Sugar Mama

A young male character sleeps with a powerful older woman for gifts or career advancement. He may think it's great at first, but eventually he feels ashamed and ends it.

Just Shoot Me!

Appearances

• Taxi: Season 2, episode 18, "What Price Bobby?" (1980). Bobby gives a cab ride to a famous Hollywood talent manager, and he convinces her to represent him, but she expects him to sleep with her in exchange for getting him acting roles.
• Cheers: Season 1, episode 13, "Now Pitching, Sam Malone" (1983). A beautiful woman agent offers to put Sam in commercials, but she also wants to put him in her bed, and Sam gets the feeling that if he stops sleeping with her, she'll stop getting him jobs. His fears are confirmed when he tells her he doesn't want to sleep with her anymore and she drops him as a client.
• Dream On: Season 1, episode 13, "Doing the Bossa Nova" (1990). Against his better judgment, Martin starts sleeping with his new boss, Valerie, who is so pleased with his prowess that she promotes him and pimps out his office. At first, Martin's thrilled, but he gets tired of being treated like toy. The last straw is when Toby catches them in a compromising position and Valerie insists that Martin fire her. At first, he complies, but he has a change of heart. He marches into Valerie's office and tells her they're through, only to find Valerie emerging from the shower she apparently has in her office with Cindy, one of Martin's fellow editors.
• Wings: Season 3, episode 6, "My Brother's Keeper" (1991). A ridiculously wealthy woman comes to the island and immediately takes a liking to Brian and starts buying him lots of expensive gifts while Brian caters to her every whim.
• Herman's Head: Season 1, episode 18, "A Kept Herman" (1992). Herman spends a few days working for Victoria Stark, a powerful and beautiful magazine executive who promises him an assistant editor job, then seduces him. It soon becomes clear that Victoria won't give him the job unless Herman continues sleeping with her.
• Just Shoot Me!: Season 5, episode 20, "Sugar Momma" (2001). Famous romance novelist, Allison Spencer, is serializing her next novel in Blush, and when she meets Finch, she starts giving him lavish gifts in exchange for sleeping with her. At first Jack and Elliot are high-fiving him, but it soon becomes clear that Allison is scary controlling, and Elliot and Maya try to convince Finch to end it. When Allison tries to lend Finch out to her friend for the night, he finally tells her off, but then he changes his mind and goes off with her to Cape Cod.