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* Cybill Shepherd in ''{{Moonlighting}}''. Unsurprisingly, Jerry Finnerman was the Director of Photography for both shows.

* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', the first appearance of [[{{Supergirl}} Kara]] shows her blurred and in a flowing white dress. Under water. When she saves LexLuthor and flies away, he is convinced she is an angel who is there to make him repent his sins.
** The sequences within the Fortress of Solitude in all get a bit gaussian...

* Cybil Sheppard in ''{{Moonlighting}}''.

* Used quite frequently on everyone in the first series of the revival of ''Series/DoctorWho'' for no particular reason.

* Lester's visions of Angela in ''AmericanBeauty''. Due to the [[MayDecemberRomance massive age gap]] involved, it stops being romantic and comes across as Squicky.
* Sophie Maes first appears this way in the film version of ''HowToLoseFriendsAndInfluencePeople''.

* Done for laughs in ''WaynesWorld''. When Wayne first sees Cassandra, she's on stage aggressively singing "Let me stand next to your fire". Wayne's view of her is in Gaussian and he hears "Dream Weaver".

* Used in ''{{Telstar}}'' when Joe first sees Heinz.

* [[ParodiedTrope: Parodied]] in ''Film/Muppets Most wanted''. While Constantine is shown in a Guassian fashion during part of "I'll get you what you want," it's only because he is applying Vaseline to the camera lens!

** In the last episode, used on Patty and Penny, because both actresses were about 25 years older than the age they were playing.

** Spock Prime was given this treatment in JJAbrams ''Film/StarTrek''. [[HoYay Make of that what you will]].

--> --'''Jeff''', ''{{Coupling}}'', "The Girl With Two Breasts"

* ''Sextette'', a Mae West vehicle from 1978, noticeably used this technique in all of her scenes to try and portray her as a cougary seductress (her current love interest was played by Timothy Dalton). Mae was now in her ''eighties'', and resembled a busty alien Pez dispenser. The soft-focus [[{{Squick}} didn't help.]]

This technique has been somewhat less common since ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'' left the airwaves, having caused a critical shortage in the world supply of soft focus. Of the remains, some of it goes to embellishing non-human objects of desire as well these days; witness FoodPorn as well as the CargoShip examples offered below. Some suggest that with the inception of High Definition film and television, which naturally shows more imperfections; that the Soft Focus trick might make a return to compensate.

* A jarring example near the beginning of ''Film/SherlockHolmes''. Cutting quickly back and forth between RobertDowneyJr and RachelMcAdams when he was shot without blur, but her and her surroundings were slightly out-of-focus.

** Also the ElizabethTaylor's White Diamonds ad-parody sketch featuring Sally Field behind about four layers of gauze.

* Pretty much all of ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' is shot in a very harsh, very cold light, to drive home the concept of emotionless impersonality, except for [[ChristianBale John Preston's]] wife, who not only gets the gaussian treatment, but shots of her include actual colours, as opposed to the slightly desaturated/bleached out effect of Librium as a whole. There's even a sequence (as she's being arrested for sense-crime) in which she shares a shot with and kisses her husband as she's dragged away. Her side of the screen? Sparkly, glowy, soft-focus. His side? Cold, harsh, slightly desaturated hard focus. Even in the middle of the kiss.

* ''Sextette'', a Mae West vehicle from 1978, noticeably used this technique in all of her scenes to try and portray her as a cougary seductress (her current love interest was played by Timothy Dalton). Keep in mind she was in her ''eighties''. [[{{Squick}} It didn't help.]]

* In ''AttackOnTitan'', [[TheRival Jean]] perceives [[ObliviouslyBeautiful Mikasa]] this way the first time he sees her.

An especially common creature in The Sixties, the GaussianGirl is distinguishable by her supernatural blurriness and the soft, romantic music accompanying her.

* Rohfa from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' constantly sees Allen in a GaussianGirl light.

* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', the bedridden Gauron is shown recalling [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/SousukeGaussianGirl.jpg "beautiful" memories of a 12-year-old Sousuke]] being in a GaussianGirl manner. [[{{Squick}} Yeah]], Gauron [[{{Shotacon}} has problems]].
** Also, in the short amount of time he was shown in the show, Zaied had frequent, really GaussianGirl-esque memories of playing half-naked in the water with a young Sousuke.

* In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore: VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', during Zack's death, Cloud is shown to have flashbacks and memories of Zack in a GaussianGirl manner. [[HoYay Yeah]].

** In ''AdventChildren'', Cloud has visions of Aerith in a GaussianGirl way (though he himself is also gaussianed there as well).

* [=RuPaul=] used this on ''herself'' on the first season of ''RupaulsDragRace'' (with her song ''Covergirl (Put the Bass in Your Walk)'' replacing the romantic music). By the 2nd season, everyone on {{Logo}}, even one of the contestants, was mocking her for it.

* Used, among other effects, to indicate that a character has entered Soap Drama Mode in [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=127296&title=another-world this]] ''[[Series/TheDailyShow Daily Show]]'' clip lamenting the cancellation of ''AnotherWorld''.

Named for the Gaussian Blur effect in Adobe Photoshop and imitators.

* ''The Man In The White suit''- Particularly noticeable in a romantic scene when the camera cuts back and forth between crystal-cut shots of Alec Guinness' character and really ''really'' fuzzy shots of Joan Greenwood's character.

A more limited, so to speak, application of the technique was used during the days of the HaysCode to make sure that women in low-cut dresses weren't displaying their cleavage in too much detail, thus corrupting innocent youth. A limited portion of gauze or stocking, held in a frame, could be used to blur the "offending" anatomy and render it suitable for viewers.

* ''{{Rio}}'' repeatedly applies this to Jewel (a female macaw; the protagonist's a male one). It's later used on Linda, but only when she wears a macaw costume.
* Happens in SheepInTheBigCity when Sheep sees Swanky the Poodle for the first time, he then wipes away the fog on a glass screen in front of her.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' loved this trope. It was generally used on Alyssa Milano, because Phoebe was supposed to be the pretty one (although everyone secretly likes Piper best.)