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'''Brad''': And while they don't like each other at first, they come to respect and care for one another by the end.

'''Lucy''': You've seen it.

 

Two, usually diametrically opposed, characters are chained or handcuffed together for the duration. [[An Aesop]] occurs. In the right genre, may result in a forced [[Enemy Mine]]. May be employed in a symbolic manner and progress into [[Chains of Love]]. In other genres, it will be played for laughs as both characters will then try to carry on with their (often conflicting) activities despite the handicap. Also odds are good they'll want to hide what happened, letting them make up a wild story as to why they are holding one another's hand. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' had this happen to Sam and Dean when they were arrested. It was both played straight (they work together to prove their innocence) and for laughs (trying to sit down on opposite ends of a bench, the brothers trip and almost fall flat on their ass.)

* In ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]'', Lizzie and Matt get handcuffed together.

* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' is forced to stay within three paces of her rival [[Alpha Bitch]] for trying to [[Anvilicious|distance herself from her problems]]

* In ''[[Even Stevens]]'', the school guidance counselor attempted to enforce this trope on Ren and her [[The Rival|rival]] Larry Beale together. They end up pretending to get along just to get her to unlink them, but as they have to work together to pull this off, in the end they're worried that it might have actually worked.

* ''[[MacGyver]]'' once ended up chained to a very [[Eighties Hair|eighties]] [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]] who also turned out to be a [[Genius Ditz|brilliant classical violinist]].

** Before that, in a first-season episode the IMF stages a prison break for a potential assassin while handcuffed to Rollin.

* An episode of ''[[Tales from the Crypt]]'' has a variation in which an escaped convict is handcuffed to the cop who is chasing him, then shoots the cop – who manages to swallow the cuff key before dying. The convict then spends the rest of the episode dragging a dead cop around by the wrist.

* ''[[Brandy and Mr. Whiskers]]'' spent an episode glued together back to back; on the night when Brandy had a hot date, of course.

* An episode of ''[[The Batman]]'' has Penguin handcuff Batman and Catwoman together. When the two of them stop Penguin and get the key to the cuffs, Batman handcuffs Penguin and Catwoman together for the police to collect.

* Variation in the episode of ''[[South Park]]'' entitled "Super Fun Time". Cartman and Butters are paired up on a field trip and are told not to let go of the other's hand until they get back on the bus. Despite the many MANY hijinks that the pair get into (which include dangling on either side of a traffic light), Butters will not let go of Cartman's hand because Mr. Garrison said not to. It's like handcuffs, only without the handcuffs.

{{quote|'''Butters:''' ''(at the very end of the episode, after '''dragging Cartman's unconscious body''' past everyone)'' Teacher...MY PARTNER IS BACK ON THE BUS.}}

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