History Main / DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo

* As a joke, referred to in TomClancy's ''TheSumOfAllFears'', when the lost nuke was being dug up. Talking about the danger of the bomb (thought to be conventional, at the time) prematurely detonating: "I guess when she comes [sic], the earth really moves."

* The back-cover blurb for MercedesLackey's ''[[ElementalMasters The Fire Rose]]'' ends with the statement that the female lead comes to love the male lead[[hottip:*:"Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast" in early-20th Century America]], "And -- the earth moves..." Of course, this '''is''' 1906 in California, so along with any pleasure the two may take in one another, the earth is moving because of the big San Francisco quake.

** ... that's a bit long for a non-Earth-moving kiss.

** Inverted in an episode wherein Clark and Lana's lovemaking is the ''cause'' of an earthquake.
** Played straighter later when Jimmy reflects on the day he and Chloe meet again, which just happened to be the day General Zod tried to reshape Earth's crust in Krypton's likeness.

* In ''TrueLies'', when Arnold's character and his wife embrace and kiss while a nuclear bomb goes off behind them.

* In ''DextersLaboratory'', Dexter works on experiment that causes the whole house to tremble while his parents are making out on the couch:

* The back-cover blurb for MercedesLackey's ''[[ElementalMasters The Fire Rose]]'' ends with the statement that the female lead comes to love the male lead[[hottip:*:BeautyAndTheBeast in early-20th Century America]], "And -- the earth moves..." Of course, this '''is''' 1906 in California, so along with any pleasure the two may take in one another, the earth is moving because of the big San Francisco quake.

* In the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'', Magrat and Verence the Fool are kissing whilst Lancre is moved forwards 15 years in time, technically making it the longest kiss in history.

* Played for laughs in ''TheGoldenGirls''. Dorothy is on the phone with Stan during the period where they were sneaking around.

Inevitable Stock Phrase when somebody is kissing/having sex during an explosion, earthquake, or similar event. The phrase comes from ErnestHemingway's ''For Whom the Bell Tolls,'' when the hero and his lover are describing the intensity of the sexual pleasure they had ([[DestructoNookie no literal earth-moving is involved]]). Naturally, the phrase lent itself to much spoofing.

* ''Comicbook/{{X-Factor}}'': Played straight in the Nation X oneshot. Longshot and and his ex-wife, Dazzler, have just finished having sex when he asks if she felt the ground shaking earlier. She states that was probably just her. They've just missed the entire island full of mutants taking on a giant.

* In JMS' [[JMSSpiderMan Spider-Man]] run, Peter and MJ reconcile and whilst they're holding each other Doctor Doom (who was being attacked at the airport they were in) moves from underneath the rubble, prompting MJ to ask 'Did the ground just move?' and Peter to respond 'It always does'.

* In ''[[{{Disney/Aladdin}} Aladdin and the King of Thieves]]'' when the 40 Thieves crash Aladdin and Jasmine's wedding with a stampeding elephant. When the ground begins to shake, the Genie says "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar I thought the earth wasn't supposed to move until the honeymoon.]]"

* ''{{Maximum Ride}}'': While Max is kissing her love interest and the world begins exploding around them, she excitedly assumes "Lighs! World shifting! The magazines were right!"

** Not to mention the ''{{Titanic}}'' episode in which Bender and "Robot Rose" kiss. Bender: "When we kiss, I feel like we're standing knee-deep in cold, freezing water." Which, of course, they are, being on a sinking ship and all.

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* Used as a observation in EightBitTheatre: [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/12/24/episode-639-moving-the-earth/ "So that's where earthquakes come from."]]

* As a joke, referred to in TomClancy's ''The Sum of All Fears'', when the lost nuke was being dug up. Talking about the danger of the bomb (thought to be conventional, at the time) prematurely detonating: "I guess when she comes [sic], the earth really moves."

* In JMS' Spider-Man run, Peter and MJ reconcile and whilst they're holding each other Doctor Doom (who was being attacked at the airport they were in) moves from underneath the rubble, prompting MJ to ask 'Did the ground just move?' and Peter to respond 'It always does'.

* The back-cover blurb for MercedesLackey's ''The Fire Rose'' ends with the statement that the female lead comes to love the male lead[[hottip:*:BeautyAndTheBeast in early-20th Century America]], "And -- the earth moves..." Of course, this '''is''' 1906 in California, so along with any pleasure the two may take in one another, the earth is moving because of the big San Francisco quake.

* Used as a observation: [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/12/24/episode-639-moving-the-earth/ "So that's where earthquakes come from."]]
* ''Three Panel Soul'': [[http://threepanelsoul.com/2007/11/06/on-the-physical-sciences/ Philosopher pickup lines.]]

** Parodied in ''ChickenRun'', when the lead couple embrace and kiss while a gravy explosion goes off behind them.

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* [[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/extramarital-sex-fuels-earthquakes-warns-iran-cleric/story-fn3dxity-1225854907773 A senior Iranian cleric seems to have taken this trope a bit literally.]]
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* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. After Spike and Buffy have DestructoNookie, Buffy wakes up the next morning in the wreckage and asks, "When did the house fall down?"

* Similarly, in ''{{Angel}}'', Connor and Cordelia had sex [[IncendiaryExponent while it was raining fire]] and he asks "Did the world end?"

* Dutch comic ''{{Rudi}}'' used this with a couple in a background gag who have sex when a ''real'' earthquake strikes.

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': "When did the house fall down?"

* During the underground grotto dance scene in ''AddamsFamily Values'' as Morticia and Gomez finish the dance, all the champagne bottles blow their corks.

* In the ''DadsArmy'' episode "The Day the Balloon Went Up", Captain Mainwaring flies through a haystack on the end of a rope. A man and woman, of course, climb out of the collapsed haystack...

* In one episode of {{Sealab 2021}}, Debbie Love takes a vacation. After demanding a HappyEnding from the masseurs, we next see all of them smoking (with the masseurs sporting some new bruises).

* [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040307.html This strip]] from ''SchlockMercenary''. For those of you who don't feel like reading the next strip too, what happens in the third panel is that the Pa'nui blasts off a third of the Battleplate Tunguska, which was, at the time, holding them down with gravitics.

* ''GoodOmens'': [[spoiler:Anathema and Newt]] during the Time of Troubles directly before the Apocalypse. Sure, the seas hadn't started boiling and the moon hadn't turned red a blood at that point, but things had definitely started. Besides, she actually said something along the lines of "Yes, the earth moved for everyone."

* Referenced but not actually said in ''BlakesSeven'' episode "Ultraworld": Tarrant and Dayna (an explosives and weaponry expert) are captured by the Ultras, who want them to demonstrate the "human mating ritual" so they can catalogue the information on their computer. They decide to humour the Ultras, while using the "ritual" as cover for Dayna to extract an explosive device she has hidden in her tooth (?!). She blows a hole in the wall, they escape, the nonplussed aliens are left wondering what happened (one says something along the lines of "Have they finished the ritual?")

* A news article mentioning that Stuart Diver (sole survivor of the 1997 landslide in Thredbo, Australia) was going on vacation with his new girlfriend led to this troper making the obvious quip.

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