Elliot: Don't go too quickly, or like I said, you'll just end up withanother beautiful girl! JD: "Dating my laptop." Elliot: Dating your laptop. Thank you. —Scrubs, "My Half-Acre"

Like theTemporary Love Interest, this is a way to give the hero some romance for the episode while still allowing the focus of the show to be on the plot or the arc, but theGirl of the Week (orGuy of the Week) does not have todie at the end. The girl will begone by the next episode, possibly because of a wacky misunderstanding a la theThree Is Company plotline, or avery minor flaw, but sometimes just not showing up again, withno explanation offered. This relationship will generally be rockier or less passionate than that with theTemporary Love Interest, allowing its end to be less dramatic. If someone isnoted for getting extremely passionate about every Girl of the Week, sincerely believing each one in turn to be the love of their life but then forgetting all about them a week later, they're aSerial Romeo. Sometimes, particularly in aWalking the Earth series, there'sno relationship, but the girl is shown having an obvious interest in the hero (which may be mutual) before he inevitably moves on.

If she survives longer than her initial appearance,Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome is likely.

Related toDisposable Love Interest.

If you were looking forMonster of the Week,Well, This Is Not That Trope.

Anime & Manga

• InCity Hunter, Ryo Saeba accepts assignments almost exclusively from beautiful young women, most of whom are never seen again in further episodes. During the rare instances when Ryo accepts a job from a man, it would usually involve protecting a young woman.
• Subverted and gender-swapped inDirty Pair - the guy of the week rarely sticks around once he learns who Kei and Yuri are.
• InDragon Ball, there are quite a few Girls of the Week during theWalking the Earth segments. Even more are added during the filler episodes. Strangely enough, Goku's wife Chi-Chi is originally introduced as a Girl of the Week and when she makes her second appearance in the manga over a hundred chapters later, there's aLampshade Hanging where no one can remember her.^[1]
• The mangaEat Man also featured many of these, most of them kinda underaged.
• Galaxy Angel parodies this; in each of Ranpha's episodes, she falls over a new hot guy, butthey all look and sound the same.
• This theme is basically the premise ofGolden Boy.
• The anime seriesKing of Bandit Jing offered this as afeature, with a different pretty girl in each of theAdventure Towns the titular hero journeyed to.
• More of aGirl Of The Year than a Girl of the Week: In any of theLupin III TV specials, at least one of the newly-introduced characters (whether good, evil or neutral) is female, starts building a relationship with one of the main characters and won't be mentioned in another special ever again.
• Not so much Girl of the Week as Girl of theMovie but theNaruto movies seem to love this trope. Naruto's had at least one older woman giving him a kiss, aDamsel in Distress literally offering to have his babies (which, due to the way she phrased it, Naruto unwittingly accepts), and in the second Shipuuden movie he ends up with the current Girl of the Week clutching him to her chest (it would beMarshmallow Hell if she had bigger... tracts of land) while tearfully claiming that she'd never leave him... Being non-canonical of course, not one of them ever shows up again.
  • Some of the more cohesive filler arcs during the gap between the end of Part 1 and beginning of Shippuden also brought this into play. This adds two female daimyos, a handful of kunoichi, and one girl witha bad skin condition to Naruto's roster. Of these, exactly one has appeared as a background character since then and she was rooting forGaara.
• Pokémon, subverted (Brock never has even a slim chance of actually getting the girl).
  • Well, almost never. There have been somevery rare instances of girls actually being interested in Brock, but they always go their separate ways by the end of the episode anyway.
  • Also subverted in that half the girls are either Nurse Joy or Officer Jenny, who all look/sound/act the same.
  • Girls of the Season of this series range from Misty, May, Dawn, etc. andsome are never shown again.
• Makoto ofSailor Moon usually fell for each minor male character shortly after their introduction.
  • And they all remind her of an ex-friend, evenHaruka.
• InPrincess Tutu's second season, this trope is combined withVictim of the Week to giveMytho a new conquest in many episodes.
• Cobra fromSpace Adventure Cobra often gets a new female sidekick/LoveInterest in each of the one-shot stories.
• Amelia in theTrigunmovieBadlands Rumble.
• The ACTUAL PLOT ofThe World God Only Knows, where the main character'sjob is to make the Girl of the Week fall in love with him, so he may extract the spirit possessing them from their soul. With his gaming skills.
  • Increasingly subverted as the story progresses, as he finds himself involved with some of the girls again.

Film

• TheJames Bond film franchise is famous for its Bond Girls, thedisposable companions that Bond acquires in each of his various adventures. Bond Girls have a very high mortality rate, and, with some exceptions, never appear in more than one movie. The only exception is "Trench, Sylvia Trench" from the first two movies, who perhaps was spared for giving Bond his catchphrase (though she never "made it" with Bond, either). Unless of course we count Ms. Moneypenny (and Judi Dench's M, since the actress considers herself a "Bond Girl"). Despite the mortality rate, almost every film will feature at least one Bond girl surviving, and given how many girls Bond tends to get- even in a single film- versus the amount who actually die, maybe the ratio isn't so bad after all.
  • Vesper Lynd, in the 2006 version ofCasino Royale, is the only character to have a direct effect on the plot of a second film (Quantum of Solace, in which she casts a long shadow but appears onscreen for all of two seconds).
  • Bond's murdered wifeTeresa di Vicenzo also gets brought up every now and then, but always indirectly (possibly to hide theContinuity Snarl of Pierce Brosnan being called upon to mourn a woman George Lazenby married almost thirty years earlier), though this was the unspoken reason Bond was so pissed at Blofeld in the immediate sequel,Diamonds Are Forever.
    • Teresa would have appeared in the film afterOn Her Majesty's Secret Service and be killed early in the film. Before filming of Lazenby's first film ended he had already decided not to do another, so she was killed at the end of the film.
  • Maud Adams, meanwhile, has appeared as two different Bond girls: Andrea Anders inThe Man with the Golden Gun, and the title character inOctopussy. The former doesn't make it.
  • InHappy and Glorious (which was made especially for the 2012 London Olympics), Her Royal Majesty, QueenElizabeth II appearedAs Herself opposite James Bond (played by Daniel Craig). If Judi Dench's M is a Bond Girl, then so is the Sovereign by the same reasoning.
• Austin Powers. As a Bond spoof, it, too, has its own Bond Girls.
  • In the first film, Vanessa Kensington was aLove Interest with a full back story that made her complex and sympathetic. Because Mike Myers only intended the film to do modestly, Austin learnedAn Aesop about how life as aCasanova was far less satisfying inThe Nineties, and underwent significantCharacter Development to be with her. After the character became a phenomenon and sequels were planned, the franchise underwentFlanderization from a quirky, sentimental comedy intoDenser and WackierFarce. Vanessa wasRetconed out of the picture, and this trope was played straight with Felicity Shagwell,Ivana Humpalot, Dixie Normus and Foxy Cleopatra.

Austin: I can't believe Vanessa, my bride, my one true love,the woman who taught me the beauty of monogamy,was a fembot all along. Wait a tick, that means I'm single again!Oh behave!

• The Pink Panther had several:
  • Original: Mme. Clouseau—she divorced her inspector husband for Sir Charles Litton;
  • Shot: Maria Gambrelli
  • Inspector Clouseau: Lisa Morrell
  • Strikes Again: Olga
  • Revenge: Simone
• Subverted inIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where the original love interest returns as a major character.
  • It's even revealedthat her son is also his son andthey get married at the end of the film.
  • There's also a line that justifies why it was played straight in the first three films. Indiana tells the love interest that it didn't last with any of the other girls because they all had the same problem: "They weren't you."
    • Not to mention the fact that when they meetin the first movie, they've already had a past relationship,making "Kingdom" the third and final(?) time they hook up!"
• The originalBatman films.Batman had Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger),Batman Returns had Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer) andBatman Forever had Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman).
  • Batman and Robin had Julie Madison (Elle Macpherson). And that just proves how pivotal she is to the plot.
    • Although, both Vicki and Catwoman are given an explanation as to where they went. Bruce told Selina that Vicki couldn't handle his double life, andas far as Batman knows Catwoman is dead.
      • A earlier draft of the script forBatman and Robin hadPoison Ivy killing Julie Madison

Literature

• Fritz Leiber'sFafhrd and The Gray Mouser series employed this trope. At least one of the womenleft her people to join Fafhrd, but where is she in the next book?...
  • She's there just long enough to sufferSudden Sequel Death Syndrome, as I recall.
  • Then, there is a story where they set out, full of vim, certain that they would bump into someone from their old adventures—and owing to the wrath of certain gods, meet up with girl of the week after girl of the week, and everyone of them had made her own life and rejects them both. (Until the very end, where abject humiliation succeeds in winning the two they least wanted to meet.)
  • Though The Twain both end up more or less as faithful (more or less) married husbands in the last stories, set on Rime Isle.
• TheGor novels (when Tarl isn't pining for Talena or Vella) tend to have a Slave Girl Of The Book, who Tarl teaches to love her slavery. By the next book she's either in his slave harem and (almost) never mentioned again or sold off to someone who is her "ideal master."
• Robert E. Howard'sConan the Barbarian does not always get a girl. But when he does, she vanishes without a trace before the next story.
  • Justified in that there are huge gaps in time between many stories, and that they weren't written in chronological order. Conan had several lengthy relationships, and eventually married. Also before his marriage Conan is specified to run out of money a lot.
• Thomas Lewellyn, of Will Thomas's Barker and Lewellyn Victorian-era mysteries, will fall in love at least once a book, but it never works out. (Then again, it never gets far- twice he's warned off by the young lady's father or guardian and immediately gives up on the matte and twice it turns out she's seeing someone else and lied about it. The one time he manages to entertain serious thoughts of a relationship until the end of the book? Turns outshe's theBig Bad. Oops.)
• The Jennifer Morgue discusses, lampshades, and generally plays hell with this trope: the opposition is using a Hero-trap geas, meaning that all efforts to oppose him will be funneled into theTheory of Narrative Causality; since he cast himself as the villain, he can only be successfully resisted by aJames Bond archetype, which is played byBob. He is quickly paired up with a femaleBlack Chamber agent, making her a Bond girl.And then the trope is turned completely upside down: it turns out thatAngleton was able to successfully end-run the geas by making Bob's girlfriend, Mo, the true Bond-figure in the geas, meaning thatBob is theactual Bond girl, allowing Mo to save the day in a Bond-worthyBig Damn Heroes moment. The narrative also notes that there's almost always two Bond girls, one "light", one "dark", thus making room for the Black Chamber agent in the geas.
• Bernie Rhodenbarr, Lawrence Block'sGentleman Thief protagonist, sleeps with at least one female love interest per novel, and none of them reappear or are mentioned again after that. The closest person in Bernie's life is Carolyn Kaiser, a lesbian pet-groomer who describes herself as his "minion", and isPlatonic Life Partners with him.
• Bertie Wooster runs through love interests quickly and frequently ends up engaged (often against his will), but never actually gets married becauseStatus Quo Is God.

Live Action TV

• Virtually everyDom Com with teen-aged characters has or has had stories where one of the male or female teen-aged characters would become involved in a (almost always, temporary) relationship. The catalyst to the relationship's failure—usually by episode's end—provided that episode'sAesop.
  • Other times, the date would be successful, but—since most of the family sitcoms didn't have story arcs—the relationship would end without explanation and never be referred to again.
• The Girl of the Week was frequently used onMagnum, P.I.. In fact, when they weren't Girl of the Week episodes, they were probablyTemporary Love Interest episodes.
  • Pretty much a staple of PI series from the 50's to the 80's (e.g.Vegas)
• Knight Rider.
• The guys inThe Professionals never have the same girl for more than one episode. Generally, if Girl of the Week is blonde, she will be dumb and annoying. If she's brunette, she will be mildly intelligent, but still in need of looking after. Most notable Girls of the Week are Ann inInvolvement (Doyle's girlfriend) and Marikka inFall Girl (Bodie's girlfriend).
• Hogan's Heroes did this a lot. The women could be German civilians, members of the underground, foreigners, or even German officers, and the Heroes would still go for them. However, the only recurring women wereTiger andMarya. EvenKlink got a few women, although the one non-spy lady wound up leaving with Burkhalter by the end of the episode.
• Billy fromMighty Morphin Power Rangers had enough of these to give almost any other character on this list a run for their money. He got more romantic subplots than any other Ranger and probably still holds the record as the franchise's biggest in-canon stud.
• Every romantic interest onSilver Spoons foranyone besides Kate and Ricky's father Edward.
• Seinfeld also often used Girl of the Week. Though theincreasingly petty reasons those relationships ended (liking a certain commercial, eating peas one at a time, having "man hands," etc.) could be consideredLampshade Hanging.
  • They actually did hang a lampshade in one episode where Elaine asked Jerry, who is worrying about his new girlfriend, "What are you worried about? You're dating a new girl, like, every week."
• In the first season ofBeverly Hills, 90210, many episodes focused on Brandon's Girl of the Week. Late in the season, Brenda actually commented on it. (See:Lampshade Hanging)
  • Sometimes this would flirt with "Very Special Episode" territory, since most of the girls Brandon hooked up with had some kind of "issue" connected to them, eg., the girl with the baby, theblack girl, the racist girl—never let it be said Brandon wasn't an equal opportunity dater.
• The Six Million Dollar Man - Steve Austin made out with a lot more women than just Jamie Sommers and Farrah Fawcett....
• The repeated use of Girls of the Week in later seasons ofSliders was criticized by fans, although they were usuallytemporary love interests since most of the time theydied tragically at the end of the episode.
• The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. featured several Girls of the Week. Brisco got kissed by many beautiful women, but his heart always belonged to Dixie Cousins.
• Most early seasons ofFrasier rarely had Frasier Crane with a girlfriend who stayed around longer than an episode; sometimes they didn't even break up, she simply wasn't there any more an episode later. In later seasons, the girlfriend might stay for a mini-arc but would likely be gone after. Often a focus ofLampshade Hanging as Frasier obsessed about his inability to commit. In one memorable episode, most of the former love interests made a cameo in aDream Sequence on the subject.
• All of the main male characters of theStar Trek spinoffs (even includingthat main male character) got at least one Girl of the Week (and occasionally Crusher and Troi would get a Guy of the Week). As for the original? They were all hogged by Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. Mostly Kirk.
  • Lies! Chekov once got a girl. She didn't even die.
  • Scotty once got a girl too. Really, the only regular male character on TOS whonever got a Girl of the Week was Sulu.
    • Ohmy!
  • This was such a common event that characters who keep getting the Girl of the Week in a TV series are sometimes referred to as 'Kirk' or 'a Kirk', either as criticism or compliment, often bygeeky characters. See various episodes ofStargate Atlantis as an example, with Rodney McKay calling John Shepherd 'Kirk' after he has met and conquered the Girl of the Week - but then he's jealous! The epitome of this was when Shephard tried to hit on Rodney's married sister in the episode 'McKay and Mrs Miller' (S3 E08).
  • This specific example was hilariously lampshaded in theIn Living Color skitThe Wrath of Farrakhan. The line that had me crying with laughter?‍'‍You even take the ugly ones, Captain!‍'‍
• The Saint, especially during Ian Ogilvy's time as the hero.
• Bergerac (the detective from the island of Jersey, not Cyrano) was a more constant type of chap. He went through a girlfriend per season.
• Quantum Leap loved this trope - justifying it in that Sam's scrambled brain would pick up on the feelings of the person he replaced and that his pursuit would set the GOTW and the person Sam leapt into "on the right path".
  • Besides which, unless it was a two-parter Sam would be forcibly "leaped" out of the situation, therefore hecouldn't have an ongoing relationship with any of them.(He had a wife in his "present" but didn't remember her. She decided that was for the best: because if he knew, she knew he'd feel obliged not to pursue any GOTW no matter how right it would be for the person he leaped in to.)
• A common trope onThe Wild Wild West. In the first season, the female characters had important roles in the episodes' plots; by the fourth season, they usually had walk-on roles at the end of the episodes solely to be Girls of the Week.
• The Monkees often had a token female love interest for one of the guys (but mostly for the cute heartthrob andChick Magnet, Davy Jones.)
  • Sometimes, it was one of the Monkees themselves who acted as the Girl of the Week, whenever they so hilariouslyDisguised in Drag.
• Most of the episodes ofFlight of the Conchords, mainly because most of the duo's songs are love songs. Mel is the only regular female character, and she's a stalker that they cannot stand. The only recurring girlfriends are Sally (3 episodes) and Coco (2).
  • PossiblyLampshaded with the song "Carol Brown", in which Jemaine imagines being sung at by a choir of his ex-girlfriends...all of whom we've never seen before.
• Drake fromDrake and Josh. There eventually came an episode where Drake does wish and attempts to have a committed relationship, but we never see this girl again either. The guy's pick-ups change so much that Josh has even commented and/or mixed up some names to remember.
  • This was evenlampshaded at one point...

Josh: Lucy might end up being the girl you date for more than three weeks

• • Used extensively in theSpiritual SequeliCarly. Many of these can't imply anything other than that Spencer basically has sex with the girl and she slinks off the next day never to be seen again.
    • The rest of the gang have had: Valerie, Melanie, Griffin, Jake, Jonah, Shane, Pete and even Carly/Freddie (to each other) show up like this. Spencer has more than thePower Trio combined. One notable example was Pete, whom Sam could be argued to have succeeded in getting him, only for it toSnap Back next week.
• A few episodes of the Lee Van Cleef/Timothy Van Patten seriesThe Master that appeared onMystery Science Theater 3000 followed this trope to a tee, the first featuring a youngDemi Moore. They weren't all pining for Tim, but there was always a young woman or two, of variable relevance to the plot.
• MacGyver, especially in the early seasons.
• Time Trax had very few episodes without one of these.
• A very commonly used trope inThe Sixties spy seriesThe Man from U.N.C.L.E. (befitting the series's status as aJames Bond knockoff). Usually the GotW wound up in the arms of suave operatorNapoleon Solo, but the occasional episode would give her todistaff fan favorite Illya Kuryakin.
• In the early seasons ofMonk, the title character's assistant, Sharona, would often have a Guy of the Week. He was usually revealed to be either the murderer or some other criminal.
• Stargate Atlantis is filled with this. Ascended Ancients, non-ascended Ancients, Princesses, Female Starship Captains, etc etc.
• Likewise,Stargate SG-1 had its fair share, including one episode where O'Neillaccidentally marries a woman who is never seen again.
• How I Met Your Mother. How many candidates have we had for the mother, now? A few dozen? And let's not even get into Barney's numerous conquests.
• 30 Rock has girls/boys of the season for both Liz and Jack. They also tend to break up with people around the same time. It's eerie.
• Fans ofForever Knight referred to this phenomenon as "Neck of the Week."
• InThe Adventures of Pete and Pete, Big Pete had several Girls Of The Week, especially in the last season.
• Milked for all it was worth in an episode ofWizards of Waverly Place where everyone is thrilled thatHollywood Nerd Justin is dating someone, and he rattles off a list of Girl of the Week's that's been with, only for his brother to say"Nope, don't rememember them."
• Frequently used inDisney Channel shows.
• Any of Zack's love interests onSaved by the Bell that wasn't Kelly, Tori, or Stacy. Including Lisa, even though she was a main character for the entire run of the series, Slater's sister (never seen before or after), and the homeless girl that moved into his house with her father.
• Little Joe onBonanza was an early example of this.
• Supernatural being aWalking the Earth series has quite a lot of this
• The cast ofBuffy has a handful of these for both genders: Buffy's one date with Owen, who she has to dump because living in her world would get him killed; Cordelia has several of these in seasons 1 and 2. Not to mention Xander's tendency to have possible love interests turn out to be demons trying to kill him - one of the few instances where Girl of the Week andMonster of the Week are actually one and the same.
• The A-Team had tons of these, and they almost always ended up withFace, except for a handful of times when they ended up withCrazy AwesomeBunny Ears Lawyer Murdock.
• In the last couple of series of the original run ofDoctor Who, Ace seemed to find a new young female best friend to hang out with almost everywhere (and everywhen) they went. The level ofsubtext varied, but waslater confirmed to be deliberate with at least some of them.
• Really?Two and A Half Men anyone? Girl of the week is probably an understatement, seeing how Charlie has even had more than 1 per day.
• A few characters onBabylon 5 had partners-of-the-week, generally justified by a mix of the characters being career military or politicians, or by the space station being a major travel junction.
  • Jeffrey Sinclair, the first commander, had Carolyn Sykes inThe Pilot, with Catharine Sakai being another on-again-off-again girlfriend in the series proper^[2] Sakai notably had the ability to recite Tennyson and make it soundincredibly sexy.
    • Catherine Sakai doesn't meet the strict definition of a Girl of the Week, as she appeared in 3 episodes and their story was continued in a novel.
  • Dr. Stephen Franklin had several one-off romantic interests, though it is implied that at least a few of these relationships continuedOut of Focus after they were no longer important to the plot.
  • Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari not only had a Girl of the Week, but he also had three wives (all at once, perfectly legal on his homeworld). He ends up divorcing two of the wives and then the girlfriendgetsStuffed Into the Fridge as part of an aPlan.
• Carmen onThe George Lopez Show averted this in that most of her boyfriends lasted for two episodes or more, and the break-up was usually explained.
• For the first few seasons, Shawn fromBoy Meets World had this. Even in episodes where they tried to establish a back story of a serious relationship, you only saw the girl for one episode. Eventually they lampshaded it in the episode where he finally takes a permanent girlfriend who sticks around for most of the rest of the series.
• Avertedhard withPeter Gunn. Pete had a steady girlfriend in Edie, thelocal nightclub singer.

Radio

• At least the radio show ofHave Gun — Will Travel has the main character Paladin returning from his adventures to a new Girl of the Week. Subverted in that he wasn't always successful in the attempt.
• Harry Lime almost always had one of these (generally some girl he was attempting to scam) inThe Many Lives Of Harry Lime.

Video Games

• Ratchet from theRatchet and Clank series, seems to be quite the ladies man for a short furry dude. It started mainly in the second game, first with Angela Cross, Sasha Phyronix in the third game (she made a cameo in the fourth), a character named Hydrogirl offered Ratchet to 'come hook her up' if he was ever near her home planet at the end of the fourth game, the most recent games seem to have Talwyn Apogee in this role.
  • Clank himself is probably more successful. Hell, the dude literally was a robotJames Bond in his big-screen movie role.
• Dante from theDevil May Cry series had one for almost each game. The first had Trish, the second had Lucia and the third (a prequel) had Lady. The fourth game subverts this by bringing back Trish and Lady at the same time. Lucky bastard. Hey like Dante says "In the end, we are all satisfied".
• TheUncharted series both fits and subverts this trope. In the first game Elena Fisher is the main love interest for Nathan Drake. The second has Elena absent at first and instead has an even older flame, Chloe Frazer supposedly rekindling her relationship with Drake. Halfway through the game, Drake runs into Elena which starts a love triangle of sorts. At the endafter Elena has seemingly died (they even show Drake standing next to a Tibetan grave), the game reveals her toactually be alive and well (the grave was for another supporting character), Chloe and Drake go their respective ways and Drake and Elena officially become a couple a last.Awwwwww
  • And they do it whilstbickering into the sunset.
    • Lampshaded in Elena's first encounter with Drake and Chloe inAmong Thieves. "Elena Fisher, last year's model."
• Sonic the Hedgehog has this played straight and averted, depending on the continuity.
  • In theAdventures of Sonic the Hedgehog series, Sonic had a new love interest every other episode. Averted on the rare occasion when his job was to set the Girl of the Week up with her true love and to save her from Robotnik's advances.He "married" Robotnik himself disguised as said love interest.
  • He also hooked up a former Girl of the Week with Robotnik's son, which worked because they were both robots.
  • Completely averted inSEGA's Sonic for obvious reasons, where he has best-friend of the week instead.
• Solid Snake had a different potential love interest in the earlierMetal Gear games which culminated with Meryl inMGS1 (the previous ones being Diane inMG1 and Holly inMG2). This was subverted in subsequent installments , with Snake having no real love interest inMGS2 (going as far as to dismiss Olga as a potential love interest by claiming that he's "tired of tomboys") and inMGS4 he loses Meryl to Akiba of all people (which upset quite a few Snake/Meryl fans). He still got quite a few ladies after him in the non-canon games, if you count Chris Jenner, Teliko Friedman, and Venus. Out of all these girls, the only ones whose affections are truly reciprocated are Meryl, Chris and (depending onhow you interprettheirrelationship) Teliko - Diane won't admit she admires Snake, Venus flirts with Snake but Snake turns her down, and while Snake agrees to go out with Holly he loses interest in her pretty much immediately afterwards and dumps her.
• Ys's heroine changes each game. Some are seen again in the sequels, but none of them ever get the guy.

Web Original

• In theTV Tropes original seriesEcho Chamber, Tom starts datingPorn Girl, but forsome reason, doesn't realize the relationship is doomed.Dana is not fooled.

Web Serial Novel

• Sapphire: Ivanka, Michiru, and Élodie.
  • Averted in Episode II.Michiru would fit this trope, butAlec refuses to fall for her, still waiting to be with Ivanka again.
    • Although, Alec and Michiru eventually try to make love, but are rudely interrupted by Daisuke.

Western Animation

• InAvatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko, or better yet Sokka, has multiple love interests.However, Zuko ends up with Mai, and Sokka with Suki.
  • The abridged series has Sokka proudly declare "I got hos in different area codes" when this is brought up.
  • Interestingly enough,Suki was originally intended to be this, but was brought back and made a permanent love interestdue to fandom demand.
  • Suki is an example ofFirst Girl Wins while Mai is an example ofVictorious Childhood Friend.
• Tammy the squirrel and Foxglove the bat inChip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers. There were others too, including Sparky, a rare example of a "Boy of the week", for Gadget. It was a fairly regular trope in the show.
• Irene, for Terry inBatman Beyond.Melanie comes off as this in her initial appearance, but came back a few times.
• OnDaria, Quinn could basically have a new boyfriend every week, along with her usual harem, the Three J's. Daria herself had one Boy of the Week inTed Dewitt-Clinton, though it was more of just anOdd Friendship with rather obviousShip Tease. Jane had one in Nathan the retrophile.
• OnThe Simpsons, Bart and Lisa have occasional love interests, or at least someone romantically interested in them. In Lisa's case, for example, there's Nelson Muntz, Colin fromThe Simpsons Movie, Thelonious from "Trilogy of Error" ("The esoteric appeal is worth the beatings"), and evenThe Ditz.
  • The same is true for Brian, Stewie, Chris, and evenMeg ofFamily Guy, and Fry and Leela ofFuturama, although Fry and Leela have been in an on-again/off-again relationship since the post-movie seasons started (the on-again/off-again part waslampshaded at one point).
• The episode "That Sinking Feeling" fromPhineas and Ferb features Baljeet and his childhood friend Mishti. The titular brothers attempt to create romance for the two during the episode (even though Isabella mistakenly thinks it's for her), and it looks like it worked at the end (kinda). Too bad she's never seen again.
  • Candace got one in "A Hard Day's Knight." Interestingly, he looked almost identical to her usualLove Interest, Jeremy; since that episode takes place while the family is on vacation the writers presumably just realized they needed a replacement.
  • Subverted with Vanessa's boyfriend Johnny, who seemed like this at first but was revealed to beofficially dating Vanessa a season and a half later. Stacy has also had Chad and Coltrane, though the latter is implied to be her on-and-off boyfriend.
• Jimmy Two-Shoes gives usSchmeloise andAreanna, both to Jimmy. Justified in that Areanna ran off as soon as she escaped her tower while Schmeloise ended up exploding afterHeloise reprogrammed her.
• James Bond Jr. is said to have "learned the game fromhis uncle James".

• Trope
• Characters As Device
• Index of the Week
• Love Interests
• Double Standard
• Girl of the Week
• One-Shot Character