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** The fact that she's a robot doesn't stop Jenny from having romantic feelings for human men. Nor does it stop fans from writing fanfics about Jenny becoming a couple with Brad (though some of these stories do use the idea of Jenny becoming human...).

** In fact Brad also had a robotic love interest in a couple of episodes. Along with Sheldon's one episode crush on {{spoiler|a disguised [[Big Bad|Vexus]].}}

* On the ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' front, you have the episode, "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide." Three guesses what it's about. Has a healthy dose of [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] to boot!

** From the same season, "Sea Change" paired the Autobot Seaspray with an alien humanoid woman whose people guarded a magical spring that let any living thing that entered it [[Power Perversion Potential|assume any shape it wanted to]].

** The Transformers wiki [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Robot-fleshling_romance has a list.] It comes up more often that it, strictly speaking, should. Unless, of course, there's a writer with a fetish.

*** Don't forget Grampa Max and Grandma Verdona. Also Sunny, cousin of Ben and Gwen (who is the same species as their grandmother) and her boyfreind.

* In ''[[Futurama]]'', there have been numerous interspecies pairings. Leela and Zap were mutant plus human. Kif and Amy were alien plus human. In "A Bicyclops Built for Two", Leela and Alkazar were mutant plus shapeshifting-alien. In "I Dated a Robot", Fry and Lucy Liu were human plus robotic clone ("metal fever"), Then there's Bender and the real Lucy Liu (robot/human head) and Bender/Planet Express Ship.

** The latest season adds the robot + human love affair of {{spoiler|Bender + Amy}} to the mix in order to make an [[Anvilicious|unsubtle]] point about the current same-sex marriage debate. The episode also showcases a quick flurry of other improbable pairings, up to and including horse + ghost.

* The Nickelodeon cartoon ''Catscratch'' has Gordon, a cat, in love with his neighbor, Kimberly. (He calls her "Human Kimberly". Guess what species SHE is.) Making things worse, Kimberly is eight years old and while Gordon's age is never specifically mentioned.

** Technically wouldn't Jake be [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-shapeshifting-dragon-with-a-human-form]] because his father is regular human with no magical ancestors or abilities?

** So normal in fact, that Brian acts ashamed when he is attracted to other (non-anthropomorphic) ''dogs''.

** On a side note, Brian had a child with a human woman in a season 6 episode.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfI88NFo9bo&feature=related "Hey...I f*cked your dad."]

** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] at least once. Brian asks a girl out at a party, and she throws her drink in his face exclaiming, "Ew, you're a dog!"

** When Brian actually does have sex with another dog, said dog apparently also had sex with Ted Turner.

** The next season has Hayley going back to Jeff {{spoiler|and marrying him.}}

** There was also one episode where Pinky fell in love with a seal. It's also worth mentioning that the one time Pinky was ever kissed by a female mouse, he ran away screaming.

** Brain's recurring love interest, Billie, is also courted by a hamster named Snowball.

** Pinky also once fell in love with a pig on in the only half-hour ''Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain'' episode.

** [[Word of God]] has said that ghosts are a species of their own, rather than all being people who have died. Though at least some of them are.

* The next-to-ur example: Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar in Disney cartoons and comics. Early on, the two are romantic to the point of being engaged (comics, 1932). Later, they're back to being a dating couple, with Clarabelle occasionally seeing Goofy as well ? in one recent comic book story ("With Friends Like These," 2006), clearly doing so to make Horace jealous, though innocent Goofy misreads the situation as platonic and doesn't realize how his friend is using him.

** There are also many relationships between ducks and frex geese. Closer than most of the other examples on this page, but still different species.

** There are geese within the McDuck family tree as well. Donald's cousin [[Born Lucky|Gladstone Gander]] for instance is the son of a goose and a duck.

** At the end of the episode, Homer gets turned into a Walrus and is shown massaging Marge with his tusk... Yes.

** In a more recent episode featuring a beached whale, the episode ends with Homer saying the whale will get a hot new octopus wife, and that he hears "there's a whalapus on the way!" Marge suggests drawing this. Three guesses what the background images for the credits are.

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|Eva]], the human heroine of ''[[Oban Star Racers]]'', gets a crush on the [[Heroes Want Redheads|handsome]] alien [[Knight in Shining Armor|prince]] [[The Rival|Aikka]]. By the end of the series, {{spoiler|it's [[Official Couple|puppy love]].}}

* [[The Backyardigans]]: Pratically all pairings, considered they're all of different species. Bonus points go to any pairing with Uniqua, who we don't even ''know'' the species of.

* Classic [[Looney Tunes]] typically have Pepe Le Pew trying some unintended interspecies romance when he pursues... um, any cat with a white stripe painted on it (Penelope Pussyfoot is the usual victim). (Then, in a sticker book, he shuns a skunk with her stripes painted over!). In rare moments, the roles would get reversed with hilarious results. ''[[Tiny Toons]]'' had Fifi La Fume (''Skunkius sexius'', when she came in on a <s> Coyote-Road Runner</s> Calamity-Little Beeper story) continue the tradition.

** One episode paired Babs Bunny and (human) Montana Max, although they were not quite themselves at the time and Buster, in trying to keep Babs from walking down the aisle, makes the point that Max isn't her type, not even her species.

** Can't forget Dizzy (his generation's Taz) and his three human girlfriends. An extra level of squick is added when you consider that Dizzy is a kid and the women are... well, ''[[Shotacon|women]]''.

* There are hints of something more than friendship between Vinnie and Charley in ''[[Biker Mice From Mars]]''. One episode also has Greasepit fall in love with Charley for a short time. Another episode has a whole line of women swooning over Modo; while they could arguably be reacting to his suave act, at least one calls him cute. Yet another episode has Modo falling for a bird-woman of some sort.

** The second series also has Vinnie finding female cat-women attractive and openly flirting with them.

** Likewise, ''Music Land'', released a year earlier, has a saxophone in love with a violin (Interinstrument Romance?). Then, for added [[Squick]], the saxophone's father ends up falling in love with the violin's mother.

** In another episode, a goose god becomes infatuated with the human mortal Muriel, and later drops her in favor of a nonliving pickup truck.

* [[An American Tail|Cat R. Waul/Tanya Mousekewitz]], in an astonishingly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdioOlajmOg&feature=related emotional, romantic and frankly creepy scene] from ''Fievel Goes West''. There's also a surprisingly large amount of [http://fc14.deviantart.com/fs29/f/2008/144/8/7/American_Tail___The_Wauls_by_jodi_seer.png fan material] [[Fan-Preferred Couple|for the couple]].

* John Stewart and [[Winged Humanoid|Hawkgirl]] in ''[[Justice League]]''.

** Also [[Hot Scientist|Sarah Corwin]] was in love with [[Maniac Monkeys|Gorilla Grodd.]]

* ''[[Little Bear]]'''s friendship with Emily, a ''human'', is oddly romantic like, even for children (um, and [[Furry Confusion|cubs]]) their age.

** They even pretend to get married in one episode.

* The ''least'' offensive thing ''[[South Park]]'' did with this trope was get a pig and an elephant to get it on!

** In the same episode, the offspring of said pig and Mr. Garrison.

** And who could forget "Douche and Turd", where PETA members are shown to be married to animals!

* Whenever [[Alvin and The Chipmunks|the Chipmunks]] and [[Distaff Counterpart|the Chipettes]] were not seeing each other, they show interest in humans. In fact, in ''The Chipmunk Adventure'', the Chipettes end up in a harem because a young Egyptian prince fell in love with Brittany and wanted to marry her.

** In the Archie comics version of TMNT, Raphael got into a serious relationship with Ninjara, a ninja fox-woman from a Hidden Race of fox-people, which lasted for a good period in the comic's run.

** Also in the original animated series, Michelangelo had a thing going with a humanoid alien named Kala.

**** Actually, Michaelangelo seemed to be most enamored by April and tried to get her attention the most, whenever Kala wasn't around.

*** In the first live-action film ''all'' of the Turtles are infatuated with April in the beginning. It's not like they have much of a choice as unlike the cartoon and comics the Turtles are just as rare as you'd expect four walking, talking, ninja fighing mutated turtles to be.

** [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Ahsoka Tano]] is a [[Rubber Forehead Alien|Togruta]] and has a human love interest in ex-[[Dating Catwoman|Separatist]] senator Lux Bonteri.

** Greedo, a reptilian-insectoid-humanoid Rodian also seems to had a romantic relationship with one of Jabba's Twilek dancers.

** Aurra Sing also had a relationship with Hondo Ohnaka sometime prior to the Clone Wars.

** In gereral the show tends to put interspecies couples in the background every now-and-then.

* If you think about it, many of the couples in ''[[Winx Club]]'' could count as this. The girls of the Winx Club are fairies, and the specialists are... human-looking aliens, or fairy and wizard in the case of Layla and Nabu. Near the end of season 4 we learn that {{spoiler|Roxy's mother is Morgana, the queen of the fairies. In the last episode of season 4, Morgana reunites with her husband Klaus (a human).}}

* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' includes a marriage between a bespectacled turtle and a cat. The stork eventually brings them an egg that has to be incubated by their friend, a <s> cow</s> [[Insistent Terminology|steer]], and which hatches into four children: [[Gender Equals Breed|two bespectacled turtles, a cat, and a cow.]]

* ''[[Drawn Together]]'''s Spanky Hamm, Captain Hero, and Wooldorf all had a Spin-The-Bottle/threeway make-out session in one episode, another episode had Toot marrying/having sex with Ling Ling's father, Xandir and Toot both kissed (and got turned on by) Ling Ling, a role-play episode implied that Wooldorf molested a human boy, Spanky had sex with a spider (and there were pig-headed spider babies), Spanky and Xandir gay-marry in one episode, another episode revealed Foxy had sex with Wooldorf once...the list goes one, guys, seriously.

* [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]] at first averted this trope by being paired with a female rabbit whenever romance elements in his toons spring up. Then "Rival Romeos" introduced a cat named Ortensia to fill this role, thus playing the trope straight. In ''[[Epic Mickey]]'', she and Ozzie has ''[[Explosive Breeder|420]]'' bunny children together.

* ''[[Tuff Puppy]]'': [[Your Mileage May Vary|One could argue]] that there's a bit of [[UST]] between agents [[Female Feline, Male Mutt|Kitty Katswell and Dudley Puppy]].

* In ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'''s "Dudley Do-Right" segments, Nell Fenwick is in love with Dudley's horse, and it's implied that the horse is in love with her as well. Nothing ever seems to come of it, though.

** {{spoiler|The former eventually gets a [[Relationship Upgrade]]. It takes Superboy a while, but he eventually realizes that he cares for Miss Martian just as much as she cares for him. Cue [[Big Damn Kiss]] at the end of "Terrors".}}

* In ''[[Word Girl]]'', Becky, as the [[Expository Theme Song|theme song states,]] is "from the planet Lexicon." So, regardless of whether she's put with Scoops or Tobey, (or anyone else for that matter,) it will always be alien/human.

* [[Alien Among Us|Mark Chang]] from [[Fairly Oddparents]] would ''really'' like for this to happen between him and Vicky.

** Cosmo frequently shows attraction to humans and, in one episode, an alien.

** In one episode, Foop (an anti-fairy) develops a crush on Vicky (a human).

* Several dream sequences featured in ''[[Arthur]]'' that take place in the future has Arthur Read (an aardvark) marrying Francine Frensky (a monkey).

* Gumball (a cat) and Penny (a sentinent coconut with antlers) from ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]''.

* ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' of Earth and Queen Tyr'ahnee of Mars were once engaged.

* In ''[[Slacker Cats]]'' Buckley (a cat) wants a romantic relationship with his owner, Louise, but she keeps turning him down. Also he's had sex with good looking squirrels and big rats.

* ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' once dated Carol, an antelope he picked up over the Internet. Her ex-boyfriend is a crab.

* In ''Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness'', it's been shown that romance between different species is acceptable in there. Mantis stated to have dated a caterpillar, a married couple of a male duck and female pig showed up in one episode, and the show hinted at a possible romance between Po (a panda) and Song (a snow leopard). Not to mention all the hints of Po and Tigress shipping possibilities...

* [[Betty Boop]] is good friends with anthropomorphised dog Bimbo, who clearly has a crush on her. Curiously, she started out as a dog too, but soon became a human.

** Also invoked in one episode, when Jake demands a romantic story, Finn orders a duck and a fox to kiss.

* Creepie from ''[[Growing Up Creepie]]'' fell in love with Skipper because she believed (like his stage act at the circus) he was part human part spider. She looses most of her feelings for him when she discovers the truth.

* Draculaura the vampire and Clawd the werewolf of ''[[Monster High]]''.

* ''[[Johnny Test]]'': Johnny's dog Dukey used to date a sperm whale.

* The 2010 ''[[Pound Puppies]]'' series hints this between one-time characters Cuddles P. Wigglebottom III (A dog) and Madam Pinkiepuss (A cat) in "The Prince and the Pupper." Further hints come in "Kennel Kittens Return", concerning {{spoiler|Squirt}} and Fluffy.