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* Averted in a ''Music/{{Flight of the Conchords}}'' episode, where Jemaine tells Bret not to write a song to his girlfriend in this style.

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* Averted Playe with in a ''Music/{{Flight of the Conchords}}'' episode, where Jemaine tells Bret not to write writes a song to for his girlfriend in new girlfriend, chock-full of this style.kind of promise. Jermaine calls him on it.


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-->"Bret:" No, probably not. It's sort of a metaphor.
-->'''Jemaine''': For what?
-->"Bret:" Well... that I'd do anything to be with her.
-->'''Jemaine''': Okay. So, would you climb the highest mountain?
-->"Bret:" No. I wouldn't do a lot of this stuff, actually.
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* [[LamshadeHanging Lampshaded]] during the verses, but ultimately played straight during the chorus of "Deeper Than The Holler" by Music/RandyTravis, where the singer knows these songs are a dime a dozen, but wants to sing about what he knows.

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* [[LamshadeHanging [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] during the verses, but ultimately played straight during the chorus of "Deeper Than The Holler" by Music/RandyTravis, where the singer knows these songs are a dime a dozen, but wants to sing about what he knows.
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* [[LamshadeHanging Lampshaded]] during the verses, but ultimately played straight during the chorus of "Deeper Than The Holler" by Music/RandyTravis, where the singer knows these songs are a dime a dozen, but wants to sing about what he knows.
-->My love is deeper than the holler\\
Stronger than the river\\
Higher than the pine trees growin' tall upon the hill\\
My love is purer than the snowflakes\\
That fall in late December\\
And honest as a robin on a springtime window sill\\
And longer than the song of a whippoorwill
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* "I Will" by Jarah Gibson from the Soundtrack of Film/TheRoom.

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* "I Will" by Jarah Gibson from the Soundtrack of Film/TheRoom.''Film/TheRoom2003''.
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** Revisited yet again in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3310#comic this one,]] in which his lover claims that acts like "climbing a mountain" merely make him more socially desirable ("Clearly you're hedging your bets in case things don't work out here"). She instead asks him to do something socially deplorable to prove his love.

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** Revisited yet again in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3310#comic this one,]] in which his lover claims that acts like "climbing a mountain" merely make him more socially desirable ("Clearly you're hedging your bets in case things don't work out here"). She instead asks him to do something socially deplorable to prove his love.love, like running naked through a kids' amusement park with a swastika on his forehead and a cape reading "FUCK SINGLE MOMS". Naturally, the votey shows a woman with large breasts asking if he's the swastika guy from youtube.
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* "Miracles" by Music/PetShopBoys self-consciously employs this trope (in the "supernatural effect on nature" version) to convey the feeling of early infatuation:
-->Thunder is silent before you, roses bloom more to adore you too\\
Miracles happen when you're around\\
The sunset is deeper and longer, the scent of the jasmine is stronger\\
Stray dogs don't bite, birds start to sing\\
Lightning daren't strike, you suddenly bring\\
Bluer skies...
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* Music/{{Foreigner}} - "Feels Like the First Time":

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* Music/{{Foreigner}} Music/{{Foreigner|Band}} - "Feels Like the First Time":
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** Shakespeare also subverts this with [[http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15557 Sonnet 130]], more commonly known as "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun." He still loves her, though.

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** Shakespeare also subverts this with [[http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15557 Sonnet 130]], 130,]] more commonly known as "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun." He still loves her, though.



** A man [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2377#comic claiming he'd do anything for the woman he loves]], until she asks him: "Would you eat this brick?"
** And again in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2599#comic this one]], mocking the fickleness of young love.
** Later subverted in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2635#comic this one]], in which a man literally scales the highest mountain and swims the deepest ocean, and afterwards becomes a celebrity and loses interest in his original girlfriend.
** Revisited yet again in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3310#comic this one]], in which his lover claims that acts like "climbing a mountain" merely make him more socially desirable ("Clearly you're hedging your bets in case things don't work out here"). She instead asks him to do something socially deplorable to prove his love.

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** A man [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2377#comic claiming he'd do anything for the woman he loves]], loves,]] until she asks him: "Would you eat this brick?"
** And again in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2599#comic this one]], one,]] mocking the fickleness of young love.
** Later subverted in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2635#comic this one]], one,]] in which a man literally scales the highest mountain and swims the deepest ocean, and afterwards becomes a celebrity and loses interest in his original girlfriend.
** Revisited yet again in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3310#comic this one]], one,]] in which his lover claims that acts like "climbing a mountain" merely make him more socially desirable ("Clearly you're hedging your bets in case things don't work out here"). She instead asks him to do something socially deplorable to prove his love.
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** The most obvious example is probably ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. Romeo says that Juliet: 1. Is the sun. 2. Teaches the torches to burn bright. 3. Is fairer than the moon. 3. Has cheeks brighter than the stars. 4. OK, you get the idea.

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** The most obvious example is probably ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. Romeo says that Juliet: 1. Is the sun. 2. Teaches the torches to burn bright. 3. Is fairer than the moon. 3.4. Has cheeks brighter than the stars. 4.5. OK, you get the idea.
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* The [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]/Series/{{Angel}} romance is subject to a certain amount of InUniverse mocking re this trope.

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* The [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]/Series/{{Angel}} romance is subject to a certain amount of InUniverse mocking re regarding this trope.
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* ''Film/Annihilation2018''. Kane won't tell his wife Lena where he's been deployed by the US military--only that he's in the same hemisphere. Lena laughs at him for thinking that she looks up at the skies while he's gone and wonders if he's doing the same. The fact that she'd mock him in this way is a sign that [[YourCheatingHeart her affections have been straying]].

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* ''Film/Annihilation2018''. Kane won't tell his wife Lena where he's been deployed by the US military--only that he's in the same hemisphere. Lena laughs at him for thinking that she looks up at the skies while he's gone and wonders if he's doing the same. The fact that she'd mock him in this way is a sign that [[YourCheatingHeart her affections have been straying]].straying.
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* ''Film/Annihilation2018''. Kane won't tell his wife Lena where he's been deployed by the US military--only that he's in the same hemisphere. Lena laughs at him for thinking that she looks up at the skies while he's gone and wonders if he's doing the same. The fact that she'd mock him in this way is a sign that [[YourCheatingHeart her affections have been straying]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Of course I would, it would cement my love for you."]]


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-->--"Love Can Build a Bridge" - Music/TheJudds

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-->--"Love -->-- Music/TheJudds, "Love Can Build a Bridge" - Music/TheJudds
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If any "I would such and such" statements turn out to be NotHyperbole, back away slowly because LoveMakesYouCrazy [[LoveMakesYouEvil and/or evil.]]

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If any "I would such and such" statements turn out to be NotHyperbole, back away slowly because LoveMakesYouCrazy and/or [[LoveMakesYouEvil and/or evil.]]

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* "10,000 Hours" by Music/DanAndShay featuring Music/JustinBieber:
-->I'd spend ten thousand hours and ten thousand more\\
Oh, if that's what it takes to learn that sweet heart of yours\\
And I might never get there, but I'm gonna try\\
If it's ten thousand hours or the rest of my life
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** This trope is also parodied in "One More Minute," in which the singer makes hyperbolic and increasingly disturbing statements of what he would do to ''avoid'' the object of the song.
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* Mocked in "How Much I Love You" from ''Theatre/OneTouchOfVenus'':

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* Mocked in "How Much I Love You" from ''Theatre/OneTouchOfVenus'':''Theatre/OneTouchOfVenus'' (an alternate version of which was published as an Creator/OgdenNash poem titled "To My Valentine"):

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