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Despite the number of experienced, professional people at the firm/lab/force/whatever, everybody on the staff is single. Some may have once been married, but they are now divorced. It might be mentioned that the hard hours their profession demands cuts out the chance for the standard nuclear family, or they may simply be Married to the Job. Usefully, especially in sitcoms, any attractive guy/girl they meet and try to hit on will also be single, unless them being taken is relevant to the plot. In reality, though, the writers just want as many people to have as many potential love/lust interests as possible. This is common in Sitcoms such as Friends, but is more jarring and noticeable in dramas such as ER and CSI. Actors portraying these perpetually single characters are often married themselves, showing how odd the trope is for people of their age. Note that series are much, much more likely to start this way than end this way. As the years go by and writers add romantic subplots, cast members are more and more likely to pair off, whether with each other or with characters who aren't part of the main cast. Also, the trope is called "everyone is single," not "this guy is single;" it only applies when everyone in the cast is single, or at least the vast majority, not just half the cast. Compare All Love Is Unrequited and No Hugging, No Kissing. The direct opposite to Everyone Must Be Paired. |
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Most characters in Gate are adult (and several are Really 700 Years Old), but none of them is in a relationship. Some used to be: Itami is a divorcee (he maintains a friendly contact with his ex-wife, though) and Yao Ha Ducy's lover is dead. | |
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Discussed in Tokyo Ghoul:Re. Ghoul Investigators seem to fall into one extreme or the other, with those that do settle down doing so fairly young while everyone else is Married to the Job. One reason is because of the high mortality rate for their line of work, and the lack of chances to even meet a potential mate. | |
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Downplayed in Patlabor, as Shinshi often mentions having a wife at home. The rest of the main cast are single, but considering their personalities, that's hardly surprising. | |
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Initially true in Bones, but they all date throughout the show. Eventually, the on-again/off-again Hodgins and Angela get married, and by the time they get to season 6, most of the cast are in committed relationships with children. | |
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Likewise on CSI: NY. The series opens with no one on the team even in a serious dating relationship, much less being married. Mac was, but is a widower and isn't in a truly committed relationship until halfway thru the 8th of the 9 seasons. Subverted with Danny & Lindsay finally getting married in season 5, after an on-again/off-again period. M.E. Sid Hammerback is married when he shows up in season 2, but ends up twice divorced by the series end. Don has a serious relationship with a fellow officer, but it ends when she is killed in the line of duty. As of the finale, Mac is engaged to an old friend; while Don is dating yet another officer, and Sheldon and Adam are seeing minor recurring characters, but it is unknown how serious any of those three relationships will turn out to be. | |
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All of the doctors in House, M.D. (with the exception of Wilson, who eventually gets a divorce from his third wife during the run of the show) are single. A patient does a Lampshade Hanging by saying this is why he's not interested in a medical career. Taub, Cameron, Chase, Foreman and Thirteen are all doctors and none of them are single. This only leaves Cuddy, House and Wilson single in the primary cast. Kutner doesn't count. And then everyone breaks up except for Taub and his wife (until they divorce later in the series). On the other hand, Cuddy gets a boyfriend breaks up with him. Then she dates House for a while and then broke up with him. |
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Cheers: Everyone working at the bar is initially unmarried. Sam and Carla are divorced, and Coach is widowed. Of the customers, Cliff remains single, Norm is married, to the never seen Vera, and Frasier and Lilith marry each other during the course of the series. This caused a problem when Rhea Perlman (Carla) who in real life is married to Danny DeVito, got pregnant. Since her character was shown as a trollop they just had her get pregnant by one of the guys she was dating. However, at the same time Shelly Long (Diane), who was also married (to a stockbroker) in real life, got pregnant, and it would look ridiculous to show both bar maids as pregnant, so they mostly hid Diane behind various fixtures to disguise her pregnancy. Averted with Woody, who marries Kelly during the tenth season and is still happily married to her many years later according to Spin-Off Frasier. |
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The Honor Harrington series has this in the earlier stories as a common issue. While there are many couples, the main character is very single with romance subplots. | |
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When Parks and Recreation started, Ann and Andy are the only ones in a relationship (though it's quickly broken up at the first season finale). Tom is married to a woman named Wendy, but it's nothing more than a green card marriage and thus Tom acted as if he was single anyway, and the two of them eventually divorce (in an episode titled "Tom's Divorce", no less). Jerry is later revealed to be in a very happy, long and stable marriage of his own once his character was fleshed out more. By the end of the series, every major character ends up married. | |
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Funny thing about Lyrical Nanoha, despite the fact that a decent part of the cast are parents, the only characters who are currently married are Chrono and Amy. Other parents either adopted their kids while single or lost their mate before the series began. | |
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This was the premise of Sex and the City for the first several seasons. Near the end, though, they all wind up either married (Miranda & Charlotte) or in serious relationships (Samantha & Carrie). | |
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Grey's Anatomy begins with all of the young employees of Seattle Grace at least nominally single. The Chief and Bailey were both stressfully married, McDreamy had just split with Redheaded Doctor after banging McSteamy, so the grown-ups weren't even coping. In fact given the state of Izzie-Alex, George-Callie and Yang-Burke GA is not really an advert for the medical profession. In later seasons we get more stable relationships. Meredith and Darek are happily married and Owen and Christina are giving marriage a fair shot. Alex and Izzie got married but that ended badly when Izzie was written out. Even Mark seems to be looking for a stable relationship. Arizona has proposed to Callie even with the entire Callie-carrying-Mark's-baby debacle. |
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NCIS: Los Angeles: Kensi and Deeks are married to each other, Sam was married (and now widowed since Season 8's finale), and Eric and Nell are in an on again/off again relationship, but otherwise everyone has been single. Callen is starting to get serious with Anna Kolcheck in recent years though. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: the only married couples are Maes and Gracia Hughes, Izumi and Sig Curtis and King Bradley and his wife, and the first is broken up by Maes' murder in the fourth volume. Especially notable given that the series is populated with attractive people. | |
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In Double Homework, nobody studying or working at the summer school class is in a relationship. Justified for pretty much all the characters: Johanna and Tamara are attracted to their brother, the protagonist has spent the last few months shut away in his room, Dennis is a stereotypical nerd, Lauren, Morgan, Amy, and Rachel are all socially isolated, Ms. Walsh is new to the country, and Dr. Mosely is a scientist who covertly travels the world to perform experiments. | |
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Harry Potter: None of the staff at Hogwarts seem to be married or indeed to ever have been able to sustain a proper relationship. The only counterexample is in the future, with Neville being Herbology professor and married to Hannah Abbot. Pottermore reveals Professor McGonagall was briefly married. They lived in Hogsmeade, so McGonagall would have an easy commute to Hogwarts every day. |
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Subverted in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, in which the protagonist is married... but still eligible for a love interest subplot, as it's a group marriage. In fact, four spouses (three male/one female), get added to the marriage over the course of the book, two of which are main characters. The new wife is the protagonist's new love interest (and all the other spouses grow to love her too), one of the new husbands is a friend protagonist and love interest acquired during the plot, who thoroughly charms all the other spouses. | |
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This is universally true at CTU — however, this is partly because of 24's recurring theme of the conflict between family vs. duty. Hence, there are a lot of divorcees and widows featured on 24. | |
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Total Drama: Almost everyone who comes onto the show is single, which, of course, is perfect for plenty of romantic drama as teenage hormones get the best of everyone. The only exception to this rule was Sky, who still had something of a romance plot during her time on the show. | |
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Only Gwen in Torchwood has a partner, Rhys. Captain Jack encourages her to stay with him and not let her work consume her... it doesn't go well. On the other hand, they're still together at the end of series 4, so... Although Ianto and Jack later officially became a couple, so it's was subverted in series 3 when all of the Torchwood team were in a relationship at the same time. In series 4, Miracle Day, the new Torchwood team and the Dark Messiah hired by PhiCorp are single as well. |
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Though this happens in a lot of sports movies, it's extra-noticeable in The Game Plan starring Dwayne Johnson. Not only is almost the entire team of professional sports stars unmarried and single, all but one (besides Johnson's character) aren't parents either, and are merciless with their teasing about his new status. In real life, of course, a lot of professional sports stars are married and/or parents. | |
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In Homestuck, despite the Love Dodecahedrons, All Love Is Unrequited is in effect and of the giant cast very few are capable of getting into a relationship at all, let alone keeping it without breaking up or dying. The fact that most of the characters are between 13 and 16 helps, but you'd think at least some of them would manage it, and even the adults are pretty uniformly single as well. Dad and Mom started going out at one point, but...well, here's where that 'without dying' catch comes in. This changes in Act 6, when Rose and Kanaya start dating and manage to stay together even through dying and being resurrected by a Cosmic Retcon, leading to them getting married during the Credits. | |
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The One Chicago franchise: Averted in part in Chicago Fire. When the series started only Hermann was married, but as the series has gone on Boden, Mouch and Cruz have all married (Mouch to Trudy Platt in Chicago PD), and Severide and Kidd are in a relationship. Casey and Dawson did marry, but have since divorced after she left the show. Chicago P.D.: Only Olinsky and Dawson are married at the start of the series, and the latter gets divorced after Season 1. Voight is widowed, Platt gets married (to Mouch, see above), and Burgess and Ruzek get engaged but break it off. Chicago Med: At the start of the series Dr Charles is twice divorced, Dr Manning is widowed, Goodwin is married (but gets divorced after her husband leaves her) and everyone else is single. Maggie gets married to Ben, a fellow cancer patient, in Season 6. There are various hookups between the doctors but none have yet led to marriage, although Drs Halstead and Manning came close, and April was also engaged before calling it off. |
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Seems to be the case with the guardians in Vampire Academy. There are guardians in sexual relationships, but the series never introduces an active guardian who is married. Instead there are two cases of guardians who resigned to marry. Probably an indication of how dedicated the guardians are to their jobs. | |
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Advanced V.G. is an all-girl fighting game series featuring a cast of hotties ranging from their sophomore year in highschool, to college freshmen. Yet, they're all still single and don't seem to care. The only exceptions are Reimi who's secretly engaged to her personal assistant, Washio. Whereas Tamao and Yuuki each harbor unrequited lust for Yuka and Satomi respectively. | |
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In Star Trek: Titan, both Will's first officer and his superiors are concerned about his wife Deanna serving aboard Titan as Senior Diplomatic Officer because it puts her directly in the chain of command (as just Ship's Counselor, she was not an officer of the line). | |
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Almost averted in The X-Files, Scully was originally supposed to have a boyfriend named Ethan. A scene with him in the pilot was filmed but cut when the idea was scrapped before the show premiered. Mulder and Scully instead remained single until finally hooking up with each other sometime in the later seasons. Skinner is shown to be married but we only find out about this in the episode where he gets divorced. | |
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All versions are represented in New Tricks; the boss is a single workaholic, one of the detectives is a multiple-divorcee and another is a widower. Ironically, however, the most psychologically-screwed up of them all is also the only one who is happily married, and has been for a good long time. | |
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Vow of Nudity: The author seems committed to this, despite the large quantity of one-night stands for both protagonists. Over fourteen stories, neither Haara nor Spectra have ever committed to a relationship with any of the many people they sleep with, and every Guest-Star Party Member goes their separate way at the end of the current adventure. Fiora even comments on this when she expresses an interest in settling down with Haara, but wistfully adds she can already tell Haara isn't the sort to accept. | |
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None of the characters in Jackie Chan Adventures (sans Jade's parents) are in relationships. In fact, if it weren't for Paco's unrequited crush on Jade and some teasing between Jackie and Viper, this show would be a perfect example of No Hugging, No Kissing. | |
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The only long-term romance shown in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War is Kashiwagi and her boyfriend (at least until Kaguya and Shirogane finally hook up over Christmas break). And despite most of the characters' parents being married, the only one we see with any regularity (Shirogane's father) has been estranged from his wife for seven years. However, most of the characters do have justifications as to why they're single even if they express a desire for a relationship, like Ishigami (considered a pariah due to an incident in middle school), Fujiwara (forbidden from being in a relationship by her father), or Hayasaka (barely has any free time to speak of due to her job). | |
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Occurs in Stargate SG-1 even though Sam and Jack clearly have feelings for each other (and do eventually admit to them) due to their ranks and roles. Various SG team members start dating at different points throughout the series, but nothing serious ever comes of it. Daniel is initially married, but since his wife gets possessed by the Goa'uld in the first episode and later dies, he might as well be single. This trope is lampshaded when everyone expresses extreme surprise that Teal'c has a wife and son, but that's mostly because earlier he told them he hadn't left anyone important behind when he defected. The show's USAF technical advisers put the kibosh on a proposed Sam-Jack relationship that the writers had been planning. There is the Daniel/Vala pairing, and it sorta did happen, but then didn't since there was time travel. Carter also manages to maintain a relationship with Pete Shanahan for most of a season. |
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In How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend not only the whole main cast is single despite having "two most beautiful girls in school" (at least according to Megumi), but also Tomoya insists that Megumi doesn't see any other men, including her cousin, and remains "a heroine who saves herself for the players". | |
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Averted in part in Chicago Fire. When the series started only Hermann was married, but as the series has gone on Boden, Mouch and Cruz have all married (Mouch to Trudy Platt in Chicago PD), and Severide and Kidd are in a relationship. Casey and Dawson did marry, but have since divorced after she left the show. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is actually an aversion. The show features four married couples total, three of which involve a soldier married to a civilian. This is likely because the characters live on a space station instead of a starship, making it much easier to form relationships outside the ranks (although one of the couples, Miles and Keiko, actually did meet and get married on a starship). It's rather telling though that the one main character in a lasting nuclear family is the character the writers have confessed to enjoy torturing. Other Star Trek series play it pretty straight. On TOS and TNG all of the main cast were single, or at least appeared to be. We never saw anything of Uhura's or Sulu's personal lives, while each of the others had at least one romance story. On Voyager Janeway had been in a relationship and Tuvok was married prior to getting lost in the Delta Quadrant, their situation made them essentially single. Eventually, Janeway found out he boyfriend had moved on believing her to have died, but Tom and B'Elanna get married, so it evens out. Janeway does toy with the idea of dating in... odd places, namely the Holodeck, but Tuvok never even considers straying from his wife. |
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Chicago P.D.: Only Olinsky and Dawson are married at the start of the series, and the latter gets divorced after Season 1. Voight is widowed, Platt gets married (to Mouch, see above), and Burgess and Ruzek get engaged but break it off. | |
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Other Star Trek series play it pretty straight. On TOS and TNG all of the main cast were single, or at least appeared to be. We never saw anything of Uhura's or Sulu's personal lives, while each of the others had at least one romance story. | |
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On The Office (US), every character with the exception of David Wallace has at some point been single. All the ones with kids are divorced and while a few have been married or are in relationships, none have been for the entire run of the series. | |
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NCIS: As of Season 18, only Tim McGee is married (to Delilah). Vance and Jimmy Palmer have both been widowed during the course of the show; Bishop is divorced; Gibbs is widowed and divorced; and Torres, Kasie and Ducky are single. | |
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Chicago Med: At the start of the series Dr Charles is twice divorced, Dr Manning is widowed, Goodwin is married (but gets divorced after her husband leaves her) and everyone else is single. Maggie gets married to Ben, a fellow cancer patient, in Season 6. There are various hookups between the doctors but none have yet led to marriage, although Drs Halstead and Manning came close, and April was also engaged before calling it off. | |
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D.B. Russell was an exception until he revealed after moving to CSI: Cyber that he and his wife had split | |
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Used constantly in Professional Wrestling, except in cases where a spouse and/or children would add drama to the angle. Averted a little with Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, as their marriage is frequently used in feuds. There are the two classic examples of Macho Man Randy Savage being married to Miss Elizabeth for years before an on-screen wedding, then still using her as a valet for years after their divorce, and Kevin Sullivan pairing his wife up with Chris Benoit and booking his own divorce. |
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Ouran High School Host Club's cast is made up mostly of singles. All the Host Club members and their customers are single (as far as we know), as is Haruhi's father (widower), Tamaki's father (divorced, and forcibly separated from his lover and mistress), Tamaki's grandmother (widow), and Ranka's co-worker and friend Misuzu (divorced). The only couples in the series are the Hitachiin's parents, Kyouya's parents, Kyouya's sister and her husband, and a few students at the school who are in perfectly arranged marriages. And, Tamaki and Haruhi at the end of the manga. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Throughout the series, only 3 of the clients, and none of the victims or main characters, are married/have married parents (possible exception for flashbacks to Nick and Edgy as a kid, even though his parents aren't mentioned). Some (like Ms. von Karma) are never even mentioned, the Feys (Mia, Maya, Pearl, and Dahlia and Iris are specifically said to come from unstable families, and Trucy's mother is missing from an accident. But none of the main characters (possibly excluding Manfred) have ever been married. Manfred seems to subvert this even further, in that he mentions having a granddaughter. Neither Edgeworth or Franziska are ever mentioned to have children, and it's very unlikely so he's probably got another (perfect) kid. Ship teasing is probably the main reason here. There's pretty strong hints for Phoenix wanting to be with multiple different characters. |
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Most of the faculty in Archie Comics, with the exception of Coach Clayton. And he's possibly the only subversion because his kid attends the school and is friends with Archie. | |
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CSI: Miami was the most blatant of the three. Opens with no one married. Jesse is a widower. Horatio is the only one who ties the knot and it only lasts one day due to Marisol being shot to death. A few characters date, but nothing seems to be too serious...unless Calleigh and Eric got back together after the series ended. | |
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Seemed to have creeped up on The DCU with the New 52. Barry Allen was no longer in any kind of relationship with Iris West (effectively wiping out Wally West in the process), and Superman was no longer married to or interested in Lois Lane. Eventually, these relationships were restored, though. | |
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On The West Wing, the president and vice-president are the only people in the entire administration who can hang on to a spouse. The show suggests that this is one of the sacrifices you make by working for the President. Leo McGarry's marriage falls apart because of the demands of his position as White House Chief of Staff, Sam leaves his fiancee to work for the Bartlet campaign, CJ fails to get it on with at least four men during the show and Leo's lawyer girlfriend vanishes during season four. Averted somewhat in the final season when Josh and Donna hook up, and at the end of the series seem to be successfully holding things together. CJ and Danny don't just get together, but have children together, and Sam returns with a new fiancee in tow. Santos is also notoriously happily married with his wife often delaying him for a hook-up. This is true of all of Sorkin's movies and TV shows; he just can't write couples very well. |
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Notably averted by Spider-Man. He managed to hang onto Mary Jane for decades. At least until the relationship was retconned out of existence in the One More Day storyline. That, and Lois Lane and Clark Kent, whose relationship resulted in a marriage. Spider-Man is particularly notable, since both his comic and The Clone Saga were explicitly made to be an extremely convoluted series of Retcons all for the purpose of making Spider-Man single again. This backfired monumentally with the fans (Mary Jane was really popular with them, and Stan Lee), and the flaws can be summed up in Linkara's tirade on reviewing One More Day. | |
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Subverted in the first episode of the British sitcom The IT Crowd in a blatant parody (Jen even says it's just like Ally McBeal): "That's the sort of place this is, Jen. Lots of sexy people not doing much work and having affairs." Of course, Moss and Roy are both single because they're extremely nerdy. | |
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Bait and Switch uses this for the characters whose marital status we know, although in the case of security officer Dul'krah, Clan Korekh it's because his species doesn't actually practice marriage. According to his bio on the Memory Gamma fanon wiki, Dul'krah has a son and daughter by two different women. Also, in Reality Is Fluid Eleya and Gaarra become a couple, although they're still unmarried. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants, despite being a children's program, is a noticeable example. Not only are the younger non-ancillary characters all single, but, as the series progresses, it is revealed that Mr. Krabs is a single parent, Mrs. Puff (despite having the honorific of a married woman) is a widow (or something), and Plankton — while common-law married to a "computer wife" — can unplug her whenever it is convenient for the plot. | |
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Everyone in the mayor's office in Spin City is single, except for the mayor himself, and he gets divorced during the series. Paul does attain a happy marriage at one point, but his wife later leaves him to become a nun. | |
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The vast majority of ponies in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic are single; the only Official Couples are Mr. and Mrs. Cake and Shining Armor and Princess Cadance. There are frequent Ship Teases for Golden Harvest and Written Script (with an occasional hint that Golden Harvest plays the field) or Dr. Hooves and Roseluck, but everypony else looks to be single. In fact, of the Mane Six, only Rarity has shown any romantic interest whatsoever, and this always for single-episode lessons about not compromising for a crush. | |
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As mentioned in the summary, CSI is this to a ridiculous extent. Subverted with Grissom and Sara, who are married, but since neither one is a regular character anymore, we're right back where we started. (There have been rumblings about Wendy/Hodges and Catherine/Vartann, but neither are canon as of yet.) Catherine/Vartann is canon for a time, but then Catherine left, and Wendy/Hodges is... sorta canon. She kissed him, but it was never really said if they're in a relationship. Maybe we'll find out in the premiere, right around the same time that we never see Wendy again because they fired Liz Vassey... D.B. Russell was an exception until he revealed after moving to CSI: Cyber that he and his wife had split Warrick got married which surprised all the other characters since they did not even know that he was seeing anyone. The marriage is rarely mentioned on the show with the implication that Warrick is trying very hard to keep his professional life separate from his private one. When he gets divorced it comes equally out of the blue and then he is killed. The audience does not really get to see the wife. The revival is the same. Grissom and Sara appear as a couple but the new characters are all either single or in one case a divorced single parent. |
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JAG: In a first season episode, Harm and Meg are investigating the death of a Marine recruit. While investigating an alibi, Harm discovers that one of the female Drill Instructors (who had recently applied for Officer Candidate School) is romantically involved with the CO of the base. At the end of the episode, the DI asks if he's going to report them for fraternization. Harm replies he'll overlook it, if she gets her commission within the next 6 months. | |
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Criminal Minds: The only married character divorces in the third season. Newcomer Alex Blake is the only exception, though she hardly got to see her husband, James, due to the fact that he was almost always abroad with Doctors Without Borders. In "#6", though, we find that he took a job as a professor at Harvard and asked Alex to join him. Alex says no, but agrees to visit him during the weekend and on holidays. Everyone's favorite tech kitten Garcia starts dating Kevin, but they eventually split up in Season 7. JJ starts living with and dating Will in season three, and the two of them eventually marry and have a son together. |
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All seven Friends of Narnia in The Last Battle are single. None of them married either in Narnia or England. Although this is justified by the fact that most of them are barely adults. | |
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Double subverted in Fresh Pretty Cure!. It seemed that, finally, in the sixth season of the Series Franchise, a character would be introduced who was already taken... but the "boyfriend" turned out to be her brother. | |
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At the beginning of the Battlestar Galactica miniseries, almost every member of the main and supporting cast is single, but by the end of Season 2 everyone is already hooked up or on their way there. During the year-long gap in the timeline between the Season 2 finale and the beginning Season 3, the Love Dodecahedron of the previous season has resolved itself into four reasonably Happily Married couples. | |
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Kengan Ashura: Almost none of the characters are in an official romantic relationship, despite most of them being at least in their late 20s (and more than a few are middle-aged, if not elderly), and some of them even have children. Metsudo's children—Sayaka and Retsudo—are sired by his unseen mistresses. Kazuo and Erioh were married, but Kazuo's wife had left him long before the story begins, while Erioh's has probably passed away. While there are Ship Tease between several of the characters, only Nezu and Miki (who aren't really important to the plot anyway) get an explicit Relationship Upgrade ... during the time skip between Ashura and Omega, after which Nezu retires as a fighter and disappears from the story altogether. | |
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NCIS: New Orleans: Pride, Patton and Gregorio are all divorced, Khury is separated from her husband, and everyone else is single. Pride starts a relationship with Rita Devereux and they decide to get married in the final season. | |
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Variable Geo features an entire cast of über hot waitresses, most of whom are still single. The lone exceptions are Reimi who's in a Secret Relationship with her personal aide, Washio, and Yuuki's unrequited lust for Satomi. The rest seemingly have no interest in dating as the subject is never even mentioned once. | |
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Stargate Atlantis: Almost all of the expedition members are single. Justified as they were chosen because they didn't have significant people waiting for them. (It was a one-way mission to another galaxy). Elizabeth who is initially the exception, breaks up with her boyfriend expressly for this reason. Subverted later as Rodney, Teyla, Ronon, Keller and possibly Carson all hook up with someone by the finale. John's still single, but much like Sam and Jack, it's implied he and Elizabeth had feelings for each other but were unable to admit them |
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Played largely straight in the original Mobile Suit Gundam, which isn't surprising, since most of the main cast are junior officers still in their late teens. Averted in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, with two couples from the original who had gotten married in the intervening years (although the wives had left the EFF to raise their children), and with lead protagonist Kamille Bidan's own parents. Most Gundam shows play it straight, though. | |
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World Trigger: While there are crushes, nobody is known to be in a relationship. Even Kinuta, who has a daughter, is separated from his wife. It's a notable pattern in the ''BBF'' Q&A, where Ashihara is frequently asked if [x] and [y] are dating, to which the answer is always, "They probably aren't." He elaborates in another answer that if anyone is in a relationship, it's probably not with a Border agent (and therefore named character), as there tend to be issues with dating a coworker. | |
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On Voyager Janeway had been in a relationship and Tuvok was married prior to getting lost in the Delta Quadrant, their situation made them essentially single. Eventually, Janeway found out he boyfriend had moved on believing her to have died, but Tom and B'Elanna get married, so it evens out. Janeway does toy with the idea of dating in... odd places, namely the Holodeck, but Tuvok never even considers straying from his wife. | |
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Averted by Reed and Sue Richards, aka Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman in Fantastic Four. | |
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The Mentalist: Viewers know little of Lisbon and Cho's personal lives (except Cho's seems to consist largely of working steadily through very thick books), with the impression they're too consumed with their work to bother. Rigsby loves van Pelt, but van Pelt initially runs like a frightened rabbit from the idea because as the junior member of the team, she'd get transferred out if she started dating a coworker (and she doesn't come off as that into Rigsby anyway). Jane, meanwhile, lost his wife and daughter to a pissed off serial killer he was helping to hunt, and still hasn't recovered emotionally. Cho was revealed to have a girlfriend and Rigsby and Van Pelt finally give in, not without fear. The impression of consumption with work, however, remains strong, and social lives outside of work seem virtually nonexistent. |
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| Everybody Is Single / int_f6c05e8e | type |
Everybody Is Single | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_f6c05e8e | comment |
By the end of Friends, only Joey is single. In the first half of the series the cast all has short relationships that usually only last a handful of episodes. (Joey and Kate/Kathy, Chandler and Janice/Kathy, Monica and Bobby/Richard/Pete, Phoebe and David, Rachel and Paolo/Ross/Joshua, Ross and Julie/Rachel/Emily) but are mostly single. From Season 5 onwards Monica and Chandler are the only two in a long-term relationship and the others continue with short relationships. (Gary, Janine, Mona, Tag, Parker, Gavin, Charlie etc.) | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_f6c05e8e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_f6c05e8e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Friends | hasFeature |
Everybody Is Single / int_f6c05e8e | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_f89f466d | type |
Everybody Is Single | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_f89f466d | comment |
In series 4, Miracle Day, the new Torchwood team and the Dark Messiah hired by PhiCorp are single as well. | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_f89f466d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_f89f466d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Torchwood: Miracle Day | hasFeature |
Everybody Is Single / int_f89f466d | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_fcc7ec6b | type |
Everybody Is Single | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_fcc7ec6b | comment |
Averted a little with Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, as their marriage is frequently used in feuds. | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_fcc7ec6b | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_fcc7ec6b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Triple H (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Everybody Is Single / int_fcc7ec6b | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_fd74a791 | type |
Everybody Is Single | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_fd74a791 | comment |
In the Doctor Who New Adventures novels, the decision to give ex-companion Bernice Summerfield her own spin-off series — in which, as lead character, she would be expected to participate in romantic-interest subplots — led directly to the messy collapse of her marriage in Eternity Weeps, which upstaged the violent deaths of a tenth of the Earth's population. This, less than a year after an entire novel was devoted to the wedding and much effort was expended in assuring readers that it was Happily Ever After-type True Love. | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_fd74a791 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_fd74a791 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doctor Who New Adventures | hasFeature |
Everybody Is Single / int_fd74a791 | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_ff2165b | type |
Everybody Is Single | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_ff2165b | comment |
All of the main cast of Cold Case are single, widowed, or divorced. | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_ff2165b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Everybody Is Single / int_ff2165b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cold Case | hasFeature |
Everybody Is Single / int_ff2165b |
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