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Not to be confused with [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French]], which is occasionally used with this trope.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In a [[Silver Age]] [[Superman]] story, humanoid alien astronauts from two worlds crashed on a planet. His name was Kryp, hers Ton. Neither spoke the other's language. Once they got past figuring out how to identify themselves, [[Adam and Eve Plot|the rest]] sort of fell into place, since they were stranded.
* It has to be a common fixture for Kryptonians, since, in the current Modern Age [[Re Boot]] of the DCU, [[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book)|Daxamites]] are an off-shot of Kryptonians and an alien race known as the ''Aboriginal Daxamites''. The retelling lampshades the [[Adam and Eve Plot]], with a friendly Kryptonian asking a cute [[Green
* In the [[Marvel Comics]] crossover ''The [[Secret Wars]]'', [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|the Human Torch]] and later [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Colossus]] both fall in love with an alien woman with healing powers who befriends the heroes, despite not speaking any Earth languages.
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* Averted humorously in ''Wayne's World'', when Wayne Campbell "learns" Cantonese in order to speak to his love interest. After purporting to have learned Cantonese, there are scenes where Wayne stares awkwardly at the camera without speaking, while long English paragraphs of complex, translated dialogue appear in the subtitles.
* ''[[Road To]] Rio'' suggests this trope in the song "You Don't Have To Know The Language".
* Played with in the [[John Travolta (Creator)]] film ''Phenomenon'', in which his character George persuades his best friend to hire a Portuguese woman (a very pretty young widow) as a housekeeper. George records some Portuguese phrases for his friend to learn, claiming that they're phrases like "When can you start?" - in reality, they're romantic comments about her beauty. The woman does, in fact, speak English perfectly well, and George knows it but his friend doesn't find out until they actually meet; George is just trying to hook them up. {{spoiler|It works.}}
* In ''[[Red Tails]]'', Lightning speaks no Italian and Sofia no English, presented almost entirely without subtitles.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Seinfeld]]'': In "The Old Man," George was attracted to a woman specifically for this reason. Quote, "I would like to dip my bald head in oil and rub it all over your body."
* There's a bit of humor about this in ''[[Coupling]]''. In one episode, Jeff (a character constantly falling victim to [[Digging Yourself Deeper]], which actually occurs in that episode) flirts with an Israeli woman who speaks no English, and the other characters actually suggest that this is a good pairing since she wouldn't realize the stupid things he was saying. [[Fun With Foreign Languages|Things still go wrong.]] To this end, the [[Word of God]] regarding the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] has Jeff in Israel, pretending he speaks only Hebrew and thereby avoiding embarrassing conversations with anyone.
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_<!-- 28The_Twilight_Zone29 "Two"]] involves [[AdamAndEvePlot lone male and female survivors]] from opposing armies falling in love in a post-apocalyptic town. -->
** "Probe 7, Over and Out" featured a man who'd crash-landed on an alien planet and a woman who was stranded there. They didn't speak the same language, but they fall in love. To make the above plot even more [[Anvilicious]], their names are Adam and Eve. Guess what the planet gets called? (Hint: Irth.)
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