I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: Difference between revisions

 

The trope title comes from an old song from the 1980s by Cherelle. Its video featured a breakdancing King Kong. Covers of the song have been done by Robert Palmer and Mariah Carey.

 

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* As seen above, in the earlier chapters of ''[[Girl Friends]]'', Akko does this quite often to poor Mari. Of course, Akko might have {{spoiler|acted subconsciously}}.

* Played with in an ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' fanfic where Holly and Artemis are discussing something while her headset is on (meaning, in this case, that Foaly and the majority of the LEPrecon can hear her). She asks a question, which inevitably leads to [[Insufferable Genius|Artemis]] diving into a complex answer. About two sentences in, she irritably mutters, "I didn't mean to turn you on," referring to his habit of going into overly-detailed explanations. Recon, being the perverts they are, mistake it for this trope and burst out laughing. Embarrassed, she starts yelling at them (quite loudly) about what perverts they are and how no, she didn't turn Artemis on ''that way.'' Artemis stares blandly at her until she's finished and says something [[Deadpan Snarker|deadpan.]]

* In some of ''Chance Encounter 2'' and almost all of ''3'', Balian is this to Cassandra. Everything he does makes her love him more, and, Balian being Balian, he is totally oblivious until he is told. Whereupon he goes bright red.

 

 

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* ''[[Some Like It Hot]]'' features a memorable scene where Marilyn Monroe <s>sneaks</s> squeezes half-naked into Jack Lemmon's train berth late one night, completely unaware that her new friend "Daphne" is really a guy in drag running from the mob. [[Hilarity Ensues]] as he desperately struggles to stay in character.

* A byproduct of the lycanthropic curse in the aptly named film ''[[Cursed (2005 film)|Cursed]]'' causes those around them to be extremely attracted to the one who is cursed. The newly cursed protagonist Ellie especially notices this with a male assistant of hers, and her brother Jessie is surprised when it happens to {{spoiler|Bo}}... neither of which the siblings had any intention in pursuing.