Have you SEEN her?
ZOW-IE indeed.
nodnod
I used to think House/Cameron would be ok, but then I realized it had nothing to do with Cameron and everything to do with wanting to see House’s fuzzy side. There is truly no spark between those two at all, which was disgustingly evinced in the kiss scene. shudder
What, by the way, did you think of House/Stacy? Man, I thought they were smoldering. I could practically hear the tension when they were in the room together.
Yes! The pair coupling up in the novel was so great, and in the mini-series, it was not so great, and I blame Molly, since Gary is da man.
I can’t believe we’ve made it this far without any “Best” votes for Jack and Ennis of “Brokeback Mountain.” 
(Wouldn’t be surprised to see “Worst” votes for them, too.)
I second your vote for the Winchester [del]gay lovers[/del] brothers, tremorviolet, for “Best” chemistry.
Some Coen Brothers chemistry:
Good:
Everett, Pete and DelMar in O Brother Where Art Thou?
The Dude, Walter and Donny in The Big Lebowski
Tom and Leo in Miller’s Crossing
Tom and Verna in Miller’s Crossing
Bad:
The Dude and Maude Lebowski in The Big Lebowski
Norville and Amy in The Hudsucker Proxy
Everybody and everybody in The Ladykillers
Speaking of the Coens, I was thinking of mentioning H.I. and Edwina.
Holly Hunter was also good with Albert Brooks in Broadcast News.
And neither of those is a hot, smoldering, sexual chemistry; just characters and actors who worked well together.
Kelsey Grammer and Bebe Newirth had great chemistry on Cheers and Frasier, but a later attempt to match him up with Mercedes Ruehl had none. Meanwhile his TV dad John Mahoney had great chemistry with Marsha Mason on the show but very little with the woman (his character) ended up with, Wendie Malick.
Speaking of Wendie Malick- she was previously on Just Shoot Me with David Spade, who I think is absolutely incapable of on-screen chemistry with any actress (at least in the movies I’ve seen). It’s not just his body-type: then rotund (since slimmed down considerably) Don Knight had oodles with his “legs up to her neck” co-star Kristen Johnson on 3rd Rock from the Sun, which featured Lithgow and Curtin as a somehow strangely hot chemical duo.
I can’t stand Adam Sandler in most things, but I thought he and the actress playing his Mexican housekeeper (too lazy to look up the name) had great chemistry in Spanglish. Maybe it’s just his comedies I don’t like- he was actually charming in that movie.
An odd case of great chemistry is Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale as Perry Mason and Della Street. I remember a scene from one of the many 80s reunion movies in which Della is sleeping in a cold building and Perry wraps his (mammoth) overcoat around her; without waking she inhales, smells it, and wraps herself in it in a weirdly intimate and sort of touching/sexy scene for a senior actress and an obese old man whose characters obviously were very familiar with each other physically. (It never said they were a romantic item but it was implied.)
The main romantic-tension-couple from both the US and British version of The Office, namely Jim&Pam and Tim&Dawn – both couples had AMAZING chemistry.
Good:
Sean Connery’s James Bond and Mrs. Moneypenny
Katie Couric and Matt Lauer
Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann (classic ESPN Sportscenter duo)
Starbuck and Apollo (from both the classic and recent Battlestar Galactica series)
Denny Crane and Alan Shore (Shatner and Spader from Boston Legal)
Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner in the first PotC
Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp in Tombstone
Not good:
George Clooney and Michelle Pfieffer in One Fine Day
George Clooney and Nicole Kidman in The Peacemaker
Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed
Princess Diana and Prince Charles
(it’s harder to think of bad chemistry pairings for some reason!)
Good call. I also think Jack and Elizabeth had decent chemistry. They both seemed very into that kiss at the end of the second movie.
Another “good chemistry” couple- Dan and Roseanne Conner.
Well - according to E! - they started spatting during the shooting and had to be pulled aside by the producer and director and were shown the original audition tape again - showing their chemistry
After that it was fine but it made things tense for a while
Bad chemistry: Woody Allen and every female lead since Annie Hall, more or less. There may be a non-appalling one with Mia Farrow in there somewhere that’s slipping my mind, but I think in retrospect his relationship with her will make me too skeeved to notice any particular chemistry. A low point would be Deconstructing Harry and the relationship between him and Elizabeth Shue. The only chemistry there is embalming fluid.
Let’s toss in Ron Livingstone and Jennifer Aniston in Office Space, I didn’t really see any sparks there.
Good: Steve Carrell & Catherine Keener in The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
I second Jim and Pam in “The Office” and toss in Dwight and Angela.
“Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston from * The Bodyguard*” is my final answer.
In the first couple seasons of Bones, Booth (David Boreanaz) and Brennan (Emily Deschanel) had amazing chemistry. It started seeming a little forced toward the end of this past season, but it’s still far from bad.
And the question would be “Who has the WORST chemistry?”
ooh, I just thought of a bad one:
the guy who played Dante (can’t be bothered to look him up) and Rosario Dawson in Clerks II… that’s a big fat NEGATIVE on the romance-o-meter.
I felt bad for Rosario, man. I think if they paid me to kiss that guy I’d throw up in his mouth at least twice before I got the scene right.
Worst: Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face.
Runner up: Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron in Daddy Long Legs.
As for “best”…hmmm…
Saying “Hepburn and Tracy” is cheating, right?
The cast of Sports Night with the rest of the cast of Sports Night.
I agree with those who say Wash and Zoe had no chemistry together in Firefly. If it hadn’t been for them periodically mentioning to somebody they were married (because even the characters in the show seemed to find their relationship implausible) you’d have never suspected they were a couple. I had hoped the flashback episode would shed some light on their relationship but it skipped back to their first meeting where it was clear that they didn’t like each other. No explanation was ever given of how and when this supposedly changed. I think Whedon finally realized this relationship was a mistake and “fixed” it in Serenity.
Best: Peter and Roger’s (the two Philadelphia SWAT soldiers) friendship in the original Dawn of the Dead. Fran and Stephen didn’t have chemistry at all, but their relationship was convincing.
Dante doesn’t have chemistry with ANY female. He had great chemistry with Randall in Clerks but not so much in the second. I think it has to do with the fact that Brian O’Halloran is a crappy actor.
Jeff Anderson, on the other hand, is a much better actor and has better chemistry with all of Dante’s girlfriends than Dante did.
Anyway, my picks:
Worst
Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in Easter Parade
Best
Rimmer and Lister in Red Dwarf