diff --git a/pandas/core/generic.py b/pandas/core/generic.py
index 0bcbf59914839..87268bdf4f8fb 100644
--- a/pandas/core/generic.py
+++ b/pandas/core/generic.py
@@ -5009,7 +5009,7 @@ def sample(
             )
 
         locs = rs.choice(axis_length, size=n, replace=replace, p=weights)
-        return self.take(locs, axis=axis, is_copy=False)
+        return self.take(locs, axis=axis)
 
     _shared_docs[
         "pipe"
@@ -7006,7 +7006,7 @@ def asof(self, where, subset=None):
 
         # mask the missing
         missing = locs == -1
-        data = self.take(locs, is_copy=False)
+        data = self.take(locs)
         data.index = where
         data.loc[missing] = np.nan
         return data if is_list else data.iloc[-1]
diff --git a/pandas/core/groupby/grouper.py b/pandas/core/groupby/grouper.py
index 05a5458f60cf5..1c49335dfc4f0 100644
--- a/pandas/core/groupby/grouper.py
+++ b/pandas/core/groupby/grouper.py
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ def _set_grouper(self, obj: FrameOrSeries, sort: bool = False):
             # use stable sort to support first, last, nth
             indexer = self.indexer = ax.argsort(kind="mergesort")
             ax = ax.take(indexer)
-            obj = obj.take(indexer, axis=self.axis, is_copy=False)
+            obj = obj.take(indexer, axis=self.axis)
 
         self.obj = obj
         self.grouper = ax