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* ''[[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 -Out|nasty]]'' [[Heroic BSOD]] to every single Zentradi in the room.
** The third episode of ''Macross7 Encore'' is essentially a large shoutout to the original ''Macross'' series but this time, it's Milia and Max doing the kissing and the targets are Meltran (female Zentradi). Reactions are the same.
 
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* 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 (Film)|Clue]]'', in which, in order to hide the bodies of three murder victims, the characters set up a makeout room with the corpses.
* ''[[Rock and Roll High School]]'' features a solo [[Fake -Out Make -Out]] in which one of the protagonists turns towards a corner, wraps his arms around himself and mimics the sounds of a couple making out, successfully fooling his pursuers.
* ''[[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]]''.
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* Also happens in the fourth season of ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', when Fred and Angel are trying to evade Jasmine's followers. It's initiated by Fred, but it of course doesn't work, given that everyone in the city is being mind-controlled by Jasmine and nothing is happening in Los Angeles -- not even a young couple making out on a midnight stroll -- without her approval.
* ''[[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?"
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' did a time-delayed version in the new series. The Doctor kisses Martha before running away, so that some of his non-human DNA will register on her, and the aliens hunting for it will be held up double-checking that Martha is human, buying him some time.
** 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 ''[[Burn Notice (TV)|Burn Notice]]'', Fiona and Sam used this when they were caught sneaking onto a boat to search it... only they made it look like they were in the middle of having sex. Happens again in a fourth season episode between Fiona and Jesse, when some mooks catch them on surveillance duty in her car - naturally in the aftermath it's clear [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|there's some chemistry between them]] which leaves them both a bit unsettled.
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* In the pilot of ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|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 ''[[Monk (TV)|Monk]]''. Monk and Natalie are in the car when they spot a murder suspect approaching. Natalie panics and [[Ship Tease|suggests that they kiss]], but quickly backpedals when Monk looks at her in shock.
* [[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 [[Fake -Out Make -Out|this]] instead.
** 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)|The Avengers]]'' episode "Escape in Time". However, they only face one another in a street corner and don't actually kiss.
** In a ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'' episode, two characters [[Shout -Out|clearly based on]] Steed and Peel pretend to kiss while staking out Max's apartment. They have to do this for a while because Max gets distracted watching them make out; when Max finally enters his room, the "Steed" character admits that he quite enjoyed that.
*** 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.
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* ''[[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 love -- in that case the woman stepped naked into the guard's flashlight beam, whereupon the embarressed guard quickly left.
* ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]''. Captain Sheridan is being hit on by a [[Honey Trap|beautiful naked Political Officer]]. He looks like he's going to refuse her advances when Ivanova (who's up to something he really doesn't want anyone to find out about) teleports into his office. As she's about to turn around to see what could possibly be [[Ignore the Fanservice|distracting Sheridan from her naked body]], Sheridan grabs her for a passionate clinch, giving Ivanova the opportunity for some great [[Deadpan Snarker|deadpan snarking]]. "I think you're about to go where [[Really Gets Around|everyone has gone before]]."
* Played with in ''[[Supernatural (TV)|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 [[Fake -Out Make -Out]] with ''his own father''. While it works, Ben has no response but to [[Crosses the Line Twice|return the gum that Nick was chewing]].
* ''[[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''.
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** Starburns ''tries'' to have one, but Quendra refuses.
* Curtis kisses Hannah to avoid detection by their creepy guidance counselor in ''[[Todd and The Book of Pure Evil]]''. This also marks the point where Hannah develops feelings for Curtis, though it had been hinted at in early episodes.
* Taken a step further in ''[[Twenty Four24 (TV)|Twenty Four]]''. Rick is trying to help Kim Bauer, who has been kidnapped, when a guard comes in. He pretends that he's ''raping her'' instead. The guard ... approves, and later expresses an interest to rape her as well.
* ''[[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".
 
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* Danny and Sam do it twice on ''[[Danny Phantom (Animation)|Danny Phantom]]''. Granted, the show doesn't invent the trope, but they did [[Trope Namer|give it a catchy name]].
** The first time, Sam initiates it. The second time, Danny does. It is only slightly less awkward the second time.
* In ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' episode where Timmy lent his fairy godparents to Tootie for her birthday, he pulled this on her [["Shut Up" Kiss|to prevent her from blurting out that she had them]].
* ''[[Justice League (Animation)|Justice League]]'': Wonder Woman kisses Batman in the episode "Starscrossed", when the two are posing as a civilian husband and wife to elude detection from Thanagarian soldiers. He doesn't mind.
{{quote| '''Wonder Woman:''' ''(blushing)'' Sorry.<br />
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