History PlayingWith / AllegedlyDateless

You're not AllegedlydDateless. You're definitely dateless and [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife all the time you spend on TV Tropes isn't helping change that]].

You're not HollywoodDateless. You're just dateless and [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife all the time you spend on TV Tropes isn't helping change that]].

** Bob is bisexual, wants to date men and women, and says he can't get a date with anybody, yet he's [[SerialRomeo dated the]] LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters [[SerialRomeo in the recurring and main cast]].

You're not HollywoodDateless. You're just dateless and [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife all the time you spend on TV Tropes isn't helping change that]].

* '''Downplayed''':
** Bob has dated Betty and Alice, but [[SingleTargetSexuality he only wants to be with Carol]], so he's disappointed that she won't date him.
** Bob is gay and has dated men, but he was attracted to none of them.
** Bob is straight and has dated women, but he was attracted to none of them.

** Bob specifically complains about being unable to get a girlfriend - despite being attractive his ability to blow dates is legendary.

'''Basic Trope''': A character complains that s/he can't seem to get a date, but is regularly seen with a LoveInterest.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob has dated Betty and Alice, but he really wants to be with Carol, so he's disappointed that she won't date him.

You're not HollywoodDateless. You're just dateless and [[Administrivia/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife all the time you spend on TV Tropes isn't helping change that]].

* '''Basic Trope''': A character complains that s/he can't seem to get a date, but is regularly seen with a LoveInterest.
* '''Straight''': Bob complains that he's been single too long. Over the course of the series, however, he's dated Alice, Betty, and Carol.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob says that he CannotTalkToWomen, much less ask them out, but he's somehow managed to date women from ''all'' kinds of race, ethnicity and socioeconomic background, including the GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe.
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''':

** [[UrbanLegendLoveLife Claude has a reputation of being a playboy, but has never actually dated a single person]].
** [[CasanovaWannabe Donald claims to be the most popular guy in his school, when none of the girls would choose to date him even if he's the last guy on earth]].

* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob bemoans his lack of love life despite being surrounded by gorgeous girls most of the time. But then the audience finds out the girls he hangs out with are his sisters... or, at least, half of them are. The rest are actually robots. But the robot girls he has are sentient, and they willingly hangs out with him because of his good looks and personality.

** Bob is married.
** Bob doesn't date.

* '''Discussed''': "I think you've been watching too many romcoms, Bob. having two girlfriends in a month isn't pathetic."
* '''Conversed''': "Bob has had 3 girlfriends within three months. Why is people still saying he's an inexperienced dweeb?"

* '''Discussed''': ???

** Bob's only reference to a normal dating life is his older brother Alex, who is TheCharmer and a ChickMagnet and has at least three dates with different girls within a week. Bob's love life is nothing compared to Alex.

** Bob is comparing himself with his twin brother Rob, who is TheCharmer and a ChickMagnet and has at least three dates with different girls within a week. Bob's love life is nothing compared to Rob.

* '''Parodied''': Bob complains about being dateless just after going back from a date with the SchoolIdol Alice. Or worse, he complains ''during the date with her''.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Everyone else is going on dates except me."

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob CannotTalkToWomen.

* '''Justified''': Bob has been on a few dates, but hasn't had a serious relationship in a long time.
** Bob has been married or in a relationship, and that marriage or relationship has ended; Bob suddenly doesn't know how to either be happy single or how to put himself back into the dating pool.
** Bob has some glaring character flaw that makes women not want to talk to him again.
** Bob has NoSocialSkills.
* '''Inverted''': Bob is the only character who's regularly seen going on dates, and even marries Alice in the SeasonFinale.
* '''Subverted''': Bob goes on a few dates.

** Bob is seen talking to Alice on a dating app.
* '''Double Subverted''': But he can't seem to get past the first or second date.
** He gets divorced, and has to figure out how to get back on the dating horse. Great, except he hasn't been single in so long, he's forgotten what it's like, or doesn't realize how much dating has changed in the last 20 years.
** She "ghosts" him, or decides she'd rather be with Charles, or turns out to be a bot.
* '''Parodied''': Bob orders a MailOrderBride. [[RunawayBride She leaves him just before the wedding]].
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Bob is married.

* '''Enforced''': TerribleIntervieweesMontage
** LoserProtagonist
** MenActWomenAre, if only men are the ones who experience this.
** TrueLoveIsBoring
** DerailingLoveInterests

* '''Invoked''': Bob signs up for MatchMakerDotCom. While his friends brag about how many replies they're getting, Bob only gets one: a bot.
* '''Exploited''': [[StrawMisogynist A pickup artist]] sells books on how to pick up women, and markets them towards men who are having trouble getting dates.

* '''Conversed''': ???