# What fictional couple would you like to see on "The Amazing Race"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** reality-or-game-show\ **Created:** [November 8, 2023, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801 "2023-11-08T06:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/1 "2023-11-08T06:31:49Z")
No aliens and no meta-humans, please. 😄 My pick would be Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/2 "2023-11-08T07:23:21Z")
Archie Goodwin and Nero Wolfe. Alan Quatermain and **Ayesha** (Okay she is immortal, but not a meta human) Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/3 "2023-11-08T07:40:43Z")
Felix Unger and Oscar Madison. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/4 "2023-11-08T07:43:43Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Felix Unger and Oscar Madison. I shudder to think. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/5 "2023-11-08T08:01:13Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Archie Goodwin and Nero Wolfe. I can’t see Wolfe moving enough to win…but I _can_ see him figuring out how to win without ever leaving the brownstone. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/6 "2023-11-08T10:22:05Z")
Captain Kirk and Spock. Edit: Sorry, I guess Spock is an alien. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/7 "2023-11-08T12:22:11Z")
George and Martha, from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/8 "2023-11-08T14:09:11Z")
The Great Leslie and Maggie duBois. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/9 "2023-11-08T14:52:02Z")
Doug & Carrie from King of Queens ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/10 "2023-11-08T14:55:06Z")
David and Maddie from “Moonlighting”. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/11 "2023-11-08T15:01:51Z")
John McClane and Bill Clay from _Die Hard._ ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/12 "2023-11-08T15:04:10Z")
Nick and Nora Charles. And Asta. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/13 "2023-11-08T15:18:34Z")
I would find Basil and Sybil Fawlty extremely funny on that. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/14 "2023-11-08T15:49:28Z")
Archer and Lana ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/15 "2023-11-08T15:55:57Z")
**Phileas Fogg and Jean Passepartout** The entire thing would be them commenting on the modern world. “Women and Africans walking around like people!?!” Think Ron Burgundy on steroids. It would be ridiculous but maybe cathartic. We romanticize the past too much I feel and not everyone has the time to be a historian to fix that. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/16 "2023-11-08T16:07:49Z")
Patsy and Edina. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/17 "2023-11-08T16:25:15Z")
Jack Walsh and Jonathan “The Duke” Mardukas. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/18 "2023-11-08T16:25:20Z")
Thelma and Louise (Oh, they’ll get there.) ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/19 "2023-11-08T17:04:46Z")
Felonious Gru and Lucy Wilde from Despicable Me. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801/20 "2023-11-08T17:33:37Z")
Thomson and Thompson from the Tintin stories [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-couple-would-you-like-to-see-on-the-amazing-race/992801.md?page=2)