Make-Out Kids: Difference between revisions

 

When a couple cannot keep their hands or lips off each other for more than a few seconds. Typically becomes a [[Running Gag]], with the characters indifferent to how awkward they make everyone else feel with their nonstop public displays of affection. While the other characters are having conversations, they'll be off to the side snogging through the entire scene. Often used to show the shallowness of a relationship.

 

This often overlaps with its [[Sister Trope]] [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]], but sweethearts are not necessarily this physical (see any Disney Channel show), and people who make out all the time aren't necessarily sweet to each other. Related to [[Coitus Uninterruptus]]. Named for the [[Motion City Soundtrack]] song.

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* One of the most infamous examples in North America are the old "Big Red" cinnamon gum commercials, which featured couples kissing to show how long the product can keep your breath fresh. A [[Running Gag]] (such as you can have one in a 30-second spot) in each one is cutting back to a particular couple who are shown smooching in the beginning ''and'' at the end, the latter where everybody else at the location is in the process of going home (one had said couple at a kissing contest. The last judge just hangs the trophy on their arms and leaves).

* A commercial for ''Netflix'' simulating a cop show's morning briefing (''a la'' ''[[Hill Street Blues]]'') has a couple like this as the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of [[Romantic Comedy]].

 

* After {{spoiler|Keitaro and Naru}} in ''[[Love Hina]]'' became an official couple, they became like this to the point of pissing off the other residents at the Inn.

* In ''[[Futari Ecchi]]'', the Kubotas, a young couple moving next to the Onodas, are especially bad about it. They're not only always hugging, but the one time Makoto rode the elevator with them, they started making out, leading to a serious [[Uncomfortable Elevator Moment]]. And if that wasn't enough, they're retelling their exploits on a blog, which is borderline pornographic.

 

* Richandamy from ''[[Zits]]'' are ''such'' Make-Out Kids that they're always depicted as an impossible tangle of limbs, only ever referred to by their [[Portmanteau Couple Name]], and just generally treated by all the other characters as being a single organism.

** In one comic, Jeremy's girlfriend finds Amy sobbing all by herself, talking like Rich left her or something. In the last panel, Rich comes out of the men's room and Amy glomps him, sobbing "Don't leave me like that again!"

 

 

* ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate]]'' contains an especially [[Egregious]] example.

 

** Harry is terrified of the same thing happening to Ron and Hermione.

 

* When Shawn and Angela on ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' got back together after a nasty breakup, they became like this for an episode.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Buffy and Angel, for a time.

* In ''[[Green Acres]]'', Oliver is at a [[Drive in Theatre]], trying to put the speaker on his car when he accidentally lets go, it smashes into the side window of a pickup truck where a boy and girl are passionately necking. ''They never even notice.''

 

* The [[Sickening Sweethearts]] in the [[Mitch Benn]] song "Disgustingly In Love":

 

* In episode 3:1 of''[[Ace Attorney]]'', Dahlia Hawthorne states during the trial that she is so "lovey dovey" with her lover Phoenix Wright around other people that it literally makes them sick. Of course {{spoiler|her whole relationship with him is a cover up for the fact that she's using him too hide a bottle of poison. Iris however could very well have done this however.}}

 

* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'', after Layla told a [[Drunk on the Dark Side|power-drunk]] demon to get the claws off her boyfriend, Kade was all over her... while she was blushing and [[Tsundere|telling him he embarasses her, but acted much the same way]].

* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' had Parley [[Sugar and Ice Personality|alternately playing the Ice Queen and being wrapped all over Smitty]]. First pretending she isn't into him, then hiding from those [[Everyone Can See It|she assumed don't know it]]. Later, she made their relationship public by teleporting with him right on the path of her friends and making out before their eyes. After a while said friends started to check watches and give the pair concerned looks.

 

* Riley and Zaboo in ''[[The Guild]]'' Season 3.

 

* Geoff and Bridgette in ''[[Total Drama Island]]''.

* Kevin and Brittany from ''[[Daria]]''. Once even during a CPR lesson.

* Oddly enough, Tree Trunks and Mr. Pig in ''[[Adventure Time]]''. This provokes lots of vocal outrage and discomfort from everyone around them, culminating in Jake and Finn bodily removing them from each other.

 

* Far too many couples in [[Real Life]], especially in high school.

* [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]].

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