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* ''[[A Different World]]'' uses the rescued variation when Dwayne saves Freddie from a [[Jerk Jock]] serial rapist. |
* ''[[A Different World]]'' uses the rescued variation when Dwayne saves Freddie from a [[Jerk Jock]] serial rapist. |
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* Happened in the very first episode of ''[[Mork and Mindy]]''. The titular characters meet for the first time because Mindy has driven out into the woods with her date who then drove off, taking her car when she refused to, ahem, play. Mork's spaceship lands nearby and he agrees to walk her home. The incident in the car gives us this line: |
* Happened in the very first episode of ''[[Mork and Mindy]]''. The titular characters meet for the first time because Mindy has driven out into the woods with her date who then drove off, taking her car when she refused to, ahem, play. Mork's spaceship lands nearby and he agrees to walk her home. The incident in the car gives us this line: |
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{{quote|'''Mindy:''' Don't EVER touch me like that again! Not even if my blouse is on fire!}} |
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* Mildly subverted in ''[[Sex and the City]]'' when Charlotte is rescued (though not from attempted rape) by the 'hero' punching the attacker. Turned out he just liked punching people. When he started a fight over somebody bumping into Charlotte's chair (even after they apologised) she left. |
* Mildly subverted in ''[[Sex and the City]]'' when Charlotte is rescued (though not from attempted rape) by the 'hero' punching the attacker. Turned out he just liked punching people. When he started a fight over somebody bumping into Charlotte's chair (even after they apologised) she left. |
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* ''Excruciatingly'' averted in a recent episode of ''[[Mad Men]]''; plenty of people who ''could'' have been in a position to come to {{spoiler|Joan's}} rescue, and not one of them does. In this case it counts as [[Values Dissonance]], since in the early 1960s there was no popular consciousness of date rape. And the fact that {{spoiler|Joan is engaged to the man in question}} would probably have led to it not even having been considered an incident. No one would have done a god damned thing except said "Whoops!" and closed the door. |
* ''Excruciatingly'' averted in a recent episode of ''[[Mad Men]]''; plenty of people who ''could'' have been in a position to come to {{spoiler|Joan's}} rescue, and not one of them does. In this case it counts as [[Values Dissonance]], since in the early 1960s there was no popular consciousness of date rape. And the fact that {{spoiler|Joan is engaged to the man in question}} would probably have led to it not even having been considered an incident. No one would have done a god damned thing except said "Whoops!" and closed the door. |
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