Balcony Wooing Scene - TV Tropes

David: No, wait... Can we meet after work?
Fatima: Our families hate each other...
David: I don't care. Let me come to your balcony tonight to annoy your parents and neighbors by singing you a really overdramatic song about feelings and love.

• Asterix and the Great Divide, which basically combined Romeo and Juliet with the Berlin Wall, of course featured a scene where handsome young Histrionix climbs up to the beautiful Melodrama's balcony. Interestingly, the original reason she invited him there was just to warn him about her father's nefarious plan to conquer the village with Roman assistance rather than for any romantic reasons, but the mood gets the better of them and after quoting "Histrionix, Histrionix wherefore art thou Histrionix" she kisses him. Then the villainous Codfix raises the alarm and a startled Histrionix falls off the balcony and lands on him.
• The cover of the Random House-published Smurfs book "Romeo And Smurfette" features a Smurf wooing Smurfette while she stands on a low balcony of her house.

• In By the Book, Apple reads in a textbook on advanced wooing that this is the way to begin a courtship. She throws a bouquet through Darling's window and attempts to sing to her with Woodland Creatures as backup, but Darling gets nervous and makes an excuse to leave.
• Dungeon Keeper Ami: In combination with Serenade Your Lover, one of the things General Jadeite learned from reading romance novels, and a discarded plan to get Mercury to fall more in love with him, as said in Beryl's Plan:

  Somehow, he didn't think she would be impressed if he serenaded her from below a balcony. Not that she had a balcony in this dungeon.

• In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, when the Prince first comes into the castle courtyard, Snow White is afraid and runs inside, but then she comes out onto a balcony and smiles down at the Prince as he sings the romantic "One Song" below.

• The Adventures of Robin Hood: Robin climbs up to Marian's window for a romantic meeting where he hangs on the outside of the building and she leans out to kiss him.
• In Animal House, Pinto tries to get his girl's attention by chucking pebbles at her window. He breaks the glass.
• In Braveheart, the hero is at odds with his love interest's parents so he has to resort to throwing stones at her window to catch her attention. Played for laughs as he doesn't recognize that she already opened the window, thus his third stone almost hits her.
• Played for laughs in Bringing Up Baby, where the lead couple starts singing a song in front of a house in order to get a leopard coming down from the roof. The house owner opens the window and thinks he is dealing with lunatics.
• Naomi Watts in Diana when she calls for Hasnat to come to the window of his apartment, but he does not because he is not comfortable with the public exposure.
• Ethan Hawke in Great Expectations when he yells "Everything I have ever does has been for you!" from the street-level. The receiving Estella is aloof to his affection.
• Hackensacker in The Palm Beach Story performs the serenade "Goodnight Sweetheart" with complete orchestra beneath Gerry's balcony, though producing the opposite of the desired effect.
• Rosaline: The film opens with Romeo climbing up a balcony for a private moment with his lady-love Rosaline. They're interrupted by Rosaline's father, then Romeo nearly falls off the balcony.
• Mike Myers in So I Married an Axe Murderer when he recites his poetry outside Harriet's kitchen window in order to win back her affection.
• Spoofed in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Romeo climbs up to Juliet's balcony for the famous scene... only for the nurse to appear instead. Romeo quickly ducks out of sight, but then Juliet exits an elevator on the ground floor, so he doesn't have to climb anywhere. When Romeo tries to introduce himself, he startles her so much they both fall into the pool.

• Blackadder III: In "Amy and Amiability", the Playing Cyrano variant is used, with Amy on the balcony and the Prince Regent below, with Blackadder to feed him lines.
• Doctor Who: "The Shakespeare Code" opens with Lilith being serenaded from her balcony by a lute-playing swain on the street. She beckons him in, where she and her witch accomplices proceed to feast on him.
• How I Met Your Mother:
  • "Pilot": After Ted's first date with Robin falls flat, he steals the blue French horn that Robin commented on in the restaurant during their date, rings up to her apartment, and when she sticks her head out the window, Ted offers it up to her as a grand romantic gesture. This receives a Call-Back in the series finale, when future Ted realizes he still loves Robin and shows up at her balcony with the blue French horn again.
  • "Come On": Ted shows up at Robin's apartment, calls out to her, and she opens her window. They start a conversation and when she asks why he was there, Ted replies, "Because I made it rain!" He had spent half a day performing a rain dance so she wouldn't go camping with a potential love rival.
• Interview with the Vampire (2022): In "I Want You More than Anything in the World", Armand tosses pebbles at Louis de Pointe du Lac's balcony window (the hallucination of Lestat de Lioncourt mocks Armand for being a "Romeo!"), and when Louis looks down at the street, Armand asks if he would like to take a walk with him before presenting a bouquet of purple flowers.
• Attempted during the Historical Re-Creation Regency House Party, but unfortunately the would-be Romeo is too drunk, being unused to the excessive alcohol consumption of the period he's acting in. A professional singer they've called as a guest character makes a better impression, being sober.

• Spoofed in Old Master Q: the titular character is serenading a lady, who obviously doesn't reciprocate his advances and drops a flower pot on his head. Master Q decides to press charges, leading to the lady being arrested for grevious bodily harm... and Master Q continues trying to woo her even as she's behind bars.

• One of the Rose-Tinted Narrative scenes in the "LDN" music video by Lily Allen shows a suitor addressing a woman on a balcony. After the area of rose tint passes, it reveals that the man is actually being subjected to a Defenestrate and Berate situation after having to jump out the window in his underwear.
• "Love Story" by Taylor Swift has the protagonist standing on her balcony and her lover throwing pebbles in a Star-Crossed Lovers scenario.

• The Trope Codifier is the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. Romeo woos Juliet from the ground, while she is at her window. Both families object, but Juliet is quite receptive to his advances. The term "Balcony Scene" is actually a case of Beam Me Up, Scotty!, as the word "balcony" did not exist during Shakespeare's time, but early modern theaters had onstage balconies (used for musicians, high-paying spectators, and scenes set at windows or on castle walls), which is where Juliet's actor would have stood during the scene.
• Another iconic and often-parodied example is in Cyrano de Bergerac, when Christian reads romantic lines from the garden to his love interest Roxanne who is up on the balcony, while Cyrano hides and feeds him lines. Eventually, Cyrano takes over and starts wooing Roxanne directly, while pretending to be Christian.
• In some productions of Les Misérables, Marius approaches Cosette by throwing a pebble at her window before she steps out onto the balcony to investigate.
• West Side Story, being an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, has a "Balcony Scene" for Tony and Maria. Due to the urban Setting Update, Maria's balcony is actually a window opening onto the fire escape. He climbs up, they begin a duet, and the world fades away.
• In the updated version of Marie-Antoinette (Musical), there is one between Axel von Fersen and Marie Antoinette near the beginning of the musical, as they reunite after Fersen returns to France after fighting in the American Revolution.
• The whole first act of The Barber of Seville takes place under Rosina's balcony, with Count Almaviva there to woo her. Due to Dr. Bartolo's jealous guarding it never becomes a full-blown love scene, but the Count does serenade Rosina twice and she manages to toss a letter down to him.

• The Demented Cartoon Movie has several scenes of a theater production of Romeo and Juliet doing the balcony scene. It never goes correctly, mainly because Juliet is Ax-Crazy and throws bombs at Romeo.

• The Oglaf strip called "balcony scene" (NSFW) features a man delivering lines of love to a woman on a balcony, in a Playing Cyrano scenario where another man hiding in the bushes feeds him lines. This being Oglaf, the two men end up together instead. A bonus addendum has the woman asking to join in.
• Tommy from the NSFW Furry Webcomic Better Days flees his home after the Shipping Torpedo Rachel vilifies Lucy to Tommy's parents. Tommy resorts to lobbing pebbles at Lucy's upstairs window in the Monday 23 October 2006 strip. The window is open, so one pebble bips off Lucy's shoulder. This leads to a face-to-face discussion that furthers their relationship.

• The Amazing World of Gumball: One flashback to when they were teenagers courting has Richard standing on a ladder to serenade Nicole outside her bedroom window.
• In The Fairly OddParents! episode "Love Struck", Timmy sings a broadway-esque serenade in front of Trixie's balcony, in hopes of becoming her Valentine. It didn't work.
• In the Sonic Boom episode, "Tails' Crush", after Sonic and Knuckles' advice on how to impress women fails to win him the heart of Zooey, Tails turns to Amy, who says he should be romantic and chivalrous. Tails dresses like the title character from The Phantom of the Opera, calls Zooey from her balcony and tries to recite some flowery poetry for her, but messes up his lines, and Zooey, who has become sick of Tails' odd behavior, shuts him out.