Footsie Under the Table: Difference between revisions

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Bob and Alice are eating together, either at a restaurant or at someone's house, or they're sitting in the same boardroom for a business conference or some other type of important meeting. Alice is in a playful mood, or she's of a mind to seduce Bob. At the same time, she doesn't want her intentions to be too obvious to the other persons present, and verbally expressing herself directly to Bob is out of the question and/or would be inappropriate for the occasion.

In fiction, this trope is usually invoked by a woman toward a man in order to express physical attraction that cannot otherwise be expressed for one reason or another; but the reverse (man to woman) is also possible. The [[Ho Yay]] and [[Les Yay]] versions of this trope are not unheard of, either.

 

 

A sub-trope of [[Foot Focus]], and often it's a very specific type of [[Fetish]]. When done in fictional settings, it's done for [[Author Appeal]] or [[Fan Service]]. If the perpetrator is a woman, it's sometimes done to emphasize that [[She's Got Legs]].

 

Not related to [[Does Not Like Shoes]], [[Fertile Feet]], or [[Foot Popping]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': In our introduction to Kaji he does this to Misato. She ignores him. (By this we mean she gives him a [[Death Glare]].)

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Late Bloomers]]'' features the [[Les Yay]] version.

* Done during a restaurant scene in the 1978 movie ''Once In Paris''.

* In ''[[Film/Bad Company|Bad Company]]'', Chris Rock plays a man impersonating his recently-deceased FBI-affiliated twin brother. As part of an assignment, he meets up with his brother's girlfriend (played by Garcelle Beauvais), who believes he's his brother, and they have dinner together at a hotel, where she attempts to seduce him this way.

* Used in ''[[Ridicule]]'' to distract the protagonist and prevent him from thinking up a good joke.

* Parodied in the Italian movie ''Fracchia contro Dracula'' where the female vampire attempts to seduce the titular character using this.... despite being at the opposite side of an extremely long dinner table. And [[She Got Legs|she]][[Up to Eleven|succeeded!]]

* Kip and LaFawnduh in ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]''.

 

* Episode 1x02 of [[How I Met Your Mother]] features the wrong-person footsie variation:

'''Barney:''' (''smug look'') }}

* "[[Chuck]] Versus the First Date" features this twice during an interview montage. Once from Anna, and once from [[Squick|Jeff]].

* Male-to-female version in the ''[[Melrose Place]]'' episode "Bitter Dinner." The female pulls away, however, as the male in question is her mother's boyfriend (and her own boyfriend is there at the table with them).

* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Band Candy," Xander and Willow partake in footsie under the desk at school. The awkward part is that they're both seeing other people.

* Mariano from ''[[Mis Adorables Vecinos]]'' gets this done to him by a [[Dirty Old Woman]], which catches both him and Ernesto offguard. "She put her foot... on your royal jewels?" indeed.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Played with in, of all places, a Disney film: In ''[[The Rescuers Down Under]]'', Bernard loses his engagement ring under a table, where it ends up on a woman's toe. As he retrieves it, the woman turns to her date and slaps him for being fresh.

 

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