History Main / FallingInLoveMontage

** This is played unusually straight in "Bender's Big Score", to show Lars and Leela falling more and more in love. Admittedly as it is ''Futurama'', they play space golf and go floating in ''real'' giant bubbles, but apart from that, it's straight.
** And then there was Bender and Angeline.
** There's also Bender and the Planet Express Ship, who fall in love to Bender's rendition of "Daisy Bell" in [[ValentinesDayEpisodes "Love and Rocket"]]. This is a slight inversion, though, because in the scene immediately following the montage, [[spoiler: Bender announces that he's dumping the ship.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' features a Evil version for The Joker and Harley Quinn, where [[strike:they]] ''she'' not only falls in love, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i4rsKKM26k but they destroy most of Gotham in the process. Set to the Joker singing Hank Williams', "Settin' The Woods On Fire.]] And it is ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome.]]''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did this in the episode where Bart's class is shown a Troy [=McClure=] movie about puberty, with Troy narrating as "Fuzzy Bunny" meets new girlfriend "Fluffy Bunny" and they start dating. As he describes their activities, they're shown onscreen.
-->'''Narration:''' Fluffy and Fuzzy went to the park (''feeding birds in the park''), the ice cream social (''giggling while eating ice cream with other bunnies''), the boat show (''holding hands while looking at boats''), and many other wholesome activities (''practicing at a gun range''). And they never ruined their bond by giving in to their throbbing biological urges (''bowling, with a pulsing heart animated between them'').

[[caption-width-right:350:♫ ''Tell me, Princess, now when did you last let your heart decide?'' ♫]]

[[caption-width-right:350:When did you last let your heart decide?]]

** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità,]]'' one happened after [[spoiler:Italy chose [[{{Polyamory}} both Germany and Japan]]. During this montage, not only do Germany and Japan fall even more in love with Italy, they fall in love with each other too.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' has a montage of Moses building a new life among Tzipporah's people after fleeing Egypt set to the song "Through Heaven's Eyes", which also includes him falling in love with Tzipporah and marrying her right at the end of the song. It's a particularly beautiful sequence considering their relationship, while sweet, is not really central to the story of the film.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', Shrek and Fiona fall in love with the song "My Beloved Monster" as the backdrop. The song "You belong to me" plays later to show Shrek and Fiona have fallen in love.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': PlayedForLaughs. Mr. Boynton takes Miss Brooks to the zoo, where they feed an elephant mother and her baby. Then Miss Brooks lures Mr. Boynton away from the zoo, to a sale on furniture in the ''Sherry's Department Store'' window, as a way of suggesting matrimony. Mr. Boynton again starts taking Miss Brooks again to the zoo, where a camera fade shows how much the baby elephant had grown in a couple years.

* Film/{{Zoolander}} has an orgy that starts out like a romantic montage, and then the partners get a little...weird.
* Very R-rated version in ''Film/{{Deadpool}}'', a montage of Wade and Vanessa having (kinky) sex over the course of a year set to "Calender Girl".

* In VideoGame/TomodachiLife, When a mii asks to set up two of its friends on a date, and you say yes, a short montage will play where the two friends are seen doing various activities together. The montage will end with them by the fountain, where they will either become sweethearts, or simply become/remain friends.

** Nutty has three of these with [[CompanionCube a lollypop, a gumball machine, and a box of chocolate]] in the episode ''A Sucker for Love'', increasing in length each time. The third one even has him imagining his "wife" [[CheatingWithTheMilkman Being Eaten by the Milkman]], leading to Nutty taking [[MurderTheHypotenuse drastic]] off-screen measures. He is then thrown in jail, leading to him regretting his actions, making up with his wife again, growing old with her, and sadly eating her insides when she dies. All in one montage.

* In ''VideoGames/FinalFantasyX'', Tidus and Yuna get one shortly after the party escapes from Seymour in Bevelle.

** ''Disney/TheLionKing'': "Caaaaaan you feel the looooove tonight?"

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* In the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon:

--> '''Duke''': Such a pretty picture, but in RealLife, [[SubvertedTrope doomed for failure.]]
--> '''The King''': Failure eh?! [[DoubleSubverted Take a look at that, you pompous windbag!]]

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--> '''Miss Brooks (narrating)''': Ours was not the fastest romance in history, but it took no time to develop into one of the slowest.

* Seen in ''Film/WalkHard'' between Dewey and Darlene. As it happens, their montage includes such questionable activities as [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything licking, sucking, slurping ice-cream cones with very ambiguous expressions...]]
** Not to mention the [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything highly suggestive carpentry]].

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* The romantic comedy ''Series/AdamAndSteve'' shows a rare instance of a same sex couple having a Falling In Love Montage.

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* The number one cliche NOT in [[http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/ten+cliches/video/x8699q_ten-chick-flick-cliches-that-are-no_fun ''He's Just Not That Into You.'']]

--> '''Jonathan:''' (''to Erina, who left after giving him food'') Thank you! I'll be here tomorrow! We should get together in montage! ''*cut to said montage*''

* Ella and Eli get one in ''Web/UniversityEverAfter'', in which they sing and pillow-fight.

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* This is played unusually straight in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' in "Bender's Big Score", to show Lars and Leela falling more and more in love. Admittedly as it is ''Futurama'', they play space golf and go floating in ''real'' giant bubbles, but apart from that, it's straight.

** There's also Bender and the Planet Express Ship, who fall in love to Bender's rendition of "Daisy Bell" in [[ValentinesDayEpisodes "Love and Rocket."]] This is a slight inversion, though, because in the scene immediately following the montage, [[spoiler: Bender announces that he's dumping the ship.]]
* [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Mickey and Minnie]] share [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SksaDsAHQyE&feature=channel_page a romantic montage]] in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers''. *Snort* As if we didn't already know where ''that'' was going.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' after Skipper and a peregrine falcon fall in love. The song is particularly funny given that Skipper's favorite pastime is covert ops and the falcon's favorite pastime is the horrific murder and consumption of smaller birds and "delicious little furry animals."
-->It'll be a week to remember, as long as no one's dismembered.

* Subverted and then ...not in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' where Arnold goes through a seemingly bland montage of dating Lila, not enjoying it at all, however later on when thinking back on it he remembers the fun that the previous montage didn't show the audiences, realizing he'd fallen in love with her.
--> '''Arnold:''' "Aw, no... this can't be happening. I think I actually... like her like her."

--> '''Lola:''' Yeah, no, that whole thing would have been a ''loooot'' more better with talking.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Miss Finster has one of these with Hank, the janitor, after the main six hook them up.
** Including the infamous scene of her [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar riding a vibrating floor buffer, laughing]].

* The romantic comedy ''Adam and Steve'' shows a rare instance of a same sex couple having a Falling In Love Montage.

* Parodied in the ''Series/{{Blackadder}} II'' episode "Bells", where a FallingInLoveMontage of Edmund and [[SweetPollyOliver "Bob"]] turns into a commercial for an album of Elizabethan love songs.

** "Bella Notte" from ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'' starts as a typical onscreen song but then transforms into a romantic montage that spans the course of the evening. (Then it fades to black, and then fades back up to the titular characters waking up on the same hill. And she's pregnant later. [[ParentalBonus Hmmmm]].)
*** The sequel has a similar montage focused on Scamp and Angel, to the song "Can This Be Love?"

* Dr. Doofenshmirtz and his (unnamed) evil girlfriend share one of these in the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Chez Platypus" [[spoiler: only to have it [[YankTheDogsChain jerked away]] right before the episode ends.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', one happens between [[LazyBum Beezy]] and [[CloudCuckoolander Saffi]].

* This trope is endemic to UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}, because it's an expedient way of developing requisite romances between characters while also (mostly) avoiding the [[StrangledByTheRedString narrative pitfalls]] [[TokenRomance of including them in the first place]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' features a Evil version for The Joker and Harley Quinn, where [[strike:they]] ''she'' not only falls in love, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i4rsKKM26k but they destroy most of Gotham in the process. Set to the Joker singing Hank Williams', "Settin' The Woods On Fire.]] And it is ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome.]]''

** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'', one happened after [[spoiler:Italy chose [[{{Polyamory}} both Germany and Japan]]. During this montage, not only do Germany and Japan fall even more in love with Italy, they fall in love with each other too.]]

* This trope is endemic to UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}, because it's an expedient way of developing requisite romances between characters while also swerving around the [[StrangledByTheRedString narrative pitfalls]] [[RomanticPlotTumor of including them in the first place]].

* This trope is endemic to UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}--it's an expedient way of developing romances between characters while also avoiding the [[StrangledByTheRedString narrative pitfalls]] [[RomanticPlotTumor of including them in the first place]].

* The "This Is My Idea" musical number from ''TheSwanPrincess''. It starts out with the two main characters being introduced to each other as children, both of them despising the other upon sight, and goes on to show them growing up, eventually falling in love. All the while their respective parents and kingdoms sing about how their arranged marriage is so perfect...especially as it could result in lower taxes!

* This trope is endemic to UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}; it's an expedient way of developing romances between characters while also avoiding the [[StrangledByTheRedString narrative pitfalls]] [[RomanticPlotTumor of including them in the first place]].
* In ''Film/AboutTime'', Tim and Mary fall in love--or, more accurately, fall deeper in love, hang out with Tim's sister, and move in together-- in this montage, set mostly in a London subway station, accompanied by the song "How Long Will I Love You" (performed by Jon Boden, Sam Sweeney & Ben Coleman).

* This trope has become endemic to later UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} films as an expedient way to develop obligatory romantic relationships between characters while also bypassing the [[StrangledByTheRedString narrative pitfalls]] these romances created in earlier films.

** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'', one happened after [[spoiler:Italy chose [[Polyamory both Germany and Japan]]. During this montage, not only do Germany and Japan fall even more in love with Italy, they fall in love with each other too.]]

* [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Mickey and Minnie]] share [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SksaDsAHQyE&feature=channel_page a romantic montage]] in ''MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers''. *Snort* As if we didn't already know where ''that'' was going.

* This trope has become endemic to more recent {{Bollywood}} films as an expedient way to develop obligatory romantic relationships between characters while also bypassing the [[StrangledByTheRedString narrative pitfalls]] these romances created in earlier films.

*** "Upendi" from the sequel. However, the film's primary love duet (and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" expy), "Love Will Find A Way", takes place ''after'' they've already fallen in love with each other and have been [[spoiler:forcibly separated by Kiara's parents]].