History Main / MixtapeOfLove

* In the ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' episode "The Mailbox" Earl tries to help a guy get together with a female friend and wasn't sure if she felt the same way. The matter isn't helped was when she made him a mix CD with the songs, "Feel Like Making Love", "You're My Best Friend", "Stroke Me", "That's What Friends Are For", "You've Got a Friend" and "Ooh That Smell" sending some real mix messages. Later in the episode Earl gets close to her and she gives him an equally unclear mix CD with the songs, "Feel Like Making Love", "You're My Best Friend", "Do Me", "Don't Do Me Like That", "I Want Your Sex" and "Don't Stand So Close To Me".

* In "Love Is A Mixtape" of ''Series/TheGoldbergs'': Adam makes a mixtape for a girl he likes and his mother mistakenly though it was for her.

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Star-Lord's Walkman and the "Awesome Mix Vol. 1" mixtape that resides in it were gifts from his late mother. He treats them as {{Number One Dime}}s.

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* This trope is jokingly made out to be a poor decision of adolescence in the January 13th, 2011 strip of the online comic ''Webcomic/{{Nedroid}}'', entitled "Memories of Youth". Reginald is about to commit {{Seppuku}} when Beartato exclaims, "Hey! Stop! What are you doing?" As an example of {{I Hate Past Me}}, Reginald explains, "Oh, I just remembered all the embarrassing things I did as a teenager." Beartato tells him to move on from the past, but a thought balloon pops up in Reginald's mind wherein he sees himself as a teenager at his school locker. This younger Reginald proudly proclaims, "This anonymous mixtape will surely win Becky's heart!" Present Reginald then [[spoiler:attempts to drink poison]].

** In the sequel film, they get [[spoiler:destroyed by his father Ego.]] This is one of the things that ends up pushing Peter's BerserkButton. At the end of the film, it is shown [[spoiler:Yondu]] really cared about Peter because he had a Zune to gift him filled with music in a more high-tech version of this trope.

** In the sequel film, they get [[spoiler: destroyed by his father Ego.]] This is one of the things that ends up pushing Peter's BerserkButton. At the end of the film, it is shown [[spoiler: Yondu]] really cared about Peter because he had a Zune to gift him filled with music in a more high-tech version of this trope.

* ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'': The Special Mixtape, the PlotCoupon of the Otherworld arc, was made by Captain Spaceboy out of love for Sweetheart- unfortunately, now that she's dumped him, he no longer sees any use for it and throws it in the Junkyard. The party decides to fetch it in the hopes that playing it can help Spaceboy get out of his post-breakup blues.

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%%* ''Film/Delirium2018'' has a mixtape of love as a very minor plot point.

Mixtapes are a way to show your affection for someone. Fill them up with {{Silly Love Song}}s, give them to the one you like, and see how they react. They can also be shared between couples. In more gloomy occasions, someone can fill a mixtape full of sad songs and listen to it while [[CantSpitItOut silently pining after another]].

->''"Sometimes when someone has a crush on you''
->''"They'll make you a mixtape to give you a clue"''
-->--"Mixtape", ''Theatre/AvenueQ''

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--> '''"You wouldn't be here if it weren't for cassettes."'''
--> "I know, I know, most romantic mixtape ever." Vinyl sighed. "Fine. See you later, Dad."

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-->'''Jimmy:''' I'll just take a bunch of [=MP3s=] and burn them into a CD.
-->''(the others stare in confusion)''
-->'''Jimmy:''' It's music.

-->'''Marshall:''' I love this song. I haven't heard this in forever.
-->'''Lily:''' I'm pretty sure this is a mix tape you made me in sophomore year.
-->'''Marshall:''' ''[on tape]'' I love you, Lily. Happy Valentine's Day 1998.

-->''Now there is nothing but a mix tape left behind,''
-->''Now it won't rewind.''

[[folder:Theatre]]

* This trope is jokingly made out to be a poor decision of adolescence in the January 13th, 2011 strip of the online comic ''Webcomic/{{Nedroid}}'', entitled "Memories of Youth." Reginald is about to commit {{Seppuku}} when Beartato exclaims, "Hey! Stop! What are you doing?" As an example of {{I Hate Past Me}}, Reginald explains, "Oh, I just remembered all the embarrassing things I did as a teenager." Beartato tells him to move on from the past, but a thought balloon pops up in Reginald's mind wherein he sees himself as a teenager at his school locker. This younger Reginald proudly proclaims, "This anonymous mixtape will surely win Becky's heart!" Present Reginald then [[spoiler:attempts to drink poison]].

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[[folder:WesternAnimation]]

* Episode nine of ''WesternAnimation/{{Over the Garden Wall}}'' has a flashback of [[spoiler:Wirt making a poetry-filled audio cassette mixtape for his crush, Sara]]. [[{{Hilarity Ensues}} Hijinx Occurs]] and [[{{Plethora of Mistakes}} Everything Goes Wrong]] when [[spoiler:he tries to get the tape back from her]]. We learn that trying to retrieve the mixtape is [[spoiler:the {{Inciting Incident}} that lead to Greg and Wirt going "over the garden wall" in the first place]]. In episode 10 (the final episode), [[spoiler:Sara and Wirt reunite and Sara tells Wirt that she hasn't listened to the tape yet, as she doesn't own a cassette player. Wirt offers for her to listen to it at his house, which she accepts]].

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-->''I'm just making you mixtapes with homemade covers
Analog to show we're lovers
And here under the jacket folds inside

-->''I've been living in your cassette
It's the modern equivalent
Of singing up to a [[Theater/RomeoAndJuliet Capulet]] on a balcony in your mind''