TV romances that the show kept pushing despite the fact that it sucked

Except he *did *love Cordelia - he had just realized that at the end of the previous season. “True love” doesn’t mean “one true love”, you know. At the very least, he loved her as a friend.

Remember, he did bone a hot girl in Season 5 (the werewolf chick), to no ill effect.

Ross and Rachel. Who are they kidding? That dork with the embodiment of Venus? No way.

I agree–ignoring the single stupid “No more surprises, EVER!” episode where Robin basically told Barney “Yeah…all those things you did to make me fall in love with you? Stop doing those.” (it was one of the last half-dozen episodes), Robin and Barney were great. Robin and Ted just sucked in every respect after the third episode of the show.

Oh, and on True Blood, Vampire Bill and “Sookeh” sucked. He was a creepy stalker jackass, her (already none too shining) intellect dropped 50 points when she was around him. I wasn’t a huge Sookie/Eric fan, but at least Eric respected her sorta. Bill? He was a slightly more in check version of the crazy british vamp that held Tara hostage.

I’ll see your Chakotay and Seven of Nine and raise you Troi and Worf. She must have really had a case of the galloping hornies to get involved in that!

That nice guy with that stuck up rich bitch? No way.

Cannot agree more strongly! Not only did they spend nine years demonstrating why that relationship doesn’t work, they then spent the first half of the final season showing Ted finally getting all the way over her.

And I’m still not over that character assassination job they did on Victoria, when they brought her back; I’m halfway convinced that they were just salty that she won that one “Who would you pick to be the Mother?” poll.

You ever hear the phrase “Ribbed for her pleasure”? Apparently, he had that going for him to the max.

So the curse didn’t recognize true love until the boning? That’s my point. If it’s a “love” curse then it should happen when love happens, and that doesn’t necessarily happen in conjunction with bone. It can happen long before or long after the first bone.

In her position (heh, heh :smiley: ), I’d insist he wear a paper bag over his head as well!

Yeah, no kidding! Even as a very little kid, I remember thinking, “She needs to get rid of that asshole!”

When MASH had Hawkeye and Margaret hook up for one episode, that was hard to watch.

You do not talk about my Worfie in that manner. He won champion standing in the Bat’leth tournament for Kahless’ sake.

That’s it, Bat’leths at dawn!

IIRC, the curse activated when he experiences a moment of true happiness. Boning the lovely Cordelia should qualify.

I never bought the Brenda/Fritz pairing on The Closer. She’d use him, she’d lie by omission, she did whatever she damned-well wanted to do, figuring she could fix things or apologize afterwards. He shoulda dumped her way early in their relationship. She was selfish and he was too good for her. And I only watched the stupid show because my husband liked it…

Well, spoiler on that…

They broke up! Come back to the show because she is dating again and it’s funny! :slight_smile:

Hmmmm … Good to know

Huh! I always thought he was more than tolerant of her eccentricities. In the episode where he had a hot secretary who was trying to seduce him, I kept wishing he would jump her when they went on assignment together. Of course, he never, ever would… :dubious:

Lots of Bangel haters on this board. :stuck_out_tongue:

Only a Klingon would bring a Bat’leth to a disruptor fight! :dubious:

Niles and CC on The Nanny. She even ends up pregnant by him. That marriage would end in a bitter divorce before the cake was sliced and the last thing either of them needed was a kid.

Indeed. Worf was quite the romantic. I loved him and Jadzia.

On the other hand, I never bought Kira/Odo. I always thought she saw him as a friend and the chemistry didn’t quite work for me.