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# '''Bait and Switch''' - The actual date is with someone else than Alan was led to believe, usually someone much less desirable. "Oh, you thought I was asking for me? No, I was asking for my cousin Melvoid." (Compare [[Bed Trick]].)
# '''Embarrassing Location''' - The supposed date location is dangerous or embarrassing for Alan, because, for example, Bonnie wants to meet Alan in a [[Gay Bar Reveal|Gay Bar]], Gay Bar, [[Where Everybody Knows Your Flame|Gay Bar]].
# '''Malicious Trap''' - The "date" is actually a way of [[Lured
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=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', Yusuke helps a girl who literally died waiting because her boyfriend [[Kick the Dog|wanted to see how long she would wait and then forgot about her]].
=== [[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 (film)|Casper]]'', a boy asks the main character, Cat, out on a date. It turns out that he only does this to sabotage her Halloween party.
=== [[Literature]] ===
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=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* Happened on ''[[Glee]]'' as a way of giving Sue a taste of her own medicine. And to Puck—Lauren stood him up to make him want her more.
* In ''[[Friends]]'' episode "The One With The Blind Dates", Phoebe and Joey scheme to get Rachel and Ross back together by intentionally setting them up on horrible dates so that they will want to get back with each other. However, Joey accidentally sets Ross up with someone who would be perfect for him (but awful to Joey), so he just tells the woman not to come and Ross ends up thinking he was stood up.
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=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* On ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', Reid recounts an incident from his high school years; the prettiest girl in school said she wanted to meet him behind the football stands. Not only was she there, but so was the entire football team and a bunch of other students who just stood and watched as they stripped him, tied him to the goalpost, and taunted him. He got free hours later and made it home, to find that his schizophrenic mother was having an episode and hadn't noticed he was missing.
* Anya on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' granted a wish for a girl who had been humiliated this way once. She took it back at the end of the episode though.
* In a rare case of this having a happy ending, on ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'', Mr. Carlson learns, years after the fact, that his wife and her friend only accepted their first dates with him and his friend as a joke. Both couples fell in love and married but when Mr. Carlson learned things had started as a joke, he felt humiliated.
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