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* ''Film/{{Porkys}}'' and the multiple movies spawned by its success use this as the main thrust (so to speak) of the plot. The same can be said of ''Film/AmericanPie'' from a decade later.
** Parodied to hell and back by ''Film/NotAnotherTeenMovie'', in which a trio of High School ''freshmen'' are on this. One doesn't succeed, another falls in love with [[MyGirlIsASlut Catherine]], and the third [[spoiler: gets a handjob from his crush]].

* ''Film/{{Superbad}}'' uses {{Deconstruction}} to take on this premise.
* ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin'' deconstructs this, as the lead is pressured into pursuing women by his coworkers, but they're shown to be immature about the whole thing while he's interested mainly in a relationship.
* ''Film/SexDrive'' is about a man who steals his brother's car and drives across the country to have sex with a woman he met online.
%%* ''Film/EyesWideShut'' provides a rather dark version of this.
* ''Film/DivorceItalianStyle'' features this as an UnbuiltTrope, as is to be expected since it predates current usage by several decades. The usage here as a result tends to be a lot more macabre and disturbing, as the main character in pursuit of his goal [[spoiler:to have sex with his 15-year-old cousin, devises a highly elaborate plan to manipulate his wife into having an affair so he can legally have her murdered, and then marry said cousin. Said plan includes knowingly destroying his entire family's moral reputation, and at one point (accidentally) killing his uncle]].
* In ''Film/TheSureThing'' Gib drives across the country to meet the titular "Sure Thing", a woman who is guaranteed to sleep with him.
%%* ''Where The Boys Are '84'' is a RareFemaleExample of this.

* In ''Literature/TheGame2005'', ([[TookALevelInBadass formerly]]) socially awkward music journalist Neil Strauss does research on the Pick-up Artist Community, meeting several other socially awkward types on this quest. They all end up having copious amounts of sex, but [[AnAesop it ultimately solves nothing because they still have deeper problems to contend with]].

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* Samantha from ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' has this quest as her main character trait, and shows no signs of giving it up: She's the oldest character in the main cast.

** In another episode, Earl has to make up for making fun of a foreign exchange student from France named Pierre back in grade school. It turned out, Pierre was a KidANova who was trying to kiss as many girls as he could (because they all liked his accent, which, of course, doesn't do anything for him back home). Earl takes Pierre to find those girls (well, women now) so he could make out with them. They managed to find all but one (but she had a very willing sister), and they even found their (now elderly) teacher.

* This is the premise of the ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' series: in the first, Larry, rapidly approaching 40, decides to finally lose his virginity and sets out to [[UsefulNotes/LasVegas Lost Wages]], determined to have sex with a woman by the end of the night. He can actually accomplish this very quickly with a sleazy prostitute, but ends up realizing that he wants something more meaningful and spends the rest of the game and the next two trying to find (what he considers) true love. He does meet the woman of his dreams in the third game, but she vanishes with no InUniverse explanation at the end of the fifth[[note]]Note that [[UnInstallment there is no LSL4]][[/note]] so he's back on the hunt for the rest of the series. The closest justification seems to be that ''LSL 3'' ends with Larry and Patti landing in [[RealLife the real world]], with Larry getting a job working for Sierra itself. Thus in every subsequent game he's an AnimatedActor, but Patti is too expensive for them to hire; according to ''LSL 7'''s manual they're still together but haven't gotten married yet.

* Hilariously, [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Joel's]] childhood cat Minus went missing for two years. He returned home twice as fat and ''every female cat in town'' pregnant. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws2s0eSWANg#t=233 See to believe.]]

* There are several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' where the titular characters come up with plans to score. Said plans always fail. In ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica'', the two travel cross country to UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, thinking they're going to get paid to "do" someone's wife.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Spoiler]][[FailureIsTheOnlyOption One of them still hasn't succeeded by the end of the series.]][[/labelnote]]]]

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': PlayedForHorror with [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3512 SCP-3512]] ("The More You Know"), [[TakeThat a satirical take]] on pick-up artists and their misogyny. Through body-mutilation rituals and creating a sentient doll-like construct from human fat and bones to take control of the person one desires, instances of the SCP turn women they want to fuck into living sex dolls. The affected victims undergo complete personality changes that leave them eager to please their brainwashers, and are [[AndIMustScream completely aware of this outside force taking them over, but can only express it in bouts of screaming that eventually fade away as it takes complete control]].

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* In the movie ''Film/FortyEightHours'', Reggie goes out of his way to get some. It's not the main plot, but a subplot. He is in prison, and is going ''back'' at the end.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', a majority of Steve Smith's storylines is about this, although he usually never succeeds getting laid. [[spoiler: That is, until Season 13's "My Purity Ball and Chain", where he ''[[ThrowTheDogABone finally]]'' loses his virginity.]]
** This is deconstructed in "Steve and Snot's Test-Tubular Adventure". As Haley points out, the women they pursue are actual people, people's daughters, not just sex objects. [[ItMakesSenseInContext When Steve and Snot raise a pair of clones into adulthood to have sex with them at prom]], Steve is hit with the realization that he has come to love his clone daughter. He finds himself not just unable to view her sexually but is horrified when others do so.

* There are several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' where the titular characters come up with plans to score. Said plans always fail. In ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica'', the two travel cross country to Washington, thinking they're going to get paid to "do" someone's wife.

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': PlayedForHorror with [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3512 SCP-3512]] ("The More You Know"), [[TakeThat a satirical take]] on pick-up artists and their misogyny. Through body-mutilation rituals and creating a sentient doll-like construct from human fat and bones to take control of the person one desires, instances of the SCP turn women they want to fuck into living sex dolls. The affected victims undergo complete personality changes that leave them eager to please their brainwashers, and are [[AndIMustScream completely aware of this outside force taking them over, but can only express it in bouts of screaming that eventually fade away as it takes complete control]].