Funny Conception Story

Tracy: I know it's a girl, Liz Lemon. Because I yelled "Susan B. Anthony" at the moment of conception.
Liz: Well, that'll do it.
Tracy: We're going to name her after the place that she was conceived. It was a pretty wild night. So we're going to name her either "Virginia", "NetJet", or "Bathroom at Teterboro Airport".

— 30 Rock

When a mommy and daddy love each other very much... well, it usually goes the same way. It's not common that someone can remember any interesting details about conceiving their child — hell, depending on how often one has sex and how regular their fertility cycle is, they may not pinpoint the exact time and place of the conception at all.

Sometimes, however, it's pretty memorable when a baby was made. Perhaps their parents were getting it on somewhere they shouldn't, or perhaps it followed a special moment of their lives, such as a grand romantic moment, a near-death experience, or their honeymoon. Maybe the way they conceived the child made an odd amount of sense for the child's future personality, such as a bookworm being conceived in a library.

Amazingly Embarrassing Parents are likely to share this information publicly, much to the disgust of their child. However, the child may know and share this information themselves, if they don't have much of a social filter. The child may even figure out the story by themself (or at least suspect it) when they realize a holiday or major event occurred nine months before they were born. Ideally, they won't know this story until they're much older.

For other unconventional (and often disturbing) conception situations, see Mystical Pregnancy, Child by Rape, and Conceive and Kill. Compare Born in an Elevator for babies born in weird places, and Primal Scene. May lead to Parental Sexuality Squick. Supertrope to My Own Grampa, a supernaturally bizarre type of conception.

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Examples:

Advertising

• A Turn of the Millennium Chrysler commercial featured a girl and her mom driving through town. The girl questions her mother about why she's named Savannah, and her mother explains she was named after the place where she was conceived. The girl then asks why her baby sister is named Concorde. The mother dodges the question, leading the girl to look at the "Concorde" imprinted on the dashboard. As she recoils in disgust, she shouts, "Ew, yuck!" while the narrator explains that a luxurious back seat is one of the Concorde's many features. That version of the commercial was then banned and replaced with a new one where the mother, in ADR, says, "Concorde Massachusetts, sweetie!"
• Implied in a campaign for Klondike Kandy Bars. Each commercial begins with a typical porno setup between a male Klondike bar and a female candy bar (such as a Hospital Hottie or invasion of sexy aliens), then cuts to a guy explaining that's how the Kandy Bars are made. Some commercials have the Klondike bar and candy bar as parents, who explain how they met and made their Kandy Bar son.
• The NFL put out a Super Bowl Special for Super Bowl 50 celebrating "Super Bowl Babies," who were born nine months after the Super Bowl, citing that the cities of winning teams tend to see a spike of births.
  In the end, when our team won,
  Mom and Dad looked at each other,
  One thing led to another that night...

Anime & Manga

• Seitokai Yakuindomo: When Aria Shichijo invites her fellow Student Council members to visit her house, she points out a large tree nearby the house and explains that it's very important to her parents. The others ask if that's where her father proposed, but she explains that it's where she was conceived. In a flashback many episodes later, her parents are shown pointing out the tree to Aria as a child and explaining its significance.

Comic Books

• Firebreather: The protagonist is the son of a human woman and a dragon. Yes, a full-sized, reptilian one.
  Margaret: I bet you're wondering how you were conceived.
  [Duncan understandably freaking out]
• Nextwave: The Captain mentions that one codename he considered was "Captain Avalon", after the Roxy Music album of the same name. He quickly decided not to do so after learning that his mom conceived him while listening to that album.

Comic Strips

• Inverted in this Valentine's Day Foxtrot strip. After Roger gives her a spatula instead of flowers, chocolates, or jewelry like she expected, Andy asks him if he's ever wondered why none of their children were born in November.
• Two characters in 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.

Comedy

• Christopher Titus sincerely regretted asking his father Ken about the circumstances of his birth, as Ken related how Titus was conceived. 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 a very loud reaction as he and Juanita had sex.
  Ken: Son, you were conceived during revenge sex.
  Titus: ... Wow. (twitches slightly) That's just like the story of Christmas.

Fan Works

• The Arithmancer: 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 conceived and born at the height of the war. The Weasley siblings respond in disgust to hearing about this.
• The Black Sheep Dog Series has a disguised Sirius completely mortified when his aunt Lucretia loudly discusses the fact that his parents vigorously tried to conceive an heir every day, for four years, before his birth. At a party.
• Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse): Soma, who is the reincarnation of Dracula, says that he was conceived on a full moon, on Halloween, out of wedlock (though his parents are still together), under a tree where druids used to sacrifice goats, and when he was born the power in the hospital went out and four people died. Kazuya says that he's seriously pushing the Willing Suspension of Disbelief.
• Queens of Mewni: Skywynne and Filbric conceived Soupina while having sex in the castle kitchen. The maids walked in on the mess they left behind, embarrassing Skywynne so badly that she didn't conceive another child for fourteen years.
• Total Drama Do Over: The Hard-Drinking Party Girl Mel mentions that she was conceived in a mosh pit.
• True Potential: When Naruto asks his genin students to introduce themselves, Kanji decides to have some fun by telling the story of how he was born. It doesn't take long before his sensei interrupts him, saying he doesn't need to know about the sex lives of his students' parents. Kanji tries to continue his story, only to be interrupted by Naruto throwing a kunai that barely passes his student's head. Afterwards, the genin no longer attempts to continue telling the story of his conception.

Film — Live-Action

• American Cuisine: Louis cheerfully points out the various places in the kitchen where his daughter was conceived when trying to scare away his potential son-in-law.
• The Beautician and the Beast: Joy's mother talks about how love can make people desperate and resourceful, and goes on to describe the night she and her husband were feeling particularly amorous, but they were completely out of condoms and all the local stores were closed for the night. Not to be deterred, they made their own condom with plastic wrap and a rubber band. Joy, equally horrified and fascinated, asks if it worked. The reply: "Nine months later, you were born."
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Implied. Drax mentions that he heard the story of his conception as a tradition every winter solstice, but aside from him mentioning that the story was "beautiful", no specific details are given.

Jokes

• An old joke about the circumstances of a child's conception Crosses the Line Twice:
  Son: Father, you and Mom are white, but I am black. Why is that so?
  Father: Son, that was such a wild time, just be happy you don't bark.

Literature

• In the Carl Hiaasen novel Bad Monkey, Andrew Yancy, the main character, claims he was conceived while his parents were listening to "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: Fenchurch was conceived in the ticket queue of the Fenchurch Street Railway Station, hence her name.
• In United Tates of America by Paula Danzinger, Liberty and her siblings are named after the cities where they were conceived. For Liberty, it's extra embarrassing because not only is the city an unusual name for a person (her brothers are Austin and Troy), her parents like to quote the "conceived in Liberty" line from the Gettysburg Address.

Live-Action TV

• 30 Rock: Tracy Jordan, being a Cloudcuckoolander with no filter, is very excited to share all the details of his unborn daughter's conception with his coworkers. He assumes it's a girl because he screamed "Susan B. Anthony" when they climaxed and suggests names based on the various places he and Angie had sex that night, including the bathroom at Teterboro Airport.
• Cobra Kai: In "Quiver", Daniel tries to interest his wife Amanda in a sparring match in their karate dojo. She declines with the line, "Let's try to remember what happened ten years ago when you and I hit the mat for a little karate," before glancing rather pointedly at their younger son Anthony.
• Doctor Who: In "A Good Man Goes to War", the Doctor discovers the reason a pregnant Amy was kidnapped was that her baby is part Time Lord, in spite of her parents being fully human. Because of this, Vastra has an awkward conversation with the Doctor about whether baby Melody's conception may have had something to do with it. Becomes even funnier when it's revealed Melody grows up to be recurring character and the Doctor's Love Interest River Song.
  Doctor: Because I don't understand how this happened.
  Vastra: Which leads me to ask when did it happen?
  Doctor: When?
  Vastra: I am trying to be delicate. I know how you can blush. When did this baby... begin? [...] [C]ould the child have begun on the TARDIS in flight, in the vortex.
  Doctor: No! No! Impossible! It's all running about, sexy fish vampires and blowing up stuff. And Rory wasn't even there at the beginning. Then he was dead, then he didn't exist, then he was plastic. Then I had to reboot the whole universe. Long story. So, technically the first time they were on the Tardis together in this version of reality, was on their w—
  Vastra: On their what?
  Doctor: (gulps) On their wedding night.
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: While trying to steal Geoffrey's memoirs, Phil and Vivian note that they include a story about Hilary being conceived at a Sly and the Family Stone concert.
• Friends: When Jack Geller catches Monica and Chandler trying for a baby, he offers to "help" by sharing that he got his bad hip from his and Judy's efforts to conceive Monica.
  Chandler: Funny, this story is how I got the bullet hole in my head.
• The Golden Girls:
  • In "Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself," Sophia describes how her veal parmigiana, her "luckiest dish," saved her marriage, as after her first fight with Salvatore, he came back, ate the veal with her, and made a beautiful speech comparing it to their love. Dorothy doesn't understand how the dish is lucky until Sophia mentions Dorothy was conceived that night.
    Sophia: What's lucky is your father never knew or he never would have eaten my veal again.
  • In "Accurate Conception," Rose recounts how all of her children were conceived on special St. Olaf holidays:
    "Adam was conceived on the Day of the Princess Pig when they had the pig crowning, and Jeanella was conceived on Hay Day. That's the day we St. Olafians celebrate hay.[...]Then there was the Day of the Wheat when everybody came to town dressed as sandwiches. Charlie and I forgot to put cheese between us and before I knew it, there was Kirsten."
  • While the exact details aren't consistent, the typical story of how Stan and Dorothy conceived their first child in high school was that they had bad sex in the back of his car, something Sophia often berates as slutty.
• How I Met Your Mother: "Disaster Averted" reveals that Marshall and Lily conceived their son while hiding out in Barney's bathroom during Hurricane Irene. Barney isn't thrilled to hear about this.
• Room 104: Deconstructed in "The Man and the Baby and the Man." A couple attempts to film themselves conceiving their first child and stay lighthearted and flippant, hoping they can make a funny tape to show the kid years later. It eventually breaks down as both of them get real about their fears over parenthood and problems in their relationship.
• Titus: Played for dark comedy. A flashback showed Christopher's parents conceived him while his mother's boyfriend was banging on the door screaming "I love you!" after which he fired a shotgun through the door. According to Ken, "it almost spoiled the mood."

Theatre

• Mamma Mia!: Prior to the events of the musical, Sophie, who has never known her father, found her mother's diary from around the time she would have conceived Sophie. From this, her mother implies sexual encounters with three different men in a short period of time, leading Sophie to conclude she has three possible fathers. She spends a whole song gleefully reading these entries aloud to her friends, before revealing she's invited all three men to her wedding.
  Sophie: (reading Donna's diary) "Sam rode me over to the little island [...] we danced on the beach, and we kissed on the beach, and dot, dot, dot..."
  Lisa: (confused) What?
  Sophie: "Dot dot dot", it's what they did in the olden days.
  [Later]
  Donna: I used to have fun.
  Ali: Oh, we know.
• In The Rose Tattoo, Alvaro claims to be "the grandson of the village idiot of Ribera." Serafina doubts this, but Alvaro insists it's true:
  Alvaro: He chased my grandmother in a flooded rice field. She slip on a wet rock.—Ecco! Here I am.
  Serafina: You ought to be more respectful.
  Alvaro: What have I got to respect? The rock my grandmother slips on?

Video Games

• In the life simulation app BitLife, once you start a new life as a new character, you'll start by finding out how the character was conceived, which could be anything from "my parents went to the Colosseum and dad went gladiator" to "my father visited my mother's bakery and sampled her cookie".
• Fallout 4: At the beginning, you can talk to your spouse, who will ask if you want to go to the park together. Cue this dialogue that reveals how their son was conceived:
  Spouse: Hey, I was wondering if we should go to the park together. Could be fun.
  [Player picks Sarcastic option]
  Male Protagonist: Will it be like our first time at the park together?
  Female Protagonist: Yes, to the park, with you. Because I want to get pregnant again.
• The Sims allow this to be invoked, as many of the odd places in which you can WooHoo (including a sauna, a photo booth, an elevator, and a time machine) also have the "Try For Baby" option. However, most of the unusual locations have a less successful chance of conception than WooHooing in a bed. Ironically, conceiving a baby in a shower increases the chance they have the Hydrophobic trait at birth.

Webcomics

• In Nine to Nine Wolf’s parents say they conceived him while stress-testing condoms. Needless to say that batch failed.
• xkcd #1512 "Horoscopes" lists potential circumstances of someone's conception based on when they were born. For example, Aries is "You may have been conceived after a 4th of July fireworks show".

Web Videos

• Defunctland: While recounting the history of the infamous ride Garfield's Nightmare, which had a reputation as a Tunnel of Love, Kevin shares testimonies from many many riders who claimed to have gotten it on during the ride and even knew somebody who was conceived on the ride. He remarks that there is a plausible chance such a person may be watching this video right now.
• One episode of What the Fuck Is Wrong with You? has Nash point out to Tara how a lot of their friends just so happen to have kids whose birthdays fall nine months after Vampire: The Masquerade conventions. Tara follows up this train of thought by claiming that most of the kids were probably conceived in-character.

Western Animation

• Adventure Time: In "Wheels", After Jake knocks down a swan from a abandoned Tunnel of Love ride, he says, "Not the swan, that's where the pups came from."
• Bob's Burgers:
  • In "Lobsterfest," when Gene gets excited to see John Van Horton at Lobsterfest, Bob tells Gene that he was conceived to a John Van Horton song. Gene says, "And I plan to return the favor!"
  • Downplayed in "Carpe Museum" when Bob uses Gene and Tina as examples of how "sometimes good things come from boredom." Gene and Tina appreciate it.
• Futurama: A cut scene in "Leela's Homeworld" reveals one of the orphans was conceived when a sperm bank truck crashed into an egg donation clinic.
• Human Resources: Maury orders an ice sculpture of Montel's conception for their "jizz mitzvah." Their apparent conception (an appropriately raunchy sex scene between Maury and Connie beside a romantic fireplace) is also included in a slideshow about their childhood.
• Peepoodo & the Super Fuck Friends: When Peepoodo is visiting his grandparents, they show him a photo album from their young adult years. One of the photos included is one from the couple at an orgy dressed in latex kink gear. When Peepoodo reacts in horror upon seeing the picture, his grandpa comments that the picture was the day that Peepoodo's mother was conceived.
• The Simpsons:
  • Bart was conceived on a miniature golf course, while Lisa was conceived on the fire escape of Homer and Marge's first apartment. Maggie was simply conceived on her parents' bed after they celebrated Homer getting his dream job with a lovely date, but Homer still makes it weird by acting out the swimming motions of his sperm when retelling the story:
    Marge: Did you have to be so graphic?
    Homer: It's OK, Marge: they pave the way for this kind of filth in school.
  • In "Burns Baby Burns," Mr. Burns recalls the date he had with a young woman named Lily who produced his disowned son Larry. It culminated in Lily and Monty having sex inside one of the display cases at the Peabody Museum, much to Larry's amusement:
    Larry: How do you like that? I have been in a museum!
  • In "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?" when Bart is trying to get his parents to conceive a son, Milhouse lends him a Kama Sutra DVD, claiming his parents used it to make him. Bart remarks, "So it kind of works."
• South Park: In "Nobody Got Cereal?" Marvin defends the fact he didn't think about his kids' future by insisting he didn't want kids and grossly detailing that Randy was only conceived because his wife stuck her finger up his ass before he could pull out.
• Total Drama: Geoff's online biography reveals that he comes from a family of beach-loving partygoers, and his parents not only met and married on a beach, but conceived him on one as well.

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