History Main / ThirdWheel

* The WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1-cL9NM6JY short of the same name]] has Goofy inviting himself on Mickey and Minnie's date.

-->'''Picard:''' Data, you will never know how much I owe you for that.

* In TheAdventuresOfMiloAndOtis, main characters Milo the cat and Otis the dog spend most of the film trying to reunite, but when Milo falls in love with another cat, Otis becomes this for a little while. Otis is mostly a case of type C.
* Both Film/SherlockHolmes films are ripe with this trope. Holmes is a third wheel to Watson and Mary, or if Mary is a third wheel to Holmes and Watson; HeterosexualLifePartners or HoYay, your choice.

See also MomentKiller. Contrast OneTrueThreesome, where all three are in a relationship with each other.

** While staying at Grimmauld Place in the seventh book, Harry notices Ron and Hermione fell asleep together holding hands and admittedly made him feel rather lonely.

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Any instance where at least one other character is hanging around a couple and some form of social tick is getting in the way. He/she can either be

* Timon and Pumbaa of TheLionKing certainly become third wheels once Simba and Nala meet up again. It definitely is mostly type C, but Simba kind of politely lets Timon know that the two of them aren't wanted, making it somewhat type A.

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Any instance where at least one other character is hanging around a couple and some form a social tick is getting in the way. He/she can either be

* A ''MrShow'' sketch is about this: a couple's friend joins them on their ''honeymoon''. The wife is type A but the husband is type C. Said third wheel breaks into a song about this every time the words "third wheel" is said.

* A ''MrShow'' sketch is about this: a couple's friend joins them on their ''honeymoon''. The wife is Type A but the husband is type C. Said third wheel breaks into a song about this every time the words "third wheel" is said.

* Both Film/SherlockHolmes films are ripe with this trope. YourMileageMayVary on whether Holmes is a third wheel to Watson and Mary, or if Mary is a third wheel to Holmes and Watson; HeterosexualLifePartners or HoYay, your choice.

* There's a Type A example in the BoysLove manga ''Manga/Challengers''. The foreign transfer student Rick quickly becomes a nuisance after he starts following the main couple around in the hope of getting with {{Uke}} and HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Tomoe before Kurokawa, who has more morals when it comes to relationships, [[RelationshipUpgrade upgrades their relationship]] from JustFriends to OfficialCouple. Even after they become lovers he still hang round with them just in case.

C) a character who is pulled into being with a couple due to circumstance and no parties necessarily have ill will toward each other, but awkwardness may ensue anyway. Usually does not translate into a relationship between a couple and a third party who genuinely like to spend time together in a friendly way, since that would imply little to no awkwardness.

* In [[TheAdventuresofMiloandOtis]], main characters Milo the cat and Otis the dog spend most of the film trying to reunite, but when Milo falls in love with another cat, Otis becomes this for a little while. Otis is mostly a case of type C.

Any instance where at least one other character is hanging around a couple and some form a social tick is getting in the way. He/she can either be A) a nuisance to the couple and they consistently tell him/her to leave them alone, B) a character who doesn't want to spend time with the couple but they drag him/her along, or C) a character who is pulled into being with a couple due to circumstance and no parties necessarily have ill will toward each other, but awkwardness may ensue anyway. Usually does not translate into a relationship between a couple and a third party who genuinely like to spend time together in a friendly way, since that would imply little to no awkwardness.