Seven minutes in heaven

Infobox_Game
subject_name = Seven minutes in heaven
image_link =
image_caption =
players = 2, sometimes more
ages = Teenage
setup_time = Negligible
playing_time = Highly variable¹
complexity = Low
strategy = Low
random_chance = High
skills = Ability to be sexually active
footnotes = ¹ Play time depends on the number of players, their willingness to kiss other participants, and the time between couples going into the closet.

Seven minutes in heaven is a kissing game in which two (usually randomly selected) participants enter a closet or similarly dark private area for a specified period of time, traditionally seven minutes. Participants in this game are usually teenagers or preteens.

It is often implied that these participants may engage in kissing, hugging, and/or undressing, or even engage in sexual intercourse.

In Popular Culture

*In the "South Park" episode called "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", the girls played the game during the party.

*In an episode of "Family Guy", Meg Griffin is at a birthday party and is tricked into kissing a pig by being selected by the birthday girl to play "Seven Minutes in Heaven" with a jock.

*In the movie "13 Going on 30", the main character Jenna is put into a closet, blindfolded, and is told that her crush will be in there with her. The girl who put her in the closet, Lucy, puts Jenna's geeky best friend in with her instead.

*In an episode of "The Bernie Mac Show", Jordan has to go in the closet with his love interest, when they get in there, his love interest turns around because she is afraid, and he faints. They wind up kissing anyway.

*In an episode of "Boy Meets World", Cory and Shawn attend a make-out party where this game was being played. Cory and Topanga's names are drawn, but Cory's nervousness prevents anything from happening, much to his embarrassment.

*In an episode of "Unfabulous", Addie blurts out to her mother and father that during the party she is hosting, "Seven Minutes in Heaven" will be played, to which Addie's mother replies that it used to be called "Eleven Minutes in Heaven" when she was younger. Immediately after, Addie's father passes out.

*In the movie "Good Luck Chuck", the opening scene of the movie shows the main character Chuck playing "Seven Minutes in Heaven" as a child with a group of other kids. When Chuck refuses to make out with the goth girl that he's paired up with, she puts a curse on him that becomes the main plot of the movie.

*The game is featured in the "The Summer Bummer" episode of "The O.C.".

*In an episode of "King of the Hill", Bobby Hill and a girl play the game before Hank opens the door and makes them play "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" instead.

*A similar type of game was shown in the movie "Teen Wolf", when Michael J. Fox's character is thrown into a closet by his brother at a party with his love interest already inside. Although hesitant at first, he finally kisses her.

*The game is featured as part of the title of Fall Out Boy's song "Seven Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen)."

*There is also a band from Australia called '7 Minutes In Heaven'.

*In an episode of Freaks and Geeks, characters are playing spin the bottle and two of them have to go into the closet for 7 minutes in heaven.

*In an episode of "7th Heaven", Simon goes to a party and in a closet with Dina before one of the girls parents comes in and catches them in the closet.

ee also

* Kiss
* Making out
* Party game
* Spin the bottle

External links

* [http://www.virtualkiss.com/kissinggames/7minutesinheaven.asp Seven Minutes in Heaven explained at VirtualKiss.com ]