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* Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese have two days to fall in love and conceive John in ''Film/TheTerminator''. Somewhat justified in that he'd been pining over her photo for years, but she'd only just met him. Well, he did [[RescueRomance make a heck of a first impression]]. There's also a difference between sex between two people in a stressful situation and committing to marriage.

* ''Film/TheSantaClause II'', Scott has all of one month to marry somebody. Technically, he had several years to do this, but nobody noticed the deadline until it was only one month away.

* On ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', April and Andy decide to get married out of the blue after a season of ShipTease and WillTheyOrWontThey and about a month of actual dating. Played with in that Leslie spends a whole episode trying to convince them how wrong their decision must be and that they're rushing into it, and finally realizes that maybe she should just give them a chance and let them do what they want. April and Andy do indeed get married, and [[{{Reconstruction}} it actually works out!]] Their relationship is remarkably stable, given how immature they both are in all other aspects.

* At least five Creator/NoraRoberts books have main characters who get engaged after about three weeks. The longest two relationships were probably ''Montana Sky'', which had two that had known each other since childhood, and two who dated for a year before marrying.

* It isn’t rare for those who find love in their senior years to marry their sweethearts within a short time of meeting them. Maybe it’s because they realize they haven’t got forever left to live, and don’t want to miss out on precious time.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E103InHisImage In His Image]]", Alan Talbot and Jessica Connelly got engaged after knowing each other for only four days. [[spoiler:Jessica never learns that Alan was an android or that his identity was assumed by his creator Walter Ryder, Jr.]]

* Gerry and Carla Carroll on ''Seriea/TheNewsreader'' are an interesting example. Gerry met Carla when he was working as an entertainer on a cruise ship, and [[LoveAtFirstSight fell for each other immediately]], and Gerry states they were "basically married" by the time the ship docked in Sydney, with him choosing to stay in Australia rather than go back to his home country of Ireland. However, Gerry is also bisexual, a fact Carla knew from the very beginning, and they've come to an [[EthicalSlut arrangement]] that lets him also sleep around with men. Seems to work for them, as they clearly care deeply for each other, are still married over a decade later, and have a daughter together.

* In the first episode of ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'', Robin and Marian meet while Robin is trying to escape from the Sheriff of Nottingham (Marian is his ward). He bursts into her bedroom, looking for a place to hide, and they [[LoveAtFirstSight immediately fall in love]]. Marian helps him escape, and when he later he saves her, she decides to stay in Sherwood Forest with him and his band. They get married at the end of the second episode.
* ''Series/TheSandbaggers'', episode "Always Glad to Help". Neil sends Laura to flirt with Prince Hamad to find out what he's up to. He proposes within a week; Laura, flustered, stalls for time by saying she does not fancy living in the desert. Hamad says he does not intend to do so anytime soon, and this is the key clue to his plans.

* In the gay community there is a joke of "Lesbian U-Haul Syndrome," in which a lesbian couple will move in together very early in a relationship, leading to many of the same problems. The idea is that since men are stereotypically the ones with CommitmentIssues, if you remove them from the equation then it's full steam ahead. In the era before same-sex marriage was legalized in the United States, the joke was “What does a lesbian bring to a fourth[[note]]Or third, or second, depending on how hyperbolic the joke teller wants to be[[/note]] date? A U-Haul."[[note]]For the unfamiliar, U-Haul is a company that leases moving vans and trailers.[[/note]] ([[DontExplainTheJoke The joke being that they would move in together ludicrously quickly]], and with no option to get married, moving in was the closest equivalent.) Today, the joke goes more like this:

* In the gay community there is a joke of "Lesbian U-Haul Syndrome," in which a lesbian couple will move in together very early in a relationship, leading to many of the same problems. The idea is that since men are stereotypically the ones with CommitmentIssues, if you remove them from the equation then it's full steam ahead. In the era before same-sex marriage was legalized in the United States, the joke was “What does a lesbian bring to a fourth[[note]]Or third, or second, depending on how hyperbolic the joke teller wants to be[[/note]] date? A U-Haul."[[note]]For the unfamiliar, U-Haul is a company that leases moving vans and trailers.[[/note]]

* In the gay community there is a joke of "Lesbian U-Haul Syndrome," in which a lesbian couple will move in together very early in a relationship, leading to many of the same problems. The idea is that since men are stereotypically the ones with CommitmentIssues, if you remove them from the equation then it's full steam ahead.

* A ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' episode "The Chicken Dance" has Miranda invite a friend to stay at her apartment for a week with the hope of wooing him. He and Miranda's interior decorator hit it off and they got engaged a week later. Their wedding becomes the topic of conversation for the rest of the episode. Among the main cast themselves is Charlotte and Trey, who were engaged and married in a ridiculously short period of time. SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs--Trey's impotency aside, the marriage is troubled almost from day one and despite valiant efforts on both parties part to make it work, it ultimately fails.