order to get to watch two women having sex, or even better, participate. In particular, the passport official who helps him renew a passport that isn't his (which is illegal, as the man himself tells him), and the gang members who go from being ready to beat him up to help him paint an apartment. At the episode's conclusion, the plan falls through, and although disappointed, the throng of men who were rooting for him still applaud his efforts.
Legend of the Seeker: Richard might be a formidable warrior, but he's still a young man and his libido causes him to get in trouble a couple of times.
In "Mirror", a pair of thieves in possession of a Magic Mirror that lets them change their appearance wants to steal Richard's Sword of Truth and the thief claims she will use the one tool even someone like the Seeker will be defenseless against. Which is taking Kahlan's appearance and trying to seduce him by convincing him to go Skinny Dipping with her, complete with a Dress Hits Floor, which Richard quickly obliges. All while his partner sneaks in and steals the sword without Richard noticing. When the real Kahlan finds out, she's again pissed off at him.
One NCIS: Los Angeles episode has the other team members get surprised when Sam, who is married with two daughters, speaks favorably of a picture of a pair of attractive call girls. He shrugs it off with, "I'm married, not dead."
Never Have I Ever: Overlapping with Hormone-Addled Teenager, the principal accuses Ben of this — specifically, just wanting to see "teenage boobs bouncing around" when he mentions his girlfriend's upcoming field hockey game.
At the end of "Killer With A Long Arm" Cowley catches Bodie and Doyle sniggering over a long-range sniper rifle they've captured. He takes a peek through the telescopic sight and sure enough finds it pointed at a scantily-dressed girl in an apartment a couple of miles away. Cowley chews out the shamefaced pair...then corrects their estimation of the girl's dimensions.
"Black Out" opens with our heroes eagerly speeding across London to investigate a case involving an unconscious blonde wearing only a pink bra and panties.
The infamous episode "The Contest" revolves around men's ability to refrain from masturbation as the main cast competes to see who can go the longest without doing so, with the winner getting $100 from each of the losing men and $150 from Elaine, who had to pay extra to be allowed to enter the contest since the other three assumed that, as a woman, she would have the advantage. She was the second one eliminated. Then again, she isOne of the Boys.
Jerry: It's easier for a woman not to do it than a man! Men, we have to do it. It's part of our lifestyle. It's like... shaving. Elaine: Oh, that is such baloney. I shave my legs! Kramer: Not every day.
"The Abstinence" showed what happened to a man or woman if they abstained from sex for some time. George's girlfriend gets mono and they can't have sex for six weeks. In that time, George ends up becoming significantly more intelligent and starts fixing most of the problems in his life along with learning at a great pace. Jerry explains to him that previously, 99% of his brainpower was focused solely towards getting sex, and now that he's resigned himself to not getting any for a while, that part was finally free to think about other things for the first time ever. After the six weeks are up, George decides that he prefers being smart and breaks up with his girlfriend, planning to abstain from sex from the rest of his life... until the Portuguese he learns helps him pick up a hot Portuguese waitress (he did the math in his head and determined that it was a once in a lifetime opportunity, so he took it). After he has sex he immediately reverts back to normal. Meanwhile, Elaine sees what has happened to George and stops having sex with her medical intern boyfriend so that he can get smart enough to finally pass his doctor's licensing exam (he's failed it several times already). While this works, Elaine herself becomes significantly dumber without sex, and Jerry explains that the reverse is happening to her: Men's obsession with sex means that women can normally get it so easily they take it for granted, and don't have to think about it at all. Without sex, most of her brainpower has been diverted to thinking about sex instead of other things. We don't see how the lack of sex affected George's girlfriend, but after the six weeks are up she makes it very clear that she needs sex as soon as possible, so presumably the same thing that happened to Elaine happened to her.
In "The Nose Job", Jerry is dating a woman who's very attractive but also very dumb and unlikable, and he's debating whether or not to break up with her. He says this inner struggle is like a chess game between his brain and his penis... and he's letting his penis win. This eventually leads to a rather humorous visual metaphor. His brain finally wins and he breaks it off, though this is treated like an upset.
George: You're not letting him win. He wins 'til you're 40. Jerry: Then what? George: He still wins, but it's not a blowout.
In "The Secretary", George refuses to hire an attractive woman to be his secretary, knowing that he'll be too Distracted by the Sexy to get any work done at all. As he tells one, "If I hire you, it's only a matter of time before you file a sexual harassment complaint." He ends up hiring a dour-looking woman... who proves to be so hypercompetent that it becomes a Geeky Turn-On for George and he ends up having sex with her anyway.
Used subtly for the odd throwaway joke in Stargate SG-1.
In "Singularity" Jack is revealed to be an amateur astronomer. Carter points out that the telescope on Jack's roof isn't there to spy on neighbors. Jack makes the side comment, "Not at first." Since Jack isn't a conspiracy nut, we can assume that the spying would be only on his female neighbors.
In "Lost City" Jack is speaking in tongues due to having the knowledge of the Ancients downloaded into his head and fills out a crossword with words from the Ancient language. Sam remains skeptical because he also answered "celestial body" with "Uma Thurman".
Between Quark and Grilka in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine while celebrating (prematurely) Quark's apparent success in saving her house. "I really am grateful for all you’ve done, Quark. That’s why I’m going to let you take your hand off my thigh, instead of shattering every bone in your body."
On That '70s Show, it's rare for Kelso and Fez to not think about anything other than perverted thoughts or hitting on almost every woman they met, even if it is their friends' mother. Though Kelso somewhat grows over time, especially after he has a daughter. Eric and Hyde are just as bad as well with the former often wanting to have sex with Donna, even at the most inappropriate time such as next to a feminist rally.
In one episode of Three's Company, Jack is pushed by Janet and Larry to sue his new boss because of her sexual harassment. He ends up losing the case because the judge sees his use of cologne and style of dress as "just asking for it", reprimanding him for luring women in to take advantage of them.
Some of Jay Leno's jokes come from this premise. Kevin Eubanks often gets treated as an exception, but in general it's assumed in the jokes that this trope holds.
Sookie Stackhouse is telepathic. She gave up dating because she was tired of hearing all the disgusting things that men were thinking about while she was out with them. One reason she falls for Bill Compton, a vampire, is because she can't hear his thoughts. Too bad Bill was using this to manipulate his way into a relationship with her. And as we find out later, some of the things Bill has done in his lifetime (which includes rape and human trafficking) puts a lot of the perverted thoughts of other guys to shame.
It's later invoked when Pam and Sarah are being watched by Mr. Gus' Yakuza thugs who don't speak English, but suddenly perk up when Pam mentions the whorehouse she used to run.
Pam: Oh they understood that.
UFO (1970) naturally, given the shows' in-your-face Fanservice. In one episode the aliens are using a weapon that freezes time. Straker enters the film studio used to disguise SHADO headquarters and sees an actor permanently "glancing" down the cleavage of the well-endowed actress opposite him. Even The Stoic Straker is apparently not immune — in "Close Up" he uses a sophisticated macroscope to look up the skirt of a posing Lieutenant Gay Ellis. Supposedly it's part of a demonstration on how it's impossible to judge magnification without reference points, but even after he gets the point Straker zooms in for a second look... you're not fooling anyone, you sly dog!
Rev. Van Dyke: Show the average American teenage male a condom and his mind will turn to thoughts of lust. Toby Ziegler: Show the average American teenage male a lug wrench and his mind'll turn... C.J. Cregg: Toby!
Joxer is a Butt-Monkey and Casanova Wannabe that's often portrayed as a pervert, much to the heroine's distress. He once got caught spying on some amazons as they bathed and almost got executed as a result. He doesn't even protest about being accused of being a pervert.
by Ben Elton and Harry Enfield.