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* In ''[[BigBangTheory]]'' Leslie Winkle broke up with Leonard because he believed in string theory, while she believed in loop quantum gravity.
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* In ''[[BigBangTheory]]'' ''BigBangTheory'' Leslie Winkle broke up with Leonard because he believed in string theory, while she believed in loop quantum gravity.
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* Non-romantic example: In ''GunnerkriggCourt'', Red is convinced that her hair is the reason that Blue doesn't want to be her friend anymore. [[spoiler:And she's right -- it ''is'' her hair. [[TheFairFolk Fairies aren't quite like us]].]]
* [[http://xkcd.com/304/ This]] ''{{xkcd}}'' comic.
* [[http://xkcd.com/304/ This]] ''{{xkcd}}'' comic.
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* Non-romantic example: In ''GunnerkriggCourt'', ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', Red is convinced that her hair is the reason that Blue doesn't want to be her friend anymore. [[spoiler:And she's right -- it ''is'' her hair. [[TheFairFolk Fairies aren't quite like us]].]]
* [[http://xkcd.com/304/ This]]''{{xkcd}}'' ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' comic.
* [[http://xkcd.com/304/ This]]
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-->'''Bender''' You really ''are'' too picky!
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-->'''Leela:''' I don't care how many eyes a guy has. As long as it's less than five.
-->'''Amy:''' Boy, you really are picky.
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* When the pedophile Dr. Shiouji of ''ExcelSaga'' gets the young girl Cosette in a love hotel, she unwraps her [[GagBoobs large breasts]], at which point he loses interest and leaves.
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* When the pedophile Dr. Shiouji of ''ExcelSaga'' ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' gets the young girl Cosette in a love hotel, she unwraps her [[GagBoobs large breasts]], breasts]] and declares that she is a fully consenting adult, at which point he loses interest and leaves.
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* While not being a romantic situation at all, one ''SoulEater'' episode has Hero, the one student mentally capable to have [[{{Jerkass}} Exca]][[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} libur]] as a partner (because he was the only one that didn't find Excalibur's behavior annoying). While they were perfect Meister and Weapon, the former dumped the latter because [[spoiler:he sneezed too much]].
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* While not being a romantic situation at all, one ''SoulEater'' episode has Hero, the one student mentally capable to have [[{{Jerkass}} Exca]][[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} libur]] as a partner (because he was the only one that didn't find Excalibur's behavior annoying). While they were perfect Meister and Weapon, the former dumped the latter because [[spoiler:he sneezed too much]].much and in a very disgusting manner]].
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* "[[http://scythemantis.deviantart.com/art/Lycanthropy-264814892 Lycanthropy]]" by the infamous Scythemantis
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** And just to add to the complexity, there are entries that look like they're playing this trope straight but turn to be subversions upon further reading. To name one example: in April 18th, 2011, a user named "Taylor" decided that someone was no longer her friend because of her "bird nest hair." That makes Taylor sound like a snob who dumps friends for superficial reasons...until you read the entry further and discover that this friend's hairstyle came out of the fashion salons, and the friend declared Taylor "no longer cool" because Taylor's hairstyle wasn't like hers and Taylor supposedly didn't understand fashion. Suddenly, the FRIEND looks like the snob who insists that Taylor always copy her, and you realize Taylor had a valid reason for ending the friendship, despite the title of her entry.
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-->'''Leela:''' I don't care how many eyes a guy has. As long as it's less then five.
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-->'''Leela:''' I don't care how many eyes a guy has. As long as it's less then than five.
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** Another Weird Al example: In "Albuquerque" the singer dumps "the girl of [his] dreams" because she asked him if he wanted to "join the Columbia Record Club." This was after years of marriage and two kids.
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** Another Weird Al example: In "Albuquerque" the singer dumps "the girl of [his] dreams" because she asked him if he wanted to "join the Columbia Record Club." Club" and that was too much of a commitment. This was after years of marriage and two kids.
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** To be fair, she didn't actually want to date the guy. Will convinced her to date the guy because it was one of his professors and he wanted a better grade, or a very similar reason. She did not have an otherwise great established relationship with him.
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** To be fair, she didn't actually want to date the guy. Will convinced her to date the guy because it was one of his professors and he wanted a better grade, or a very similar reason. She did not have an otherwise great established relationship with him. keeping him distracted and happy was all that was keeping Will from flunking. However, this doesn't keep her reasons for breaking it off from being any less silly.
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* François Vatel, a French chef famous for supposedly having invented Chantilly cream, [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]] by running himself through with a sword. The reason? The late arrival of fish for a banquet in honor of Louis XIV.
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* Subverted by stand up comic Adam Ferrara when talking about getting a wedding ring proportional to his girlfriend's hand. He did marry her, but while checking her hands for the ring, he was thinking thusly:
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* Subverted by stand up stand-up comic Adam Ferrara when talking about getting a wedding ring proportional to his girlfriend's hand. He did marry her, but while checking her hands for the ring, he was thinking thusly:
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* François Vatel, a French chef famous for supposedly having invented Chantilly cream, [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]] by running himself through with a sword. The reason? The late arrival of fish for a banquet in honor of Louis XIV.
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** Parodied in the episode "Out With Dad", when Niles has to dump his father (as he's pretending to be gay).
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* {{Webcomic/The Adventures Of Dr McNinja}} has a girl breaking up with a boy fro being unable to grow a beard and having one ear pierced.
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* In the ''[[Series/ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]'' episode "St. Valentine's Day", Kenneth meets a sunning--if blind--redhead, and Kenneth is so awestruck that he he literally cannot speak. Tracy helps him out by saying everything Kenneth would. Near the end, Kenneth breaks his silence, and the girl seems not to mind, and all seems wonderful...until she feels his face. Then hers. Then his again. Something about the similarity--we're not sure what--turns her off.
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* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in the ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' story "Jeeves Takes Charge". Bertie's engaged to Florence Craye, a girl with a terrifyingly bad temper who bosses him around, treats him like garbage, and forces him to read improving literature. He stays with her because she has such a lovely profile.
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* PaulSimon's "You're Kind" from the album ''Still Crazy After All These Years'' (1975):
--> So goodbye, goodbye
--> I'm gonna leave you now and here's the reason why:
--> I like to sleep with the window open, and you keep the window closed
--> So goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
--> So goodbye, goodbye
--> I'm gonna leave you now and here's the reason why:
--> I like to sleep with the window open, and you keep the window closed
--> So goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
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For the sake of comedy, the more that one of these breakups sounds like an example of a tale from CloudCuckooland, the better. Usually.
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* Tom Leykis once told the story of a graphic artist he knew whose girlfriend dumped him when she found out that he occasionally used Microsoft Paint in his work.
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* Tom Leykis once told the story of a graphic artist he knew whose girlfriend dumped him when she found out that he occasionally used Microsoft Paint in his work.
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* In ''JonathanCreek'', Jonathan decides that a girl he's dating wouldn't work out because of her habit of sticking out her tongue when she eats. Later, he had a much more legitimate excuse not to date her: [[spoiler: she turned out to be that week's killer.]]
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* Virtually any breakup on ''{{Seinfeld}}'', and [[GirlOfTheWeek there were an awful lot of them]].
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* ReeseWitherspoon's character in ''SweetHomeAlabama'' leaves PatrickDempsey's loving and caring character to return to her abusive and downright awful ex-husband...because she didn't like his mother.
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** Discussing this with Chandler, Joey says he once broke up with the perfect girl because of her gigantic Adam's apple. The others are suitably horrified by this and explain to him that women don't have Adam's Apples - but at his expression quickly backtrack and pretend they were joking.
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** Discussing this with Chandler, Joey says he once broke up with the perfect girl because of her gigantic Adam's apple. The others are suitably horrified by this and explain to him that [[{{Transsexual}} most women don't have Adam's Apples Apples]] - but at his expression quickly backtrack and pretend they were joking.
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A Guy or GirlOfTheWeek that is otherwise perfect in every way, but has one glaring flaw that any normal person would probably be able to live with, but the protagonist feels is too much for him or her to handle. The 'glaring' flaw is often something incredibly minor, and often used to show that the protagonist is a pretty shallow, self-absorbed and petty character.
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A Guy or GirlOfTheWeek that is otherwise perfect in every way, but has one glaring flaw that any normal person would probably be able to live with, but the protagonist feels is too much for him or her to handle. The 'glaring' flaw is often something incredibly minor, and often may be used to show that the protagonist is a pretty shallow, self-absorbed and petty character.
character. Other times, the writers just wanted to hit the ResetButton.
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* Inverted in ''BlackBooks'': Fran finds an old boyfriend incredibly annoying but can't resist him because he has a sexy voice.
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* In the third season of ''TheITCrowd'', Jen finds herself unable to continue dating a man because he "looks like a magician". He tries to rectify this by learning magic, but he's hopeless at it.
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* Lampshaded in an episode of ''HowIMetYourMother''. Ted thinks his new girlfriend is perfect, but everyone else finds her hard to deal with because [[spoiler: she talks way too much]]. Barney describes it as "the oh moment": the moment you realise a person's fatal flaw and your perfect image of them is shattered. The rest of the episode revolves around everyone coming to notice each others' flaws: Lily's is that she chews loudly, Ted's is that he's always correcting people's grammar, Marshall's is singing about everything he does, Robin's is overusing the word 'literally', and Barney's is... basically his entire personality. The episode ends with them learning to live with these flaws, but Ted [[spoiler:still breaks up with his GirlOfTheWeek]].
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* In ''Girlfriends'', Joan dates a man who while fairly attractive, has girl hips. Her constant obsessing over this causes them to breakup.
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