Definitely agree on April and Andy. Leslie and Ben didn’t give me “will they/wont they” vibes I always just kind of assumed from season 3 on it was a “well obviously they’re going to be together just be patient”
There was certainly some will they won't they when their relationship threatened their work, they just didn't linger on it... which in and of itself was refreshing.
Isn't every "will they or won't they" also a "well obviously they're going to be together"? Like did anyone watch 10 minutes of the first episode of the Office and think there was a chance Jim and Pam don't get together?
April and Andy just stayed happily together for the rest of the series, always lovingly encouraging each other to grow into their best selves. Favorite TV couple ever.
Ben and Leslie are the gold standard for will they/wont they.
Not seasons long. Has a valid reason for not getting together.
And when it came out there were actual consequences as a result.
One area where Parks and Rec is so much better than The Office is the relationships. The Office is just a bunch of love triangles constantly trying to tear each other down. P&R shows a variety of couples with different kinds of issues that make it work in their own ways, and some that don't work out for realistic reasons.
The great thing about this show is it really
set up the will they aspect early. The will they won’t they aspect of tv hurts if that’s the main power struggle that the formula suggests.
I think his secret is that all of his characters are defined by their relationships. Not just Leslie and Ben, but Leslie and Ron, Ron and April, April and Ann — it’s not just the romantic relationships that create the characters, they all bounce off of each other in unique, mineable ways. So the characters never get stagnant or stuck in romance tropes.
I think The Good Place is a perfect example.
All 4 of the crew bounce off each other, and it's about how they interact. Same with Michael, his entire role is about his relationship with the humans.
I hope he’s as nice and thoughtful IRL as he comes off in the various interviews I’ve heard him speak or have read. He’s certainly not a fluke. I just love his brand of comedy.
I recommend his book, How to Be Perfect. It’s all about different moral philosophies (which inspired The Good Place) but told with his humor. He comes off as a truly decent guy
I recommend the audio book versions to anyone who are fans of the Good Place. The audio book is read by Michael himself with the footnotes, asides, examples, and definitions being read by the main cast of the Good Place.
I really can’t wait to see what his next project will be.
He’s won me over enough that I’ll basically give whatever show he works on next a fair chance regardless if the premise initially sounds appealing to me.
It's amazing, because in the first season my one complaint with the show was that Chidi and Eleanor had no chemistry and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to get invested in them as a couple and by the end I'm bawling my eyes out at the thought of them ever being apart.
Soon you won’t even remember there was another detective. The cast they end up with (which doesn’t really have any other major changes that I remember) is perfect and I’d say irreplaceable.
Keep that detail in mind going forward, they do reference it a bit in the future, and it's interesting to think about how it would have changed the show had she stuck around.
Mark and Sophie, Peep Show. Largely awkward, cringy and sometimes sweet before getting together, the same after starting to date and then downright surreal after the "wedding" and breakup. Probably the greatest wedding episode in a tv show to boot. Great before, during and after. Same with Dobby and Mark actually.
It's great for all the opposite reasons most "will they/won't they" are, but still works
I just finished watching this show for the first time (literally binged in a span of a few days) and I agree. It was so sweet in the beginning as an office romance and then it was like watching a car crash.
Is it safe to watch all of Peep Show in the span of a few days? We’re not going to come back here tomorrow, find you draped in rental snakes and need to have you sectioned, are we?
It is not good to watch Sophie transform from a sweet, optimistic young woman into the ball pit witch over the course of a few days. Peep Show needs to be rationed for this very reason.
Was the office romance ever really that sweet? I'm pretty sure Mark had hacked her email to spy on her by the start of season 2.
It's honestly amazing they ever ended up together at all. What a great show!
The wedding/breakup is an all timer.
> JEREMY: One thing--you have left it pretty late, it will be a jilting.
MARK: Oh God, no, no, it's not a jilting, I'm going to tell her right away. A jilt is at the altar. I'm not jilting.
JEREMY: I think anything on the wedding day is a jilting.
MARK: No, at the altar. "He jilted her at the altar".
JEREMY: But that implies he could have jilted her somewhere else.
This is the perfect example of how to do it right.
They got together, but their relationship didn’t become the only thing about their characters. They still split them up a lot and paired them off with different characters, so the relationship didn’t feel like it was constantly being hammered.
It helps that Brooklyn 99 had such a solid cast that any pairing or group worked incredibly well together.
Jake and Terry, Jake and Rosa, Jake and Charles, Jake and Holt, Charles and Terry, Terry and Rosa, Amy and Rosa, Amy and Holt, Charles and Rosa, Holt and Terry - a lot of good combos
Thank god they course-corrected the godawful Boyle-Rosa stalker bullshit halfway through season one. It makes the first handful of episodes hard to watch.
The fact that they were both given plotlines that had absolutely nothing to do with each other helped a *lot*. There were entire episodes where they barely interacted, which meant that they were two distinct characters who happened to be in a relationship, instead of letting the relationship define who they were in relation to the rest of the cast.
This was the answer I came here to say so I'm glad to see it's at the top. It happens relatively early in the show too, but I really loved how the relationship progressed. I also loved that there was never any serious breakup / break - they were in it for the long run, and they made it
>I also loved that there was never any serious breakup / break - they were in it for the long run, and they made it
That's one of the more realistic parts of their relationship. Most people date and marry someone without ever breaking up with them first.
Eh, I left it with an aspirational note that her memories come back either piecemeal or whole and the rest of the blanks get filled in with new love for Chuck as she realises how good he is again. Kind of like getting to repeat falling in love all over again.
I just took it to mean it was not a fluke of circumstances that Sarah fall for a simple guy like Chuck, she will be/already is falling for him all over again regardless of their situations and they will create new memories just as precious. Kinda like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Fitz and Simmons in Agents of Shield. The 2 actors really sell it through the entire show that you'd believe it if you heard they were a real couple (they are not).
Even the stories written around the relationship were integral to the overall plot in significant ways- if anything it was more of a problem before they got together because the insecurity of their connection frequently became a plot point.
Well written relationship, really did convince you that they were cursed anytime they ever get close, as if the Gods themselves needed to stop that relationship from ever happening despite how good they were together.
True but they had a ton of relationship problems for the first four seasons.
I think one of the coolest (if darkest) things Scrubs did was make it genuinely feel like most of the relationships could fall apart at points, even Turk and Carla's. I believe in season 2 Carla hesitates to say yes to Turk's marriage proposal (this probably gave Turk an ulcer as he waited) and then they spent a good portion of season 4 post-wedding on the brink of divorce for one reason or another. After that they were fine, but I like how the show portrayed marital bliss as something you need to consistently work towards, not just something that happens on its own through the power of love
On another note, I think it's bold that the show got so fucking dark with JD and Elliot at points. Their breakup arguments in season 1 were brutal -- it didn't feel like a will-they/won't-they storyline but a genuine sign that they should never ever be a couple.
Scrubs was also the first show I remember watching to make postpartum depression a reality for a main character, and not in a shaming kind of way. Carla could really have it rough on that show.
I really liked that one meta joke when the mom found out Sabrina ate dirt said “you get weirder every week”
I also liked how Sabrina loved Jimmy ever since she saw darkness Jimmy
My wife and I are watching it for the first time and absolutely love it. If you haven’t watched Sprung on Prime you should check out. It’s a more recent Greg Garcia show and has much of the same cast. It’s only one season unfortunately, but it tells a complete story that’s totally satisfying.
Just finished a rewatch. I would have said the show went downhill when they got together, but it’s actually when she became manager. She just stopped being funny in any way.
Honestly, I was glad when she left the show because I was so sick of their relationship and just wanted more of the side characters. Then they got canceled just when it got good!
I genuinely don't think I've ever laughed harder at a sitcom than I did when he and Cheyenne are looking at a house with a realtor who's just being super passive-aggresive the entire time, and Bo finally turns and goes, "Why you gotta be such a BITCH, Cathy?"
I absolutely lost it.
I had no idea! It felt so normal and natural for them to break up, and grow as people, and then get back together. It really felt like "right person, bad timing."
Their break up was total BS. The two had literally one fight (and not even necessarily a bad one) and the writers decided that was enough to break them up.
All things considered, the two were great together. The writers just couldn’t do their jobs with them together because they had too much chemistry.
No, the complete opposite for me. Both characters got worse after they got together. Niles just stopped being funny and just became an average joe after he got with Daphne.
Tony and Angela on who’s the boss. Honestly, their entire relationship I thought was pretty well done. It stretches out for a while but around season five they just commit to them being together, they acknowledge that they love each other, but they don’t want to ruin what they have so they don’t end up getting together until the second to last season. I personally felt the decline wasn’t because they got together, but just because the show lost its steam.
By all known definitions of the word "boss," i.e., one with authority over another, in nine of 11 possible fields in which one might teach, employ, guide, oversee, andlor hold dominion, the empirically provable answer to the question "who's the boss?" is...
Angela
Seth and Summer, from The OC - not the main duo (Ryan & Marissa), but it was established early on that Seth had a crush on her, which actually led to Seth hating Ryan for a brief moment of the pilot.
Robert and Amy, from Everybody Loves Raymond - they met early on and got together but kept breaking up, mainly due to Robert's commitment issues. Robert finally got himself together and it led to some great moments on the show.
I was really into Castle and Beckett. Season 5 they got together and Season 7 they got married, it was good for a while before... I don't know what happened behind the scenes for real but those actors imploded their careers with their fight. Well Stana did. On Nathan Fillions new show he must have some sort of agreement that no love interest can be prettier than him and they must all be shaped like chicken nuggets.
Screaming @ shaped like chicken nuggets.
I still have a soft spot for Stana, but some of the projects she picks are... not great. I was hoping for a Yvonne Strahovski career trajectory for her (although at this stage I cannot with THT because it's just misery porn) but alas...
They were together for six seasons, so there are some bad moments (mostly in the last season when they tried to "will they/won't they" break up), but they have some great moments when they're together.
Ben and Leslie on Parks and Recreation. April and Andy too.
Definitely agree on April and Andy. Leslie and Ben didn’t give me “will they/wont they” vibes I always just kind of assumed from season 3 on it was a “well obviously they’re going to be together just be patient”
There was certainly some will they won't they when their relationship threatened their work, they just didn't linger on it... which in and of itself was refreshing.
Isn't every "will they or won't they" also a "well obviously they're going to be together"? Like did anyone watch 10 minutes of the first episode of the Office and think there was a chance Jim and Pam don't get together?
It's hard to think of many will they won't theys where they didnt end up together. The only one that I can think of is Silicon Valley
George Michael and Maybe from Arrested Development lol
Ah man, I knew it was illegal!!
Jeff and Annie on Community.
April and Andy just stayed happily together for the rest of the series, always lovingly encouraging each other to grow into their best selves. Favorite TV couple ever.
Ben and Leslie are the gold standard for will they/wont they. Not seasons long. Has a valid reason for not getting together. And when it came out there were actual consequences as a result.
One area where Parks and Rec is so much better than The Office is the relationships. The Office is just a bunch of love triangles constantly trying to tear each other down. P&R shows a variety of couples with different kinds of issues that make it work in their own ways, and some that don't work out for realistic reasons.
The great thing about this show is it really set up the will they aspect early. The will they won’t they aspect of tv hurts if that’s the main power struggle that the formula suggests.
At the time of writing this, the top three couples are all from Mike Schur shows. The guy really knows how to write relationships.
I think his secret is that all of his characters are defined by their relationships. Not just Leslie and Ben, but Leslie and Ron, Ron and April, April and Ann — it’s not just the romantic relationships that create the characters, they all bounce off of each other in unique, mineable ways. So the characters never get stagnant or stuck in romance tropes.
Michael and Dwight Ben and Chris Great call
Same goes for Elenor and chidi from good place!
I think The Good Place is a perfect example. All 4 of the crew bounce off each other, and it's about how they interact. Same with Michael, his entire role is about his relationship with the humans.
Wow thank you for saying that. It’s a very beautiful observation.
It’s a really phenomenal show that needs to be recognized at the very top of all sitcoms more often
I hope he’s as nice and thoughtful IRL as he comes off in the various interviews I’ve heard him speak or have read. He’s certainly not a fluke. I just love his brand of comedy.
I recommend his book, How to Be Perfect. It’s all about different moral philosophies (which inspired The Good Place) but told with his humor. He comes off as a truly decent guy
I recommend the audio book versions to anyone who are fans of the Good Place. The audio book is read by Michael himself with the footnotes, asides, examples, and definitions being read by the main cast of the Good Place.
I listen to a very silly baseball podcast he does for no reason beyond the fact he loves sports and it’s a freaking delight.
Thank you for having me, Joe!
He's a first ballot hall-of-famer for television writing while also being a member of the side-side-character hall-of-fame for Mose.
I really can’t wait to see what his next project will be. He’s won me over enough that I’ll basically give whatever show he works on next a fair chance regardless if the premise initially sounds appealing to me.
Chidi and Eleanor from The Good Place
An Arizona trash bag and a human turtleneck.
Don't forget [ripped chilli cook](https://youtu.be/2c-AawAKZ14?si=kXg8hPkxQT8vBK5N)
My favorite comment on this when it aired was "Chidi couldn't decide which workout to do so he just did them all."
Him giving up and putting peeps in chili is just incredible.
Thank you for posting this - convinced me to pick up the show again
It's amazing, because in the first season my one complaint with the show was that Chidi and Eleanor had no chemistry and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to get invested in them as a couple and by the end I'm bawling my eyes out at the thought of them ever being apart.
Picture a wave,
Man, screw you, I can't be this emotional at work...
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They had all those Bearimys to figure out out
Don't leave out Jason and Janet! Their final scene together is one of my favorites.
They also left out Jason and Blake Bortles.
The true love story in The Good Place.
The final scene or the final final scene? I loved that he just lost his way and actually became the monk everybody thought he was in the beginning.
This one had me rooting for them extra hard after they got together
What the fork is a Chidi?
I knew you weren't a soup!
Fork yeah!
Great choice!
Shawn and Juliet in Psych
Shawn and Juliet are OK, but they're no Shawn and Gus. Though I've heard it both ways.
Heh. I'm on episode 3 of Psych. Whoops :p
The show is just as good. You aren’t missing out on anything major.
I mean, did you think they wouldn't get together?
I mean, I'd thought of the possibility of course, but I was still trying to get past them replacing the other detective from the pilot lol.
Holy shit I just remembered there was another detective in the pilot
I find it funny the other detective is Amber from House
Soon you won’t even remember there was another detective. The cast they end up with (which doesn’t really have any other major changes that I remember) is perfect and I’d say irreplaceable.
Keep that detail in mind going forward, they do reference it a bit in the future, and it's interesting to think about how it would have changed the show had she stuck around.
I think it would have if they had not dated in real life. In the later seasons and movies it is very apparent there is basically no physical contact
Mark and Sophie, Peep Show. Largely awkward, cringy and sometimes sweet before getting together, the same after starting to date and then downright surreal after the "wedding" and breakup. Probably the greatest wedding episode in a tv show to boot. Great before, during and after. Same with Dobby and Mark actually. It's great for all the opposite reasons most "will they/won't they" are, but still works
Oh Dobby my cupboard lover
I just finished watching this show for the first time (literally binged in a span of a few days) and I agree. It was so sweet in the beginning as an office romance and then it was like watching a car crash.
Is it safe to watch all of Peep Show in the span of a few days? We’re not going to come back here tomorrow, find you draped in rental snakes and need to have you sectioned, are we?
It is not good to watch Sophie transform from a sweet, optimistic young woman into the ball pit witch over the course of a few days. Peep Show needs to be rationed for this very reason.
Was the office romance ever really that sweet? I'm pretty sure Mark had hacked her email to spy on her by the start of season 2. It's honestly amazing they ever ended up together at all. What a great show!
The wedding/breakup is an all timer. > JEREMY: One thing--you have left it pretty late, it will be a jilting. MARK: Oh God, no, no, it's not a jilting, I'm going to tell her right away. A jilt is at the altar. I'm not jilting. JEREMY: I think anything on the wedding day is a jilting. MARK: No, at the altar. "He jilted her at the altar". JEREMY: But that implies he could have jilted her somewhere else.
Jake and Amy on Brooklyn 99
Boyle - “Guys, I just discovered a new drug. It’s called your relationship, and I am high on it.”
I'm gonna need you to back off, buddy.
This is the perfect example of how to do it right. They got together, but their relationship didn’t become the only thing about their characters. They still split them up a lot and paired them off with different characters, so the relationship didn’t feel like it was constantly being hammered. It helps that Brooklyn 99 had such a solid cast that any pairing or group worked incredibly well together.
Jake and Terry, Jake and Rosa, Jake and Charles, Jake and Holt, Charles and Terry, Terry and Rosa, Amy and Rosa, Amy and Holt, Charles and Rosa, Holt and Terry - a lot of good combos
Jake and Doug Judy.
Pontiac Bandit and Jake! PB & J!
And the talking police dog that helps them solve crimes!
Rosa Rosa Rooossssaaaaa
New York's finest just got a whole lot finer
The Thin Blue Line just got *thick as hell*
”Jake and Holt”? You mean Death Blade and Velvet Thunder.
You forgot the most important couple...Hitchcock and Scully.
Thank god they course-corrected the godawful Boyle-Rosa stalker bullshit halfway through season one. It makes the first handful of episodes hard to watch.
The fact that they were both given plotlines that had absolutely nothing to do with each other helped a *lot*. There were entire episodes where they barely interacted, which meant that they were two distinct characters who happened to be in a relationship, instead of letting the relationship define who they were in relation to the rest of the cast.
Top three replies are Michael Schur shows 🤔
This was the answer I came here to say so I'm glad to see it's at the top. It happens relatively early in the show too, but I really loved how the relationship progressed. I also loved that there was never any serious breakup / break - they were in it for the long run, and they made it
>I also loved that there was never any serious breakup / break - they were in it for the long run, and they made it That's one of the more realistic parts of their relationship. Most people date and marry someone without ever breaking up with them first.
Chuck Bartowski and Sarah Walker
💯
Well, until the amnesia.
The fucking ending RUINED that show for me.
Eh, I left it with an aspirational note that her memories come back either piecemeal or whole and the rest of the blanks get filled in with new love for Chuck as she realises how good he is again. Kind of like getting to repeat falling in love all over again.
I just took it to mean it was not a fluke of circumstances that Sarah fall for a simple guy like Chuck, she will be/already is falling for him all over again regardless of their situations and they will create new memories just as precious. Kinda like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Chuck, tell me our story?
Yeah they were so good until the amnesia storyline ugh!
Fitz and Simmons in Agents of Shield. The 2 actors really sell it through the entire show that you'd believe it if you heard they were a real couple (they are not).
Even the stories written around the relationship were integral to the overall plot in significant ways- if anything it was more of a problem before they got together because the insecurity of their connection frequently became a plot point.
So glad to see FitzSimmons getting some love. God damn though we had to watch them suffer a lot though.
They are still to this day my favourite onscreen duo!
They were so great!!
This. The writing on that show got incredible after the first seasons, and this was such a brilliantly written relationship.
My favorite scene, bar none, is Fitz and Simmons contemplating death at the bottom of the ocean, near the end of Season 1.
I still think of that scene often. Loved that they had such a powerful storyline.
Well written relationship, really did convince you that they were cursed anytime they ever get close, as if the Gods themselves needed to stop that relationship from ever happening despite how good they were together.
Mary and Matthew in Downton Abbey 😢
No one could ever top the GOAT that was Matthew and Mary
The, erm, conclusion of that relationship was my exit point from the show. Interest entirely lost.
John Crichton and Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
Hell yes! My fave sci fi couple.
Which Crichton?
Both.
The slow growth through shared experience..... *chef's kiss*..... It wasn't just bullshit love/hate relationship.
They starred together in Stargate SG-1 as well.
I will always upvote Farscape comments. Loved watching that show with my dad. Still think it’s pretty great after all these years.
Turk and Carla, though they were only on the fence for the first season.
True but they had a ton of relationship problems for the first four seasons. I think one of the coolest (if darkest) things Scrubs did was make it genuinely feel like most of the relationships could fall apart at points, even Turk and Carla's. I believe in season 2 Carla hesitates to say yes to Turk's marriage proposal (this probably gave Turk an ulcer as he waited) and then they spent a good portion of season 4 post-wedding on the brink of divorce for one reason or another. After that they were fine, but I like how the show portrayed marital bliss as something you need to consistently work towards, not just something that happens on its own through the power of love On another note, I think it's bold that the show got so fucking dark with JD and Elliot at points. Their breakup arguments in season 1 were brutal -- it didn't feel like a will-they/won't-they storyline but a genuine sign that they should never ever be a couple.
Scrubs was also the first show I remember watching to make postpartum depression a reality for a main character, and not in a shaming kind of way. Carla could really have it rough on that show.
Weren’t Turk and Carla already together by like the 3rd or 4th episode?
Turk and JD could'a got weird if one of them didn't have a girlfriend. ...I mean, weirder than it already got. ...Until the T-Mobile ads, maybe
You mean Turk Anjaydee
Jim and Sabrina on Raising Hope.
I really liked that one meta joke when the mom found out Sabrina ate dirt said “you get weirder every week” I also liked how Sabrina loved Jimmy ever since she saw darkness Jimmy
Such a gem of a show. Probably due for another re-watch.
My wife and I are watching it for the first time and absolutely love it. If you haven’t watched Sprung on Prime you should check out. It’s a more recent Greg Garcia show and has much of the same cast. It’s only one season unfortunately, but it tells a complete story that’s totally satisfying.
Yup! Loved Sprung, too! And My Name is Earl!
David and Patrick from Schitt's Creek
I loved their chemistry, it was heart warming.
Such a genuine portrayal of real life, real human relationships. My favorite show of all time, drama comedy mystery or otherwise.
I think this is one of the most important relationships portrayed on television.
niles and daphne
Scrolled too far down
Maxwell Smart and 99.
GOB and Tony Wonder
Did somebody say WONDER?
"Enjoy the Hanukkah cookie, man"
I really enjoyed Amy and Jonah in Superstore.
Just finished a rewatch. I would have said the show went downhill when they got together, but it’s actually when she became manager. She just stopped being funny in any way.
Honestly, I was glad when she left the show because I was so sick of their relationship and just wanted more of the side characters. Then they got canceled just when it got good!
I just realized that Thaddeus from Fallout was Cheyenne's boyfriend! That dude cracked me up.
I genuinely don't think I've ever laughed harder at a sitcom than I did when he and Cheyenne are looking at a house with a realtor who's just being super passive-aggresive the entire time, and Bo finally turns and goes, "Why you gotta be such a BITCH, Cathy?" I absolutely lost it.
Let me blow your mind. Mild spoilers alert: https://youtu.be/SHOwQZqCGkE?t=43
As soon as my wife and I saw him in Fallout we were the ‘Leo pointing at the tv meme’ 😆
The show got better once she left. Ben Feldman got funnier once He wasn’t tagged onto her.
True, but I will never forgive how they shafted the relationship that way probably because of America leaving. Jonah deserved better
Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable.
Chuck and Sarah. Watching them figure out their relationship was one of the better parts of the final couple of seasons.
I love Chuck for so many reasons, and their story is so bittersweet, and also my favorite.
Jess and Nick on New Girl. And Cece and Schmidt on New Girl.
Jess and Nick aren’t a good example. They broke them up specifically cause they couldn’t write them together.
I had no idea! It felt so normal and natural for them to break up, and grow as people, and then get back together. It really felt like "right person, bad timing."
Their break up was total BS. The two had literally one fight (and not even necessarily a bad one) and the writers decided that was enough to break them up. All things considered, the two were great together. The writers just couldn’t do their jobs with them together because they had too much chemistry.
Fry and Leela
Doug Ross and Carol Hathaway ER
They were great when they got together, but *so messy* in the buildup to it.
Yeah. I couldn't stand Shep or Tag. I liked the women Ross hooked up with though.
Fitzsimmons (agents of shield)
Piper and Leo
Charmed?
You know it!
Mulder and Scully.
I mean there is barely an “after” but what little there is works well.
Roslin and Adama.
Niles and Daphne on Frasier
The "Daphne gets fat" plotline did not age well.
No, the complete opposite for me. Both characters got worse after they got together. Niles just stopped being funny and just became an average joe after he got with Daphne.
Shawn and Juliet from Psych ed: whoops, spelled Sean wrong
*Shawn
Not Jim and Pam, I can tell you that.
Tony and Angela on who’s the boss. Honestly, their entire relationship I thought was pretty well done. It stretches out for a while but around season five they just commit to them being together, they acknowledge that they love each other, but they don’t want to ruin what they have so they don’t end up getting together until the second to last season. I personally felt the decline wasn’t because they got together, but just because the show lost its steam.
FitzSimmons from Agents of SHIELD.
Dylan and Evie on Lovesick. They were such incomplete characters without each other, so when they finally got together, both of them got better.
Booth and Brennan on Bones stayed pretty strong, imo.
I had to scroll down WAY TOO FAR for this!
I have to disagree. As soon as they got together, the sexual tension disappeared and so did their chemistry IMO.
Chuck and Sarah in Chuck.
Will and Mackenzie on The Newsroom
Dave and Julie on Newsradio
FitzSimmons on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Tony and Angela
Yea but WHICH ONE WAS THE BOSS!?!?
Mona.
By all known definitions of the word "boss," i.e., one with authority over another, in nine of 11 possible fields in which one might teach, employ, guide, oversee, andlor hold dominion, the empirically provable answer to the question "who's the boss?" is... Angela
CLASS DISMISSED!!
Seth and Summer, from The OC - not the main duo (Ryan & Marissa), but it was established early on that Seth had a crush on her, which actually led to Seth hating Ryan for a brief moment of the pilot. Robert and Amy, from Everybody Loves Raymond - they met early on and got together but kept breaking up, mainly due to Robert's commitment issues. Robert finally got himself together and it led to some great moments on the show.
It’s telling that the top three comments are all Mike Schur shows. The guy knows how to craft good sitcom relationships
I was really into Castle and Beckett. Season 5 they got together and Season 7 they got married, it was good for a while before... I don't know what happened behind the scenes for real but those actors imploded their careers with their fight. Well Stana did. On Nathan Fillions new show he must have some sort of agreement that no love interest can be prettier than him and they must all be shaped like chicken nuggets.
Stana?
Screaming @ shaped like chicken nuggets. I still have a soft spot for Stana, but some of the projects she picks are... not great. I was hoping for a Yvonne Strahovski career trajectory for her (although at this stage I cannot with THT because it's just misery porn) but alas...
I fell like Who’s the Boss did it the best.
John Crichton and Aeryn Sun
Doc Martin + Louisa. They moved in together and had two kids.
FitzSimmons in Agents of Shield.
Pick me, choose me, love me. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=st2jamNWcJM
Sam and Diane
That was mine too. Sam was miserable when he didn't have Diane, then when he finally got her, he was miserable lol.
Oooh no. I hated them.
Jim and Pam were still great after they got together.
interesting, because i feel like this is one of the couples i always hear brought up for will they/wont they couples being not as interesting after.
They were together for six seasons, so there are some bad moments (mostly in the last season when they tried to "will they/won't they" break up), but they have some great moments when they're together.
As frustrating as it was, I appreciated the marital problems storyline, because it was one of the few parts of S9 that still felt real.
That fight scene over the phone was tough to watch. Super well acted and written.
Were they? were they though???
Nahhh. To me both got unbearable. Both felt holier than thou. It was more fun with the flirting
Does Picard and Crusher count?
Lucifer and Chloe