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{{quote|'''Mr. Randall:''' Sally, do you want to go back to my apartment?

 

Bob and Alice are presumed to have Done The Deed... except we (the viewer) don't really know for sure if they did. This is usually portrayed in one of these ways.

# Everyone simply assumes the couple in question did, and said couple never confirms or denies.

 

 

See also [[What Did I Do Last Night?]] and [[Bedmate Reveal]]. Usually follows [[Will They or Won't They?]].

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* ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' has a non-sexual Type 4 in the [[Radio Drama]]-turned-manga ''Blind Target''. Near the end, as [[Rebellious Princess|Relena]] is about to leave, [[Hitman with a Heart|Heero]] [[Caught the Heart on His Sleeve|catches her arm]] and pulls her close; in the audio version he starts to say something before the sound of a jet engine drowns him out, while the manga makes it look like he's leaning in to kiss her. Naturally there was a debate on what exactly happened, and it shouldn't be too hard to guess [[Yaoi Fangirl|which group]] was loudly insisting that nothing happened.

* ''[[The Sky Crawlers]]'': There are two scenes where Yûichi and Kusanagi are together that may or may not have ended in sex, but the camera always fades to black before any kind of confirmation, let alone acknowledgement afterwards.

 

== Comics -- Books ==

* ''[[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 together—fully clothed. The dialogue makes it clear that ''something'' just happened between them without giving away any details. On the other hand, there was the time Chase joked that Gert's new codename should be [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|"Power Vacuum"]].

* ''[[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.

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* ''[[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.

* This argument in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'':

{{quote|'''Indy:''' I never meant to hurt you.

* ''[[Before Sunrise]]'' uses type 4, but the sequel ''Before Sunset'' gave a definitive answer. {{spoiler|They did.}}

* In ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men: First Class]]'', a Type 4 example happens between Magneto and Mystique, where the latter attempts to seduce the former, but is rejected until she turns into her true mutant form and they share an intimate moment and a kiss. The scene cuts to Mystique later appearing before Xavier in the kitchen, naked and without her robe, making it unclear if anything happened between them or not.

 

== Literature ==

** [[The Movie]] has a hilarious type 3 when Harry practically jumps out of his skin when Ron asks if he and Ginny "did it". (All they did was hide a book... apparently.) There might even be one between Harry and Hermione: After they've spent a considerable time alone together, aware they could die any day and probably won't get many opportunities, Ron asks Hermione if she knows Harry talks in his sleep and she replies "No" a ''bit'' too forcefully. (JK Rowling admits they shared some "charged moments" and "it could have gone that way" but seems to largely come down on the side of "They didn't.")

* In ''[[The Sweet Far Thing]]'', type 4 happens with Kartik and Gemma. When asked if it happened, the author said [[Shrug of God|it's up to interpretation.]]

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Cheers]]'' subverted the trope with Sam and Rebecca. When they finally did do it, they kept it between the two of them. When Sam tried to stand up for Rebecca later, by stating how good she was in bed (this ''is'' Sam we're talking about), none of the other regulars bought it... because they'd kept it to themselves (something totally counter to Sam's [[Casanova]] nature and, to be fair, prior actions.).

* In an episode of ''[[Due South]]'', Fraser and Frannie (RayV's sister) are implied to have had a one-night stand. Whether they've done it or not is never clarified, and after that episode, it was never referenced again.

** 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.

* 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.}}

* ''[[Gunsmoke]]:'' For 20 seasons they left the question of whether or not Marshal Dillon was doing [[Miss Kitty]] entirely unresolved.

* In ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'', Tim finds out that Heidi stayed overnight at Al's place and he spends the episode being obsessed with finding out whether they did it or not. Turns out Heidi was just crashing at Al's place due to maritial issues with her husband.

 

== Music ==

* Harry Chapin's "Sequel": "Don't ask me if I made love to her / Or which one of us started to cry / Don't ask me why she wouldn't take the money that I left / If I answered at all, I'd lie."

 

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Persona 3]]'', completing a romantic Social Link results in a [[Fade to Black]] and the message that you "spent a long time" or "spent a tender moment with" the love interest in question. Exactly how suggestive this is varies depending on the character and occasionally on the player's dialogue choices during the scene.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]'' has Zelda and Link getting intimate... probably. Zelda {{spoiler|wakes up from her thousand-year sleep}} and promptly collapses, and as Link cradles her in his arms, the screen [[Fade to White|fades to white]]. They are then seen holding hands right afterwards and looking very sheepish, as well as couple-y, indeed. This is even [[Lampshaded]] by one of the characters. Suffice to say that ''no one'' knows [[Kissing Discretion Shot|what]] [[Sexy Discretion Shot|happened]] during that White Screen.

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'': It's never spelled out how far Wolf and Glon went between [http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?id=416 this] and [http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?id=423 this], but it was enough that A) it satisfied their captor ([[Aliens Made Them Do It|who liked to watch]]), and B) Glon was still ticked about it.

* ''[[Out There]]'' is full of type 4, and [[Word of God]] explicitly states that it's up to the readers whether ''any'' two characters who've been seen making out ever did anything more than that, although sometimes it's clearly demonstrated that they ''didn't''. On the first night they meet, Miriam and John end up spending the night in a hotel together after she ties one on {{spoiler|(nothing happens, except a [http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20060710.html REALLY good dream])}}. Later, Miriam and {{spoiler|[http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20090131.html Clayton]}} end up in bed together, and Miriam needs a [http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20090202.html recap the next day] to find out what happened. Still later, Miriam wakes up on Araceli's couch and has trouble remembering what they did the night before, but she [http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20100325.html figures it out on her own], confirming (in her own mind) that she doesn't have a drinking problem, after all.

 

== Web Original ==

* In a "they did" example, Doug and Lindsay confirmed two years later that the fans were right when they thought [[The Nostalgia Critic]] and [[The Nostalgia Chick]] had sex twice (the hand-holding pregnancy-inducing scene and their fighting cut off by static and turning into happy dancing with different clothes) in their crossover review of ''[[Fern Gully]]''.

 

== Western Animation ==