meet-cute

The two clicked, and he asked her out, but the meet-cute ended there.

The candies have survived, but alas, the meet-cute doesn't have legs.

For unlikely as it seems, and much to Matty's palpable disgust, a meet-cute is what this threatens to turn into.

Sure, there are passing moments of refreshing seediness, as when Billy removes some “schmutz” from his love interest’s hair in their meet-cute.

He and Julie have the strangest meet-cute ever; seconds after their eyes lock for the first time, he's eating her boyfriend's brains.

We couldn't even manage a meet-cute.

The use of the meet-cute is less marked in television series and novels, because these formats have more time to establish and develop romantic relationships.

In flashbacks, it was shown that Morello and Christopher had a meet-cute at the local postal office.

There's no meet-cute, for example: Pincus closes the elevator on her and then steals her cab.

The meet-cute is appropriately dorky.

After a meet-cute at Z-Man's party, they are shown running slow-motion through golden fields and frolicking in a haystack.

It's a classic meet-cute that finds its way onto the front page of the next day's Variety with a headline wondering, "Who's That Girl?"

Frequently, the meet-cute leads to a humorous clash of personalities or beliefs, embarrassing situations, or comical misunderstandings that further drive the plot.

But most charming is perhaps his meet-cute with Clara (Jenna Coleman), in which he checks out his newly regenerated body.

But the dream gets upset after she meets her fiance—in a picture-perfect meet-cute involving a stalled elevator—and he leaves her to marry another woman because Mindy’s too old.

The writers" room for this show is apparently some kind of creativity-free zone, as you can tell from the meet-cute these wits concocted for the central couple:

Take the meet-cute: Street magician Jo-gu (Lee Min-ki) spies the dark, secretive Yu-ri during his act and sees not love but a business opportunity.

“It was kind of like, ‘Oh, this is, this is what happens in movies…this doesn’t really happen,’” Nikki Hanson said, remembering her meet-cute with husband Isaac.

He is the painfully sweet high school history teacher with whom Hannah Horvath shares a meet-cute in the faculty lounge and, it seems, her first healthy, well-adjusted relationship in years.

The train arrives and the girl is gone, but he gets a second chance at a meet-cute when he looks out his office window and sees her in the skyscraper across the street.

About a week later, as I was wandering around in a daze thinking, Well, that wasn't as horrible as it could have been, I had a meet-cute with Diane Levy.

Here's a song in which the narrator lays out an elaborate meet-cute at a bar (complete with a "pretty pink lemonade shooter"), then decides it's no big deal if she's just not that into him.

Sarah's romantic prospect, Marty, is as aloof, embittered and inscrutable as she is; Ison's version of a meet-cute is for Sarah to mistake Marty for a loitering homeless man.

The Hollies' "Bus Stop" turns out to have been a theatrical meet-cute waiting to happen, and it'd be charming enough as a mere duet between leads, even before the supporting players join in with color-coded umbrellas.