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->''"I ♥ [[SpellMyNameWithABlank _____]]"''

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', the reunion of a yeti couple after a quick bout of possession results in a huge mass of hearts shooting out of their loving embrace. Since this is a Zelda game, the hearts are actually the series' long-standing [[HeartsAreHealth recovery items]], plus a health-boosting HeartContainer.

* On the lam in his bathrobe, Hurley buys an "I '''♥''' Shih-Tzus" shirt in the ''Series/{{Lost}}'' episode "The Lie". The cashier is puzzled. "I like shih-tzus," Hurley explains. "It looks like you heart them," the cashier answers.
* Inversion: when Music/{{Moby}} was the musical guest on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' in 2002, he was embroiled in a feud with Music/{{Eminem}}. He appeared in a sketch and wore a T-shirt that read "I heart eminem" given to him by a fan.
* Averted (or possibly subverted) on ''Series/TheWire'' with the gangster "No-Heart" Anthony: he got his nickname not from a reputation for cruelty, but because [[spoiler:he once tried to escape arrest by shooting himself in the chest]].
* Lampshaded on ''Series/RedDwarf'' with the song ''TongueTied''.
-->When I saw you for the first time (''first time'')\\
My knees began to quiver (''quiver'')\\
And I got a funny feeling (''feeling'')\\
In my kidneys and my liver (''digestive system baby'')\\
My hands they started shaking (''shaking'')\\
My heart began a-thumping (''boom boom boom'')\\
My breakfast left my body (''huey huey huey'')
* In the ''Series/PushingDaisies'' episode ''Corpsicle'', a boy who was waiting on a heart transplant (because he initially had no heart) was rather mean. A played straight example.

* ''Series/{{Phoenix}}''. In the first episode, Sergeant Peter Faithful is mocked by his fellow detectives for the heart-shaped balloons his wife sent to him. Inspector Brennan, who is in the midst of a divorce, pops one of the balloons in a fit of anger and has to apologise the next day.
* In ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm,'' the BigBad's TV show in one episode (whoever watches gets brainwashed) was a sitcom called "I Love Lothor," with a heart for the logo... as in the actual, not-very-romantic-looking organ.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "''Hunteri Heroici''", taking the trope into the realm of BloodyHilarious BodyHorror, a RealityWarper is causing CartoonPhysics to take hold in the real world. The first sign of this is a man who goes to meet his mistress[[note]]He was married.[[/note]] and finds his valentine-shaped heart beating so aggressively that it explodes out of his chest, killing him.
* On "Series/TheBigBangTheory," Sheldon says the commonly used heart shape is actually modeled on the buttocks, prompting Penny to remark quizzically that she spent junior high drawing butts on her notebooks.

* ''Series/AlteredCarbon''. In "Force of Evil", Kovacs is being tortured in VirtualRealityInterrogation, but thanks to his Envoy training is able to take control of the system. In order to [[YourMindMakesItReal stop his heart in the real world]] so the {{Torture Technician}}s will be forced to revive him to full consciousness, he [[AndShowItToYou tears out his heart]] and offers it to a hallucination of his [[TheLostLenore deceased lover]] Quellcrist Falconer, saying his heart has always belonged to her.

* ''Series/CobraKai'': In season 3 episode 3, Sam visits Miguel in the hospital, and gives him a get-well card. While Sam acts like she's only interested in trying to be friends with Miguel, her choice of card is shown to be a smiling octopus holding a heart in its tentacles saying, "You [[{{Pun}} Octopi]] My Thoughts," leading to Miguel remembering their first date at Golf N' Stuff in season 1, on which Sam won a stuffed octopus.

-->'''Will:''' He left us...his broken heart.

When a HeartSymbol is used for this, it's traditionally pronounced "love," as in "I love New York" for "I '''♥''' NY," though recent convention has been to actually pronounce the symbol as "heart" - for example, the film ''Film/IHeartHuckabees''. This in turn has led to the Internet {{meme|ticMutation}} of typing "I less-than-three X," in reference to the mathematical meaning of "<3".

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-->In my kidneys and my liver (''digestive system baby'')\\

-->'''Angel:''' It was a bright afternoon out in front of your school. You walked down the steps... and... and I loved you.\\

** In a scene laden with lesbian subtext, Faith entices Buffy out of a chemistry test for some vampire slaying by breathing on the window, then drawing a love heart with a stake through it.

* [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=071004 This strip]] of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' literally [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion of it.

* Hilariously subverted in [[http://zitaspacegirl.com/webcomics-2/ this]] ''Webcomic/ZitaTheSpacegirl'' strip by Ben Hatke.

* This [[http://www.moderntales.com/comics/dumnestor.php?view=archive&chapter=14902&mpe=0#strip3 strip]] of ''Webcomic/DumnestorsHeroes''.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-08-02 they float about Fuschia]].
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-10-29 and Monique's interactions, once.]]
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-07-12 And the Illuminati drones for the green succubus -- for once, not a romantic love.]]
* In ''Webcomic/ThreeJaguars'', [[http://threejaguarscomic.net/?comic=introduction-page-6 they radiate from Marketer]].

* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'': [[https://xkcd.com/99/ "Binary Heart"]]: AltText: i love you.

* ''Series/CobraKai'': In season 3, when Sam visits Miguel in the hospital, she gives him a get-well card that depicts a smiling octopus holding a heart, saying "You Octopi My Thoughts." While Sam acts like she's only interested in trying to be friends with Miguel, her choice of card leads Miguel to think back to their first date at Golf N' Stuff in season 1, on which Sam won a stuffed octopus.

---> Oh, look, someone carved a heart and some names into a tree...\\

* For a while, the Stepford Cuckoos from ''Comicbook/XMen'' were [[EmotionlessGirl unable to feel emotions]] because their hearts were made of diamond. That's not a metaphor, it was literally the case.

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* Averted in ''{{VideoGame/Touhou}}'', where Hecatia's "Welcome ♥ Hell" T-shirt is supposed to read "Welcome to Hell".

The reason for this goes back to ancient days when people could do little more than guess at which organs did what. Different cultures decided on different organs as being the seat of emotions and/or intelligence; Some went with the intestines (such as the Hebrews of the Old Testament), some went with the kidneys, some went with the Heart, etc. The Ancient Greeks were among the ones who went with the heart, and such was the strength of their influence on western civilization that many of our idioms and figures of speech still reflect the notion of the Heart being the cognitive organ, even though we've known it to be untrue for centuries.

The history of the trope can be read about in the Real Life section.

** The heart being the seat of the emotions is cultural. Some cultures use the kidneys, some the liver, and, yes, some use the bowels. See also the Biblical examples in Literature above.

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When a HeartSymbol is used for this, it's traditionally pronounced "love," as in "I love New York" for "I '''♥''' NY," though recent convention has been to actually pronounce the symbol as "heart" - for example, the film ''Film/IHeartHuckabees''. This is turn has led to the Internet {{meme|ticMutation}} of typing "I less-than-three X," in reference to the mathematical meaning of "<3".