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* This is pretty much the whole premise of the film ''Film/MysteryDate''. The main character borrows his brother's car for his date and finds a dead body in the trunk.

** In "The One with the Blidn Dates," Joey and Phoebe try to trick Ross and Rachel to get back together again, by setting them up bad blind dates. Phoebe set up Rachel with the biggest recent loser she remembers dating, while Joey sets up Ross with a woman he found incredibly boring. However, when Phoebe said that Ross also [[IncrediblyLameFun enjoys similar things]], Joey lies to the woman, and Ross gets stood up. It doesn't work, and Ross and Rachel figure out what the other two were up to.

** In "The One with the Bad Dates," Joey and Phoebe try to trick Ross and Rachel to get back together again, by setting them up bad blind dates. Phoebe set up Rachel with the biggest recent loser she remembers dating, while Joey sets up Ross with a woman he found incredibly boring. However, when Phoebe said that Ross also [[IncrediblyLameFun enjoys similar things]], Joy lies to the woman, and Ross gets stood up. It doesn't work, and Ross and Rachel figure out what the other two were up to.

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* Joan's bad date with her fiancé in ''Series/MadMen'' earned said fiancé the FanNickname Dr. Rape.
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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Diane's universally-terrible dates are played for laughs... and also lead to her becoming the jaded, semi-gold digging person that we know early in the strip.

* ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise'': When Kuroe goes on a date with Arata to Destinyland, the elaborate steps she takes to keep from triggering her InvoluntaryShapeshifting (mostly involving her avoiding physical contact with Arata) make things really awkward between the two of them. It's funny because most of the things Kuroe does are silly (and it's all done in the midst of cute and cartoony CaptainErsatz versions of Disney characters), but also sad because Arata is visibly hurt by her keeping him at a distance -- and because Kuroe goes through a HeroicBSOD when a PartialTransformation happens anyway.

* This happens fairly often to Jon in ''Comicstrip/{{Garfield}}'', until a storyline of comics from 2006 allowed him and Liz to become an official couple.

* Twilight gets one in ''Fanfic/HardReset'' series story, [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/82419/a-stitch-in-time A Stitch In Time]] when she accepts a blind date as petty retaliation after having a row with her current girlfriend, Azalea. The date, Algae Bloom, takes her to a shady bar, repeatedly tries to get her drunk, insults Twilight's intelligence, insults Twilight's current girlfriend, and generally acts like a date rapist. Finally Twilight has enough, gives her a solid TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, and walks out to reconnect with Azalea. She also informs Cloudkicker ([[EthicalSlut who is promiscuous but has solid dating ethics]]) about the ordeal and asks her to spread the word so Algae Bloom won't prey on anypony else.
* ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'' (''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' WesternAnimation, [[{{Series}} TV Series]], and ComicBooks.): A RunningGag is that each of Tucker's Date wind up being this due to his misleading profile.
** Danny did end going going on a few of them, 3-4, IT seems.

* This is pretty much the whole premise of the film ''Film/MysteryDate''. The main character borrows his bother's car for his date and finds a dead body in the trunk.

* ''Series/LoveConnection'': A lot of the entertainment value on this video matchmaking series (that was sort of a GameShow) wasn't always the recaps of good dates where the couple stays together... but the revisiting of dates that were utter disasters, for countless reasons. Sometimes the guy (or gal) was a class-A jerk or had no social graces, while other times it was simply the two had no compatibility or chemistry, but either way the end result of the occurances of this trope was the same: the end of the relationships.
* ''Series/FamilyMatters'': The Season 1 episode "The Big Fix," which depicts Laura and Urkel's first date, is nothing short of a comical disaster, and it only gets worse as the nerd tries his darndest to impress Laura and make it a perfect date. From the bad music he dedicates to her to gobbling up frogs legs in front of her to talking about his medical maladies to being a complete klutz -- he trips a waiter, setting into motion a series of domino-effect accidents that ruin others' evenings out -- to just being himself ... and (even better) this was what was supposed to be (according to Laura) a "non-date"! In short, this was one "non-date" Laura wanted to forget ... but she and everyone else would simply laugh about this "non-date" years later as, by the end of the series, she and Urkel were engaged to marry.

* The entirety of "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic, is built around one of these. Take [[{{Adorkable}} serious social awkwardness]], add [[DatePeepers very bad advice]] and [[INeedAFreakingDrink minor intoxication]], and stir.

Not to be confused with [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk the bad (i.e. poisoned) date that Indiana Jones almost ate]].

* In the ''Fairy/Oak'' series, Cicero and Dahlia's first date consisted on her getting soaked by the stormy sea while he explained how waves are formed. The cherry on top was that, when he tried to kiss her, she accidentally turned him into a seagull.

** Averted in "For The Cause". The entire B-plot of the episode consists of a build-up that looks like it's going to be a disaster. Shortly after [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Ziyal]] first arrives on the station, she and resident [[TheSpymaster spymaster]] [[MysteriousPast Garak]] take notice of each other and she ends up asking him out on a date. Bashir points out she's the daughter of Garak's ArchEnemy, Dukat. [[MamaBear Kira]] threatens Garak's life if he does anything to hurt her. Garak himself is convinced that Ziyal [[HoneyTrap invited him out]] to kill him on her father's behalf. Quark [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments makes things worse]] by making Garak believe Kira's in on the plot as well. Cue the date: Garak takes a gun to the date, Ziyal gives him TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.... which clears the air, allowing them to have a good time and get on well with each other.

* In Fanfic/TheFirstOfMany, Princess Twilight Sparkle is terrified that her first date ever might go like this. Being the [[CoolBigSis Cool Big Bro]] he is, Shining Armor calms her down by telling his sister the story of his BadDate, which went so horribly wrong that it warped back to being wonderful again.
* Twilight gets one in [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/82419/a-stitch-in-time A Stitch In Time]] when she accepts a blind date as petty retaliation after having a row with her current girlfriend, Azalea. The date, Algae Bloom, takes her to a shady bar, repeatedly tries to get her drunk, insults Twilight's intelligence, insults Twilight's current girlfriend, and generally acts like a date rapist. Finally Twilight has enough, gives her a solid TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, and walks out to reconnect with Azalea. She also informs Cloudkicker ([[EthicalSlut who is promiscuous but has solid dating ethics]]) about the ordeal and asks her to spread the word so Algae Bloom won't prey on anypony else.

* ''Series/LoveConnection'': A lot of the entertainment value on this video matchmaking series (that was sort of a GameShow) wasn't always the recaps of good dates where the couple stays together... but the revisiting of dates that were utter disasters, for countless reasons. Sometimes the guy (or gal) was a class-A jerk or had no social graces, while other times it was simply the two had no compatibility or chemistry, but either way the end result of these [[BadDate Bad Dates]] was the same: the end of the relationships.

** Averted in "For The Cause". The entire B-plot of the episode consists of a build-up that looks like it's going to be a disaster. Shortly after [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Ziyal]] first arrives on the station, she and resident [[TheSpymaster spymaster]] [[MysteriousPast Garak]] take notice of each other and she ends up asking him out on a date. Bashir points out she's the daughter of Garak's ArchEnemy, Dukat. [[MamaBear Kira]] threatens Garak's life if he does anything to hurt her. Garak himself is convinced that Ziyal [[HoneyTrap invited him out]] to kill him on her father's behalf. Quark [[CrowningMomentOfFunny makes things worse]] by making Garak believe Kira's in on the plot as well. Cue the date: Garak takes a gun to the date, Ziyal gives him TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.... which clears the air, allowing them to have a good time and get on well with each other.