History Main / TunnelOfLove

* One issue of ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' sees Archie going through a Tunnel of Love with Veronica, and unknowingly, Betty. A [[http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/2018/12/veronica-and-tunnel-of-love.html popular edit]] (shown above) [[LesYay removes Archie]].

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* One issue of ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' sees Archie going through a Tunnel of Love with Veronica, and unknowingly, Betty. A [http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/2018/12/veronica-and-tunnel-of-love.html popular edit] (shown above) [[LesYay removes Archie]].

* One issue of ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' sees Betty going through a Tunnel of Love with Archie.

* One episode of ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'' sees Ryōga and Ukyō hatch a scheme to send Ranma and Akane through a haunted Tunnel of Love that supposedly causes any couple who goes through it to break up. But their [[ASimplePlan Simple Plan]] goes awry when Ranma and Akane display so much BelligerentSexualTension that the ghosts haunting the tunnel decide that they ''aren't'' a couple and leave them alone. The ghosts then turn their attention to Ryōga and Ukyō and try to break ''them'' up. When they truthfully explain that [[MistakenForCouple they aren't a couple]], the ghosts persist on the grounds that "you two are more of a couple than ''they'' were".

* One episode of ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'' sees Ryōga and Ukyō hatch a scheme to send Ranma and Akane through a haunted Tunnel of Love that supposedly causes any couple who goes through it to break up.

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* In ''Film/StrangersOnATrain'', one half of the StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder is Bruno killing Miriam, the [[ReallyGetsAround flagrantly unfaithful]] wife of Guy. When Miriam goes on a date to an amusement park with two men, Bruno stalks her with the intent of killing her there. Miriam notices and starts flirting with Bruno, and he follows her when she rides in Tunnel of Love with her "friends".

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': In [[Literature/SideJobs "Love Hurts"]], the Red Court is using a Tunnel of Love ride as the conduit for a spell forcing riders to fall in love with each other as part of experiments to synthesize artificial love.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Love, Springfield Style" has Homer and Marge getting stuck in a spooky-themed Tunnel of Love thanks to one of Bart's pranks.

* On the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "The Time-Travelers Pig", after Robbie and Wendy become a couple, they go on "The Tunnel of Love and Corndogs".

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* One episode of ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'' sees Ryoga and Ukyo hatch a scheme to send Ranman and Akane through a haunted Tunnel of Love that supposedly causes any couple who goes through it to break up.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Love at First Height" Timmy, after wishing himself for a 16 year old body to go to all of the rides at Adrenaland, and for Vicky to have a crush for him, settles for a ride at the Tunnel of Love to unwish the wish.
** In one episode, Vicky is seen on the Tunnel of Love with a bag of cash.

* In the season one ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "Operation Ruthless", Helga attempts to sabotage Arnold's chances of getting paired up with Ruth in the Tunnel of Love ride, she fails despite her efforts to get paired up with him and ends up with Brainy instead.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', the cow-themed amusement park "Dairyland" features a tunnel-of-love-type ride called the "Tunnel of Butter".
** The episode "A Fair To Remember" has Lori going on the Tunnel of Love with Clyde in order to make Bobby jealous when he chooses to spend more time with Lincoln instead of her. Lincoln, however, begins to feel guilty about hogging Bobby and convinces him to go on the Tunnel of Love with Lori.

* The Creator/DickVanDyke episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' has Dick explain the ride to Shaggy and Scooby as the three of them go through it.

* This 1970s TV commercial for Bic butane lighters.
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Compare OldFashionedRowboatDate.

** One WesternAnimation/PepeLePew cartoon has the amorous skunk chase Penelope into a tunnel of love. At the other end, Pepe is in one of the boats, only instead of Penelope, he's unwittingly romancing a hapless rider. Stunned by the situation, the man stumbles over to the local Foreign Legion recruitment office, sings up and faints.

* In the ClassicDisneyShort "Donald's Double Trouble" Donald hires [[SimilarSquad a suave lookalike]] to take Daisy out on a date and make him look better. Of course the double tries to steal Daisy, taking her to a carnival including a Tunnel of Love. See this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmMhd_dFGc4 here]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Tunnel of Glove", [=SpongeBob=] and Pearl get stuck on the eponymous ride. However, [=SpongeBob=] and Pearl are not dating, but merely friends, despite what Pearl's friends think.