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# Everyone simply assumes the couple in question did, and said couple never confirms or denies.
A favored trope of [[Sitcom|Sit Coms]]
See also [[What Did I Do Last Night?]] and [[Bedmate Reveal]]. Usually follows [[Will They or Won't They?]].
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** In ''Siege at Blue Mountain'' there's a scene where Leetah and Nightfall (both female) dance naked in the woods by night. It's never explicitly stated that they go any further, but given the elves' liberal attitude to sex it's far from unlikely.
** A later ''[[Elf Quest]]'' story has a variation. One of Skywise's three girlfriends(!) wants commitment and not just meaningless sex. At the end of the story she's considering whether to join in with the other three anyway, but the ending doesn't tell us what she decides.
* Despite [[Word of God]] proclamation saying "They Didn't" - and Rogue canonically losing her virginity to Gambit years later,<ref>Though there was the swiftly-consigned-to-[[Discontinuity]] revelation that she actually had her v-card punched by The Sentry</ref>
* [[Don Rosa]] [[Shrug of God|can neither confirm nor deny]] "what happened that night" in "The Prisoner of White Agony Creek" (Chapter 8B of ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]''), asserting it's "for each of us duck fans to imagine in our own minds. I have my own idea, but after all, this is a Disney comic!" (It should be noted that this scene is also listed under [[Destructo-Nookie]].)
* ''[[Superman]]''
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** The story in question was "Who Took the Super Out of Superman?". In the original script, [[Elliot S! Maggin]] wrote the next panel after the lights went out as Lois at work the next day, singing happily to herself, wearing the same outfit she had worn the night before. A coworker pointed this out, clearly implying that Lois had gotten lucky the night before. The editor, Julius Schwartz, made Maggin change it in the published edition, so that the line instead refers to Lois wearing a different outfit, even though it's clear from the drawing that it's the same outfit.
** Another ''Superman'' example, this time from the Iron Age. It is at the very least subtext that [http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1549078.html?#cutid1 Clark Kent and Cat Grant were sleeping together].
* ''[[Runaways]]'' is usually pretty vague about just how far the various teenage couples are going physically. At one point Gert alludes to the fact that she and Chase share a bed, but they are never shown doing more than kissing. Another time Nico and Victor are shown sitting in bed
* ''[[Zot]]'': Zot and Jenny spend an entire issue discussing whether they're gonna. They apparently come to the answer "not yet", but then again the issue ends with her following Zot into his interdimensional suitcase (it's that kind of book). What they did in there is up to the reader.
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* ''[[Ghostbusters]]'': It's never been spelled out whether or not the possessed Dana (The Gatekeeper) and Lewis (The Keymaster) actually did the deed. A DVD extra scene has Louis asking Dana if they did. She denies it just a ''little'' too strongly.
** Considering the names "Keymaster" and "Gatekeeper," how Gozer couldn't be summoned until they met, and how they wake up lying next to one another in a bed before the final battle, one can't be faulted for assuming they did.
* A major point of confusion for Tracy & Mike's drunken evening from Tracy's point of view (she remembers little) in ''[[The Philadelphia Story]]''. Mike is the only one completely privy to
* This argument in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'':
{{quote|'''Indy:''' I never meant to hurt you.
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Expanded Universe]]:
** Subverted in the novel ''Death and Diplomacy.'' Benny and Jason get drunk and go to bed together; the narrator talks about how things are usually affable and casual the morning after a drunken hook-up because both parties subliminally know they fell asleep before anything serious could happen. In this case, however, those subliminals are featured using words like "repeated," "volcanic," and "multiple," so breakfast is tense and miserable.
** An example of the first variety occurs in the Eighth Doctor novel ''The Taint'', although the reader knows exactly what went
** In the epilogue of ''The Dying Days'', Benny told the Eighth Doctor (whom she'd only just met) that before he left there was something she needed to do. Before he could ask what, she "grabbed the lapels of his frock coat, kissed him square on the mouth and pushed him down hard onto the bed" and...? There's a [[Shrug of God]] in the author's notes, and that's probably as close as it's going to get with the Doctor.
*** In the Big Finish audio ''The Company of Friends-Benny's Story'' (technically a sequel to this), Benny narrates that "At the end of that [The Dying Days] he dropped me off back at my native time zone, and we...''ahem'' shook hands, and said goodbye".
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** In another instance, for a long time it was heavily implied that House and Cuddy had a one-night-stand years before the start of the series. That wasn't confirmed until later seasons.
* In one ''[[Inspector Morse]]'' episode, it's hinted that Morse may have spent the night with Emma Pickford when he arrives at the police station the next morning in an unnaturally good mood... and his [[Leitmotif]] is played in a major key, for the first time in five years.
* ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' infamously heavily implied that Jack McCoy and Claire Kincaid were sleeping
* Happens once in ''[[The Nanny]]''. A few seasons before {{spoiler|Mr. Sheffield and Fran get married}}, she comes home from a party drunk and stumbles into his room without realising it. He is doped up on cold meds, so in the morning, neither can recall what happened. {{spoiler|In the end it is revealed that they did, because Mr. Sheffield had previously stated that he always sings 'Georgie Girl' afterwards and Fran had said that her ears always itch. They each realize this at the same moment}}.
* Half the plot of one episode of ''[[Jack of All Trades (TV series)|Jack of All Trades]]'' revolves around the audience and two main characters wondering, after waking up naked together. {{spoiler|They didn't. They were served mind-controlling wine by Napoleon, who simply told them strip, run through the streets, and go straight to sleep in bed.}}
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** Used when Brittany climbs into bed with a drunken Billy. When he wakes up, he thinks that they had sex (they hadn't) and breaks up with his girlfriend Mac out of guilt. He later reconciles with Brittany and sleeps with her for real, still believing that they had already had sex.
** Also happens more recently, when Chloe tries to make Cane think that her baby is his by telling him they had sex when he was drunk. This lie leads to all kinds of things coming out, since the real father is Cane's half-brother, except... he isn't.
* Subverted in ''[[Married... with Children]]''. A hungover Marcy wakes up next to BUD, of all people, sees him covered with her lipstick, and they both assume the worst. Little do they know that they've been set up by Kelly, who's playing a trick on Bud. It's understandable that Marcy might not remember what happened, given that she was drunk, but Bud was
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode teaser "all things" does this; the scene opens to find Scully dressing in Mulder's bathroom and pulls back to find Mulder seemingly-naked in his bed. Debate still rages among fans over whether or not anything happened.
* ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'': In one episode the entire
* Happens in the end of the first season of ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' after a party. First [[Only Sane Man|Jen]] gets a type 1 with [[Cloudcuckoolander|Moss]], Roy gets a type 4 with [[Squick|Moss's psychiatrist, who looks like his mother]]... [[Crowning Moment of Funny|and then Reynholm and Richmond get a type 2 with each other.]]
* Occurs in the ''[[Farscape]]'' episode "A Human Reaction". John and Aeryn kiss and the scene cuts to them both awake and dressed the next day, never directly acknowledging what happened.
* Played with in series two of ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]''. Alex and Gene declare they are [[Lame Excuse|"Going home"]] at exactly the same then slipping off and becoming conspicuous by their absence, causing an awkward silence and much exchanging of looks between CID. Cut to them walking separate ways to a [[Ship Tease|pre-determined meeting point looking rather distracted]]. Add to that some [[Accidental Innuendo]] and most of the fandom groaned in frustration when it turned out they we're only bugging [[The Dragon]]'s office. They do, however fall asleep together on Gene's desk and have a type 2 scene the next morning in front of the rest of the team who don't know this is what they were doing.
* River Song appears in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' with the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors. She's met the Doctor before, but he hadn't met
* ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia|Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'': One of the early episodes sees Dennis get really drunk and wake up in bed with a guy. Then another guy comes out of the bathroom. We don't ''know'', but we can guess.
* The second-to-last ''[[Bones]]'' episode of season 6 does this for {{spoiler|Booth and Brennan. They did.}}
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== Western Animation ==
* [[Duckman]] and Bernice mutually wake up and freak
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has two: Sokka & Suki and Zuko & Mai both get "Morning After" scenes that were just vague enough to [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|slip past the watchdogs]] (and were only a bit more subtle than the Talia/Ivanova scene described above).
** In the "Cave of Lovers" episode, Aang and Katara lean in to kiss just as their torches are about to go out... it's left up to the audience to decide whether or not they actually did kiss before the cave's secret was revealed.
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