History Main / HeartbreakAndIceCream

** In "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS1E9ChinUp Chin Up!]]", when the Crimson Chin enters a HeroicBSoD after learning he is not real but a fictional character, he sits on the couch and eats ice cream.

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* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': It's not just ice cream, but Kyoko is shown desperately stuffing her face with junk food [[spoiler: after Sayaka's death]]: despite always being seen chewing on some form of snack, she eats more in this one scene than she does in the entire rest of the series.

* ''Fanfic/CheatingDeathThoseThatLived'': Right before the 44th Hunger Games, the girl directly ahead of Platinum in the District 1 ratings goes into a coma after a truly massive ice cream binge when her boyfriend dumps her.
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Steve comfort Carol [[spoiler: his great-granddaughter]] with a 'Thor-sized' tub of Rocky Road ice cream in chapter 45 of the sequel after she's upset and angry (enraged, in fact, to the point where she breaks a punching bag and busts her wrist [[WorkingOutTheirEmotions trying to work it out]]) because of what [[spoiler: Yelena Belova]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil did]] to Harry.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' fic ''Fanfic/{{Princess}}'' shows Julien doing this when the other zoo-dwellers misunderstand and repeatedly offend him over him being UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}.

* ''Fanfic/EarthAndSky'': We only hear about it second hand, but apparently [[spoiler: Apple Bloom]]'s response to [[spoiler: Pipsqueak]] breaking up with her is to wolf down ''five gallons'' of ice cream. There's then a bit of SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome here, as it's suggested that she was left ''very'' sick afterwards.
* ''Extremely'' common in ''Series/{{Glee}}'' fics, especially with Kurt as the heartbroken one.

* In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' fanfic ''House Arrest'', Thor, Tony and Steve are all reduced to eating ice cream in the cellar, hiding from Loki, after the trickster messes with them one too many times and rejects Thor's attempts at brotherly affection.

* Natsuki mentions in ''Fanfic/AmbitiousLove'' that after the second time Reina left her, Kumiko spent a week eating nothing but ice cream and sleeping pills.

* Used platonically in ''Fanfic/{{Anachronism}}''. Hop ate a tub of ice cream after his brother missed their meet-up.
* In ''Fanfic/LincolnIsDone'', all the Loud girls from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' are miserable because Lincoln [[TheRunaway ran away]]. Lori cries and eats many tubs of ice cream.
* While not exactly heartbreak, it is mentioned in ''Fanfic/BadInfluence'' that Kimber and Stormer discussed tough topics over ice cream.
* ''Fanfic/LeaveForMendeleiev'': After the Stormy Weather incident, [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Marinette]] takes Aurore back to the bakery to binge on cookies and watch movies together up in her room.
* ''Fanfic/{{Displaced}}'': After ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} and ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} break up -once again-, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} drops by Babs' place to give her friend a shoulder to cry on while they eat ice cream and put Dick Grayson down:
-->"Because you and Dick broke up. Again," she added as she hovered over her, placing her elbows on the headrest as if she needed to. Barbara's smile fell a fraction at that, but Kara continued before she could offer up a defense. "And you haven't been able to cry into my shoulder yet as we eat unnecessary amounts of ice cream," she pressed forward, worry clear in her tone to Barbara even though Kara tried to keep it hidden.
* ''FanFic/DanganRonpaAssassinatingFriendship'': Monosuke finds his father Monokuma in the middle of this during the ''Kuma & Kubs Theatre 0'' segment. The bear's been having a bad time of it, having gone through a series of embarrassing events in the mutual killing game, along with making a {{Squick}}y discovery involving two of his monokubs.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'': Much like her pony counterpart, Rarity gorges on ice cream with tears running down her face after she thinks she's failed her friends, in the "Dance Magic" segment of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsMagicalMovieNight''.

** Joey describes the different 'phases' of getting over breakups, 'Phase One' being sweatpants, food, and watching TV.

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', the end of the Desperate Revival story arc has [[spoiler:Shinichi, who thought he'd turned back into an adult for good, reverting back to Conan while he and Ran were on a dinner date]]. All he can do is tell Ran that "Shinichi" gave him a credit card to pay for their meal and that he had to go solve another case. Ran, at her breaking point, screams that she doesn't want to hear his excuses anymore, then pulls herself together and offers to get dessert for herself and Conan. After cutting away briefly to the antics of other characters, Ran is shown ranting about how angry she is about Shinichi's behavior, while Conan mentally notes that she's on her fourth dessert.

* Early on in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', there's an unfortunate incident at Greg's "Anime Style Martial Arts" dojo, where Elliot shows Sarah that he's currently dating Nanase - prompting her to run from the dojo in tears. After Nanase pushes him to follow her, he takes a quick inventory of the surroundings, and reasons out that she must be in the neighboring ice-cream shop ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking as opposed to the strip club, the cigarette store, the adult book store, or the abortion clinic]]). [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-04-28 Cue this scene.]]

* The webcomic ''RiotNrrd'' does it [[http://www.riotnrrdcomics.com/2010/05/21-to-the-rescue/ here]].

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2015-01-23 Heartbreak Hotel]] serves ice cream. For the main course and dessert. At breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And only by the tub, not by the scoop.

* In ''Film/{{Bewitched}}'', Isabel eats ice-cream with Cool Whip after she has a huge fight with Jack and quits the show.

* When Mark isn't allowed to see Kareen any more in ''Literature/ACivilCampaign'' he retreats to his bedroom with multiple tubs of [[ItMakesSenseInContext bug butter]] and a spoon.

* In an episode of ''Series/HappyEndings'' Penny, depressed and thinking she would end up a lonely spinster, is shown in her pajamas and eating ice cream-during a lavish roaring 20s party at her apartment. Jane takes it away from her and she falls onto the couch and pulls out another. Jane takes the "couch ice cream" and Penny immediately picks up a tub of "floor ice cream."

** Robin dated a guy with a small son and had to break up with them. When she was explaining it to the kid, she realized she got "dumped" by a six-year-old. She devours ice-cream and tells Lily that he was a stupid-head anyway.

* ''Series/{{Girls}}'': When Hannah's boyfriend breaks up with her, she goes to her apartment and hits the fridge, taking out a pack of ice-cream.

* Hinted at in one episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}''. In an episode which has seen everyone at each other's throats and rather miserable about various things culminates in a city-wide blackout, Daphne and Roz discover some large tubs of ice cream in Frasier's freezer and they reason they might as well eat them before they melt. Frasier points out that it's nighttime, hardly that warm, and the ambient temperature of the freezer should preserve the ice cream sufficiently for as long as it takes for the power to come back on. Frasier is promptly told to shut up, and the ice cream consumed.

* At a pool party in ''Webcomic/PreTeena'', Tess Keene comforts daughter Jeri when Jeri sees the new girl in town looks far better in a swimming costume than she does -- and is getting on very well with Jeri's would-be boyfriend. Tess cheerfully tells her daughter this is one of those things and we all have to face it sometime. Then she looks round and sees the new girl's ''mother'' looks good in a bikini. The scene cuts to Tess and Jeri sitting miserably at the poolside, wrapped in blankets and miserably sharing a very large tub of ice-cream.

* In ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'', Charlotte Lu brings cheesy movies and ice-cream to Lizzie who is a bit depressed because she thinks William stopped caring for her. They weren't dating, but he liked her, and now he hasn't called back after she left him a voice message.

** Scott starts "[[Recap/TotalDramaTheObstaKillCourse The Obsta-Kill Kourse]]" by eating dirt, which he claims he always does when he is sad. The reason he's sad is because he thinks Courtney was on unfaithful, prompting him to tell the dirt he knows it will never cheat on him.

** Sierra from ''World Tour'' does this when she realizes Cody hates her.
** Scott also does this in ''All-Stars'', but with ''dirt''.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie The [=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=] Movie]]'': PlayedForLaughs in combination with DrunkOnMilk, when [=SpongeBob=] goes out and eats Goofy Goober Sundaes with Patrick until eight in the morning, after not getting an expected promotion.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' fic ''Fanfic/{{Princess}}'' shows Julien doing this when the other zoo-dwellers misunderstand and repeatedly offend him over him being {{transgender}}.

** Monica dates a guy whom the entire gang loves and becomes friends with. Monica is very annoyed by this and breaks up with him. The gang is saddened by this and Monica finds them eating ice cream together.

* In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' fanfic ''House Arrest'', [[GenderFlip Thor, Tony and Steve]] are all reduced to eating ice cream in the cellar, hiding from Loki, after the trickster messes with them one too many times and rejects Thor's attempts at brotherly affection.

* In ''Film/{{Hitch}}'', [[spoiler:after Hitch and Sara break up, she's shown lying on the sofa, crying and squirting whipped cream directly into her mouth as she cries]]. There's also a gender-flipped version, when [[spoiler:Alert is dumped by Allegra (who realized he got help in wooing her from Hitch) and he proceeds to binge on doughnuts ("Maybe my heart won't hurt so much if it stops").]]

** GenderInverted when Series/{{Angel}} and Buffy have their unseen meeting after Buffy comes BackFromTheDead for the second time. It's implied things didn't go well. Buffy's comfort food is chicken wings while Angel decides he wants ice cream.

* Gender-flipped in ''Webcomic/UmlautHouse'', Volair eats a tub of Haagen-Dazs after his ex Jake starts sleeping with Rick, his occasional nemesis.

This sort of behaviour also tends to happen with [[ChristmasCake single women]] around Valentine's Day, even if they haven't experienced any recent rejections. Occasionally, ice cream is replaced with chocolate or some other sweet.

* A Comcast[=/=]xfinity commercial from 2013 depicted a woman who was heartbroken over being "mistreated" by a satellite company she switched to and calls an acquaintance from Comcast to tell her about it, all the while sitting in bed and eating ice cream.

* Helen Sharp (played by Goldie Hawn) in ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'' over-eats sweet stuff after seeing her fiance Ernest Menville marrying Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep). She also tortures herself by [[RewindReplayRepeat constantly replaying a scene in a movie where Madeline's character is strangled to death.]]

* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'': Teddy starts acting like a slob after her breakup with Spencer, not changing out of her pyjamas and watching sad movies. Ivy then brings Skyler (the other girl Spencer had been dating behind Teddy's back), who is also dirty in her pyjamas. The three eat ice cream while talking about their relationship with Spencer.

This sort of behaviour also tends to happen with [[ChristmasCake single females]] around Valentine's Day, even if they haven't experienced any recent rejections. Occasionally, ice cream is replaced with chocolate or some other sweet.

* ''Fanfic/EarthAndSky'': We only hear about it second hand, but apparently [[spoiler: Apple Bloom]]'s response to [[spoiler: Pipsqueak]] breaking up with her is to wolf down ''five gallons'' of ice cream. There's then a bit of RealityEnsues here, as it's suggested that she was left ''very'' sick afterwards.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaLfhFws0Ag This GrubHub commercial.]] Well, technically, it's a brownie and not ice cream but the general theme of consuming dessert to relieve heartbreak remains the same.

* In ''Angel Angel Down We Go'' (a.k.a. ''Cult of the Damned''), an overweight and insecure heiress (played by Holly Near) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqzELprWIfM wolfs down a table-full of eclairs]] when she is confronted by a sexy rock singer and her own sexual frustrations.

* ''WebVideo/WelcomeToSanditon'': When Ed doesn't protest too much and accepts to escort Ms. Griffiths to the 4th July festival (it was his pushy boss Mayor Parker's idea), Gigi is worried about Clara because Ed and Clara were hanging out a lot and headed towards a relationship. Gigi suggests they watch bad movies and eat ice-cream together. Clara being an ice-shop owner, they settle just on the bad girly movie night.

* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': In "Freda", after Shake's robotic girlfriend leaves him, he's next shown overweight and drowning his sorrows in fudge royal ice cream.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "[[Recap/WanderOverYonderS1E17TheDateTheBuddies The Date]]", when Lord Hater gets stood up by a princess he decides that he's going to curl up with some ice cream before blowing up the planet in anger.