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TV's Top Couples

July 24th 2008 23:14
The Family Guy
Two's company, three's just wrong!
With so many TV pairings doing the rounds at the moment it's hard to decipher just who are (have been) our favourite on-screen couples.

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 James Rickard

July 25th 2008 01:18
Dave and Mady were pretty cool but, I have to dig WAY back and pick Rob and Laura Petrie!

Comment by Mr Nice Guy

July 25th 2008 01:29
How good was Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore!

That intro - where Dick would trip over and the whole corny (well it sounds it now) intro theme - makes it a classic.

Nice choice

Cheers

Comment by D. Armenta

July 25th 2008 03:08
Maude and Walter, from the "All in the Family" spinoff, "Maude".

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

July 25th 2008 07:25
D.

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.

Comment by Ahmed

July 25th 2008 16:17
The relationship between peter and lois' depth rivals that of a body of water on the tarmac road in the distant on a hot day (i.e. a mirage).

Comment by Two Guys Sports

July 25th 2008 20:41
I think I might have to put The Honeymooners, Ralph and Alice Kramden at or very near the top of the list.

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

July 25th 2008 22:12
Ahmed

C'mon!

I've seen many a marriage modelled after it. Some of them even last!

Stay sane fella

Comment by Mr Nice Guy

July 25th 2008 22:15
Gene

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

Comment by Urban Panther

July 25th 2008 22:37
Scully and Mulder...emphasis on Mulder.

Comment by Anonymous

July 26th 2008 02:06
Joani and Chachi!
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!

Comment by D. Armenta

July 26th 2008 02:40
True, MNG..I didn't watch much of any of those shows (except "All in the Family") but comparing the couples depicted then to the ones today, I notice a big difference:

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

July 26th 2008 14:16
Hi MNG,

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

July 26th 2008 20:46
Urban Panther

Can completely understand your choice . . . never a big fan - but understand the groundswell from both sides of the fence.

Cheers


Comment by Mr Nice Guy

July 26th 2008 20:48
Anon

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


Comment by Mr Nice Guy

July 26th 2008 20:50
D.

You don't know what you've missed

Or perhaps you do.

Stay well

Comment by Mr Nice Guy

July 26th 2008 20:55
JD

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

Comment by Two Guys Sports

July 26th 2008 22:51
Joanie was most recently seen on Celebrity Fit Club where she admitted after a couple of weeks that she was just there for the paycheck.

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

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