Did the Earth Move For You, Too?: Difference between revisions

== Comics -- Books ==

* ''[[X-Factor (Comic Book)|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.

* A one-panel gag in ''The [[Cartoon History of the Universe]]'' has two large dinosaurs say this (while the main narrative discussed continental drift).

* In ''[[The Dark Knight Strikes Again]]'', after [[Wonder Woman]] snaps [[Superman]] out of his [[Heroic BSOD]]... the two most powerful beings go at it full-bore. There are [[Destructo-Nookie|literal earthquakes and tidal waves]]. When they're done, Diana [[Lampshade Hanging|actually says]] "Clark. The earth moved."

== Films -- Animation ==

== Films -- Live-Action ==

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

*** Actually, that explosion interrupted their kiss, although after seeing the resolution of it, they then proceed to do so.

* ''[[Oceans Thirteen]]''. In the middle of a seduction con, no less.

* Subverted in ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087666/ Making the Grade]'' when "Palmer Woodrow" has a three pumps and a giggle session with "Muffy", who has been asking lots of questions which will spoil his plans. He grunts on top of her twice, rolls off and says "I hope that was good for you. Wow, there's a Red Sox game on" He gets up, puts his pants on, and tells her "By the way, I never want to see you again" as he's walking out the door. She never even changes her bored expression.

* The Israeli movie ''Saint Clara'': At the end, Clara (a teenage girl, a recent Russian-Jewish immigrant, with psychic abilities) {{spoiler|is kissing a boy in a movie theater. There's an earthquake, but she tells him it's just a low number on the Richter scale (I forget the exact number)}}.

== 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!"

* 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.

== Live-Action TV ==

* In ''[[Knight Rider]]'' with a couple making out in a parked car, and KITT had to push it out of the way in order to drive off.

** After [[Their First Time]] turns him evil, [[Kick the Dog|Angelus taunts Buffy]] by asking if she expected "Fireworks, bells ringing, a dulcet choir of pretty little birdies?"

* ''[[Smallville]]''

** Inverted in an episode wherein Clark and Lana's lovemaking is the ''cause'' of an earthquake.

** Played straighter later when Jimmy reflects on the day he and Chloe meet again, which just happened to be the day General Zod tried to reshape Earth's crust in Krypton's likeness.

* Referenced but not actually said in ''[[Blake's Seven|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.

== Web Comics ==

* [http://www.errantstory.com/2007-02-26/625 This strip] from ''[[Errant Story]]'', using the [[I Always Wanted to Say That]] version.

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

** When Kiff and Amy are kissing during a Buggalo stampede. It's revealed in another episode that members of Kif's species exchange DNA and get pregnant through skin contact, so a kiss may really be the equivalent of sex for Kif.

** Not to mention the ''[[Titanic]]'' episode in which Bender and "Robot Rose" kiss. Bender: "When we kiss, I feel like we're standing knee-deep in cold, freezing water." Which, of course, they are, being on a sinking ship and all.

{{quote| '''Dexter's Dad:''' Mmm. Honey, you make the earth shake.}}

* Episode 4 of ''[[Sym-Bionic Titan]]'', "Phantom Ninja" has the [[Monster of the Week]] crash land near a couple making out in a car: