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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''Danny:''' ''I call that a [[Trope
'''Sam:''' [dreamily] ''Yeah. I know.''
|''[[Danny Phantom]]'' }}
Two characters, who either appear to be attracted to each other but in denial, or who just hate each other's guts, find themselves cornered during an emergency. They're about to be caught sneaking into the [[Big Bad]]'s fortress, looking at confidential files, or fleeing the scene of the battle. The quickest solution?
Maybe the theory is that whoever's about to find them will want to look away and [[Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone|give them some privacy]]. Maybe the logic is to do the [[Acting Unnatural|
Probably the only kiss that comes without [[Tonight Someone Kisses|warning]]. Often [[Ship Tease|fuel for shippers]] anyway, and has a good chance of appearing in that episode's [[Trailers Always Lie]]. Distinct from the [[Kiss of Distraction]] because that involves one of the kissers being distracted, whereas this seeks to distract people looking at the kiss.
Sometimes done [["Shut Up" Kiss|to interrupt a guy speaking/shouting]], either to just shut him up or because someone is coming.▼
▲Sometimes done [[Shut Up Kiss|to interrupt a guy speaking/shouting]], either to just shut him up or because someone is coming.
Compare the longer-term [[Undercover As Lovers]].
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Not to be confused with the [[Kiss of Distraction]].
== Anime & Manga ==▼
* Used by two different pairs in one episode of ''[[Zero no Tsukaima (Light Novel)|Zero no Tsukaima]]'', Louise x Agnes being the [[Mistaken for Gay|more entertaining]] of the two -- Agnes eavesdrops on a conversation between conspirators, Louise comes up behind her and gasps when she overhears part of the plot. When one of the men goes to investigate, Agnes quickly kisses Louise until the man walks off. Agnes looks disgusted (or, at least, very embarrassed) afterwards, but for some odd reason, someone happens to mention a rumor to Louise later on that Agnes might like women...▼
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** In that exact same episode/chapter of the light novel, there's a really steamy, passionate scene where Princess Henrieta [[Black Comedy Rape|practically rapes Saito]] to avoid arrest by government officials looking for her.▼
** Also on the subject of Agnes, she ''is'' rather androgynous/masculine in appearance <ref> As long as she's wearing something loose enough to hide her figure, which is definitely ''NOT'' masculine</ref> , so her and Louise kissing wouldn't necessarily look like a lesbian makeout session to unknowing observers.▼
▲* Used by two different pairs in one episode of ''[[
▲** In that exact same episode/chapter of the light novel, there's a really steamy, passionate scene where Princess
▲** Also on the subject of Agnes, she ''is'' rather androgynous/masculine in appearance
** Then there's another moment where the Queen and Saito do this, only using something more... racy.
* In ''[[
* In the [[Boys Love|BL]] manga ''[[
* The fifth episode of ''[[
* In a chapter of ''[[Detective Conan]]'', Ai Haibara talks one of her classmates into faking intimate contact so she could figure out whether she was being tailed by the Organization, only to scare him with the intense expression on her face.
** Takagi and Satou have also pretended to date on a few occasions to tail a suspect (Takagi couldn't enjoy their time together at all because Satou is pretty damn scary when in Work Mode).
* The first episode of ''[[Darker
* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]''. Alessandro does this while working surveillance with Petra; due to her age and conditioning she's a good deal more flustered about it than he is.
* Done by [[The World God Only Knows|Keima]] to {{spoiler|Tenri}} to trick the demon chasing them.
* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'' has an example where kissing is actually ''weaponized'': the resident [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] Zentradi who live apart from their women and reproduce through cloning. When Misa and Hikaru (Minmay and Kaifun in [[The Movie]]) are ordered to kiss by Britai who have no idea what kissing is, the two comply and give a ''[[Freak
** The third episode of ''
==
* Alan Quatermain and Mina Murray do this during an infiltration in ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]''.
* Happens in the ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (Comic Book)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'' comic. Twice.
** "Leave him guys he's recruiting..."
* ''Uncanny [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'': Iceman does this to Cecilia Reyes, who not only actively dislikes him but hates the whole mutants-vs-humans drama thing going on, and is only with him because she got outed and will be killed if she doesn't have his help.
* In the ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' parody of ''[[Mandrake the Magician]]'' ("Manduck the Magician"), Manduck tries this trick multiple times. It never works and the girl in question eventually realises he isn't doing it to avoid pursuit at all.
** "WHO CARES IF IT DON'T WORK?"
* Chemical Kid and Dragonwing do it in the first issue of the 2011 reboot of ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (
==
* Employed in the ''[[
== Films -- Live Action ==
* [[James Bond (
** Given his large, hairy hands... That would be [[Ho Yay]] [[Screw Yourself|with himself]]!!
* Played straight in ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]''. Well, except that both characters are male, and it doesn't really lead anywhere...
* At one point in ''[[Heathers]]'', Veronica and Jason elude a police officer by not just kissing, but also by disrobing and getting into a car. Notably, they do attract
* Similarly used in ''[[Bon Voyage]]'', as the characters who start kissing have just escaped into a dark movie theater.
* In ''[[Ronin]]'', [[Robert De Niro]] and [[Natascha McElhone]]'s characters are sitting in a car at night, scoping a target. When a car passes them, he pulls the fake-out. After they pull apart, she silently straddles him for a little real making-out.
* Subverted somewhat in the 1983 film version of ''[[Clue (
* ''[[Rock and Roll High School]]'' features a solo
* ''[[Notorious]]'' Cary Grant: "Wait a minute, I'm gonna kiss you."
** A scene parodied (or at least referenced) in the [[Mel Brooks]] film ''[[High Anxiety]]''.
* Subverted in the ''[[The Faculty]]''. While breaking into the school's storeroom to steal ingredients for his drugs, Zeke cites the trope to reassure Marybeth should they be caught. However the two aren't patient, and start making out regardless.
* Simon and Emma do this in ''[[The Saint]]''.
*
* Hilariously subverted in one of its earliest examples, Alfred Hitchcock's ''[[The 39 Steps]]''. In it, the main character is trying to evade police who are looking for him on a train. So he bursts into a woman's compartment and kisses her as the police look in, snicker, and go on. The woman then immediately turns him in to the police without hesitation.
* ''[[The Fourth Protocol]]''. In the opening sequence where the MI5 Watchers are tailing the South African agent, Michael Caine sees two young Watchers snogging passionately and says: "Aren't they overdoing it?" His colleague replies: "She doesn't seem to mind."
* ''[[Top Secret (film)|Top Secret]]'', a farcical [[Affectionate Parody]] of action movies set in [[World War II]], takes it in a bit of a different direction: when a patrol of soldiers looking for them happens by, the young protagonists hide in each others' faces in a park rather crowded with other couples making out.
* ''[[The New Centurions]]'' (1972). The police officer protagonist sees a robbery taking place inside a store, calls for backup, draws his gun and ducks behind a car for cover, then realises there's a couple snuggling each other in the front seat. He rushes over to warn them, only to get shot in the chest with a
* ''[[
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'''Arthur:''' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|...it was worth a shot.]] }}
* Two Interpol agents do this in ''[[Assassins (
* In ''[[Charlotte Gray]]'', which takes place in Nazi-occupied France, the eponymous heroine and a member of the French resistance are being held in a house by Nazis, and manage to distract the guard who's supposed to be watching them by making out, then jump him and run for it when he comes over to separate them.
** Earlier, the resistance member is yelling angrily at Nazi tanks driving down the street, and Charlotte kisses him to shut him up and prevent him from being arrested or killed on the spot.
* In ''[[K-9]]'', the protagonist uses this trick to elude one of the bad guys, but there's a small problem - the sunbathing woman he kisses is a ''complete stranger'' who is taken by surprise. The trick works, and the thug leaves, but while he makes an honest attempt to apologize, [[Groin Attack| she kicks him hard where it hurts.]]
== Literature ==
* Mat pulls a surprise make out in ''[[
* Used repeatedly in the ''[[Hardy Boys]] Casefiles'' series.
* In ''[[Belisarius Series|An Oblique Approach]]'' by [[David Drake]] & [[Eric Flint]], Prince Eon of Axum hides the fugitive Princess Shakuntala from a search of his quarters... by throwing her on the bed, jumping on top of her, and then pulling the blankets up over them both while making some obvious physical movements and sounds. The villain's soldiers, utterly embarrassed at having caught their master's royal
** Their haste is aided by the fact that he [[Coitus Uninterruptus|doesn't pause at their entry]].
* Also used in ''[[
* Dirk does this to Tia in one of the Second Sons trilogy books.
* In [[Isaac Asimov]]'s novel ''[[Pebble in the Sky]]'', one of the protagonists has a secret meeting with a girl in a car. She says that if someone is coming, they should do this. Then she '''lies''' that someone is coming.
* In ''In the Belly of the Bloodhound'', part of of the ''[[Bloody Jack]]'' series, Jackie Faber and her [[Arch Nemesis]] Clarissa are taking advantage of a diversion to look for possible escape routes, IIRC. Hearing someone coming, Jackie grabs Clarissa and makes out with her. Passionately. A [[Minion
* Happens in ''Sweet-Talking TJ'' by Karen [[Mc Combie]], between the titular character of the book and Stella to trick the police. It might have worked, but then they might have just not been seen.
* It doesn't go all the way, but in ''[[Dragon Jousters|Alta]]'' by [[Mercedes Lackey]], Kiron needs to hide Aket-ten from the Magi. He pulls her into a shrine to the goddess of lovers, throws his cloak over her, pushes her to her knees in front of the statue, and kneels himself. The Magus in charge of the squad looks in, "sees" a pair of lovers praying, and leaves without Aket-ten.
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* ''[[Alyzon Whitestarr]]'' by Isobelle Carmody features two of the main protagonists, Alyzon and Harrison, sneaking into a library to find out about Alyzon's sister. When a military-looking goon comes along, guess what happens.
* In one of the ''[[Sweet Valley High]] Kids Christmas'' books, one of the twins does this after she and a boy she was helping are caught by guards in a restricted area during a party. As neither of them were invited to the party to begin with, she also runs off crying saying "I told you someone would see us." The guards are so busy laughing that neither of them are checked for ID or questioned about why they were in the restricted area.
* In ''The Pillars of Creation''
* At the beginning of ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|The Warrior's Apprentice]]'', Miles and Elena do this twice in rapid succession. The first time is intentional: Miles convinces an armsman that they're sneaking into the library to make out, rather than to break into his father's secure terminal. Shortly thereafter, both their fathers walk into the room, and Miles' attempts to make it look like they're rehearsing a play just make it look ''more'' like awkwardly-concealed sex. Complications ensue.
** In ''Ethan of Athos'' Elli Quinn wants to make sure her scheme to get a pair of Cetagandan intelligence agents arrested goes as planned, so she drags Ethan into a convenient alcove near the agents' rooms and enacts this trope. Ethan is a bit perturbed since he's from a male-only planet with religious beliefs that women are the source of all sin and temptation, but he manages to play along.
* In ''Games of Command'' by Linnea Sinclair, Branden's trying to blend in among Tasha's former coworkers when he spots several who know him personally. He tugs Tasha into an access corridor and starts kissing her to hide his face. Since the couple had gotten together a few days before and broken up a few hours before, Tasha is understandably confused.
* In ''Gabriel's Ghost'' by Linnea Sinclair, Sullivan, Chaz, and Ren are trying to pick the lock on a door in a public hallway. When they hear someone coming, Sullivan takes the chance to steal a kiss from Chaz, and silences her protests by claiming they need an excuse to be standing around in a hallway. The passerby laugh and tell them to get a room, and Ren apologizes claiming it's the couple's honeymoon.
* Most of the kisses between Katniss and Peeta in ''[[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]'', seeing as they're supposed to keep up a [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]
* Used by Corran Horn in ''[[X Wing Series|Wedge's Gamble]]'' to avoid being seen by his nemesis while on an undercover mission.
* The "Fake" part is subverted in ''A Planet in Arms'' by Donald Barr, in which to protect [[The Spymaster|spymistress]] Citizen Wells from a would-be rapist, it's not enough for Wells' agent Corander to '''pretend''' he's having sex with her; he has to actually do so. And Wells, Corander discovers at this point, is a virgin. Well, now it's '''was''' a virgin. Luckily, a) Wells fully understands why Corander's doing this; b) {{spoiler|he's such a [[Nice Guy]] that just about any woman he's intimate with soon falls for him,<ref>She knows this, too, because she used to assign female agents to spy on '''him''', and kept having to replace them since she couldn't any longer trust them to rat him out if necessary</ref> and Wells turns out to be no exception; and c) at this point Corander also realizes he's been in love with his boss for a while now.}}
== Live Action TV ==
* Vaughn and Sabina pull one of these in ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]''. It doesn't work so well.
* In ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'' when {{spoiler|Howard and Vince are on the roof together the night of Howards birthday party.}}
* In a flashback on ''[[
* Chloe once started kissing Clark on ''[[
** Happens again in the Season 9 premiere. Lois speaks with John Corben, who she believes is a detective at the time. When an actual cop comes, he evokes this trope without her consent. She takes it [[Sarcasm Mode|rather well]]...
* Subverted in ''[[
** And brutally subverted in "Passions" when Angelus is stalking Buffy; she and her friends exit the Bronze without taking notice of a couple necking. Once they're past the woman falls to the ground to reveal it was Angelus feeding on her.
** In the Season 2 finale Buffy runs into Xander at the hospital. As she's wanted by the police Xander quickly pulls her into a hug when two cops pass them in the corridor. On letting go Buffy jokes that Xander did that partially to cop a feel; Xander's lack of response to this tells Buffy that something bad has happened to Willow.
* Also happens in the fourth season of ''[[
* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''. Captain Archer is talking to his [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]], when his translator breaks. She doesn't know he isn't from her world, and her finding out would be bad. So he kisses her, counting that it'll distract her long enough for him to hit the reset button on his translator. It seems to work, but later in the episode he kisses her goodbye and she jokes, "Is your translation device broken again?"
* ''[[
** In series six, the Doctor doesn't want Craig to find out that they've been teleported into space, so he immediately wraps himself around Craig and tries to kiss him to distract him. Craig dodges.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'': Marian and the Count kiss after getting back from a trip into the forest, to cover up for the fact that they had gone there to meet Robin.
* Apparently superfluous usage from ''[[Bionic Woman]]'' episode "The List": Jaime and her partner, sneaking down a restricted corridor, see that a security guard ''has already spotted them'', but they do the Fakeout Makeout anyway as he hurries over to try to get them to leave, then they knock him out. Then snog again.
** On another occasion Jaime sees a couple kissing outside her apartment, but her bionic ear picks up their conversation revealing they're actually a surveillance team.
* Played with on ''[[In Plain Sight]]'': Mary just wants to smear lipstick on Marshall's face to make them look less suspicious when they confront the diamond smugglers, but he mistakes her intentions and tries to kiss her. When she tells him off, he unapologetically responds, "I'm a guy. It's what we do."
* In the pilot of ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', Maeby kisses George Michael just to get attention from her parents. They don't notice. This does, however, provide George Michael enough [[Fetish Fuel]] to last the rest of the series.
* Averted on ''[[
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in a first-season episode of ''[[Lois and Clark]]''. After getting caught snooping in a closet, Clark hands Lois over as a reporter in order to preserve his own cover. Later, she tells him they could have done
** Also done in another episode of the same, where Lois and Clark are pretending to be a newlywed couple in order to investigate from a hotel typically reserved for honeymooners. When Clark's super-hearing picks up on the maid, he immediately hides the telescope they've been using, and starts kissing Lois. The maid takes one look at this as she walks in, and promptly walks right back out.
** There was another variation in this show. Before she was thrown out of a plane, Lois asked to kiss Clark goodbye. She really wanted to get close enough to whisper, "I'll take the one on the left".
* Steed and Mrs. Peel fake a kiss while following an enemy spy in ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' episode "Escape in Time". However, they only face one another in a street corner and don't actually kiss.
** In a ''[[
*** In another episode, Max does this with a female courier when someone walks past their park bench rendezvous. Then he claims they're coming back and goes in for another round.
* In "Chuck Versus the Break-Up?" in ''[[Chuck]]'', we learn that Bryce and Sarah always used the "happy couple making out" cover up during missions together. And pretended they didn't enjoy it.
** Replace "always" with "often," and that could go for Sarah and Chuck, too. Chuck is usually taken completely off guard, but generally doesn't seem to mind.
** And used between Chuck and, of all people, General Beckman in "Chuck vs. the Santa Suit". Afterwards they agree, "We will never speak of this again."
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation|Degrassi: The Next Generation]]'', Paige is having some trouble getting past a bouncer into a VIP party at a movie premiere. Cue [[Gender Blender Name|Alex]] with a fake story apologizing for being late because some jerk blocked in the "Employees Only" space at the strip club, followed by a very convincing kiss. ''[[Distracted
* On ''[[
** And again in the third season opener.
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'''Parker:''' Pretending?
'''Hardison:''' Heey... }}
* ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' has several uses of this method. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
{{quote|'''Hogan''': There's never a [[Gestapo|policeman]] around when you need one!}}
* ''[[Oz]]''. An undercover police officer passes on information to his female partner by having her pose as his wife on a prison visit, then whispering the information in her ear while they're kissing passionately. It's obvious however that the two are lovers in real life also.
* In the mini-series ''[[A Man Called Intrepid]]'' a man-female spy team supposedly disappear into an office for a little nookie, but actually to rifle through the files. When the guard becomes suspicious, the woman starts to fake moans of passion, whereupon he just smirks and goes back to his post. Note: this was based on a real life [[WW 2]] incident where a couple were breaking into an embassy safe while supposedly making
* ''[[
* Played with in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. Bela and Dean pretend to be married in the ghost ship episode. Bela pretends to faint, and they use this as an excuse to get into the room with the records they need. Dean leaves, and when a security guard comes to check on Bela, she acts like Dean is still they're and they are up to something (Complete with moaning when the guard closes the door.) The guard then sees Dean walking back up the hall. He assumes Bela is cheating on him.
* In ''[[My Family]]'', Ben is spying on his wife, but notices she's about to walk by the vehicle he is watching from, he asks his son Nick to think of something. Nick pulls a
* ''[[Secret Army]]''. [[La Résistance]] use a fake bicycle accident to make a German officer stop his vehicle so they can jump him. After they've dragged the body off into the woods an army motorcycle-sidecar drives up, and its occupants are highly suspicious at seeing an abandoned staff car...until a man comes out of the woods wearing an unbuttoned officer's uniform, his arm around a pretty Belgian girl. The Germans whistle and catcall, then roar off on their motorcycle. As there's some UST between the two characters there's an "you can stop kissing me, they've gone" moment too.
* ''[[The Friday Night Project]]'' has a short-lived segment in its first series called "The Inappropriate Kissers", where two people would be planted in a real-life situation, (in one instance, next to an interviewer at a film premiere) merrily necking away. Supposedly, in [[Real Life]] ''he'' was very much into ''her'', but ''she'' couldn't stand the sight of ''him''.
* In an episode of ''[[Weeds]]'', Nancy and Andy are waiting for a drug shipment when they see cops
* In the ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' episode "Duped", Pete and Myka employ this trope to avoid the suspicion of the target they are trailing. Although {{spoiler|it's not really Myka. At the end of the episode, Pete says this was how he figured out the imposter, as the real Myka would '''never''' have kissed him.}}
* Sonny of ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]'' does this to Chad as part of a [[Batman Gambit]] to dump his best friend. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]... kinda...
* ''[[CSI:
* In the ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' episode "The Down Low", Thirteen pretends to be a prostitute in order to cover up {{spoiler|her and Eddie's presence at a drugs warehouse, where they were collecting environmental samples.}}
* To preserve her cover as a call girl, Diana Barrigan (who, incidentally, is gay and has a girlfriend) jumps Neal Caffrey (who is posing as her john) when someone enters their penthouse suite in ''[[White Collar]]'' episode 2.02, "Need to Know." It turns out to be {{spoiler|Neal's friend, Mozzie. When Neal tries to resume the makeout session by pretending Mozz is one of the bad guys, Diana shuts him down}}.
* ''[[Sue Thomas:
* Played straight in the ''[[Castle (TV series)|Castle]]'' episode "Knockdown" in which the title character and Beckett try to get close to a guard of a building {{spoiler|in which Ryan and Esposito are being tortured for information by a professional assassin}}. They try the drunk and lost maneuver but that doesn't quite lower the guard's defensiveness. Not until they do the trope does the guard relax enough to be taken out. [[Word of God]] is that it was genuine.
** In the Season 3 finale, {{spoiler|Castle calls Beckett out on their [[
* Britta and Jeff have one in an early episode of ''[[
** Starburns ''tries'' to have one, but Quendra refuses.
* Curtis kisses Hannah to avoid detection by their creepy guidance counselor in ''[[Todd and
* Taken a step further in ''[[
* ''[[MacGyver]]'': Mac and his female partner pull this trick when they are caught by a motorcycle cop while scoping out the hospital they are planning to break into in "For Love or Money".
== Web Comics ==
* Backfires badly in ''[[
** [[It Got Worse|It gets worse from there]], ending when {{spoiler|April accidentally murders Mike}}.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120709182351/http://www.marsh-rocket.com/Pages.aspx?Pg_ID=0 Marsh Rocket]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20161013015057/http://www.marsh-rocket.com/Pages.aspx?Pg_ID=25 uses this trope] then later subverts it: somebody ''taped'' the MakeOut, and it's implied it's on the future equivalent of YouTube.
* Slightly modified in ''[[Narbonic]]'' during "Professor Madblood and the Lovelace Affair". Madblood is about to spot Helen holding Titus Misanthropie's body, so she kisses Titus to cover up the fact that he's unconscious. There was never any sexual tension between Helen and Titus, but the incident served as yet another derailment of Helen's romance with Madblood.
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* Played with in one of the bonus strips in ''[[The Order of the Stick
* Happens on [http://www.shortpacked.com/2010/comic/book-11/01-no-thanks-to-eharmony/flee/ this page] of ''[[
* ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* Danny and Sam do it twice on ''[[
** The first time, Sam initiates it. The second time, Danny does. It is only slightly less awkward the second time.
* In ''[[The Fairly
* ''[[Justice League (
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'''Batman:''' ''(in his smarmiest Bruce Wayne voice)'' ''Don't'' be. }}
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'': When Hervé and Nicolas follow the gang to the Supercomputer, Odd and Aelita let them catch them kissing to explain their presence in the Factory. [[Fridge Brilliance|Since the two are pretending to be cousins]], this would give them an [[Kissing Cousins|excuse for doing so off campus]].
* Inque and Aaron Herbst in ''[[
* In order to [[The Beard|convince others that they were taken]], Amy and Leela did it multiple times to Fry as a [[Running Gag]] in a ''[[Titanic]]'' spoof episode of ''[[
* In the episode "The Parent Rap" of ''[[The Simpsons (
** And Wiggum comments how two young dock workers have found love...
** [[Inverted Trope|Stood on its head]] in ''[[The Simpsons Movie
** Both parodied and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in "Homer and Marge Turn a Couple Play". Homer is trying to scalp baseball tickets when he spots Wiggum and whispers to Marge, "Pretend we're in love," then kisses her.
** In the episode "Rome-old and Juli-eh", Homer and Patty (disguised as Selma) do this to try and break up Selma and Grampa. They both have to think of others (Marge in Homer's case, Mrs. Krabappel in Patty's) while proceeding.
* In the ''[[
** In the episode "Saving Private Brian", they kiss to get discharged from the army. It doesn't work.
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'''Stewie:''' Hells yeah!
''*Brian slaps Stewie* }}
* ''[[Mission Hill]]'': Eunice "Weirdie" Eulmeyer kisses Kevin passionately as they are discovered trying to steal Kevin's recommendation letter from an army base.
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** And in "Hand in Hand," Kendall initiates another kiss with Kick (while each wears a gender-swapped disguise) to avoid getting caught glued together by Kendall's boyfriend Renaldo. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Kick]] the [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|BST]] up another notch...
* Variation: in one of the ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' movies Shaggy and Scooby disguise themselves as a couple to justify being in the park in the middle of the night, and pretend to make out so that no one will be able to see that Scooby is, well, a ''dog''.
* Krisse does this in an episode in the second season of ''[[
* ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]'': Lola does this Bugs when she is tailing Daffy in "Double Date".
* Bruce and Selina take this even further in the [[Elseworlds]] movie ''[[Gotham by Gaslight]]''. When the police mistake Bruce for [[Jack the Ripper]], Selina lets him hide in her carriage; they're still on his trail so they actually disrobe and embrace, so when the police try to force their way in, they quickly apologize and back off. This leads to ''real'' intimacy between the two in the next scene.
== Real Life ==
* [http://bash.org/?790133 Two boys smoking pot in a car, and a policeman drives up...]
* Once done at pre-Berlin Wall Europe by two youths involved in the [[City of Spies|Berlin form]] of suspicious doings to fool the East German Guards into dismissing it as merely the adolescent kind.
* One Allied-sponsored burglary attempt at a Vichy embassy during [[World War II]] was protected by a distraction using this means.
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