History Main / StalkingisLove

Sometimes this results from ValuesDissonance, since behaviors towards a LoveInterest that are considered appropriate in one time or place can seem creepy in others. Similarly, see also AbductionIsLove, DoNotDoThisCoolThing.

** Ripcord's amorous designs on Scarlett tend to come off as being this, despite most likely being meant to be [[{{adorkable}} charmingly goofy]].

** In self-aware moments, Angel himself seems to understand that this behavior is unhealthy. A flashback shows the MonsterSobStory that was his existence before he met Buffy. He seems aware that stalking is not good, but it is better than what he was doing before. The series never [[JustifiedTrope Justifies]] it, only asks latitude for the TorturedMonster Angel is.

See also AbductionIsLove, DoNotDoThisCoolThing.

* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Angel is a completed example. He sees and falls in love with Buffy when [[JailBait she is fifteen]]. He expresses this love by stalking her for a year before revealing himself. In one sense, his devotion is played straight: Buffy herself is flattered to have the intense affection and protection of this [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Bad Boy]]. It is simultaneously denied: other characters think that his behavior is creepy and predatory. They are justifiably suspicious of Buffy's vampire boyfriend and it takes Angel time to earn their trust.
** His evil incarnation Angelus also stalks Buffy, but only feigns romantic interest to get under her skin since he is a sadistic psychopath incapable of love, and at times even mocks her for thinking that this is anything other than a game to him. Angel later admits this, noting that a large part of the problem with him was never the demon (Angelus), but the man (Liam).

* Played with on ''Series/ThirtyRock'' when Jenna is upset after her creepy stalker loses interest in her. Not because she loved him but because his obsession with her fed her ego. Their "break up" is played for DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything

* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'': Angel in his not-evil incarnation. He met and fell in love with Buffy when she was 15. He then stalked her for a year before revealing himself and he's still at it on the fifth season of ''Angel'', despite being burdened with a desk job! (He has "a source" keeping tabs on her in Italy.) His evil incarnation Angelus also stalks Buffy, but only feigns romantic interest to get under her skin since he is a sadistic psychopath incapable of love, and at times even mocks her for thinking that this is anything other than a game to him. Angel later admits this, noting that a large part of the problem with him was never the demon (Angelus), but the man (Liam).

* This trope is discussed and criticized in detail on WebVideo/PopCultureDetective's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ1MPc5HG_I "Stalking for Love" video essay]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDlUWur3kEE The "Stalker Song"]], which is sung to the tune of "Happy Together".

* Parodied by ''Website/TheOnion'' in [[http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29546 "Romantic-Comedy Behavior Gets Real-Life Man Arrested"]]. That shows how much this trope reflects RealLife.

* Used with a twist in ''Series/TheVampireDiaries''. Stefan stalked Elena for a while after he [[spoiler: saved her from the car crash that killed her parents]], but this was for the quite sensible reason of wanting to find out if she was really his psychotic presumed-dead ex Katherine, and why exactly the two looked so similar. He didn't find out why, but was satisfied that Elena was a very different person, and realising he was starting to fall for her decided to stop the stalking and meet her properly.\\
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Similarly, Elena's younger brother Jeremy was seemingly stalked by Anna - though she constantly made jokes about it. But her motives were pure - she actually wanted to kill him and feed him to her mother. She fell in love with him later.

** Then ''The Immortals'' has Numair stealing a lock of Daine's hair without permission while she's suffering from a debilitating illness, which she doesn't mind at all since she suddenly realizes she's in love with him. It was actually so he'd have a way to magically track her if she went missing, but given the fact that Pierce had previously given us George and Alanna, many fans cried {{Unfortunate Implications}}. There's also the whole thing about her being 16 and him 30, and a teacher and student.

* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'': Angel in his not-evil incarnation. He met and fell in love with Buffy when she was 15. He then stalked her for a year before revealing himself and he's still at it on the fifth season of ''Angel'', despite being burdened with a desk job! (He has "a source" keeping tabs on her in Italy.) His evil incarnation Angelus also stalks Buffy, but only feigns romantic interest to get under her skin since he is a sadistic psychopath incapable of love, and at times even mocks her for thinking that this is anything other than a game to him.

* Averted in ''Series/StargateSG1'', where the {{ascend|ToAHigherPlaneOfExistence}}ed [[{{Precursors}} Ancient]] Orlin falls in love with Samantha Carter on another planet and follows her home. Carter explicitly tells him he's stalking her and that what they have is not a "relationship". She eventually warms up to him but never falls in love with him in return.

** Also has in ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', Raoul's claim to Christine's love is that he's been obsessed with her since he met her when they were children, becomes jealous and possessive the moment he suspects she's seeing someone else (Note: that at this point he hasn't even spoken to her since they were teenagers). And then he waits in the darkness outside her dressing room so he can sneak inside and search for The Phantom. Christine does call him on this creepy behaviour and Raoul does eventually cool down by the end of the book. Christine also choose not to speak to him before since Erik was close by and murderously jealous of Raoul, so she was actually protecting him.

* In ''Film/KissingJessicaStein'', Jessica ends up with Josh who quite obsessively went through her personal files (including letters) at work. Apparently, because he was motivated by jealousy from their past relationship, this is fine.

** In ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', Raoul's claim to Christine's love is that he's been obsessed with her since he met her when they were children, becomes jealous and possessive the moment he suspects she's seeing someone else (Note that at this point he hasn't even spoken to her since they were children). And then he waits in the darkness outside her dressing room so he can sneak inside and search for The Phantom. And smell her clothing.

* Discussed in detail in [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHiwtz2tCEfS17N9A-WoSSw Pop Culture Detective's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ1MPc5HG_I "Stalking for Love" video essay]]

** In flashbacks, Naruto's father Minato is shown stalking Naruto's mother Kushina. He watches over her, but doesn't actually step in when she gets bullied because he has faith that she can take care of herself. The one time she's outmatched, when she's kidnapped by enemy shinobi from another village, [[RescueRomance he's there to rescue her and this causes her to fall in love with him]].

* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' does a variation. While Torso's actions towards his "lovers" is depicted as being very disturbing Torso thinks what he's doing isn't wrong. Sasaki theorizes that Torso removes the legs of his victims so they won't "leave". Once he becomes obsessed with Mutsuki, he becomes obsessed with following him and making him his, which especially escalates after Mutsuki responds to his affections in the negative leading to him to cut off his limbs to keep him from leaving. A volume 4 diary entry reveals that he believes they share a mysterious connection, and this "spark" of desire will be his salvation. He just believes they need to have a long, private talk.....then Mutsuki will understand their destined bond, and return his love. After he cuts off Mutsuki's legs and arms he declares he will forcibly marry him while having him dressed up in a white dress and putting a wedding ring on his cut off hand. He then stands in front of him shirtless while breathing deeply which heavily implies Attempted Rape. Usually, his past "lovers" rejection of him drives him to extreme violence to punish them including destroying their faces. Also, in chapter 73 of re: Torso brings Mutsuki a flower crown, but gets angry when Mutsuki glares at him and won't accept his compliments. He beats Mutsuki violently while screaming insults. He later has them on a makeshift bed and says he only beats Mutsuki because of how deep his love for him is. He also gets a sad backstory and Mutsuki finds himself sympathizing with Torso after hearing it despite how he abused him. Despite [[spoiler: Torso's gruesome end at Mutsuki's hands]] they are still shipped together in the 2016 calendar.
** Tsukiyama is depicted as Kaneki's StalkerWithACrush in a HoYay way radiating fanservice and is portrayed very sympathetically following him [[spoiler: being rejected by Kaneki and falling into a AngstComa after believing him to be dead.]]

* In ''ComicBook/DeepGravity'', it's specifically averted. Paxon was sufficiently determined that his relationship with Michelle ought to have worked that he signed on to a deep space expedition to a remote, dangerous planet just to follow her, believing that she could be made to see reason. Michelle certainly doesn't see it as romantic — but neither does he, because by the time the reunion he set in motion actually occurs, he's fully aware that it was the wrong thing to do.

* We're introduced to Ricky in ''Film/AmericanBeauty'' when he's following Jane around with a video camera, filming her. Funnily enough she asks him to stop filming her and he puts the camera away, saying okay.

--> Scott falls in love with roller-skating, punk-haired Ramona Flowers at first sight, across a public space. He stalks her in a way that’s apparently meant to be adorable... To be fair, it's lampshaded right off the bat ([[FunWithSubtitles "And then... he stalked her..."]]) and played for laughs. She agrees to go out with him the next time they speak, and is never really aware of his previous stalking, but neither does she seem to like him any more than "meh, he's a nice guy."

* The obvious ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' rip-off ''Blood Red Moon'' features this, with the the male lead Victor. However he does it... poorly. As ''WebVideo/ObscurusLupa'' put it in her review:

** Destro has this sort of relationship with the Baroness. Unlike traditional versions of the romance where it's entirely consensual, he seems ''very'' interested in the current one despite her showing only marginal interest in return. [[spoiler:He even has her husband killed for touching her.]] However, he also knows [[spoiler:she's mind controlled.]]

* In ''Film/IndecentProposal'', Gage's behavior towards Diana following their one-night stand, something that was ''contractually agreed on'' to be one night and nothing more. He shows up at both of her workplaces (she's a realtor who teaches ESL part-time) uninvited and unannounced and otherwise manipulates situations in order to bring her close to him, essentially forcing her into a relationship. At one point, incensed at his conduct, she shows up at ''his'' office to tell him off, and here the DoubleStandard kicks in full force--whereas his behavior was portrayed as adorable and playful even though she clearly found it upsetting, hers is made out to be alarming and disruptive even though she has every right to be angry with him. But sure enough, she gradually softens towards him and they end up together for a good portion of the movie.

* In the musical's sequel to ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'', [[spoiler:Christine realized long ago that she wasn't "looking with her heart" when she chose Raoul over the Phantom. So stalking and murder IS love in this version!]] It's especially sad considering that in the book Erik realizes that he's a sick, psychopathic, horrible stalker, but can't stop himself, eventually choosing [[spoiler:suicide]] as the solution. He may be TheWoobie, but the kind of Woobie who [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds doesn't mind killing hundreds of people to get the attention of his love-interest. ]]

* In ''Literature/HushHush'', Patch constantly stalks Nora. Her being flustered and bothered by this is treated like a MeetCute, even though we later learn that [[spoiler:he initially was stalking her to learn how best to murder her]]. We also later learn that [[spoiler:he decided that he loved her during said stalking, before they even met once]].

* Played with on ''Series/ThirtyRock'' when Jenna is upset after her creepy stalker loses interest in her. Not because she loved him, but because his obsession with her fed her ego. Their "break up" is played for DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Blink]]": Kathy gets sent back to 1920 by one of the Weeping Angels. Ben is the first person she meets; they later get married. Ben does have an interest in being curious and concerned about Kathy, since she's clearly not from around the area and is quite distressed.

** In the first season, Paul serves as a [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstruction]] of TheDulcineaEffect, so while he ''is'' trying to save Echo, his actions come across as obsessive and weird at times, especially as he ignored a (seemingly) healthier romantic partner in Mellie. Eventually Paul and Echo get together.

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': West, toward Claire. He flew around outside her window (gee, can't imagine why). She is at first irritated, but accepts him a little too easily. Then again, Claire has a ''lot'' of issues. And whether this is stalking in the romantic sense is debatable since he seemed to be doing this to find out if she has powers, not in order to see her naked.

* In ''Series/{{Oz}}'', Ryan O'Reily gets his brother to [[MurderTheHypotenuse murder Dr. Nathan's husband]], forces kisses on her, kills her rapist to avenge her, and out-and-out stalks her. At first Gloria isn't happy when she learns that Ryan [[YouKilledMyFather had her husband killed]], and initially suspects that O'Reily was the one who arranged for her to get raped after she rejected him. But after she learns Ryan had nothing to do with her rape and killed the guy who did attack her, her opinion of him starts to change. So it ''works'' (eventually), and she ends up falling in love with him. Though the show lampshades this as not being a very healthy relationship.

* Averted in ''Series/StargateSG1'', where the {{ascend|ToAHigherPlaneOfExistence}}ed [[{{Precursors}} Ancient]] Orlin falls in love with Samantha Carter on another planet and follows her home. Carter explicitly tells him he's stalking her and that what they have is not a "relationship". She eventually warms up to him, but never falls in love with him in return.

%%* The lyrics might be about an on-again off-again relationship, but the music video for Music/MarianasTrench's "Cross My Heart" has the lead singer following directly behind a girl as he sings and even ''forming a parade'' of some kind, leading up to her doorstep [[ObliviousToLove before she even notices]].

* In ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', Freddy sends Eliza love letters every day and spends all his spare time hanging around in the street outside her house -- at one point, she finds him out there at three in the morning. It's played for laughs, and Freddy is characterized as so ineffectual that he could never actually ''do'' anything, for good or ill. Eliza isn't especially impressed by his behavior, but she also isn't put off by it, and seriously considers him as a possible marriage candidate.

%%* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', it is revealed in repressed memories that when Ezio initially met Cristina, after failing to get her attention on the first try, he proceeded to stalk her from the rooftops Le parkour style. This is glossed over of course because A) how else would you expect Ezio to use his family's natural skills to impress the ladies (don't answer that question) and B) because you proceed to save her from Ezio's arch rival whose [[FridgeHorror intent kind of makes the stalking pale in comparison]].

* The ''Everything Wrong With'' series on WebVideo/CinemaSins has, among its many repeated jokes, that 'this movie suggests that stalking is an easy way to get girls to love you, when I can personally vouch that this isn't true in real life'.

* Liu Bei believes this in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', when he's trying to recruit Zhuge Liang. It actually works.

* Sho Kano in ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' followed Miu around, watching her from high places for nearly the entire DoD story arc due to an obsession with her based on her having similar "wings" to his.

* ''Series/SexAndTheCity'': Big's behavior towards Carrie after he's married someone else--constantly calling her, lurking outside her apartment waiting for her to come home, then continuing to lurk waiting for her boyfriend to leave, showing up uninvited and unannounced and only leaving when she tells him her boyfriend is coming back, following her to the hotel where she's staying, following her into the elevator and grabbing and kissing her repeatedly, telling her, "I love you". Throughout all this, she repeatedly and explicitly tells him to leave her alone and during the kissing scene, tries to fight him off physically, before finally responding to his kisses. The next shot is of them in bed. The DoubleStandard is glaring--throughout their on-again, off-again relationship, any pursuing behavior of Carrie's was viewed as pitiful and worthy of ridicule and ended with her being dumped, whereas Big's harassment and essentially forcing himself on her is portrayed as sexy and romantic and results in him getting her back.

%%* "On the Street Where You Live", from ''Theatre/MyFairLady''. Particularly in the context of the play/film, where it's sung by a young man who parks himself day and night outside the home of a woman who flatly refuses to see him.

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* ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'' has a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent strain of vampire]], known as "Chronic Tragic Gothic Romanticism"-type, who ''all'' believe in this trope InUniverse and take to the knowledge that [[CaptainObviousAesop Vampirism does NOT make stalking attractive]] as though it's an AwfulTruth. The trope itself, incidentally, is ''not'' in force for any of them: Most people find vampires ''incredibly'' annoying to deal with as a result.

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': West, toward Claire. He flew around outside her window (gee, can't imagine why). She is at first irritated, but accepts him a little too easily. Then again, Claire has a ''lot'' of issues. And whether this is stalking in the romantic sense is debatable since he seemed to be doing this to find out if she has powers, not in order to see her naked.
%%* Parodied in [[http://snltranscripts.jt.org/04/04qfunhouse.phtml this]] ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch. Also, [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/40972/saturday-night-live-don-drapers-guide#s-p5-sr-i0 this]] spoof of ''Series/MadMen''.
* Season 8 episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' "PS: I Love You" explores this and StalkerWithACrush, and basically says the difference between being a stalker and being romantic is whether the stalkee is interested in the stalker.
* In ''Series/{{Oz}}'', Ryan O'Reily gets his brother to [[MurderTheHypotenuse murder Dr. Nathan's husband]], forces kisses on her, kills her rapist to avenge her, and out-and-out stalks her. At first Gloria isn't happy when she learns that Ryan [[YouKilledMyFather had her husband killed]], and initially suspects that O'Reily was the one who arranged for her to get raped after she rejected him. But after she learns Ryan had nothing to do with her rape and killed the guy who did attack her, her opinion of him starts to change. So it ''works'' (eventually), and she ends up falling in love with him. Though the show lampshades this as not being a very healthy relationship.
* ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' is a complex example.
** In the first season, Paul serves as a [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstruction]] of TheDulcineaEffect, so while he ''is'' trying to save Echo, his actions come across as obsessive and weird at times, especially as he ignored a (seemingly) healthier romantic partner in Mellie. Eventually Paul and Echo get together.
** Alpha gets a bit of this, too, with a lot less subtlety. He's AxeCrazy and obsessed with Echo, but in [[GrandFinale The Finale]] he's apparently reformed, and it's hinted he still loves her (though he [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy would rather see her happy with Paul]]). So he apparently ''did'' really love her, despite his earlier psychotic actions.
%%* Jake upon his first(?) appearance on ''Series/HannahMontana''.
* In ''Series/PushingDaisies'' Ned impersonates someone from a temp agency so he can get a job at the same place as his girlfriend Chuck. She says it's sweet. [[OnlySaneMan Emerson]], watching them says "He's stalking you."

--> "There's a fine line between surveillance and stalking."
--> "Yeah, getting caught."

* Played with on ''Series/ThirtyRock'' when Jenna is upset after her creepy stalker loses interest in her. Not because she loved him, but because his obsession with her fed her ego. Their "break up" is played for DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
-->'''Maynard:''' I don't think I can stalk you anymore.\\
'''Jenna:''' No! You don't mean that!

%%* On ''Series/AmericanIdol'', contestant Paul Marturano wrote [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py6Y9j6WGfU this song]] for Paula Abdul in which he sings about stalking her.
%%* Ross on ''Series/{{Friends}}'' ''obsesses'' over Rachel in seasons one and two.
* Averted in ''Series/StargateSG1'', where the {{ascend|ToAHigherPlaneOfExistence}}ed [[{{Precursors}} Ancient]] Orlin falls in love with Samantha Carter on another planet and follows her home. Carter explicitly tells him he's stalking her and that what they have is not a "relationship". She eventually warms up to him, but never falls in love with him in return.
* Played for laughs with a one-shot WWI-era couple in a ''Series/DoctorWho'' Christmas special.
-->'''The Doctor''': How did you meet? You and Reg, tell me how you met.
-->'''Madge Arwell''': He followed me home. I worked in the dairy, he always used to follow me home. He said he'd keep on following me until I married him! I didn't like to make a scene.
** Used before that in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Blink]]" with another one-shot couple. Kathy gets sent back to 1920 by one of the Weeping Angels. Ben is the first person she meets; they later get married. Ben does have an interest in being curious and concerned about Kathy, since she's clearly not from around the area and is quite distressed.
--->'''Kathy''': Are you following me?
--->'''Ben''': Yeah.
--->'''Kathy''': Are you going to stop following me?
--->'''Ben''': No, I don't think so.
* ''Series/FamilyMatters''. Urkel's behavior towards Laura, even though it's played for laughs and seen as annoying even at its worst. Though a handful of incidents--his locker combination being equivalent to her measurements, him asking for a lock of her hair--leave her genuinely creeped out, by the end of the series, they're together. The DoubleStandard comes into play here also--his behavior is considered romantic and endearing, but Myra and Myrtle' s identical behavior towards him and Eddie, respectively, is portrayed as the craziness it truly is.
* ''Series/SexAndTheCity'': Big's behavior towards Carrie after he's married someone else--constantly calling her, lurking outside her apartment waiting for her to come home, then continuing to lurk waiting for her boyfriend to leave, showing up uninvited and unannounced and only leaving when she tells him her boyfriend is coming back, following her to the hotel where she's staying, following her into the elevator and grabbing and kissing her repeatedly, telling her, "I love you". Throughout all this, she repeatedly and explicitly tells him to leave her alone and during the kissing scene, tries to fight him off physically, before finally responding to his kisses. The next shot is of them in bed. The DoubleStandard is glaring--throughout their on-again, off-again relationship, any pursuing behavior of Carrie's was viewed as pitiful and worthy of ridicule and ended with her being dumped, whereas Big's harassment and essentially forcing himself on her is portrayed as sexy and romantic and results in him getting her back.
** To a lesser extent with Steve and Miranda. From the moment their one-night stand is over, she makes it clear that this is all she wants. He responds by constantly calling her, showing up at her place—at one point, threatening to make a scene if she doesn't let him in—and overall, repeatedly ignoring her numerous requests that he leave her alone. This is never made out to be bad, despite Miranda's obvious annoyance with his persistence, just a case of the "Wild" guy trying to win over the "Uptight" woman and get her to let her defenses dow
* Mark from ''Series/PeepShow'' goes to great lengths to win Sophie's heart during the first two seasons of the show. This includes hacking her personal email to keep tabs on their relationship, following her on dates and rushing up to the bus she's on to "bump into her". He eventually ends up marrying her, but they immediately file for divorce. He continues this type of behavior with Dobbie, even after she leaves him.
* In ''Series/CriminalMinds'', "Crazy" Jane was nearly a murder victim of Frank Breitkopf, a sexual sadist and murderous sociopath. She gave him a compliment on his [[WhatBeautifulEyes eyes]] and this caught him by surprise. He failed to properly torture and kill her like he had done before and let her go. Since then, he had been dropping by her house and let her gifts... made from the bones of his previous victims. Neither this nor the reason revealed behind his visits to her home town are enough to frighten her. In fact, when she saw him again, she ran ''towards'' him instead of away.
* Deconstructed on an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''. When the detectives interview the business partner of a man they suspect of raping and murdering an assistant DA, she mentions that the man had sent her flowers the day after they met, presumably to entice her into going into business with him. Rather than seeing it as a sweet gesture, she admits that the fact that [[TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive he knew her address]] scared the hell out of her.
* Usually averted in ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'', which is a whole series deconstruction of RomCom tropes, but played straight in season two when [[spoiler:Josh realises that Rebecca has always been there for him and falls for her]], despite all the creepy stuff she's done towards him. However, it's implied that he was just desperate to find a rebound relationship as he hates being single, and while they seem happy together at first, by the end of the season he has some ''very'' cold feet.
* ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. Brandon's ex-girlfriend Emily stalks and harasses him after he breaks up with her--calling him repeatedly, following him, etc. When he finally gets fed up and blows up at her, she whines, "I can't help it, I love you."

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* ''Film/{{Hannibal}}'' turns the title character into a Stalker with a Crush for Clarice Starling. While in The Silence of the Lambs, he simply seems to enjoy being creepy for creepiness' sake, the sequel turns it into a kind of weird romantic love for Clarice Starling, with him sneaking into her house and watching her sleep (while touching her face and hair). In a deleted scene, he breaks into her car and licks the steering wheel to get the taste of her. Not to mention the part where she's talking to him on a cell phone trying to find him, and it turns out he was behind her touching her hair. The weird thing is that it's actually meant to be romantic.

* Played for laughs with a one-shot WWI-era couple in a Series/DoctorWho Christmas special.

** Used before that in "Blink" with another one-shot couple. Kathy gets sent back to 1920 by one of the Weeping Angels. Ben is the first person she meets; they later get married. Ben does have an interest in being curious and concerned about Kathy, since she's clearly not from around the area and is quite distressed.

* The ''Everything Wrong With'' series on Cinemasins.com has, among its many repeated jokes, that 'this movie suggests that stalking is an easy way to get girls to love you, when I can personally vouch that this isn't true in real life'.

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