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* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': This is the reason why Loid and Yor end up getting married at the start of the story. As Anya is a telepath who already knows that her adoptive father Loid is secretly a spy, she reads Yor's mind and finds out she is an assassin. Thinking that having a spy and assassin as her parents would be cool, Anya immediately makes a display about how much she wants a mother in front of both of them, which leads to Loid and Yor deciding to get together in order to throw off suspicions and fulfill their respective goals (Loid needs to have a wife in order to get Anya through the second phase of the Eden College admissions for his mission, while Yor wants to stop being an OldMaid and avoid suspicious from yhe secret police).

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': This is the reason why Loid and Yor end up getting married at the start of the story. As Anya is a telepath who already knows that her adoptive father Loid is secretly a spy, she reads Yor's mind and finds out she is an assassin. Thinking that having a spy and assassin as her parents would be cool, Anya immediately makes a display about how much she wants a mother in front of both of them, which leads to Loid and Yor deciding to get together in order to throw off suspicions and fulfill their respective goals (Loid needs to have a wife in order to get Anya through the second phase of the Eden College admissions for his mission, while Yor wants to stop being an OldMaid).

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* This is the reason why Loid and Yor end up getting married at the start of ''Manga/SpyXFamily''. As Anya is a telepath who already knows that her adoptive father Loid is secretly a spy, she reads Yor's mind and finds out she is an assassin. Thinking that having a spy and assassin as her parents would be cool, Anya immediately makes a display about how much she wants a mother in front of both of them, which leads to Loid and Yor deciding to get together in order to throw off suspicions and fulfill their respective goals (Loid needs to have a wife in order to get Anya through the second phase of the Eden College admissions for his mission, while Yor wants to stop being an OldMaid).

* In ''Film/WhereTheHeartIs'' Lexie's child has been molested by one of her boyfriends. The therapist suggests that she should go out with someone her son actually likes and trust and said guy is his frumpy baseball coach. It turns out to be the right choice and she ends up married with a good guy after a long string of deadbeats.

* ''Film/ProblemChild'': In the second movie, Junior and Trixie want to pair their parents Ben and Annie together, partly so that Junior can escape from the RitchBitch, ChildHater Lawanda [=Dumore=], who's set her sights on Ben.

* In ''ComicBook/Titans1998'', Lian Harper is a ShipperOnDeck for her single father, Roy Harper, and Donna Troy. She often asks leading questions of both of them, inciting them to compliment each other or admit their feelings.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Titans}}'', Lian Harper is a ShipperOnDeck for her single father, Roy Harper, and Donna Troy. She often asks leading questions of both of them, inciting them to compliment each other or admit their feelings.

* Alice, the heroine of the ''Literature/AliceSeries'', attempts this on her father and her class teacher in ''Reluctantly Alice''. Her father confronts her after the 'date', [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome clearly very displeased]].

* In ''The Courtship of Eddie's father'', the eponymous Eddie wants to set up his dad with their kindly neighbour, a nurse who already is a mother figure for the kid. The father is dating instead a sophisticated fashion editor, whom Eddie quite obviously doesn't like. In the end the kid ''always'' wins.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Teenagers Walter Denton and Harriet Conklin are constantly trying to help Miss Brooks get Mr. Boynton to marry her [[spoiler: Miss Brooks' landlady Mrs. Davis helps Miss Brooks achieve her SeriesGoal in TheMovie GrandFinale]]. In "Blind Date", they're successful in patching up a serious quarrel between Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton.

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* In ''Film/{{It Takes Two|1995}}'', a rich girl and an orphan, [[IdenticalStranger who happen to look alike]], conspire to set up the rich girl's dad, currently engaged to a BitchInSheepsClothing, with the orphan's case worker.

* When the [[Literature/SweetValleyHigh Wakefield]] parents became estranged, daughter Elizabeth made several attempts at setting them up in the hopes of them reconciling.
* ''Literature/CallMeSunflower'': When Sunny's adopted parents split up and her mom moves her and her sister to another state, she desperately wants them to get back together so she can go home. Her methods include blasting a playlist of Scott's favorite love songs, leaving pictures of Scott all over the house, and trying to find romantic photos for a photo album. [[spoiler:Her effort fails, because Mom and Scott were actually PlatonicLifePartners who entered a sham relationship in order to GiveTheBabyAFather after Scott's brother Mark, Mom's true love and Sunny's legal adopted father, died.]]
* Alice, the heroine of the ''Literature/AliceSeries'', attempts this on her father and her class teacher in ''Reluctantly Alice.'' Her father confronts her after the ‘date,’ [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome clearly very displeased.]]

* Played with on an episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}''. Frederic appears to try this with Frasier and Lilith, but Lilith points out that he's never shown any desire for them to get back together before, and he had to know that they'd figure it out. She concludes that his ''real'' plan is to make them feel guilty so they'll buy him the minibike he wants as a present. [[spoiler: She's right on the money.]]

* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0888.html This]] ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' strip depicts the remarriage of Elan's parents, who separated when he was a baby, who say they are remarrying because of him (and possibly his brother Nale). [[spoiler: Subverted as this occurs in the simulation created by Girard Draketooth's LotusEaterMachine -- and the fact that it's blatantly TooGoodToBeTrue is [[SpottingTheThread the thread Elan spots]] that leads to unraveling the entire deception.]]

* ''Film/BillboardDad'' has Tess and Emily put a personal ad of their widower dad on a billboard, prompting single women of Venice to seek him out.

* In ''The Courtship of Eddie's father'', the eponymous Eddie wants to set up his dad with their kindly neighbour, a nurse who already is a mother figure for the kid. The father is dating instead a sophisticated fashion editor, whom Eddie quite obviously doesn't like. In the end the kid ''always'' wins.

* In ''Film/WhereTheHeartIs'' Lexie's child has been molested by one of her boyfriends. The therapist suggests that she should go out with someone her son actually likes and trust and said guy is his frumpy baseball coach. It turns out to be the right choice and she ends up married with a good guy after a long string of deadbeats.

* In ''Film/TheBeastsAreOnTheStreets'', the veterinarian Claire's young daughter Sandy constantly tries to persuade her to marry the ranger Kev.

* On ''{{Series/Bones}}'' there’s a season 6 episode where Booth’s son Parker keeps trying to get him to get together with Brennan. He’s still dating Hannah at the time after Brennan refused him, so Booth is focused on getting Parker to accept Hannah. Booth and Brennan finally get together at the end of the season.
* On ''Series/{{Glee}}'', high school sophomore Kurt Hummel gets his father and the mother of his UnrequitedCrush to hook up. This ZanyScheme is an EpicFail on that side due to IncompatibleOrientation, but the parents do end up falling in love and getting married.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': The main character, Captain Sisko, is a single father of a teenage boy named Jake ever since his wife Jennifer died. In a few episodes, Jake introduced Sisko to this woman named Kasidy Yates in hopes they'll end up dating. They do.

* During the first season of ''Series/{{ER}}'', a young boy fakes being sick in an effort to fix his mother up with Doug Ross. His half-annoyed, half-amused mother notes that this is not the first time he's done this.
* In ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', K.C. tries to set up his mother with his academic quiz team coach both because she won't be constantly around him and because he feels she deserves to have some personal happiness outside of her parental duties. They do hit it off, but it ends up going nowhere as K.C.'s father reenters their lives and forces K.C. and his mom to move across the country for their safety.
* ''Series/NeverHaveIEver'': In stark contrast to how badly she reacted the first time her mother Nalini tried to date after her father's death, Devi is incredibly supportive of Nalini's obvious crush on [[spoiler:Andres. Even if Andres is the father of her current school nemesis Margot. Devi even makes up with Margot to help push their single parents together.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': In "The Silent Knight", Sofia helps set Sir Bartleby up with her Aunt Tilly after seeing that he has a crush on her. She helps him try to impress her without using [[VocalDissonance his high-pitched voice]], which he's embarrassed about, but after messing up his poem, song, and dance for Tilly, he almost gives up. Sofia then encourages him to BeHimself and tell Tilly the truth about his voice, and true enough, she likes him back ''because'' she likes his voice.

* WesternAnimation/{{The Powerpuff Girls|1998}} secretly set up a date between the Professor and their teacher Ms. Keane at (what else?) a kids' pizza restaurant (episode "Keen On Keane").
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Bitzi's Break-up", Buster tries to play match-''re''maker with his mother, Bitzi, and her boyfriend, Harry. After learning that they broke up, Buster -- who really enjoyed hanging out with Harry and is worried that his mom's next boyfriend next won't be nearly as fun -- cooks up a scheme to get him to take her back. [[spoiler:It fails because he fundamentally misunderstands the situation, that ''she'' broke up with ''him'' as she doesn't have any more time to pursue a relationship. [[BittersweetEnding Fortunately]], [[AmicableExes the two still remain friends]], and Harry reassures to Buster that they can still hang out.]]

* In ''Film/{{It Takes Two|1995}}'', a rich girl and an orphan, who happen to look alike, conspire to set up the rich girl's dad, currently engaged to a BitchInSheepsClothing, with the orphan's case worker.