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== Film ==
* In the film version of ''[[Grease]]'', pretty much all the main-main characters do this. Sandy begins seeing Tom to provoke Danny, and dumps him as soon as Danny asks her to the big dance. Later, Kenickie brings Cha-Cha to the dance after a fight with Rizzo, while Rizzo brings the leader of the rival street gang in a counter-effort to provoke Kenickie. Cha-Cha, for her part, cuts into Danny and Sandy's dance, which causes Sandy to storm
* In ''[[Gone with the Wind]],'' Scarlett marries a random man to make Ashley jealous. It doesn't work, mainly because Ashley wasn't really in love with her in the first place, and had already courted Melanie.
* In ''[[Sky High]]'', Layla started a fake relationship with [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] Warren Peace in order to annoy Will. Warren, who thought Will was a prick, was happy to oblige, but ended up getting sick of Layla clinging to him and talking Will into asking her out.
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* On ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' Blair brings home a British lord from her vacation in Europe to make Chuck jealous. Later on Chuck and Vanessa team up to make Blair and Nate jealous.
* Maddie on ''[[Jonathan Creek]]'' tried this to make Jonathan jealous; unfortunately, she was going on a blind date based on a photo which did not entirely match the goods, so to speak, and the guy ended up being several decades older than his photo and, personality-wise, "the bastard son of [[Forrest Gump]]." Needless to say, Jonathan not only clocked exactly what she was doing (and that it had gone badly wrong) but enjoyed himself enormously at her expense.
* In ''[[Hannah Montana]]'', Miley attempts this on Jake to get him to break up with his girlfriend. It later turns out that the "girlfriend" was just Jake using
* Been done a couple of times on ''[[Glee]]'':
** Rachel said the main reason she agreed to date Puck was in the hopes that it would make his best friend Finn jealous - it worked a bit, to go by Finn's facial expressions during Puck's song performance to her.
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