This one.
Could you give an example of her harpiness?
Try this thread.
Fran Fine and Maxwell Sheffield. No chemistry whatsoever.
It wasn’t funny or worth watching, but there was a tv series called According to Jim which featured Jim Belushi as your generic joke telling fatso slob married to Courtney Thorne Smith, a fetching blonde woman. It made no sense.
Buffy/Angel or Buffy/Spike. Why is it creepy for a 40-something year old to date a teenage girl, but once you break 200 it is fine?
Doogie and Wanda on Doogie Howser, MD.
Wilma was way outta Fred Flintstone’s league.
In the book Who Censored Roger Rabbit? on which the film was based (somewhat), Jessica’s the girlfriend of a mobster who falls in love very suddenly with Roger and they marry. That lasts a year, then she goes back to the mobster.
It turns out Roger unknowingly made a wish on a magic lamp, and the genie caused Jessica to fall in love with him. When the spell wore off, she went back to the mobster.
I like the movie much better.
Right. It’s comedy. The entire point of the relationship was they were wrong for each other.
Thanks, but that didn’t help at all. I still don’t see any actual examples.
“That Girl” and the scowling asshole she was engaged to. I don’t think there was one episode where he wasn’t pissed about something.
(Shrug) To each their own–if you don’t automatically see it in virtually everything about her personality, I’m not going to be able to example you into seeing it.
(Also, I’ll point out that “harpy” wasn’t my term–I’d characterise her more as a harridan and/or fishwife.)
To be fair, you didn’t even provide one.
I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m just saying that I can’t think of any specific examples.
The only episode in which Debra is a harpy is the PMS episode. Other than that, what you refer to as harpiness is a normal person’s reasonable reactions to the insanity surrounding her.
Ann Kelsey and Stuart Markowitz. A viewer could plausibly argue that a nebbish like Stuart would never be able to attract a fox like Ann. Except that the two actors were actually married (to each other) in real life.
I seem to recall that Wilma came from money and that she married way, way beneath her by wedding a guy who was a blue-collar crane operator in a quarry. Certainly Wilma’s mother had nothing but contempt for Fred.
From the remake of Battlestar Galactica: Lee “Apollo” Adama and… well, every single female the writers tried to pair him with.
Considering the Flintstones was patterned after the Honeymooner’s, that shouldn’t be a surprise. Alice should never have been with Ralph.
Betty was even further out of Barney’s league.