With This Ring: Difference between revisions

* There's a commercial where the best man loses the ring just before the ceremony, and he and the groom rack their brains over it and start searching themselves, leading to the best man having to strip near naked before the thing is found. He and the groom whoop for joy, and celebrate with a hug, [[Not What It Looks Like|and then the bride and everyone sees them...]]

 

* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' takes a full swing at this trope in The End Of The World flashback arc. {{spoiler|While he was a kid, Hayate worked hard and finally was able to buy a ring for Athena. Unfortunately, it's a ring for an adult, so their six-year-old forms can't wear them yet. Athena responds by offering Hayate a similar ring, and the vows and rings are exchanged and they promise to marry when they get older. Hayate then goes and gives the ring he got to his parents, who take and sell it to a pawn shop. Athena gets angry at Hayate when he returns later, presumably having seen what happened}}.

** {{spoiler|The ring is later seen by Yukiji, given how it's priced, it seems possible that the ring is a fake}}.

* When Max is finally going to propose to Fran on ''[[The Nanny]]'', he gets mugged outside the theater and the ring is stolen. They seal the engagement with the pull-tab from a beer can until he can get a replacement. The huge and expensive replacement comes from Cartier. Max didn't want to buy anything cheaper than that.

* ''[[Roswell]]'': In the series finale, Max steals a trick from Superman and turns coal into diamond so he has a ring to propose to Liz with.

* The Korean Drama ''To Marry a Millionaire'' is about a scam reality show where a bunch of women are supposed to be conned into thinking they are getting a chance to marry a millionaire. The guy is actually a delivery guy for a noodle shop. One of the women is someone he knew in high school he is carrying a torch for. She knows who he really is, but she needs the money they offered to do the show, so she stays with it. He is supposed to offer her a fancy diamond ring, but instead he buys the most expensive thing he can personally afford (a very cheap ring) and offers her the ring he bought instead. Much drama ensues, he gets the ring back, makes a ton of money and proposes to her again with the cheap ring at their old high school.

* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': When John Sheridan proposes to Delenn (by showing her the ring he 'picked up down in the Zocalo', possibly from the crane-grab machine) we get a [[Cross Cultural Kerfluffle]] with a sci-fi twist - being from an alien culture she has no idea what an engagement ring is and stands there looking bemused and stroking the ring box while he explains. Very smooth.