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* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Wesley to Fred.

* ''Series/FatherBrown'': The murderer in "The Crimson Feather" is revealed to be this. Having accidentally made a confession of love to the wrong woman, they killed her before the woman humiliate them by revealing their obsession. A stack of unsent love letters addressed to their true object of desire was found in their room after they confessed.

* Tyrell from ''Series/{{Mr. Robot}}'' is this for Elliot.

* ''Series/{{One Day at a Time|1974}}'': The 1980 episode "Endless Elliot," which centered on an awkward teen's attempt to court the series' chick daughter, Barbara. When Barbara tries to let him down easy, Elliot goes all-out to try to woo Barbara, and the result has her beyond annoyed. The rest of the gang comes up with a ZanyScheme to get him to go away.

* ''Series/OneDayAtATime'': The 1980 episode "Endless Elliot," which centered on an awkward teen's attempt to court the series' chick daughter, Barbara. When Barbara tries to let him down easy, Elliot goes all-out to try to woo Barbara, and the result has her beyond annoyed. The rest of the gang comes up with a ZanyScheme to get him to go away.

--->'''Angel:''' I just wanted to make sure she was alright.

*** Even on spin-off series ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Angel actually at one point ''hires'' someone to watch her and this is ''years'' after their break-up. Aptly lamphaded by Spike:

*** He doesn't seem to outgrow it too easily either. A whole episode in S4 was spent of Angel stalking her to keep her safe.
*** Even on spin-off ''Series/{{Angel}}'' Angel actually at one point ''hires'' someone to watch her and this is ''years'' after their break-up. Aptly lamphaded by Spike:

*** He doesn't seem to outgrow it too easily either. A whole crossover in S4 was spent of Angel stalking Buffy to keep her safe.
*** Even on his spin-off ''Series/{{Angel}}'' Angel actually at one point hires someone on to watch her and this is ''years'' after their break-up. Aptly lamphaded by Spike:

** Arguable in that Angel himself was one even before Angelus came about in Season 2. In Season 2's "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E7LieToMe}} Lie To Me]]", Angel shows up at The Bronze and even claims that he was hoping Buffy would show despite the fact that Buffy often attends with Xander and Willow. Also in Season 2's "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E9WhatsMyLinePart1}} What's My Line, Part 1]]", Buffy climbs through her window back into her bedroom. Somewhat creepily, Angel's already standing in there holding her stuffed pig, Mr. Gordo. It's clear he's been waiting for her to arrive. In that same scene, Angel admits to knowing about Sunnydale High School having its Career Week and explains his knowing about it as, "I lurk."
*** Of course, it was essentially his ''[[BodyguardCrush job]]'' to stalk her, handed straight to him by the Powers That Be in order to keep her safe, even though she was unaware of it for a while. That being said, however, it's a little disconcerting that when Angel falls in love with Buffy, he's hiding in a run-down car and she's wearing pigtails and sucking on a lollipop.

* David Platt from ''Series/CoronationStreet'' just doesn't get the fact that Tina does not want to be his girlfriend anymore.

* ''Series/{{Community}}'' Dean Pelton's interest in Jeff is generally considered harmless. He went way over the line at one point (reading Jeff's email and basically blackmailing him into going on a date with him) but after Jeff pummeled him for it, the inappropriate touching and closeness continues. This may be because Jeff is practically twice the Dean's size and quite capable of beating him up, making his approaches seem less threatening.

** [[spoiler:Gordon Walker]] becomes this over the course of his first appearance for Dean Winchester, as he repeatedly tries to distance Dean from Sam. In each subsequent appearance on the show, his obsession with Dean becomes more pronounced as he [[spoiler:kidnaps Dean]] repeatedly and when he's [[spoiler:turned into a vampire]]his first instinct is to find Dean and Sam so that he can [[spoiler:kill Sam and turn Dean so that they can hunt together. Forever.]]

* Spike from ''Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}''. He became accustomed to following Buffy down the pavement or hanging around outside her house at night. He watched Buffy through her window, made a shrine to her, [[PervertedSniffing smelled one of her sweaters]], and had a sex robot designed to look and act like her. [[spoiler:Of course his little crush got a little less one sided in Season 6 and by Season 7 he became a little less evil.]]

** Arguable in that Angel himself was one even before Angelus came about in Season 2. In Season 2's "Lie To Me", Angel shows up at The Bronze and even claims that he was hoping Buffy would show despite the fact that Buffy often attends with Xander and Willow. Also in Season 2's "What's My Line Part 1", Buffy climbs through her window back into her bedroom. Somewhat creepily, Angel's already standing in there holding her stuffed pig, Mr. Gordo. It's clear he's been waiting for her to arrive. In that same scene, Angel admits to knowing about Sunnydale High School having its Career Week and explains his knowing about it as, "I lurk."

** Sharaz Jek in "The Caves of Androzani" quite clearly has the creepy kind of hots for Peri, doing things like chloroforming her, stroking her face while she's unconscious, and carrying her around in his arms (again, unconscious) while whispering "so beautiful...so beautiful...". The fact that he also dresses entirely in black leather really doesn't help.

** Finn toward Rachel any time she's dating someone not him: in "Laryngitis" he accompanies Rachel to the doctor's surgery in order to instruct her to break up with Jesse because Jesse doesn't 'get her' as well as Finn does, then openly pervs on her as she gets changed behind a screen, and in "Prom Queen" he insults Jesse repeatedly and punches him in the face for slow-dancing with her at the junior prom--while he himself is supposed to be another girl's date.

* ''Series/HannahMontana'': Lilly Truscott was known to have a mad, obsessive crush with [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Orlando]] [[LordOfTheRings Bloom]], often chasing after him stalkishly in public events when dressed as [[ClarkKenting Lola Luftnagle]]. A regular joke involved her friends "seeing the [[IncrediblyLamePun Lilly bloom]]". This seems to have subsided as she and Oliver became an OfficialCouple.

* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'': {{Disney|Channel}} comes back to this trope time and time again. On ''[[SecondaryCharacterTitle Good Luck Charlie]]'', another sitcom, there is [[GenderBlenderName Teddy]], the main character. Her brother, has a friend named [[BlackAndNerdy Emmett]], who has a crush that's basically been built up by him into a full blown relationship with Teddy as his girlfriend. As usual per the KidCom genre, it's played for laughs.

* ''{{Series/Guilt}}'': Neville, who is seriously creepy, stole Molly's things and threatens Grace with a knife, but didn't actually kill Molly. He seems more mentally disturbed than actually malicious.

* In ''Series/{{Helix}}'', After asking a series of increasingly personal questions in their various interactions, Dr. [[spoiler: Hiroshi Hatake]] wistfully peruses an album of pictures of Dr. [[spoiler: Julia Walker]], both posed and taken from distances suggesting covert surveillance.

* [[spoiler:Morello]] in ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack''. She went on one date with someone, and then started to stalk him, ultimately going to jail planting [[MadBomber a homemade explosive device]] under his actual fiancee's car.

* ''OneTreeHill'': There are two major examples:

* A victim of the week in ''Series/Motive'' seems to be the "other woman" engaged to a pilot who's already engaged to another woman. She's seen wearing his family's wedding ring and photos of them together. However, when arrested for her murder, the man reveals that they only sat next to each other on a plane ride and the woman invented the entire relationship from there. She stole the ring, photoshopped images of them together, assumed he was only marrying another woman for money to support them and even tried to push the real fiancee down a flight of stairs. When the pilot confronted her on the delusion, she attacked him and he killed her in self-defense.