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The V-J Day Kiss
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The famous kiss an ecstatic sailor plants on a very surprised nurse he's just grabbed off the street for the express purpose of kissing (see page image) after the end of World War II is announced in Times Square is the best-known and most commonly parodied V-J Day photograph, though there are others. Taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt and originally appearing in LIFE magazine, the photo's subjects melted into the crowd before he could catch their names. As a result of this (and of the natural obfuscation of the subjects' features in the picture itself), several different people over the years have come forward claiming to be the kisser and/or kissee. Likely the modern Trope Codifier for The Big Damn Kiss and a Real Life example of a Smooch of Victory. See Foot Popping for what that nurse was doing with her right leg. She also seems to manage the Boobs-and-Butt Pose.note Putting several fictional examples to shame with over 45 degrees of rotation between torso and pelvis. |
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Justice League of America: Ice, the former love of Guy Gardner's life, was resurrected after years of being deceased during an affair between the Birds of Prey and the Secret Six. In the aftermath of the Sinestro Corps War, the two ex-lovers met once again in Times Square and shared a single long and passionate kiss◊. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Bart the General", Bart and Milhouse parade Nelson, tied up in the wagon. While Lisa stands in the street surveying the damage, a soldier boy rushes up and kisses her, the moment captured forever in a photo. She then slaps him and yells, "Ewww, knock it off!" In "Mad About the Toy", a flashback reveals that Abe once tried it but the woman he kissed punched him for it and said it's already been two years ever since the war ended. |
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Letters to Juliet begins with the main character attempting to find someone who saw the photo being taken. | |
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In one Life After People episode, a VJ Day Kiss photo in someone's empty house is seen decaying as time goes on. | |
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In Wolfenstein: The New Order, the E3 trailer has a variation on this at the 30 second mark... with a Wehrmacht or Waffen-SS soldier doing this to a nurse instead, forcing himself on her in Nazi-occupied France. | |
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In Smallville, at the end of Noir, Jimmy does this to Chloe. Fitting for an affectionately old-fashioned episode. | |
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Watchmen puts the openly lesbian character Silhouette in the place of the Sailor. A sailor walks past them as they kiss, even briefly glancing at them before moving on. This apparently started a relationship, as that same nurse was seen sitting with Silhoutte at a Minutemen dinner and then murdered along with Silhouette later in the title sequence. | |
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At least four references in M*A*S*H: In "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet", Frank claims that the last time his back went out was "V-J Day in Times Square when this big sailor hugged me." In "Dear Dad", Hawkeye walks up behind Frank and Hot Lips and surprises the latter with a passionate kiss and embrace very much like the one in the photo. In "There's Nothing Like a Nurse", Hawkeye and Hot Lips strike a very similar pose when he grabs and kisses her just before the nurses leave for a bug-out. "Abyssinia, Henry" has Colonel Blake recreating this with Major Houlihan, after the former is inaudibly advised/dared to do so by Hawkeye. |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Surf N' Turf", SpongeBob shows Sandy an old photo of Mr. Krabs doing this with a large sack of money. | |
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The Team Fortress 2 blog parodies it at the end of its WAR Update with the Heavy Weapons Guy kissing the Scout's mother. | |
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Sandra on the Rocks featured a visual echo of the scene in Sandra's goodbye to Gary here (complete with a gender reversal, and the strip appeared on February 14th). The artist has said that the reference wasn't deliberate, but admits to being familiar with the original photograph. | |
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In the Stargate Atlantis episode "Duet", Rodney, acting quite out of characternote on account of sharing his body with the consciousness of a woman intent on Playing Cyrano at the time, gives his date a VJ Day kiss to emphasize how interested he is in pursuing their relationship. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): In "...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding", Lestat de Lioncourt dramatically drops◊ a female victim in this iconic pose before draining her to death. In-Universe, it would be incorrect to say that Lestat is parodying the famous photograph because the scene is set in 1923, 22 years before the end of World War II. | |
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Frasier: When Frasier and the gang return to KACL after it reverts back to talk show format. | |
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In Sabrina the Teenage Witch, when Mr. Kraft announces that he's leaving Westbridge, the hallway explodes into a Tickertape Parade, and Harvey gives Sabrina a VJ Day kiss. | |
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