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* The sequence sometimes ends with them never meeting, but usually they finally (''finally'') collide at the absolute best/worst/funniest moment.
Usually played for laughs, but can be used in an attempt to build suspense. Also used to execute and maintain a [[Not
A somewhat more realistic variation on [[Scooby Dooby Doors]]. For the time-travel variant, see [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]]. See also [[Hidden in Plain Sight]], [[Gave Up Too Soon]]. See [[Close Call Haircut]] for the attack version.
The trope's name is a riff on one of [[Get Smart (TV)|Maxwell Smart's]] many catch phrases, but he never actually engaged in it himself.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In what is probably the longest running example, ''[[Sesame Street]]'' spent over a decade (from 1971 to 1985) exhausting pretty much every conceivable variation of this trope with regards to [[Not
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'': The beginning "Partners in Crime" as Donna and the Doctor both sneak into the same office building ''twice'', crash a product presentation, and creatively acquire a list of customers from two office workers with cubicles literally five feet away--and who print out the lists on the same networked printer--without ever seeing each other.
** Not only the beginning of the episode, but almost all the way to the climax of the episode. Other instances include Donna parking her car and walking away, and mere moments later the TARDIS appears right behind the car; running down intersecting streets and stopping just short of the actual intersection; and so forth. Donna even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the trope by listing off a number of bizarre events that she investigated, believing the Doctor to have been involved, but dismisses the one where the Titanic almost crashed into Buckingham Palace... which was the only one that the Doctor was ''actually present for''.
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== Web Comics ==
* [[Dominic Deegan]] [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-10-08 walks by a ring that could have saved the entire town and a long story arc.] As Dominic is a Seer, this is a pretty big case of [[What an Idiot!]].
** Later on, he explains why he overlooked it, and his friends point out that the way he ended up doing things worked out for the better anyway.
* A [[Running Gag]] for a while in ''[[Arthur King of Time and Space]]'' was Lancelot and Galehaut [http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/1338.htm keeping missing each other].
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* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': "Adventures in Rufus-Sitting" Kim's pursuit of Rufus always brings her within a few feet of Ron and his family in Paris.
* [[Peter Pan]] and Captain Hook do this in the [[Disney]] cartoon around a rock, when Peter is pretending to be a water spirit.
* Kuzco and Yzma, albeit with menus, during the diner scene in ''[[The
* ''[[Two Stupid Dogs (Animation)|Two Stupid Dogs]]'' had an episode where the little dog was looking for his bone - all the while, it was on top of his head.
* The ''[[Duckman]]'' episode "Bev Takes A Holiday" goes through this when twin sisters Bernice and Beverly unknowingly end up in the same house together.
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