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{{trope}}
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|'''Billy Joel''', "You May Be Right"}}
{{quote|''You know I'm hilarious. And I'm not going to quit until I [[When She Smiles|get you to smile]].''|'''[[Teen Titans (
▲{{quote|''Remember how I found you there,<br />
▲Alone in your electric chair?<br />
▲I told you dirty jokes until you smiled<br />
▲You were lonely for a man<br />
▲I said "Take me as I am,<br />
▲'Cause you might enjoy some madness for a while."''|'''Billy Joel''', - "You May Be Right"}}
He's the joker of the group. She's the [[Emotionless Girl]] or perhaps the [[Tsundere]], maybe both. He makes it his mission in life to make her let out one of the most powerful emotional responses. It's a matter of personal pride. If he can break through her shell, he can brag about it for years.
▲{{quote|''You know I'm hilarious. And I'm not going to quit until I [[When She Smiles|get you to smile]].''|'''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Beast Boy]]''', referring to [[Kuudere|Raven]]}}
Said girl's friends will wonder why she puts up with it. Don't expect his jokes to actually be funny. The comedy really comes from her reaction, or [[The Comically Serious|lack thereof]].
▲He's the joker of the group. She's the [[Emotionless Girl]] or perhaps the [[Tsundere]], maybe both. He makes it his mission in life to make her let out one of the most powerful emotional responses. It's a matter of personal pride. If he can break through her shell, he can brag about it for years.
▲Said girl's friends will wonder why she puts up with it. Don't expect his jokes to actually be funny. The comedy really comes from her reaction, or [[The Comically Serious|lack thereof]].
This is often played as romantic interest. After all, guys like girls that laugh at their jokes. And, although she doesn't laugh, she does at least listen. If it's meant to become a romantic relationship, [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|don't expect them to resolve it anytime soon]].
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Can result in a [[When She Smiles]] moment, where the guy falls even harder for her when he finally sees her radiant smile.
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* Ms. Joke from ''[[My Hero Academia]]'' makes multiple attempts to get her acquaintance/friend [[Gender Inverted Trope|Mr]]. Aizawa to laugh. She also sometimes asks him to get married, which he brushes off as a joke (he may or may not be right).
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Kyou no Go no Ni]] / Today In Class 5-2'' had this too.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' In the manga, Shinji tries to see if Rei can laugh by doing something funny - [[Crowning Moment of Funny|in this case, shoving two fingers up Touji's nose, causing him to freak out]]. This makes all the other girls laugh, but not Rei, who merely turns away with the same blank expression after seeing what all the noise was about.
** The anime doesn't have a single instance of Rei laughing. Not even the [[High School AU]] in the final episode goes past grinning.
*** Though Rei actually smiles a fair amount, so she probably doesn't have any energy left to laugh after all that.
* ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' Pearl may be doing this to Platinum, judging from [[Running Gag|his reaction to catching her laugh]].
{{quote|
'''Platinum''': "No I didn't."
'''Pearl''': "You SO did too, I'm sure of it!"
'''Platinum''': "No I didn't. Don't be a pest." }}
** It's more like he's trying to force her to admit she has her unlady-like moments whenever she does something.
* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' A [[Gender
* ''[[Galaxy Angel (
* ''[[Stellvia of the Universe]]'' Joey wins Akira's heart via this method.
* [[
* This is subverted near the beginning of ''[[Ranma
** Played straight in other instances.
{{quote|
'''Ranma:''' And why shouldn't you believe it? }}
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Tank Girl]]'' has a [[Les Yay]] example. Tank Girl and Jet Girl are in prison. Jet Girl has been very serious in Tank Girl's company up to now.
{{quote|
'''Tank Girl:''' Well, that's a bore! There's nothin' to be scared of. You just gotta think about it like the first time you got laid. You just gotta go: "Daddy, are you sure this is right?"
'''Jet Girl:''' [giggles] You're sick. }}
== Fan
* The ''[[Firefly]]'' [[Fanfic]] ''[http://moodfic.livejournal.com/69709.html Simply Perfectest]'' suggests this happened between Wash and Zoe before they were [[Happily Married]]:
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== Live
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' has an interesting take on this: (male) Neelix tries to make the (male) [[The Stoic|Vulcan]], Tuvok, laugh. Becomes a [[Reverse Funny Aneurysm]] when a transporter accident makes the two of them [[Ho Yay|into one]] in a later episode. I think I need [[Brain Bleach]] for even thinking that.
* ''[[Zoey 101]]'' One episode has Michael determined to get Quinn to laugh at one of his jokes. The only problem is, she doesn't find his jokes funny at all. In the end, she ends up laughing at a pun he makes just to shut him up.
* ''[[Faerie Tale Theatre]]'' has the episode "The Princess Who Had Never Laughed," based on a variation of the Norwegian folk tale above: Howie Mandell plays the peasant, who gets the princess to laugh by pointing out the sheer ridiculousness of the people she sees every day of her life, with the punch-line, "and ''she'' says 'Bring me someone who can make me laugh.'"
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Castlevania Judgment]]'' Grant occasionally makes it his goal to get an emotional reaction out of Alucard. This example [[Just Friends|isn't romantic]]. No, it isn't.
* ''[[
* ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' Leo's episode is about his efforts to get the [[Emotionless Girl]] Lisa to smile, and thus inspire artwork. In the good ending, {{spoiler|the [[Fauxtastic Voyage|"special tunnel"]] finally does the trick.}}
** By the way, that's Leonardo da Vinci and the subject of the Mona Lisa.
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== Visual Novels ==
* ''[[Fate/stay
* ''[[Kanon]]'' [[Deadpan Snarker|Yuichi]] often does this to [[Hot Chick
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[School Bites]]'' got Imp, a [[Looks Like Orlok|Nosferatu]] Prince, who tried to act as a (perverted) clown around the girls, but they only seen him as mildly annoying. He eventually found out that all he needs to become more popular is to use his cooking talents. The family still [[The Unfavourite|sees him as a disgrace]] for [https://web.archive.org/web/20150306042028/http://schoolbites.net/d/20140407.html not acting deadly serious], but this way he got an [[Genki Girl|equally hyperactive]] girlfriend and status above "pest" with other students.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Teen Titans (
* In ''[[Kids Next Door]]'', it's all but stated that [[Pungeon Master|Hoagie/Numbuh 2]] does all his puns to make [[Only Sane Man|Abby/Numbuh 5]] laugh (or [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|just happy]], at least). Unfortunately, [[Lame Pun|he isn't very good at it]], making her annoyed instead. There are times he manages to make her laugh, though.
== Real Life ==
* Ancient China - One of the last emperors of Zhou had a concubine who didn't like to smile. He discovered, quite by accident, that [[Crying Wolf]] by sending fake [[Epic Hail
* In 1907, a New York theater offered a "performance" by Sober Sue, a woman who allegedly never laughed. A cash prize was offered to anyone who could get her to do so; many of the city's best comedians made the attempt, but in vain. It's known that this was set up by her manager as a way to trick comedians into performing for free, and strongly suspected that Sue's facial muscles were paralyzed in a way that ''guaranteed'' she couldn't laugh or smile.
* In the 1970s and 80s, the [[Princeton Triangle Club]]'s Freshman Week "Best of Triangle" performance included one or two segments where a cast member would simply walk in front of the curtain from one side of the stage to the other, absolutely stone-faced, while [[Audience Participation|the entire audience tried to make them laugh.]]
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