History Main / HowDadMetMom

** Subverted in "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS7E7EverythingStays Everything Stays]]", when 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 [[TheUnreveal we only hear the last few words of the story]].

* ''Literature/OrangeCloudsBlueSky'': Skye's parents met at Con Edison while Mom was working in customer service. Dad encouraged her to pursue her interest in real estate. Now they're married, and Mom has a successful career.

** Zoe's mom was supposed to go on a date with her future husband's coworker Gerard. Gerard was clearly more interested in being seen with her than in actually being with her, so Zoe's dad asked her if she wanted to go on a date with him instead. She said yes, and they've been happily married ever since.

* ''Literature/ExperimentalFilm'': Lois's parents met a theater school. She was seventeen. He was a twenty-four-year-old draft-doger from Australia. They were married five years later, had Lois two years after that, and divorced seven years after that.

* 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.

* ''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.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'', the PlayerCharacter can discuss with their sibling what they were told about how their parents, Alec and Ellen, met. The joke is that their stories don't match. If Scott Ryder is the NPC twin, the version he was told is that Alec put on the spec ops bad boy act to draw Ellen in, which [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys worked like a charm]]. If Sara Ryder is the NPC twin, the version she was told is that Ellen thought Alec's [[EpicFail attempt]] at playing the stoic bad boy was [[{{Adorkable}} adorable]], so she approached him once it was obvious that he wasn't going to make a move. Whether Alec [[NotSoAboveItAll embellished]] things when he shared his version with Scott or if Ellen never actually told him the truth is left to the player's imagination.

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "The Way We Was", Homer tells the kids the story of how he and Marge met in high school.
** Subverted thirteen seasons later in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E20TheWayWeWerent The Way We Weren't]]". It turns out that Homer and Marge first met as children, but only saw each other for one night and lied about their names.

** Subverted thirteen seasons later in "The Way We Weren't". It turns out that Homer and Marge first met as children, but only saw each other for one night and lied about their names.

* The Literature/{{Discworld}} is an intrinsically dangerous place. Ankh-Morpork is a dangerous city. The oldest daughter of wizard Ponder Stibbons is not surprised to hear that her parents' early courtship involved so many things trying to kill her father whilst he was in the company of her adventurous Assassin mother, that Ponder finally decided if he was going to die young, he might as well die married to her. Rebecka concedes this was sort of romantic, in its way. [[note]]Then reflects her own almost-boyfriend is an Assassin student and wonders what exactly she might end up telling her own children in the fullness of time. Read more in the works of Creator/AAPessimal[[/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.