Talk:Meet cute

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Since this article speculates that Roger Ebert originated it but does not specify a year, I thought that I'd put this forward. I believe that John D. MacDonald uses the term in The Long Lavender Look, published in 1970.

It definitely predates Roger Ebert. The earliest citation I've found on Google Books is from 1955, here. But the Google search also returns hits from 1952 and 1953, with no preview available. And a NY Times search turns up a hit from an October 12, 1952 review by Gertrude Buckman: "THIS may well be, in magazine parlance, the neatest meet-cute of the week -- the story of a ghost-writer who falls in love with a ghost."206.208.105.129 (talk) 16:02, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

tone[edit]

I will concede that this article is on a valid topic, but it reads as though it were written by a snarky film critic. It's very editorial and patronizing toward the subject. I am going to cut the text down substantially to make it more straightforward. 24.187.121.126 (talk) 19:35, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

only in fiction?[edit]

The article begins, "A meet cute is a fictional scene," but what if such a meeting happens in real life? Even The earliest example given by the article involves a character saying "We met cute," which only makes sense if the phrase can also refer to real-life experiences (unless the character from The Case of the Solid Key is aware of the fact that their story is fictitious). 71.121.143.27 (talk) 07:46, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Or is simply saying "we met like in the movies" in a movie. Doesn't make the character extra self-aware. 50.141.164.213 (talk) 04:07, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]