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When [[Boy Meets Girl]] at a party or a club, and music (often performed by a live band) is playing, the next number that comes up ''will'' be a slow dance. Usually, it's a [[Contrived Coincidence]], but [[Genre Savvy]] characters will make sure beforehand to tell the band to make it a slow dance at the right moment.
This will also happen with two people who already know each other, and who have unspoken feelings for one another.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Soul Eater]]'', when Maka and Soul are with the Black Blood demon. Come on, Animators. You just inspired about 2,000 romantic fanfiction ships. Literally.
== Comic Books ==
* A ''[[Scooby
== Fan
* In ''[[
== Film ==
* ''[[Public Enemies]]'': When John Dillinger chats up Billie Frechette, the next dance is "Bye Bye Blackbird", which will remain a cherished memory for both of them throughout the story.
* ''[[
* Inverted in ''[[
* The final scene of ''[[Casper]]'' (the movie).
* ''[[Back to
** This exact scene is parodied by ''[[Family Guy]]''.
* ''[[Enchanted]]'' has one, which also happened to be a convenient "dance with somebody other than your date" song.
* ''[[Love Actually]]'': When Sarah and Karl dance at the Christmas party.
* ''Always'': While Pete is dancing with Dorinda, he signals to the band and they start playing "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes", which is "their song".
* Of all the possible movies, ''[[The Siege (
* ''[[The Bridges of Madison County]]'' has one slow dance scene between Robert Kincaid (played by ''[[Clint Eastwood]]'') and Francesca Johnson (played by ''[[Meryl Streep]]'').
* In ''[[West Side Story]]'', Tony and Maria first see each other during the wildest part of the Mambo in the Dance at the Gym. Soon enough, though, the lights fade and the Mambo abruptly dies away to segue to the Cha-Cha. The Cha-Cha is only moderately slow, but then the dance actually halts for a few moments so Tony and Maria can exchange their first words.
* Parodied in Disney's ''[[Hocus Pocus]]'': While the Sanderson Sisters are in "[[Satan|the Master's]]" house, Sarah goes to "the Master" and says, "Master, wouldst thou dance with me?" She then makes a tender slow dance with him... until his wife shows up and sees them both dancing, which triggers her [[Berserk Button]].
* Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle in ''[[
** Right up until the Penguin [[Mood Whiplash|blows up the dance hall]] and drags Schreck into the sewers on his giant Duck of War.
== Literature ==
* This was referenced in ''[[The Tomorrow Series]]'' - Lee is telling Ellie about the first time they danced together, which she doesn't even remember; they were at a school dance and he asked her to dance during a slow song, hoping that they could be close and intimate and romantic, but because of the time it takes for him to ask her, they end up dancing to "Convicted Of Love", which isn't especially intimate and romantic.
* This happens to Face and Dia in ''[[X Wing Series|Iron Fist]]''; they are each dancing with another partner to more energetic music, and are then maneuvered into dancing with each other in time for a slower song and a [[
== Live Action TV ==
* Happens with Adama and Laura Roslin in ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* The second season episode "Plan B" of ''[[Veronica Mars]]''. As Veronica just tries to save Gia from Logan's rather not-friendly honest opinion, they end up dancing to "Sway" by The Perishers.
* ''[[
** Also with Angel in Season 3 in "The Prom"
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', "Known Unknowns", House and Cuddy at the conference's 80s party.
* Subverted in ''[[Mr. Bean]]'', which has an Inconvenient Slow Dance.
* ''[[The X
** The episode "Post Modern Prometheus" has this too; Mulder pulls Scully out of her chair for a dance while Cher sings "Walking in Memphis".
* In ''[[The Mentalist]]'' episode "Rose Colored Glasses," this happens to Lisbon and Jane at a high school reunion. They take the opportunity to play the trope straight.
** And it's [[Heartwarming Moments
* There's a specific sub-trope where two characters are already dancing to a fast song, when the music abruptly switches to something slow, and there's an awkward "Do we keep dancing or not?" moment.
** In the ''[[Bones]]'' episode "The Death of the Queen Bee," this happens to Booth and Brennan when they're undercover as a married couple at Brennan's high school reunion.
* ''[[
* The pilot of ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'' contains another mid-song tempo change subversion ("Come Sail Away" by Styx).
* Played with in one episode of ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]''. The slow dance ''is'' scheduled to happen as part of the Miss Mystic Falls pageant. However, Damon is ''not'' scheduled to be Elena's partner. [[Ship Tease|Cue a three minutes long]] [[UST]] [[Ship Tease|filled scene that brought millions of watchers to their knees]].
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' subverts this. Bob walks in on Jean and Slick while they're slow dancing... to [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]. Bob comments that he didn't think that was possible.
== Western Animation ==
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