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* Louis in ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' has been steadily becoming less sympathetic over the course of Season 5, as Chuck becomes a better person. This is lampshaded by Blair, as well as explained by the fact that Louis is well aware that in a competition against Chuck he'll lose no matter how nice and sweet he is, prompting him to become more underhanded in his desperation to keep Blair.
* In the episode "The Grinning Man" of ''[[Jonathan Creek]]'', Jonathan manages to land himself a pretty, intelligent and caring girlfriend who (despite a slightly ditzy interest in magazine quizzes), is refreshingly normal compared to many of Jonathan's other love interests and is understandably worried when he goes investigating murders. At the end of the episode she runs off with Joey's boyfriend despite having never met him, paving the way for a possible Jonathan/Joey relationship.
* ''[[ICarlyiCarly]]'' used this in an episode, to break up Jonah and Sam. They spent 60% of the episode being sickeningly sweet to each other. All of Sam's attention was being spent on him, and it was causing problems for her friendships with Carly and Freddie. Also impacting on their webshow. Instead of Sam coming to realize that she can't spend all her time with him, or have Jonah realize the same and back off slightly, he suddenly tries to cheat on Sam with Carly, making all the potential issues moot when they wedgie-bounce the sucker for trying to cheat.
** Which [[Justified Trope|actually made sense]] after iKiss with a bit of [[Wild Mass Guessing|WMG]]. In iKiss, which happened after she dated Jonah, Sam says that she's never kissed anyone, meaning that Sam must have never kissed Jonah. It's possible that Jonah got fed up with it and tried to kiss Carly instead.
* In ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'', Sam is hopelessly smitten with cute [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders|cheerleader]] Cindy Sanders. Toward the end of the show's first and only season, Cindy finally starts dating Sam, and they almost immediately learn that they have no common interests and don't have any fun together. The previously sweet-natured Cindy is also revealed to be (mildly) bitchy and manipulative, as well as a bit vapid and dull.