History Main / FootPopping

* ''Series/{{Tracker}}'': After Daggon/Cole rescued Tina - a homeless teenager who ran away from her mum - from a pair of alien fugitives, he later reunites her with her father. Tina is shown briefly doing a foot pop as she and her Dad hug each other.

* This giant statue at St Pancras International Train Station, London called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Pancras_Station_06.JPG The Meeting Place]].

According to some commentary on the topic (including several actresses from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood), this trope was/is also intended as a means for starlets to [[LegFocus draw attention to their shapely legs]]. This is borne out by numerous posed "cheesecake" photographs from the 1930s through the '60s, in which the model strikes a Foot Popping-style pose without actually kissing anyone (generally she's the only one in the picture). Many hosiery (stockings and pantyhose) advertisements will also use the trope in this way, to showcase their wares by calling attention to the legs wearing them.

Traditionally, when a woman and a man kiss, the woman tends to lift one leg to show just how hot and heavy it's getting or to demonstrate how much she trusts the man to hold her up.

A somewhat DiscreditedTrope nowadays, and mostly crops up in parody (though the alert viewer will still sometimes see it played straight, mainly in romantic comedies), as often a man will do this to [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide emphasize his effeminate side]], or both people [[RuleOfFunny will do it at once]]. The TropeNamer is the film version of ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries''.

According to some commentary on the topic (including several actresses from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood), this trope was/is also intended as a means for starlets to [[LegFocus draw attention to their shapely legs]]. This is borne out by numerous posed "cheesecake" photographs from the 1930s through the '60s, in which the model strikes a Foot Popping-style pose without actually kissing anyone (generally she's the only one in the picture). Many old hosiery (stockings and pantyhose) advertisements also used the trope in this way, to showcase their wares by calling attention to the legs wearing them.

Though the trope originated earlier, one of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode's dumber demands required that women, in love scenes, at all times have [[ExactWords "at least one foot on the floor"]] (in other words, no love scenes in bed). It may even be an example of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, suggesting as it does that SomethingElseAlsoRises. However, this euphemistic meaning has become mostly forgotten over time, to the point where it can be used without a single raised eyebrow in children's programming, or conversely, seen in ''pornographic'' movies, where the need for euphemism is lessened, to say the least.

According to some commentary on the topic (including several actresses from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood), this trope was/is also intended as a way for starlets to [[LegFocus draw attention to their shapely legs]]. This is borne out by numerous posed "cheesecake" photographs from the 1930's through TheSixties where the model is striking a Foot Popping-style pose without actually kissing anyone (generally she's the only one in the picture). Many old hosiery advertisements (stockings and pantyhose) also used the trope in this way, to showcase their wares by calling attention to the legs wearing them.

** Common when [[HeterosexualLifePartner Katie and Sadie]] hug, although [[PseudoRomanticFriendship anything one takes from that]], [[ShippingGoggles they probably carried in themselves]].

* In the [[VideoGame/ScottPilgrim game adaptation]] of ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', Knives does this whenever she kisses Kim (once again, [[IntimateHealing For Health(tm)]]).

** When Triela has her LoveEpiphany, she rushes to where Victor Hilshire is lying unconscious on the couch (after passing out when Triela had to do field surgery and SkipTheAnesthetic) and [[DudeShesLikeInAComa kisses him]]. Due to her shorter height Triela has to lean across him, and the shape of the couch causes one of her legs to do a foot pop.

** A platonic version occurs when Jean Croce spontaneously hugs his female cyborg Rico. As he's usually rather harsh towards her, this trope is used to show how thrown Rico is by this action.

** A platonic version occurs in when Jean Croce spontaneously hugs his female cyborg Rico. As he's usually rather harsh towards her, this trope is used to show how thrown Rico is by this action.

** When Triela has her LoveEpiphany, she rushes to where Victor Hilshire is lying unconscious on the couch (after passing out when Triela had to do field surgery and SkipTheAnesthetic) and [[DudeLikeShesInAComa kisses him]]. Due to her shorter height Triela has to lean across him, and the shape of the couch causes one of her legs to do a foot pop.

* A platonic version occurs in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' when Jean Croce spontaneously hugs his female cyborg Rico. As he's usually rather harsh towards her, this trope is used to show how thrown Rico is by this action.