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{{trope}}
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'Cause you might enjoy some madness for a while."''|'''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 (
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.
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** 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 Inverted Trope|gender inverted]] version occurs, where Misao swears that she'll make her crush [[The Stoic|Aoshi]] smile no matter what.
* ''[[Galaxy Angel (
* ''[[Stellvia of the Universe]]'' Joey wins Akira's heart via this method.
* [[
* This is subverted near the beginning of ''[[Ranma One Half]]'', when Akane is feeling down because of her unrequited feelings for [[First Love|Dr. Tofu]]. Because she's sad, she doesn't react violently to anything. You'd think Ranma would try to make her laugh, but he doesn't. Instead, he tries to make her angry again, since he's so used to her [[Tsundere]] side.
** Played straight in other instances.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[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.
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* ''[[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
== Western Animation ==
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