Basic Trope: Two characters (usually a boy and a girl but it doesn't have to be) and the next number is coincidentally a slow dance.
- Straight: Alice and Bob run into each other at the school dance. As soon as they begin talking the next number, which just so happens to be a slow dance, begins
- Exaggerated: Alice and Bob have secretly been implanted with chips that cause speakers to play slow dances whenever they enter a gymnasium, auditorium, or ball room.
- Downplayed: The next song is a slow dance but Alice and Bob don't dance.
- Justified: The DJ has a specific set of songs set up, one of which is a slow dance.
- Inverted: The previous song was a slow dance and the next one is rave music.
- Subverted: Alice requests a song, leading the viewer to believe she is requesting a slow dance, but she is actually requesting her favorite pop song.
- Double Subverted: ...However, the DJ gets the songs mixed up and ends up playing a slow dance anyway.
- Parodied: Every time Bob and Alice run into each other, a slow dance inexplicably plays.
- Zig-Zagged: A slow dance comes on and Alice and Bob don't dance however they do dance to the rave music that comes afterwards.
- Averted: The next song is not a slow dance.
- Enforced: Alice and Bob have to slow dance otherwise the writers aren't allowed to use this song.
- Lampshaded: "A slow dance? Really? Somebody has to be doing this on purpose."
- Invoked:
- Bob requests that the DJ play a slow dance beforehand.
- A mutual friend of both Alice and Bob, who is trying to get them together requests that the DJ play a slow dance when he sees the two run into each other.
- It's DJ Shipper.
- Exploited: A mutual friend of both Alice and Bob, who is trying to get them together, requests that the DJ play a slow dance, knowing that the two will have no choice but to dance in order to avoid awkwardness.
- Defied: Alice and Bob specifically request that the DJ not play a slow dance.
- Discussed: "Wouldn't it be a funny coincidence if a slow dance just happened to play right now?"
- Conversed: "Have you ever noticed that every time someone goes to a dance in this show, a slow dance just happens to play?"
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