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| 6 | [[caption-width-right:247: "Your hair is more radiant than a thousand sunsets." "Your hair is more radiant than a thousand sunsets." "[[BreadEggsMilkSquick And you got a dump truck of a booty that I wanna applaud.]]" "And you got a-- [[DoubleTake Wait, what?!]]"]] |
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| 8 | ->''"Okay. [Cyranoing is] when a nerdy guy helps a handsome guy date the girl that he loves by telling him what to say, what to do."'' |
| 9 | -->-- '''Harper''', ''Film/SetItUp'' |
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| 11 | When someone is too shy or inarticulate to pursue his dream girl, he has a friend (the Cyrano) supply his words for him. Like most [[ASimplePlan Simple Plans]], this naturally never works. In modern works, it's often done via EarpieceConversation. |
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| 13 | The plot generally plays out with the dream girl discovering the true author of the poetic courtship, and being more attracted to him than to the guy he was speaking through. Whether [[MatchmakerCrush he's interested in her]] or [[LoveTriangle not]]. |
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| 15 | If there is a Cyrano on each side, [[HilarityEnsues hilarity may ensue]]. In such a double-Cyrano, PairTheSpares may be invoked. |
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| 17 | Subtrope of RomanticWingman, and a type of {{ghostwriter}}. The {{Trope Namer|s}} and TropeCodifier is Edmond Rostand's classic play ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac''. The story may include a direct reference to the play, which will often make it very clear that the character making the reference (possibly the writer as well, possibly not) has only a very passing knowledge of the play. Could lead to a FunnyPhoneMisunderstanding akin to ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud. |
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| 19 | !!Examples: |
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| 21 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 22 | |
| 23 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 24 | * Subverted in ''Literature/DateALive'' where the entire Ratataskor organization plays "Cyrano" for Shido, generally with Kotori or Reine on the other end of his [[EarpieceConversation earpiece]]. The romantic subtext between [[MissionControl "Cyrano"]] and the target is absent. Interestingly, neither side is all that good at it (they are both right about 50% of the time), but the combination tends to muddle through mostly. |
| 25 | * In early parts of ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' we have Hinagiku acting as the Cyrano for Ayumu Nishizawa. Eventually, Hinagiku falls in love with Hayate or at least stops denying she has been for quite some time, after which the pair agrees to a fair competition of sorts. |
| 26 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': In the famous Valentine's day strip, [[MoeAnthropomorphism Austria]] gives Germany advice on his [[HoYay confused]] [[ShipTease feelings]] [[OfficialCouple towards]] Italy. |
| 27 | * ''Manga/RenaiDaikou'' features an online company that specilizes in filling this role with both main characters making use of its services in their attempts to woo each other. |
| 28 | * Used ''recursively'' in ''Anime/ZoidsNewCentury''. The DitzyGenius Steve Toros was asked to be the Cyrano by his friend Leyon -- but Toros didn't feel up to the job himself, so he asked their mutual friend Oscar to be the Cyrano to ''his'' Cyrano. Unfortunately for Leyon, Oscar accidentally signed the resulting love letter as ''Toros'', causing the girl to fall in love with Toros instead of Leyon. |
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| 30 | |
| 31 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 32 | * In ''{{ComicBook/Bone}}'', Ted the Bug offers to help Fone Bone cyrano a love letter to Thorn, although he's not very good. |
| 33 | -->'''Ted''': YO LIPS IS LIKE SWOLLEN POOLS... |
| 34 | [[/folder]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 37 | * In the ''VideoGame/Persona5'' HighSchoolAU fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13332233/1/Accidentally-In-Love?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=0yL4WS.h3aMM00XXIM7veLOdFRn4fAz0XJTKjfmgIZI-1639021209-0-gaNycGzNCKU Accidentally In Love]]'', the introverted Futaba Sakura is secretly a master at writing love letters, and with Ryuji Sakamoto as the face they run a Cyrano business that successfully got couples like Ryuji/Ann and Makoto/Ren together. Numerous girls had commissioned the duo for love letters to win over the Ice Prince Goro Akechi, but they all get declined. [[spoiler:As it turns out, not only has Goro found out that ''Futaba'' is the real Cyrano instead of Ryuji, but he wants to ask out Futaba because of the various letters]]. |
| 38 | * Played with in the ''Fire Emblem 3 Houses'' Fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/22264315/chapters/53166412 Cyrano de Huberac]]''. |
| 39 | * Occurs in the Evangelion fic ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'', with Kaji playing Shinji's Cyrano. Unlike most examples, it goes off more or less without a hitch: Kaji is in no danger of loving Asuka as anything other than a daughter surrogate (and is already in love with Misato), Shinji repeats his given lines to himself to the point where he can quote them perfectly, and Asuka is genuinely interested in Shinji. Plus...with [[TheMole Ryouji Kaji]] as your Cyrano, how could you possibly lose? |
| 40 | [[/folder]] |
| 41 | |
| 42 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 43 | * ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'': Hiccup does a pantomimed version to try to help Toothless court a female. Naturally, she's not impressed, and makes this clear by smacking him on the nose. |
| 44 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'': Blu is trying to court Jewel but since he's never interacted that much with other birds and was raised in another country, he's incredibly awkward. Rafael, his friend, is TheCharmer and decides to help Blu during a romantic ride he and Jewel end up having. Rafael tells Blu to compliment Jewel's eyes. However, Blu's nervousness makes him say "I have beautiful eyes" instead. Jewel is confused and Rafael does a FacePalm. |
| 45 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'': The Trolls attempt this for Bridget while she's on her date with King Gristle Jr. A rare example in that the attempt is successful. |
| 46 | [[/folder]] |
| 47 | |
| 48 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 49 | * The TropeNamer's adaptations of course. Which, on this wiki, includes 1950's ''Film/{{Cyrano de Bergerac|1950}}'' with Creator/JoseFerrer, 1990's ''Film/CyranoDeBergerac'' with Creator/GerardDepardieu and Creator/VincentPerez, ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'' ([[SettingUpdate a modern retelling of the play]], with small-town fire chief C.D. Bales (Creator/SteveMartin) helping Chris, a hunky yet dimwitted newcomer to the department, woo the titular beauty (Creator/DarylHannah)) and TheMusical, ''Film/{{Cyrano}}'', with Creator/PeterDinklage. |
| 50 | ** ''Film/{{Edmond|2019}}'' is a dramatization of the writing of the play, in which Edmond Rostand ends up playing the balcony scene (and witnessing other iconic moments) in real life. Note that in this case, it's not an actual LoveTriangle: Edmond is married, with children, and sees the girl (Jeanne) as his muse and refuses to take the relationship any further once he's discovered (Edmond's friend is interested in Jeanne, but only for casual sex as he's a Casanova). Unlike the play, it all works out for the best in the end. |
| 51 | * In ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', Marty [=McFly=] acts as a Cyrano for his teenaged father George with the inevitable result that his teenaged mother Lorraine becomes even ''more'' attracted to Marty than before. |
| 52 | * In ''Film/BladesOfGlory,'' we ''do'' get two Cyranos, but the characters having the conversation both stop listening at the right time. |
| 53 | * In ''Film/TheBoldCaballero'', Don Diego plays this role for the Commandante, helping him to woo Isabella as part of his plan to stay close to both of them till he can prove Zorro's innocence. |
| 54 | * ''Film/TheClassic'' has a two-fold example. In the past, Joon-ha wrote his friend Tae-soo's love letters to Joo-hee; in the present, Joo-hee and Tae-soo's daughter Ji-hye writes letters for her friend So-kyeong to Sang-min. [[spoiler:Sang-min later reveals to Ji-hye that he figured out she was the true writer of the letters, leading to them becoming a couple.]] |
| 55 | * In ''Film/TheDouble'', James does this for Simon. It doesn't really work ([[spoiler:which may be what he intended all along]]) and ends with James [[TwinSwitch taking Simon's place]] and winning her over. |
| 56 | * ''Film/ElectricDreams'' involves a computer that is seducing the protagonist's next-door neighbour for him, but with the twist being that this is not an intentional plot, but the computer doing it of its own will. |
| 57 | * ''Film/TheHalfOfIt'' is a version set in a modern American high school with a lesbian Cyrano. Ellie, the CuteBookworm and academic overachiever, runs a secret essay writing cheating scheme. She's hired by Paul - the awkward but LovableJock - to write love letters to Aster, the girl he has a crush on. But then Ellie realizes ''she'' [[MatchmakerCrush has a crush on Aster as well]]. |
| 58 | * ''Film/KalHoNaaHo'': Aman plays Cyrano to Rohit's Christian and Naina's Roxane in his "six days to get the girl" scheme. Notably, this primarily works because [[spoiler:although Aman loves Naina, he knows that he is dying and so [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy wants Naina to be with someone who loves her]]. Notably, when Naina discovers the scheme, Aman indirectly expresses his own love for Naina, pretending that he is reading Rohit's words.]] |
| 59 | * The made-for-TV movie ''Film/KissMyAct'' starring Creator/CamrynManheim was a variation on the Cyrano story [[SettingUpdate set in a comedy club]]. |
| 60 | * The Disney movie ''Film/LetItShine'' is based on the actual play ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'', so of course there would be examples of this trope |
| 61 | * This causes the main problem in ''Film/LoveLetters''. Allen writes love letters on behalf of his friend, Roger, (who doesn't care one wit for the girl). Allen falls in love with this girl and the girl falls in love with the letters, thinking they're Roger's beautiful words. When she finds out that that isn't the case, things get ugly. |
| 62 | * Deconstructed in ''Film/SetItUp''. GenreSavvy {{Beleaguered Assistant}}s Charlie and Harper knowingly double-Cyrano (or as Charlie puts it, "[[Film/TheParentTrap1961 Parent Trap]]" their tyrannical bosses into falling in love with one another by manipulating events and giving advice so their relationship follows the classic romantic comedy trajectory. As a result, [[spoiler:Kirsten and Rick's relationship is largely manufactured, and Kirsten doesn't realize she and Rick (a misogynistic philanderer) are fundamentally incompatible until it's almost too late]]. |
| 63 | * In ''Film/ShortCircuit2'', Number 5 the sentient robot, who has scanned through a library's worth of novels, suggests being The Cyrano for his nerdy scientist friend Ben. During Ben's date with Sandy, Number 5 hacks into an electronic billboard's system and flashes the lines Ben is supposed to say to her. The hacking goes wrong, resulting in Ben reading out nonsense (including some vulgar insults in Spanish - which unfortunately Sandy understands), but he turns a potentially embarrassing situation around by admitting the ruse to Sandy, who thinks it's sweet that he would go to such effort for her. |
| 64 | * In ''Film/TheTerminal'', Viktor -- during his legal gridlock-induced stay in an airport for a year -- befriends a food service worker named Enrique, who offers to keep him fed for free in exchange for getting more information with the immigration officer that he's infatuated with. Despite Viktor's [[YouNoTakeCandle initially loose grasp of English]], he ends up as a surprisingly decent emissary between the two, exchanging notes on each other's behalf. [[spoiler:Months later, they finally properly meet face-to-face and tie the knot.]] |
| 65 | * In Disney's ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1993}}'', D'Artagnan tries to woo a bar wench using words Athos had previous used. When he messed up twice in the first few lines, he abandons all attempts and favors Porthos's approach. |
| 66 | * Another two women example: ''Film/TheTruthAboutCatsAndDogs'', where [[HollywoodHomely Janeane Garofalo]] uses Creator/UmaThurman as her unwitting Cyrano (let's just say that the first time we [[PublicExposure see Uma Thurman]], [[HandOrObjectUnderwear a speaker stack is involved]]). |
| 67 | * Somewhat inverted in ''Film/TheUglyTruth'', in which Gerard Butler's character instructs Katharine Heigl's on how to ensnare and hold on to the handsome, and comparatively charming doctor of her dreams. Instead of being interested in the Roxane of the scenario, however, Butler's Cyrano ends up falling for Heigl's Christian. |
| 68 | * In ''Film/WhateverItTakes2000'', Creator/ShaneWest and Creator/JamesFranco are Cyranos for each other. The nerdy accordion player (West) helps the school jock (Franco) woo his nerdy (but hot) best friend, by making him seem intelligent and sensitive. As a quid pro quo, the jock helps the nerd get the popular girl by showing him how to be a total jerk to her. In the end, the nerdy main characters end up with each other. |
| 69 | * ''Film/WhatsNewPussycat'' - Dr. Fassbender (Peter Sellers) gets patient Michael James (Peter O'Toole) to speak for him to the woman he's infatuated with outside her apartment, late at night, while they're both raging drunk. She can't make out what they're saying; at one point Michael yells "I said your ''face'' is like the ''pale autumn MOON'', are you ''DEAF??''" |
| 70 | [[/folder]] |
| 71 | |
| 72 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 73 | * This trope is combined with GoldDigger in ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Exile's Valor]]'', when Prince Karathanelan of Rethwellan successfully courts Queen Selenay of Valdemar due to coaching by both an experienced rake and someone with considerable inside information about the young monarch's insecurities. |
| 74 | * ''[[Literature/AMarcaDeUmaLagrima A Marca de uma Lágrima]]'' (''The Trace of a Tear Drop'') is the teenager version of Cyrano de Bergerac, where a girl with no confidence helps her best friend to get the guys she's in love with by writing poems. |
| 75 | * In ''Literature/TheMarkAndTheVoid'', Claude hires Paul, a writer, to help him woo over Ariadne, a waitress that he likes but is nervous about talking to. ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'' is even mentioned by name, and Paul uses "Dr. Cyrano" as a pseudonym when talking to her. |
| 76 | * ''Literature/MOrF?'' by Lisa Papademetriou and Chris Tebbets uses the [[spoiler: "double-Cyrano"]] variant with text-messaging. There's a slight twist: [[spoiler: both of the Cyranos involved are gay, but the girl did not realize that the boy she was after was also using a Cyrano and so thought ''he'' was gay and in love with ''her'' Cyrano, with [[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensuing]] when she tries to test this in the most ridiculous ways possible after seeing "symptoms."]] |
| 77 | * ''Literature/OnlyInTheMovies'' has main character Jake's unattractive female friend Vanni acting as his Cyrano, while he pursues the ''very'' attractive Alba. She even has the big nose. It doesn't work, and Alba falls for another guy, and asks Jake to be ''her'' Cyrano, leading to a situation where Jake is standing behind a curtain, whispering lines to Alba, while Vanni stands behind ''another'' curtain whispering lines to him. In the end, Alba ends up alone while [[spoiler: Jake ends up with Vanni]]. |
| 78 | * In ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Unseen Academicals]]'', Nutt pens a poetic love letter on behalf of his friend Trev, whose romantic compositional skills are limited to "I think you are really fit, want to go out?". Subverted in that, while Juliet is impressed by all those fancy words, she doesn't really understand their meaning, so her friend Glenda summarizes its message as "I think you are really fit, want to go out?". Bonus points for the poem as written doubling as one from Nutt to Glenda. |
| 79 | * ''Literature/WeAreThePerfectGirl'' is a {{Gender Flip}}ped variant where Aphra, an outgoing and witty but homely teen, helps her best friend Bethany, a beautiful but extremely shy and socially awkward girl, flirt with popular guy Greg while trying unsuccessfully to not crush on Greg herself. |
| 80 | * In ''Literature/TheWiseMansFear'', Kvothe is asked to help the wealthy Maer Alveron court Lady Meluan Lackless. He succeeds and they get married, but afterward he's quietly sent away when Meluan learns that Kvothe is an [[FantasticRacism Edema Ruh]]. Of course, she hates Ruh because her sister ran off with one, and [[spoiler:it's no stretch to conclude her sister is Kvothe's mother]]. |
| 81 | [[/folder]] |
| 82 | |
| 83 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 84 | * Subverted in ''Series/ThirtyRock'', when Tracy and Jack meet C.C. on the Clinton campaign headquarters. Jack tries to talk to her, and Tracy, mimicking Cyrano, spouts [[NonSequitur Non Sequiturs]] from under the balcony. |
| 85 | * ''Series/AllyMcBeal'' does this at least twice. Once, John helps Richard win a case by talking to him through an earpiece, and a season later Claire helps Richard romance a woman through the same method. Oddly, Richard name-checks "Cyrano de Burger King" in the first case, but then later claims to have never read it. |
| 86 | * Blackadder is the Prince Regent's Cyrano in ''Series/{{Blackadder}} the Third''. He ends up having to speak for the Prince as well when the Prince starts screwing it up. |
| 87 | -->'''Amy:''' What about Georgey-Porgey's lovely poems that won my hearty-wearty? |
| 88 | -->'''Blackadder:''' All writteny-witteny by me-ee we-ee, I'm afraidy-waidy. |
| 89 | * ''Series/{{Blackish}}'': In one episode, Zoey tries to help Junior hook up with a popular girl. She uses a bluetooth headset to advise him while he asks her out. |
| 90 | * Deconstructed--oh, God, is it ever deconstructed--in ''Series/{{Bones}}''. The victim of the week ghostwrote love letters for the romantically shy, generating complications and love triangles so tricky she ended up dead. |
| 91 | * ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' has an episode NAMED "Cyrano", in which Cory and Shawn are forced to help Frankie in his "wooing" of Harley's girlfriend. They succeed, and Harley ultimately decides to be a better man and let his girlfriend have what she wants, which is Frankie (the girl naturally goes on [[GirlOfTheWeek to never be seen again]]). In the ending when Cory and Shawn brag about having played Cyrano for Frankie, Mr. Turner lampshades the misinterpretation of the phrase as they had not had feelings for the girl themselves. |
| 92 | * Greg is Peter's Cyrano on ''Series/TheBradyBunch''. |
| 93 | * Referenced in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' as she and Xander give unsolicited advice to Giles on how to ask Miss Calendar out on a date. Rather than the real Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac's eloquence, this naturally involves the use of BuffySpeak: |
| 94 | -->'''Buffy''': Yeah, you just tell her "Hey, I've got a thing, you've got a thing, maybe we can have a thing!" |
| 95 | -->'''Giles''': Oh, thank you, Cyrano. |
| 96 | * The main character in Colombian minseries/short soap ''Series/CartasDeAmor'', Cupido López, is a professional love letter writer, who travels from town to town offering his matchmaking and counselor services. In a truly spectacular case of TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes, his letters and advice to others works spectacularly well (at least until the other main character starts interfering with it), but [[SweetPollyOliver his]] [[HereditaryCurse own]] [[SweetOnPollyOliver love]] ([[MyBelovedSmother and]] [[ParentalAbandonment life]]) [[LovesMyAlterEgo problems]] are a bit more difficult to solve. |
| 97 | * ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'' obviously had this in an episode telling the original Cyrano story. It was also seen in the "[[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Juleo and Rumieta]]" episode, when El Chapulín tries to help Juleo say some love poems to Rumieta, and HilarityEnsues when Juleo starts botching the lines, even repeating Chapulín's "You screwed it up, you beast!" to her, not realizing it was meant for him. |
| 98 | * ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' has Coop helping a man court Phoebe. [[spoiler: He realizes he loves her as he is feeding the lines.]] |
| 99 | * Done hilariously in ''Series/{{Cory in the House}}''. Cory Meena and Stickler are all Cyrano to Newt's date with a smart girl. However, it goes overboard when the President's dog steals the microphe used to contact Newt and Newt, unaware of what is happening, starts repeating everything the dog (and everyone else who just happens to be around the microphone while this is happening) says with disasterous results. |
| 100 | * In ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}}'', both Tristan and Maya had crushes on Campbell, leading Tristan to chat with him using Maya's [[Website/{{Facebook}} Face]][[BlandNameProduct range]] profile to chat with him. |
| 101 | * On ''Series/DogWithABlog'', Nikki and Tyler play Cyrano for Avery to pretend to know Spanish to "tutor" her crush. Unfortunately, it just happens that Nikki has a crush on Tyler and is jealous of his new girlfriend. This escalates into a massive argument between Tyler and Nikki that results in them abandoning Avery on the spot. |
| 102 | * ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': In "Smart Girl", Josh uses a headset to help Drake talk to a smart girl he likes and compete in an academic contest so he can impress her. |
| 103 | * This happened twice in ''Series/FamilyTies'', with Alex P. Keaton. The first is where he gives very unhelpful (and sexist) advice to Mallory's French tutor, Jeff. He's a little more helpful with Skippy, until he himself falls for Skippy's love interest. |
| 104 | * In ''Series/FlightOfTheConchords'', Brett receives conflicting and humorously terrible instructions from his friends while trying to woo a pet store clerk. |
| 105 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Joey turns to Ross for help sounding smarter to impress Charlie, who Ross is also attracted to. Ross provides Joey with a script to memorise for a tour of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art the MET]], but Joey screws up by turning the wrong way leaving him talking about exhibits that aren't visible and alerting Charlie to his prep work. |
| 106 | * In the ''Series/{{Glee}}'' episode "Hairography," Kurt, who is in love with Finn, pretends to help rival Rachel get Finn's attention by [[BeAWhoreToGetYourMan encouraging her to dress sexier]]. However, the episode [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] the trope: far from helping her, Kurt is actually trying to sabotage Rachel's chances with Finn, knowing that he prefers girls who dress more modestly and will be turned off by Rachel's new wardrobe. |
| 107 | * When Lilly and Oliver of ''Series/HannahMontana'' find their relationship on the rocks, Rico finds that Oliver's moping is bad for business. In order to shut him up and bring the customers back, Rico helps mend their relationship by sending Lilly a love letter in Oliver's name. |
| 108 | * ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' has Hiro do this in an attempt to get his childhood hero together with [[LoveInterests the Princess]]. She [[GenreSavvy sees right through it]] and falls for Hiro, [[FaceHeelTurn making the childhood hero quite upset]]. |
| 109 | * Twisted in ''Series/HomeAndAway'', where Romeo encourages (the fully literate) Jai to write love poems to Annie. Annie believes Romeo is the source of the poems, although whether or not Romeo is fully honest has yet to be properly revealed. |
| 110 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': |
| 111 | ** Barney asks Robin to play Cyrano when Nora finally calls him, afraid of messing things up again. Robin agrees to this, but what Barney is not aware of is that she has a MatchmakerCrush on him, and instead of exactly playing Cyrano, she's expressing her own feelings for him. Unfortunately for Robin, it works on Nora. |
| 112 | ** Another episode has Barney trying to vicariously perform "plays" on women through Ted, feeding him lines through an earpiece. Barney, being, well, [[LovableSexManiac Barney]] feeds Ted some awful lines. |
| 113 | * Discussed and invoked in "Chapter Forty-Two" of ''Series/JaneTheVirgin'', where Rogelio asks Jane to come with him to a dinner party and help him look smart and cultured in front of Dina's friends. Jane and Dina, who are both writers, refer to the "classic" codifiers of Playing Cyrano and PygmalionPlot; Rogelio is only familiar with the modern remakes, clarifying that he means like in ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'' and ''Theatre/MyFairLady''. |
| 114 | * ''Series/{{Jessie}}'': Not Cyrano through voice contact but rather texting. Emma asks Luke to play Cyrano for her so she can communicate with her LovableJock boyfriend over sports. The ruse is discovered, however, when Luke types a word wrong in Emma's text and vents his frustration so loud he is caught in the act. |
| 115 | * In an episode of ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'',"The Courtship Of Miranda Sanchez", Lizzie is Miranda's Cyrano. |
| 116 | * A professional version in ''Series/MadMen''. During Don Draper's "leave of absence", Don gets Freddy to go into SC&P as a front to give pitches Don wrote so he can still work. Freddy lampshades this to Don later by calling it "This Cyrano routine". |
| 117 | * ''Series/ModernFamily'': |
| 118 | ** Cam helping Manny declare his love to a girl in an early episode, on the phone, in public. |
| 119 | ---> '''Cameron:''' You're the prettiest, smartest, funniest girl in the 6th grade. I know you're only eleven, but I can't stop thinking about you. I've loved talking to you online, and I think we should become boyfriend and girlfriend. [''to the glaring audience''] Oh no! It's not what you think. [[CrossesTheLineTwice I'm talking to a little boy.]] |
| 120 | ** One episode has Phil texting Luke's crush because Luke didn't know what to say, and the conversation goes great. During their date, it turns out that the girl's mom had been texting in her place. Phil has to point out that no, it's not a MeetCute for a ParentWithNewParamour, he's happily married. |
| 121 | * ''Series/TheMunsters'' has Herman write poetry for a nebbishy coworker trying to impress an attractive woman. She's falling for the poetry until Herman leaves and he's left on his own, at which point she goes after Herman instead. Naturally, once she sees his face [[FastForwardGag this can only end one way.]] |
| 122 | * An episode of ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' had Rizzo acting as Cyrano to Bobo the Bear, feeding him lines through an earpeice to say to guest star Creator/CindyCrawford. It all went horribly wrong when one of Rizzo's young relatives passed on the way back from the fairground, and Rizzo asks if he could play with the balloons. |
| 123 | * Brian is Jordan's Cyrano in the last episode of ''Series/MySoCalledLife''. |
| 124 | * ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'' is behind much of the [[HilarityEnsues mayhem]] in the radio episode "Poetry Mixup" and [[SoundToScreenAdaptation its television remake]] "Bones, Son of Cyrano". Mr. Boynton provides Walter Denton with a poem from Cyrano to gives to Harriet Conklin. Harriet thinks that Mr. Boynton intended the letter for her. Harriet puts the letter in an old enevelope and hands it back to Mr. Boynton. Mr. Boynton hands it to Miss Brooks. Miss Brooks gives Stretch Snodgrass ([[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Bones in the remake]]) the poem as something with which to woo Harriet. Through yet another mixup, Stretch delivers the love poem to Principal Osgood Conklin instead of Miss Brooks' requisition for flowerpots. |
| 125 | -->'''Mr. Conklin''': (reading) "Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue." Now ''really!'' |
| 126 | * {{Discussed}} in ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' when Leslie asks Ann to help her on a date and she thinks that Ann is going to suggest this, but remarks that it would never work. |
| 127 | * ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "Bury the Lede", Finch (despite being something of an anti-social nerd) does this for John Reese when he goes on a date with a workaholic IntrepidReporter so he can secretly protect her. Reese stuffs up because [[DatingServiceDisaster he hasn't read her dating website profile]], so Finch keeps chiming in until Reese ends up RemovingTheEarpiece (Finch's advice isn't bad, just intrusive). |
| 128 | * In an episode of ''Series/PicketFences'', when the girl realizes what's gone on, she accuses those involved of rape. |
| 129 | * An episode of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' had Jackie as the female lead in a production of the [[TropeNamer trope naming play]], but she had gotten ill and hadn't had time to memorize the lines, so Roseanne shows up at the last minute and starts feeding her the lines. Immediately lampshaded when, after Jackie tells her they can't do that, she points at that Cyrano is doing it for Christian. |
| 130 | * In season 3's "Communicable Theatre" episode, ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' has an unusual example. Jackie is the understudy for the lead in ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'' and is unprepared. Roseanne shows up to feed her the lines. When Jackie comments that they can't do that, Roseanne points out that's what Cyrano is doing. |
| 131 | * Newman is Kramer's Cyrano on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' when the latter pursues Jerry's girlfriend, revealing a rarely seen poetic side. The scheme nearly derails when she mentions junk mail, and, fed by Newman, Kramer launches into a rant that so-called junk mail takes as just manpower to deliver as "precious little greeting cards." |
| 132 | * ''Series/ShakeItUp'' has the episode "Opposites Attract It Up" where Rocky and Ty play Cyrano for [=CeCe=] and her nerdy boyfriend James respectively, with Rocky coaching [=CeCe=] on how to be smart and Ty coaching James on how to be cool. |
| 133 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' plays with this: Clark, who is implied to have feelings for Lois, reads Jimmy's wedding vows aloud to her. However he wasn't trying to win Lois over or pass Jimmy's words off as his own, which she realizes only as she sees the vows in his hands. Lois's next line provides the ShoutOut to the trope, when she refers to Jimmy as "a regular Cyrano". |
| 134 | * In ''Series/SmartGuy'', T.J.'s older brother starts swapping love letters with his girlfriend but he can't think of anything great to say so he has T.J. (a child genius) to write them for him. His girlfriend, so overwhelmed by how amazing the letters are, starts worrying about how badly her letters would be and asks T.J. to write them for her. So T.J. spends most of the episode writing love letters to himself. |
| 135 | * ''Series/SonnyWithAChance'': Sonny for Tawni in the episode "Sonny In The Kitchen With Dinner". |
| 136 | * On ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', Lt. Cadman plays Cyrano for Dr. [=McKay=] from inside his own head. |
| 137 | * ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. In "Looking for Par'Mach In All The Wrong Places", Worf trains Quark in how to woo Klingon matriarch Grilka, the Ferengi's one-time wife. Worf is infatuated with her himself, but he is an exile, disgraced in the eyes of Klingon culture. Worf is also motivated by the accusation that--having been raised by humans--he doesn't know how to woo a Klingon woman. |
| 138 | * It happens in ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' with Maddie acting as the Cyrano for London via hidden microphones and headsets. This is because the guy London is trying to woo (played by Zac Efron) is intelligent and London is... well... [[TheDitz not]]. Falls apart when the guy says something that upsets Maddie (he's a conservative, she's a liberal) and yells so loud as to uncover the ruse. Which leads to a SlapSlapKiss between he and Maddie. |
| 139 | * A sketch from ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' revolved around Cyrano himself popping up to help a man woo a woman in the modern day. However, the man in question is a sensitive, good-nature fellow and the woman is crass and rude. Cyrano's advice is to be brash and offensive, and downright insulting, which the man in question takes only grudgingly. As the scene progresses, he realizes that he has absolutely ''no'' interest in going out with this unpleasant woman, and her responsiveness to his abrasive come-ons indicate that she has some real self-confidence issues and should probably seek help with her self-loathing, but Cyrano convinces him to go on anyway, since at least he can sleep with her tonight. Eventually the man refuses to continue, but Cyrano keeps shouting out the advice anyway and actually jams a small packet of cocaine into his hands, which the girl mistake for his continued efforts and she drags him inside. |
| 140 | * ''Series/WhiteCollar'' has a brief but strange example. Peter finds himself needing to flirt with a woman in order to get access to the building where she works. His wife Elizabeth thinks this is hilarious ("you hate flirting!") and ends up feeding him a bunch of lines when he calls the woman to arrange the rendezvous. |
| 141 | * This happens in an episode of ''[[Series/WillAndGrace Will & Grace]]'', in which Will is Jack's Cyrano and tells him what to say to an attractive customer at the department store where Jack is working, using the headsets worn by the staff there. Jack is intimidated because the guy is a lot more smart and cultured than he is, though the guy ends up giving Will his number once he realizes what's going on. |
| 142 | * ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'': In "[[Recap/WishboneS1E07Cyranose Cyranose]]", as a PlotParallel to the trope-naming play, Joe, Sam, and David are struggling with an assignment to write a poem for class, especially David, till he discovers a poem placed outside his home and shares it with the class. Their teacher, Mr. Pruitt, is so impressed that he tells David he wants to publish it on his behalf, till David later admits he didn't write the poem himself. They later discover that the poem was actually written by David's neighbor, Wanda, who was shown trying to encourage him earlier in the episode, and [[GeekyTurnOn this sparks the beginning of a relationship between Wanda and Mr. Pruitt]]. |
| 143 | * Attempted very horribly in the ''Series/{{Wizards of Waverly Place}}'' episode "You Pop Me and We Both Go Down". After Alex accidentally brings Justin's zit to life, the talking zit ''attempts'' to be Justin's Cyrano on his date to the HighSchoolDance but messes the whole thing up by talking loudly to other girls and made Justin sound like a jerk in front of his date by doing so. |
| 144 | * Subverted in ''Series/YoSoyBettyLaFea'': After Mario Calderón and Armando Mendoza decided that the only way of ensuring the safety of the company they screwed was seducing and romancing Betty, the person who they left in the financial control of everything, Mario assumes the role of planning and writing a lot of little notes, cards and letters destined to melt the woman's heart. He does that because Armando was too repulsed by Betty to do it himself, and although Mario ''neither'' likes her, at least has a cooler head and some level of "professionalism" in womanizing issues. In a tragic turn, [[spoiler:Armando falls in love with Betty genuinely, and when he realizes that he ditches Mario's "help" and began to write himself notes with his true feelings, hoping to stop the scam and win her or real before she realized even that something was wrong. Unfortunately, when Betty (who was in love with Armando before all the scheme was even planned, and had no intention to keep the company, for begin with) eventually discovers their plan and realizes the whole ruse both men put her into, she becomes understandably enraged, and convinces herself that the "real" letters by Armando were also written by Mario. That wound lasted a lot to heal, to say the least]]. |
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| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Opera]] |
| 148 | * [[UnbuiltTrope Seemingly deconstructed]] in Mozart's ''Theatre/DonGiovanni'' (which predates Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac by [[UnbuiltTrope over a century]]). |
| 149 | * Mephistofele serves as this to Faust in Gounod's ''Theatre/{{Faust}}''. |
| 150 | [[/folder]] |
| 151 | |
| 152 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 153 | * The TropeNamer and TropeCodifier is, as described in the introduction, ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac''. Cyrano is quick-witted and in love with Roxane, but is ashamed of his giant nose and considers himself unworthy. His friend Christian is handsome and also likes Roxane, but he isn't clever like Cyrano and fears disappointing her by being dull and boring. They team up to try to present Christian as the perfect guy; it works for a while, but eventually ends in tragedy. |
| 154 | * ''Theatre/InTheHeights'': Usnavi is too shy to ask Vanessa out properly, so Sonny gets fed up and does it himself. It actually goes much better than Usnavi expected, and the way he raps about it afterwards, you'd think ''he'' asked Vanessa himself, not Sonny. |
| 155 | * Played at in ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' when the Prince woos Hero for his friend Claudio. |
| 156 | * Shakespeare has a field day with this in ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'', when the "Cyrano" Orsino sends is a girl disguised as a boy who's actually in love with ''him''. |
| 157 | * In the Creator/AAMilne play ''The Ugly Duckling'', a prince and princess, both regarded as rather plain, each hire a Cyrano to impersonate them during the marriage negotiations. At the wedding, the prince plans to wear full armor with the visor down, while the princess wears a face-obscuring veil. |
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| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 161 | * One side mission in ''VideoGame/AkibasTripUndeadAndUndressed'' has an {{Otaku}} ask [[PlayerCharacter Nanashi]] to dress him up and supply the words for his confession to a girl he has a crush on. The player can choose whether to help him out, or sabotage him for a laugh. |
| 162 | * In the video game ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', the character Garrick recurs from the first game, aided by a gnome named, unsubtly, Cyrando, trying (and failing) to woo a noblewoman [[spoiler:who ends up marrying the gnome instead]]. |
| 163 | * In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', you can be the Cyrano to your party's resident drunk dwarf. It succeeds... kind of. You also get to be the Cyrano to Aveline in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', but that is less wooing Donnick for her than pushing the two into TenMinutesInTheCloset scenarios. |
| 164 | * ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': There is a sidequest called The Book of Love, where you must [[MatchMakerQuest reconcile people's love problems]]. The second part of the quest involves commissioning a bard/mercenary to rewrite (ghostrewrite?) an old poem of his for a several-centuries-old [[OurElvesAreDifferent Altmer]] to woo his [[InterspeciesRomance (human) Redguard]] love interest. |
| 165 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Fable|I}}'', a quest requires you to deliver a poem [[FetchQuest across most of the main continent.]] On its own, this wouldn't qualify, but you can ''claim'' to be the Cyrano. |
| 166 | * ''VideoGame/KingdomComeDeliverance'' features this in the ''The Amorous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon'' DLC, as Hans intends to woo a peasant girl and has Henry hiding in the bushes to feed him lines...then cover for him when her angry father turns up with a mob outside while he's in her bedroom. |
| 167 | * A side encounter in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has you playing Cyrano to the romantically awkward Garrus, assuming you didn’t romance him yourself. |
| 168 | * Non-romantic example in ''[[VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns Shadowrun: Hong Kong]]'' - on [=Is0bel's=] character-specific mission, you have to coach her through fast-talking her way into the room she needs to get to. HilarityEnsues when someone confronts you (for hogging a computer kiosk) at the same time that she's being confronted (for being in a restricted area), and you have to come up with lines that work in both contexts. |
| 169 | * In ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Episode 3: Baddest of the Bands'', Homestar is an incredible R&B singer, so long as someone is cuing him the right lyrics. Strong Bad does this during his audition, and [[TheUnintelligible Pom Pom]] does this through an ear piece when the two are on-stage as "Pom Star". Strong Bad sabotages them by [[spoiler:having the [[WordSaladLyrics Drive-Thru Whale]] hijack the signal.]] |
| 170 | * In ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland: Lair of the Leviathan'', Guybrush has to play this for a giant ''manatee'' to help him conquer an even bigger female manatee, who is very angry and would eat him if something went wrong. |
| 171 | * In ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', Ayano can "eliminate" her rivals by matchmaking them. This involves setting up conversations between each rival girl and their alternate love interest, telling the latter what to say via earpiece. |
| 172 | [[/folder]] |
| 173 | |
| 174 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 175 | * [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kyou]] in ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' acts like this towards her twin Ryou, trying to hook her with Tomoya. This either ends in success (her bad end[[note]]Do note that it's only a bad end because you don't hit a flag necessary for unlocking later parts of the visual novel.[[/note]] in the game), both of them give up about pursuing Tomoya for the sake of [[FirstGirlWins Nagisa]] (anime), or her being outed on [[MatchmakerCrush having liked Tomoya for a long time]] with lots of nasty love triangle drama for everyone involved. [[spoiler:In the end... Ryou realizes that clinging to Tomoya just isn't going to work and makes a plan with Kyou. Kyou cuts her hair to look more like her sister and Tomoya breaks up with 'Ryou' while confessing that he actually likes her sister.]] |
| 176 | * In ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', minor character Suginami is so shy she can't bring herself to confess to her crush, Riki. Eventually, her friends overcome this for her by writing [[LoveLetterLunacy a love note]] for Riki and arranging for them to meet. Except in this case, Suginami had no idea her friends were doing this, leading to an awkward moment where she confesses she didn't write the note and Riki is relieved, only for Suginami to continue that she ''does'' actually like him, though. |
| 177 | * Subverted by the two female "Cyranos" in ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'', due to the MatchmakerCrush situation. The first one, Sekai Saionji, ends up becoming the "mistress" of Makoto Itou, the boy she was trying to hook up with Kotonoha Katsura. The other, Setsuna Kiyoura, tries to force Makoto to break up with Kotonoha and stay with Sekai. |
| 178 | * In the Queen Bean storyline of ''VisualNovel/HushHushOnlyYourLoveCanSaveThem'', the protagonist plays Cyrano for the awkward Lotus at the behest of her brother Dmitri. He eventually begins outright calling them Cyrano when they stop by for a "Lotus Lesson." |
| 179 | [[/folder]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 182 | * In ''Webcomic/TheAccidentalSpaceSpy'', the protagonist must look up proper etiquette of an alien species and quickly tell it to a member of that species so she can convince the guards she is high-class enough to be admitted to the inner hall of the president’s party. |
| 183 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Cheer}},'' the spinoff of ''Webcomic/TheWotch,'' when a character tries this, the girl easily notices the Cyrano behind the bushes and asks her date, "Max, why is Xander hiding in a bush giving you bad advice?" Max, being TheVoiceless, doesn't answer (or repeat any of Xander's lame lines). |
| 184 | * ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': Paz has Bobby the robot write a love letter to Kat, who at first thinks he wrote it on his own accord. No trouble ensues as Paz sets her straight soon. |
| 185 | * In ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', Rudy once acts as his uncle Ralph's Cyrano, while his girlfriend Fiona plays this with her mother, Martha. Both feel guilty of starting to fall in love with "that other person". When the day of the date arrives, everything falls into place. Since Ralph and Martha were set to a relationship very similar to the one Rudy and Fiona already shared, they rapidly fell in love, and everything turned out alright. |
| 186 | ** And just in case one didn't get the reference the cafe where the two they were writing for meet in person has [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2001/kk0714.html a waiter named Cyrano]]. |
| 187 | * ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' ran a joke high-tech version of the trope in which the phallophobic and unstable Yuki found herself locked in a formal sexual contest with Sonya for access to Gary, giving her overconfident HollywoodPsych therapist Kiley a month to "fix her brain". Kiley did what she could, but come the, ahem, climactic night of the contest, [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/menage-a-3/the-real-woman Yuki asked Kiley to provide support and advice by smartphone.]] This gave Kiley a close view of the ensuing disaster. |
| 188 | * ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' has an one-off strip where a guy wooing a young woman seeks advice on what to say from his friend. Since this is [[EveryoneIsBi Oglaf]], it ends with the guy fucking his friend instead. In the stinger, [[GuyOnGuyIsHot the girl shows up]] [[ThreeWaySex to join them.]] |
| 189 | * When Tess of ''Webcomic/PixieTrixComix'' finds herself going on her first date with another woman, she doesn’t have a clue about how to dress or behave, so for some reason she consults the geeky and overconfident Aaron. He actually provides some quite good advice on dress, but then they get distracted and he doesn’t have time to suggest anything about behavior. [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/pixie-trix-comix/lovely-dress So he ends up trying to play Cyrano by text message.]] |
| 190 | * Subverted in [[http://www.twogag.com/archives/852 this]] strip of ''Webcomic/TwoGuysAndGuy.'' |
| 191 | [[/folder]] |
| 192 | |
| 193 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 194 | * In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', one [[ADayInTheLimelight interlude]] chapter[[note]][[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/interlude-16-donation-bonus-2/ Interlude 16 (Donation Bonus #2)]][[/note]] includes the non-romantic version of the trope is downplayed -- [[spoiler:Dragon]] gives [[spoiler:Defiant]] a few cues, rather than feeding him lines. |
| 195 | [[/folder]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 198 | * Done in ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'', with Cadpig giving Rolly the words. However, Rolly mishears her, causing him to throw insults at the object of his affections. |
| 199 | * On ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime,'' both [[NonHumanSidekick Jake]] and [[VampireMonarch Marceline]] try to help [[KidHero Finn]] ask [[EmperorScientist Princess Bubblegum]] to go see a movie. Jake's idea is to dress up in a silly costume and play the lute. Marceline's idea is to [[NightmareFetishist release wolves into Bubblegum's room]]. In an interesting twist, the episode ends with Finn realizing that [[TheNotLoveInterest he has more in common with Marceline]] and asking her out on a [[NotADate platonic date]] instead. |
| 200 | * Done in the ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' TV series, with Charlie giving Itchy cues via an earpiece. It all goes wrong when Charlie starts playing poker, and Itchy starts repeating his game talk. |
| 201 | * ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': In episode [[Recap/BigCityGreensS2E16 "Gabriella's Fella"]] Remy hands Cricket an earpiece and relays what he wants him to say to Gabriella. Unfortunately, Remy has no idea what he's doing, and he starts yelling at Gabriella, which Cricket repeats despite that Gabriella can hear Remy. Remy has to call Vasquez to help him out, becoming a second Cyrano to Remy's Cyrano. |
| 202 | * ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "Sleeping with the Frenemy", Tammy ends up staying with the Belchers for a week, and Tina tries to help her win over a cute but quirky boy from out of town. |
| 203 | * {{Subverted}} on ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', when Rallo offers to play Cyrano for Junior: |
| 204 | -->'''Junior:''' Hasn't this bit been done to death?\ |
| 205 | '''Rallo:''' ''[tossing earpiece aside]'' Yeah, you're right. |
| 206 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' has Doug believe he's being asked to do this by [[FunnyForeigner Fentruck]], not due to shyness, but due to Fentruck's uncertain English skills. Doug's friendly nature conflicts with the fact that the letter is for "the blonde-haired girl who sits in front of" Fentruck -- in class, the girl that sits in front of Fentruck is Doug's own crush Patti. [[spoiler:It's actually Fentruck's uncertain English causing the dilemma: he's using an expression used to refer to one's elder sibling in his own language. Why he wants to write to his sister in English is anyone's guess.]] |
| 207 | * Spoofed in a cutaway gag on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', where "woo" quickly becomes "antisemitism." |
| 208 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love?". Zoidberg returns to his home planet to spawn and must convince Edna, a childhood friend, to receive his genetic material. Fry serves as his Cyrano after some initial failures, and it works surprisingly well until Leela tells Edna what's really going on, at which point Edna decides to seduce Fry instead. |
| 209 | -->'''Fry:''' Start with a compliment. Tell her she looks thin. |
| 210 | -->'''Dr. Zoidberg:''' [calling to Edna] You seem malnourished. Are you suffering from internal parasites? |
| 211 | -->'''Edna:''' [pleased] Why, yes. Thanks for noticing. |
| 212 | * The ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'' episode "Cleo's Pen Pal" inverts this by having Cleofatra ask Duzer to pose as her on a date with werewolf actor Billy Headstone, who Cleo has a crush on. But Duzer loves the idea of dating Billy, much to the ire of Cleo. |
| 213 | * A variation of this occurs in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' with Ursula tricking Ariel into giving her her voice. |
| 214 | * Performed in the ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' episode "Trading Places", with Penny talking to Zoe's crush for her (due to Zoe having a large blemish on her nose at the time). |
| 215 | * The 1937 ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' short ''I Only Have Eyes for You'' has a nerdy bird trying to woo a canary who is obsessed with crooners, so he hires a mockingbird to his in his ice truck and croon the title song while he lip-synchs. The problems start when the mockingbird starts getting cold in the ice truck and exposes the ruse when he sneezes the top off the truck. |
| 216 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' manages one of the two-sided versions - Alya is advising Marinette via EarpieceConversation, and Adrien is advising Nino. Marinette has a crush on Adrien and, due to some earlier miscommunication, thinks she's going on a date with him until Nino shows up. HilarityEnsues, and Alya and Nino end up being a couple. |
| 217 | * Played with in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'', in which Gonzo woos Piggy with the help of the actual Cyrano De Bergerac. And Creator/SteveMartin. |
| 218 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode "The World Can Wait", the Brain falls in love with a BrainlessBeauty female lab mouse who thinks Pinky is hilarious but has trouble understanding [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Brain's usual mode of speech]]. So, Pinky becomes his Cyrano. |
| 219 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/PetAlien'' episode "Night of the Norwegian Boy", Granville enlists Gumpers to help him win over Melba Manners, who despises Granville but loves Gumpers' poetry. It's deconstructed in that Tommy calls Granville out for lying to her, and Melba immediately dumps Granville when she learns the truth. |
| 220 | * From ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', when Homer is supplying Principal Skinner with the lines to win Edna Krabappel back: |
| 221 | -->'''Skinner:''' So you'll be my Cyrano?\ |
| 222 | '''Homer:''' Hey, if this thing works out, I won't have to. |
| 223 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 224 | ** In "Erection Day" Cartman helps Jimmy woo a girl on a date using this method. Subverted in that it actually works, until Jimmy messes it up by being too forward and deviating from Cartman's plan. |
| 225 | ** "Deep Learning" is about Stan and Clyde using AI to generate texts to their girlfriends. |
| 226 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' has "The Bergerac" where the Titans [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Bumblebee]] try (and fail) to be this trope to Robin as he tries to woo Wonder Girl. [[WithCatlikeTread They fail miserably at their job]]. |
| 227 | * ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'': Top Cat does it for Choo choo. As usual with this plan, [[FromBadToWorse it does not end well]]. |
| 228 | * On ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island,'' [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Cody]] seemed to think he needed to play this role for [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Trent]]. He really didn't. |
| 229 | * In ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'', Yogi once played The Cyrano for Boo-Boo. He even made Boo-Boo dress up like in ''Cyrano De Bergerac'', though Yogi should've been the one wearing the big fake nose. |
| 230 | [[/folder]] |
| 231 | |
| 232 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 233 | * Author Creator/HarlanEllison got through his Army service by volunteering to help other soldiers write letters to their girlfriends. As a result, the other soldiers looked out for him and often helped him with his duties. |
| 234 | * Averted, or reversed, in a famous love triangle from the earliest days of Plymouth Colony: Captain Miles Standish sent his friend John Alden to court Priscilla Mullins on his behalf. But John was also in love with Priscilla, who, perceiving this, asked, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" John and Priscilla married. Narrated in Longfellow's poem, "Literature/TheCourtshipOfMilesStandish." |
| 235 | * The Real Cyrano de Bergerac history: there really was a French literary style called préciosité ("preciousness") that arose in the 17th century from the lively conversations and playful word games of les précieuses, the witty and educated intellectual ladies who frequented the Paris’s salons to talk about literature. This style was based in a [[strike:trope]] idea [[BeautyEqualsGoodness that literature must be suffused with feminine elegance, exquisitely correct scruples of behavior and Platonic love]] [[FanGirl that were hugely popular with a largely female audience]]. The "preciouses" ladies reunited in literary salons, and talked about this new style, but some of them decided to take [[SeriousBusiness this style out of the field of literature and right into]] RealLife: they asked their suitors for [[LoveLetterLunacy love letters that expressed their feelings with nothing less than excellent poetry]]. Obviously, those suitors chose to pay recognized poets to ghost write the letters. [[http://www.amazon.com/Lettres-satiriques-amoureuses-Precedees-Collection/dp/2843210216/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293742183&sr=1-11 One of those poets was the real Cyrano and those love letters had been published]]. |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
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