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{{quote|'''Danny:''' ''Does he make you laugh?''
'''Tess:''' ''He doesn't make me cry.''
|''[[Ocean's Eleven]]''}}
[[Alice and Bob]] are friends, or Bob has a crush on Alice. They go on a date and kiss, and Alice finds that she does not feel anything for Bob, as much as she tries. He is a great guy, but that special something is just not there.
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* This is pretty much how the [[Superman]]/[[Wonder Woman]] ship got torpedoed (and a major reason it stays that way outside of Elseworlds): there was really nothing there to make them stay more than friends.▼
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* Nicely played in [[Bringing Up Baby]] when Cary Grant's character is engaged to his coworker who basically says that she will not have sex with him when they are married and their marriage's purpose is to solidify their working relationship. The next few scenes include [[Cary Grant]] experiencing [[Meet Cute]] with [[Katharine Hepburn]], so when Cary's fiance is shown again the lack of sparks becomes even more apparent.
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▲* This is pretty much how the [[Superman]]/[[Wonder Woman]] ship got torpedoed (and a major reason it stays that way outside of Elseworlds): there was really nothing there to make them stay more than friends.
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]'': Pete and Ellen try going out after all of the UST between them... only for it to go horribly. However not long after that they kiss again and it apparently goes well. It's as frustratingly vauge as it sounds.
* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', Leonard and Leslie decide to skip all that pointless date business and proceed directly to the goodnight kiss—no sparks fly.
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'''Dorothy:''' "Fortunately you carry flints in your bra." }}
* In ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'', Robin begins a relationship with Kate for no real reason beyond the fact that she has a crush on him. After he's {{spoiler|fatally poisoned}}, he notably can't bring himself to kiss Kate goodbye, despite her obvious attempt to get a [[Last Kiss]].
* This is a [[Running Gag]] on ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'', when Moze gets with the hot foreign exchange student [[Romantic False Lead|Faymen]] for a long time, and only feels sparks kissing her best friend Ned.
* On ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'', Mary and Lou Grant always had a undercurrent of sexual attraction running through their relationship, but only at the very end of the series do they actually attempt to kiss one another.. and break into helpless giggles.
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* Nanase in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' breaks up with Elliot for this reason, and can't understand why. Then Elliot's [[Opposite Gender Clone]] Ellen arrives, and she [[Coming Out Story|has her reason]].
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