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Sometimes when a writer is looking to stir things up, or prevent the inevitable progression of a relationship, or stop a wedding, we'll find out that oops, once upon a time our hero/ine had an Accidental Marriage, Arranged Marriage or Citizenship Marriage, possibly brought on by an Off the Wagon night. Which they then proceeded to forget about for years on end until their long-lost spouse comes looking for them wanting a divorce, or they want to marry their current SO. Occasionally they'll think the marriage was annulled or never really counted, or they'll foolishly trust their spouse to take care of doing away with the ill-advised nuptials. It can be a bit more forgivable if the returning spouse supposedly died. Depending on the situation, this can result in a New Old Flame starting a Love Triangle, a very much unwanted Stalker with a Crush, or a second chance at a missed opportunity. For added drama to all parties involved, the writer can also make the unmentioned wife a Madwoman in the Attic. This is somewhat uncommon in Real Life, but not unheard of - some people really can't be bothered with the paperwork necessary to get a proper annulment/divorce for a relationship that's long since over. However, the New Old Flame complication generally only happens in Real Life in cases of intentional bigamy. May or may not result in Accidental Adultery. Can happen with The Mistress. See also "Not Really Married" Plot. |
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In Preacher (2016), Tulip reveals that she got married while she and Jesse were broken up, and that's why she doesn't want to marry him. It becomes a moot point when the Saint of Killers kills her husband. | |
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In the season 2 finale of Scorpion, Happy turns down Toby's proposal after a season-long relationship, saying only, "I can't. I'm married to someone else. I'm sorry," and then walks out of the room. The early episodes of season 3 had Toby trying to figure out who her mystery husband is. It turns out she married Walter because his visa was going to expire. | |
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Played with in a two-parter on Batman (1966). Batman was being forced to marry Marcia, Queen Of Diamonds (long story). Before the wedding ceremony can be completed, Alfred arrived with Aunt Harriet and a fake marriage certificate saying that Harriet has been "Mrs. Batman" for the last seven years. | |
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On the Angel episode "Bachelor Party", Doyle was married to some woman, which he neglected to tell Cordelia because they had separated due to Doyle's issues with his half-demon status. Said woman came looking for a divorce as she found a new husband. She called off her new engagement though because her demon fiancé's family would only approve of their marriage if he performed an obscure ritual that involved eating Doyle's brain. Presumably, the divorce stuck since she's never seen again. | |
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Bones had a multi-episode subplot where Hodgins and Angela were getting married, but it turned out that Angela was already married, so they had to track down her husband so she could get a divorce. This was a problem because she didn't even remember who he was (she only recalled a nickname), or that she was even technically married since all she could remember was getting massively drunk and jumping over a broomstick with a guy. Of special note: Angela and the audience actually learned about this marriage much earlier, before she and Hodgins were even dating, when the FBI ran a background check on her so she could be clear to work on sensitive cases. Her reaction at that time is "Huh, that actually stuck?" Despite knowing about this (and knowing that the authorities are interested in her marital status), it doesn't occur to her again until her wedding to Hodgins gets interrupted. |
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Psych: Gus. His best man was a goat since the whole wedding party was pretty drunk at the time. Shawn is pissed because he was supposed to be that goat! |
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On Wings, Helen was about to marry Joe but she forgot to divorce Antonio whom she married for citizenship reasons. | |
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Frasier Crane was married prior to him appearing on Cheers, to fellow medical student Nanette Guzman. They were only married for a few months and then divorced. Years later, when Frasier was married to Lilith, Nanette reappeared as a children's entertainer called "Nanny Gee". Turns out Frasier never told Lilith about his first marriage, leading to a conflict between The Missus and the Ex. Nanette later appeared in an episode of Frasier, and she tried to seduce Frasier despite having remarried herself. (Incidentally, Nanette was also an example of The Other Darrin, being played by Emma Thompson in the Cheers episode and by Laurie Metcalf in the Frasier one. |
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The Simpsons had an episode where Homer and Flanders' "Vegas wives" - two cocktail waitresses they had accidentally married several seasons earlier during a drunken bender at Caesar's Palace - reappeared long after they (and the viewers) had forgotten about them. The local judge ruled that polygamy, or "Mormon Hold-Em" was legal in Nevada and therefore Homer and Ned had to support both wives. Well, Homer did. Ned's "real" wife had died by this point, so he just had to try to be a good husband to his new one. (Un)fortunately, she quickly grew tired of his squeaky-clean lifestyle and ran for the hills. Also of note: Homer got rid of his Vegas wife by tricking her into marrying Grandpa, which apparently works like an automatic annulment in whatever state Springfield is in. |
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Happened in the '80s to Supergirl, in a story just after she died in Crisis on Infinite Earths (Superman #415: Supergirl: Bride Of- -X?). An alien named Salkor showed up on Earth claiming to be her husband, which of course Superman didn't believe. Later in the story, he finds a video Supergirl made in his fortress where she relates being injured by a collision in space with a Kryptonite meteor. Salkor, the hero of his world, finds her and nurses her back to health. Since she has amnesia, she hangs around and falls in love with him. But eventually, her old memories return, in the process pushing aside her memories of the incidental marriage. She flies back to Earth and resumes her life. Her memories returned just in time for her to make the video before her death. A lot of fans forget this story because it was a time of way out stories as writers were cut loose to write any story they wanted before the reboot. Plus the marriage was a little bit gross by human standards. | |
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Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, though he never forgot, he just kept the fact concealed. | |
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Done hilariously on Camp Lazlo. One season ended with Jane, the love of Lumpus' life, getting engaged to the next guy who walked up: some old man. A season later, they almost got married—-but in the middle of the wedding, his other three wives complained. His excuse? Senility. | |
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In A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Sissy never bothers to properly divorce her first two husbands. | |
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In Reaper, Ben gets into a Citizenship Marriage with a British girl named Sara. Shortly after that, he meets a girl named Cassidy. After a few dates, she (with some humor) points out that he forgot to take off his wedding ring. He explains the whole thing... and she likes the idea of being a mistress. After the ruse is discovered, Sara goes on the lam, leaving Ben to go to jail for a few months. Cassidy is happy that Ben will be single after doing time... but then ends up dumping him while he's still in jail. | |
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G.O.B. on Arrested Development, explained as the logical conclusion to a series of drunken dares with a woman (played by Will Arnett's actual wife Amy Poehler) he met at a bar. The sad thing: he could have gotten it annulled if he'd just admit that he never actually had sex with the woman. | |
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On Scrubs Dr. Cox and Jordan find out that they never correctly filed their divorce papers, and so are still legally married. Note that they're living together, have a child together, and are in a long-term committed relationship. But finding out that they're married drives them both crazy for some reason. In the end, they decided that they have to get divorced to save their relationship (their relationship remains exactly the same, but they're not officially bound together anymore), and even have a public, celebratory divorce ceremony. All their friends lampshade how ridiculous the whole thing is. | |
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Jimmy and Lucy on Raising Hope. It was revealed during the Inside Probe episode that the two got married before the latter was executed. It was also revealed that she didn’t actually die... so the next episode revolves around the custody battle that ensued for the titular toddler involving plenty of Artistic License – Law. Ultimately the Chances lose the custody battle and Jimmy is forced to go with Lucy to Tibet to stay with his daughter, leaving his current flame, Sabrina behind. "Fortunately" Lucy notices this and gets out of the van to stab her, only to be hit by a bus herself. | |
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In Libeled Lady (1936), Bill Chandler is confident that his marriage to Gladys Benton isn't legal because her Mexican divorce from her previous husband is invalid, so he has no qualms about marrying Connie Allenbury. Gladys then subverts the trope by telling Bill that she knew the Mexican divorce was invalid, so she went back and got a proper Divorce in Reno. | |
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In Elementary, Joan Watson starts dating a man while Sherlock is training her to be an investigator. Sherlock urges her to do a background check on the man in case he's already married, and under protest, she does, and he is. When she confronts her date about it, he explains that it was a Citizenship Marriage for strong humanitarian reasons... and now she has to explain why she does background checks on her dates. | |
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On an episode of The Big Bang Theory, we learn that Penny and Zack had engaged in matrimonial hijinks one drunken night in Vegas. She thought it didn't count or wasn't real, but... | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun has a fascinating twist on this. As just when Dick Solomon is about to get married The Big Giant Head decides to send a wife to him. Thus he didn't 'forget' he was married but was suddenly forced to ret-con a wife into his life, and yes, hilarity ensues. | |
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On My Name Is Earl, Joy tricks Earl into marrying her, by getting her friends to serve him "upside-down martinis", before driving off to Las Vegas with him. The next morning, Earl wakes up badly hungover and spots Joy's wedding ring. | |
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In the old-school WWF: during her on-screen marriage to Triple H, Stephanie McMahon was drunk enough not to remember about it anything until the groom made the announcement at her wedding to Test. This was rendered pointless at the Armageddon PPV in December 1999, when Stephanie turned heel on her own father, during his match with Triple H. Incidentally McMahon and Triple H later got married in real life (the bride was sober then). | |
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Trace in TwoKinds, having amnesia, fully forgets that he was married. His wife, Saria, does not. Later on, it turns out he's NOT married anymore as Saria has been dead for years; in fact, her murder at the hands of Keidran bandits was his Start of Darkness. The woman they encountered is actually her ghost, who's just happy that Trace has gone back to the person he used to be. | |
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The Accidental Husband Starring Uma Thurman. In this case, the title is sort of misleading: Thurman plays a relationship talk show host who advises one of her listeners to break up with her boyfriend. When said boyfriend learns the host is about to get married, he gets his revenge by having a kid hack into a government database and list her as married to him. "Hilarity" Ensues. | |
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Played for laughs on The Big Leap when Paula and Mike get engaged. He's already separated from his wife, but in the rush of everything he forgets that they haven't actually divorced until Paula pops the question. Fortunately, they know they can lean on Nick, the Executive Producer of the reality show they're on, to get it processed faster than normal in order to stage the wedding on the show. | |
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Stargate SG-1: Pops up whenever Vala and Tomin encounter each other during season 10 and Stargate: The Ark of Truth. It's unlikely that Vala actually forgets being married to Tomin at any point, but she does seem pretty convinced that it no longer "counts", while Tomin is quick to remind everyone that they are, technically, still married. | |
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Though not married, Craig did pull this in Degrassi: The Next Generation when he was having an affair. Manny didn't want to be Craig's skank on the side, and he told her that he broke up with Ashley so that they can be together. The problem is he doesn't break up with her, and now is cheating on both girls with each other. Leading to both finding out and dumping him on the spot. | |
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Rizzoli & Isles: In "For Richer or Poorer", Jane is puzzled when a man discovered unconscious at a murder scene has a photo of himself and Maura at a Las Vegas wedding chapel. Maura reveals that he was her college boyfriend and they got married in Vegas, before deciding the whole thing was a mistake and getting it annulled the next day. However, it turns out the lawyer handling the annulment suffered a stroke before he could submit the papers, so Maura is still legally married. At the end of the episode, she and her 'husband' get divorced. | |
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Subverted in the M*A*S*H episode, "Cease Fire". The war is believed to be almost over. A nurse Hawkeye was dating asks him about what their relationship will be post-war, and he claimed to be "suffering from terminal marriage", even though he wasn't really married. And he does it several times. Hawkeye Really Gets Around, and after the events of that episode it's odd that anyone on the nursing staff would even talk to him again. Subverted again in a later episode where Charles is on leave in Tokyo and gets drunk. Photos taken during the binge show him getting married. His "wife" soon comes to visit the camp where after he finally reveals he doesn't remember anything from the evening, she explains that while inebriated he was so insistent they get married that they staged a fake wedding to appease him. They then get drunk and stage a fake divorce. |
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In Doc Rat, Ben put off marrying, and even having sex with, Daniella in part because he remembered he was legally married. He married someone when he was young, but she left him and moved to America. He never bothered to get an annulment at the time, and forgot about it. He ultimately put the effort forward to locate his wife and get a divorce finalized so he could proceed with his life with Daniella. | |
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The Brittas Empire: In "A Walk on the Wildside", Helen learns from a spiritual guru called Harry Johnson that the entire time she's been married to Brittas, she's been married to him as well (courtesy of the hippie who officiated the wedding going on to become the Bishop of Maidstone). She considers resolving the matter by leaving Brittas and heading off with him as the new husband until he dies to a falling sign at the end of the episode. | |
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Played with and inverted in Cactus Flower. Igor guesses that Toni attempted suicide because she just found out that Julian was a married man, but Julian told her that when he first met her. The relationship-breaker for Toni is finding out that Julian never married. | |
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In Animorphs, Marco's dad remarries a few years after his first wife "died." Unknown to him, his wife was still alive—she was the host of Visser One, who Faked The Dead when it was time to leave the planet. Needless to say, this situation was quite awkward for Marco, who knew his mom was alive but couldn't tell anyone. | |
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Mimi on The Drew Carey Show. She was married to Eddie Money for a week. She'd been divorced; the problem was that the church she wanted to be married in refused to do the ceremony unless she got an annulment. | |
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Donnie DuPre of Demo Reel certainly hasn't forgotten he's married, but the emotional neglect and mistreatment on both his and his wife's part, his much deeper relationship with his team and his heavily implied affairs with Uncle Yo and Egoraptor lead him into this territory. | |
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Henry Crawford in the Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries conveniently forgets that he married Meg, under the name John Garret. She turns up looking for him at Mansfield Inn - while he's still dealing with the fallout to his marriage to Anne de Bourgh. | |
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On Shameless (US), Kevin proposes to Veronica while drunk. It takes a while for him to confess to her that he never divorced his first wife. According to him, she was a total psycho and he is actually in hiding from her. If he asks her for a divorce now, he fears she will kill him. Veronica is actually fine with this and they have a fake wedding just so they don't disappoint Veronica's mother and more importantly get wedding gifts. | |
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In the fifth book of the Sword of Truth series, Richard is campaigning against the Imperial Order alongside his wife, Kahlan, when a woman he rescued in the second book shows up, calling herself his wife, based on a prophecy Richard had fulfilled in rescuing her. Worse yet, because of her tribe's customs, she considers her newborn child — born out of her being raped in captivity — to be Richard's as well. While this causes no issues with Kahlan, it seriously harms Richard's public image in the campaign. | |
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"England 3, Colombia Nil" by Kirsty Mac Coll has her getting involved with a man who "forgot he had three children, he forgot he had a wife", until the guy's friend clues her in. | |
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In One Big Happy, Luke discovers that Prudence had a husband in England who never signed the divorce papers. Lizzy, who brought the man over thinking he was Prudence's father, gets him to sign the papers, but the incident has Luke rethinking his own marriage, questioning Prudence's intentions. | |
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Karen Darling from Dirty Sexy Money. | |
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Bill and Jo in Twister. Bill and Jo had long split up, but never signed the divorce papers until Bill shows up with his new fiancee. It makes one wonder exactly how and when Bill broke the news to her. First date? Second date? The marriage proposal? "Honey, will you marry me?" "Yes!" "Great! Would you mind coming along on a road trip to visit my current wife so she and I can get divorced?" "What?!" | |
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A variant of this on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne asks Kimmy for a divorce and that's when she realized that the wedding performed when he held her captive was real. | |
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About two-thirds of the way through the Dr. Thorndyke novel Mr. Pottermack's Oversight, Mr. Pottermack finally feels free to propose to the love of his life — at which point, she reveals that she's not free to accept because she already has a husband, whom she walked out on before she met Mr. Pottermack but to whom she is officially still married. | |
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Agatha Raisin: In "Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage", Agatha and James' wedding is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Agatha's husband. In her defence, she has honestly believed him to be dead. | |
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"Sparky" from Juvenile Diversion not only forgot his wedding along with his name, but mistook his dead squadmate for himself and wrote to his wife that he witnessed himself die. Needless to say, his wife was not pleased. | |
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In Miss Lulu Bett, Ninian waits a week after his marriage to Lulu to tell her that he was married 15 years ago and his wife is, as far as he knows, still floating around out there somewhere. A mortified Lulu leaves him and goes home. | |
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Sweet Home Alabama has the main plot ride on one of these, as the main character not only never got divorced but even leads her new fiance to believe her first husband was her cousin. And it takes place in the deep south... There's also a mild Running Gag that Jake and Melanie keep forgetting that "marriage" has legal implications. Jake tries to get the sheriff to remove Melanie from his house, but the sheriff refuses, since they're still married and it's her house, too. Later, when Melanie goes to the bank, she finds she still has access to her and Jake's joint checking account, and cleans him out to essentially blackmail him into signing the divorce papers. |
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The first husband of Hatty Doran in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor" was reported killed in an Apache raid on his mining camp. She only learns that he didn't die when she sees him at her second wedding. | |
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Subverted in How I Met Your Mother. When Ted dates Robin, he finds out she has a secret. He desperately wants to find out what it is, and his friends bet on her being married because she hates marriage and commitment, and always talk about this friend who married way too young. Robin confirms it and Ted fusses over not being a boyfriend, but a "mistress". However, they later find out she lied. Her embarrassing secret is that she used to be a teen pop star in Canada. | |
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Sam on Burn Notice drifted apart from his wife and eventually lost contact with her altogether. He never bothered to file for divorce because he thought, as a womanizing spy, that he wouldn't live long enough to settle down. Several decades later, his girlfriend proposes... | |
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Nanette later appeared in an episode of Frasier, and she tried to seduce Frasier despite having remarried herself. (Incidentally, Nanette was also an example of The Other Darrin, being played by Emma Thompson in the Cheers episode and by Laurie Metcalf in the Frasier one. | |
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Friends: Phoebe is very fond of this trope. She married a Not-So-Gay Ice Dancer and conveniently forgot to mention it to even her best friends, and it is implied that she also married an unknown (to the viewers) man in Las Vegas. Rachel trusts Ross to annul their drunken Vegas marriage - and he doesn't go through with it. |
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Hot in Cleveland: Variant - at the end of season 2, Elka Ostrovsky's wedding to her boyfriend is interrupted when her supposedly deceased husband shows up. It's later revealed he was Faking the Dead because he was a fence for the mob, which gets him arrested soon after. | |
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In Downton Abbey, Lady Edith finds herself dating Michael Gregson, a newspaper editor. Some digging on her part then reveals that Gregson is married, to a woman who now lives in an asylum and has no idea who he is. Under English law, he can't divorce her. | |
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