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* HollywoodBoardGames: Ray is so irresistible, that his opponent in the ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'' tournament gets DistractedByTheSexy and decides to propose to him by using the tiles -- she spells "DO ME". The fact that she's initially too horny to pay proper attention is shown when she first spells "DOME", which confuses Ray.
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* YouCantFightFate: When Fozzie expresses ethical reservations about using the love darts, Ray says that it was fated, and that he was meant to use the darts. And as the ending proves, he was right.
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* YouCantFightFate: When Fozzie expresses ethical reservations about using the love darts, Ray says that it was fated, and that he was meant to use the darts. And as the ending proves, he was right.right.
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* TheProblemWithPenIsland: When the darts fail to work on Kelly, a despondent Ray winds up jabbing a bunch of women (and one man!), acquiring a whole harem following him around. Somehow he winds up at a Scrabble tournament. The woman he's playing takes three tiles off her row and shows Ray the remaining four, which spell "DOME". When a confused Ray says "Dome?", the woman hurriedly separates her tiles so they read "DO ME".
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* TheProblemWithPenIsland: When the darts fail to work on Kelly, a despondent Ray winds up jabbing a bunch of women (and one man!), acquiring a whole harem following him around. Somehow he winds up at a Scrabble ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'' tournament. The woman he's playing takes three tiles off her row and shows Ray the remaining four, which spell "DOME". When a confused Ray says "Dome?", the woman hurriedly separates her tiles so they read "DO ME".
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Bi The Way is a disambiguation page. Do not pothole or wick to Bi The Way.
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* BiTheWay: During Ray's dart spree with random passersby, one of his targets is a man, who falls in love with him no differently than all the other women. Ray keeps him around for the whole six hours, though he's not among the girls caressing him and giving him advice, so it's unclear whether he really was interested, or if he was merely [[StealthPun experimenting]] with the darts.
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* BittersweetEnding: Ray, who has become Cupid, seems doomed to be alone. But he's matched a lot of other people up.
* ChekhovsSkill: Raymond's spectacular aim. First it proves handy when he's throwing darts at love targets.
* ChekhovsSkill: Raymond's spectacular aim. First it proves handy when he's throwing darts at love targets.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After the six-hour mark for Frank and Angela's date, Angela falls silent, gets up, and seems to be preparing to leave him behind... but to Ray's surprise, she happily takes Frank along with her, proving their love is meant to be.
* BiTheWay: During Ray's dart spree with random passersby, one of his targets is a man, who falls in love with him no differently than all the other women. Ray keeps him around for the whole six hours, though he's not among the girls caressing him and giving him advice, so it's unclear whether he really was interested, or if he was merely [[StealthPun experimenting]] with the darts.
* BittersweetEnding:Ray, Ray has to give up his love for Kelly so that she can be with Fozzie, who has become Cupid, seems doomed she's meant to be alone. end up with, and the end of the film shows that his work is a pretty lonely journey. But he's successfully matched many couples up, is serious about his work, and did show maturity and wisdom in letting Kelly go.
* CharacterDevelopment: Ray starts off by being pretty selfish about his feelings for Kelly, but in the end, he chooses to give her alot lifetime of other people up.
happiness with Fozzie -- and makes sure to give love interests to all the women (and one man) he hit with darts earlier.
* ChekhovsSkill: Raymond's spectacularaim. First aim starts off as just an entertainment trick, but it proves handy pays off when he's throwing love darts at love targets.romantic targets. It also implies that he was meant to be Cupid all along.
* BiTheWay: During Ray's dart spree with random passersby, one of his targets is a man, who falls in love with him no differently than all the other women. Ray keeps him around for the whole six hours, though he's not among the girls caressing him and giving him advice, so it's unclear whether he really was interested, or if he was merely [[StealthPun experimenting]] with the darts.
* BittersweetEnding:
* CharacterDevelopment: Ray starts off by being pretty selfish about his feelings for Kelly, but in the end, he chooses to give her a
* ChekhovsSkill: Raymond's spectacular
* DeadpanSnarker: Ray and Fozzie, complete with flat monotone.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Fozzie knows quite a bit more about Kelly than Ray does, having to correct Ray on what kind of decor Kelly would like and what kind of food and what is her favorite opera. This hints that he does have feelings for her that he's concealing.
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* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Ray throws a dart at a girl to make her fall in love with him, just because she has a cute French accent.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Fozzie knows quite a bit more about Kelly than Ray does, having to correct Ray on what kind of decor Kelly wouldlike and like, what kind of food she would enjoy for dinner, and what is her favorite opera.plays and operas. This hints that he does have feelings for her that he's concealing.
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: After realizing that Fozzie does in fact have feelings for Kelly, which he's been concealing, Ray throws a dart at him, and Kelly and Raymond fall in love.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Ray prays every night that Kelly will love him back, and he refuses to just respect her feelings and accept that she won't ever love him. Moreover, when he ''does'' have her attention, it's revealed that despite his obsession, he doesn't even know her interests or tastes, but that doesn't stop him from continuing to scheme over how to keep her around forever. Fortunately, he grows out of it.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: After realizing that Fozzie does in fact have feelings for Kelly, which he's been concealing, Ray throws a dart at him, and Kelly andRaymond Fozzie fall in love.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: After realizing that Fozzie does in fact have feelings for Kelly, which he's been concealing, Ray throws a dart at him, and Kelly and
* LoveTriangle: Ray is obsessed with Kelly, but she is indifferent to him and only has eyes for Fozzie, Ray's best friend. Fozzie claims he has zero interest in Kelly and would never give her a chance out of respect for Ray, but Ray eventually realizes that Fozzie does secretly love her back.
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* MeaningfulEcho: In the HowWeGotHere opening scene, Ray says "You can't control who you fall in love with." At the end, having taken the job of Cupid, Ray says "You can't control who you fall in love with, ''but I can''."
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* MeaningfulEcho: In the HowWeGotHere opening scene, Ray says "You can't control who you fall in love with." At the end, having taken the job of Cupid, Ray says "You can't control who you fall in love with, ''but I can''."" And while the earlier voiceover seems to be normal musings on the confusing nature of love, it's revealed at the end that he's actually explaining to the audience that the reason love doesn't make sense, and you can't control your or anyone else's feelings, is because ''he's'' responsible for said feelings... and he can be an idiot sometimes.
* OppositesAttract: To test the darts, Ray sets a prissy, talkative, beautiful woman up with his quiet bandmate. Though the relationship seems doomed to fail, they stay together after the six hours and end up a happy couple.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The love darts end up being one from "Olympus"; he gets a proper Cupid's bow and arrow after he selflessly puts Fozzie and Kelly's happiness above his own.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: The short ends SingleTargetSexuality: After Fozzie points out that there are a million other girls that Ray could pursue in the city, he goes on a spree with Ray realizing the darts, but nobody else interests him other than Kelly.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Fozzie is very, very, very insistent that hehas become Cupid.absolutely, totally, does not have any feelings for Kelly whatsoever.
* TitleDrop: At the end, Ray reveals that his musings on love are fact and not philosophy, and that he knows the answers because "I am the God of Love."
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Fozzie is very, very, very insistent that he
* TitleDrop: At the end, Ray reveals that his musings on love are fact and not philosophy, and that he knows the answers because "I am the God of Love."
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* WhipPan: Used to transition between scenes on Ray and Kelly's romantic date--walking along the Battery, ice skating, walking through Central Park.
* YouCantFightFate: When Fozzie expresses ethical reservations about using the love darts, Ray says that it was fated, that he was meant to use the darts. And as the ending proves, he was right.
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* WhipPan: Used to transition between scenes on Ray and Kelly's romantic date--walking date -- walking along the Battery, ice skating, walking through Central Park.
* YouCantFightFate: When Fozzie expresses ethical reservations about using the love darts, Ray says that it was fated, and that he was meant to use the darts. And as the ending proves, he was right.
* YouCantFightFate: When Fozzie expresses ethical reservations about using the love darts, Ray says that it was fated, and that he was meant to use the darts. And as the ending proves, he was right.
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* TheMatchmaker: Ray ends up being a divine matchmaker.
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* TheProblemWithPenIsland: When the darts fail to work on Kelly, a despondent Ray winds up jabbing a bunch of women (and one man!), acquiring a whole harem following him around. Somehow he winds up at a Scrabble tournament. The woman he's playing takes three tiles off her row and shows Ray the remaining four, which spell "DOME". When a confused Ray says "Dome?", the woman hurriedly separates her tiles so they read "DO ME".
* ShoutOut: When Ray's telling Fozzie how he'd like the dining room decorated.
--> "A candlelit Amish barn. You know, like ''Film/{{Witness}}''.
* ShoutOut: When Ray's telling Fozzie how he'd like the dining room decorated.
--> "A candlelit Amish barn. You know, like ''Film/{{Witness}}''.
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* UrbanFantasy: A new Cupid, shooting people with love darts and love arrows, in 21st century New York.
* WhipPan: Used to transition between scenes on Ray and Kelly's romantic date--walking along the Battery, ice skating, walking through Central Park.
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''God of Love'' is a 2010 short film (18 minutes) directed by, written by, and starring Luke Matheny.
Matheny plays Raymond Goodfellow, a lounge singer in a band who also has exceptional aim. He combines those two unrelated talents in his act: while singing Music/FrankSinatra-style crooners, Raymond simultaneously throws darts at targets hanging on the side wall. Ray is in love with Kelly, the drummer in his band. Kelly for her part is oblivious to this and is instead in love with Fozzie, the guitarist, who says he is not interested and wouldn't make a move on someone his friend likes anyway.
Ray has been praying to God every night, asking that Kelly return his affections. One day, he receives a mysterious package that appears to contain the answer to his prayers: a set of "Love Dart 3000" darts. The darts, which were sent from the Olympus Corporation, promise that whoever is hit by them will be immediately attracted to the first person they see, and will remain so for precisely six hours. If the love is meant to be, it will last, and if it isn't, the effect will dissipate. After successfully testing the darts on a random attractive woman that he matches with Frank the bassist, Ray uses the darts on Kelly--with surprising results.
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* BittersweetEnding: Ray, who has become Cupid, seems doomed to be alone. But he's matched a lot of other people up.
* ChekhovsSkill: Raymond's spectacular aim. First it proves handy when he's throwing darts at love targets.
* CupidsArrow: At first, darts. Later, after Ray assumes his duties as Cupid, he is sent the standard bow and arrow set, straight from Olympus.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The whole short is in black and white.
* HowWeGotHere: Starts with Ray motorcycling down a country road, musing about how you can't control whom you fall in love with. Then jumps back three months to start the story.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Ray's aim goes from impressive to absurd when Kelly throws a heart-shaped chocolate box in the air, and Ray hits it square in the middle in the air with a dart. The ending reveals that there's a supernatural reason why Ray's aim is so good.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: After realizing that Fozzie does in fact have feelings for Kelly, which he's been concealing, Ray throws a dart at him, and Kelly and Raymond fall in love.
* LoveGoddess: So Ray proclaims himself in the last line, anyway, although he's really Cupid TheMatchmaker (Aphrodite was the goddess of love).
* MeaningfulEcho: In the HowWeGotHere opening scene, Ray says "You can't control who you fall in love with." At the end, having taken the job of Cupid, Ray says "You can't control who you fall in love with, ''but I can''."
* MeaningfulName: Raymond Goodfellow, an obvious allusion to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(mythology) Puck]], indicating that Ray may not be all he seems.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Ends with Ray, having accepted his new role as Cupid, cycling away.
* TomatoInTheMirror: The short ends with Ray realizing that he has become Cupid.
* YouCantFightFate: When Fozzie expresses ethical reservations about using the love darts, Ray says that it was fated, that he was meant to use the darts. And as the ending proves, he was right.
Matheny plays Raymond Goodfellow, a lounge singer in a band who also has exceptional aim. He combines those two unrelated talents in his act: while singing Music/FrankSinatra-style crooners, Raymond simultaneously throws darts at targets hanging on the side wall. Ray is in love with Kelly, the drummer in his band. Kelly for her part is oblivious to this and is instead in love with Fozzie, the guitarist, who says he is not interested and wouldn't make a move on someone his friend likes anyway.
Ray has been praying to God every night, asking that Kelly return his affections. One day, he receives a mysterious package that appears to contain the answer to his prayers: a set of "Love Dart 3000" darts. The darts, which were sent from the Olympus Corporation, promise that whoever is hit by them will be immediately attracted to the first person they see, and will remain so for precisely six hours. If the love is meant to be, it will last, and if it isn't, the effect will dissipate. After successfully testing the darts on a random attractive woman that he matches with Frank the bassist, Ray uses the darts on Kelly--with surprising results.
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!!Tropes:
* BittersweetEnding: Ray, who has become Cupid, seems doomed to be alone. But he's matched a lot of other people up.
* ChekhovsSkill: Raymond's spectacular aim. First it proves handy when he's throwing darts at love targets.
* CupidsArrow: At first, darts. Later, after Ray assumes his duties as Cupid, he is sent the standard bow and arrow set, straight from Olympus.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The whole short is in black and white.
* HowWeGotHere: Starts with Ray motorcycling down a country road, musing about how you can't control whom you fall in love with. Then jumps back three months to start the story.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Ray's aim goes from impressive to absurd when Kelly throws a heart-shaped chocolate box in the air, and Ray hits it square in the middle in the air with a dart. The ending reveals that there's a supernatural reason why Ray's aim is so good.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: After realizing that Fozzie does in fact have feelings for Kelly, which he's been concealing, Ray throws a dart at him, and Kelly and Raymond fall in love.
* LoveGoddess: So Ray proclaims himself in the last line, anyway, although he's really Cupid TheMatchmaker (Aphrodite was the goddess of love).
* MeaningfulEcho: In the HowWeGotHere opening scene, Ray says "You can't control who you fall in love with." At the end, having taken the job of Cupid, Ray says "You can't control who you fall in love with, ''but I can''."
* MeaningfulName: Raymond Goodfellow, an obvious allusion to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(mythology) Puck]], indicating that Ray may not be all he seems.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Ends with Ray, having accepted his new role as Cupid, cycling away.
* TomatoInTheMirror: The short ends with Ray realizing that he has become Cupid.
* YouCantFightFate: When Fozzie expresses ethical reservations about using the love darts, Ray says that it was fated, that he was meant to use the darts. And as the ending proves, he was right.
