TV's Top Couples
July 24th 2008 23:14
Two's company, three's just wrong!
From the iconic Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez to Ossie and Harriett.
From "Friends" Rachel and Ross to Dharma and Gregg, they have filled our lives (and screens) with drama, laughs and memorable moments.
So who did it for you?
Marge and Homer?
Maddy and David from Moonlighting?
Mike and Carol Brady?
Or would you plump for a same sex coupling such as Starsky and Hutch, Batman and Robin or Cagney and Lacey?
Would love to hear who your favs are.
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Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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That intro - where Dick would trip over and the whole corny (well it sounds it now) intro theme - makes it a classic.
Nice choice
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Also George and 'Weezie from another "All in the Family" spinoff, "The Jeffersons".
Oh, and Florida and James from "Good Times";
all for the same reasons, too.
Both husbands and wives had a powerful voice. Unlike some later sitcoms, neither spouse was a wimp.
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Maude and the Jeffersons were OK - but the Bunkers and All In The Family was classic TV.
Florida and James and young kid Dy-no-mite - was pretty damned funny for its time and didn't both parents command respect when needed.
Always a pleasure.
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There are so many great ones though. I tend to lean to the more quirky ones I think.
Remington Steele and Laura Holt came close to rivaling Dave and Maddy on Moonlighting.
Andy Sipowicz and Sylvia Costas on NYPD Blue, even if it did lead to seeing Dennis Franz's naked butt. On the plus side we also had a brief shot of Sharon Lawrence's butt in that same scene.
Bill & Judy Miller from Still Standing while dysfunctional as spouses and parents were great together.
Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert Wayne on A Different World. Mentioning them brings me to Cliff and Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show.
Another dysfunctional couple that just came to me would also have to be near the top of the list, Sam Malone and Diane Chambers on Cheers.
OK, I will stop there to leave some couples for others lol.
Gene
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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C'mon!
I've seen many a marriage modelled after it. Some of them even last!
Stay sane fella
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You appear to be stalking my (or shadowing) my TV and musical life sometimes.
Why on earth I didn't include Sam Malone and Dianne Chambers I don't know.
Cheers has to go down as one of my top series of all time - the boxed set certainly gets a working over.
Nice one champion
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Can anybody object? They were the perfect TV couple; young, cutem funny.. They've got it all! But other than them, I would say Frank and Estelle Costanza from Seinfeld. Excellent!
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today, a lot of dads/husbands/men are being depicted as morons. A lot of women were depicted that way in the 50s but have now become the smart ones. I like the ones I mentioned because neither male nor female were depicted as idiots.
Aw, Ralph and Alice--how could I have missed that one?!
Comment by JohnDoe
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of those you listed David and Maddie on Moonlighting win out.
Some others contenders:
Mork and Mindy
John Steed and Emma Peel on The Avengers
Tobias and Lindsay Bluth on Arrested Development
Dr Cox and Jordan on Scrubs
Wilma and Fred Flintstone
Comment by Mr Nice Guy
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Can completely understand your choice . . . never a big fan - but understand the groundswell from both sides of the fence.
Cheers
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Joanie and Chachi wasn't one that immediately came to mind - but now you mention it - they graced our screens (if only as psuedo love interests for years on Happy Days) then fell out of favour really when they managed to score their own program huh?
Wonder what both are doing these days?
Cheers
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You don't know what you've missed
Or perhaps you do.
Stay well
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Nice choices fella.
Wilma and Fred - of course. Betty and Barney, Jane and George Jetson, Gomez and Morticia, Herman and Lilly, George and Mildred, Tim and Jill Allen . . . so many to choose from . . .
Cheers buddy
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Chachi has a succesful VH-1 reality series which has completed two seasons. Season one was "Scott Baio is 45. . . And Single." A season in which he proposed and also set a date to marry his girlfriend. Season two was titled, "Scott Baio is 46. . .And Pregnant" since in the first season finale he was told his fiance was pregnant.
It is a fun series with many great moments. I think they might be planning a third season. No clue what it will be about. Maybe, "Scott Baio takes whatever acting jobs he can to make money to support his family. . . Even the sequel Zapped 3: in 3-D"
Gene