History Main / WackyCravings

* At one point in the ''HomeMovies'' episode ''Cradles and Caskets,'' the woman that Brendon's dad marries is seen eating a bucket of fried chicken and dipping it in butterscotch.

* ''SisterClaire'' finds herself absentmindedly chowing down on a ''wooden mug.'' She ''is'' pregnant with the Messiah, but it's still somewhat extreme.
* [[http://plusev.keenspot.com/d/20070504.html Here]] in ''PlusEV''.
* LawOfPurple does has people mentioning a few on [[http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1112 this page]] and a few of them are going for the most bizarre combo award

* In ''Literature/TheDiscreetPrincess]], a prince seduces two daughters of a king he hates, but the third, Finette (the one he ''really'' hates), manages to outwit him (with the added bonus of a number of injuries to him). Naturally, he holds a grudge. So, in order to draw her out of the tower where the sisters are locked, he leaves a few fruits outside, fully aware that the sisters will be begging Finette to get them these at all cost.

* In ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Beauties-Beasts-Enchantment-Classic-European/dp/1861714327/ The Discreet Princess]]'', a prince seduces two daughters of a king he hates, but the third, Finette (the one he ''really'' hates), manages to outwit him (with the added bonus of a number of injuries to him). Naturally, he holds a grudge. So, in order to draw her out of the tower where the sisters are locked, he leaves a few fruits outside, fully aware that the sisters will be begging Finette to get them these at all cost.

* Early on in ''TenchiMuyo'', Ryoko tricks the crew into thinking she pregnant (and that Tenchi's the father) by claiming to crave pickles and ice cream.
* Briefly happens in Manga/{{Naruto}} when Kushina is pregnant in a flashback

* ''{{Superman}} #666'' starts with a heavily pregnant Lois craving ice cream and pickles. When she miscarries, Clark reveals to the demon trying to cause him despair that he knew this was a simulation the whole time: "Lois isn't that much of a cliché!"

* During Alisande's pregnancy in ''AWizardInRhyme,'' she finds herself craving a hot fudge sundae. The "wacky" part comes from the fact that she lives in an AlternateUniverse medieval France where ice cream ''doesn't exist'', so all she can do is describe a food she that she doesn't even have a name for.

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* Transsexual women sometimes experience this (as well as other physiological effects, such as the "mask of pregnancy"), when they begin hormone replacement therapy.

* In one episode of ''{{Doug}}'', Doug ends up pet-sitting Roger's cat Stinky. When Doug gives into the cat's demands for pizza and ice cream, he thinks he's done something terrible when the cat starts acting strangely afterward, but in the end, to everyone's surprise (including Roger's!), it turns out that Stinky was a ''girl'' all along, and ''pregnant.''

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* In ''Film/MoscowDoesNotBelieveInTears'', Katya develops a sudden craving for pickles. Her two friends immediately figure out that she's pregnant.

* ''{{Shrek}} The Third'' presents Princess Fiona as pregnant. When asked if she has had any cravings, she says no while eating cake, then sniffs and says, "Do you smell ham?"
* In ''RosemarysBaby'', Rosemary has a sudden craving for rare meat, just barely touched to a hot frying pan. This is another clue that Something Ain't Quite Right.

* An episode of ''TheBrittasEmpire'' once featured a pregnant woman eating ''coal''.

** In ''Series/{{V}}'', Robin, pregnant with a hybrid, craves red meat to the point that she wakes in the night and yanks it uncooked from the refrigerator to eat. Or, in the 2009 remake ''Series/{{V 2009}}'', [[spoiler: Valerie (also pregnant with a hybrid),]] almost eats a mouse caught in a trap.

* ''FullHouse'': Becky had a craving for sour cream and onion potato chips. By the time Jesse gets back from the market, she's changed her mind. Anticipating this, he bought "every chip known to man -- the Pregnancy Variety Pack." Alas, he didn't get any with ridges...

* An episode of ''XenaWarriorPrincess'' finds Xena, Gabrielle, and some young friends ordering food in a tavern. Xena orders something extremely bizarre that everyone else notices except her. Later it's revealed that she is pregnant with Eve (no, not [[Literature/TheBible that Eve]]).

* On ''{{Friends}}'', pregnant vegetarian Phoebe craves meat, much to her horror. She trades with Joey, who promises not to eat meat throughout the rest of her pregnancy in order to balance out the universe.

* On ''SavedByTheBell'', Mr. Belding's pregnant wife asks for a combination of ginger ale and peanut butter. [[CloudCuckooLander Screech]] notes that's his favorite.
* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in a scene from ''TheGoldenGirls'', where Rose is talking to a pregnant neighbor girl.

* When Lucy is "expecting" Little Ricky on ''ILoveLucy'', she sends Ricky out in the middle of the night to find a store that makes a papaya milkshake -- as well as sardines to mix in and a pickle to dip in it. At the end of the episode, she's switched to sardines with pistachio ice cream and hot fudge. Lucille Ball said she never ate sardines again.
* In one episode of ''ThreesCompany'', Cindy is MistakenForPregnant by Jack and Janet. One thing that supposedly confirms their suspicions is when Janet sees Cindy making a tuna fish and jelly sandwich.

* During Peggy's pregnancy arc on ''MarriedWithChildren'', she has a heavy craving for tapioca, and when she calls for it from upstairs, the kids are seen ''shoveling'' it from a giant drum in the living room. She also craved "tobacky and clam" ice cream, and would take food from one restaurant to combine with food from another. Marcy had them too, and in one scene she was scarfing chicken legs while throwing the bones over her shoulder, while Peg was eating spaghetti, with an entire jar of gas tablets mixed in. (Both of them complain about their families acting as if the two of them were "unpleasant to be around".)

* In the ''{{Grimm}}'' episode "Endangered" the Glühenvolk (glowing blue Wesen who are the source of UFO myths) crave cow ovaries when pregnant. That's the reason for [[AliensStealCattle cattle mutilations]].

* AlanKing said in a bit that his wife told him she was pregnant by waking him up at two in the morning and asking him to go get her an ice cream sundae with a ridiculously long list of toppings, "and a sour pickle".

* Wives in ''HarvestMoon'' games will often have these as early indicators of their pregnancy.
* Pregnant women in ''VideoGame/TheSims 2'' and 3 sometimes get wishes to eat odd combinations of food, like spaghetti and ice cream, or will simply keep making the same food (like pancakes) over and over and ''over''.

* In ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Beauties-Beasts-Enchantment-Classic-European/dp/1861714327/ The Discreet Princess]]'', a prince seduces two daughters of a king he hates, but the third, Finette (the one he ''really'' hates), manages to outwit him (with the added bonus of a number of injuries to him). Naturally, he holds a grudge. So, in order to draw her out of the tower where the sisters are locked, he leaves a few fruit outside, fully aware that the sisters will be begging Finette to get them these at all cost.

* In an episode of ''{{Superjail}}'', one of the Twins goes into a spontaneous pregnancy/budding and winds up craving cleaning products and fertilizer. The first sign of his bizarre cravings occurs when he attempts to devour a lunch lady whole and has to be pried off.

-- ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''

* One ''TheFarSide'' strip has a termite queen ordering her workers to bring pickles and ice cream.

* [[SubvertedTrope Nicely subverted]] in ''{{Fargo}}'', as Marge Gunderson's appetite is pretty normal for any average woman... except the vast quantities of [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee]]

* ''[[Film/TheThinMan After the Thin Man]]'' offers a subtle example; Nora doesn't officially announce she's pregnant until the very end of the movie, but beforehand makes odd requests like scrambled eggs at three o'clock in the morning. As she says to Nick: "And you call yourself a detective..."

* An unknowingly-pregnant Jill in ''Cake Mania 4: Main Street''.
-->'''Jill:''' This morning I had the strangest craving for waffles. With whipped cream. And kimchi. Stomach, you're not reassuring me here!