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* Similarly, any chance for Ranma and Akane in ''[[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Ranma One Half]]'' to explore their feelings for each other with a kiss is interrupted by someone (or several someones) -- very often their over-eager fathers who want them to marry ''right now,'' or bystanders and/or rivals [[Moment Killer|who go out of their way to interrupt and completely ruin the mood]]. It. Happens. All. The. Time.

* ''[[Pretty Cure (Anime)|Pretty Cure]]''

** Later, in the most infuriating event in ''Pretty Cure'' history, their real [[First Kiss]] would be interrupted by... [[Dancing Theme|Ganbalance de Dance]].

* ''[[Tenchi Muyo! (Anime)|Tenchi Muyo]]''

'''Constantine:''' On is fine. }}

* ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy]]'' has a number of these, most notably when Evie, inebriated, leans forwards to kiss Rick, and just as they're about to kiss, she faints.

* Spoofed in ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'', when Vespa and Lone Starr are interrupted by Dot's Virgin-alarm.

{{quote| '''Dot Matrix:''' It's programmed to go off before you do!}}

* How has the ''[[Frasier]]'' episode "Daphne Hates Sherry" been omitted from this? A brilliant almost have sex scenario with Niles and Daphne, three years before their actual hookup. Filled with Tennessee Williams references in the title cards and elsewhere. The [[Moment Killer]] is particularly cruel, as Frasier points out to Niles at the end of the episode that if his brain had been in gear (for obvious reasons, it wasn't), it could have been completely avoided. In similar episodes such as "Moon Dance", "Mixed Doubles" and "First Date", Daphne is as oblivious as ever, but in this one, she seems completely ready to jump in. The whole thing is forgotten completely by the next episode.

* In one of the last episodes of ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'', Mary and Lou attempt to kiss, but both dissolve into hopeless giggling.

* Obnoxiously overused in the [[CBS]] ''[[Beauty and The Beast (TV)|Beauty and The Beast]]'' television show from the late '80s. In practically every episode Vincent and Catherine start to engage in a kiss, but at the last moment they always wince and just hug each other instead. After a while, it didn't feel like "the characters always come to the realization that their love is not possible," so much as [[Executive Meddling|"the producers were afraid of outcries of bestiality."]] When he finally did kiss her, {{spoiler|''it was after she was dead''}}. Arrgghhh!

* In the British comedy ''[[Spaced]]'', Tim and Daisy have one of these during a conversation about how things "happen when you least expect it" after getting locked out of their flat. They are interrupted by their dog who has just happened to have found Tim's keys lying on the curb and drops them at his feet.

** Possibly Aang and Katara in "The Cave of Two Lovers". However, the lights go out as they're moving in, and to this day, it's a mystery if there was an Almost Kiss or a [[First Kiss]]. [[Word of God|The producers say]] that is was a {{spoiler|[[First Kiss]]}}.

** And another, ''far'' less ambiguous one when they dance together in the second episode of the third series, ending with both of them [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|panting and sweating heavily]].

* ''[[American Dragon Jake Long (Animation)|American Dragon Jake Long]]'': Despite the fact that it was his plan, Jake panics every time he and Rose are about to kiss while practicing for the [[School Play]], and if his neurosis doesn't stop them, the sudden appearance of the magic beetle they're both searching for does.

* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' does this between Fry and Leela in two different episodes. DVD commentaries of the episodes in question make it clear the creators are fully aware of just how frustrating some people find this.

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