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This is a form of heartless [[Practical Joke]] in which Alan thinks he has a date with Bonnie, but in reality it's a trick by Bonnie (or even Charlene) and the expected outcome is anything but a romantic interlude.
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Common Types of the Prank Date:
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=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* In ''[[
=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[Happy Gilmore]]'': Shooter getting Happy (the guy, not the emotion) out on "the ninth green at 9". More of an Embarrassing Location or Malicious Trap, since the point was getting Happy on the green when the sprinklers go off.
* The protagonists do this to [[Steve Buscemi]]'s character in ''[[Ghost World]]''.
* In ''[[Casper (
=== [[Literature]] ===
* Happened to Arnold Rimmer in his backstory in one of the ''[[
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* Happened on ''[[
* In ''[[
=== [[Music]] ===
* The [[They Might Be Giants (
=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===
* In a series of ''[[
=== [[Web Animation]] ===
* ''[[
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[The Simpsons (
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* In one ''[[
* Peter is set up by [[Jerk Jock|Flash]] and some classmates this way in an issue of ''[[Marvel Adventures]] [[
=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[Carrie]]'', or so she thought. (The date itself was benign, but the two antagonists made sure it went ''very'' wrong. [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|So she responded.]])
* ''[[
* Josie's real high school prom in ''[[Never Been Kissed]]''. The most popular boy in school asks her to prom - and throws eggs at her from the limo with his friends on the night.
* Backstory for the [[Serial Killer]] in ''National Lampoon's Class Reunion'', an ex-[[Butt Monkey]] who'd been set up for a masked tryst by his high school class. {{spoiler|With his twin sister.}}
* ''[[
=== [[Literature]] ===
* Tyrion underwent a particularly tragic version of this in ''[[
** {{spoiler|Later subverted when Jamie reveals that his father had forced him to lie about the incident: The girl wasn't actually a whore.}}
* In ''[[Carrie]]'', the [[Naive Everygirl|titular character]] is asked out by a popular football player named Tommy Ross (whose [[The Atoner|girlfriend]] talked him into it as her way of atoning for her part in the shower incident). When Carrie gets to the prom, the ballot box is rigged so that Carrie will be voted prom queen, and her classmates dump pig blood on her. [[It Got Worse|It does not end well...]]
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* Kyle does this to Kendra in ''[[Beastly]]''. [[It Got Worse|She doesn't take it well.]]
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* On ''[[
* Anya on ''[[
* In a rare case of this having a happy ending, on ''[[
* Internet version: An episode of ''[[
* In the ''[[Alcatraz (TV series)|Alcatraz]]'' episode "Johnny McKee", one of these provides the motivation for McKee's mass murder attacks.
=== [[Music]] ===
* In an old Irish song, "The Green Garters", Arthur gives green garters to three different women as a supposed love token, gathers them together in a pub, and says "Here's a health to the lass who wore the green garters." He expects that they, each thinking he's referring to them, will get in a [[Cat Fight]] for his affections while he sits back and smirks; but instead they gang up on him and give him a good mauling.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Used twice in the same episode in ''[[
* In ''[[
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* This was meant to be a Dogfight and ended up a straight up Setup for Humiliation in an ''[[Archie Comics]]'' bit in which Veronica went with a rich guy to his estate only to find out that she was the last item on the scavenger hunt list, the thing no one else had managed to get: a "townie." Archie and the gang got back at them for that one.
=== [[Film]] ===
* The French movie ''[[The Dinner Game]]'' is centered on this, but without the "date" part.
** And the recent American remake, ''[[
* The movie ''Dogfight'', in which [[Hollywood Homely]] Lily Taylor is the victim.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* ''[[Married...
* ''[[
=== [[Film]] ===
* Used in the Scottish film ''Gregory's Girl'', where Gregory asks out a girl he has been crushing on, only to find himself passed between three other girls instead. However, the last one actually loves him as well, so it all works out.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* Happened to Jacob in Genesis when he works 7 years to marry Rachel, and gets Leah instead, making this trope [[Older Than Feudalism]].
* In ''Fool'', Pocket sets up dates for Goneril and Regan with Edmund of Gloucester as part of his plot. {{spoiler|He substitutes Drool, his developmentally disabled (and exceedingly well-hung) apprentice.}}
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* May also be done for ''both'' datees, to push them toward each other. Nick did that to Jerry Steiner and Shelly in ''[[
* On ''[[Malcolm in
=== [[Music]] ===
* The [[Cat Stevens]] song "Another Saturday Night" mentions a guy who sets the narrator up with his sister, "who looked so fine/but instead of bein' my deliverance/she had a strange resemblance/ to a cat named [[Frankenstein]]"
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* In ''[[Webcomic/Blaster Nation|Blaster Nation]]'', Ashley's mother dragged her out to "hang out at the mall" to set her up with Matt.
=== [[Web Original]] ===
* Happened to Moist in ''[[
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* In ''[[
=== [[Film]] ===
* Chloë attempts this with Ray in the movie ''[[
* {{spoiler|Lord Barkis Bittern}} successfully does this once {{spoiler|to Emily}} in the [[Tim Burton]] stop-motion musical ''[[
* In ''[[
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* On ''[[
* A ''[[
** Well, if they were willing to murder him and then rob him, he probably ''was'' better than them.
* Happens to Lex in season 4 of ''[[The Wire]]''. He's told to meet a girl in an [[Abandoned Playground]]. When he gets there, it's [[Complete Monster|Snoop]]. [[Oh Crap|Uh-oh]].
* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer
=== Literature ===
* Albert is propositioned by a peasant girl at the Carnival in Rome in ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo (
** {{spoiler|She only traded places with Peppino at the last meeting, she was a she for the entire Carnival leading up to the kidnapping, where they switched her out so she'd not be any danger if Albert proved to be troublesome.}}
=== Music ===
* Nick Cave's "Where the Wild Roses Grow."
=== Oral Tradition ===
* At least one
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* This happens to Montblanc from ''[[
** This reappears again in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics
* A trio of female bandits try this on a male PC in ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In ''[[
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