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*** He knew that she would like it and was ''okay'' with her liking it. For someone wondering if she's odd that meant everything.

* ''[[Love Actually|Love, Actually]]'' solidly runs on this trope, but the best ones are pulled off by Mark. In the opening, he hires a full band to hide in the chapel where his best friend is getting married. Later, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFnSgPC-VXA he stands outside a girl's house in the snow], plays Christmas carols on a CD player, and {{spoiler|silently delivers an elaborate love letter/goodbye to her on cue cards}}. Interestingly, in the creator commentary, the writer/director says he wrote several different grand romantic gestures for the scene (ex. flying in on a helicopter, covering the street with roses), but the female assistants in his office told him they were too elaborate to be really romantic.

* In ''[[Big Fish]]'', the main character finds out the girl he's in love with is engaged to another man. Rather than give up, he organizes a series of grand romantic gestures, like switching out a slide in her prof's lecture to read "I love Sandra!", hiring a sky-writer to do the same, and culminating in {{spoiler|planting thousands and thousands of her favourite flower outside her dorm room window}}.

{{quote| '''Sandra:''' How did you get so many?<br />

* [[Subverted]] in the episode "Sweet Dreams" of ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]]'' in which Prince Arthur is put under a spell to fall in love with the spoilt princess Vivian. He wakes up with the desire to woo her with increasingly elaborate measures, ranging from taking her a roast chicken to scaling the castle wall at night to reach her bedroom and finally fighting a duel to the death with her father. When the spell wears off due to a [[True Love's Kiss]] from Guinevere, he takes her a single red rose.

** Played straight when Arthur proposes to Guinevere by candlelight. He's filled her wooden house with lit candles in what is quite frankly a terrifying fire hazard.

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', [[Stalker With a Crush|Spike]], to prove his love to Buffy... had her chained to a wall and offered to kill his ex for her. In hindsight, this probably wasn't the best idea.

* ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze (TV)|Kamen Rider Fourze]]'': How does Shun try to ask Miu to the prom? By sending a truck to school with a giant screen that says "I Love You!", appearing in a white tuxedo with a large bouquet of flowers, and having the football team as his backup.

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