# Who are your favorite married sitcom couples?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 6, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022 "2013-04-06T16:17:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/21 "2013-04-06T21:33:47Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> Jay and Gloria Pritchett from _Modern Family_ would also be in the running.
If it not for Prop 8 so would Cam & Mitchell.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/22 "2013-04-06T21:49:56Z")
I was going to include Cam & Mitchell, spent several minutes trying to determine if they are married (they’re not). Not eligible.
I can’t believe I overlooked the Howells, the Stivics, the senior Barones, and the Kotters.
ETA: And Jay & Gloria
mmm
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/23 "2013-04-06T22:07:57Z")
Tom and Barbara Good.
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/24 "2013-04-06T23:49:23Z")
I have a soft spot for Paul and Jaime Buchman from _Mad About You_. The show debuted about 6 mos before **Suburban Plankton** and I got married. They were just a little older than us, and just a bit ahead of us in their relationship. There was just so much we could relate to.
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### Author:  [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/25 "2013-04-07T00:45:24Z")
Gomez and Morticia!
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### Author:  [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/26 "2013-04-07T01:07:25Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#):
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> I have a soft spot for Paul and Jaime Buchman from _Mad About You_. The show debuted about 6 mos before **Suburban Plankton** and I got married.
I’m conflicted about voting for them - they were my favorite early on, but Jamie was pretty unpleasant in the later seasons, though she never got as bad as Debra Barone. I’m going to write in Sean and Beverly Lincoln from **Episodes** since Chuck and Ned from \*\*Pushing Daisies \*\*weren’t married.
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### Author:  [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/27 "2013-04-07T05:19:54Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> Jay and Gloria Pritchett from _Modern Family_ would also be in the running.
Yep. I checked the ‘other’ box for this reason.
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/28 "2013-04-07T05:22:41Z")
> [@atlantic](#):
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> Lily & Marshall from How I Met Your Mother.
^This. What I came in to vote for.
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/29 "2013-04-07T05:31:04Z")
I was going to vote for a couple but now I’ve realized I guess I really don’t like any of these sitcom couples very much!
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### Author:  [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/30 "2013-04-07T07:40:29Z")
Where are the Buckets? Oooooh, I mean Bouquets… (Hyacinth and Richard)?
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/31 "2013-04-07T13:45:46Z")
> [@outlierrn](#):
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> Tom and Barbara Good.
What I came here to say.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/32 "2013-04-07T13:55:04Z")
John Astin, in an interview, once noted that when The Addams Family was running a number of psychologists and marital counselors praised the show for showing a married couple that was actually physically attracted and passionate towards each other.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/33 "2013-04-07T15:55:52Z")
I checked only two: Bob and Emily Hartley, and Al and Peg Bundy. At first, I thought this was a strange pairing of pairs. But then I thought, no, I think they come from the same place: couples that truly love each other, but show it through snark and sarcasm. One example is more extreme than the other, of course, but still in the same vein.
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/34 "2013-04-07T16:55:19Z")
No love for Stanley and Helen Roper?
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/35 "2013-04-07T18:24:46Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#):
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> No love for Stanley and Helen Roper?
Not even from each other.
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/36 "2013-04-07T18:42:23Z")
Morticia & Gomez, hands down, no contest.
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### Author:  [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/37 "2013-04-07T19:08:49Z")
dan and roseanne is a great pick. i’m also a fan of red and kitty forman (that 70’s show).
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### Author:  [@Renifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renifer)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/38 "2013-04-08T15:56:05Z")
Would have picked Gomez and Morticia if they were the movie versions, not the TV ones.
Should have added:
Foreman, Red and Kitty
Halpert, Jim and Pam (nee Beasley) (Does The Office count as a sitcom?)
I’d also have voted for Erickson, Marshall, and Aldrin, Lily
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### Author:  [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/39 "2013-04-08T16:19:56Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> Note that I am not including animated couples (sorry, Homer & Marge, Peter & Lois)
Not even Fred & Wilma? ☹
Still, even if you could have voted for them, I would still have voted for Gomez & Morticia Addams.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2013, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-favorite-married-sitcom-couples/655022/40 "2013-04-09T09:55:58Z")
> [@Renifer](#):
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> Halpert, Jim and Pam (nee Beasley) (Does The Office count as a sitcom?)
Yes, but Jim and Pam (who I considered) do not fit the requirements:
> [@](#):
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> …couples whose marriage is not a fundamental component of the series (sorry Chandler & Monica, Max & 99)…
mmm
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