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[[File:GroundhogDay Dancing.jpg|link=Groundhog Day|thumb|350px|It's all in the timing.]]
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 ==
* 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.
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== 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.
* ''[[Groundhog Day]]''
* Inverted in ''[[Get Over It]]'' when the generic moderate-tempo background music gets turned up to high-tempo music in a club scene the second a character asks another to dance.
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* ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]''
** 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".
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== 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 Reimagined]]''.
* 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.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', surely? "When She Was Bad", the slow-dance scene with Buffy and Xander?
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** 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.
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