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Girlfriend in Canada
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A convenient way for a character to disabuse the idea that they're either gay, too socially inept for a relationship or simply unlucky in love is to claim that they indeed have a girlfriend — but the other characters have never met her because she lives in Canada. She doesn't visit very often, but when she does they just spend all day in bed. Look, here's her entry in his phone's contact list. No, you can't see a picture. The idea is that since "she" lives in a different country, and presumably would have to get a passport and go through all that hassle in order to visit her "boyfriend", it's particularly tempting to make her Canadian as a way of discouraging others from asking too many questions. With the internet, it becomes slightly more believable that they just met online. But if they do ask questions, it's almost de rigueur that any discussion of her living situation more detailed than "in Canada" will be comically inconsistent with any real Canadian geography or culture. It's also convenient for writers, who can put someone in a "relationship" without having to write an actual character or cast someone to play her. It's a very American trope by nature, not only because America makes so much pop culture but also because Canada's relationship with the U.S. means it can only really work there. Canada and the U.S. are separated by a border but are close by and share a common language; anything farther away would raise questions as to the girlfriend's exotic nationality and linguistic capacity. You won't see this in anime, for instance, because for a Japanese guy to pretend to have a foreign girlfriend would raise questions as to which of them is bilingual. In Britain, a "girlfriend in Ireland" doesn't need a passport to visit the UK in theory (although in practice the airlines and ferry companies do require passengers to show passports), and a "girlfriend on the Continent" would probably speak a different language (although certain places in Continental Europe would make the prospect quite tempting for the hapless guy). A "Girlfriend in Australia" is a possibility, and it adds the wrinkle of time zones to the equation. Australia and New Zealand can theoretically do this with each other as they have similar relationships like U.S./Canada, though whether it shows up in actual writings is another matter. If the show is set in Canada, you can do a "Girlfriend in the States", but for safety's sake better put her far from the border and far from states that tend to have a lot of Canadian visitors like Arizona or Florida. There are variants that don't require a different country at all. Schoolchildren can do it, claiming to their classmates that they totally have a girlfriend, but you haven't met her because she goes to a different school. Sci-fi or fantasy series with their own settings also have more possible options; you could put her on a different planet or dimension as long as it's not too difficult to get there. A setting with a Fictional Country may choose to use that country for the fictitious girlfriend. If the character's friends are a little too forceful in calling him out on the girlfriend's non-existence, you can expect the most common subversion of this trope; the girlfriend will turn out to be real after all before the episode ends. If the character himself is from Canada, no one will question him having a girlfriend back home and it's not this trope at all. This trope is closely related to The Beard, Operation: Jealousy, and Boyfriend Bluff. Could become an Invented Individual. See also Wedding Ring Defense and False Widow. |
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The Overstory: Neelay lies to his mother about having a girlfriend after years of her expressing her worry about him never having one. | |
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The Penguins of Madagascar: King Julien claims he has girlfriends in Canada, but you can trust him that they are made up... with lipstick and mascara, he means, but tastefully. | |
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A non-relationship variant/parody in a Narbonic "Continuity Repairs With Rob and Andy" strip. How did Dave get a 1984 action figure in 1983? From his cousin in Canada, of course! "You wouldn't know him, since he's from Canada." | |
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I Am J: J tells a girl he likes that he has a girlfriend in Philadelphia, but they're on the verge of breakup. This comes back to bite him several times later on. | |
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Sleepless Domain: Most of the cast goes to Future’s Promise, the only school in town to accommodate the Magical Girl Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World schedule. One of the exceptions in Rue, due to being a Conspiracy Theorist about everything that the town has put in place to make Magical Girl life easier. However, Rue still does the monster fighting part and ends up partnering with Zoe, one of the newer students from Future’s Promise. Because of a plot development, Zoe and some of her classmates decide that none of them should go monster-fighting alone. Zoe declines an offer to join two of her classmates because she'll be with Rue and mentions she goes to another school. Zoe soon has to correct a classmate's assumption that she invented her teammate. | |
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In Dimension 20 Riz makes up a significant other from the Baronies named Baron. He later encounters a creepy mannequin in a mirror who claims to be Baron from the Baronies, his "romance partner", and which demands he make up additional details about their relationship. | |
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Aftermath of the Games: In Integration, it's revealed that Apple Bloom once lied that she had a coltfriend from the Crystal Empire. Applejack and Rainbow Dash also note that this might be the case with Princess Twilight's relationship with Human Flash Sentry because they have never actually met him. Averted, however, as Twilight and Flash actually are in a relationship. | |
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Ash in Misfile doesn't want to deal with the awkwardness of a boyfriend while being a girl or having to explain who Rumisiel is, so she claims that he's her boyfriend from Canada who is visiting through a foreign exchange program. And so is his visiting brother. Who both live with her. | |
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Chuck: Emmett Milbarge claims to have a girlfriend named Henrietta in Ontario. Until it became the real thing, Chuck's relationship with Sarah was a variation of the trope in that Sarah existed, was not only in on the lie but came up with it, and everybody actually believed it. | |
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The O.C. did this twice. In Season One, Oliver Trask mentioned his girlfriend Natalie Bishop who "went to Pacific". Natalie Bishop was a middle-aged woman who worked in the hotel Oliver lived in. She says she'd "known him since he was a little guy", which adds to the creepiness. In Season Two, The less crazy Zach Stephens mentioned a girlfriend he met in Italy named "Francesca". | |
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On Burnistoun, The Doberman, an awkward, nerdy superhero who's very sensitive about still being a virgin, repeatedly claims without prompting to have a girlfriend, who happens to be up at his Gran's. | |
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Mission Hill: Played straight with both Kevin and George. When told by Toby that George had a girlfriend in Singapore, Kevin mentions that he claimed to have a girlfriend in Canada ("because it's so far away, no one could ever check"). When he asks George if he's also lying, George responds "It's a more believable ethnic variation." Toby then asks them to stop bragging about their girlfriends. | |
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Cheers: In one episode, Cliff claims he fooled around with a woman in Florida; in reality, the letter belonging to "her" was the hotel threatening to sue him for stealing almost everything from his room. In a subversion, Maggie is a real girlfriend of Cliff's — and she moves to Canada. | |
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In A Very Brady Sequel, Jan, trying to make Marcia jealous, invents a boyfriend named George Glass using Line-of-Sight Alias. Subverted when she tracks down an actual George Glass by movie's end. This was a storyline on the original TV Series. | |
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The Simpsons: At an ice-skating event, Moe insists that all figure skaters are gay. Canadian figure skater Elvis Stojko points out that this is a common misconception as he has a girlfriend in Vancouver, to which Moe retorts, "Made up girlfriend, made up city." Subverted in the Treehouse of Horror XI segment "Scary Tales Can Come True" which parodies the story of Hansel and Gretel. Captured in the witch's gingerbread cottage, Lisa mocks her for not having a social life. The witch claims to have a boyfriend named George Cauldron (a riff on an episode of The Brady Bunch) but Lisa and Bart are less than convinced. At the end of the segment, after Homer cooks the witch in her own oven, a handsome and real George Cauldron arrives and asks for her. One episode had Lisa bemoan being unable to find a date to a dance, even among the nerds. Turns out their claims of having girlfriends at other schools were true. In the episode "Barthood," Milhouse says he'll make up a girlfriend from Alberta named Alberta so that he doesn't have to remember two lies. Subverted in an episode in which Bart tells Groundskeeper Willie that he has a new girlfriend, who awkwardly replies that he also has a girlfriend who happens to be a bikini model from Sweden. As soon as Bart walks away, said model comes out of his shack asking him to come back to bed. |
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Inside Out: In Imagination Land, Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong meet Riley's imaginary boyfriend. When Bing Bong, confused, mentions that he's never heard of him before, the boyfriend tells them that he lives in Canada. | |
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My Left Nut: Conor constantly talks about his girlfriend Niamh, but the fact Mick and Tommy never met her because she lives in another city and is constantly busy makes them both think she's an Invented Individual.But this gets Subverted in the very last scene, where she shows up with Conor when visiting Mick in the hospital, much to Mick's shock. | |
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In Napoleon Dynamite, Napoleon uses a sample modeling picture Deb gave him to convince Pedro that he has a girlfriend who lives in Oklahoma. | |
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The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: Mr. Collins claims to have a fiancée in Canada, which Lizzie is distinctly skeptical about. Charlotte refuses to confirm or deny the existence of said fiancée and implies that Mr. Collins has made her sign non-disclosure agreements about it. Subverted by the novelization, which confirms that she's real and does in fact live in Canada — Mr. Collins met her online. | |
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Avenue Q: Rod sings "My Girlfriend Who Lives in Canada". The song ends with an incredibly unexpected and exaggerated shout of "AND I CAN'T WAIT TO EAT HER PUSSY AGAIN!!!!!" A slightly bowdlerized version of the show used "boink her beaver", which adds another Canada joke. | |
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Referenced in 8-Bit Theater, after Drizz'l claims to have summoned the Four Fiends. | |
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By the time Max enters Blackwell in soft supports and the punks that need them, she has become famous for being Chloe's "alleged" girlfriend. | |
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In Community, Pierce, during his accidental phone call, tells his mother that he has one. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal gives St. Anselm a Canadian girlfriend. | |
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Paradise PD: Kevin lied to Gina about having a Canadian girlfriend named "Maple Moose Hockey Beaver Syprup" and ended up having to cover that lie with another lie, which led Kevin to travel all the way up to Canada with Gina and crash an Eskimo funeral, pretending that the deceased woman was his girlfriend. Kevin had to go up and eulogize a stranger as though he were her boyfriend, which led the girl's husband to believe that his wife was cheating on him. The widowed man gave Kevin custody of his two kids, telling them to live with their "real dad", and from then on, Kevin was forced into raising two Eskimo kids by himself all because of one little lie. | |
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A Mother's Touch: Non-romatnic version. Yuto and Yugo enroll in Leo Duel School by stating they are Yuya's cousins from Canada. | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, "Impostor's Home for Make-'Em-Up Pals": Frankie spent most of an episode trying to expose a new imaginary friend as a real human pretending to be imaginary. The friend claimed his maker lived in Canada. Then it was revealed he really was imaginary and his maker really did live in Canada. In Frankie's defense, he could neither remember the name "Canada" nor pronounce it correctly once he did remember. Not only that but were it not for the faux clown nose he constantly wore (concealing his actual, very imaginary-looking nose), nothing about him would indicate he was anything but an ordinary human guy. | |
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In Sonic Chronicles, Amy will go on and on about her boyfriend Dexter, who's smart and funny and kind and resourceful and heroic and basically everything she ever wanted Sonic to be, minus the habit of telling her to buzz off when she's trying to be affectionate. Yet we never get to actually meet Dexter, because Sonic happens to have rolled into town when Dexter's away on business. If you choose enough "nice" dialog choices over the course of the game, she'll eventually own up that she made up Dexter in an attempt to get Sonic jealous so that he'd acknowledge that she is, in fact, "his woman". | |
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Anthony Michael Hall's character in The Breakfast Club claims to have a girlfriend living up in Niagara Falls, in addition to having had sex with several other girls. When pressed, he admits he made the whole thing up because he's embarrassed to admit he's a virgin. His character also has a distant girlfriend in Weird Science from later in the same year, 1985. | |
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Subverted in an episode of King of the Hill; apparently, a bunch of nerds who claimed to have girlfriends at other schools were actually telling the truth, which meant Bobby couldn't get tickets to the dance for him and Connie because he kept putting it off. | |
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Pirates SMP: Discussed for Laughs in regard to why Eloise has named her ship the "HMS Ladykriller". | |
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Total Drama has Beth claim to have acquired a hot boyfriend outside of the game at the start of Action, and her constant prattling about him drives everyone crazy until they finally chew her out about it... then comes the finale, where it turns out she really does have an incredibly hot and talented boyfriend, to the utter shock of everyone else. | |
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In one of MADtv (1995)'s "Man Up" sketches, Ty and Carl engage in one of their hex-breaking rituals after the effeminate wedding officiant makes a series of gestures which they deem to be "gay armsies," "gayer armsies," and "gayest armsies." The unamused officiant replies to this by saying, "I'll have you both know that I have a girlfriend who lives in Toronto." | |
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In Skin Horse when Nick discovers that Aimee, the girl he's been talking to, "doesn't exactly exist", the obnoxious animatronic unicorn Baron Mistycorn finds this hilarious. Nick retorts that Phoebe, the Canadian model who's into unicorns, doesn't exist either. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Howard tells the others this when he actually does get a girlfriend. She's out of town when Leonard's mom comes over... which is unfortunate since Leonard's mom is convinced he and Raj are in the closet. And Amy Farrah Fowler admits she once told her family she had a boyfriend who was a miniature horse breeder. The lie unravelled when she was asked where they met. She panicked and said "Woodstock". |
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The Big Bang Theory | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_5562da6a | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5562da6a | comment |
On 3rd Rock from the Sun, Dick wants to invite Nina and her boyfriend to dinner, but Mary suspects that Nina's boyfriend doesn't actually exist. The quickness with which Nina turns down the invitation to a double date does not assuage that suspicion. | |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_569093cc | type |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_569093cc | comment |
Played with in DuckTales (2017). Fenton does have a girlfriend, but due to her being an agent of F.O.W.L., neither one is ready to come forward about the relationship yet. When his mother starts getting suspicious, Huey is forced to lie about the girlfriend's identity. He comes up with a French-speaking seamstress from Alberta named Melissa Beth Ellen. For some reason, the fact that a Canadian speaks French is considered the unrealistic part. | |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_5841681f | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5841681f | comment |
The Middle has the (allegedly) Camp Straight Brad, ex-boyfriend and close friend of Sue, references his own Canadian girlfriend when scolding her for talking about herself. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5841681f | featureApplicability |
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The Middle | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_5a3dae52 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5a3dae52 | comment |
According to Misfits, France is England's Canada: | |
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Misfits | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_5b6bf864 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5b6bf864 | comment |
Uncanny X-Men: In The Heroic Age one-shot, Beast gets stood up on a date. When he mentions this to Molly Hayes of the Runaways, she assumes that this trope is in effect, but Beast is quick to correct that his girlfriend is actually from space, which doesn't help his credibility in Molly's eyes. (She's real.) | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5b6bf864 | featureApplicability |
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Uncanny X-Men (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5b6bf864 | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5c66fff9 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5c66fff9 | comment |
In Neverwinter Nights 2, after Qara questions the size of "Ironfist manhood": | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5c66fff9 | featureApplicability |
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Neverwinter Nights 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5c66fff9 | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5cd69dd | type |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_5cd69dd | comment |
In Warhorses of Letters. the surreal BBC Radio 4 series about the relationship between Wellington's horse Copenhagen and Napoleon's horse Marengo, Marengo's Stalker with a Crush, Marcie, claims he's got a girlfriend that no-one's ever met. Then she dies, and he goes through the Four Stages of Grief: Denial, Following Marengo Around, Sexual Promiscuity and Acceptance. Copenhagen isn't convinced. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5cd69dd | featureApplicability |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_5d354f8 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5d354f8 | comment |
Red Dwarf: In "Can of Worms", Cat claims that he is not a virgin because he knows these two lady cats that live on Z deck. And who the others have never met. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_5d354f8 | featureApplicability |
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Red Dwarf | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_60f02ddb | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_60f02ddb | comment |
American Dad!: In the episode "Finances With Wolves", after Hayley joins a group of eco-warriors, their leader Arborious, a man who believes he is a tree trapped in a human body, reminds her that she needs to pass an initiation test to join his group. Hayley asks if it involves having sex with a tree or him, but Arborious tells her he's in a relationship with a "redwood in Canada". The later episode "The 42-Year-Old Virgin" plays with a lot of classic sex tropes by applying them to killing instead of sex. Stan is outed as a "virgin" when he can't name the first person he killed, instead claiming it was a Soviet agent, "but you wouldn't know him, he was from Canada." |
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American Dad! | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_61903466 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_61903466 | comment |
In So Random! on the "Learning Spanish" sketch, the Spanish "teacher" (Nico) remarks that Peter (Chad) is ugly, to which Peter replies, "I have a girlfriend.", then Nico says that his girlfriend is fake, to which Peter replies, "She lives in Canada." Then Nico remarks, "Canada is a country where fake girlfriends live." | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_61903466 | featureApplicability |
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So Random! | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_629cd094 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_629cd094 | comment |
Invoked in a dialogue option in Dragon Age: Origins. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_629cd094 | featureApplicability |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_63230cb | type |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_63230cb | comment |
Dragon Ball Z Abridged takes Zarbon's camp-ness from canon and ups it oh so much... and then he reveals he has a girlfriend and had no idea everyone thought he was gay. Though Zarbon is implied to have been telling the truth, said girlfriend is never seen, and Freeza is convinced she's named Chuck. | |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_63230cb | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_64effb3f | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_64effb3f | comment |
The Second Archon War: Inverted when the German Itul's claims that he has a Japanese girlfriend are validated when he introduces her at a convention in Berlin. His friends are completely floored. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_64effb3f | featureApplicability |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_67b2d420 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_67b2d420 | comment |
Gil in Going Greek claims not only a foreign traveling girlfriend but that she travels because she is a model. He is not believed, even by his cousin and all his frat buddies assume that he simply is an Armored Closet Gay. The final frat party reveals that he is not only telling the truth but that she is so devoted she got a "Property of Gil" tattoo on her neck. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_67b2d420 | featureApplicability |
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Going Greek | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_68d474ed | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_68d474ed | comment |
Berlin Syndrome: Or rather ex-girlfriend back in Canada. Nathalie did actually exist, but it's pretty apparent that she didn't really go home to Canada. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_68d474ed | featureApplicability |
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Berlin Syndrome | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_691be369 | type |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_691be369 | comment |
In Shaenon Garrity's X-Files parody webcomic Monster of the Week, Pheobe Green from the episode "Fire" is introduced by Mulder saying "Hey, Scully. Remember how I told you I did so have a girlfriend but she lives in England and you wouldn't know her?" | |
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The X-Files | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_69318c41 | comment |
In a deleted scene in Trick 'r Treat, Laurie claims she is not a virgin; citing an incident with Dave, an attorney at the law firm in Toronto where she interned. The other girls don't believe it for a moment. Of course, 'virgin' has a different meaning in these circumstances. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_69318c41 | featureApplicability |
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Trick 'r Treat | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_6ba3c140 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_6ba3c140 | comment |
Dear Evan Hansen's Jared Kleinman mentions that he got to second base under-the-bra with a girl who is going to be in the army while he was at summer camp. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_6ba3c140 | featureApplicability |
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Dear Evan Hansen (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_6ba3c140 | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_6f1d9716 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_6f1d9716 | comment |
Teen Girl Squad has So-And-So's imaginary boyfriend Brett Bretterson. In a weird twist, she actually speaks to "him", much to the concern of the other girls. In a later episode, she claims that she broke up with him. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_6f1d9716 | featureApplicability |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_722ce24d | type |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_722ce24d | comment |
In The Inbetweeners, Jay claims to have had tons of sex with the girls at Caravan Club. When his friends call his bluff and agree to accompany him to Caravan Club, their suspicions that he has been lying are quickly confirmed. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_722ce24d | featureApplicability |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_722ce24d | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_757f19e3 | type |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_757f19e3 | comment |
Scott Pilgrim vs. Snow Flower and the Secret Hall Pass: Shizuo wishes he had a girlfriend in Canada so he could get out of being in an arranged marriage. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_757f19e3 | featureApplicability |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_757f19e3 | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_77184a72 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_77184a72 | comment |
In Victorious, it's subverted in the episode "Prom Wrecker". Cat tells Robbie she can't go to the prom with him because she already has another date, who's from a different school. When Robbie accuses her twice of lying during the prom, she gives him an excuse as to why her date's not with her at the moment. But the second time, we learn her date actually is real and her stories were true after all. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_77184a72 | featureApplicability |
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Victorious | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada | |
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Champions: Parodied in Champions #16, where the others make fun of Miles Morales for claiming that he has a girlfriend in an alternate universe. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_78229185 | featureApplicability |
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Champions (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_78229185 | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_7832b74c | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_7832b74c | comment |
Steven Universe: In "Restaurant Wars", Steven comes up with a plan to stop the feud between Mr. Fryman and Kofi Pizza that involves Ronaldo and Kiki pretending to be dating. Ronaldo protests, claiming he has an actual girlfriend. Considering the type of person he is, no one believes him. He's not lying, though. Not only that, but she also lives in town and shows up to return some anime DVDs while the plan is in motion. Ronaldo is Mistaken for Cheating and she breaks up with him, leaving him miserable for the rest of the episode. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_7832b74c | featureApplicability |
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Steven Universe | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_7988cb68 | type |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_7988cb68 | comment |
In the Mass Effect series, Conrad Verner occasionally makes reference to an unseen wife who puts up with his obsession with Shepard. The third game reveals that he just made her up. Andromeda has a different spin on this, where his sister Cassandra thinks this was going on with Conrad's encounters with Shepard (thanks to Conrad having exaggerated his encounters with the Commander just a teeny bit). | |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_7c60fb0f | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_7c60fb0f | comment |
The Simpsons: In one issue of the comics, Milhouse's dad claims to have a girlfriend onboard the cruise ship everyone is on, and he always uses some excuse whenever anyone asks where she is. Subverted in that he actually does, and she really was just in the bathroom or tired every time he wasn't with her. Used later in a Romeo and Juliet parody, where Romeo (Nelson) claims that Tybalt (Jimbo) is just jealous because he has a real girlfriend. Jimbo replies with the trope. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_7c60fb0f | featureApplicability |
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The Simpsons (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_7c60fb0f | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_7ff29e0f | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_7ff29e0f | comment |
In The Sorcerer, J. W. Wells invents a fiancee in the South Pacific to try (unsuccessfully) to deter Lady Sangazure from pursuing him. He admits in an audience aside that it's all a lie. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_7ff29e0f | featureApplicability |
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The Sorcerer (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_7ff29e0f | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_82439e64 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_82439e64 | comment |
In The Office (US), when Dwight is calling various people out for having had sex in the eponymous office: | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_82439e64 | featureApplicability |
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The Office (US) | hasFeature |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_82439e64 | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_84823809 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_84823809 | comment |
Kaeloo: Kaeloo, Quack Quack, Mr. Cat and Pretty do not believe that Stumpy's girlfriend Ursula, who he claims to have met online, exists, since nobody has seen her. The trope is subverted when Episode 116 reveals, to everyone's shock, that she's a real girl. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_84823809 | featureApplicability |
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Kaeloo | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_86772227 | type |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_86772227 | comment |
Knights of the Dinner Table: Brian Van Hoose claimed to have a girlfriend named Alexis Marie. He sometimes pretended to call her or even booked motel rooms. He even once claimed they were engaged and sent out wedding invitations. Bob once claimed to have been caught in a Fatal Attraction situation with a co-worker at the Harness & Hoe Insurance company. Dave found this claim hilarious. |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_86772227 | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_86b24552 | type |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_86b24552 | comment |
In the mobile phone game Surviving High School 11, in the episode "The New Girl", one of the male cheerleaders, Keith, tells your character (the titular new girl) that he has a girlfriend who lives in Canada. Since the character is also portrayed as being interested in musicals, with "immaculately gelled hair" and wearing designer jeans, this could be seen as a way of letting the player know Keith is gay. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_86b24552 | featureApplicability |
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Surviving High School (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_87b55b5d | type |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_87b55b5d | comment |
The Onion has played with this trope: Canadian Girlfriend Unsubstantiated: "And he said Audrey couldn't come here because she didn't get any time off from school for Christmas, since they don't observe it in Canada. At least not in the French-speaking parts like Alberta." Area Homosexual Thinks He's Still In The Closet also uses this trope as part of a Transparent Closet. Dates from 1999, making it the oldest Canada-specific example on this page, and therefore possibly the Trope Namer. |
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The Onion (Website) | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_89b7cf47 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_89b7cf47 | comment |
Rizzoli & Isles: In "Love Taps", the Victim of the Week works for a company that provides imaginary online boyfriends for women. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_89b7cf47 | featureApplicability |
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Rizzoli & Isles | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_89bf8ce | type |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_89bf8ce | comment |
On 30 Rock: Liz Lemon's man-bashing comedy book causes serious damage to her male friends' relationships, including Lutz, who complains that his girlfriend is very upset, in Canada. Lutz's girlfriend in Canada also has a website specifically dedicated to proving she exists. Specifically, It's a subpage on "jdlutz.com" Lampshaded with Liz's real boyfriend: And again with her next boyfriend with a throwaway line about having a "boyfriend in Canada" when Frank claims to have a girlfriend, conveniently explaining why he didn't show up in that week's episode. |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_8ab3fd56 | type |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_8ab3fd56 | comment |
Possibly director Corky St. Clair's wife Bonnie in Waiting for Guffman, though she supposedly lives in town with him, not in some distant locale. Nobody ever seems to have met Bonnie, and there are hints ("I buy most of her clothes") that "Bonnie" may be a cover story for crossdressing or some more peculiar activity. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_8ab3fd56 | featureApplicability |
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Waiting for Guffman | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_8b3b1835 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_8b3b1835 | comment |
Nothing to Hide: Ben shows up stag when he meets his friends—three married couples—for a dinner party. He says his girlfriend Julie has stomach flu. In fact Ben is a closeted homosexual and "Julie" is actually Julian. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_8b3b1835 | featureApplicability |
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Nothing To Hide (2018) | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_8d7f29ec | type |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_8d7f29ec | comment |
In the pilot episode of Glee, Sandy Ryerson claims that the scandal that got him sacked almost cost him his long-distance girlfriend in another city. Will does not look convinced. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_8d7f29ec | featureApplicability |
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Glee | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_8d81f086 | type |
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Subverted in "Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month". Randy's girlfriend appears to be one of these: the picture he shows Sharona is the one that came with his wallet ("She's a wallet model!") and he gives what appears to be a Line-of-Sight Alias... except that at the end of the episode, she's actually shown waving to him from a taxi (and shouting that she loves him). Unfortunately for Randy, none of the others get to see her before she leaves, leaving her existence in Cassandra Truth territory. | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Cupid's Errant Arrow", Mariner thinks Boimler's girlfriend Barbara is imaginary and asks if they're going to have to meet her on the holodeck, but she turns out to be real. For bonus points, she serves on a ship called the Vancouver. | |
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On Chef! (1993), after Savannah develops a crush on Gareth, she invents an imaginary boyfriend who is constantly buying her flowers in the hope of making Gareth jealous of the competition. It doesn't work. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_91c7ee2f | featureApplicability |
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Chef! (1993) | hasFeature |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_93395d58 | type |
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Storks: Toady claims to have a girlfriend who's migrating and produces a photograph of a bird he introduces as her. For added bonus, the picture he shows is of a Canada goose and he insists that she’s real. | |
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In Snakes on a Plane, every time the highly effeminate male steward mentions his "girlfriend", the people listening roll their eyes and assume her to be this. Until the end, where she shows up and they immediately start making out. | |
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In Blindspot, Patterson points out that Rich Dot Com values his work at the FBI more for friendship than redemption because has no real friends. Rich retorts that he does have friends, but they live in Canada. | |
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Malcolm in the Middle: The second season premiere "Traffic Jam" features a decidedly cruel subversion. While the family is stuck in the titular traffic jam, Malcolm manages to strike up a friendship with a cute girl who he starts to become infatuated with. It's revealed at the end when he's trying to pursue things deeper with her that she's Canadian and is currently heading home from a road trip with her family, which leaves Malcolm rather deflated to say the least what with any potential romance between them now being unlikely. But at the last moment as the cars start moving again and hers pulls up next to his, she extends out a piece of paper with her number on it which he almost manages to grab before the dog that Lois had freed from another car earlier in the episode jumps up and snatches it out of her hand. | |
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Mock the Week: During a round of "If this is the answer, what is the question?", the answer was "A million a week". One of Rhys James' questions was: | |
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In Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude: | |
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NewsRadio S03E01, Matthew (Andy Dick) insists that some women like his moustache, when challenges to provide examples he claims Jill... she lives in Canada, you wouldn't know her. | |
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In an episode of The Brady Bunch, Jan pretends to have a boyfriend named George Glass. She also does the same thing in A Very Brady Sequel, and at the end of the movie, ends up finding a real boyfriend with the same name. | |
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Gender-inverted in Dork Diaries. MacKenzie didn't manage to get a date to go to the prom with, so she tells everyone that her date is playing in the band. | |
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Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow: When the Popples immigrate from England to Australia, the ship's sailor, John, takes a liking to their eldest daughter Clara and frequently flirts with her. Even though he has to go back to England, they keep in touch through letters and John eventually moves to Australia so they can get married. | |
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This was done by undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone AKA Donnie Brasco. Pistone was married but was posing as an unattached jewel thief, and so needed a plausible reason for the other mobsters why he didn't put the moves on other women or was away to see his real family. So he'd pretend to have an out-of-state girlfriend. | |
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One Vampire Reviews episode opens with Maven/Elisa wearing a shirt that says "My Boyfriend is a Vampire." | |
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Questionable Content: Dora mentions that Sven actually had a Canadian girlfriend and that his resulting screaming fight with the enraged Quebecoise was "the best Thanksgiving ever". Deathbot 9000, on the other hand, apparently plays this trope entirely straight. In addition, Raven briefly has a boyfriend in Canada. He eventually appears in person... and turns out to be a hobo. Sven's claim to own a "’65 Les Paul" guitar is treated as such, as Gibson didn't build any Les Pauls in 1965. Turns out he thought he owned one. He got swindled and his guitar was built in 1983, not 1965—although it is a genuine Les Paul, so he was only partially swindled. |
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Bohort's wife in Kaamelott is an interesting example in that she's mentioned by Bohort as getting very sick whenever she goes anywhere, and is thus never seen. Everyone goes "Sick. Riiiiiiiight.", but at the end of the episode, we do see his wife. It should be mentioned that she shows up to enforce the character's heterosexuality, as Bohort's very... refined nature ended up putting the actor on the cover of a gay magazine. | |
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The Intimates: Destra claims to have a boyfriend in Niagara Falls when Dead Kid Fred approaches her. Destra is incredibly sexy and could easily get a real boyfriend at the drop of a hat, but none of the boys at her boarding school interest her, hence the lie. | |
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In the movie Prom, mega-dork Rolo claims to have a Greek-Canadian girlfriend named Athena who looks like a model and who he's taking to prom. Everyone is certain she's fake until Rolo arrives with the lovely Athena on his arm. | |
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Subverted in the Grounded for Life episode "Space Camp Oddity", where Brad says that he had a girlfriend at Space Camp, and brings up several lame excuses when people want to meet her. Eventually, she appears, played by Mila Kunis. | |
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In the Modern Family episode "The Day We Almost Died", Alex’s best choice for prom apparently finds a girlfriend in Canada after a photo of her in the middle of a mustache waxing is posted. Manny dates a Canadian girl he met at camp and can't convince anyone that she's real. He ends up arranging a Face Time call with her so his family can see she exists. She ruefully admits that this isn't the first time she's had to do one of these calls. |
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In The IT Crowd episode "Jen The Fredo", Moss talks about a girlfriend he had "on holiday", causing Roy to snap "They're always on holiday, aren't they Moss?". | |
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Stranger Things: At the start of Season 3, Dustin returns from some time away at summer camp, claiming to have met a girl named Suzie while he was there, who lives in Utah. Everyone else in the Party is understandably skeptical that she actually exists. The season finale reveals that she actually does, and she ends up being plot-important. | |
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In one arc in the Alex comic strip, Alex and Clive end up in Narnia where they meet all kinds of creatures that only exist in "make-believe". This includes the "girlfriend in London" Clive claimed to have had while at university. | |
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The Thundermans: Dark Mayhem occasionally implies that for all his power, he's just a Nerd in Evil's Helmet. The crown moment is when he gets excited at crashing Phoebe's high school prom because he and his henchmen will finally be going to prom. Turns out all his henchmen did go to their high school proms and had a great time, so he hastily invents a prom date named Debbie and preemptively shuts down any questions about her. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, this trope is referenced. Tedd and Grace are long-established to be dating, but Grace brings up the fact that some people thought she made Tedd up to turn down people trying to ask her out. | |
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Son of the Sannin: Shikamaru cites the trope when he's asked by Sai out of the blue why he and Choji don't have dates for the wedding of Asuma and Kurenai, explaining that his girlfriend (Temari) lives in Sunagakure. All the boys in Sunagakure also think that Temari made up Shikamaru to keep them off her back because he considers crossing the desert to visit her to be too much of a pain. | |
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The Alarmaverse: In Beauty Will Tear Us Apart, after Ditzy claims to be dating Time Turner, Trixie immediately insists that she, too, has a girlfriend. "But you can't meet her now, because she's getting a degree in Vanhoofer." | |
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Todd in the Shadows: After To Boldly Flee, Todd and Lupa have one awkward date before she winds up going out with someone else. Todd tries to reassure himself that the new guy probably isn't even real since he "lives in Canada" or something. (The joke, of course, being that he actually does.) Todd had earlier joked about this trope in his review of Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" when he suggested that the Jerkass ex-boyfriend she was singing about wasn't real. |
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In The Great Gatsby, protagonist Nick has a romance with Jordan, but it ends somewhat badly. During their last conversation, she claims that she's now engaged to someone else, but Nick privately suspects that she may be lying. | |
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Teen Titans: In one comic, Kid Flash tells Robin that he has his own Rogues Gallery in Canada. | |
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In episode 4 of Shelfdust Presents: The War Effort, when they're discussing the high levels of flirtation and romance in Secret Wars (1984), Al Kennedy suggests that maybe the whole big fight could have been avoided if Doctor Doom had met someone, but Kirsten Howard replies that he'd just be all "I have a girlfriend, she's in Hell, you wouldn't know her..." | |
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The Mayor in Chocolat uses this to attempt to cover up the fact that his wife has left him by claiming that she's on an extended holiday and will come home soon. | |
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Bob once claimed to have been caught in a Fatal Attraction situation with a co-worker at the Harness & Hoe Insurance company. Dave found this claim hilarious. | |
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In Disenchantment, Elfo gets embarrassed about trying to kiss Bean and claims that he actually has a girlfriend in a faraway land, who's really tall, has red hair and only one eye. This ultimately leads to him getting into a Fake Relationship with a giantess. | |
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A prospector in Paint Your Wagon admits that his girlfriend back home, Lisa, was entirely made up. | |
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The Darkness Series: In Harry Potter and the Breeding Darkness, Draco assumes that Harry doesn't really have a boyfriend because this mysterious boyfriend doesn't attend Hogwarts. He assumes wrong. | |
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Glass Marionette: Hana assumes this is the case with her brother, and that all his stories about having a Sunan boyfriend are false. But he's telling the truth; he is, in fact, in a long-distance relationship with Kankuro. | |
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Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: Well, Shelby's Boyfriend, as the trope is mentioned in Princesses Are Never Lost: (Everything Else Is Simply Misplaced), when Claire is wanting Gwen and Shelby's princesses to "kiss and make up". As seen in Boyfriends and Other Minor Annoyances, he actually exists, and is named "Tim": | |
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The Facts of Life: Everyone assumed Natalie's boyfriend, a motorcycle-riding bad boy named "Snake", was made up. He does eventually show up in the flesh, but not before an episode-ending Un Reveal gag where Natalie promises they'll actually show Snake next time. | |
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Homestar Runner: Strong Bad claims to have many, many girlfriends... who we never see because they're supposedly visiting other planets, such as the "very special lady" from the Strong Bad Email "autobiography" or Delilelia from "senior prom". A more literal example occurred in episode 6 of Marzipan's Answering Machine, in which he says his girlfriend "lives up in the other country" and stresses that "she's really real". Teen Girl Squad has So-And-So's imaginary boyfriend Brett Bretterson. In a weird twist, she actually speaks to "him", much to the concern of the other girls. In a later episode, she claims that she broke up with him. |
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On Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a now-vampiric Harmony says that her boyfriend will get revenge for the Scoobies defeating her. Willow is skeptical, as she apparently made claims like this in high school: "Oh, he goes to a different school, you wouldn't know him." This is immediately subverted as we cut to Harmony meeting with said boyfriend, Spike. | |
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After To Boldly Flee, Todd and Lupa have one awkward date before she winds up going out with someone else. Todd tries to reassure himself that the new guy probably isn't even real since he "lives in Canada" or something. (The joke, of course, being that he actually does.) | |
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In Hypnospace Outlaw, Corey and Zane, two members of the Teentopia community that go to the same school, claim to have long-distance girlfriends, and these girlfriends do have their own pages. Metadata the player, as an Enforcer, can access indicates they were made with the same headbands as their "boyfriends". Zane's is pretty obvious since it's entirely her gushing about him. Corey puts a bit more effort into creating an One of the Boys dorky persona for his fictitious girlfriend, but it's still blatant. In a nod to the stereotypical form of this trope, Corey's "girlfriend," Jennifer Mitchell, actually has her location listed as Alberta. | |
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Family Guy: Meg Griffin occasionally pretends to be in a relationship, although none of her family members ever believe her. | |
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According to Plumbing the Death Star, the one problem with dating Freddy Kruegar is that everyone would assume you're just making him up to puff your ego since he only exists in the dreamworld. Zammit is very put off by this, not wanting to be "that guy." | |
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Strong Bad claims to have many, many girlfriends... who we never see because they're supposedly visiting other planets, such as the "very special lady" from the Strong Bad Email "autobiography" or Delilelia from "senior prom". | |
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Girlfriend in Canada / int_f0a86c12 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_f0a86c12 | comment |
In How I Met Your Mother, Ted regrets that he didn't know the Canadian Robin in high school. "You could've been the Canadian girlfriend I told everyone I had!" | |
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How I Met Your Mother | hasFeature |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_f0a86c12 | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_f655ed11 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_f655ed11 | comment |
Frasier: Gil's wife, "Deb" — an Army reservist, owner of her own auto repair shop, and graduate of Sarah Lawrence. In one episode Gil mentions wanting to bring her to an office function. When the other characters express surprise at her existence, Gil complains he has often spoken about going home to her. The others, assuming he was gay, thought he was talking about his cat. In another episode, Frasier is actually dating an ex-Victoria's Secret model who previously dated an NFL player, and is going to the Galapagos Islands to research for her PhD. Through a string of unlucky circumstances, no one meets her, so they assume Frasier is making her up. |
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Frasier | hasFeature |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_f655ed11 | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_fa4f7c2a | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_fa4f7c2a | comment |
Subverted in Love Me For Who I Am. Tetsu assumes Haruto is fictional until their meeting since Suzu never mentions his boyfriend's name up to that point. Suzu is not amused. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_fa4f7c2a | featureApplicability |
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Love Me For Who I Am (Manga) | hasFeature |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_fa4f7c2a | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_fc9b39e | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_fc9b39e | comment |
In The Extinction Gambit, the first novel of The Extraordinaires, Evadne claims to have a fiancé named Clarence and shows Kingsley a picture of him she keeps in a locket. At the end of the book, Evadne admits that Clarence does not exist and the picture is one she cut out of a postcard. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_fc9b39e | featureApplicability |
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The Extraordinaires | hasFeature |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_fc9b39e | |
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Girlfriend in Canada | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_fcf3efa7 | comment |
The Super Hero Squad Show: After falling victim to a love potion that makes her fall head-over-heels for M.O.D.O.K., Ms. Marvel says the worst part is that it made her cheat on her boyfriend. He's totally real. And great. And on a mission. In space. That's why no one else has heard of him. Of course, it eventually turns out that she does have a boyfriend in space: Captain Marvel. | |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_fcf3efa7 | featureApplicability |
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The Superhero Squad Show | hasFeature |
Girlfriend in Canada / int_fcf3efa7 |
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