# Your Favorite Dysfunctional Movie/TV Relationship

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dysfunctional-movie-tv-relationship/736667>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 5, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dysfunctional-movie-tv-relationship/736667 "2015-11-05T00:28:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dysfunctional-movie-tv-relationship/736667/21 "2015-11-05T22:51:34Z")

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The Young Ones

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dysfunctional-movie-tv-relationship/736667/22 "2015-11-06T02:00:30Z")

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Almost anyone on _Battlestar Galactica_. There were maybe two reasonably functional relationships in that entire show, tops.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dysfunctional-movie-tv-relationship/736667/23 "2015-11-06T20:29:23Z")

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Howard and his mother on The Big Bang Theory.

Sheldon Cooper and anyone on The Big Bang Theory.

Ron Harris and Arthur Dietrich on Barney Miller.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dysfunctional-movie-tv-relationship/736667/24 "2015-11-06T21:28:07Z")

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Can’t believe I’m the first to mention Spock and McCoy. (Get a room, guys!)

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**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:** [November 6, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dysfunctional-movie-tv-relationship/736667/25 "2015-11-06T21:33:24Z")

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Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dysfunctional-movie-tv-relationship/736667/26 "2015-11-06T22:12:00Z")

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Archie and Meathead.

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**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dysfunctional-movie-tv-relationship/736667/27 "2015-11-06T22:25:56Z")

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Carrie and Brody on Homeland.

Everyone on Shameless (US).

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dysfunctional-movie-tv-relationship/736667/28 "2015-11-06T22:43:40Z")

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Rick and Shane on The Walking Dead. I wish the producers had waited another season or two to divorce them.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dysfunctional-movie-tv-relationship/736667/29 "2015-11-06T23:25:08Z")

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> [@HyacinthBucket](#):
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> Speaking of Livias - the relationships in I, Claudius between Livia and absolutely EVERYONE were deliciously twisted. I loved her warning to her son Tiberius about Augustus’ personal fig tree… “Don’t eat the figs”.

I love her goodnight kiss from Caligula. “My body fascinates him… you’d think it would repulse him, wouldn’t you?”

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**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-dysfunctional-movie-tv-relationship/736667/30 "2015-11-07T02:03:46Z")

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Cheryl and Pam.

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