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Inevitable [[Stock Phrase]] when somebody is kissing/having sex during an explosion, earthquake, or similar event. The phrase comes from [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s ''For Whom the Bell Tolls,'' when the hero and his lover are describing the intensity of the sexual pleasure they had ([[Destructo-Nookie|no literal earth-moving is involved]]). Naturally, the phrase lent itself to much spoofing.

 

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* A German advertisement for a health fund had a randy couple in the middle of a golden wheat field as all the various things around them that could injure them were pointed out. At the end of the ad, the women remarks, "Even the Earth moves," as the last thing is pointed out... a combine harvester approaching from offscreen!

 

* German comic ''[[Rudi]]'' used this with a couple in a background gag who have sex when a ''real'' earthquake strikes.

* ''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]]'': Played straight in the Nation X oneshot. Longshot and and his ex-wife, Dazzler, have just finished having sex when he asks if she felt the ground shaking earlier. She states that was probably just her. They've just missed the entire island full of mutants taking on a giant.

* In JMS' [[JMS Spider-Man|Spider-Man]] run, Peter and MJ reconcile and whilst they're holding each other Doctor Doom (who was being attacked at the airport they were in) moves from underneath the rubble, prompting MJ to ask 'Did the ground just move?' and Peter to respond 'It always does'.

 

* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin and the King of Thieves]]'' when the 40 Thieves crash Aladdin and Jasmine's wedding with a stampeding elephant. When the ground begins to shake, the Genie says "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|I thought the earth wasn't supposed to move until the honeymoon.]]"

* In ''[[True Lies]]'', when Arnold's character and his wife embrace and kiss while a nuclear bomb goes off behind them.

** Parodied in ''[[Chicken Run]]'', when the lead couple embrace and kiss while a gravy explosion goes off behind them.

* When the title aliens' ship crashes in ''[[Critters]]'', teenager April is making out with her boyfriend in a nearby barn. April feels the ground shake from the impact and remarks that "The earth moved", to which her beau (who's barely gotten to second base yet) asks: "Already...?"

* In ''DOA: [[Dead or Alive]]'', Christie and Max are in bed shortly after doing the deed. Suddenly, she says that the earth moved. Max, of course, takes credit, until Kasumi and Leon crash through the wall from Kasumi's room, as it is their turn to fight. Also, all fights are televised throughout the island.

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[Maximum Ride]]'': While Max is kissing her love interest and the world begins exploding around them, she excitedly assumes "Lighs! World shifting! The magazines were right!"

* ''[[Good Omens]]'': {{spoiler|Anathema and Newt}} during the Time of Troubles directly before the Apocalypse. Sure, the seas hadn't started boiling and the moon hadn't turned red a blood at that point, but things had definitely started. Besides, she actually said something along the lines of "Yes, the earth moved for everyone."

* As a joke, referred to in [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''[[The Sum of All Fears]]'', when the lost nuke was being dug up. Talking about the danger of the bomb (thought to be conventional, at the time) prematurely detonating: "I guess when she comes [sic], the earth really moves."

* [[H. Beam Piper]]'s ''Uller Uprising'' has Carlos von Schlichten and Paula Quinton kissing passionately while the flyer they're on is rocked by three Hiroshima-type atomic bombs going off virtually simultaneously behind it.

* The back-cover blurb for [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Elemental Masters|The Fire Rose]]'' ends with the statement that the female lead comes to love the male lead,<ref>[[Beauty and The Beast]] in early-20th Century America</ref> "And -- the earth moves..." Of course, this '''is''' 1906 in California, so along with any pleasure the two may take in one another, the earth is moving because of the big San Francisco quake.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* Referenced but not actually said in ''[[Blake's 7|Blakes Seven]]'' episode "Ultraworld": Tarrant and Dayna (an explosives and weaponry expert) are captured by the Ultras, who want them to demonstrate the "human mating ritual" so they can catalogue the information on their computer. They decide to humour the Ultras, while using the "ritual" as cover for Dayna to extract an explosive device she has hidden in her tooth (?!). She blows a hole in the wall, they escape, the nonplussed aliens are left wondering what happened (one says something along the lines of "Have they finished the ritual?")

* Parodied in ''[[Two and A Half Men]]''. Charlie is oblivious about a recent earthquake that occurred while in the middle of making love, thinking he was just that good.

** ... that's a bit long for a non-Earth-moving kiss.

 

== Web Comics ==

* [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040307.html This strip] from ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''. For those of you who don't feel like reading the next strip too, what happens in the third panel is that the Pa'nui blasts off a third of the Battleplate Tunguska, which was, at the time, holding them down with gravitics.

* Used as a observation in ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'': [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/12/24/episode-639-moving-the-earth/ "So that's where earthquakes come from."]

* ''[[Three Panel Soul]]'': [http://threepanelsoul.com/2007/11/06/on-the-physical-sciences/ Philosopher pickup lines.]

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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