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  • Big Pete of The Adventures of Pete & Pete spells it out: "Look, you're a girl, and you're a friend—but you're not a girlfriend!"
  • American Dreams has a couple examples with these, mostly with Sam and Meg; they can't get together, due to Sam being black and it being 1966. JJ also gets this with a couple of his wartime romantic interests, where he actually has no real interest in the girl because of Beth, his fiancée back home. There was also a variation on this when one of the members of JJ's platoon is involved with a reporter; although he says this, it's implied they actually are and he's just not telling, and of course Everyone Can See It anyway.
  • Arrow:
    • When Roy Harper is injured saving Thea Queen from an Attempted Rape, he denies Thea is his friend when the doctor refers to her as such. The doctor decides to let them sort the matter out, which Thea does when she kisses him shortly afterwards, marking the start of their Rescue Romance.
    • In Season 5, Oliver Queen gets annoyed when several characters refer to Susan Williams as his "girlfriend" after she gives him her number.
  • Occurs in season two of Ashes to Ashes (2008) The Baby Trap episode, Gene and Alex have been *ahem* pulling all nighters in order to combat the corruption in the force, which the rest of the team tactfully ignore. Enter Jackie:
    Jackie: Are you shagging my future husband?
    Alex: [panicky look] No!
  • In the season 4 premiere of The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon insists that the girl he met on a dating site, who has been texting with him for four months and intends to bear his children, is not his girlfriend.
    Sheldon: Amy Farrah Fowler has asked me to meet her mother.
    Leonard: Yeah. So?
    Sheldon: What does that mean?
    Leonard: Well, you know how you're always saying that Amy is a girl who's your friend, and not your girlfriend?
    Sheldon: Uh-huh.
    Leonard: You can't say that anymore.
    • They finally make a Relationship Upgrade in season 5 when Sheldon gets jealous of Amy dating other guys and ends up asking her to be his girlfriend.
    • The first season had this exchange:
      Mrs. Cooper: (To Leonard and Penny) Might say you two make a cute couple.
      Penny: We're not a couple.
      Leonard: Us? Psh, no. We're just two singles. Like the cheese... individually wrapped. Not together.
      Mrs. Cooper: I strike a nerve?
      Howard: Oh yeah.
    • Of course, in this case, it wasn't so much denial as it was trying to cover up his painfully obvious crush.
  • Bones and Booth do this many, many times. Quite a few characters of the week mistook Booth and Brennan for a couple in the seasons before they actually got together. Part of the show’s gimmick was everyone thinking they should be together before they finally realized it themselves.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    • A several-season-spanning occurrence between Spike and Buffy.
      Glory: (about Spike) He wakes up; tell your boyfriend to watch his mouth.
      Buffy: He is NOT my boyfriend.
      • In fact, Buffy often denies Spike being her boyfriend, even when it is revealed that she had slept with him.
      Buffy: [Anya did] something very stupid.
      Xander: With your boyfriend.
      Buffy: He is not my boyfriend.
      • Buffy denied it even while they were having an ongoing sexual relationship (granted, in this scene from "Gone", it was partly because she was being evaluated by a social worker and he wasn't the most presentable boyfriend):
      Ms. Kroger: Um, Miss Summers, if you and your boyfriend would like to—
      Buffy: He is NOT— (Spike looks over with a scowl; Buffy clears throat) ...not my, my boyfriend, he's, um, just... a... (Spike waits to hear what she'll say) Spike... this nice woman is, uh, (meaningfully) from Social Services?
      • Buffy even denies it to Spike when they're alone together; in fact, his referring to her as "love" or "my girl" is a guaranteed Berserk Button as Buffy refuses to admit they are (or should be) having anything more than comfort sex. A notable use of this trope as it's not Played for Laughs but is a sign of their Destructive Romance. In the final episode of the series, Buffy gives the most truthful version of this trope when she says that Spike isn't her boyfriend, but "he is in my heart."
    • The first time Buffy used this line on the show, however, it was about Angel—in season 3 episode "Revelations", when Buffy's friends finally learned that Angel was back from hell.
      Buffy: What are you guys talking about?
      Oz: Oddly enough, your boyfriend—again.
      Buffy: He's not my boyfriend. Really, truly, he's... I don't know.
    • Then we have the comics where Buffy learns Satsu is in love with her, and they sleep together. Willow finds out and when the topic is brought up Buffy denies that Satsu is her girlfriend, before they sleep together again.
  • Comes up frequently in Burn Notice. Everyone except Michael knows that Fiona is, in fact, his girlfriend: Michael is only tempted by one other woman over the course of the series, and she turns out to be an assassin deliberately playing on every weakness he has. Mike and Fi go through a gradual Relationship Upgrade over seasons 2-4 and she finally moves in with him in season 5.
  • Castle has a variant in the first few seasons; someone questioning whether Castle and Beckett are, you know, will get approximately this response:
    Beckett: No.
    Castle: Not yet.
    Beckett: (glare)
  • A variation in Cowboy Bebop (2021). In "Binary Two-Step", Faye Valentine denies to lesbian Wrench Wench Mel that Jet Black is her boyfriend. Rather than the Faye/Jet foreshadowing that would be normal for this trope, it's Mel trying to work out if she has the green light to seduce Faye, which has happened by the next scene.
  • In season five of Dexter, everyone who meets Lumen assumes that she is Dexter's girlfriend, but he insists that she is merely his "tenant". Though in fairness, she really wasn't his girlfriend at the time.
  • Doctor Who:
    • Happened a few times to the Doctor and Rose in the first two seasons of the new series, apparently just because the writers were running out of ways to broadcast that the new show had romantic subtext.
    • Played for Laughs when the Running Gag continues with the Doctor and Donna Noble, because they have no romantic subtext whatsoever.
    • After River Song thoroughly distracts the Doctor in "The Impossible Astronaut":
      Canton Delaware: So what's going on here?
      The Doctor: Ah... nothing; she's just a friend.
      Rory: I think he's talking about the possible alien incursion?
      • Later, however, River becomes one of the very few of the Doctor's love interests to eventually avert this, with them flirting pretty openly initially and later the Doctor actually marries her.
    • In a flashback scene in "Let's Kill Hitler", it's learned that Rory and Amy had denied any romantic involvement, only while Rory insisted that he and Amy were just friends, Amy at the same time said, "He's gay." She suspected his sexual preference because he had never shown the slightest interest in any girls... only to realize that he was interested in one girl — her.
    • The Doctor and Clara, less out of shyness or uncertainty about their feelings, but out of a wish to act mature and avoid unreasonable expectations in favor of preserving their deep, underlying friendship. The flimsiness of the denial varies based on which stage in their relationship we are talking about: In late series 7, it goes to the point of featuring plenty of touching and kissing (if rarely near the mouth), and everyone around them calling them an item despite their half-hearted protests to the contrary, but both their deliberate tolerating and indulging of the ambiguity comes back to bite them when they have to deal with hurt feelings anyway after his long stay on Trenzalore and subsequent regeneration. At the end of the next episode, "Deep Breath", he uses the phrase actually meaning to break it off (right before admitting that he did think of them as an item, but had come to see that as a mistake on his part) while trying to at least salvage their friendship after she reacted negatively to his changed, notably older appearance (In truth, she couldn't care less what he looks like, but he didn't hear her make that speech, and she still can't help being somewhat off-put by finding his gruffer, less predictable and distinctly less touchy-feely demeanour much harder to read). But before long, regardless of their frequent fallouts and shift towards passive-aggressive banter, he's back to constantly trying to impress her, getting very competitive whenever anyone else tries to, giving her the occasional Longing Look, offhandedly referring to one of their meetings as a "Date"(!) when she's out of earshot, and acting blatantly flattered when he mistakenly assumes that she's settled for a lookalike as a boyfriend. This progressively turns into a clusterfuck when it turns out that since he declared himself "not her boyfriend", she has started a serious relationship with a co-worker, and winds up entangling herself in a web of lies to keep them from meeting since they almost instantly dislike each other.
      • After said boyfriend dies tragically, and the narrative moves into Series 9, Clara and the Doctor's relationship deepens and they do become a couple in all but name (in a non-sexual fashion, or so it would appear on screen), with Clara in "Before the Flood" even at one point playing the "if you love me" card and acknowledging that after Danny's death, she's not ready to lose the Doctor, too. (It's worth noting that in the first episode after Danny's death, Clara tells the Doctor that, besides him, the Doctor is the only other man she'd ever have married.) Climaxes in the final three episodes when Clara's death results in the Doctor becoming The Unfettered and nearly destroying time itself to bring her back, during which this trope is invoked in "Hell Bent" when the immortal Ashildr challenges the Doctor as to why he's doing all this for Clara, to which he replies, "She's just my friend", which triggers a Deadpan Snarker response that makes it clear Ashildr doesn't believe it.
  • Bret and Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords are sometimes mistaken for a couple, specifically by Brahbrah, a woman they were both trying to impress. It was a fair assumption to make, given that they're two thirty-something guys who share a bedroom, and they spend quite a bit of the episode wrestling each other.
  • A version appears on Friends after Chandler and Monica first had sex in secret.
    Joey: Have you seen Monica?
    Chandler: I'm not seeing Monica!
  • Season 4 of Game of Thrones has Cersei Lannister asking Brienne of Tarth if she's in love with her brother Jaime. Brienne denies it (though in the books, it's implied that she had a one-sided crush on him), but it's actually Played for Laughs; what she says is that she loves Jaime "like a brother, Your Grace." This doesn't exactly ease his sister's mind.
  • In Good Omens, Aziraphale, despite having known Crowley for over 5,500 years and the pair companionably spending that time drinking together, bickering and covering for each other, responds this way when asked for "you and your friend's" opinion.
    Aziraphale: Oh, he's not my friend. We've never met before. We don't know each other.
    • Justified as Aziraphale and Crowley are an angel and demon, respectively, and even being friendly acquaintances, let alone their millennia-long relationship, puts them at risk. Aziraphale spends much of the series terrified of Crowley being punished if the two of them are discovered.
    • Eventually subverted when the other angels confront Aziraphale over his "fraternising" with a demon. Uriel refers to Crowley as "your boyfriend in the dark glasses" and while Aziraphale looks flustered he doesn't object to the comment.
    • During the second season Nina (one of Aziraphale's neighbors) asks Crowley how long the two of them have been together. When Crowley says they aren't she assumes that means Aziraphale is his "bit on the side", which Crowley also denies.
      Crowley: He's just an angel I know.
      Nina: If you say so.
  • Gender-inverted on Gotham, where Selina is the one constantly denying that Bruce is her boyfriend. No one buys it.
  • Grey's Anatomy: Lexie invokes this about George to Sloan at the start of season 5.
  • Ted's Girl of the Week in How I Met Your Mother assumes that Robin and Barney are going out.
    Robin: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Barney and I are not together, no, no.
    Barney: Really? Sixteen "no"s? Really?
    • Robin and Barney also spend the season five premiere firmly denying that they are boyfriend and girlfriend. They seem to have no problem admitting that they are a couple, so long as the terms "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" aren't used.
  • iCarly: In "iGo to Japan", the check-in clerk at a hotel mistakes the 15-year-old pair for a honeymooning couple. Freddie gives Carly an eyebrow raise and gets slapped across the face for his stupidity. In "iLike Jake", Carly gives Freddie a kiss on the nose for helping her to fix Jake's terrible singing voice, and Jake mistakes their kiss for them being together.
  • Inspector Lynley and his partner Sergeant Havers. His own wife half-seriously suspects him of having an affair with her! And she's not the only one. They're not together... yet.
  • Joan in Joan of Arcadia insists this regarding Adam about Once per Episode, until they finally kiss for the first time.
  • Happens on two related episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Robert Goren's brother Frank assumes that Alex Eames, his police partner, is Bobby's girlfriend; Bobby corrects him, but it doesn't seem to sink in (possibly because Frank is a drug user). In the next episode, Bobby gets a phone call from his hospitalized mother Frances, who says that Frank told her Bobby has a girlfriend and she wants to meet the woman. Bobby tries to explain that she's not his girlfriend but his mother hangs up on him, leaving him awkwardly telling Alex, "My mother wants to meet you."
  • Malcolm in the Middle: Malcolm and Cynthia, in Seasons 2 and 3. Much to Malcolm's embarrassment, his friends and family rib him mercilessly about their "relationship" whenever Cynthia is nearby, prompting him to say this very line several times.
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
    • Daredevil:
      • Matt Murdock and Karen Page begin dating partway through season 2. After their first kiss, they have a hard time admitting to Foggy Nelson that they are now dating, even after flirting a bit in front of him at Nelson & Murdock the morning after their first kiss, and being unable to keep their hands off each other when visiting Frank Castle at the hospital. So when Matt gives Karen a good-bye kiss on the cheek when he has to dash off to infiltrate a gala with Elektra:
        Foggy Nelson: Whoa! Is this... officially happening? Are you guys dating?
        Matt Murdock: Ummm…
        Karen Page: We’re…
        Matt Murdock: Um, um …
        Karen Page: ...not labeling it. You know, why don’t I walk you out?
        [Matt and Karen leave the room and walk to the elevator, arm-in-arm]
        Karen Page: Is he gonna be okay? With this?
        Matt Murdock: Yeah. I mean, pretty small office. It’s gonna take some getting used to.
        Karen Page: Yeah, I guess.
      • Played for drama when Matt is forced to reveal to Foggy that he's been doing secret vigilante work with his former girlfriend Elektra, who has just messed up their entire legal strategy by coercing a witness rendering his testimony inadmissible.
        Foggy Nelson: Tell your girlfriend to stay away from my trial.
        Matt Murdock: She's not... Elektra's not my girlfriend.
        Foggy Nelson: Then you should be the one to tell Karen about her!
    • Jessica Jones: In "AKA Sole Survivor," Jessica doesn't like the idea of Trish going out to meet with someone claiming to be Dr. Leslie Hansen, so she benches Trish by calling the paparazzi on her, claiming that Trish and her boyfriend, newscaster Griffin Sinclair, are having a falling out. Trish reluctantly stays on house arrest, with Jessica sending Malcolm over to keep an eye on her. In the midst of their waiting, Trish gets a phone call from Maury at the morgue and learns that the charred human head she and Jessica found in Dr. Hansen's basement is that of Dr. Hansen herself, and the person Jessica's meeting is an imposter. To sneak out so they can go catch Jessica, Malcolm gives the paparazzi photographers false information to send them to Griffin's place... except for one who catches photographs of him then getting into Trish's car. The photographer catches up to Trish and Malcolm just as they reach Jessica and are accosted by the fake "Dr. Hansen". At the start of the next episode, one of the photographer's pictures of Malcolm and Trish is plastered all over the front pages of the tabloids. Trish is mad at Jessica for pulling this stunt, and she and Griffin are also forced to publicly discredit the allegations. Of course, in the episode immediately after this, Trish dumps Griffin, and then another episode later, while on Simpson's inhaler, she has sex with Malcolm.
  • On M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter has just become the unit commander and is getting up to speed on his staff. He calls a name, the person says "Here" (or the like), and then he reviews their record and makes some comments. He goes over Margaret Houlihan's record, compliments her, and then moves on:
    Colonel Potter: Major Frank Burns.
    Houlihan: Just Friends, sir. [realizes] I mean, he's not here, sir.
    • A running gag in the early years was Frank and Margaret trying to hide their relationship, even though everyone in camp knew they were an item.
  • A variation on The Mighty Boosh. Lance Dior accuses Howard of being Vince's wife. Howard bursts out with "I'm not his wife, am I! I don't know where he is at all times!" Lance is Not convinced. In another episode, a cabin owner thinks that Vince and Howard are together, but Howard denies it.
    • Usually averted. Vince is mistaken for Howard's wife/girlfriend in many episodes, and instead of denying it—like you would expect two supposedly straight male friends to do—they just look slightly pained. Apparently, it happens so often they just gave up trying to protest.
  • Monk: Natalie is highly amused whenever someone thinks she suppresses romantic feelings for Monk.
    • In "Mr. Monk and the Game Show", Monk goes on Roddy Lankman's show Treasure Chest. Before they begin the first round, Lankman asks Monk if there's anyone at home to whom he wants to say hello. He mentions Sharona, causing Lankman to ask, "And how long have you and Sharona been married?" Monk quickly corrects him.
    • Inverted in "Mr. Monk Gets Married", where to rescue Randy's mother Maria from gold-digging antiques dealer Dalton Padron, Monk and Sharona must infiltrate a marriage counselling camp by (of course) pretending to be a couple with severely exaggerated problems, with Monk playing a cowardly mop salesman and Sharona pretending to be his alcoholic wife. Their marriage is the absolute worst one in history. When at the end they reveal the ruse, the marriage counselor is relieved.
    • In "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion", Dianne Brooks finds Monk in line while people are turning in their registration forms. She asks him if he's dating, and he firmly replies no. When this happens, Monk is by himself as Natalie is heading back to her car. Later, though, Natalie has reconsidered and decides to stay with Monk for the remainder of the reunion. Naturally, when Dianne spots Monk and Natalie together at the cafeteria, this happens:
      Dianne Brooks: Adrian! There you are. We've been looking for you. [Dianne notices Natalie]
      Natalie Teeger: Hi! I'm Natalie Teeger. [Natalie and Dianne shake hands]
      Dianne Brooks: Hi. Dianne Brooks.
      Natalie Teeger: I'm his assistant.
      Dianne Brooks: Ahh... Oh, so you two aren't... [she points between Monk and Natalie; Natalie laughs]
      Natalie Teeger: [grins] No!
    • Also happens in one scene in "Mr. Monk Gets Lotto Fever", where Natalie is signing autographs, Monk comes up to grab some wipes from her purse and one of Natalie's fans asks her if Monk is her boyfriend. Natalie corrects the fan.
    • Inverted again in "Mr. Monk is Someone Else". Panicked by unwanted romantic advances from the girlfriend of the dead gangster Monk is impersonating, he quickly blurts out that he already has a girlfriend, and her name is "Natalie Teegerb" (it's French Canadian).
    • In the Tie-In Novel Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii, when Monk and Natalie first encounter Natalie's friend Candace, she seems to think that Natalie was exaggerating her claims about Monk's OCD compulsions, in part because she's never met Monk before and because Monk happens to be on an anti-OCD drug that he takes to control himself during flights. Due to Monk not acting like himself, Candace assumes that he's her boyfriend.
  • This is the dynamic between Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog on The Muppet Show. Piggy is absolutely convinced that her "Kermie" loves her desperately and isn't afraid to get violent if he ever disagrees. The exact nature of their relationship, though, is rather ambiguous. In a Season One episode, Piggy teams up with guest star Avery Schreiber to make Kermit jealous, and it works to the point of Kermit outright declaring Piggy "his girl"; in a later season, Piggy leaking relationship rumors to a gossip column is enough for Kermit to lose his temper and fire her from the show.
  • Played with in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 short "Catching Trouble", and combining the trope with Have a Gay Old Time, when the announcer refers to hunter Bob Ross as his "boyfriend".
    Announcer: My boyfriend knows what he's doing!
    Joel: Look, he likes you as a friend, but he's not your boyfriend!
  • Throughout Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Ned and Moze are long-time childhood friends that have a lot of romantic encounters during the series, and eventually end up dating by the end of the series finale
  • Phil of the Future, in the episode in which Phil gets tired of being carted around doing "girl stuff" with Keely:
    Phil: I don't wanna be your girlfriend, I wanna be your boyfriend! ...I mean, your friend, who's a boy. A guy. A guy friend.
    • And later in the same episode:
      Keely: Phil, you can tell me anything. I'm your girlfriend… I—I—I mean your friend who's a girl. A gal. A gal friend.
    • Seems to be a recurring motif with Keely's actress Alyson Michalka. See Hellcats and Marti and Dan for details.
  • Phoenix:
  • In the 1990's Australian series Police Rescue the two main characters, Micky and Georgia, are going to interview a witness, who asks Micky: "Is this your girlfriend?" Micky responds truthfully that no, she's his (police) partner. Georgia later snarks at him about this, as while it's technically true, there's always been an obvious vibe between them.
  • A frequent refrain of the two boys of Psych.
  • Quantico: Raina firmly denies that she and Simon are a couple.
    Simon: Not many couples can say they've both been kicked out of the FBI.
    Raina: It's not funny and we're not a couple.
  • Radio Enfer: Maria teases Léo in the first episode of Season 2 by saying he is too shy to hold his girlfriend's hand, with the girlfriend being Camille. Léo then instinctively says "She's not my...!", causing Camille to be offended while he remembers that they are indeed a couple.
  • In the Royal Pains episode "Am I Blue?", Evan's new just-friend is under the persistent impression that Divya is his girlfriend:
    Evan: Uh, we're not really...
    Anna: You'll make up! You're so good together.
  • Schitt's Creek: Happens more than once to Amicable Exes Stevie and David, with Stevie usually being far more annoyed at someone's assumption than David.
  • Smallville:
    Lana: You and Lois.
    Clark: Lois? She's bossy. She's rude, she's conceited. I can't stand her!
    Lana: The best ones always start that way.
  • Parodied in Spaced, when Tim reacts indignantly in this fashion to a (sarcastic) suggestion from Daisy that his "boyfriend" Mike is on the phone for him... only to purr "Hi, babe." in a seductive tone as soon as he picks up the phone.
  • Daniel Jackson from Stargate SG-1 claims as much when Vala says they had to reschedule their "date". Of course, no one believes him.
  • Brief example happens in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Inheritance", where Data tells his "mother" Juliana (the wife of his creator Dr. Soong, she claims) that he's going to see Counselor Troi; Juliana assumes the two are close, and comments that she's glad that the accessories her husband designed that made him "compatible" with humans actually work. (Not a true example of the Trope, of course, because Troi is not Data's girlfriend; he was going to see her because she's the Counselor, and Juliana misunderstood.)
  • Stranger Things:
    • Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers.
      • In the first season, Nancy's boyfriend Steve Harrington thinks she's cheating on him with Jonathan (unaware that they're dealing with a monster).
      • In the sixth episode of season 1, Jonathan and Nancy get taken into custody after Jonathan gets into a fight with Steve and assaults a cop who tries to break up the fight. While getting an ice pack for Jonathan, the police station's secretary is convinced that Jonathan is Nancy's boyfriend.
        Nancy: How long are you gonna keep him?
        Flo: You and your boyfriend have big plans, do you?
        Nancy: He's...not my boyfriend.
        Flo: I think you better tell him that.
        Nancy: What?
        Flo: Only love makes you that crazy, sweetheart, and that damn stupid.
      • In the second season, Nancy gets blackout drunk at a Halloween party out of her guilt over keeping Barb's death a secret and yells at Steve. Jonathan then shows up to take Nancy home. The next morning, Steve has to correct Nancy about who took her home after their argument, calling Jonathan "her other boyfriend". When Nancy and Jonathan are working with Murray Bauman to expose the Hawkins Energy Lab conspiracy, he offers them the guest room so they can get some sleep; when they insist they're just friends, he laughs out loud. And that night, their tiptoeing around the subject comes to a head.
        Murray: So Jonathan, how was the pull-out?
        Jonathan: [spit take] I'm sorry..?
        Murray: The sofa.
        Jonathan: Oh yeah... it was good. [Nancy smiles slyly]
        Murray: [grins] I bet it was.
    • Mike is very dismissive of Lucas and later Nancy when they imply he is smitten with Eleven, despite it being obvious.
      Nancy: Do you like Eleven?
      Mike: What?! Ew, no, gross!
  • Supernatural: Meg snarks at Dean that Castiel was his boyfriend first, to Dean's irritation.
  • In That '70s Show, when Jackie and Hyde start their relationship, they won't admit that they're together, even though they're making out all the time.
    Jackie: He is not my boyfriend.
    Hyde: I'm not her boyfriend. They just don't get it.
    Jackie: No. Why would they? Let's go, baby.
  • The West Wing: Josh denies a relationship between himself and Donna at least twice, once to Amy Gardner (who becomes his girlfriend after it's cleared up), and once to Lt. Commander Jack Reese (who dates Donna after confirming he's not getting in the way).
    • Inverted with some irony on the campaign trail in the last season.
      Ronna: (outside Josh's hotel door) Do you have Donna?
      (Donna hands Josh his boxers)
      Josh: Have her?
      Ronna: Do you know where she is?
      Josh: (giggling) Uh... yeah...
    She's lying next to him at the time...
  • The X-Files: If it happened once, it happened a thousand times to Mulder and Scully, most notably in "The Rain King". Basically guaranteed to happen starting about mid-season four onward.
    • It even happens in the 2008 movie, though in reference to being married.
      Father Joe: No. I can see you're a woman of faith, but not in the same things as your husband.
      Scully: He's not my husband.
  • You Me Her: In season 3, Nina tells Shaun that He Is Not Her Mr. Right There In Front Of You. Shaun, being trope savvy, knows better.
    Shaun: And here's the beautiful twist: The more that you deny it, the more that you’re just proving my point.

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