History Main / MakeOutPoint

* {{Fanon}} has it that this is the true purpose of the astronomy tower in ''HarryPotter''.

Often involves a tourist-trap-type scenic bluff, so as to overlook the city lights at night... as if you're looking at ''that'' when you're up here. Also a standard set up for DeathBySex in horror movies, as the people in the car are... distracted, to say the least. Similarly, it seems being at MakeOutPoint makes you immediately a WeirdnessMagnet: The first people to see the falling meteor, the mutant escapee, the alien invasion force tends to be a couple at MakeOutPoint.

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', in the episode where they find out that Oz is a werewolf.

** That sounds like the Lover's Lane from ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables.''
** Which was simply a path in the woods where a couple can walk around and be alone for awhile.

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** Early seasons also mentioned going to the "[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean submarine races]]."

* ''Degrassi'' has "the ravine".

* The infamous "[[YourHeadAsplode Disco Boy Scene]]" in ''{{Maniac}}'' takes its place on one of these.

* Briefly featured in ''GoodOmens'' as the road behind the military base, noted as appearing to be "paved with rubber".

* The Zodiac Killer killed several of his victims in MakeoutPoints.

* ''TheReplacements'' features a MakeOutPoint in the [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe]] BMovie ''Splatter Train''. The plot revolves around a [[SoulTrain ghostly train]] killing teenagers who have been making out at the local Make Out Point. [[spoiler:The climax of the movie involves the protagonist luring the train to the Make Out Point and then ''jumping out of the way'', so that the train goes over the edge and smashes itself on the rocks below.]]

* In the ''AdventureTime'' episode "Trouble in Lumpy Space", a MacGuffin needed to cure Jake of "the lumps" is found in Lumpy Space's Make Out Point.

** Another episode featured "Holding Hands Peak".

* The setting of [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/hook.asp two]] [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/boyfriend.asp popular]] {{Urban Legend}}s. Both are thought to have originated as cautionary tales in the 1950s or thereabouts, given the CantGetAwayWithNuthin vibe.

** That sounds like the Lover's Lane from ''AnneOfGreenGables.''

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* In [[{{Janie The Face on the Milk Carton]], the Scenic Overlook is nicknamed "Sexual Overlook" due to the amount of amorous teenaged couples.

* In ''The Face on the Milk Carton'', the Scenic Overlook is nicknamed "Sexual Overlook" due to the amount of amorous teenaged couples.