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When a [[Will They or Won't They?]]-type couple is on the verge of [[Relationship Upgrade|upgrading their relationship]], their friends will quickly vacate the area to give them some privacy. The less [[Genre Savvy]] friends may have to be shooed or pulled away. As may [[Children Are Innocent|children]]; adult friends may hurriedly cook up some [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog|implausible reason to leave]]. In some variations, the friends will spy on the couple to see how it goes. In others, the "couple" uses this trope to get others to leave, often by [[Fake-Out Make-Out]].

 

 

The aggressive behavior is [[Get a Room]].

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* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', after Caro sends a quick telepathic note to Erio, the both of them quickly vacate Subaru's hospital room after Teana arrives. Man, even the kids can detect the lingering [[Les Yay]].

* In ''[[Genshiken]]'', Sasahara and the other guys excuse themselves from Kousaka's apartment so he would be alone with Kasukabe.

* In ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', when Rosette walks away from her group to find Chrono in a carnival, [[The Matchmaker|Azmaria]] makes up an excuse to Satella for why they shouldn't follow, when her motivation is really so Chrono and Rosette can have a moment alone together.

* Chapter 255 of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has a hugely smiling Konoka speedily vacating the room with Setsuna after [[Ship Tease|Asuna insisted that she be the one to rub the healing salve on Negi's]], partly healed, [[Shirtless Scene|shirtless body]].

** ... and broadcast the feed live across the whole ship, to boot.

* In a more recent chapter of ''[[Detective Conan]]'', an injured Takagi is alone in a hospital room with Sato, certain that any moment now, a [[Moment Killer]] will walk through the door. Thankfully, unknown to him, the Detective Boys shoo away the visitors under the pretense he needs his rest, and they can't help but to peek in the room when he and Sato share a very [[Squee]]-enducing kiss.

 

== Comic Books ==

* A more mature version occurs in ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]], Chapter 8B: The Prisoner of White Agony Creek'': After taking a party to "[[Unwanted Rescue|rescue]]" Goldie from Scrooge, Judge Roy Bean wisely decides they do '''''not''''' want to interrupt, because "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|what's going on in that cabin]] is ''not'' a hanging offense in Langtry, Texas, or anywhere else! Thank gosh!"

 

 

* In ''[[WALL-E]]'', {{spoiler|MO shoos the other robots away from EVE and Wall-E as they're reunited.}}

* In ''[[Pocahontas]]'', Grandmother Willow closes her leaves like a curtain while the main couple are about to kiss.

** Meeko also fulls one off by preventing Flit from getting in the way. This and his resulting expression is one of the few respectable actions [[Jerkass|Meeko]] does in this movie.

* ''[[Tangled]]'': When Flynn and Rapunzel seem to be about to kiss near the end of the floating lanterns scene, Pascal turns pink and covers his eyes. Kinda subverted, though, when he immediately peeks between his fingers.

 

* ''[[The Matrix]] Reloaded'': Link, Neo, Trinity and the Kid are all on an elevator together. When the door opens Link says, "Let's go, Kid. These two got things to do." As soon as the door closes again Neo and Trinity start kissing.

* In ''[[The American President]]'', when President Shephard and Sydney Ellen Wade are about to reconcile, A.J. announces, "If anyone needs me, I'll be in the Lincoln bedroom, giving oxygen to Lewis."

* ''[[Mean Girls]]'' invokes this trope hilariously when Damian whispers "Man candy, stage right!" and grabs Janice to run off while Aaron comes over to Cady. They then completely subvert the trope by [[Crowning Moment of Funny|running back seconds later, kidnapping one of Cady's certificates to a pancake house, and then leave again.]]

'''Damian''': PEACE! ''(they run off)'' }}

'''Arthur:''' Yeah, it was worth a shot. }}

 

== Literature ==

** And in the movie, where they leave the room... and promptly gather around the keyhole to listen in to all the proceedings.

** Not long thereafter, Mr. Bingley cheerfully asks Mrs. Bennet to suggest a ''nice long walk'' for Darcy and Elizabeth to go on, and then immediately suggests that Kitty would not want to go with them, in a manner that can only be considered subtle when compared to Mrs. Bennet.

* In ''The Lost World: [[Jurassic Park]]'', Thorne uses this as an excuse to get everyone except Sarah and Ian out of the trailers, not long before the parent T-rexes appear and push the trailers over a cliff.

* Novelization of [[Dead Poets Society]] does it. Actually, Nuwanda asks them to show the garden to the second girl. The ones who understand quickly push the others outside.

 

* In ''[[Dollhouse]]'', Echo starts helping Bennet with the reconstruction of Caroline's wedge, but quickly makes an excuse to leave the room once Topher joins them. {{spoiler|It doesn't end well. (Although in Bennet's final moments, she and Topher ''did'' have a [[Relationship Upgrade]].)}}

* There is a small moment in ''[[NCIS]]'' S7 Premiere, when Ziva returns and she and Tony stand in the bullpen gazing at each other for a few moments before McGee makes some half-hearted excuse and leaves the room.

* ''[[Leverage]]'': When Parker is jealous of Hardison's attraction to one of their clients, Sophie tells Parker she should confess her feelings and leaves them alone together. Parker [[Cannot Spit It Out]], but Hardison understands and basically lets her know that he's willing to wait.

 

== Theater ==

* In ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'', the sisters want to give Frederic and Mabel privacy but don't want to leave them unchaperoned. So they decide to "shut their eyes and [[Talk About the Weather]]" in the form of a very silly patter song. (While peeking.)

* [[Tear Jerker|Tragic]] variant in ''[[La Boheme]]'': Rodolfo is tending to the dying Mimi, and Colline goes out to sell his coat for medicine. As he leaves, he asks Schaunard to come along:

* Doc makes this speech in the third act of ''[[The Most Happy Fella]]'', which leads into "Song of a Summer Night." After the song Tony and Rosabella are indeed left alone, but a very unhappy revelation ensues.

* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'': Cyrano invokes this trope at Act II Scene V when Roxane and his Duenna met him at the bakery of the poets (Roxane’s Duenna is supposed to be her chaperone). Cyrano bribes the Duenna with pies and ask her to eat them in the street, so he can have some privacy with Roxane.

''(He shuts the door, comes down toward Roxane, and, uncovering, stands at a respectful distance from her.)'' }}

 

== Video Games ==

* At a big celebration party in ''[[Okami]]'', the player can sneak into Sakuya's tree and discover Kushi and Susano (the brewer and the lush, how fitting!) enjoying the scenery. However, there's no one to stop you from interrupting, save a few pointed remarks from the couple - in the end, Issun has to do the job himself and scold Ammy into leaving.

* In ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', {{spoiler|near the end of the game, Luke and Tear share a moment on the Albiore's deck while Noelle keeps Mieu from spying on them.}}

* In a chapter of ''[[Fire Emblem Elibe|FireEmblem: Rekka no Ken]]''), the party decides to split up to avoid attracting attention, leaving Eliwood and Ninian alone. Even though it was Eliwood who called for everyone to separate, Lyn was going for this trope and dragging along an oblivious Hector. It could even work as a twofer use of this trope, depending who you [[Ship-to-Ship Combat|ship]].

* In the ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' DLC module "Lair of the Shadow Broker," after the Shadow Broker's dealt with and Shepard and Liara start talking about their relationship again, Feron and Shepard's other companion beat a hasty retreat to leave them alone.

* ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' likes playing this one for laughs with resident [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]] Toshiie Maeda and his wife Matsu. When one rescues the other from Yukimura at one point, they get so romantic he becomes embarrassed and wonders if he should leave them alone and come back later.

** In a separate incident in ''Samurai Heroes'', after fighting the player army to a standstill for a time by constantly healing each other with food, the couple exchange compliments and retreat, prompting an allied general to muse "I wonder where they're going?" followed by a cutscene of the camera panning over secluded storehouses, flirty laughter in the background... {{spoiler|they're having a picnic.}}

* Happens twice in ''[[Solatorobo]]''. Once, Elh scolds Red for having no sense when {{spoiler|Béluga gives Merveille a hologram of flowers}} and drags him out of the room. The lovebirds in question don't seem to notice. The second time, Chocolat refuses to allow {{spoiler|Opéra, Cyan, and Princess Theria}} to open the door, {{spoiler|when Red and Elh make up after he got fangirled to death by Theria, Alicia, and Toffee}} after winning the Prairie Kingdom Cup. Unfortunately, this time the door is rather thin and Chocolat is being a little loud, so the two overhear her just fine and are a little embarrassed.

 

== Web Comics ==

** Later on, Kat [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=788 skillfully extracts Annie and herself] from Andrew and Parley's presence.

* Emotionally discreet as [[The Spock|Vaarsuvius]] is, s/he still is the one to have everyone vacate the room where Elan and Haley are about to share their first kiss in [[Order of the Stick]].

* An unusual case: in ''[[Fans]]'', the first night that Rumy stayed with Rikk and Ally after the three of them decided to apply a ''[[Tenchi Solution]]'' to their love triangle, Ally loudly announced that she would be studying for her nursing exams with death metal playing on her iPod, while Rikk and Rumy were together in the bedroom.

'''Ally''': Then one more thing, 'cause I know you. Do not check up on me if y' think she's asleep. You need to make her your world tonight. You both need to trust I'm as cool with this as I say I am. I know that's tough for you, but [[Earn Your Happy Ending|happy endings ain't for wimps.]] }}

* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', it's not because the others are nice, but because they are scared to stay [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100906\].

 

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Dept Heaven Apocrypha]]'' subverts this; Fia would really, really, ''really'' like to leave {{spoiler|her demon and Meria}} to themselves, but since {{spoiler|the demon is possessing ''her''}}, she can't. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Chowder]]'' did this with a ''casserole and a stink cloud''.

 

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