# TV Wives Addressing Husbands By Last Name

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-wives-addressing-husbands-by-last-name/507472>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 24, 2009, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-wives-addressing-husbands-by-last-name/507472 "2009-08-24T05:23:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-wives-addressing-husbands-by-last-name/507472/21 "2009-08-25T00:08:04Z")

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> [@jackdavinci](#):
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> Mulder and Scully continued to call each other by their last names even after they had a kid together.

They probably called each other by their last names WHILE they were having a kid together…

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**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-wives-addressing-husbands-by-last-name/507472/22 "2009-08-25T03:13:17Z")

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> [@Alias](#):
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> Scrubs. Carla addresses Turk as Turk, only Christopher when she’s angry or they’re having sex.
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> “Are you mad when we’re making love, baby?”  
> “Sometimes.”

That’s what I was thinking… but everyone calls him Turk, not just Carla.

My Grandma called my Grandpa “Lars” (his last name was Larson).

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**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-wives-addressing-husbands-by-last-name/507472/23 "2009-08-25T05:31:35Z")

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Jeff Foxworthy calls his wife by her last (maiden) name which he referrs to as her _middle_ name.

My Great Grandfather was called “Sherm” (last name was Schurman) by his wife… He called her “boss” 😉

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**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-wives-addressing-husbands-by-last-name/507472/24 "2009-08-26T02:36:19Z")

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I worked with a teacher who was XXXXX Pierre. His wife called him “Pierre”, although technically she was Mrs. Pierre. His buddies had introduced him as “Pierre”, and that’s how she’d come to know him.

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