# What movie couple's relationship is your ideal? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256 "2003-01-13T05:49:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256/41 "2003-01-14T08:57:26Z")
Well, there’s Johnnie Gray and Annabelle Lee in _The General_, Joh Fredersen and Maria in _Metropolis_ (what can I say, I have trouble talking to women) and Harris K. Telemacher and Sara McDowel in _L.A. Story_. But the winner is: Godfrey Parke and Irene Bullock in _My Man Godfrey_. ---
**Author:** ![DarRRva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@DarRRva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarRRva)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256/42 "2003-01-14T11:13:09Z")
I’d have to go with Kathryn nad Sebastian from Cruel Intentions. They had the perfect relationship. She was a manipulative bitch, and he thought he could manoipulate, untill it turned out he was being manipiulated all along, yet still maaged to throw her into the shit pile posthummously. Go them! This is my ideal relationship ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256/43 "2003-01-14T14:38:41Z")
Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones in _Coal Miner’s Daughter._ Both were deeply flawed, but they loved, supported, and needed each other. And they didn’t bail when they hit rough patches. ---
**Author:** ![Merejane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Merejane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merejane)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256/44 "2003-01-14T14:56:24Z")
I’d like to second Marge and Norm Gunderson in **Fargo** and Adam and Amanda Bonner in **Adam’s Rib** , and I nominate Hal and Lois in TV’s **Malcolm in the Middle**. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256/45 "2003-01-14T16:11:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SolGrundy \* > \*\*Hey, Reuel\_Miller said it first so I don’t have to. “Mad About You.” (And I’m pretty sure it was “Buchman,” by the way). > > It’s incredibly cheesy, and I think the show deserved a lot of the mocking it got. But I have to say that there was a lot to like about the way they portrayed that marriage. They were just _comfortable_ with each other, and still in love. You never really see that on TV or in the movies, because it’s harder to make two people who just love each other seem interesting. You’ve got to show them trying to win the other one, or trying to win them back, or cheating, or fighting with each other, or making insulting wisecracks, or taking care of the precocious kids. If we could go without that theme song, I’d be all set. > > One of the episodes I remember entirely consisted of their having locked themselves in the bathroom and having to think of ways to kill time until the locksmith came. At one point, Paul suggests sex, she agrees, the scene fades out, then fades back in and Jamie says, “Okay, what now?” Something about that struck me as funnier because it was so realistic; it wasn’t the tired old Peg Bundy “done in 15 seconds again!” schtick. > > And since I’ve already used up my “guy” points, I can agree with **Rubystreak** about Harry Burns and Sally Allbright. Something about that movie… each one of the stars, writer, and director individually makes my skin crawl, but put them all together in a romantic comedy and it just _works_. \*\* I have to third this. I was engaged once, and our relationship was almost identical to this. It was bliss. Until she ran off with another guy, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256/46 "2003-01-14T17:51:51Z")
**Mulder and Scully** ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256/47 "2003-01-14T18:11:44Z")
Mr. Gray and Lee Holloway in ‘Secretary’. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256/48 "2003-01-14T18:20:05Z")
Mary and Paul Bland ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256/49 "2003-01-14T18:21:34Z")
Peter and Lois Griffin in “The Family Guy.” By day, supportive, child-rearing team. At night, it gets _kinky._ ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256/50 "2003-01-14T18:52:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RickJay \* > \*\*Peter and Lois Griffin in “The Family Guy.” > > By day, supportive, child-rearing team. At night, it gets _kinky._ \*\* I change my mind. You win. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256/51 "2003-01-14T19:07:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RickJay \* > \*\*Peter and Lois Griffin in “The Family Guy.” > > By day, supportive, child-rearing team. At night, it gets _kinky._ \*\* Ooh, I like this one! ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256/52 "2003-01-15T00:21:42Z")
Hunter and McCall. ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256/53 "2003-01-15T01:08:42Z")
Charlie and Lulu/Audrey in _Something Wild_, or maybe Charles and Jean/Eve in _The Lady Eve_. (Yes, in my fantasy life I’m a straightlaced guy who needs an injection of multiply-named female wackiness to awaken me to the zesty parts of life.) ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256/54 "2003-01-15T13:38:18Z")
Norman Bates and his mum. “A boy’s best friend is his mother.” :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-couples-relationship-is-your-ideal/148256.md?page=2)