History Main / SorkinRelationshipMoment

Named after Creator/AaronSorkin, who has had quite a number of these, and coined by Createor/EricBurnsWhite of ''Blog/{{Websnark}}'' after the situation appeared in the {{webcomic}} ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''.

!!By Creator:

--> '''Fitz''': ''(resigned frustration)'' We're cursed.

* Happens on ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'' when [[spoiler:Piper's fiancé Larry has an affair with and eventually leaves her for her best friend Polly while Piper is in prison.]]

* ''FanFic/ConnectingTheDots'': Sakura has it out with Naruto as they discuss her confession of love after talking with Robin.
* ''FanFic/AGrowingAffection'': Sakura does this with Naruto and Hinata after the GreenEyedMonster got the better of her when the latter two started dating.
* ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'': When Misato is fed up with Shinji and Asuka’s arguing and being at odds with each other, she angrily tells them that they’ll go to the Obon Festival, they’ll have fun together, they’ll make up and they’ll stop behaving like idiots… ''or else''.

* ''Series/AgentsOfShield'': In Season 3, Fitz-Simmons end up having one when Jemma explodes on Fitz, asking why he's being so helpful [[spoiler: trying to save Will (the guy she hooked up with when stranded on an alien planet),]] since she KNOWS Fitz feels about her but the situation makes her feel guilty and uncomfortable since she didn't expect him to take it so well. Fitz fires back that he's just resigned to the situation and getting angry won't change it, since [[spoiler: he feels IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy and they've had so many chances to be in a relationship but never made a move]].
--> '''Fitz''': ''(resigned frustration)'' "We're cursed."
* When the very liberal ''Series/MurphyBrown'' team gets an African-American boss, they find themselves tiptoeing around him so he doesn't feel like he's being treated a certain way on account of his race. The new boss enjoys this for a while, then confronts them with the fact that their white-guilt-driven tentativeness toward him was accomplishing exactly what they were trying to avoid and that they should just treat him like a normal boss.

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': Several times, including [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=841 the strip that lends the above quote,]] Faye frustratedly tells [[spoiler: Dora or Marten]] that [[spoiler: it's OK that they're dating and sleeping together now, even though Faye and Marten had been interested in each other (but not dating) previously,]] and that they don't have to hide it from her. In fact, it ends up being [[spoiler: Dora]] who develops a neurosis about it.
* A non-romantic version in ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' Kat calls out Antimony and Reynardine's awkwardness, and demands that they be friends again. While holding a pair of [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=508 wire strippers.]]

Named after Creator/AaronSorkin, who has had quite a number of these, and coined by Eric Burns of ''Blog/{{Websnark}}'' after the situation appeared in the {{webcomic}} ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''.