Window Love: Difference between revisions

[[File:touchingthroughglass_3369touchingthroughglass 3369.png|link=Star Trek II: theThe Wrath of Khan|frame|Live long... and prosper.]]

{{quote|No more [[Trope Namer|window love.]] Go sell it.|'''Kenny''', ''[[Half Baked]]''}}

== [[Anime]] &and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Star Driver]]'': It big trend for the boy to go outside to a different class and ask a girl to kiss against the window them to show affection without being too serious. Several characters does this, and one girl. Kanako love doing this as way to show affection without cheating her husband.

== Comic Books[[Film]] ==

* ''[[Dark City (Film)|Dark City]]'': It looks like John and Emma are about to do this, but John {{spoiler|uses his [[Reality Warper|power]] to break the glass.}}

* Taken to extremes in the obscure 80s film ''Crystal Heart'' which features a couple ''having sex'' by rubbing against either side of a sheet of glass. [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20101226074033/http://foywonder.com/current_columns/foy_0406.html Yes, really.]

* Appears in the [[John Waters]] film ''[[Cry-Baby (Film)|Cry-Baby]],'' in a song and dance number which the director says was inspired by peep shows and gloryholes.

* In ''[[Midnight Express]]'', with Boobies! And [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms]].

* In ''[[Deep Impact]]'', one of the shuttle astronauts shares [[Window Love]] with the infant son he's never seen {{spoiler|and still can't see, because he's been flash-blinded and about to make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}} by way of a video screen.

* The 1992 French movie ''L'Amant'' (''[[The Lover (Film)|The Lover]]'', adapted from the eponymous novel by Marguerite Duras). The protagonist, a fifteen year-old French schoolgirl, is given a lift (with heavy [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|UST]]) to her school by a wealthy Chinese man who fell in [[Love At First Sight]] with her. The next days she's [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|surprised to see his limousine parked outside the school]], so she walks up to the car and sensuously presses her lips to the window where he's sitting in the back seat.

* Parodied in ''[[Return of the Killer Tomatoes]]'' (AKA ''Attack of the Killer Tomatoes II''). When Tara is being gassed, she slaps her hand onto the glass in the door. Chad bereavedly trails his hand down after hers. She then slaps it up again, several times, and he follows it each time.

* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' does it a few times.

* In the ''[[Bones (TV series)|Bones]]'' episode where the cast is stuck in the lab over Christmas because of a possible infection, most of them end up doing this with their visitors; Hodgins does the kiss variant with his girlfriend.

* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' has a subversion. When DL goes to visit Niki in jail, it looks like they're going to do this, but since DL's power is that he can pass through solid objects, they actually get to hold hands.

* In the previews for the ''[[I Carly (TV)|I CarlyiCarly]]'' special entitled ''iPsycho'' there's a scene where Sam forces Freddie to make out with a girl on the other side of a glass window. It's quite creepy.

* In one episode of ''[[The Invisible Man (TV series)|The Invisible Man]]'', the main character, Darian Fawkes, is incarcerated. When he speaks to his partner, Bobby Hobbes, through the glass, Hobbes puts his hand up for Fawkes to touch it. Fawkes, instead, gives him a dirty look.

* In ''[[Better Off Ted (TV)|Better Off Ted]]'', Ted and Linda make out through a pair of hazmat suits.

* Non-romantic examples are all over in ''[[Twenty Four24]]''.

* A non-romantic version occurs between Grissom and Nick in ''[[CSI: (TV)Crime Scene Investigation|CSI]]'' when they need to calm Nick down before they can open the box he was buried in.

* Kate and Jack in ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' season 3, across a glass barrier.

* Alisha and Curtis in ''[[Misfits (TV series)|Misfits]]'' hold hands through a glass table (Alisha's powers strike you with uncontrollable lust whenever you touch her, which can ruin the mood a little).

* At the end of the ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' episode "Chick Flick", Phoebe and her fictional horror-movie crush do this through the fourth wall to say goodbye.

* At the end of the ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' episode "Revenging Angel", Crichton and D'Argo touch hands apologetically through one of Moya's windows (and Crichton's spacesuit).

* Parodied on the sitcom ''[[Titus]]'', where Titus finds out that his younger brother, Dave, got arrested and finds him in a cell with a Plexiglass barrier. Titus and Dave touch their hands on the glass and Titus's dad says, "Isn't that cute? Two brothers joined at the wussy!"

* The [[Foo Fighters (Music)|Foo Fighters]] in "Walking After You".

* The video for Travis Tritt's "Best of Intentions", when the man's wife visits him in prison. The gesture is [[Meaningful Echo|repeated later]], once he's been pardoned... this time with no glass between them.