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* By contrast, Maria Sharapova's reaction to a similar proposal [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwCV-_gbXls was more graceful]].

You can hardly believe your ears: ''you'' spend ''seven'' hours a day on Wiki/TVTropes! After being told by your friends ([[ThoseTwoGuys both of them]]) that [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife you have a problem]], at last you've found a kindred spirit! How do you express your glee at your mutual interests?

Of course, you don't ''mean'' it. It's exaggeration for comedic effect. In other words, you're only joking. In fact, if you feel compelled to say this right away upon meeting someone, you both are much more likely to become PlatonicLifePartners: tossing love and sex into the mix would overcomplicate what would otherwise be a close ([[{{UST}} and maybe occasionally sexy]]) friendship.

* This is shown in a {{flashback}} in ''Manga/FutureDiary'', when 13-year-old classmates [[SchoolIdol Yuno]] and [[{{Adorkable}} Yukiteru]] are both having trouble with a school assignment asking them about their dreams for the future. Yuki had been looking forward to going to see the stars with his parents, but they've just recently gotten divorced, and now it seems like he may never get that chance. To cheer him up, Yuno offers to go with him to the observatory instead, but Yuki says it's not the same since she isn't family. Yuno then suggests that she could be family if she married him. He brushes it off and jokingly agrees to get married when they're older, believing she was only kidding. [[StalkerWithACrush She wasn't.]] It turns out the reason she was having trouble with the assignment was because [[spoiler: she had accidentally killed her AbusiveParents. She had been all alone and unable to imagine any kind of future for herself, but the thought of marrying Yuki gave her something solid to fixate on, and focusing on that kept her from completely giving in to despair. In the process, Yuki becomes a LivingEmotionalCrutch, and Yuno will do [[ClingyJealousGirl anything]] to make sure they can be together. [[MurderTheHypotenuse ANYTHING.]]]]

* In ''Film/AmazingGrace'', a historical movie about ending the slave trade in England, abolitionist William Wilberforce is introduced to future wife Barbara Spooner by his cousin. Turns out she has long supported abolition and gets him to talk about his (failed) attempt at getting slavery outlawed. He later tells his cousin that they're both "prone to making rash decisions," and they marry a week later, and she convinces him to pick up the fight once more. [[note]]Most of this is probably artistic license, since the real Barbara Spooner was said to have no interest in her husband's political career.[[/note]]

* Non-[[GeekyTurnOn geeky]], SuperDickery example: In ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'', Henry says a variation on this after tasting the cooking of Clare's family's cook. Which is very weird, considering Clare's his fiancee at that point. Furthermore, he prefaces the statement by dramatically announcing "I have seen my future," which makes Clare worry he's about to tell her family about the time traveling.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5273034/1/The_Goddess_and_the_Sky The Goddess and the Sky]], [[Manga/AhMyGoddess Sora]] jokingly wishes that Belldandy would marry her after tasting the goddess's cooking. Unfortunately, it's interpreted as an actual wish by the system, and the two of them end up [[AccidentalMarriage accidentally married]].

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5273034/1/The_Goddess_and_the_Sky The Goddess and the Sky]], [[Manga/AhMyGoddess Sora]] jokingly wishes that Belldandy would marry her after tasting the goddess's cooking. Unfortunately, it's interpreted as an actual wish by the system, and the two of them end up AccidentallyMarried.

* ''ComicBok/YTheLastMan''. Upon learning that that a captain named her ship after the one in ''Literature/TheSirensOfTitan'', Yorick instantly proposes to her.

"I want to have your babies" is a frequent variations of the trope - preferably said by a man to a woman for extra silliness.

* In ''Manga/KOn'', Ritsu tells Yui she'll [[LesYay marry Ui]] when she realizes how good of a housewife she is.

** However, when he actually ''means'' it, ie proposing a FourthDateMarriage to Harriet Vane, she at first doesn't believe him. (It takes several years and books before she finally realizes all those spontaneous proposals are deadly serious. [[spoiler: Then she says yes.]])

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Daring Do intentionally {{invoke|d}}s this [[FoeRomanceSubtext against her arch-enemy Ahuizotl]] when they are fighting each other over a magic ring in ''Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E4DaringDont''.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', the AuthorAvatar says this to [[spoiler: Vriska]] after she finds him in the wreckage of an attack by the BiggerBad.

* ''Film/{{Batman}}'', when reporter Alexander Knox meets Vicki Vale, who's the only other person who believes Batman exists and wants to help him:

* [[http://notalwaysright.com/helping-the-needy/4597 This]] Website/NotAlwaysRight entry features 2 StarTrek fans, one of which pretends to propose to the other after exchanging only a few sentences of dialog. The person who submitted the entry was the one being proposed to. They quickly exit the conversation.

* [[http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/022835.html This]] post from "Overheard in New York".

For this trope without the commitment, see GeekyTurnOn.

* In the final scene of the StephenSondheim musical ''Theatre/MerrilyWeRollAlong'', Mary compliments upstart composer Frank on his music, to which he replies "I've just met the girl I'm going to marry." This, in classic Sondheimian fashion, has a [[FunnyAneurysmMoment dark edge]], since we've [[BackToFront already seen]] that Mary will fall in love with Frank, who will remain oblivious to her feelings through two disastrous marriages to other women.

* [[http://notalwaysright.com/helping-the-needy/4597 This]] Website/NotAlwaysRight entry features 2 StarTrek fans, one of which pretends to propose to the other after exchanging only a few sentences of dialog.

* [[http://notalwaysright.com/helping-the-needy/4597 This]] Website/NotAlwaysRight entry.

You can hardly believe your ears: ''you'' spend ''seven'' hours a day on TVTropes! After being told by your friends ([[ThoseTwoGuys both of them]]) that [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife you have a problem]], at last you've found a kindred spirit! How do you express your glee at your mutual interests?

* Creator/DorothyLSayers' LordPeterWimsey sometimes used this gambit to flatter older women. In "The Queen's Square", he says to his dance partner that if he'd only had the luck to have been born earlier, he'd have married her. (She is ''much'' older than he is and is not offended.)

* This is shown in a {{flashback}} in ''Manga/FutureDiary'', when 13-year-old classmates [[SchoolIdol Yuno]] and [[{{Adorkable}} Yukiteru]] are both having trouble with a school assignment asking them about their dreams for the future. Yuki had been looking forward to going to the observatory to see the stars with his parents, but now they're getting a divorce, and it seems like that day will never come. To cheer him up, Yuno offers to go with him instead, but Yuki says it's not the same since she isn't family. Yuno then suggests that she become his bride. He brushes it off and jokingly agrees to get married when they're older, believing she was only kidding. [[StalkerWithACrush She wasn't.]] It turns out the reason she was having trouble with the assignment was because [[spoiler: she had accidentally killed her AbusiveParents. She had been all alone and unable to imagine any kind of future for herself, but the thought of marrying Yuki gave her something solid to fixate on, and focusing on that kept her from completely giving in to despair. In the process, Yuki becomes a LivingEmotionalCrutch, and Yuno will do [[ClingyJealousGirl anything]] to make sure they can be together. [[MurderTheHypotenuse ANYTHING.]]]]

* This happens in a {{flashback}} in ''Manga/FutureDiary'', when Yuno, after a bit of dialogue with Yuki, states that she wants to become his bride. He brushes it off and jokingly accepts, believing she was only kidding. [[{{Yandere}} She wasn't]].

* A version of this occurs in Thornton Wilder's classic OurTown, George and Emily begin a conversation with how George has become all stuck-up, and are engaged by the end of it. Unlike most of these, the question is never directly asked or answered, but everyone knows what's happened. George ends it by saying "Well. I guess this is a pretty important conversation we've been having."

* Non-[[GeekyTurnOn geeky]], SuperDickery example: In ''TheTimeTravelersWife'', Henry says a variation on this after tasting the cooking of Clare's family's cook. Which is very weird, considering Clare's his fiancee at that point. Furthermore, he prefaces the statement by dramatically announcing "I have seen my future," which makes Clare worry he's about to tell her family about the time traveling.

* In AngelicLayer, Misaki's aunt and best friend, Tamayo, demand she marry them after she cooks for them.

* In the manga version of ''ChronoCrusade'', [[CatGirl Shader]] says this to [[EmotionlessGirl Fiore]] after Fiore serves everyone a (delicious) breakfast. She ''seems'' to be joking, but considering [[LesYay the two's relationship...]]