History Main / HighFiveLeftHanging

** Barney offers a fist bump for a lewd joke, but Ted and Marshall refuse. Barney then vows not to lower his hand until the fist bump is reciprocated, a vow that he soon regrets as his arm starts to tire.

** '' In the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E03IHeartNJ I Heart NJ]]", Barney tells a bad joke and asks for a fistbump, but no one in the gang wants to. Through the rest of the episode, Barney refuses to lower his fist until he gets that bump. By the end of the episode after witnessing Robin quitting her job with another pun, Lily bumps him back, and Barney sighs with relief, but not before Barney makes another bad joke and asks for a high five, to which Lily refuses. Barney only lowers his hand when Robin announces that she's moving to Japan.

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': In the episode "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS4E03IHeartNJ I Heart NJ]]", Barney tells a bad joke and asks for a fistbump, but no one in the gang wants to. Through the rest of the episode, Barney refuses to lower his fist until he gets that bump. By the end of the episode after witnessing Robin quitting her job with another pun, Lily bumps him back, and Barney sighs with relief, but not before Barney makes another bad joke and asks for a high five, to which Lily refuses. Barney only lowers his hand when Robin announces that she's moving to Japan.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': In "[[Recap/YoungJusticeS1E1and2IndependenceDayAndFireworks Fireworks]]", Robin and Kid Flash go to high-five each other only to stop and grimace in pain from the chest injuries they received earlier.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': After Herc defeats the centaur Nessus, Pegasus offers him a high-five, but Hercules is too distracted by the sight of Megara to acknowledge him.

* In ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'', when Barry discovers that he and Cyborg have something in common, in that both gained their powers through a lab accident, he offers a fistbump, but quickly pulls back when realizing that Cyborg isn't in the mood.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E3UnderTheLake Under the Lake]]", while the Doctor and Clara are investigating the mess hall, she makes a comment and holds out her hand for a high five. He gives her a look and walks out of the room.
* ''Series/DegrassiNextClass'': In "[[Recap/DegrassiS17E3WorstGiftEver #WorstGiftEver]]", Winston offers Goldi a high five during a game of charades, but she turns it down, saying it's against her religion to touch boys.
* In the [[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS4E02AGirlFromArizonaPart2 season 4 premiere]] of ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' Eleanor holds out her hand for a high-five. Jason is initially too upset to high-five her back, but does so anyway because he acknowledges that it's the rule.
-->'''Eleanor:''' Come on, bud, I know you're down, but you can't leaving me hanging.\\
'''Jason:''' You're right. That is the code. ''[glumly high-fives her back]''
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': After Nina, Fabian and Amber successfully get the information they need to play their "hopscotch" puzzle, Nina and Amber high-five. Fabian wants one, too, because he played a minor role... but Amber decides he only deserves a "three, maximum".
* In "Taken" from ''Series/TheInsideMan'', Erica holds out her fist to Mark Shepherd for a fist-bump, telling him that she heard about how he got the full time job. He just stares at her.

* Initiating a melee attack on Claptrap in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' will prompt him to hold his hand out so you can high-five it with a melee attack. You can leave him hanging if you want.
* Claptrap has a skill in ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' where he offers a massive buff to his teammates to reciprocate his high-five offer. If nobody responds, he gains a massive buff himself instead.

* At the beginning of ''VideoGame/SaintsRow4'', one of the people you run into asks for a high five and you're given the options of following through or leaving them hanging.
* In the final ending of ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled'', after Oxide finally gives up antagonising Earth and retreats, an ecstatic Coco gestures for a high five from Crash, [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny though has to prod for his attention first]].

* Near the beginning of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm'', David offers a fist-bump to Chloe in an (unsuccessful) attempt at bonding as a future step-father. It's the player's choice whether she reluctantly accepts or outright rejects it.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioParty'', after a group of two or more players wins a mini-game, they can high five each other at the same time to get bonus coins. However, the time window to do so is limited and if one player leaves the others hanging, their characters [[WhatTheHellPlayer will have a confused and dumbfounded reaction]].
* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', [[PlayerCharacter the Detective]] can, provided his marksmanship skills are up to snuff, get the body of a hanged man down from a tree by shooting the cargo strap he is strung up in. In which case, his partner, Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi, who so far has been by and far acting as the StraightMan and a ConsummateProfessional, shows his first serious sign that he is NotSoAboveItAll by excitedly holding up his hand for an "Aces High". The player can then choose to invoke this trope with prejudice, by having the Detective just not respond and leave him hanging.

* In ''[[WebAnimation/TalesOfAlethrion The Reward]]'', Vito tries a high-five with Wilhelm as they find their weapons and gear, this trope as the result.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E10TheresSomethingAboutMarrying There's Something About Marrying]]", Homer and Reverend Lovejoy are interviewed by Kent Brockman on the subject of gay marriage, Homer having become a minister [[OnlyInItForTheMoney to get money from marrying same-sex couples from out of town]]. Lovejoy points out Homer marrying anyone who asks immediately will lead to a bunch of divorces. Homer replies that's just more business, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint cheerfully requests a high five from Lovejoy]], and Lovejoy refuses to accept it.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E12PressureTheSmokingPeanut Pressure]]", Sandy is going on about the things land creatures can do better than sea creatures. Squidward makes a snarky comment about them being better at drowning, and [=SpongeBob=] offers a high-five. Squidward just stands there and says "Not on your life, sport."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E11HowHermesRequisitionedHisGrooveBack How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]", the new bureaucrat, Morgan, gives Fry the position of "Executive Delivery Boy" to the disdain of his co-workers. Fry tries to get Bender to hi-five him, but he initially refuses until Morgan orders him to. Though Fry goes for the down low, Bender kicks him in the leg.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'': In the first episode, when the penguins find Maurice to take him back to the zoo, they high five each other, then Skipper offers a high five to Maurice, who rejects it since he doesn't want to go back.
* A running gag on ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'' is NBA star Charles Barkley being shunned everywhere he goes, usually accompanied by an owl hooting. In one episode, he appears as a ghost, in a spoof of the ending of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. He says, "High five," gets denied by the other ghosts, and responds, "Thas cold, Obiwan."

* A rare [[JustifiedTrope justified]] example in ''WesternAnimation/SidTheScienceKid''. In "The Big Sneeze," Sid holds out his hand to his father, Mort, for a high-five. He does not return it, and for good reason: he has a cold and even though he just washed his hands, there's still the risk of spreading germs.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 121, the main four are told that they are fired from their jobs and have to do a job interview to get re-hired. All four of them succeed, and Mr. Cat attempts to high five Kaeloo, but Kaeloo is too focused on yelling at Olaf (who conducted the interview) for the way she and the others were treated and she doesn't notice his hand.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', in order to spare his hometown, a scientist creates a group of robotic assassins for [[BigBad Aku]] that Jack should be unable to kill or fight off. When Aku [[StupidEvil destroys the scientist's hometown anyway]], the scientist instead [[TheDogBitesBack joins Jack]] and they try to destroy the assassins together. At various points throughout the episode the scientist tries to get Jack to do a high-five, but Jack doesn't know the gesture and doesn't respond. At the very end of the episode he finally does the high-five.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''. In "Fireworks", Robin and Kid Flash go to high-five each other only to stop and grimace in pain from the chest injuries they received earlier.

* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', [[PlayerwCharacter the Detective]] can, provided his marksmanship skills are up to snuff, get the body of a hanged man down from a tree by shooting the cargo strap he is strung up in. In which case, his partner, Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi, who so far has been by and far acting as the StraightMan and a ConsummateProfessional, shows his first serious sign that he is NotSoAboveItAll by excitedly holding up his hand for an "Aces High". The player can then choose to invoke this trope with prejudice, by having the Detective just not respond and leave him hanging.

* ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'': After they solve one puzzle together, Ellie will offer Joel a high-five, and he can optionally ignore her. If he does, she voice her disappointment.

* In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', at multiple points while going through a collapsed tunnel, Aerith will offer a high-five to Cloud. Cloud leaves her hanging the first two times, seeming to not know what to do, before Cloud almost reciprocates during the third attempt, and finally returns the high five on the fourth one.