Two girls and a guy?

So I just watched the movie 10 Cloverfield Lane, which is about two guys, a girl and a fallout shelter. Just the other day I was watching Ex Machina, which is about two guys and a female AI.

Which made me wonder: “Two guys and a girl” type triangular formations are easy to find, from Singin’ in the Rain to Star Wars. But are there any with two girls and a guy?

As you may or may not know, my knowledge of this popular culture stuff is rather spotty and eclectic, so I may well be missing some very well-known and obvious examples. But I did have a quick rummage through my list of favorite movies that I keep on IMDb, and the only example I found in there was The Baader Meinhof Complex, which is two girls, a guy and a terrorist organization.

So, that’s one, but I can’t think of any others off the top of my head. Any ideas? All examples are welcome, BTW, not just recent movies. Maybe I’m forgetting some from, say, Shakespeare.

I guess I’ll get the obvious one out of the way.

Three’s Company:

Two Women and One Man:

Here’s a bunch of love triangle movies, some of which are two girls and a guy:

Raj, Emily, and Claire on The Big Bang Theory

If you Google for “two woman one man” you get porn.

* Bringing Up Baby*.

* What’s Up, Doc?* (though this was highly influenced by * Bringing Up Baby*

Movies that aren’t love triangles are more interesting to me, but darned if I’ve thought of one yet.

But I did come up with Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

Archie comics.
Movies: Fatal Attraction, Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Single White Female, Poison Ivy, Strictly Ballroom, Gone with the Wind, The Women…

Are you looking for stories where the two women and one man are a sort of team, or anything that has two major female characters and one major male character? There have already been several examples of love triangle plots, including some where the rival woman was such a minor character that I don’t even remember what she was like, but stories where the three characters are all on the same side (even if there is romantic tension or rivalry as well) do seem less common.

The first example that springs to mind for me is Xena: Warrior Princess, which was largely about the adventures of the two-woman Xena and Gabrielle team but they were often joined by a male comic relief character named Joxer. They occasionally teamed up with other male characters (including Hercules and Iolaus from the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys TV series for a two-woman, two-man team), but I assume you’re looking for examples that lasted more than an episode or two.

It’s interesting. I’ve seen stories with two girls and a guy and stories with two guys and a girl. But it seems that both of them center on the guys. You either have the story of two guys competing for the same girl or the story of a guy having to choose between two girls. Either way, the guys are the protagonists and the girls are the passive characters.

Three in the Attic is three girls, one guy.

With a lost Chad & Jeremy song!

Yeah, well, Buffy and Willow kicked ass, and Xander was also there.

Les Miserables…

I guess, ideally, that I mean anything that can be described along the lines of “two girls and a guy doing X / being X / in an X / and an X”. Again, I can think of lots of examples right away where it’s the other way around, with two guys and a girl. Harry Potter is about two guys and a girl doing magic. Bande à part is two guys and a girl being French and kooky. Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place is about what it says on the tin. And, although neither is the titular character, House M.D. has a team of two guys and a girl working for a grumpy doctor.

So, anything like that, but with two girls and a guy instead. I suppose Three’s Company, as mentioned upthread, fits perfectly: Two girls and a guy in an apartment.

Tangled: A girl tries to see a light show, a guy tries to help her, and a second girl tries to stop her.

A big part of the issue in situations like this is that being “the girl” in traditional male-centered society is itself considered a defining character trait. So, in a team, you can have the tough guy, the nerdy guy, and the girl.

For example, in the “Five Man Band” trope — The Chick - TV Tropes — the five team members are the Leader, the Lancer, the Smart Guy, the Big Guy, and the Chick.

Frozen too. A girl goes crazy and her sister tries to help, and so does a guy with his reindeer.

Anne of Green Gables is Anne, Diana and Gilbert.

Lizzie McGuire was primarily her and her two friends Miranda (female) and Gordo (male). I think a lot of Disney sitcoms were like this. That’s So Raven had a similar cast, and so did Hannah Montana IIRC, but I didn’t really watch those so I don’t remember the details.

I think it largely depends on the lead character in a lot of cases. It’s not uncommon to have one woman and one man in the supporting roles for a trio cast, it’s just whether the lead is male or female that determines which way the gender imbalance goes.

There are certainly going to be lots of counter-examples, but the fact that two guys and a girl pre-dominate, I think can be explained by the tagline from The Mod Squad: “One black, one white, one blonde.”

Men are the default sex (not biologically, but sociologically, and in literature), and “woman” is one variation on “man.” So there are actually lots of examples where you have even bigger groups of men, and just one woman. In fact, in any group of TV, movie, or book characters, you will nearly always have more men than women. There will be a great variety of men, but the “variety” among the women will usually be one of a few different sets of opposites: blonde & brunette (with fairly interchangeable personalities); whore and virgin; “one of the boys” & ball-busting bitch; extra-smart & really dumb; androgynous & sex kitten. The last two are combined a lot (cf: Velma & Daphne on Scooby-doo). You sometimes get “perfect & loser,” but that’s a lot less common (cf: Ripley and the character whose name I can’t remember played by Veronica Cartwright in Alien; Ripley and the women in Aliens were an example of “one of the boys” & ball-busting bitch).

Rarely do you see women with sui generis personalities, unless they have lots of superficial, cutesy quirks, which is actually a type all it’s own, and not really sui generis at all, when you get right down to it; it’s sometimes a man, but more often a woman: cf: Garcia on Criminal Minds.

One of the things that interests me most, though, is that when you get one woman in a fairly large group of men, she is often the most normal one. Cf: Elaine on Seinfeld– not without faults, but the most normal of all the weirdos on the show. Also, MTM was often the most together person on her show when she was interacting with the men, and in her personal life was part of a “perfect/loser” dynamic with Rhoda.

The Big Bang Theory has an interesting dynamic. Penny started out at just “the woman,” then when Amy was introduced, we had “Smart and Dumb.” Later they morphed into Smart & Dumb as well as Whore & Virgin. Meanwhile, Bernadette comes onto the show as “the normal one,” something you usually don’t get except when she’s the only woman.

Another example of two women and one man is a movie I just saw, Maggie’s Plan.

MFF movies are practically their own genre, really.

or so I’ve been told.

Oddly enough when I read the OP the first movie that popped into my head was one I thought was pretty mediocre, 1992’s Death Becomes Her, which is a MFF film where the female characters are the protagonists.