History Main / TonightSomeoneKisses

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' had a pic of the kiss from "Knockdown" doing rounds in every media 7 weeks before the airing.

* Fans of ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' who love the palpable WillTheyOrWontThey tension between Steed and Peel probably are all too thrilled when they pull out their DVD of the episode "Who's Who?" for the first time and see an image of their favorite couple engaged in not just one of Emma's playful pecks, but a full-on sexy makeout session. Trick is "Who's Who" is a '''body swap episode'''. Emma and Steed have their minds in the bodies of the villains and are tied up in a warehouse somewhere, while the villains are the ones in Steed's flat, in Steed and Peel's bodies, getting comfy and kissing while they live it up and continue with their evil plot. Of course, since it's just the [[ActingForTwo same sets of actors switching roles]], that's STILL Creator/PatrickMacnee and Creator/DianaRigg full-on frenching each other, so do with that what you will. And we'll remind you this is while they are playing villains, and EvilIsSexy.

* The so-called "final episode" (not) of ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'', where June kisses Henry. To the shippers' dismay, it never aired on Nicktoons.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]'' pretty much revealed every kiss in the season in one of the first previews. One significant one is the reveal of a Gwen and Duncan's kiss.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' was advertised like this, but it's meaningless anyway, as characters kiss and have sex with each other all the time. [[WidgetSeries Really, nothing in that show happens for any reason other than to be funny.]]

* An episode of the ''[[Videogame/PokemonXAndY XY]]'' saga of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime invoked this trope with its Japanese title: "Ash and Serena's First Date!? The Vow Tree and the Present", along with the leak that Ash and Serena were going shopping ''[[NotADate without Clemont and Bonnie]].'' The dub title, "Under The Pledging Tree" was more indicative of the episode's actual nature as a UsefulNotes/{{Christmas|InJapan}}-[[YouMeanXmas Surrogate]],[[note]]Despite the fact that it aired in Japan a month after the Civil New Year and two weeks before the Chinese one,[[/note]] with the shopping trip being for presents for their Pokémon. [[spoiler:Although there was one legitimate tease regarding an item Ash picked up along the way...]]

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]'' pretty much revealed every kiss in the season in one of the first previews. One significant one is the reveal of a Gwuncan kiss.

** In 2014, [[Creator/NineNetwork Channel Nine]] in Australia promoted "The Table Polaization" as a "kiss aftermath" episode, even referring it as “[[BlantantLies the television event of the year]]”. Even if there was a kiss in a prior episode, it could’ve just been for a brief joke.

** In 2014, [[Creator/NineNetwork Channel Nine]] in Australia promoted [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS7E16TheTablePolarization "The Table Polaization"]] as a "kiss aftermath" episode (complete with calling it "the television event of the year"), showing very little footage from the episode. In reality, it was actually a a standard episode.

** In 2014, [[Creator/NineNetwork Channel Nine]] in Australia promoted [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS7E16TheTablePolarization "The Table Polaization"]] as a "kiss aftermath" episode (complete with calling it "the television event of the year"), showing very little footage from the episode. In reality, it was actually a standard episode, and they were talking about the kiss in the [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS7E15TheLocomotiveManipulation prior episode]].

Compare SweepsWeekLesbianKiss, [[FauxYay when a same-sex kiss is used as a ploy to boost ratings]].

Compare SweepsWeekLesbianKiss, [[FauxYay where this is done with same-sex characters to boost ratings]].

Compare SweepsWeekLesbianKiss, the {{Fanservice}} variant of this trope.

** And then there's the aftermath of Emily's S4 episode, which left Naomi and Emily's relationship in [[YourCheatingHeart serious trouble]]; the preview for the next episode, Cook's, showed Naomi and Cook making out again. [[spoiler:It was an entirely platonic between friends thing and was immediately followed by a ShipSinking.]]

* Fans of ''Series/TheAvengers'' who love the palpable WillTheyOrWontThey tension between Steed and Peel probably are all too thrilled when they pull out their DVD of the episode "Who's Who?" for the first time and see an image of their favorite couple engaged in not just one of Emma's playful pecks, but a full-on sexy makeout session. Trick is "Who's Who" is a '''body swap episode'''. Emma and Steed have their minds in the bodies of the villains and are tied up in a warehouse somewhere, while the villains are the ones in Steed's flat, in Steed and Peel's bodies, getting comfy and kissing while they live it up and continue with their evil plot. Of course, since it's just the [[ActingForTwo same sets of actors switching roles]], that's STILL Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg full-on frenching each other, so do with that what you will. And we'll remind you this is while they are playing villains, and EvilIsSexy.

* A trailer for ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' showed Robin and Poison Ivy leaning in for a kiss while Bruce warned Dick that Ivy was trying to kill him. Many fans are aware of Ivy's signature KissOfDeath ability and she does use this ability many times in the film. [[spoiler:The kiss between her and Robin does happen, but Robin survives thanks to wearing a rubber lip to protect himself from Ivy's poison.]]

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has done this in its season trailers for (new) seasons two through ''six'', with a different companion each time. It's a good lesson in why you should NeverTrustATrailer. Rose was possessed, the Doctor snogged Martha as part of a plan to distract the Judoon, Donna was giving his system a "shock", and Amy was trying to have GladToBeAliveSex which he was emphatically uninterested in. River was the only trailer-kiss that turned out to be completely genuine.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''
** In 2014, [[Creator/NineNetwork Channel Nine]] in Australia promoted [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS7E16TheTablePolarization "The Table Polaization"]] as a "kiss aftermath" episode (complete with calling it "the television event of the year"), showing very little footage from the episode. In reality, it was actually a standard episode, and they were talking about the kiss in the [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS7E15TheLocomotiveManipulation prior episode]].

* Trailers for the 2009 reboot of ''Film/StarTrek'' seemed to imply a steamy, passionate sex scene between Kirk and Uhura; however, all it ended up being was an Academy hook-up between Kirk and an Orion girl, which [[CasanovaWannabe Kirk didn't even get to consummate]].

* The SchoolPlay episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold!'': At least they were honest about the circumstances.

* The trailer for the ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' OVA has a shot where it looks like Kobayashi and Tohru are about to kiss. [[spoiler: In reality, Kobayashi was telling Tohru to come closer so she could give a drunken rant about her maid outfit]]. Of course, anyone who had read the relevant chapter of the manga (chapter 10 for those interested) would know the outcome ahead of time.

* The season two finale of ''Series/TheGoodWife'' featured a long-awaited hookup between [[spoiler: Alicia and Will]]. Would've been a delightful surprise -- except that the trailer for the episode had already spoiled the ElevatorGoingDown.

* Promo materials (including the trailer and a still photo) for a Season 3 ''Series/OnceUponATime'' episode play this trope for all it's worth, highlighting a kiss between [[spoiler: Hook and Emma]], much to the delight of the pairing's fanbase.

* Fans of ''Series/TheAvengers'' who love the palpable WillTheyOrWontThey tension between Steed and Peel probably are all too thrilled when they pull out their DVD of the episode "Who's Who?" for the first time and see an image of their favorite couple engaged in not just one of Emma's playful pecks, but a full on sexy makeout session. Trick is "Who's Who" is a '''body swap episode'''. Emma and Steed have their minds in the bodies of the villains and are tied up in a warehouse somewhere, while the villains are the ones in Steed's flat, in Steed and Peel's bodies, getting comfy and kissing while they live it up and continue an evil plot. Of course, since it's just the [[ActingForTwo same sets of actors switching roles]], that's STILL Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg full on frenching each other, so do with that what you will. And we'll remind you this is while they are playing villains, and EvilIsSexy.

** The tease for the Christmas episode told us that Booth and Brennan may kiss (with the camera slow motioning them closer together) which would have ruined the long-waited for moment, but it did NOT tell us the ''conditions'' of the kiss in which [[spoiler:Booth and Brennan were coerced into doing it under the mistletoe by someone else. Though after that nudge they did stay lip-locked for a fair bit longer than the mistletoe dictated]].

** The Season 4 episode "I Do" teased fans with hookups between popular broken up couples Finn and Rachel and Kurt and Blaine (the latter of which actually got a couple kisses in the episode), as well as between Santana (an out lesbian) and her best friend Quinn (who is straight, but has a very large gay following).
* The season two finale of ''Series/TheGoodWife'' featured a long-awaited hookup between [[spoiler: Alicia and Will]]. Would've been a delightful surprise- except that the trailer for the episode had already spoiled the ElevatorGoingDown.

* ''Series/MakeItOrBreakIt'' had this with a couple of episodes in its Second Season, notably the episode "Rock Bottom" where [[spoiler:Payson, at the peak of her crush, kisses her coach Sasha.]]

* Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} advertised "Kisses and Misses Night" one Valentine's Day, a stream of new episodes of various shows in which ''all'' of them fit this trope.

** The promos for "Triangle" played up a Mulder/Scully kiss, though in reality, the kiss was between Mulder and a hallucinated past version of Scully, not Scully herself. When Mulder and Scully ''do'' kiss for the first time, in "Millenium", the kiss is never mentioned in the promos at all.

** The series' GrandFinale trailer shows the staff are still up to their [[ShipSinking old tricks]] and that, unsuprisingly, the shippers still haven't learned [[NeverTrustATrailer their lesson]].

* An episode of the ''[[Videogame/PokemonXAndY XY]]'' saga of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime invoked this trope with its Japanese title: "Ash and Serena's First Date!? The Vow Tree and the Present", along with the leak that Ash and Serena were going shopping ''[[NotADate without Clemont and Bonnie]].'' The dub title, "Under The Pledging Tree" was more indicative of the episode's actual nature as a {{Christmas|InJapan}}-[[YouMeanXmas Surrogate]],[[note]]Despite the fact that it aired in Japan a month after the Civil New Year and two weeks before the Chinese one,[[/note]] with the shopping trip being for presents for their Pokémon. [[spoiler:Although there was one legitimate tease regarding an item Ash picked up along the way...]]

* The trailer for the ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' OVA trailer has a shot where it looks like Kobayashi and Tohru are about to kiss. [[spoiler: In reality, Kobayashi was telling Tohru to come closer so she could give a drunken rant about her maid outfit]]. Of course, anyone who had read the relevant chapter of the manga (chapter 10 for those interested) would know the outcome ahead of time.

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[[caption-width-right:330:[-For {{Official Couple}}s, proposals work just as well.-] ]]

!!Examples

[[AC:Anime]]
* An episode of the ''[[Videogame/PokemonXAndY XY]]'' saga of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime invoked this trope with its Japanese title: "Ash and Serena's First Date!? The Vow Tree and the Present," along with the leak that Ash and Serena were going shopping ''[[NotADate without Clemont and Bonnie]].'' The dub title, "Under The Pledging Tree" was more indicative of the episode's actual nature as a {{Christmas|InJapan}}-[[YouMeanXmas Surrogate]],[[note]]Despite the fact that it aired in Japan a month after the Civil New Year and two weeks before the Chinese one,[[/note]] with the shopping trip being for presents for their Pokemon. [[spoiler:Although there was one legitimate tease regarding an item Ash picked up along the way...]]

[[AC:Film]]

[[AC:Live Action Television]]
* Fans of ''Series/TheAvengers'' who love the palpable WillTheyOrWontThey tension between Steed and Peel probably are all too thrilled when they pull out their DVD of the episode "Who's Who?" for the first time and see an image of their favorite couple engaged in not just one of Emma's playful pecks, but a full on sexy makeout session. Trick is "Who's Who" is a '''body swap episode'''. Emma and Steed have their minds in the bodies of the villains and are tied up in a warehouse somewhere, while the villains are the ones in Steed's flat, in Steed and Peel's bodies, getting comfy and kissing while they live it up and continue an evil plot. Of course, since it's just the [[ActingForTwo same sets of actors switching roles]], that's STILL Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg full on frenching each other, so do with that what you will. And I'll remind you this is while they are playing villains, and EvilIsSexy.
* The tease for the Christmas episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'' told us that Booth and Brennan may kiss (with the camera slow motioning them closer together) which would have ruined the long waited for moment, but it did NOT tell us the ''conditions'' of the kiss in which [[spoiler:Booth and Brennan were coerced into doing it under the mistletoe by someone else. Though after that nudge they did stay lip-locked for a fair bit longer than the mistletoe dictated]].

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': Trailers teased a potential kiss between Sam and Freddie for the episode ''iTwins''. ''iSaved Your Life'' didn't bother teasing a ''potential'' Carly/Freddie, and showing them actually kissing. Also done that way with Griffin and Carly for ''iDate A Bad Boy''. Melanie and Freddie in ''iTwins'' showed their kiss, but teased the idea that Melanie was fake and didn't exist and that Freddie was actually kissing Sam.

* {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} advertised "Kisses and Misses Night" one Valentine's Day, a stream of new episodes of various shows in which ''all'' of them fit this trope.

* In every ''Series/{{Skins}}'' promo for Naomi's episode in series three, the scene of Cook and Naomi making out was played up as though they were going to have sex. Needless to say, they didn't--but Naomi and ''Emily'' did end up having sex.

* The teaser for the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Grace". The kiss turned out to be an IndulgentFantasySegue ''within'' a hallucination.

[[AC:Western Animation]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' "[[TwoPartTrilogy Wishology]]" trilogy promos featured Trixie, in a wedding dress, about to kiss Timmy. Naturally, this sent two reactions through the fanbase: one hoping it was AllJustADream, and the other hoping for a RelationshipUpgrade. As it turns out, said scene was a dream, but by then they had kissed for real the previous night.

* The [[PostScriptSeason original]] GrandFinale [[TheMovie movie]] of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', ''[[WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama So The Drama]]'', had a LastMinuteHookup between Kim and Ron. It would have been more poignant had Creator/DisneyChannel not been advertising the seconds leading up to the kiss for several weeks at that point.

* [[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland Total Drama World Tour]] pretty much revealed every kiss in the season in one of the first previews. One significant one is the reveal of a Gwuncan kiss.