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''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E6ThereWillBeBuds There Will Be Buds]]", the camera spins around Homer and Marge's kiss after Marge convinces Homer to go find Kirk in the strip club and bring him back to the lacross game that he and Homer coach.

''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E06ThereWillBeBuds There Will Be Buds]]", the camera spins around Homer and Marge's kiss after Marge convinces Homer to go find Kirk in the strip club and bring him back to the lacross game that he and Homer coach.

* In Baz Luhrman's ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'', our eponymous star-struck and StarCrossedLovers share a kiss in an elevator - which was actually too small to fit cast and crew inside. There were a lot of breathless grips running around the outside of the tiny lift set, removing and replacing panels to allow the steadicam to move freely around the couple.
* Baz Luhrman's ''Film/MoulinRouge'' also features the equivalent, at the end of the Elephant Love Medley. Having learned his lesson from the ''Romeo + Juliet'' example, this time the actors were placed on a turntable in front of a static camera to make it easier to film.

* Baz Luhrman's ''Film/MoulinRouge'' also features the equivalent, at the end of the Elephant Love Medley. I sense a pattern.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' plays this one for all it's worth, complete with the playground scenery suddenly transforming into a fairy-tale land and back again, in the episode where TJ and Spinelli have their PracticeKiss.
* From ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', Bender and the Countess get one in the episode, "A Flight to Remember". A more recent one happens between Fry and Leela in "Fun on a Bun".
* Hiccup and Astrid's kiss is this, in the ''[[WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk Dragons: Race to the Edge]]'' episode "Mi Amore Wing".

* Kirk and Uhura's famous "first interracial kiss" in a 1968 episode of ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' was, as a result of cultural taboos, hidden by an Orbital Kiss that just didn't make it all the way around.

* ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' and Jasmine spin around on the magic carpet as they kiss at the end of the movie.

* In Baz Luhrman's ''Film/RomeoAndJuliet'', our eponymous star-struck and StarCrossedLovers share a kiss in an elevator - which was actually too small to fit cast and crew inside. There were a lot of breathless grips running around the outside of the tiny lift set, removing and replacing panels to allow the steadicam to move freely around the couple.

* In ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'', Lyudmilla and Valery get an Orbital Hug version, when she enters his hospital room and sees him up and about, playing cards with the other patients. The hug is accompanied by LensFlare. [[spoiler:The flare is likely a visual shorthand for Lyudmilla getting irradiated by touching her husband, a Chernobyl first responder, who is in his "Walking Ghost" phase of Acute Radiation Syndrome and would die within days. Lyudmilla is actually pregnant and would lose her baby mere hours after giving birth. While she would later remarry and have another child, both of them would have health problems because of that single hug.]]

Subtrope of OrbitalShot. Not to be confused by [[AnywhereButTheirLips a kiss on the orbitals.]] Or in [[RecycledInSpace near Earth space]]. A symptom of the BigDamnKiss. Compare TwirlOfLove.

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* Bob and Dot's kiss in a ''ReBoot'' season finale.
* Happens in ''TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo'' with Robin and Starfire.

* This happens once in ''FushigiYuugi'', when Miaka resolves to stay in the book world with Tamahome. However, they don't kiss, they just embrace.

Subtrope of OrbitalShot. Not to be confused by [[AnywhereButTheirLips a kiss on the orbitals.]] Or in [[RecycledInSpace near Earth space]]. A symptom of the BigDamnKiss.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter''.

* In Baz Luhrman's ''Film/RomeoAndJuliet'', our eponymous star-struck lovers share a kiss in an elevator - which was actually too small to fit cast and crew inside. There were a lot of breathless grips running around the outside of the tiny lift set, removing and replacing panels to allow the steadicam to move freely around the couple.

* Ned and Moze in the ''NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' series finale.

* Mary and Matthew in ''Series/{{Downton Abbey}}''.

* Billy Joel's The Night Is Still Young ends with one of these.

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* It's the theme of Claude Lelouch's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IafQqbsht_g 1 minute short]] for the ''Lumière and Company'' project.

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* Doogie and Michele in an episode of ''DoogieHowserMD''

** In a later episode, Naota is sent flying toward the class rep- who has a massive crush on him--and, for several seconds, time slows down, the BishieSparkle comes in and it seems like they're going to have the most painful, glorious, awesome kiss in all history. [[spoiler: Their foreheads collide and he goes tumbling down a nearby staircase, simultaneously infecting her with the latest forehead-burst monster.]]