History Main / TenMinutesInTheCloset

* The [[https://dic.nicovideo.jp/t/a/○○しないと出られない部屋 room one cannot leave until they do [action[=]=]]] meme is most often used as a [[Shipping]] premise, to force the two or more characters trapped in it to have sex.

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* In the final issue of the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' show tie in comic, Dick's birthday party has them playing a sort of SpinTheBottle[=/=]TenMinutesInTheCloset mash-up. [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]], his best friend, spins him and while he assures her that they don't have to do anything, she grabs him and kisses him like there's no tomorrow, because she's actually got a huge crush on him.

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* Subverted in the introduction of ''Film/GoodLuckChuck'', where the titular character is practically assaulted by a goth girl during the party game (while both are still pre-teens) and flees the closet in terror after she claws his chest.

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* This triggers the TimeSkip in Jennifer Garner's ''[[Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty 13 Going on 30]]''.

* Zig-zagged in ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'', as Ryuuji and Minorin are locked in a storage room, and while they do talk out, they also spend just as much time trying to get out. No relationship upgrade, either.

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* Used in an early episode of ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'', when Cory and Shawn go to a make out party. Shawn has a great time (even to the point of having a different shirt on when he leaves than when he entered), while Cory and Topanga go in and simply talk. When they are both ready to kiss, the door is opened.

* The Orthodox Jewish tradition of the Yichud Room involves a man and a woman who have been recently married to stay together in a room during or just after the wedding reception based on the tradition of the families. They stay in this room for a certain amount of time alone (at least 8 minutes) because before they were married, in the Orthodox Jewish faith, a man and a woman are not allowed to be alone together unless they are married. During this time the bride and groom exchange and open gifts, break their fast together, and whatever else takes their fancy as a newly married couple.

* Variation in ''{{Series/Bones}}''. Booth and Brennan getting stuck in an ElevatorFailure isn’t on purpose, but they do talk out their romantic issues while trapped.

* Jura does this to Hibiki and Dita in the second season of ''Anime/{{Vandread}}''. And broadcasts the security camera feed to the entire ship. A red alert interrupts things before anything really comes of it.

* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': Eriol once locks Sakura and Shaoran in an elevator. By the end of the episode, they're on a FirstNameBasis which is a big deal in Japan.
* Subverted in ''Manga/{{Gokusen}}''. Yankumi's students lock her and Shin in a storeroom in an attempt to get them together. Not only does it not work, but the principal was there the whole time behind a box.
* ''Obaka-chan Koigatariki'' features an example, the school president locks two people in a room together, nothing happens. "If they were hamsters they'd have started mating already!"

* Put to good use in ''Film/TeenWolf'' (in a little party game commonly known as "Seven Minutes' Heaven") by the couple's friends, who put them in the closet just to encourage some amorousness. Though the two initially would prefer to remain just friends, the guy's werewolf side does have him getting a bit frisky with her...

* In ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'', the trope is invoked by Grey's companions. As one might expect, it ends with an AlmostKiss.
* The plot of ''Film/SevenInHeaven'' is based around this going horribly wrong. In the 'traveling to nightmarish alternate universes' kind of way.

* At a party, Margaret and her peers in ''Literature/AreYouThereGodItsMeMargaret'' play "Two Minutes In The Closet" (though they have to use a bathroom in this case). It's presented more innocently here because the characters are only sixth graders. They just give a quick kiss and exit.

* Used twice in ''Series/SavedByTheBell''.
* ''Series/SeventhHeaven'': Eric and Annie lock Reverend Hampton and his wife in their attic, incorrectly thinking they're breaking up. Since the victims don't have anything to make up over, nothing else to do, and no way out, they have sex.
* In one episode of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', Ronon and Dr. [[strike:Kaylee]] Keller are trapped in her medlab for almost the entire episode, and are headed down this path, although they only kiss once just before the doors open.
* TV series ''Series/MyNameIsEarl''. When the warden of the prison where Earl is an inmate attempts to stop two gangs from fighting, he locks the leaders in solitary together for a month. Predictably, they fight for a while ... then they calm down ... then they start talking ... and then fall in love. They still have to remain enemies when they get out of solitary, or their gangs will turn on them. So they find whatever excuse to get in trouble and get locked up together.

* Used in ''Series/FullHouse'' between Jesse and Kimmy in the Smash Club, except being locked in was an accident. With slightly less {{Squick}} than you might think.
* Used to resolve a split between Odo and Kira in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' (during Dax's bachelor party, so it's more like ten ''hours'' in the closet). We never hear what's said, someone just opens the door to the walk-in closet and finds them talking quietly. The actors concerned were very annoyed with this cop-out and insisted that later differences between the two be resolved on-screen.
** And they weren't the only annoyed ones. A later book - specifically ''Worlds of Deep Space Nine: Vol. III'' - goes back and recounts the whole conversation.
** Bashir and Dax had an earlier one, trapped in a malfunctioning elevator, which led to Bashir giving up his futile pursuit of Dax and them cementing their "JustFriends" relationship.
* Used in an early episode of ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'', when Cory and Shawn go to a make out party. Shawn has a great time (even to the point of having a different shirt on when he leaves than when he entered), while Cory and Topanga go in and simply talk. When they are both ready to kiss, the door is opened.
* Used in the Korean drama ''Delightful Girl Chun-hyang''. The main characters' friends determine that as Chun-hyang and Mong-ryong are getting married, they might as well learn to tolerate each other. (This being the second or third episode, it of course doesn't work).
* The ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' episode "Smooching and Mooching" has Bill sent to the laundry room for "seven minutes in heaven" with head cheerleader Vicki Appleby after she "loses" at SpinTheBottle. Vicki, previously depicted as the AlphaBitch, actually ends up bonding with Bill and even gives him his FirstKiss before all is said and done.
* Crichton and Aeryn did this in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', though it wasn't so much "ten minutes in a closet" as "several hours in a wrecked transport pod".

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Lily gets sick of Robin and Barney's continued refusal to define their relationship beyond "sleeping together", so she locks them in Robin's bedroom and announces they can't come out until they've reached a definition (with emphasis on it being the definition [[{{Jerkass}} Lily]] wants).

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** In the episode "Slumber Party Panic", Finn is trying to help keep the horde of zombies approaching the party at the Candy Kingdom a secret. When Jake gets suspicious, Finn distracts him by getting Jake and Lady Rainicorn to play "seven minutes in heaven".
** In "The Pajama War", Finn and Princess Bubblegum have to do after losing at musical chairs. The Candy people think they're kissing in the closet, but they actually escaped to have some fun together.
* Played straight but then subverted in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Into the Bunker". Mabel shoves Dipper into a closet with Wendy in an attempt to get him to confess his feelings for the latter. Unfortunately, the "closet" was actually a decontamination chamber, leading to the lair of the Shape-Shifter...Mabel finds out too late and can't get them out. Dipper comes to terms with his issue in the end though.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Xander and Cordelia get trapped in Buffy's basement by a demon. Their argument over whose fault it is ends with them kissing passionately.

* They did this in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', though it wasn't so much "ten minutes in a closet" as "several hours in a wrecked transport pod".

* Used in ''Series/FullHouse'' between Jessie and Kimmie in the Smash Club, except being locked in was an accident. With slightly less {{Squick}} than you might think.

* In the final issue of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', Dick's birthday party has them playing a sort of SpinTheBottle[=/=]TenMinutesInTheCloset mash-up. [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]], his best friend, spins him and while he assures her that they don't have to do anything, she grabs him and kisses him like there's no tomorrow, because she's actually got a huge crush on him.

* Xander and Cordelia of ''Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}''.

{{Subtrope}} of RomanceEnsues. Related to CaughtInTheRain. Compare LockedInARoom which is not necessarily romantic.

* Played straight but then subverted in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Into the Bunker". Mabel shoves Dipper into a closet with Wendy in an attempt to get him to confess his feelings for the latter. Unfortunately, the "closet" was actually a decontamination chamber, leading to the lair of the Shape-Shifter...

* Meg Griffin on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' had this at a Halloween costume party, where she made out (and possibly more) with someone dressed as [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]]. [[spoiler: At the end, she finds out he was [[BrotherSisterIncest Chris]]. {{Squick}}]]