So, there I was watching Season 2/Episode 7 of GLEE and the male character who plays the glee club director [Matthew Morrison] is sick in bed while his hot-but-stupid ex-wife, Terri, [Jessalyn Gilsig] cares for him.
The next thing I know, she is saying,
"Now roll over and pull your pants down because we're gonna take baby's temperature."
He says, "No."
** But all the while she is lubricating a glass thermometer with petroleum jelly (albeit an oral thermometer)
She says, "But baby knows that the only way that we can get an accurate reading."
He says, "Stop, Terri. I don't wanna play 'sick baby' with you."
What this tells me is that "rectal temperature taking" dominates peoples' thoughts when the topic of temperature taking comes to mind. It's just a shame that they don't act upon it!
VIEW THE SCENE here @ 0:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQN8MewWDMY (it would be more "hot" if she wasn't doing baby-talk).