# "Will they or won't they" couples...who didn't **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118 "2009-11-03T01:14:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **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:** [November 3, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/41 "2009-11-03T18:51:43Z")
I did not watch _Northern Exposure_ to the end; what ever happened with Joel and Maggie? ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/42 "2009-11-03T18:56:40Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > _Remington Steele_ - Remington Steele and Laura Holt > > Pierce Brosnan, and Stephanie Zimbalist 1980’s series > ended in a similar way. They implied a hookup in the final seconds of the last show, but didn’t show it. It may or may not have happened. I thought it was pretty clear that it did happen. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/43 "2009-11-03T19:01:24Z")
Suzumiya-san and Kyon-kun in **Haruhi Suzumiya**. We know Kyon will get nowhere with Asahina-san, since her future self tells him, and Nagato-san is just a humanoid interface, with or without her glasses, but Suzumiya always seems like a possibility. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/44 "2009-11-03T19:04:16Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > And let’s not forget Buddy and Sally on _The Dick Van Dyke Show._ 😕 Am I being whooshed? I never thought Buddy and Sally had _anything_ going on! Buddy was always married to Pickles. Sally had her boyfriend Herman for a while, a unconsumated romance with the deli owner (can’t remember his name, but he was played by Sid Melton), and a failed affair with a TV comic who only loved her for her jokes. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/45 "2009-11-03T19:04:44Z")
I always thought Joey & Phoebe would ultimately hook up, since Ross & Rachel did and Monica & Chandler did; if for no other reason than to complete the trifecta. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/46 "2009-11-03T19:15:07Z")
How about Scully and Mulder on the X-Files? The writers seemed to play around with an attraction between the two characters, but eventually they did settle into a definitely-platonic relationship. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/47 "2009-11-03T19:17:02Z")
Spongebob and Patrick. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/48 "2009-11-03T19:17:37Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I did not watch _Northern Exposure_ to the end; what ever happened with Joel and Maggie? Joel & Maggie DID indeed ‘do it’ - but it was a few months before Fleischman left Cicely. Maggie blamed it on whatever weird quasi-Native American mystical mojo was happening in that week’s episode (and she was still going out with ‘bubble boy’ Anthony Edwards at the time.) They got engaged to be married just shortly before Joel took off for the deeper wilderlands. So, it’s a hard call on that one. They had sex, but with no real intimacy, and aborted their plans to really hook up. As for Joey & Phoebe on “Friends”, the storyline briefly suggest that would happen, but it was scrapped after the producers realized that Matt LeBlanc & Lisa Kudrow had zero chemistry as lovers. And anyway, LeBlanc signed on to do a solo spin-off show (remember that?) Kudrow went on to do a much better (but unfortunately just as short-lived) non-spinoff series. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/49 "2009-11-03T19:22:15Z")
**Wonder Years,** Kevin and Winnie. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/50 "2009-11-03T19:26:03Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > How about Scully and Mulder on the X-Files? The writers seemed to play around with an attraction between the two characters, but eventually they did settle into a definitely-platonic relationship. I would say they were out of “definitely platonic” by S7. They had a child together. There were several episodes where a sexual relationship was implied. The first time Mulder sees her in the series finale he kisses her like she’s the love of his life and he never thought he would see her again. At the end of the series, they essentially run away together. And also they’re very clearly a committed couple in the recent film. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/51 "2009-11-03T19:33:28Z")
Marlin & Dory 😉 ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/52 "2009-11-03T19:35:18Z")
Dave and Lisa from _NewsRadio_ were a couple for the greater part of the series, but ultimately broke up stayed broken up. Lisa wound up married to the evil Johnny Johnson. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/53 "2009-11-03T19:39:18Z")
John Steed and Mrs. Peel on “The Avengers” ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/54 "2009-11-03T20:45:27Z")
> [@The\_Shroud](#): > > How about Andy and Maggie in _Extras_? They never did hook up, did they? From what I remember, their relationship wasn’t riddled with sexual tension, but “will they or won’t they” definitely crossed my mind numerous times. They did hook-up at the end of one episode. I don’t think I ever actually saw the last episode but I always kind of assumed that they’d end up together eventually. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/55 "2009-11-03T21:03:34Z")
What about Frye and Lela from _Futurama_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/56 "2009-11-03T21:12:55Z")
I think most “West Wing” fans expected Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford) to end up with Donna (Janel Moloney), but it never happened. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/57 "2009-11-03T21:29:35Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I think most “West Wing” fans expected Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford) to end up with Donna (Janel Moloney), but it never happened. Yes it did. I recall an interview in which Bradley Whitford pretended to complain about having to spend all day shooting scenes in which he was either making out with Janel Moloney or watching her lounge around a bedroom naked. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/58 "2009-11-03T21:34:21Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > And let’s not forget Buddy and Sally on _The Dick Van Dyke Show._ What? There was romantic tension between them? I totally missed that. Besides, Buddy had a wife, and Sally had a boyfriend. No way they could have hooked up back then. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/59 "2009-11-03T21:35:53Z")
Luke and Leia. ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118/60 "2009-11-03T21:48:15Z")
How about Dr. House & Dr. Cuddy? I know it seems like they will, but they really haven’t (except for one kiss, and that wierd dream House had.) Or even House & Wilson? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-couples-who-didnt/516118.md?page=4)