# Characters on long run TV shows who fell in love or hooked up (but didn't start out to do so) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126 "2009-08-20T21:04:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/41 "2009-08-21T18:41:35Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > As seen on a trip in my Wayback Machine-- Corky Sherwood-Forrest and Grant the producer from Murphy Brown. Also, was I the only one who thought Murp and – oh whatwashisname-- the housepainter were gonna hook up? Eldin. He was a great character. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/42 "2009-08-21T18:47:03Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Pretty sure I’m thinking of Janeway. Something about them getting turned into tadpoles by breaking the technobabble, and then there being baby tadpoles shown swimming away after they got restored. > > The thing with Torres happened, too…just wasn’t the one I was referencing. Heh. I \*definitely \*didn’t see that episode. 🙂 Got an imdb link? I’m curious. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/43 "2009-08-21T19:04:01Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Maria and Luis. Yeah, when I was a kid, I always thought Maria and David were going to get together. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/44 "2009-08-21T19:15:44Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Heh. I \*definitely \*didn’t see that episode. 🙂 Got an imdb link? I’m curious. Fresh out of IMDB. Settle for a wiki? [Threshold](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/45 "2009-08-21T19:26:07Z")
…after which you will, of course, immediately want to tear your own eyeballs out. It really is that bad. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/46 "2009-08-21T19:26:27Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Chandler and Monica joke about getting together constantly throughout the early episodes, including the time where Monica was in a towel and tells her how much she loves him “as a friend” (that made it into the credits for years afterwards). Wasn’t that from the flashback episode about how everyone _almost_ hooked up with everyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/47 "2009-08-21T19:30:00Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …after which you will, of course, immediately want to tear your own eyeballs out. > > It really is that bad. But it won an Emmy! (Way to encourage them, Emmy people…) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/48 "2009-08-21T19:31:08Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Wasn’t that from the flashback episode about how everyone _almost_ hooked up with everyone else? I think that was an alternate timeline episode where Monica stayed fat. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/49 "2009-08-21T19:49:43Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I think that was an alternate timeline episode where Monica stayed fat. Nah, that episode didn’t happen until after Chandler and Monica got together, the main question being “Would Chandler like fat Monica?” ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/50 "2009-08-21T20:00:16Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Wasn’t that from the flashback episode about how everyone _almost_ hooked up with everyone else? Hmm, you might be right. Ross and Phoebe ungracefully groping on the pool table was one of the funniest things that show ever did. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/51 "2009-08-22T07:32:20Z")
Didn’t Data and Tasha Yar hook up once? (I’m not sure what Data could do for a woman, but I seem to remember her pulling him into her room.) ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/52 "2009-08-22T08:57:03Z")
> [@Tanbarkie](#): > > On a similar note, Angel and Spike. > > …Hey, they did say there was that one time! I thought this thread was supposed to be about _unexpected_ couples. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/53 "2009-08-22T09:13:48Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Didn’t Data and Tasha Yar hook up once? (I’m not sure what Data could do for a woman, but I seem to remember her pulling him into her room.) That was her sister, actually, and it turns out he can do a great deal for a woman (as can many other mechanical appliances). He is programmed for multiple techniques. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/54 "2009-08-22T09:19:28Z")
Fonzie and Mrs. Cunningham. To this day, some people pretend that episode never happened! ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/55 "2009-08-22T14:13:28Z")
Lenny and Carl. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/56 "2009-08-22T14:39:59Z")
Didn’t Omar and Snoop hook up on _The Wire_? Definitely never saw that coming. ---
**Author:** ![alexandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/57 "2009-08-22T14:43:06Z")
> [@5-4-Fighting](#): > > Didn’t Omar and Snoop hook up on _The Wire_? Definitely never saw that coming. Er, definitely not. What kind of fanfic have you been reading? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/58 "2009-08-22T14:44:31Z")
:D\* ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/59 "2009-08-22T14:55:02Z")
Might be kind of a stretch, but I doubt it was originally planed for Will and Francie to start dating on Alias. Though, I think it was kind of forced just to add some intrigue later when Francie was killed and replaced with an assassin who’d had gene replacement to look like Francie. That’s a fun sentence to type. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126/60 "2009-08-22T15:10:23Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Actually I’d argue that Chandler and Monica was foreshadowed long before it happened. In the first few years of the show, Monica is frequently shown lounging half-on, half-off Chandler in a way she never did with Joey, and in ways neither Rachel or Phoebe did with Joey or Chandler. Chandler and Monica hooking up was not a surprise to me. > > Answering your question, Worf & Troi from TNG. I agree. There was the episode where Rachel is trying to break up Ross and the girl he met in China. Rachel brings out Joey’s “porn”. Half way through the porn they show Chandler and Monica cuddling and as they are leaving to go home Chandler has his arm around her. I thought early on it would happen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-on-long-run-tv-shows-who-fell-in-love-or-hooked-up-but-didnt-start-out-to-do-so/507126.md?page=4)