History Main / ButWeUsedACondom

* {{Averted}} in Team Four Star's [[DragonBallAbridged DBZ Abridged]]. Bulma and Vegeta had sex at the end of episode 34, and Vegeta doesn't even know what a condom is (Turns out he thought "protection" meant keeping his armor on).

* Another joke begins when a man and his mistress are about to have sex. The woman sternly instructs her lover to put on his condom because she doesn't want to get pregnant. Just as their about to begin, the woman's cell phone rings. It's her best friend: her lover's wife. The wife tells her friend that she really needs to talk about a personal problem. The friend tells the wife that she's ''busy at the moment'' and asks her to call back later. The man and the mistress have sex and after their done and the man leaves her apartment, the mistress calls the wife up and asks her what she wanted to talk about. The wife tells the mistress that she's upset because her husband is cheating on her. She knows this because she found the condom in the husband's pocket and she knows he never uses them with her because she's on the pill. Then the wife tells her best friend, "But I got my revenge on my husband's whore, I poked a hole in the condom!"

--> '''Abbess''': In our condom, we discovered... '''a hole!'''

* Some nuns in a convent are talking one day. The first nun says "I was in Father O'Malley's room today, and I found a pornographic magazine!" The other nuns are shocked and ask her what she did with it. "I tore it up and threw it in the trash!" The second nun says "Oh, that's nothing, I was in Father O'Malley's room the other day and I found ''condoms''!" The other nuns ask her what she did with them. "I poked holes in them!" The third nun faints. [[/folder]]

** Emergency contraceptive, also known as the morning-after pill, is highly effective when taken soon after intercourse - about 95% if taken within the first 24 hours, 89% if taken within the first 72, and maintaining some effectiveness until 120 hours after.

In a great deal of media, the "But We Used A Condom" line is used to promote abstinence by insisting that condoms don't work, so you're better off not engaging in any sexual activities at all, which admittedly IS the only 100% successful method of birth control. Not surprisingly, it seems to be having the adverse affect of making badly informed teenagers believe there's no point in using any protection at all.

** Ross is aghast to find Rachel pregnant and shouts the trope name. He's also very angry with condom manufacturers, despite it saying on the box they are only 97% effective.
** When Joey finds out condoms are not 100% effective he tries to do some quick math about how many girls he's slept with, given 97% effectiveness each time... panic attack!

** Emergency contraceptive, also known as the morning-after pill, is highly effective when taken soon after intercourse - about 95% if taken within the first 24 hours, 89% if taken within the first 72, and maintaining some effectiveness until 120 hours after. However, even 95% isn't 100%. Additionally, EC can only prevent conception by preventing ovulation; if a woman has ovulated before taking it or is already pregnant, EC cannot terminate the pregnancy.

* ''FamilyGuy'' once mentioned that Chris was the result of an unplanned pregnancy due to a condom breaking. The lawsuit against the manufacturer gave them money to buy a house. Then again, this is ''[[RuleOfFunny Family Guy]]''. Just to top it off, the broken condom is in Chris's baby book.

* In ''KingOfTheHill'', Cotton got Didi pregnant and said he had used four layers of protection and his men still got through. This is why you should only use one condom.

* A ''ComicBook/ChickTract'' on the dangers of premarital sex had a character use birth control and a condom, which she obtained from a neighbour (prescription? what prescription?) but worry nevertheless that she was pregnant. She turned out not to be, but she managed to pick up both a case of the clap and HIV. Also a case of YouFailBiologyForever, since it pushes the spurious claim that HIV can pass right through latex. [[note]]It also conflates AIDS and HIV (AIDS is caused by HIV but does not set in until some time, often years, after the infection has wreaked havoc on the patient's immune system) and gives the impression that either one can be diagnosed within a month of infection (a person cannot be confirmed HIV-positive until at least three months after infection, with a follow-up recommended six months after potential exposure to the virus).[[/note]]

* ''[[LookWhosTalking Look Who's Talking Too]]'': Mollie and James conceive their daughter and Mikey's half-sister, Julie, despite the fact that Mollie wore her diaphragm. This being ''Look Who's Talking'', we actually get to see one lucky sperm find a gap ''juuust'' big enough to squeeze through.

** There are stories of people who learned about condoms with a banana for a demonstration tool. [[LiteralMinded So they put a condom on a banana before having unprotected sex]]. (Unconfirmed.)

*** confirmed my little sister and brothers school does it.

** This unintended-pregnancy-followed-by-immediate-engagement seems to be standard procedure among Japanese celebrities. The latest such individual is KodaKumi, but she is far from alone; the very fact that Music/AyumiHamasaki ''wasn't'' pregnant when she married an Austrian model/actor out of the blue was itself a shock. Someone should really show them how condoms are supposed to work.

* This unintended-pregnancy-followed-by-immediate-engagement seems to be standard procedure among Japanese celebrities. The latest such individual is KodaKumi, but she is far from alone; the very fact that Music/AyumiHamasaki ''wasn't'' pregnant when she married an Austrian model/actor out of the blue was itself a shock. Someone should really show them how condoms are supposed to work.

->'''Ross:''' We, we used a condom!
->'''Rachel:''' I know, I know. But you know, condoms only work like 97% of the time.
->'''Ross:''' Wha-what? WHAT? Well they should put that on the box!
->'''Rachel:''' They do!
->'''Ross:''' No they don't! ''(Storms off to his bedroom. Pause. Returns with a box of condoms in hand)'' WELL THEY SHOULD PUT IT IN HUGE BLOCK LETTERS!!!

* Former HelloProject and Morning Musume member Tsuji Nozomi invoked this trope when announcing her pregnancy and subsequent engagement to Sugiura Taiyo (AKA the actor who played Haruno Musashi/Ultraman Cosmos in UltramanCosmos).
** This unintended-pregnancy-followed-by-immediate-engagement seems to be standard procedure among Japanese celebrities. The latest such individual is KodaKumi, but she is far from alone; the very fact that Music/AyumiHamasaki ''wasn't'' pregnant when she married an Austrian model/actor out of the blue was itself a shock. Someone should really show them how condoms are supposed to work.

* PlayedForDrama in ''AdrianMole'', when Mr Lucas, Adrian's mother's lover, claims that Rosie Mole is his child, and Mrs Mole protests that she was wearing a diaphragm (in between trying to deny the whole thing).

* A ''ComicBook/ChickTract'' on the dangers of premarital sex had a character use birth control and a condom, which she obtained from a neighbour (prescription? what prescription?) but worry nevertheless that she was pregnant. She turned out not to be, but she managed to pick up both a case of the clap and HIV. Also a case of YouFailBiologyForever, since it pushes the spurious claim that HIV can pass right through latex. [[hottip:*:It also conflates AIDS and HIV (AIDS is caused by HIV but does not set in until some time, often years, after the infection has wreaked havoc on the patient's immune system) and gives the impression that either one can be diagnosed within a month of infection (a person cannot be confirmed HIV-positive until at least three months after infection, with a follow-up recommended six months after potential exposure to the virus).]]

** There are stories of people who learned about condoms with a banana for a demonstration tool. [[LiteralMinded So they put a condom on a banana before having unprotected sex]]. (Unconfirmed.)

* In ''TheSecretLifeOftheAmericanTeenager'', [[spoiler:Adrian switching Birth Control pills and Ben's condom breaking lead to the conception of their daughter Mercy.]]

** In an effort to have a child that would save her life, Claudia Zacchara on poked holes through condoms so that Sonny would believe they worked while she knew they didn't. The result? She is now pregnant.

* {{Averted}} in Team Four Star's [[DragonBallAbridged DBZ Abridged]]. Bulma and Vegeta had sex at the end of episode 34, and Vegeta doesn't even know what a condom is.

Most plots (as in the ''{{Friends}}'' example from the quote) don't even bother to explain the "3%" failure rate comes from misuse, not from production errors or [[BecauseDestinySaysSo fate]]. And that the "failure rate" quoted for contraceptives isn't the chance of failure in a single sex act, but the percentage of women who get pregnant during a ''year'' using the method. See also LawOfInverseFertility. The number one cause of SurprisePregnancy.

** Also taken to the logical extreme with Dr. Cox. He managed to get Jordan pregnant with their second child even though he'd had a vasectomy. ''Twice''. (Done once, then undone, then done again).