# Best depictions of a married couple? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809 "2012-02-05T00:41:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/1 "2012-02-05T00:41:11Z")
They don’t have to be legally or technically married, just a long term couple. This is seemingly one of the hardest things to authentically capture on film by how many times I don’t buy a supposed couple. In Beetlejuice there is scene when the newly dead married couple the Maitlands are navigating the afterlife bureaucracy that makes me laugh everytime where they are chatting back and forth and explaining the handbook’s rules to each other. I can’t stress how perfect I thought that was. So I was looking for similar pefect captures of how long term couples relate. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/2 "2012-02-05T00:56:04Z")
Rob and Laura Petrie. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/3 "2012-02-05T01:03:03Z")
On TV - Eric and Tami Taylor from **Friday Night Lights** by a wide margin. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/4 "2012-02-05T01:10:49Z")
Dan and Rosanne Conner were a very convincing blue collar couple. ---
**Author:** ![florez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@florez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/florez)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/5 "2012-02-05T01:18:47Z")
The pregnant police chief and her husband in the film FARGO really sticks in my head as realistic. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/6 "2012-02-05T01:19:36Z")
Alan Rickman’s and Emma Thompson’s characters from _Love Actually_. > [@florez](#): > > The pregnant police chief and her husband in the film FARGO really sticks in my head as realistic. How’dja like your eggs, Norm? Classic line. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/7 "2012-02-05T01:26:59Z")
My Favorite Husband on radio and tv. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/8 "2012-02-05T01:51:46Z")
Ingmar Bergman’s “Scenes From a Marriage”. No joke. His other movies have not held up over time IMHO but this one is the real deal. According to Wikipedia, this movie actually increased Swedish divorce rates after it came out, and I can believe it. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/9 "2012-02-05T02:01:40Z")
\*\*Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Make Way for Tomorrow\*\* (you didn’t specify “happy”) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/10 "2012-02-05T02:09:08Z")
It’ll depend on the actors and the performance, of course, but I thought Shakespeare did a great job with Hotspur and his wife in Henry IV part 1. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/11 "2012-02-05T02:21:47Z")
Dr. Robert Hartley & Emily Hartley on _The Bob Newhart Show._ John & Olivia Walton as well as Grandpa & Grandma Walton on _The Waltons_ Tim & Jill Taylor on \* Home Improvement.\* ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/12 "2012-02-05T02:27:45Z")
Jackie and Annie O’Shea in _Waking Ned Devine_ was my first thought. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/13 "2012-02-05T02:50:50Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > On TV - Eric and Tami Taylor from **Friday Night Lights** by a wide margin. Second that one. They made a great couple. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/14 "2012-02-05T03:20:02Z")
Nick and Nora Charles (at least for their era). More modern, Pete and Sue Brockman from [Outnumbered](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1086191/). ---
**Author:** ![Chipacabra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Chipacabra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chipacabra)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/15 "2012-02-05T03:57:53Z")
Nick and Nor… > [@RealityChuck](#): > > Nick and Nora Charles (at least for their era). Dammit! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/16 "2012-02-05T07:03:06Z")
I like Mike and Frankie from **The Middle**. They’re like our new Dan & Rosanne. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/17 "2012-02-05T09:22:25Z")
Gomez and Morticia. My perfect idyll. From childhood. _\_ ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/18 "2012-02-05T09:33:06Z")
Any movie with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon as a married couple, but especially “Mrs. Miniver”. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/19 "2012-02-05T09:44:13Z")
I always thought the Weir parents from **Freaks and Geeks** were a good, realistic depiction of a married couple struggling to understand the world their children are growing up in. [Listening to Squeezebox.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9WivuyE_PU) [You know those Sex Pistols? They spit on their audience!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=Rnbcj2S8LSI) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809/20 "2012-02-05T14:27:01Z")
I’ll go with Nick and Nora Charles too. I think it would be hella fun to be half of a rich couple back in the 30’s. Swanning about in nightclubs, guzzlling martinis with no debiltating hangovers, exchanging witty quips with my witty husband, interesting murder mysteries to solve - what could be better, lol? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-depictions-of-a-married-couple/611809.md?page=2)