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** "[[Recap/TheGreatNorthS4E08BearOfBeeftownAdventure Bear Of Beeftown Adventure]]": Moon reveals that the reason why Beef has been in such a good mood lately is because he's been getting closer to Carissa, the mom of Moon's frenemy Quinn. The reason Moon knows about this? Quinn told him she accidentally walked in on Carissa and Beef in the bathtub together ("Mom? ''Moon's dad?!'' AAAAAAH!"). At the end of the episode, [[BookEnds it happens again]], this time with Moon accidentally walking in on them. He's just as horrified as Quinn was.

** "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS6E3BethicTwinstinct Bethic Twinstinct]]": Morty and Summer are already horrified enough to learn that [[spoiler:the two versions of their mom (one of whom is a clone of the other) are having an affair with each other behind their dad's back. But it gets worse for them by the end, when Jerry and the Beths reconcile via him watching them have sex in front of him, which quickly turns into ThreeWaySex...which, as shown in the video example, Rick, Morty, and Summer [[RightThroughTheWall can hear in its entirety from downstairs at the dining room table]]. Unable to use a portal gun to escape the situation, the three of them can only sit and listen in misery and disgust, and it drives the kids to literal tears]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "Rainy Day Daydream", when Finn turns Jake's imagination back on, he also imagines a fairy turning Jake's imagination into overdrive. Finn hastily turns Jake's imagination back to normal, and Jake moans "Aw, I imagined my mom naked! Yuck!"

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In the premiere episode "Human Flesh", Bob and Linda [[FerrisWheelDateMoment start making out at the apex of a Ferris wheel]]. The kids are in the car right behind them, and while Tina is okay with it, Gene teases them and Louise gets weirded out.

** In the BizarroEpisode "Depth Takes a Holiday", Helen and Jake are hit by Cupid's taser and turn into SickeninglySweethearts. Quinn is disgusted, and also believes that they're trying to have a new baby. I mean, why else would they be... ''you know?''
** Also alluded to in the episode "My Night at Daria's."

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'', Bean cringes as her stepmother tries to give her TheTalk before her own ArrangedMarriage. (The fact that she's a FishPerson doesn't help.)

** In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E6TheSonAlsoDraws The Son Also Draws]]", Stewie is freaked out after accidentally walking in on Peter and Lois having sex the night before. Brian messes with him by suggesting where else they did it.
** In the episode "The Fat Guy Strangler", Lois discovers she has an older brother who had been committed to a mental hospital before she was born. When he was a kid, he had walked in on their mother giving a blowjob to Creator/JackieGleason and found the sight so traumatizing that he had a severe mental breakdown. Even all these years later, he is still haunted by it to the point of developing a hatred of fat men. When Lois has him released since he appears sane enough (aside from the imaginary wife), he becomes the titular Fat Guy Strangler.
** In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS11E6LoisComesOutOfHerShell Lois Comes Out Of Her Shell]]", as a result of her [[HollywoodMidLifeCrisis mid-life crisis]], Lois gets a lot raunchier with Peter, and the two of them end up having sex in the laundry room. However, Chris, Meg, and Brian hear them having sex from the living room, and are disgusted.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' Cleveland's Dad and Donna's "Auntie Momma" have ludicrously dirty sex (in the dark) and then discuss it at the dinner table. Causing Cleveland to vomit continuously for almost a minute. Though that may have been because he knew that "Auntie Momma" was actually "Uncle Kevin" as his Dad had the same reaction when [[UnsettlingGenderReveal he found out]].
* {{Inverted}} in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' in "Bullocks to Stan", where Stan's boss is dating his daughter.
-->'''Stan:''' Hey, I'm hungry! [[ItMakesSenseInContext [Bullock] rode me like an animal for three hours]]! Do you have any idea what that's like?!\\
'''Hayley:''' ''[raises eyebrows casually]''\\
'''Stan:''' ...and now I'm not hungry.
** Also inverted in "Daesong Heavy Industries II: Return to Innocence," where Hayley seems weirdly ''into'' watching her parents have sex.
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', [[ActionGirl Leela]] finds out it's worse when the parental sex is with your AbhorrentAdmirer.

* ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'': In "[[Recap/InsideJobS1E8Buzzkill Buzzkill]]", Rand mentions past sexual antics with Tamiko, squicking out Reagan.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'', one of Mark's first scenes is ScrewThisImOuttaHere because his parents are getting ''too'' affectionate in front him. He even says that one of the things parents should never do is have sex in front of their kids, and his mother lightly remarks that he should be happy that his parents love each other so much.
* On ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', [[OnlySaneMan Hank]] feels [[GoodOldWays pretty awkward about sex in general]]. When he comes into the kitchen to see his mom and her boyfriend doing it on his counter, he experiences TemporaryBlindness until he and the boyfriend talk through their problems. He's also continually exasperated with his father's womanizing ways.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Lizzie}}'' episode "Fifty Shades of Green" has Lizzie Green creeped out by her parents being overly affectionate toward each other in front of her. She puts a stop to it by tricking her father into watching a home movie of her grandparents getting intimate on the night of her parents' anniversary.

** On the episode "Dethfam", Nathan Explosion delivers the line "the fact that my parents had sex to create me makes me want to be buried alive."

* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' of all things had this. Larry sings a silly song about how his great-grandparents (give or take a few 'great's) invented macaroni and cheese. His grandfather was from a family of pasta makers, and his grandmother was from a family of cheesemakers, but alas, they were FeudingFamilies. After an accident [[JustForFun/XMeetsY mixed the macaroni and cheese together]], the families agreed that they tasted better together and ended their grudge, the young lovers leaned in for a kiss... cut to Larry slamming shut the photo album and exclaiming, "Whoa! Those are my grandparents! We don't need to see that!"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEpicTalesOfCaptainUnderpants'': In the Halloween special, Harold spots the ShipTease between his mom and Mr. Meaner and promptly goes into a HeroicBSOD over it.

** Exploited by Abe in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E10GrampaVsSexualInadequacy Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy]]" where Homer begs him not to talk about sex. Homer shudders after Abe admits that he's had sex.

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy, having wished he was adult, watches an adult movie and [[AffectionHatingKid is squicked when he sees the characters on screen kissing.]] He then sees his parents making out a few rows down and is even more disgusted, screaming "IT BURNS!" while covering his eyes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Cringe," Gumball and Hot Dog Guy deliberately put themselves in embarrassing and awkward scenarios to try and figure out why they feel so much of the titular feeling between each other. After a few unsuccessful tries, Hot Dog Guy suggests that they "take things to the next level"; cue Gumball entering Hot Dog Guy's house ''pretending to be his step-father and attempting to give HDG {{The Talk}}''. HDG begs Gumball to stop, but Gumball can only get a few words out before their faces crumple up like paper from embarrassment.
* Happens a few times on ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': It's played straight with Morty and Summer about their parents, Beth and Jerry, and inverted by Rick, who's Beth's father.
** Inverted in "Lawnmower Dog": When Rick and Morty are several layers deep in the subconscious of Morty's math teacher, they end up in a strip club with HookersAndBlow. Rick mostly doesn't have a problem with it, but he and Morty are both completely revolted when they see a {{Stripperific}} mind-version of Summer (Morty's older sister and Rick's granddaughter) there, who hits on them.
** "Rick Potion #9": Summer, Jerry, and Rick are discussing the possibility of Beth cheating on Jerry with her coworker, Davin. Summer points out that, as horse veterinarians, digging around the insides of horses probably isn't the most romantic setting, but Rick brings up that Beth may have lied about having to work, leading to:
--->'''Rick''': Maybe Davin is digging around in ''her'' insides.\\
'''Summer''': Grandpa Rick, so gross! You're talking about my mom!\\
'''Rick''': Well, she's my daughter, Summer, so I outrank you.
** "Mort Dinner Rick Andre": Summer makes a crack about her parents not wanting her to say "Let's lick tits!" because they're not getting any. Jerry and Beth proceed to correct her that they've been very "sex-positive" lately and watch porn together, eliciting grossed-out reactions from both Summer and Morty. Rick also walks in to see Beth and Jerry flirting with each other, and informs them all that they have poison capsules in their teeth.
** "Bethic Twinstinct": Morty and Summer are already horrified enough to learn that [[spoiler:the two versions of their mom (one of whom is a clone of the other) are having an affair with each other behind their dad's back. But it gets worse for them by the end, when Jerry and the Beths reconcile via him watching them have sex in front of him, which quickly turns into ThreeWaySex...which, as shown in the video example, Rick, Morty, and Summer [[RightThroughTheWall can hear in its entirety from downstairs at the dining room table]]. Unable to use a portal gun to escape the situation, the three of them can only sit and listen in misery and disgust, and it drives the kids to literal tears]].

* ''Film/{{Black Widow|2021}}'': Despite the fact that they were only their fake parents for 3 years as a sleeper cell, Natasha and Yelena are both grossed out when their surrogate father Alexei talks about what he wants to do with their surrogate mother Melina. They also get put off when Melina gives a wolf-whistle to Alexei donning his Red Guardian costume again.
-->'''Natasha:''' ''Please'' don't do that.

* Played straight and inverted in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': Drax broaches the subject when the group meets Peter's father, Ego the Living Planet ([[HotSkittyOnWailordAction "How could he make a baby with your mother? He would smoosh her!"]]) Peter is understandably squicked, but Drax isn't fazed, explaining proudly that his own father would tell the story of his conception every Winter Solstice, and tells Peter [[YourNormalIsOurTaboo that humans have strange hang-ups]].

'''Chicha:''' ''[grins and [[EyelashFluttering flutters her eyelashes]] at him.]''

* Averted in ''Literature/ToShapeADragonsBreath'' by Anequs and the other children of Masquapaug Island. When the men return home from months away at whaling, it's expected that their children will go spend the day after the return celebration out of the house until sunset, leaving their wives to welcome their husbands home "[[SexualEuphemism in their own way]]." None of the children think anything is squicky about it.

* You could be the product of In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF), informally called a "test-tube baby." But IVF is expensive even with insurance, and is generally only done after couples have been trying to conceive the old-fashioned way for a long period of time. Unless they're [[HasTwoMommies the same sex]], in which case they're probably ''still'' making sweet love one way or another.

* You could be the product of In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF), informally called a "test-tube baby." But then, IVF is expensive, even when covered by insurance, and is generally only done after couples have been trying to conceive the old-fashioned way for a long period of time.
* Your parents could be in a same-sex couple, and thus lacking all of the.. er, required equipment for procreation -- but then, someone had to be responsible for either providing needed genetic material, or carrying the pre-born you to term. Even then, it's still quite likely your parents have sex, even if it's not the exact acts required for procreation.
* You could be some kind of deity or demi-deity, arising out of a virgin birth -- but statistically, that's so unlikely as to be impossible. And, as ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' pointed out, being the product of a virgin birth doesn't necessarily mean your parents didn't have sex after you showed up.

ButIDigress. Now, '''listen closely''': Your parents [[SexualEuphemism put Tab A into Slot B]] to bring you into the world.

In fiction, it's common enough to see a child react with curiosity to their parents in a PrimalScene. As they get older, however, say into double digits, the very ''thought'' that their parents might be getting it on (or even their parents kissing in front of them, for the G-rated version) is enough to send them searching for the BrainBleach. Usually by the time a child reaches their twenties, and is able to fully comprehend and empathize with sexual attraction and activity, this reaction lessens -- generally from "Eww, gross!" to "I really didn't need to hear that, Dad." -- although for comedic effect, it might not fully go away, as Peter Quill in the page quote above can attest to.

* Downplayed in ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy''. After an ImagineSpot gives Izuku a RagingStiffie, he desperately tries to get it to go away by trying to ThinkUnsexyThoughts. One of the images he brings up is his AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents kissing.
* Inverted in ''Fanfic/BackToZero'' when Cassidy casually talks about Jessie's sex life with their boss Giovanni. Unbeknownst to either Cassidy or Jessie, Giovanni is Jessie's father. Giovanni isn't exactly interested in hearing about his child's intimate life.

--> Ew, ew, ew, ew, ewwww.

* To remain [[IgnoranceIsBliss blissfully ignorant]], Ivy in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17889869 The Booty Call]]'' very much insists that no one in her family, ''including her parents'', has ever had sex.
* ''Fanfic/ABoyAGirlAndADogTheLeithianScript'': Elves don't find discussions concerning sex inappropriate or squicky, not even when it's about family members' sex lives, and they find funny how humans make a big deal of it.
-->'''Soldier:''' [nodding] I don't see how she could have been right about it: he was able to touch the Silmaril, after all, and if mortal flesh were inherently corrupt that oughtn't have been possible. -- How come Men are so peculiar about something as normal as the conception of their own offspring? I've never understood why you all make such an issue of it, especially since you need so many of them. Why would mortal parents want to pretend to their children that they just happen along out of thin air --\\
'''Ranger:''' -- or under rocks, don't forget under rocks --\\
[Beren covers his face with his hand, laughing in spite of himself]\\
'''Soldier:''' -- even when everyone knows it isn't true?\\
'''First Guard:''' [musingly] I think for the same reason that mortal children want to pretend the same thing. It's like the time we were visiting Eithel Sirion and there was a new human guardsman there who wanted to know what the celebration was for, and we told him, and after he finished coughing and someone fetched him a new drink, it turned out he thought we were joking.\\
'''Third Guard:''' You saying back, "You mean you don't remember it?" didn't help convince him otherwise. It was funny, but we never understood why the High King's Men would rather congratulate the Prince on his birth than his conception. It seemed like silly semantic games to me.\\
'''Second Guard:''' We could ask Beren instead of speculating.\\
'''First Guard:''' We could, but he'd just get even more embarrassed than he already is.

* There is a ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' fanfic, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4130634/1/Dating-Advice Dating Advice]], where Lewis [[ItMakesSenseInContext ends up swapping dating stories with his]] KidFromTheFuture Wilbur and mentions that one of the girls he dated prior to Franny (Wilbur's mother) helped him realize how much he liked kids; Wilbur comments on how disturbing he finds that. Lewis points out that he needs to like kids for Wilbur to exist; Wilbur counters "There are many things necessary for my existence that I don't like to think about." Lewis can't respond because he's laughing so hard.

* The Season 3 Epilogue of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' has deleted scenes where Trunks talks to Bulma about how little she prepared him for Vegeta. She proceeds to, in this deleted scene, talk about how she and Vegeta had sex and Bulma went along with it.

* In ''Fanfic/AFewNeededAdjustments'', Keisuke is uncomfortable hearing Kyubi describing his past affair with Fumi. By contrast, Natsume (who just learned Kyubi is her biological dad) is just bored:

* One Downy ad involves a teen being squicked out when his grandparents come out of a closet with wrinkled clothes.

* One ad for a reverse mortgage features an adult woman visiting her parents and hearing her father complaining about his bad back. The daughter believes that his bad back is due to the stairs in the house and suggests that her parents downsize. Her mother responds: "It wasn't the stairs. Actually, we love the stairs." and maintains significant eye contact as her daughter shudders at the implications.

* A [=DirectTV=] ad plays on this, with the son going home to be comforted by his parents after getting a high cable bill, only to see them in the middle of a group of elderly couples engaging in slow massages. Which results in the son driving away with tears in his eyes, which in turn has him driving into "a pizzeria that makes really good baked ziti."

* ''Fanfic/TheArithmancer'': Upon finding out that Fleur is pregnant in Chapter 58 of Lady Archimedes due to forgetting to use the Contraceptive Charm, Molly remarks that Bill took after his father, and Arthur adds that she was referring to Ginny as she was [[LawOfInverseFertility conceived and born at the height of the war]]. The Weasley siblings respond in disgust to hearing about this.

* ''Fanfic/TheBlackSheepDogSeries'' has a disguised Sirius completely ''mortified'' when his aunt Lucretia loudly discusses of the fact that his parents vigorously tried to conceive an heir every day, for four years, before his birth. At a party.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15484335?view_adult=true Sakamoto vs. Takamaki]]'' has Jean Takamaki (Ann and Shiho's son born from insemination) invoke this on Natsumi Sakamoto (Ryuji and Hifumi's daughter) to get her to stop attacking him, by pointing out that since Natsumi's birthday is exactly nine months after Ryuji's birthday, she was essentially conceived as her father's birthday present, much to her horror. Unfortuently for him, it only lasts a few times before he jokes that she wore ribbons in her hair as a kid because she was her dad's birthday present, leading her to punch him in the face and runs off. He admits to a confused Yoshio Sakamoto that he had that coming.

* Creator/ChristopherTitus sincerely regretted asking his father Ken about the circumstances of his birth, as Ken related how Titus was conceived. Unusually, there was a reason beyond this trope for Titus to regret it. Long story short: Titus' mother Juanita cheated on her then-boyfriend with Ken in order to conceive Titus. However, the boyfriend came home and started banging on the apartment door, Ken, realizing who was at the door, decided to "become the offender," hurling verbal jabs at the poor guy and give out [[TheImmodestOrgasm a very loud reaction]] as he and Juanita had sex.
-->'''Ken:''' Son, you were conceived during revenge sex.\\
'''Titus:''' ... Wow. (''[[TwitchyEye twitches slightly]]'') That's just like the story of Christmas.

* ''Comicbook/{{Firebreather}}'': The protagonist is the son of a human woman and a dragon. Yes, a full-sized, reptilian one.
-->'''Margaret:''' [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction I bet you're wondering how you were conceived]].\\
''[Duncan understandably freaking out]''

* ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'': The Captain mentions that one codename he considered was "Captain Avalon", after the Music/RoxyMusic album of the same name. He quickly decided not to do so after learning that his mom conceived him while listening to that album.

* Two characters in ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' had the stories of their conceptions told to them, with horrible reactions.
** Jeremy is in his room playing "Stairway to Heaven" on his guitar (he always liked the song for some reason) when his mother mentions that he probably likes the song so much because he was conceived to it. Within minutes, he's rinsing his ears out and boiling his guitar strings.
** Hector's parents let slip that a batch of blueberry muffins burned during his conception. The very sight of a blueberry muffin results in severe nausea thereafter.

* After peeking through the key hole into his parents' bedroom, the kid sighs and says:"And ''these'' people give me crap for picking my nose!"

** Tim Drake is left curled up and crying in a corner.
** Jason Todd outright begs to be [[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily killed again]].

* A recurring theme in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' with Judy and Jack Gellar: Ross and Monica accidentally seeing their sex tape; Monica later seeing the "live show" version; Jack cheerfully discussing the list of celebrities he's allowed to sleep with Ross, oblivious to his son's discomfort.

'''Listen closely''': Your parents [[SexualEuphemism put Tab A into Slot B]] to bring you into the world.