Valentine’s Day is a time for couples, and a good romantic duo is something that TV loves above pretty much anything else. From the build-up flirtation to that dramatic first kiss, TV shows have delighted in making its characters fall in love with each other.
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we’ve looked through the best couples to grace our TV screens and see exactly why we rooted for them to get together.
Ross and Rachel - Friends
In what became the biggest comedy show of the nineties, these two were without doubt the couple that got everyone talking around the water cooler every week.
Their romance lasted for years, both on the show and in the past of the characters as Ross had pined for the girl he never thought he’d get for years. Their romance was easily one of the biggest aspects of the show, as throughout the ten years they were sometimes on, sometimes off and even had a child together before finally hooking up for good in the final episode of the series.
Their extended ‘will-they-won’t-they’ might have gotten dull and repetitive if it wasn’t for them both being such utterly likeable characters, as well as fantastically matched couple.
Maggie and Glenn – The Walking Dead
In a world where love seems to have been cast aside and death rules, Maggie and Glen getting together in The Walking Dead was a lovely little surprise and have since become one our favourite couples on TV right now.
They say that the best couples can endure the hardest of trials and surely there are few harder than fighting the undead and fighting for survival, throughout all of which they’ve just grown closer and closer together.
Seeing Glenn panicking about the ‘L’ word while the rest of world has gone to hell has been a welcome relief and that we never know when this little ray of light might be extinguished makes it all the more lovely to see.
David and Maddie – Moonlighting
Before Bruce Willis decided to start taking on the Gruber family and began a movie career, he was one half of one of the best duos on TV in Moonlighting.
Once again, it was a case of opposites attracting, as sparks flew from the very first time that former model turned private detective Maddie meets David, the fast talking detective who runs the PI she owns. Audiences kept coming back time and time again as the show toyed with the audience, ratcheting up the tension to breaking point.
While the chemistry these two had was so good that even Walter White would have respected it, when the two actually got together, it killed the show.
Roseanne and Dan - Roseanne
Most TV sitcom marriages are bliss. There are never any cracks and they always just communicate in loving looks and tautologies. Roseanne and Dan weren’t like that though; they were a thoroughly realistic married pair and were all the more riveting and entertaining for it.
They weren’t gorgeous young things, they had fights, they dealt with the boring side of life. Yet throughout, they never truly let the issues tear them apart.
While the show torpedoed itself during its final season, Dan and Roseanne were a truly revolutionary couple on screen and a wonderful example of love conquering life’s hurdles.
Chuck and Blair – Gossip Girl
Rarely do two characters deserve each other quite as much as Chuck and Blair.
Both of them are more than fond of a slimy scheme and throughout the show’s un played with each other like a giant game of cat and mouse. It was a theme that ran throughout the throthy dramas six series run, with the two always too self-obsessed and too ambitious to ever throw caution to the wind and admit that they love each other.
Infuriating as they were, Chuck and Blair made for riveting viewing.
Homer and Marge – The Simpsons
Really, is there any other pair on this list that’s been through as many scrapes and adventures as Homer and Marge? No matter what happens though, Homer and Marge always pull through it, with the two high-school sweethearts just as in love as they have ever been.
TV’s longest ever partnership, the pair are coming up on their silver wedding anniversary soon, their union is the utter backbone to the show and the foundation to all that is The Simpsons.
Any TV couples we missed of the list? Let us know in the comments below.
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