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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Janey Slater did this to John Osterman, the day after they made love and before he became Dr. Manhattan, in ''[[Watchmen (Comic Bookcomics)|Watchmen]]''.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* National Lampoon's ''[[Loaded Weapon 1]]'' parodied this. The by-the-book cop invites his [[Cowboy Cop]] partner to have dinner with his family. The wife starts playing footsie with the guest... and then the daughter gets in on it... and then the dog.
* ''[[Late Bloomers]]'' features the [[Les Yay]] version.
* Done during a restaurant scene in the 1978 movie ''Once In Paris''.
* ''[[The War of the Roses (Filmfilm)|The War of the Roses]]'' (no, [[I Thought It Meant|not]] [[The War of the Roses|THAT one]]) has this between [[Danny De Vito]]'s character and a female guest during a dinner at the Roses' house.
* 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.
* In ''[[Weekend At Bernies (Film)|Weekend Atat Bernies]]'', Bernie's lover does this to him while her boyfriend...a crime boss...sits beside them.
* 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]]''.
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* ''[[Rules of Engagement]]'': Russel and Timmy try this with their dates, and accidentally end up doing this with [[Ho Yay|each other]].
* 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).
* The title character of ''[[The Jamie Foxx Show]]'' experiences this in one episode. The woman "administering" to him may be [[Hey, It's That Guy!|recognized]] as [[The Fresh Prince of Bel -Air|Vivian]] [[Hot Mom|Banks.]]
* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'': In the Season 2 episode "Stigma," Feezal Phlox flirts with Trip by playing footsie under the table in the mess hall.
* Suggested by Kira to the mobster in the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Badda Bing Badda Bang."
* 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.
* Todd does this in an episode of ''[[Outsourced]]'', intending to stroke Tonya, but gets Asha instead. She's offended.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Done on ''[[Hey Arnold (Animation)|Hey Arnold]]'', of all shows, in an episode where Arnold visits his [[Country Mouse]] cousin and Lila flirts with him the whole time. {{spoiler|Turns out it's [[All Just a Dream]].}}
* 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.