History Main / LoveLetterLunacy

* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' has an unusual example in that Meimi/Saint Tail does this to deliver her [[CallingCard calling cards]] to SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr.; they're delivered with stage magic in ways ranging from a doll with a note popping out of nowhere on his head (Saint Tail was improvising and was flustered) to a message written on his ''[[CovertPervert bath towel as he was getting a shower]]''. It was actually her way of taunting him back when they were on mere WorthyOpponent status, and he even recognized their flirtatious nature enough to find it embarrassing, but he'd gotten her to make [[ThePromise a promise to keep sending them]] so he could always have a fair shot at trying to catch her during her heists. Eventually, once Meimi actually falls in love with him, she starts sending them as her way of keeping her promise and asking him to come see her. [[spoiler:Eventually, when [[TheDragon Maju]] mocks Saint Tail's most recent card by calling it a "love letter", it [[InsultBackfire backfires spectacularly]] because Asuka Jr. had been spending the last half a series tormented by the question of what Meimi thought of him, only for the answer to have been in [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong the cards he'd been getting the entire time]].]]

* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' has an unusual example in that Meimi/Saint Tail does this to deliver her [[CallingCard calling cards]] to SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr.; they're delivered with stage magic in ways ranging from a doll with a note popping out of nowhere on his head (Saint Tail was improvising and was flustered) to a message written on his ''[[CovertPervert bath towel as he was getting a shower]]''. It was actually her way of mocking him back when they were on mere WorthyOpponent status, and he even recognized their flirtatious nature enough to find it embarrassing, but he'd gotten her to make [[ThePromise a promise to keep sending them]] so he could always have a fair shot at trying to catch her during her heists. Eventually, once Meimi actually falls in love with him, she starts sending them as her way of keeping her promise and asking him to come see her. [[spoiler:Eventually, when [[TheDragon Maju]] mocks Saint Tail's most recent card by calling it a "love letter", it [[InsultBackfire backfires spectacularly]] because Asuka Jr. had been spending the last half a series tormented by the question of what Meimi thought of him, only for the answer to have been in [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong the cards he'd been getting the entire time]].]]

* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' has an unusual example in that Meimi/Saint Tail does this to deliver her [[CallingCard calling cards]] to SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr.; they're delivered with stage magic in ways ranging from a doll with a note popping out of nowhere on his head (Saint Tail was improvising and was flustered) to a message written on his ''[[CovertPervert bath towel as he was getting a shower]]''. It was actually her way of mocking him back when they were on mere WorthyOpponent status, and he even recognized their flirtatious nature enough to find it embarrassing, but he has her make [[ThePromise a promise to keep sending them]] so that he can always have a fair shot at trying to catch her during her heists. Eventually, once Meimi actually falls in love with him, she starts sending them as her way of keeping her promise and asking him to come see her. [[spoiler:Eventually, when [[TheDragon Maju]] mocks Saint Tail's most recent card by calling it a "love letter", it [[InsultBackfire backfires spectacularly]] because Asuka Jr. had been spending the last half a series tormented by the question of what Meimi thought of him, only for the answer to have been in [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong the cards he'd been getting the entire time]].]]

* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' has an unusual example in that Meimi/Saint Tail does this to deliver her [[CallingCard calling cards]] to SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Asuka Jr.; they're delivered with stage magic in ways ranging from a doll with a note popping out of nowhere on his head (Saint Tail was improvising and was flustered) to a message written on his ''[[CovertPervert bath towel as he was getting a shower]]''. It was actually her way of mocking him back when they were on mere WorthyOpponent status, and he even recognized their flirtatious nature enough to find it embarrassing, but once Meimi actually falls in love with him, she starts sending them as a way of asking him to come see her. [[spoiler:Eventually, when [[TheDragon Maju]] mocks Saint Tail's most recent card by calling it a "love letter", it [[InsultBackfire backfires spectacularly]] because Asuka Jr. had been spending the last half a series tormented by the question of what Meimi thought of him, only for the answer to have been in [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong the cards he'd been getting the entire time]].]]

* ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' is rather 'unusual' in this: the love letters are sent by the titular PhantomThief to the SympatheticInspectorAntagonist chasing her, they're (barely) masked as the 'burglary warnings' he dared her to send him, they're delivered with stage magic in ways ranging from a doll with a note popping out of nowhere on his head (Saint Tail was improvising and was flustered) to a ''zeppelin'' (she was showing off) and a message written on his ''[[CovertPervert bath towel as he was getting a shower]]'', and, in spite of the very romantic tone, [[ObliviousToLove he didn't realize they were love letters]] until TheDragon of the final villain [[LampshadeHanging called him an idiot and stated the one he had just received while imprisoned and that stated she was about to steal]] ''[[LampshadeHanging him]]'' [[LampshadeHanging was an obvious love letter]].

* In the first episode of ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'', Sousuke receives a love letter in his shoebox. His perfectly sensible (from the perspective of a former {{Child Soldier|s}} who grew up in an area where [=IEDs=] are a common problem) response is ''to blow up the school's entry hall because his shoebox has been opened'', and interpret the signed fragments of letter he retrieves from the ruins as a death threat. To make matters worse (or more humorous), the StudentCouncilPresident agrees with Sousuke that his actions were the most correct ones (Kaname's reaction look at this is hilarious), and the poor girl that wrote the letter becomes disturbed by the fact that the entire time she was waiting for Sousuke to appear at the meeting place she set he was camouflaged in a nearby bush aiming at her with a sniper rifle.

* In 1994, Fiat (now known as Fiat Chrysler) tried running an ad campaign in Spain to market their new Fiat Cinquecento towards the "independent, working woman". 50,000 Spanish women received a "love letter" which personally addressed them by name, claiming that they crossed each other on the street, that she glanced interestedly in their direction, and inviting them to go on a "little adventure". The purpose of the letter (advertising a car) was only revealed in a second message which would arrive a few days later. The ad campaign was a horrible failure because of this, since the first letter did not even remotely hint that it's meant to be an ad for a car, leading its recipients to believe they were being targetted by a StalkerWithACrush, refusing to go outside without someone to protect them or even locking themselves indoors out of fear. It's also been reported that some of the women targetted by the campaign were already married, causing misunderstandings and arguments.

* In the first episode of ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'', Sousuke receives a love letter in his shoebox. His perfectly sensible (from the perspective of a former {{Child Soldier|s}} who grew up in an area where [=IEDs=] are a common problem) response is ''to blow up the school's entry hall because his shoebox has been opened'', and interpret the signed fragments of letter he retrieves from the ruins as a death threat. To make matters worse (or more humorous), the StudentCouncilPresident agrees with Sousuke that his actions were the most correct ones (Kaname's reaction look at this is hilarious), and the poor girl that wrote the letter becomes disturbed at the fact that the entire time she was waiting for Sousuke to appear at the meeting place she set he was camouflaged in a nearby bush aiming at her with a sniper rifle.
* ''Manga/KOn'': Ritsu spends an episode wondering about some mysterious love letters she receives. Then her friend Mio (bassist-songwriter) asks her opinion about those song lyrics she left in Ritsu's mail box. [[YuriFan Mugi]] would be [[ShipTease disappointed]]--nor not.

* In episode 3 of ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'', Naeka recieves a love letter at her school and spends the episode wondering if she should meet with the sender. At the end she decides to go and even warms up to the idea that she could have a boyfriend, [[spoiler:until she discovers that her admirer is actually a female classmate named Saki and when she tries to leave the scene her crazy male butler traps them both in room together that resembles a hotel love suite so that she can "move forward" with her dilemma. [[BlackComedyRape It's not hard to tell what happened next.]]]]

** A few episodes later, Tenma is watching a period drama, and gets the wonderful idea to shoot a love letter at Karasuma with a bow and arrow. She follows him across town as he nonchalantly dodges every attack, unintentionally makes Harima parody ''Film/TheMatrix'', and follows Karasuma into a bank just in time to FOIL A BANK ROBBERY.

* In an early chapter of ''Manga/HappyHappyClover'', Shallot falls in love with Mallow and want to give her a love letter. He asks Clover to deliver it secretly, but she loses it after getting sidetracked. Cue her asking for help, with word spreading across the ''entire forest'' about the missing letter. Even after it’s found, Kale’s siblings fight over who will deliver it, causing it to rip apart. Luckily, the present inside helps get Shallot’s message across.

* In ''ComicBook/WJHCOnTheAir'', Sandy writes a love letter to Janie but doesn't put either of their names on it. It gets passed around the entire main cast, and HilarityEnsues.

* In the 1942 musical ''You Were Never Lovelier'', Eduardo Acuña wants his daughter, Maria (Creator/RitaHayworth) to get married, but she's very picky with her suitors. Eventually, he invents a mystery admirer for her, and starts sending flowers to her, accompanied by anonymous love letters, with the intent of presenting his choice for her husband as the writer of the letters. His plan goes awry, when she sees the guy delivering the flowers and thinks that he's the writer.

** In a side story, Seria gives a love letter to one of Touma's classmates in order to pass on to him. It ends up being passed through a series of people, eventually ending up in Touma's letterbox. However, it gets stolen by a spy who thinks that it contains important information (as Seria is the adviser to one of the city's leaders). And then Seria appears, revealing that she sent the letter to lure the spy out so she could catch him.

** Kyo gets two in quick succession. [[spoiler:The first is anonymous, and it turns that Ryoko used it to lure him somewhere private so she could kill him without any witnesses. The second leads to a confusing encounter with Mikuru from the future.]]

* The British 1970's-era TV Series ''Series/AreYouBeingServed''. In the first-season episode "Dear Sexy Knickers", a saucy note is delivered to the wrong person, who misunderstands who it's from. And when the sender is identified, the recipient is misunderstood. In the meantime, innocent people are cussed out and much HilarityEnsues.

* On ''Series/SchittsCreek'' Moira is incensed to find Johnny has been reading old love letters from an unknown woman while she was away. The letters become a minor town scandal, but Johnny eventually [[spoiler: informs Moira that she was the author of the letters during a time when she was working on Sunrise Bay and was in a plot related body cast, which explains why the handwriting was different. Moira then advises Johnny to let the townspeople think the letters were from a mystery woman to give him an edge.]]

* ''Series/SoAwkward'': When Jas enters Mrs. Griggs into Martha's compatibility software in "Love Machine", she is horrified to find out that the perfect match is her own father! She becomes worried when Mrs. Griggs gives her a letter to give to her dad, and hides it thinking that it was a date offer. However, when Lily has the same envelope, Jas finds out that it was just a request to help out at the school fair.

* In one ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' story line, Peter plays a practical joke where he leaves anonymous notes for Paige, pretending to be a secret admirer. He eventually arranges a meeting where Paige spends several hours sitting in the rain waiting for her secret admirer who never shows. Somehow Paige fails to see the funny side of this.

** Later the King, Dumaine and Longaville are all seen writing love letters, overheard one by the next with {{Reveal}} after {{Reveal}}. Berowne calls them all out on it, until his own love letter is revealed.

* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'': This trope is a plot point in the play. In Act II, Cyrano, a man with a ridiculous long nose, loves beautiful and eloquent Roxane, but is utterly afraid of her rejection. So he writes a love letter to her, hoping to give it to her and run. When Cyrano discovers Roxane is interested in fair but ineloquent Christian, he realizes that Roxane will be disillusioned with Christian and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he cannot let that happen]]. So [[PlayingCyrano he proposes to teach Christian to be eloquent, and lends Christian the love letter he wrote to Roxane to so Christian can send it to her in his own name]]. In Act III, Cyrano realizes that the [[WittyBanter eloquence]] Roxane admires so highly is shallow and decides to speak of his real feelings in the letters he keeps sending her in Christian’s name from the Battlefield twice a day. The whole point is that these new love letters are so powerful in expressing Cyrano’s love to Roxane, that Roxane evolves into a full fleshed heroine, deciding to save Christian from peril in Act IV.
--> '''Cyrano''' ''(striking his breast):'' Ay—a single word of all those here! here! But writing, 'tis easier done…

* ''Theatre/KabaleUndLiebe'' and its opera adaptation ''Luisa Miller''. Luisa is blackmailed into writing a love letter to a cowardly pompous idiot (Schiller’s original) or to an extremely creepy villain (Verdi’s version). Her real lover sees that letter, promptly believes its contents and goes absolutely mad. He ends up [[spoiler:poisoning Luisa and himself]] because she doesn’t reveal to him the truth until it’s too late.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', [[BrattyHalfPint Eiko]] got help from the Doctor Tot to write a love letter to [[TheHero Zidane]], and when hung on a peg she's forced to ask Baku to deliver it to Zidane. Baku accidentally drops it and forgets to mention the whole thing to Zidane. This leads to [[ActionGirl Beatrix]] believing the letter is from [[LordErrorProne Steiner]] and vice versa; the two do wind up becoming a couple, and no one's the wiser. Even if Eiko, Blank, Markus and Baku do witness their first tentative meeting. The music that plays during that scene is even entitled, "Foolproof Love Letter Scheme." A nice alternate title for the trope...

* There's a quest at the beginning of ''VideoGame/FableII'' called "The Love Letter". In it a poor man asks [[HeroicMime the Hero]] to deliver a love letter with a proposal to his girlfriend without her bitter mother finding out. The good option has the Hero deliver the letter to the girlfriend without a hitch. In the evil option however, the hero gives the letter to the mother who gets angry. When confronted by her the man lies and tells her the letter is for her to get out of trouble. She then quickly becomes enraptured with him and accepts his wedding proposal, much to the man's horror.
** ''VideoGame/FableI'' also has a quest involving delivery of a love letter. The evil option in that one is to tell the recipient that you wrote it yourself.

** Larry fails at the same task in ''Ace Attorney Investigations'', when his sloppy handwriting causes the name of the recipient to be misread as "Wendy" instead of "Mindy."

* In Rin's route in ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', Riki receives a very generic love letter in his shoe locker one day. When he waits after school, very confused and curious about who could have left it, the last person to leave is Suginami, a shy girl he's never really talked to. But when he confronts her she clearly didn't know anything about it, and it's revealed that her friends left it on her behalf. Riki is a little relieved...and ''then'' she explains that she ''does'' like him, and that her friends apparently did it to force her to say something. Riki is flattered and polite but not really interested, and it's this event that leads to Rin asking him out later that day.

* In ''Webcomic/CardboardAngel'', when Mayuko's friends find out she has a crush on Satoru, they insist she write him a love letter as it is "the way it's done." Mayuko is coerced into putting over the top things in it and is forced to try to hand it off to him. Unfortunately, [[AlphaBitch Aya]] intercepts the letter and uses it to publicly humiliate Mayuko.

** Done as part of a quick gag. After Timmy receives a threatening note from the Francis that he initially thinks is from the nerdy kid in front of him, he gits a flirty note. Francis points behind him to a pretty girl. When Timmy tries to flirt, she points to an AbhorrentAdmirer sitting behind her.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness,'' Po tries to break Monkey's interest in [[RichBitch Ming]] by forging an angry letter in her name and giving it to Monkey. Monkey mistakes it as Ming inviting him to a date. Needless to say it [[NotWhatItLooksLike does not]] end [[CockFight well]].
* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes ''Mouse-Warming'', a teenage mouse falls for a girl mouse who's moved in across the hallway with her parents. Claude Cat notes the situation, and leaves him fake love notes (along with fake threat notes to her parents) in hopes of a quick meal. The mouse soon gets wise to it, and fakes a note to Claude to visit and make friends with the vicious dog in the yard.

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': The episode "The Matchmaker" has Wander finding a love letter to Lord Dominator in Lord Hater's trash, and decides to deliver it. Sylvia, not wanting Wander to approach a dangerous villain (with the addition hooking up two villains in a romantic relationship could lead to even more chaos), tries to stop him; he miraculously manages to resist every effort, to the point he realizes she's against him and won't let anything get in his way. In the end though, it's revealed he wasn't really going to deliver the letter to Dominator; he was just putting it in the mail.

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* In the {{Creator/Disney}} short film ''WesternAnimation/{{Paperman}}'', the hero realizes the cute girl he met earlier is just on the opposite side of the street from his workplace. He tries to get her attention with a paper airplane, then two, then three... and ends up creating over a hundred out of his work papers trying to get them to reach her. By the time he decides to just screw it and run over there in the middle of his work hours, she's already gone. But all his paper airplanes turn out not to be in vain, as [[spoiler:they seemingly come to life and direct them both to each other.]]

* Kyon gets two in one episode in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. [[spoiler:The first is anonymous, and it turns that Ryoko used it to lure him somewhere private so she could kill him without any witnesses. The second leads to a confusing encounter with Mikuru from the future.]]
** Kyon reads out a heartfelt confession and ''marriage proposal'' [[spoiler:to Yuki Nagato]] in the 6th novel, [[spoiler:but he's only relaying the words of a classmate]]. Then it gets thrown out of the window and read by [[ClingyJealousGirl Haruhi]]. [[strike:Oh dear]] [[HilarityEnsues Yare yare]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'': In episode 4, Tanukichi turns to Ayame for advice after he starts receiving love letters from a potential stalker. So she posts a response on his front door to lure the stalker out of hiding. The note said he reciprocated and that [[TemptingFate he'd left the door unlocked]] to invite them in. Except [[DidntThinkThisThrough it backfires]] when the stalker turns out to be [[spoiler: Anna, who tries to rape him under the assumption that the note meant he wanted to have sex with her]].

* In ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'', Taiga attempts to leave a love letter for Yuusaku in his bag--but accidentally puts it in ''Ryuuji's'' instead. When he finds it later and attempts to look inside, he discovers it's a sealed, empty envelope. She's so [[CuteClumsyGirl klutzy]] she ''forgot to put the letter in''.

* ''Literature/LittleWomen.'' Jo and Laurie are, respectively, horrified and amused by the growing {{UST}} between Meg and Mr. Brooke, so they play a few pranks on Meg involving love letters and rumors. "They" being just Laurie, considering the fact that Jo just wants it all to go away and swears most solemnly to her mother that she had no idea of Laurie's hijinks.
* Creator/PGWodehouse' characters would often write these, but [[LoveDodecahedron accidentally leave them in the wrong rooms]].
* Sean Bateman receives these in ''Literature/TheRulesOfAttraction''. [[spoiler: he doesn't even know the girl who's sending them to him is alive, and she eventually commits suicide. Nobody cares.]]
* In Jane Flory's ''Faraway Dream'', Charlotte Sutcliffe receives what she believes is a request from a friend to become his business partner. In fact, it was a marriage proposal. Justified, in that English is Mr. Curcier's second language. [[spoiler: They marry.]]
* In ''Literature/TheRedAndTheBlack'', the cynical, self-centred protagonist obtains a collection of prewritten love letters from an acquaintance. From then on, he doesn't even bother reading his mistress's letters when they arrive, instead simply copying out another letter, inserting her name in the right places, and sending it to her without another thought.

Traditionally, a love letter is quietly placed in the recipient's locker, or even handed to them in person. But due to teens being unsure when it comes to love, things can start getting... weird. Such as by giving the letter to the wrong person, forgetting to sign the letter, signing the letter with the ''[[EpicFail wrong name]]'', or maybe deciding that lockers are outmoded, and shooting the letter at the recipient instead. Or it could be a fake letter and a cruel joke, a la ''Thheatre/TwelfthNight''.

Traditionally, a love letter is quietly placed in the recipient's locker, or even handed to them in person. But due to teens being unsure when it comes to love, things can start getting... weird. Such as by giving the letter to the wrong person, forgetting to sign the letter, signing the letter with the ''[[EpicFail wrong name]]'', or maybe deciding that lockers are outmoded, and shooting the letter at the recipient instead. Or it could be a fake letter and a cruel joke, a la Twelfth Night.

* ''Manga/TheDevilDoesExist'' begins with shy Kayano trying to give her crush a letter but handing it to [[BastardBoyfriend another guy]] instead, prompting a lot of harassment.

* ''Theatre/KabaleUndLiebe'' and its opera adaptation ''Luisa Miller''. Luisa is blackmailed into writing a love letter to a cowardly pompous idiot (Schiller’s original) or to an extremely creepy villain (Verdi’s version). Her real lover sees that letter, promptly [[WhatAnIdiot believes its contents]] and goes absolutely mad. He ends up [[spoiler:poisoning Luisa and himself]] because she doesn’t reveal to him the truth until it’s too late.

* In episode 3 of ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'', Naeka recieves a love letter at her school and spends the episode wondering if she should meet with the sender. At the end she decides to go and even warms up to the idea that she could have a boyfriend, [[spoiler:until she discovers that her admirer is actually a [[SchoolgirlLesbian female classmate]] named Saki and when she tries to leave the scene her crazy male butler traps them both in room together that resembles a hotel love suite so that she can "move forward" with her dilemma. [[BlackComedyRape It's not hard to tell what happened next.]]]]

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': The episode "The Matchmaker" has Wander finding a love letter to Lord Dominator in Lord Hater's trash, and decides to deliver it. Sylvia, not wanting Wander to approach a dangerous villain (with the addition hooking up two villains in a relation could lead to even more chaos), tries to stop him; he miraculously manages to resist every effort, to the point he realizes she's against him and won't let anything get in his way. In the end though, it's revealed he wasn't really going to deliver the letter to Dominator; he was just putting it in the mail.

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': The episode "The Matchmaker" has Wander finding a love letter to Lord Dominator in Lord Hater's trash, and decides to deliver it. Sylvia, not wanting Wander to approach a dangerous villain, tries to stop him.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-05-24 Fuchsia sends Criminy a letter that spits out a heart-shaped flame, followed by heart-shaped puffs of smoke]]. She means well...
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2704 Slick gets one]] and [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2707 blows off a woman, who was the admirer, and tears up the second one.]]

** In "[[A Blast From the Past]]", Dave takes a deep breath, tells Sky that he likes her, and asks if she likes him too. Sky is dismayed he would go about it like this, because as she explains, one is supposed to write "I like you" on a note and give it to a friend of the addressee. Then said friend will pass it on, but the teacher will notice, confiscate the note, and read it out loud in class. Sky's confused Dave doesn't know this is how it goes.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Lisa sends a love note to the school bully Nelson, via Milhouse. Thinking that Milhouse is the author, Nelson pummels the crap out of him.

* In the "X-Treme Torture" episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'', Bridgette and Gwen find a love poem and spend the rest of the episode trying to figure out both its writer and recipient. They eventually discover it's meant for [[spoiler:[[SassyBlackWoman Leshawna]]]], who's apparently been getting them throughout the season; later, [[spoiler:[[{{Otaku}} Harold]]]] admits to having written them all.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Francine and the Brain create a fake love letter and give it to Muffy to get back at her for insulting their science fair projects.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' episode "Shriek Loves Dog", Cat writes a love letter to Shriek, so that she and Dog will fall for each other, hoping that the Greaser Dogs will thereby leave him alone. It works until Dog marries Shriek, which causes the Greaser Dogs to move into their house and generally making Cat's life a living hell. Luckily for him, it turns out to be AllJustADream.
* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness,'' Po tries to break Monkey's interest in [[RichBitch Ming]] by forging an angry letter in her name and giving it to Monkey. Monkey mistakes it as Ming inviting him to a date. Needless to say it [[NotWhatItLooksLike does not]] end [[CockFight well]].

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', Doug receives several letters in his locker from a secret admirer, but when he goes to meet her at the time she requested, she never showed. He later finds out it's Beebee sending him the notes. He feels like it wouldn't work between them, and tries to talk to her about it, only to find out she thought it was somebody else's locker. She's initially embarrassed, only to realize it meant that this was the reason why the guy she really liked kept ignoring her. She's then overjoyed but also apologizes to Doug, and tells him who the notes were actually for. [[spoiler: Turns out they were for Skeeter.]]
* A mix-up version of this trope happened in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "The Break-up Breakdown." Big Macintosh delivers a pie to his girlfriend, Sugar Belle, but a mix-up at the post office causes the pie to be delivered to Sweetie Belle, who believes that she has a secret admirer.
* In a ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short, Mickey buys a fax machine and decides to test it out by sending Minnie a love letter and sending an angry letter to [[SitcomArchnemesis Mortimer Mouse]]. But Mortimer receives the love letter, making Mickey think Minnie got the angry one. HilarityEnsues as he tries to retrieve it before she reads it. (She didn't receive it in the first place. [[BreakingTheFourthWall Roy Disney did]].)
-->'''Roy Disney:''' ...What'd I ever do to him?

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyType0''[='=]s secret ending features Sice trying to work up the courage to give one of these [[StudentTeacherRomance to Kurasame]]. She apparently believes that a good way to deliver it is to wait around the corner after she sees him walking towards her and wait until the footsteps sound close, then turn around blindly and hold it out with a loud and nervous "Here!" without checking to see if the one standing there is Kurasame and not [[HoYay her fellow classmate Seven]].

* In episode 3 of ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'', Naeka recieves a love letter at her school and spends the episode wondering if she should meet with the sender. At the end she decides to go and even warms up to the idea that she could have a boyfriend, [[spoiler:until she discovers that her admirer is actually a [[SchoolgirlLesbian female classmate]] named Saki and when she tries to leave the scene her crazy male butler traps them both in room together so that she can "move forward" with her dilemma. [[BlackComedyRape It's not hard to tell what happened next.]]]]

* In episode 3 of ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'', Naeka recieves a love letter at her school and spends the episode wondering if she should meet with the sender. At the end she decides to go and even warms up to the idea that she could have a boyfriend, [[spoiler:until she discovers that her admirer is actually a [[SchoolgirlLesbian female classmate]] named Saki and when she tries to leave the scene her crazy male butler traps them both in room together so that she "move forward" with her dilemma. [[BlackComedyRape It's not hard to tell what happened next.]]]]

** One episode had Timmy write a love letter e-mail to [[AlphaBitch Trixie]], but lacks the courage to send it. [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents So his parents do it for him]]. Since magic can't interfere with love (including love letters) he has to enter {{Cyberspace}} to get it back.