History Main / DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo

* Parodied with the Shadow character in ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'' after killing Alira before the penultimate boss fight of Act 4:

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

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** Not to mention the ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' 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.

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

* Parodied on Series/{{NCIS}} when [[OfficialCouple Tony and Ziva]] are stuck inside the office elevator after an explosion has ripped through the Navy Yard. The scene is very much played for ShipTease. They decide that Ziva should get on Tony's shoulders to see if she can open up the emergency hatch on the ceiling, when the elevator car jolts, knocking her down.

* ''Film/HerculesReturns'' parodies the [[DullSurprise underwhelming acting]] of the OfficialCouple post-coitus.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'' 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.]]"

* Referenced but not actually said in ''Series/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?")

* In the ''Literature/{{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.

* In ''Disney/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'' 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.]]"

* In ''Series/KnightRider'' with a couple making out in a parked car, and KITT had to push it out of the way in order to drive off.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. After Spike and Buffy have DestructoNookie, Buffy wakes up the next morning in the wreckage and asks, "When did the house fall down?"
** After TheirFirstTime turns him evil, [[KickTheDog Angelus taunts Buffy]] by asking if she expected "Fireworks, bells ringing, a dulcet choir of pretty little birdies?" And that's when he's pretending to be Angel - once that's over, he writes "Was it good for you too" in the blood of his next victim.

* In the ''Series/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...

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Proper Condom Use" has the subplot of sexually inexperienced Mr. Mackey and Ms. Choksondik engaging in intercourse. While this is happening, the children are having a war boys vs. girls vice because they're worried [[ItMakesSenseInContext the other gender will give them AIDS]], which eventually leads to them setting off bombs to one another. The scene cuts to Mackey and Choksondik quickly sitting up from where the screen obscured their activities and the latter asking: "Did you feel something?"

** ... that's a bit long for a non-Earth-moving kiss. About 20 and a half seconds, for anyone one cares.

Inevitable Stock Phrase when somebody is kissing/having sex during an explosion, earthquake, or similar event. The phrase comes from Creator/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.

* The back-cover blurb for Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/The Fire Rose'' ends with the statement that the female lead comes to love the male lead[[note]]"Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast" in early-20th Century America[[/note]], "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.

* The back-cover blurb for Creator/MercedesLackey's ''[[Literature/ElementalMasters The Fire Rose]]'' ends with the statement that the female lead comes to love the male lead[[note]]"Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast" in early-20th Century America[[/note]], "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.

* Played with in Creator/PatrickMcManus' short story "The Sensuous Angler" in which he tells the tale of a torrid...er, fishing partnership with a co-worker whose husband Hammer hates fish and fishing. After sneaking over to her apartment for some hot-and-heavy perch-filleting action, Pat asked the question at hand.

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

* This developed a visual gag in the older British satirical comedy show, ''Series/ThatWasTheWeekThatWas'' (TW3). Sometime around 1962, comedian Willie Rushton was seen getting into bed with an impossibly glamorous actress/model type. Amid giggling and sighing, foreplay ensues. The camera then cuts to stock footage of waves crashing against rocks, tall chimneys falling, train going into tunnels, et c. We cut back to Willie Rushton and girl, who are still in bed - but soaked through from the waves, covered in brick dust and rubble from the chimney, and smothered in soot from the steam-train. She is screaming. He is wide-eyed with panic.

* In the gangster spoof ''JohnnyDangerously'', this is parodied (along with SexyDiscretionShot): the title character and his love interest start kissing passionately, the camera pans up to some fireworks... and it cuts to another character, who looks up at the fireworks and remarks "Looks like Johnny's getting laid!"
* When the title aliens' ship crashes in ''{{Critters}}'', teenager April is making out with her boyfriend in a nearby barn. April feels the ground shake from the impact and remarks that "The earth moved", to which her beau (who's barely gotten to second base yet) asks: "Already...?"

* ''Literature/MaximumRide'': While Max is kissing her love interest and the world begins exploding around them, she excitedly assumes "Lights! World shifting! The magazines were right!"

* The Mission Success cinematic for the [[VideoGame.BrutalLegend Brütal Legend]] mission "Pilgrimage of Screams" has the Screaming Wall let off a blast as Eddie and Ophelia kiss for the first time.
* The Mahjarrat of RuneScape have a tradition of only mating during earthquakes. They did this because on their homeworld (which is a nightmarish volcanic DeathWorld) they believed that earthquakes were caused by their god Mah and they needed to calm her.

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* Used in ''MarriedWithChildren'' when Marcy and Jefferson are having sex, and Al is jacking up their house in an EscalatingWar with the D'Arcys over a PropertyLine.

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' has a whole sketch based on this. We see a couple go to bed and are then shows clips of StockFootage consisting only of this, such as the train-into-a-tunnel, a chimney being blown up playing in reverse (as if it were rising), champagne bottles blowing open and so on (even a clip featuring RichardNixon). The twist is that they are also watching these clips. After they are over they are sitting in the bed, the man with a projector and the girl asking " Oh Bevis, are you going to do anything or are you just going to show me films all evening?"

* ''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.
* A one-panel gag in ''ComicBook/CartoonHistoryOfTheUniverse'' has two large dinosaurs "necking" saying this (while the main narrative discussed continental drift).
-->'''Male sauropod''': Did you feel the Earth move?
-->'''Female sauropod''': Honey-tons, that was the continental drift!
* In ''TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain'', after WonderWoman snaps {{Superman}} out of his HeroicBSOD... the two most powerful beings go at it full-bore. There are [[DestructoNookie literal earthquakes and tidal waves]]. When they're done, Diana [[LampshadeHanging actually says]] "Clark. The earth moved."

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