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The gossip columns go crazy. Interviews with the glamorous starlets are scheduled, and they say things like, [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|"well, I love men]], [[Les Yay|but women have such soft lips and are such great kissers... there's really nothing like it!"]] |
The gossip columns go crazy. Interviews with the glamorous starlets are scheduled, and they say things like, [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|"well, I love men]], [[Les Yay|but women have such soft lips and are such great kissers... there's really nothing like it!"]] |
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Commercials announce that your favorite good, wholesome man-loving female character is about to take a walk on the wild side. The ad spots will inevitably show the two ladies facing each other, lips pursed, faces nearing, only to cut away before the [[Girl |
Commercials announce that your favorite good, wholesome man-loving female character is about to take a walk on the wild side. The ad spots will inevitably show the two ladies facing each other, lips pursed, faces nearing, only to cut away before the [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|good stuff]] happens. |
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Well, it must be [[Sweeps]]. |
Well, it must be [[Sweeps]]. |
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** Downplayed as it was well out of sweeps, and outside of an overheated ''New York Post'' [http://www.homunculus.com/articles/weilliza/weilnypost040407.html article] with [[Did Not Do the Research|many errors]] about the show (calling Michel 'gay' and Paris 'butch'), it was completely downplayed by the network (said promos mentioned in the article were more [[Hilarity Ensues]] than anything else). |
** Downplayed as it was well out of sweeps, and outside of an overheated ''New York Post'' [http://www.homunculus.com/articles/weilliza/weilnypost040407.html article] with [[Did Not Do the Research|many errors]] about the show (calling Michel 'gay' and Paris 'butch'), it was completely downplayed by the network (said promos mentioned in the article were more [[Hilarity Ensues]] than anything else). |
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* Beautifully averted by ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', where Willow and Tara's first kiss was neither gratuitous nor shown in the previews. (First on-screen kiss: the characters had been a couple for almost a year at that point.) |
* Beautifully averted by ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', where Willow and Tara's first kiss was neither gratuitous nor shown in the previews. (First on-screen kiss: the characters had been a couple for almost a year at that point.) |
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** Not only that but it appeared on a [[Wham Episode]] that was about something extremely, disturbingly different. |
** Not only that but it appeared on a [[Wham! Episode]] that was about something extremely, disturbingly different. |
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* The previews of one ''[[House (TV)|House]]'' episode showed a ''very'' steamy make-out scene between Thirteen and another girl. Ironically, most of that footage wasn't even shown in the episode. |
* The previews of one ''[[House (TV)|House]]'' episode showed a ''very'' steamy make-out scene between Thirteen and another girl. Ironically, most of that footage wasn't even shown in the episode. |
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* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' did a gender flipped version where Chuck kissed a guy. |
* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' did a gender flipped version where Chuck kissed a guy. |
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[[Category:Gender and Sexuality Tropes]] |
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[[Category:Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss]] |
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