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* WeirdAlYankovic's "My Baby's in Love With Eddie Vedder":

* The female protagonist of ''Film/TwoCanPlayThatGame'' institutes her "Ten Day Plan" involving this trope to bring her man "back in line". Naturally, the plan backfires, and she has to have an honest conversation with him in order to get back together.

* ''JohnnyBravo'' was the victim of this twice in the first season. Once by a [[TalkingAnimal antelope]].

-->Serena: Hey, Melvin. If I go on a date with you, Darian will get jealous....well, maybe not "jealous"...

--> ButchLesbian to [=DiDi=]: Hey, blondie - take your paws off my girl or I'll kick your ass!

* In "TheEmpireStrikesBack", Leia kisses Luke on the mouth to invoke jealousy on Han's part. Squick ensues in "ReturnOfTheJedi".

* in ConfessionsOfGeorgiaNicolson , Dave the laug is the "red-herring" Of Georgia ( for make jealous Robbie) in the book "It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers"

* ''DrakeAndJosh'':
-->'''Drake''': I hate your girlfriend, but her idea to make Tori jealous was really smart.
-->'''Josh''': Not that smart. [[LampshadeHanging They've done it on every sitcom since the 1950s.]]

-> Well, I don't wear Doc Martens and I don't wear flannel\\

-->'''"BE ANGRY AT ME, DAMMIT!"'''

-->'''Stewie''': Was it one? No, two. Yes. She's two weeks younger than you!

-->'''Brian''': What is this gonna do?
-->'''Stewie''': It's gonna make her jealous. You, out on the town with a hot date.
-->'''Brian''': How are you a hot date?
-->'''Stewie''':Whoa! You're angry at her, not me. No wonder you're alone.

'''Sabrina:''' I don't know what you're talking about.

* In ''DannyPhantom'', Kitty possesses [[RichBitch Paulina]] and dates the main hero who has a crush on her, all in order to make her on/off boyfriend Johnny 13 jealous.

* Hermione of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' dates Cormac [=McLaggen=] in ''Half-Blood Prince'' solely to make Ron jealous. She later tells Harry that she purposely chose the person who would annoy Ron the most. Ron has also been doing just this with Lavender Brown, or because she was very easy. Harry correctly pegs the whole situation as one big sequence of bad ideas.
** And it should be noted that Hermione's effort fails pretty spectacularly when she finds Cormac unbearable.
** Also of note, when Harry finds out that Hermione had asked Cormac to a party, he said that he had assumed the two of them would go together as friends. Hermione says "Why didn't I think of that?"; it's not clear, but given her stated reason for dating Cormac was finding the person who would annoy Ron the most, perhaps she realized that the most obvious red flag for Ron would be to go with his best friend.
*** Obviously, "Why didn't I think of that?" has one meaning directed to Harry ("It would prevent us from being embarrassed") and one directed to the reader ("Operation Jealousy would have worked even better").
*** Its more then posable that Hermione did not think of going with Harry as she thinks of him as a [[LikeBrotherAndSister brother]].

* Numerous people, ranging from Jimmy's fan club to Supergirl herself, pulled this trick on Lucy Lane in "Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen". Lucy, being a dog-in-the-manger, would fall for it...and then go directly back to resenting Jimmy's attentions as soon as the story was over.

* Happens twice on ''House of Anubis''.

** For extra fun, Ash ''did'' want to break the pair up, but only because Cassiel quite literally a devil[[hottip:*:and related to '''the''' Devil]] and Ash is concerned about James' well-being. But then Eponine, a mutual friend, convinced Ash to let it be because it seemed to be making Cassiel happy. Of course, she's ''not'' happy about Ash's indifference:

-> ''"Absence makes the heart grow fonder; [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] makes the heart grow fonder faster."''
-->-- '''Jake''', ''Series/HeyDude''

See GreenEyedEpiphany for when Alice is in denial too and her relationship with Charley is only part of that.

* Done in TheProudFamily with Dijonay dating Duke to make Sticky feel jealous after he refused to kiss her on "Hip Hop Helicopter."

* [[MarmaladeBoy Ginta and Arimi]] attempted to pull this on Yuu and Miki. Considering the series that they're in, [[PairTheSpares the results were inevitable]].
* It was also done in ''WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged'':

* OperationJealousy: In one [=DiDi=] Glitz comic, a lesbian is doing this with the main character, successfully.

Hopefully, the operation succeeds. Hopefully, Charley isn't ''too'' insufferable or bland and drives Alice insane first. Hopefully, Bob doesn't take this as a sign that he doesn't have a chance with Alice. Hopefully, Bob doesn't [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy just want his beloved to be happy]]. Hopefully, Bob doesn't fail to notice because he has [[ObliviousToLove the awareness of a brick]]. Hopefully, Bob doesn't fall for it so thoroughly that he pulls a CounterZany that Alice thoroughly falls for! And hopefully, Alice doesn't [[BecomingTheMask actually fall for Charley]]...

* ''Literature/JaneEyre'' has Mr. Rochester pretending to be in love with RichBitch Miss Ingram because he knows that Jane is [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless and placid]] on the outside [[{{Kuudere}} but fiery on the inside]], and that jealousy will be the best way to bring her feelings for him to the surface.

* Tom and Becky do this in ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer,'' making it OlderThanRadio.

* A pair of Golden Lion Tamarins (a very endangered species of primate from South America) at a zoo had ceased mating. The Zookeepers felt it was because the the male of the pair had ceased making mating calls to the female. The zookeepers rigged a stereo near their enclosure to play pre-recorded mating callsof other male tamarins. The male of the pair, upon hearing other males, started making mating calls himself to warn them off and the two tamarins started mating again.

->'''Hermione''': ''"I've just escaped--I mean, I've just left Cormac under the mistletoe."''
->'''Harry''': ''"Serves you right for coming with him!"''
->'''Hermione''': ''"I thought he'd annoy Ron most."''

* In LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai, Kirino does this to her brother Kyousuke by bringing home a boy she claims to be dating in volume 7 of the light novels. [[spoiler: It turns out that he's not actually dating her, and was just going along with her plan.]] She wanted to make her brother experience what [[ClingyJealousGirl she feels]] whenever he's hanging out with his female friends, such as Manami, and later Kuroneko.

* ''{{HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi}}'': Shion openly and shamelessly flirts with Keiichi in front of Mion, to try and goad the latter into admitting her feelings for Keiichi (to the boy himself). [[spoiler:In some arcs, however, it's implied she uses this tactic to ''hurt'' Mion's feelings, rather than help her along with admitting them]].

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