Since the Aughts courtesy of the Blogosphere introduced the thoroughly objectionable term "shipping" (to describe ones interest in an established or potential TV couple) into our lexicon, I thought it only appropriate that we should have a look back at the couples who, presumably, inspired such bastardization of the language. Creating a TV couple that appeals to our emotions is an art. For every Sam and Diane, there are 100 generic fat balding guys over-married in a sit-com. For every Mulder and Scully, there are 1000 boring pairings of man/woman procedural teams. For this list I chose pairings who really made us sit up and care about whether the relationship grew or imploded over the past decade. There are some obvious couples of the Aughts who didn't make my list: Tony and Carmela Soprano on "The Sopranos" (great show, but pretty uninteresting couple: he screws around; she gets upset and spends...
- 12/22/2009
- by Dustin Rowles
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