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It takes more than the good intentions of the Love Martyr or the delusions of Mad Love to make a relationship work. When a relationship gets rocky or outright implodes, the resulting mess just goes to prove Love Hurts, and that's when everyone involved was trying their best to make it work. Then, of course, there's No Accounting for Taste. This happens when two insufferable people choose to suffer each other and stay married, or when one ostensibly nice person marries an unrepentant Jerkass.
The former has both parties held together by force of habit, and basically tolerant of each other although there's very little romance or chemistry (though plenty of sass and backtalk). The latter has the whole relationship held together by one person. The second type appears to be what happens when the Love Martyr actually gets some sort of relationship with their target. Both halves of the couple acknowledge that they're part of a pair, but otherwise, the whole affair's so inexplicable/unequal that it's a marriage/love affair in name only.
This is similar to The Masochism Tango but milder. It's a subset of how so many Sitcom characters are so dementedly quirky that they'd wind up on Jerry Springer in real life. Handwaving this often uses Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other. Comedic Sociopathy ultimately makes you wonder why anyone would put up with that guy.
Often overlaps with Ugly Guy, Hot Wife, which - depending on your point of view - either further makes a couple with this look ill-matched, or makes an Ugly Guy, Hot Wife pairing all the more inexplicable with this trope.
Third-parties may wonder What Does She See in Him?.
See also Awful Wedded Life, Dead Sparks, Happy Marriage Charade, and Why Would Anyone Take Him Back? When this occurs with non-romantic friends, one of them may be The Friend Nobody Likes.
Truth in Television: Lots and lots of people are in marriages that are rather less than ideal. Hell, your parents probably were at one time or another. And please note that sometimes divorce is not really an option.

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Both couples in Rab C. Nesbitt. Rab and Mary-Doll got their share of Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other moments. Ella Cotter, on the other hand, only seemed to stay with Jamesie because leaving would be letting him off easy (why he stayed wasn't at all clear).
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In Ranma ½, Konatsu's father and stepmother are this: Not only were they Hot Guy, Ugly Wife, his father was also a loving parent when he was alive while his stepmother has treated him more like a slave than a family member. While describing his familial backstory to Ranma, Akane, and Ukyo, Konatsu surmises that his father got married to his stepmother soon after his biological mother's passing in a desperate haste for companionship.
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That 70s Show:
Red and Kitty Forman. Red's snarkiness and lack of tact frustrate Kitty on a regular basis. Kitty's drinking and apparent naivete do the same for him. He's a good provider, she's a good housewife and mother. It's also implied several times on the show that the sex is fantastic.
Jackie and Hyde. She's rich, spoiled, selfish Alpha Bitch-type, he's a Brilliant, but Lazy Conspiracy Theorist slacker. They both can see the improbability of their relationship.
Bob and Midge could be seen as a Deconstruction of this trope as far as sitcoms go; the pair usually keep a friendly, cheery outlook on things in spite of it being clear to everyone their marriage is not a healthy one. Bob is self-centered and superficial, Midge is a Brainless Beauty. They stay together in spite of everyone seeing the marriage is doomed, all their attempts to fix it are openly viewed as idiotic and futile, and their sham of a romance is having some very negative effects on their daughter. They eventually divorce, and it's ultimately seen by everyone as for the best.
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Cheers: Sam and Diane is an odd case of this. They do genuinely love each other, but from the start it's shown their relationship is unhealthy, and the two completely incompatible, with Diane often exploding at Sam for minor irritants. Sam even later admits when Diane leaves that if they had gotten married, he would've ended up killing her. The problem is Diane absolutely refuses to acknowledge this, and becomes insanely jealous if Sam looks at another woman (or even thinks of looking at another woman).
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In David Edding's The Belgariad series, Garion and Ce'Nedra. They reeaaally aren't suited for each other, but they stay together Because Destiny Says So.
Also because it's an Arranged Marriage between royal families. And they do grow out of it and fall in love later on.
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The Simpsons: Homer and Marge have always, always been in a weird flux between wondering why are they still together and being Happily Married: They're facing constant troubles, but it's always made a big deal instead of just "a fact of life". It's not until The Movie that she walks out on him for real, even if only temporarily.
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In WarioWare, for reasons unknown to all but the Star Spirits themselves, Mona thinks Wario is really cool and is hinted to be attracted to him. For reference, she's a cute, attractive, cheerful Fiery Redhead, and he's a greedy, ugly, overweight, amoral, Corrupt Corporate Executive whose breath always smells like garlic. For her part, Wario is a treasure hunter who's earned his wealth battling beasties and saving the world. And it's not like he doesn't care about his employees deep down—he's just way too self-centered to ever admit it.
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George and Loraine McFly in Back to the Future, a geeky doormat and a frumpy, closed-minded housewife who only met because her father accidentally ran him over with his car. Their son Marty accidentally disrupts the meeting via time travel and has to fix it, his actions giving George a backbone and encouraging Loraine's passionate side, as well as making it so they fall for each other for real and not just through the Florence Nightingale Effect. When Marty returns to 1985, both parents are better people personality-wise and are very obviously Happily Married.
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Bug Martini demonstrates this trope with the "Beyond Thunderdome" type of relationship.
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In early seasons of The Dukes of Hazzard, Boss Hogg's wife Lulu is little better than her husband. In later seasons, however, she softens and becomes much nicer than he is, starts to lose patience with his shady antics, and starts to become the dominant side of the relationship. She even threatens to divorce him in one episode. To make things worse - for her husband - she tended to be on friendly terms with the Dukes, much to his dismay.
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Stephen Stills and his on-again, off-again girlfriend Julie in Scott Pilgrim. She spends nearly the entire fourth book complaining about him, his band and generally being crabby, and by the fifth book, they've broken up. Again. They've been dating since college and Julie was the one who introduced Scott to Natalie.
For good this time. He ends up coming out of the closet. Unfortunately, the guy he ends up with is bitchier than Julie. Word of God points out it is no coincidence that they both happen to be misanthropic jerks.
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Lord and Lady Everglot from Corpse Bride get along quite well, but it's painfully obvious they do not love each other. They don't even like each other and are quite open about it. They both insist that liking one's spouse has nothing whatsoever to do with marriage.
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Oscar and Emma from Corner Gas normally tend to fall in this trope, though some episodes show that they do really seem to love each other.
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Jerry and Beth Smith from Rick and Morty. If the two of them are sharing a plotline in an episode, it's probably about their struggling marriage. Various episodes have shown that they do still care about each other deep down, but there's still a lot of resentment about the reason behind getting married in the first place, and Beth's alcoholic mad-scientist father living with them hasn't helped.
An episode reveals it's basically Toxic Friend Influence on steroids. They do genuinely love each other, but they're both so horribly insecure that despite their complaints, they're actually attracted to and enable the others' faults. Beth may complain or be annoyed by Jerry's spinelessness, but she actually needs it because it makes her feel good about herself and her worth, using it to balance out the negativity of how desperate she was to get her father's attention. Jerry meanwhile is aware he's a loser, but he's attracted to Beth's strength and abrasiveness because he can let her take charge and take care of him while also being with someone who initially would be considered out of his league.
Heck, in Season 3, when Rick has a plan to get them to divorce and him becoming the family patriarch, both of them become even worse. Jerry becomes a bigger hapless loser while Beth begins lashing out at her kids and becoming a bigger jerk. On the other hand, their harsher circumstances do force them to change a bit (with Morty lashing out at Beth and Rick finally explaining to Jerry why he doesn't like him). It ends with Beth getting back together with Jerry. However, the circumstances are unique in that after Beth and Rick spend time and Beth realizes how much like her dad she is, he gives her a choice of creating a duplicate to take her place on Earth while she goes on crazy space adventures, especially since the duplicate would supposedly become self-aware of being a clone. The next episode has an insensitive joke by Rick causing Beth to be gaslit and after an identity crisis, goes to Jerry and finally talk things out.
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Tom the Dancing Bug also parodies this with "Marital Mirth". Unlike other examples, the thin veneer of jocularity is removed, with every strip featuring the husband and wife talking amongst themselves or with their friends about how much they openly hate each other.
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Problem Child has Ben Healy Jr. and Flo. The former is a Nice Guy who honestly wants a son while the other is a bitchy shrew who only wants a kid so that she can socialize with other mothers. There's no reason why they got married in the first place considering that she immediately leaps onto a murderous criminal and he's completely indifferent to the fact that she's not coming back. Oddly enough, his love interest in the second film is played by the same woman, who later became Ritter's real-life wife.
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In its early years, Baby Blues had Bunny and Butch, who had nothing in common and spent their entire time squabbling, their three kids being basically the only reason they were still married at all. They eventually moved out after a few years, much to the MacPhersons' relief. Then in 2020, Bunny moved into the neighborhood again.
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In the Kushiel's Legacy series, the entire nation thinks this about Phedre and Joscelin's relationship. It doesn't help that one's a celibate warrior-priest and the other's a kinky courtesan who enjoys her job. Immensely.
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Married... with Children: Al and Peg are a textbook example of this trope. They verbally stated that they couldn't stand each other, and it's a wonder they didn't kill each other by the end of the show's run. (Despite this, Al never actually cheated on Peg and was known to react violently towards anyone who made a pass at her. Peg acted the same way towards almost anyone who had feelings for Al.)
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Final Fantasy VII: Lucrecia, despite having feelings for Vincent Valentine, choose to be with Professor Hojo. We are never shown a reason why she agreed to have a child with him. Her not being with Vincent has some degree of reason, she blames herself for his father's death. Hojo? He acts smug when she agrees to be his wife, he treats their child as an experiment while still in the womb, he never shows any actual sign he cares for her or is even attracted to her. Vincent even questions if she's okay with what Hojo does, but tries to avoid hurting her as long as he made her happy. Of course, if things went differently, the world would never have met her son, Sephiroth.
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Danny Phantom: Stranded:
Star questions in Bonding how her parents — a workaholic lawyer and a snobby socialite — ever fell in love with each other in the first place. However, flashbacks in Lost show Johnathan and Stella's past relationship and reveal that they both genuinely loved each other when they were first married and were happy together. Unfortunately, their different values and upbringings eventually caused them to drift apart. Johnathan acknowledges that he was so in love with Stella that he was blinded to her flaws, like her snobbery. On the other hand, Stella was in love with Johnathan when he was a young man just starting his career, and she did love the family they made together, but over the years, they lost their spark. Stella admits to herself that she is still unsure if she grew bored with him or felt neglected because of his work schedule, but she eventually felt that their relationship couldn't be saved.
There is also Stella's marriage to Jean-Luc, a snobbish man who has no problem hitting on other women. Stella does explain that she fell for Jean-Luc based on his good looks, sophistication, and the fact that he came from Old Money like her, while her relationship with Johnathan was dead by the time she met him. It seems that Stella is/was attracted to Jean-Luc because they had more things in common, and she seems content with their marriage, though she is either unaware or in denial of his womanizing ways.
Similarly, Jean-Luc's first marriage to Suzette Dumont ended badly. Their daughter Colette even wonders why her parents — a compassionate, dedicated philanthropist who's made it her life's mission to help people and a snobby, philandering vineyard owner who looks down on the lower classes and dislikes charity — got together in the first place. It's suggested they were originally drawn together due to coming from similarly elite backgrounds and having a shallow attraction to each other.
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Maniac's aunt and uncle are this in Maniac Magee. They despise each other, but as "good Christians" they refuse to get a divorce. Maniac lives with them after his parents die, and he finally runs away because of their mutual hatred.
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The Order of the Stick:
Haley is in love with the Elan, who is nice, but very stupid. The other group members even comment on this, saying that there is no accounting for taste. Their relationship didn't really develop until Elan underwent some character development; he literally Took a Level in Badass and started displaying Genre Savvy.
There's also the married dirt farmers who the Order of the Stick saves from ogres they constantly snip at each other, and the old man suggests he even got kidnapped by said ogres just to have some peace and quiet.
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Francine and Stan from American Dad! are a weird case. Several episodes revolve around Stan putting Francine (sometimes his entire family) through some plan that involves putting her through horrible things (so far he's made the whole family go months without any food money to get a better deal on a car, made Francine think he killed their neighbor and her attempts at making him more open will get him killed so she'll stop bugging her about it, and frame her for murder which made her feel so guilty, she moved to a horrible part of India to help the poor so he doesn't have to hear her say "I told you so"), and though they're over it by the next episode, they aren't actually shown getting over it (in the last one, she explicitly tells him she hasn't forgiven him yet). On the other hand, other episodes show he's genuinely caring, doesn't realize the things he does are so bad, and tries to fix them.
In one episode, Stan decides he has to know that he "won" over Francine's old fiancé and so fakes his death while watching the house via hidden cameras to see how Francine will react when her ex comforts her. Francine discovered the cameras, figured things out, and pretended to be close to her ex (but never went all the way) in order to yank Stan's chainnote Of course, Stan's island resort was hit by a hurricane, which did leave him stranded and thus he didn't know what was happening anymore. After they explain this to each other, Francine's ex declares that they're perfect for each other because they're both insane and storms out of the house.
Stan does occasionally show genuine love and affection to Francine, having even put her well-being over his principles and job. The times when he does this can even approach heartwarming levels, especially both Christmas episodes. Heck, one episode had them outright state that their marriage is just a sham: Stan loves her only for her looks, Francine just wants to be taken care of. They actually end the episode with them telling each other this. The Aesop for this particular episode seems to be that they're both so shallow the best they can hope for is each other.
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Frank and Marie Barone stay together in Everybody Loves Raymond. He's an old curmudgeon and she's an annoying busybody. Plus, they first got married because she got pregnant. Maybe they stick together because they're Catholic. It may be because of dependency. They can't really start over and are too old to live in another way. Ironically, they (quite arguably) have the healthiest relationship on the entire show thanks to their blunt openness when dealing with each other.
It's shown several times that they actually love each other very much (such as when Marie suggested they had a loveless marriage Frank was so shocked and offended he simply walked away); they just really annoy each other.
The more obvious example would be Ray and Debra. Debra routinely physically and verbally attacks Ray, Ray makes light of Debra's worthiness and hobbies, and they both condescend to one another regularly.
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Mr. and Mrs. Kimura in Azumanga Daioh... does the wife even know her hubby has a thing for teenage girls? Though it's worth noting here that Kimura in all other ways is an extremely nice guy himself. He picks up litter to recycle, he gives donations generously both religiously and to charity, and actually does seem to be a competent teacher and a good father to their little girl. It's just... the whole high school girl thing...
Tomo once asked Mrs. Kimura, point-blank, what attracted her to her husband. The woman did not have an answer outside of "Isn't he handsome?", which Tomo pegged as a desperation measure. He actually is rather good-looking as most of the time he's not locked into that creepy/shocked expression of his.
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A Brother's Price has Keifer Porter, the deceased husband of the princesses.
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Andy Capp is a lazy unemployed drunk, whose relationship with his wife frequently escalates into violence on both sides.
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Mung and Truffles from Chowder. He's a womanizer (or so he'd like to think); she's intimidating. It's a weird combination, but they've managed to stay together for four hundred and fifty years.
As Chowder, Mung, and Schnitzel venture out for more cinnamini, Mung asks Truffles to mind the store, because, as he dramatically announces, "We need more spice!" Cue Truffles: "Vell at least somevun acknowledged it."
There was one flashback to their younger days, where Truffles was considerably more attractive and less shrewish.
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In Amnesia: Memories, Toma calls out the heroine on this when she easily forgives a Yandere who drugs her food, locks her up in a cage, and almost rapes her because she just loves him too much, saying that she has horrible taste in men. The kicker? Toma is that very same yandere.
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Fashion exec Jan from Split Screen is deeply in love with her childhood best friend Jeremy, an out-of-shape Big Eater with a truckload of mental and emotional issues, who responds to her advances with the most mixed of mixed signals.
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Frank and Estelle Costanza from Seinfeld couldn't speak to one another without shouting and seemed to genuinely hate each other. It's not really explained why they stay together at all, and when they separate, nobody is the least bit surprised. Like Bob and Midge above, they could also be seen as a Deconstruction of this trope as Jerry theorized that if they had divorced when George was a kid, he "could have been normal" instead of the neurotic, self-loathing, slow-witted, brain-damaged, impulsive and insecure little man he is on the show. George himself seems to agree with Jerry's theory, saying that he's the product of his parents staying together.
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Stanley and Helen Roper from Three's Company. They only show they love each other once every blue moon, with most of the gags between them involving Stanley's unwillingness to touch Helen and Helen feeling that she's taken for granted. This is directly taken from the original Brit Com series where the Ropers consist of an ineffectual weakling married to a chain-smoking frustrated shrew.
The Ropers were so popular on British TV in the original Man About the House that ITV gave them a sitcom spinoff of their own: George & Mildred. US TV followed suit for its take on The Ropers, again adapting the British scripts to American tastes.
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Fred and Wilma Flintstone in The Flintstones. The Beta Couple Barney and Betty, however, are quite Happily Married. Subverted in one of the movies, though, where Fred had to fight to get Wilma's favor back during a vacation trip where he was close to losing her. It's implied that Wilma likes the clumsy yet good-hearted oaf that Fred is.
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Moe Mortelli from Daughter for Dessert has cheated on his wife (including at least once with a prostitute), he once had a burner phone just for this purpose, he talks inappropriately about just about any other (especially younger) attractive woman he sees, he keeps a stash of porn at his desk, and in addition, his job keeps him at work for long hours, sometimes during the night. He and his wife are still married.
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People think this is how Christian and Isabel's marriage works in The Kingdom of Little Wounds, given Isabel lost her looks years ago and is widely known to be not right in the head. Subverted when Christian is only bedding his wife to try to hide the fact that he's interested in men.
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In-universe, people think Howl and Sophie are this. But really, they enjoy bickering with each other and are actually Happily Married.
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Janie and her husband Dougal in Another Time, Another Place, who apparently married her so he could have an extra pair of hands for the farm and another income stream. Then again, there's not much to recommend Luigi either other than being different and exciting compared to Dougal and better in the sack as well (although neither of these things really represent much of a challenge).
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In Death Note, L is visibly surprised when Light Yagami announces that he'll keep seeing Misa Amane; throughout the series, the Taskforce and Light's family witness their relationship with a shrug. The audience, of course, knows the true nature of Light's and Misa's feelings for each other.
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Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram from Mansfield Park. He's a very intelligent and capable man, but he married an insipid, lazy, and fairly stupid woman. At least she's affectionate and kind, and lets herself be guided by Sir Thomas on important issues; they do seem to be rather fond of each other sometimes.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. The author and the characters acknowledge how unfitted these two are, so they serve as a warning to the reader to marry wisely. Miss Austen noted that a young Mr. Bennet mistook youth and beauty for a winning personality. Meanwhile, Mrs. Bennet married for security and Mr. Bennet not only can't provide it, but he actively sabotages her attempts to warn her daughters that they face a choice between financial security and marriage or being poor but independent.
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Will and Terri Schuester on Glee. They are former High-School Sweethearts and are completely incompatible. Terri is an insufferable Jerkass, but Will's such a Nice Guy he puts up with her garbage... despite the fact that he's in love with his co-worker Emma, who also almost gets into a No Accounting for Taste marriage with Ken before he comes to his senses and dumps her. It's little wonder the marriage fell apart about halfway through season one
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Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in M*A*S*H is a textbook case. She's a disciplined, organized, tough-yet-vulnerable, loving, passionate, caring, strict, intelligent, sensual woman - a real spitfire, even though she tries to bury it under her need to be professional. And yet, her taste in men is repeatedly awful.
For most of the series, she is dating Major Frank Burns, a married man who also happens to be the biggest Dr. Jerk in the entire series. He's a petty, wheedling, small-minded, Gung Holier Than Thou Psychopathic Manchild Control Freak whom she knows, and he knows she knows, is just stringing her along until he goes home to his cold, frigid wife. Zigzagged in that she admits to herself that she knows he's a pretty awful catch, but she just can't seem to find anyone else who measures up to her standards of being high-ranking and military-admiring.
She then marries Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscott, a good-looking but manipulative adulterer. Zigzagged in that, once she realizes he's subjecting her to Financial Abuse and cheating on her behind her back, she ultimately divorces him.
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In Monk, when Monk and Sharona pretended to be a couple to investigate a couples therapy retreat, the therapist clearly considered them to be this even in comparison with the other dysfunctional couples at the retreat — Sharona had to sleep on the floor in a pup tent in the room she and Monk shared, for one. When Monk and Sharona admitted to her at episode's end that they weren't actually together, she was extremely relieved and told them point-blank that they should never become an actual couple.
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It was the case of Anne's parents Sir Walter and Lady Elliot of Persuasion. Lady Elliot was the sensible and amiable spouse who married an empty-headed snob who only thinks about his own baronetcy and extremely good looks. The narrator says she was not the happiest of women, but she still managed to cope and found enough pleasure in her duties and she loved her daughters.
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Doing It Right This Time: In the previous timeline, Shinji had wondered why his nice, loving mother would fall for his Jerkass father. But after considering his mother got absorbed into Unit 01 on purpose to become an eternal reminder of humankind’s existence and she actually wanted him to watch how she seemingly died, Shinji wonders why his father would marry her and decides there is no accounting for taste.
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The Brittas Empire: Brittas and Helen - Brittas is a pompous git who has a tendency to make people's lives hell and who has been shown to strain Helen's mental health severely, whilst Helen is a chronic adulterer (albeit not a flaw that is known to Brittas), has an addiction to pills, and only seems to express her love for Brittas when it's to her benefit. It may be justified by the fact that, from Brittas' side at least, he does genuinely love her and would never willingly cheat on her, whilst it's implied that Helen stays because there is some financial benefit to Brittas - after all, she has had poor luck in men and can be quite mad herself.
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Peg on Goof Troop is a beautiful, sensible, likable woman, who married and stayed married to Pete, a fat, unstable, selfish, mean, hypocritical, Lazy Husband who treats their son badly and spoils their daughter rotten when he's not just flat-out ignoring both of them or using them to win an argument with her. And yet she is shown on a few occasions to genuinely love him. She and the daughter both disappear in the movies, so it's possible she eventually left him.
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Red vs. Blue:
In a platonic example, Caboose believes himself to be Church's best friend. While Church has several Pet the Dog moments when it comes to Caboose (he lets out a Big "NO!" when he is supposedly killed, for example), his default position is complete and utter loathing for the Blue Team's rookie. Of course, given the nature of relationships on Red Vs Blue, Caboose probably is Church's best friend.
Same thing with Grif and Simmons. They have absolutely nothing in common yet they remain best friends.
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Vikus and Solovet in The Underland Chronicles: she's a ruthless general willing to resort to almost any tactic to win, he's a pacifist at heart who always tries the diplomatic option first. When Gregor comments on how odd it is that they are married, Vikus admits it has always been somewhat of a puzzle to them as well.
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The Ropers were so popular on British TV in the original Man About the House that ITV gave them a sitcom spinoff of their own: George & Mildred. US TV followed suit for its take on The Ropers, again adapting the British scripts to American tastes.
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Holly and Peter from Scruff. One can only wonder how Holly can put up with an airhead like Peter. Also, Sanda and Truffles, who is known for his hacking cough.
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Tanya in Grandma's House, who is marrying the deeply unsuitable Clive so she can share his big house and the proceeds from his boring job manufacturing boxes. Tanya plans to call the wedding off when Clive loses his job and she is forced to admit how boring he is when he's around her 24/7. She changes her mind when he gets a new job and she learns it will force them to be apart for four days of the week.
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One of the cases in Zootopia: Crime Files features a mouse named Donna who is head-over-heels for an ugly, sleazy gerbil named Dinks. Neither Nick nor Judy understands the appeal.
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Mr. and Mrs. Allen of Northanger Abbey. Here is the narrator's smirking commentary:
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One episode of Dragon Ball Super has Vegeta remarking that he doesn't exactly dislike Bulma's pushy side. He even notes he likes the feistiness and Goku responds with a smile that Chi-Chi can be the same way. Vegeta then explains that as Saiyans, they're naturally attracted to strong-willed women. Piccolo's reaction of "That. Explains. Everything" crows the humor of it all.
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On Daria, the entire Morgendorffer and Barksdale family seem to agree that Daria's aunt Rita suffers from this trope.
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Olive and Arthur in On the Buses. She's plain and dull, he's pompous and rude. It's also hinted their love life isn't up to much. Luckily for the viewer, their discontent is good comedy fodder.
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Abner and Gladys Kravitz on Bewitched.
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Richard and Hyacinth in Keeping Up Appearances. Hyacinth's actress once defended her character against the question "why does Richard put up with Hyacinth" with the answer that she kept a good house, and dinner was always on time. Also partly explained in one episode where Elizabeth and Emmett conclude that Richard's living in his own little world most of the time has gone a long way toward keeping his marriage together.
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What 99 saw in Max is beyond a lot of Get Smart fans. She's an incredibly intelligent, capable, competent agent. He's a bungling, constantly misinformed, delusional twit who manages to succeed through pure luck, or at least so it seems.
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In Ctrl+Alt+Del, all personal non-antagonistic relationships with Ethan are this (Lilah especially, since she married him). Despite his instability, they, as Yatzhee put it, "inexplicably tolerate his behaviour when any sane person would be looking for rooms to rent in one hand while slamming the idiot's face in a drawer with the other".
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Mr. and Mrs. Robinson from The Amazing World of Gumball. In fact, what seems to make them stay together is arguing.
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John and Mary in Father Ted are an Irish take on this trope - a married couple who utterly loathe each other but who live in a Catholic nation where divorce was illegal up until the 1990s and which even today is loaded with social stigma and religious sanction. They have no choice but to pretend to be happily married in public - especially in front of the local priests.
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Eustace and Muriel in Courage the Cowardly Dog, since Muriel is a sweet and kindhearted woman while Eustace is a misanthropic jerk who hates everyone and is generally neglectful towards his wife. At best they get along, and Eustace is at best complacent when he gets what he wants. You have to wonder why they were married or if they liked each other. Their Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other moments are very rare.
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The Joe Jackson song Is She Really Going Out With Him? is about this trope, though it's obvious that a good deal of the issue is actually the singer projecting his feelings of jealousy.
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Deconstructed in Kevin Can F**k Himself where Allison is significantly out of her husband Kevin's league in the looks department and Kevin himself is an Insufferable Imbecile who is completely oblivious to the destructive consequences of his zany schemes. Despite this, most of the characters belittle Allison, wondering why Kevin would stick around with such a "nag" due to the misogynistic environment Kevin cultivated around them. By the start of the series, they have been married ten years and Allison is so emotionally drained from constantly catering to Kevin's irresponsible nature and impulsive whims (on top of feeling deeply lonely due to having no social life of her own) that she decides Murder Is the Best Solution.
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Basil and Sybil in Fawlty Towers. They actively hate each other, but stay married and even share a bedroom, if not a bed. According to Basil in one episode, they even "go for a walk" together two or three times per week; however, he was very possibly making this up just to appear "normal" to the psychiatrist he was talking to, and it emphasises that he cares more about the status of being married than who he is married to.
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The Proud Family:
Oscar and Trudy Proud count as this, as Oscar is a Manchild jerk who fails at nearly everything he tries, and Trudy is a VERY short-tempered and violent woman who has beaten her husband up on several occasions (and possesses a hypocritical Double Standard on flirting with attractive people of the opposite gender), and yet neither of the Proud Parents ever seriously consider getting a divorce in order to get out of staying with each other. (The show never even reveals how they became a couple in the first place.)
Felix and Sunset Boulevardez aren't much better, as Felix is every bit as lazy, sexist, and jerky as Oscar and Sunset does nothing but belittle and assault Felix as Trudy does to Oscar. (Unlike Oscar and Trudy, however, the show does provide an explanation as to why they're together: Sunset — a cop — had arrested Felix for some crime he'd committed and used the threat of jail time to blackmail him into marrying her. This raises the questions of 1) why Sunset would want to marry someone like Felix in the first place and 2) what sort of crime Felix had committed that he would prefer being stuck with Sunset over going to prison.)
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While they do actually love each other, this is about where the Morrigan and Baphomet's relationship starts in The Wicked + The Divine. Between his cheating and her constant violent rages, it... deteriorates quite a bit from there over the course of the series.
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Beetle Bailey:
Ms. Buxley has had every very male in Camp Swampy drooling over her for years; yet for some reason, she tends to date Beetle in modern strips, despite the fact he's the same lazy goof-off he's always been.
General Halftrack and his wife rarely seem to do anything but argue and fight with each other, and he has often stated that she doesn't respect him anymore.
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John and Mary in I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again:
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Guybrush and Elaine from the Monkey Island series. Guybrush is resourceful but otherwise a wimpy ditz. Elaine is smart, beautiful, and tough but fiercely independent and very bossy. In Tales of Monkey Island both of them are attracted to other people and in the finale, Elaine temporarily becomes a voodoo demon who tries to kill Guybrush and yet somehow they still stay together at the end.
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Mink's parents on Dragon Half. Rouce used to be a famous knight, but with age has become a coward and a skirt-chaser. He is repeatedly caught in his infidelity by his wife Mana, which frequently gets him hurt. Considering that she's a red dragon, one would think he'd know better...
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In Pikmin, Captain Olimar's wife is vain and self-centered, frivolously spending her husband's money as soon as it comes in and peeping through his belongings for more. She once kept her kids in school until night time while she went on vacation by herself, and Olimar once wondered if a pheromone-producing plant he discovered would work as an aphrodisiac on her, implying some level of Dead Sparks. Despite everything, they're still on good terms.
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Though they're not married, Homestar Runner's titular character and Marzipan. Marzipan considers their relationship to be entirely up to her, breaks up and makes up at the drop of a hat, and seems to genuinely prefer the company of several of the other male characters over Homestar's, and it seems like the only reason she enjoys having him around is to make herself feel smarter. Homestar, for his part, is air-headed enough to honestly think "Go away, stupid" means the same thing as "hello, Marzipan" and is either apathetic or happy when Marzipan announces they're breaking up. At the same time, he does seem to genuinely enjoy her company. The couple's dysfunction can be seen in how they consider each other via cardboard proxy.
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Jun Kazama from Tekken is one of the nicest characters in the franchise, though keep in mind that Good Is Not Nice or Soft. She has a fling with Kazuya Mishima, who is... not very nice. At all. As of the second Tag game, she still seems to have feelings for him despite everything. Feelings that he just blows off.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy and Riley's relationship was this to an extent. The only reason Buffy wanted to date Riley was that he was normal and not a vampire. The only reason Riley wanted to date Buffy was that she was "a mystery", as he put it. They had nothing in common outside of demon-slaying, little chemistry, and Riley wanted to be the caretaker in the relationship—which clashed harshly with independent, self-contained Buffy. Unsurprisingly, they couldn't last and broke up a season later.
If you really want to push it, Buffy and Angel had shades of this. As this essay explains, they really didn't have that much in common and only loved each other based on ideals about what they wanted their relationship to be. They kept trying to make their relationship work even though they knew it was long over and caused nothing but pain to each other whenever they were together.
Willow and Kennedy run into this issue as well. They seem to get together simply because they're both single and into girls, but otherwise had nothing really in common, no real chemistry nor any complementary traits. Kennedy was outright uncomfortable with Willow's magic (which was, by that point, a huge part of her), and could only seem to cite Willow's looks as being the reason she's interested in her in the first place. They ended up breaking up in the comics, unsurprisingly.
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Given the extremely vast cast of the Harvest Moon series, it's inevitable that some characters would fall into this. What makes it more peculiar is that some of these are rival couples—meaning they woo each other and get married over the course of the game. And then go right to never getting along:
Rock and Lumina, from the first two DS games. Lumina is a Lonely Rich Kid, but Rock is a loud, party-happy guy who's also a total womanizer, regardless of whether or not the woman in question is married. He has numerous events where Lumina gets on his case about hitting on some other woman! And yet, to get there, you have to see a scene wherein they profess their eternal love for one another. Huh.
Chase and Maya in Animal Parade. Their relationship seems to be based mostly on the fact that Chase loves to cook and Maya loves to eat, and their "we're getting married now" cutscene even involves Chase making a vow that all Maya has to do now is taste-test. Once they actually get married, though, they argue incessantly. When they eventually have a daughter (Dakota), even she remarks she'll never get a little sister the way they carry on.
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Ataru's parents on Urusei Yatsura, although it's implied that their relationship is a bit on the rocks (to the point where we see Ataru's mother threatening to leave a few times...not to mention the time she openly tried to seduce Rei)
No one can figure out why Lum is so determined to keep her 'husband' Ataru when she's the only girl he doesn't chase.
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On Hey Arnold!, Suzie Kokoshka is the sole breadwinner for her household and is expected to do housework on top of that to her Manchild Lazy Husband, Oskar. There are a few times when she leaves but she always returns. She appears to have left him for good come Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie.
A better example would be Bob and Miriam Pataki. Bob is selfish and self-centered and Miriam is a depressed, moping alcoholic. But they are still married to this day, even though they aren't happy. In "Olga Gets Engaged" Miriam even admits that she regrets marrying Bob.
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Family Guy:
Peter has done horrible, horrible things to Lois, the worst of which was locking her in the trunk of a car and driving the car into a lake. But she stays with him for some reason. Lois has done horrible things right back, like raping Peter. Thrice. Almost all of their marriage problems follow Rule of Funny, though. And all of that said, Peter will never willingly cheat on Lois.
Lois' parents are more explicit examples. "He won't even look at me in the back of the head anymore!"
Joe and Bonnie show shades of this as well, particularly in the later seasons. In one episode Bonnie vacationed in Paris intending to cheat on him, and then Joe actually did cheat on her with his new coworker, although they reconciled at the end. In another episode, Joe regains the ability to walk after an experimental medical procedure. He states that he's leaving Bonnie, who then shoots him in the legs at point-blank range to re-cripple him and make him dependent on her. At best, Joe and Bonnie appear to get along. At worst, they seem to genuinely hate each other.
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While All for the Game's Neil Josten isn't the sweetest person in the world and isn't known for having the best judgment, everyone seriously questions his attraction to Andrew Minyard. Even Andrew thinks there's something wrong with him. There's even an ongoing bet among their teammates that the relationship is based on mutual hatred.
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Most couples in Dragon Ball Z are this, and yet are still Happily Married. A major factor in this is that the series never shows any actual dating or courtship, only their lives after they get married (Toriyama was actually convinced he couldn't write a good romance so he skipped over it). Here's a list:
Goku and Chi-Chi: A superpowered alien half-monkey Manchild who loves to fight and a bossy and overbearing, overprotective Education Mama who openly discourages fighting. They had two sons and are still Happily Married to date. Both are nice people, but Goku being from a warrior race and his mental trauma from an infant makes things difficult for Chi-Chi (though she does accept he needs to be a hero).
Vegeta and Bulma: An arrogant, superpowered, jerkass half-monkey prince with homicidal tendencies and a supremely intelligent yet vain and equally arrogant woman. Had a fling, a son (later a daughter), eventually married, and are still together. (Bulma once said that even she doesn't know why she's attracted to him, although it's probably because of his featuresnote  Most of Bulma's love interests were tall, dark, and handsome, and she was attracted to Goku when she first saw him all grown-up and the fact that he's a bad boy.)
One episode of Dragon Ball Super has Vegeta remarking that he doesn't exactly dislike Bulma's pushy side. He even notes he likes the feistiness and Goku responds with a smile that Chi-Chi can be the same way. Vegeta then explains that as Saiyans, they're naturally attracted to strong-willed women. Piccolo's reaction of "That. Explains. Everything" crows the humor of it all.
Krillin and Android 18: A short, noseless Dogged Nice Guy with a bad tendency to get horribly killed and a sarcastic, cold woman who was initially an evil Cyborg. (In fact, most would say that 18 never really stopped being evil, but is just a lot less so now than she used to be.) They got married, had a daughter, and are still together. In fact, she went on a rather violent - and emotional - Roaring Rampage of Revenge in one arc in Dragon Ball GT where he was killed. (He got better, as is often the case in this franchise.)
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AI: The Somnium Files: It's eventually revealed that So Sejima at one time had a relationship with Manaka Iwai. Massive age gap aside (Iwai was 19 at the time while Sejima was in his 40s), it's never established just what she saw in Sejima. Renju and Hitomi repeatedly tried to talk her out of seeing him, to no avail.
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The Lockhorns. Every one-panel strip is Loretta complaining about Leroy's laziness, Leroy complaining about Loretta's cooking, Loretta complaining about Leroy flirting with another woman, or just one of them explaining how unattractive they find the other.
Parodied in the ''Lio'' comic strip as The Hateachothers.
Tom the Dancing Bug also parodies this with "Marital Mirth". Unlike other examples, the thin veneer of jocularity is removed, with every strip featuring the husband and wife talking amongst themselves or with their friends about how much they openly hate each other.
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Fred and Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy. Funny thing is, their actors hated each other and refused a spinoff.
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In Terra by Mitch Benn, the Bradburys are a couple who are always arguing. Their friends can't understand why they're still married.
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Frasier:
Niles and Maris. Admittedly, Maris was She Who Must Not Be Seen and so we never saw her interact with Niles, but she was by all accounts a horrible human being and a controlling, unlikeable, abusive wife who committed reprehensible acts many, many times, and it was established that Niles' attachment to her was mostly based on overdependency and lack of self-confidence.
Frasier himself has had a string of bad luck with women, most infamously, his ex-wife Lilith Sternin.
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In Constantine (2005), Lu(cifer) says the trope name about Gabriel before he gets the whole story.
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People have been saying this about Kermit and Miss Piggy for decades. Their relationship was always portrayed as strained; she twice attempted to trick Kermit into marrying her, and once after she intentionally spread a number of false rumors about their relationship Kermit actually had her fired. (This is partly because subsequent media has attempted to tie together their The Muppet Show relationship [she's in love with him, he just wants her to stop being ridiculous and make the show] and their The Muppet Movie relationship [Love at First Sight].) This may be why they broke up in The Muppets (2015). However, Kermit is also seen dating a new pig named Denise on that show and admits he Has a Type for pigs, which might explain why it took so long for them to go through with it. And in the second half Denise breaks up with him because he's still in love with Piggy.
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Love Tropes
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Marriage Tropes
 Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 One Stormy Night / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 School Days / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 When Marnie Was There / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Alan Ford (Comic Book) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Le Petit Spirou (Comic Book) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Lou! (Comic Book) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Andy Capp (Comic Strip) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Luann (Comic Strip) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Ah! Archfall! / Fan Fic
seeAlso
No Accounting for Taste
 After the Jungle Series (Fanfic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 All Things End (Fanfic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Battlesleep (Fanfic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Because I'm Not Popular I'll Try To Out With A hero (Fanfic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Doing It Right This Time (Fanfic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Learning to Fly (Katawa Shoujo) (Fanfic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Nukume Dori (Fanfic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Real Folk Blues: A Peni Parker – Spider-Man Noir Story (Fanfic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Ships Ahoy! (Fanfic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The Ed, Edd n Eddy Project (Fanfic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Alice Through the Looking Glass / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Back to the Future / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Beauty and the Beast (2017) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Bedazzled (1967) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Ben and Arthur / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Carrie (2013) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 I Think I Love My Wife / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Meet Joe Black / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Men in Black / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The Man from Snowy River / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 TheRemainsOfTheDay
seeAlso
No Accounting for Taste
 Agnes Grey / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 All-American Girl (Meg Cabot) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Another Time, Another Place / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Arashi no Yoru ni / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Book of Proverbs / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Don Juan / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Ella Enchanted / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Fahrenheit 451 / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Foretold / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Howl's Moving Castle / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The Kingdom of Little Wounds / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Kushiel's Legacy / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Malazan Book of the Fallen / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Maniac Magee / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Mansfield Park / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Of Cinder and Bone / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Persuasion / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Pride and Prejudice / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 So I'm a Spider, So What? / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The Amulet / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The Doll / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The Forsyte Saga / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 CatherineAnderson
seeAlso
No Accounting for Taste
 Again!! (Manga) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Battle B-Daman (Manga) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Dragon Half (Manga) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Gravitation (Manga) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Tentai Senshi Sunred (Manga) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Urusei Yatsura (Manga) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Chess (1984) (Music) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The 1975 (Music) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The Ballad of Anne and Mary (Podcast) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (Radio) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Orkinet (Roleplay) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Trustfell 4 Trust Fall Or Die Hard (Roleplay) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 A Prince Among Men / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Are You Being Served? / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Caméra Café / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Corner Gas / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Coronation Street / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Curb Your Enthusiasm / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Fawlty Towers / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Jersey Shore / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Justified / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Kamen Rider BLACK RX / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Keeping Up Appearances / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Last of the Summer Wine / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Last Tango in Halifax / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Little House on the Prairie / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Married... with Children / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Mom / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 On the Buses / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Parks and Recreation / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Pataclaun / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Rab C. Nesbitt / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Say Yes to the Dress / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 That '70s Show / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The Office (US) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The Robinsons / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The Steve Wilkos Show / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Three's Company / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 You're the Worst / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Company (Sondheim) (Theatre) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Hedda Gabler (Theatre) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Othello (Theatre) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Conker's Bad Fur Day (Video Game) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Dirge of Cerberus (Video Game) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Guilty Party (Video Game) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Hades (Video Game) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Imperium Nova (Video Game) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Sam & Max: Freelance Police (Video Game) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Zootopia: Crime Files (Video Game) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Daughter for Dessert (Visual Novel) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 School Days (Visual Novel) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Snow Sakura (Visual Novel) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 SWAP Ensemble (Webcomic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Agents of Cracked (Web Video) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Bad Movie Beatdown (Web Video) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Gayle (Web Video) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The Dom Reviews (Web Video) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Bug Martini (Webcomic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 General Protection Fault (Webcomic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Mac Hall (Webcomic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 SisterWulfiaFocka
seeAlso
No Accounting for Taste
 Split Screen (Webcomic) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Chowder / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Dragon Hunters / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Exchange Student Zero / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Galaxy High / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The Flintstones / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The Magic Voyage / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Tom Goes to the Mayor / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 A Charmed Life / Fan Fic / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Problem Child / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 The Scarlet Pimpernel / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Wizards of Waverly Place / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Gaia Online (Website) / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste
 Tom and Jerry: The Movie / int_12040009
type
No Accounting for Taste