Happy Valentine's Day! I hate February 14th.
But it's a fine day for all you sickening happy lovey-dovey couples to hold hands and skip around your garden and have dirty dirty sex. Below are 5 great TV couples who are probably celebrating the day this way. Well, at least four of them.
1. Rob and Laura Petrie (The Dick Van Dyke Show): Has there ever been a married couple on television that had the chemistry that Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore had? Hell, they both even have three names! You could tell they loved each other and cared for each other, and you could imagine they were intimate, even if they did have those damn separate beds.
2. Lucy and Ricky Ricardo (I Love Lucy): A real life couple playing a couple on a hit TV show. Even though there were a lot of tough times going on behind the scenes and they eventually got divorced, they really clicked, and you knew they always loved each other.
3. Ross and Rachel (Friends): Yes, yes, yes, I can hear hundreds of you sighing right now because I picked these two. Some of you are probably throwing shoes or old food at the computer screen right now and will let me have it in the comments, but come on, these two defined the 90s for most of us. We all remember where we were when they broke up, then got back together, then went "on a break," then got back together, then when Ross said Rachel's name at his wedding instead of Emily's.
4. Darrin and Samantha Stephens (Bewitched): She was a witch, he was an advertising exec, and nothing could stand between them, not even a nasty mother-in-law and other witches/warlocks who tried to break them up.
5. Felix and Oscar (The Odd Couple): Can two divorced men share an apartment, without driving each other crazy. Well...no. But they can be best friends and give us five years of really funny comedy. I could picture these two as a couple: Felix the one who cooks and cleans and is really neat, Oscar the one who's a slob and drinks beer and wears messy clothes.
Honorable Mention: Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (The X-Files), Ward and June Cleaver (Leave It To Beaver), George Burns and Gracie Allen (Burns and Allen), Jim and Pam (The Office), and Cory and Topanga (Boy Meet World).
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2-14-2007 @ 1:06PM
slutty_whore said...
My favrotie TV couple had to be Heathcliff and Clair Huxtable from "The Cosby Show.". They had perhaps MORE chemistry than Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke, and even took their chemistry to another show, Cosby in the late 90's.
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2-14-2007 @ 12:58PM
Liz Newcomb said...
This show might not be very well-known, but one of my favorite - and most realistic - TV couples is Lionel and Jean from "As Time Goes By," a Brit-com from the 90s.
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2-14-2007 @ 12:58PM
lorilei13 said...
I'm with you; I don't care what anybody says, I adored Ross and Rachel. And my newest favorite couple is Eric and Tami Taylor.
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2-14-2007 @ 1:21PM
Bill said...
The Taylors is a good one... I'll go for 5 all animated:
Homer and Marge Simpson, Hank and Peggy Hill, the Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend, Barney and Betty Rubble (Fred and Wilma argued too much for my tastes, plus Betty was a fox), and, just to seem cool by including one that most people won't remember, Abe Lincoln and Joan of Arc.
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2-14-2007 @ 1:24PM
Hank Shiffman said...
An obscure choice I know, but for pure heat, my vote would go for John Crichton and Aeryn Sun on Farscape. Took them four seasons and a miniseries to make it official, but from the pilot there was no question they'd be together.
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2-14-2007 @ 1:30PM
Michael said...
Not Jim and Pam (though I love them), it should be Tim and Dawn!
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2-14-2007 @ 2:43PM
Tt said...
Sam & Dean... :)
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2-15-2007 @ 8:09AM
clawdaddy said...
As far as I am concerned he biggest miss in your list was Archie and Edith Bunker from "All in the Family". They were not the most demonstratively affectionate couple (although Edith would occasionally launch herself at Archie and pepper him with kisses on his cheek while he rolled his eyes.) These were not glamorous or wealthy people - but truly Mr. and Mrs. America (at least the America you rarely saw on TV)who struggled with real problems and their own limitations.
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2-14-2007 @ 1:54PM
Mariah said...
I'm totally on Ross/Rachel bandwagon! On the "guy love" circuit add JD/Turk and Jon/Stephen.
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2-14-2007 @ 1:59PM
Andy said...
Come on! Is there NO love in this world for Kevin Arnold and Winnie Cooper?
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2-14-2007 @ 2:03PM
Porchland said...
JD/Turk (Scrubs)
Jack/Karen (Will & Grace)
Waldorf/Statler (Muppet Show)
Big/Carrie (Sex in the City)
Homer/Marge (Simpsons)
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2-14-2007 @ 2:12PM
Wild Bill said...
My vote goes to Ted and Georgette Baxter from Mary Tyler Moore. They were a perfect yin-yang couple.
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2-17-2007 @ 2:59PM
Vicky said...
My vote goes to Hotlips Houlihan and Frank Burns. A love/hate relationship that we all loved to love/hate. M.A.S.H. forever!!
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2-14-2007 @ 2:22PM
Akbar Fazil said...
I personally would have chosen Monica and Chandler over ross and Rachel, but thats just me.
I second the nod for both John and Aeyrn Sun and Kevin and Winnie.
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2-14-2007 @ 3:25PM
McNick said...
How could anyone forget Doug Ross (George Clooney) and Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) on ER? Theirs was one of the most romantic, surprising and happy ever after moments ever.
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2-15-2007 @ 1:08PM
faud03 said...
What about Maddie and David (Moonlighting)
Archie and Edith (All in the Family)
Batman and Catwoman (Adam West and Julie Newmar, etc)
and in the cartoon genre
Speed Racer and Trixie
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2-14-2007 @ 4:01PM
Steven Rubio said...
House and Wilson.
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2-14-2007 @ 3:22PM
Eric Philbin said...
Kevin & Winnie really do need to be listed. As does Sam & Diane.
And a sentimential vote for Ed Stevens & Carol Vessey.
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2-14-2007 @ 3:28PM
Captainmicahp said...
Why did you leave off Smithers, and Mr. Burns. Thats true love, even if one of them doesn't know it.
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2-14-2007 @ 4:41PM
tiffany said...
Eric and Tami Taylor, Sandy and Kirsten Cohen.
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