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* One episode of ''Series/HannahMontana'' features Miley and Jackson going back in time and having to force their parents to meet up like they're meant to do. This is AllJustADream brought on by their dad attempting to tell the story and being ignored, causing them both to go listen and appreciate the slower moments on the road.
* Taken to an unusual extent in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''. The framing device is that the show is one giant flashback of Ted in 2030 telling his future kids the events that led up to him meeting their mother. He doesn't actually meet the titular mother until the series finale.

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* An important part of the Dunbars' BackStory in ''Literature/TheBridgeOfClay'', involving a piano, a shop owner with atrocious handwriting and three incompetent piano man. Penny Dunbar tells the story to her son Clay before she dies.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', the episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E5StoryForSteven Story for Steven]]" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback of Steven's father, Greg, telling him how he first met Rose Quartz when he was twenty-two. Greg had actually told him their story before, but without mentioning Greg's [[TheSvengali manipulative ex-manager]] Marty (in Greg's debut episode, he boiled it down to "I was performing on the beach, and Rose was the only one who came to watch."). It's implied the flashback is portraying how the story feels more real to Steven after he'd seen his mother move and talk in a home video.

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* ''Film/DefinitelyMaybe'': When Will Hayes' daughter, Maya, learns about sex education, she asks her father if how he met her mother. He tells her under the condition that he changes the names of the people in the story. The whole story is told through flashbacks.

* The ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'' episode "The Ballad of Muesli and Jangles" has Irving tell Harvey, Fee, and Foo tell the story of how he met Miriam, except the kids interrupt it to add their own twists (like renaming the characters or setting the story in space). The kids never catch on to what the story was really about.

* The ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'' episode "The Ballad of Muesli and Jangles" has Irving tell Harvey, Fee, and Foo tell the story of how he met Miriam, except the kids interrupt it to add their own twists (like renaming the characters or setting the story in space).

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', the episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E5StoryForSteven Story for Steven]]" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback of Steven's father, Greg, telling him how he first met Rose Quartz when he was twenty-two. Greg had actually told him their story before, but without mentioning Greg's [[TheSvengali manipulative ex-manager]] Marty (in Greg's debut episode, he boiled it down to "I was performing on the beach, and Rose was the only one who came to watch.").

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', the episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E5StoryForSteven Story for Steven]]" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback of Steven's father, Greg, telling him how he first met Rose Quartz when he was twenty-two. The introduction to the episode implies Steven heard their story before, but without mentioning Greg's [[TheSvengali manipulative ex-manager]] Marty.
** We see Greg telling Steven the abbreviated version in an earlier episode, which boils down to "I was performing on the beach, and Rose was the only one who came to watch." "Story for Steven" proves that it's accurate, just not exactly the full story.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', the episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E5StoryForSteven Story for Steven]]" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback of Steven's father, Greg, telling him how he first met Rose Quartz when he was twenty-two. The introduction to the episode implies Steven heard their story before, but without mentioning Greg's [[TheSvengali manipulative ex-manager]] Marty.[[note]]Though one wonders how he could have been left out previously, given how important Marty was to driving Greg away from touring and into living in Beach City.[[/note]]

In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''[='=]s final arc, after Ichigo is kicked out of the Royal Realm, Isshin tells him about how he and Masaki met.

* In ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'', when he meets the last of his mother (Kushina Uzumaki)'s [[ItMakesSenseInContext conscience inside his body]], Naruto tells her that her red hair is beautiful, and she goes to tell him how she and his father ended up together.

* Somewhat downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. Marceline has a flashback to herself as a child, with her mother telling her the story of how she met her [[HumanMomNonHumanDad demon father]], but we only hear the last few words of the story.

* The episode "Moon the Undaunted" in ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' involves Star's mother, Queen Moon, meeting her future husband River when she was Star's age. However, unlike in most examples [[spoiler: that is just a subplot, with the main plot revolving around Moon defeating Toffee and his army.]]

* In ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'', when he meets the last of his mother (Kushina Uzumaki)'s [[ItMakesSenseInContext conscience inside his body]], Naruto tells her that her red hair is beautiful, and she goes to tell him how she and his father ended up together.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', the episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E5StoryForSteven Story for Steven]]" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback of Steven's father, Greg, telling him how he first met Rose Quartz when he was twenty-two. The introduction to the episode implies Steven heard their story before, but without mentioning Greg's [[TheSvengali manipulative ex-manager]] Marty--though one wonders how he could have been left out previously, given how important Marty was to driving Greg away from touring and into living in Beach City.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', the episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E5StoryForSteven Story for Steven]]" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback of Steven's father, Greg, telling him how he first met Rose Quartz when he was twenty-two.

* ''Film/DefinitelyMaybe'': When Will Hayes' daughter, Maya, learns about sex education, she asks her father if how he met her mother. He tells her under the condition the he changes the names of the people in the story. The whole story is told through flashbacks.

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* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' had an episode showing how the parents met when the mom was a germaphobe and the dad was a dirty slob. This also shows how she got her yellow gloves, which he gave to her so they can touch.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', a large portion of "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E5TheChoices The Choices]]" is spent with Nicole recalling how she met Richard when they were children, but she doesn't actually tell her children the story.