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A species of [[Dom Com]] based on the premise that monogamous marriage is rather like a long, slow, exquisite torture by a sadistic god from whose maleficent clutches escape is impossible. Husbands are [[Bumbling Dad|child-like buffoons]] who watch too much football, leave the toilet seat up, [[All Men Are Perverts|ogle hot women]], and forget anniversaries. Wives are frigid, nagging, [[Jerkass|hateful shrews]] with [[All Women Are Prudes|zero interest in sex]]. [[Kids Are Cruel|Chil]][[Teens Are Monsters|dren]] destroy your home and what little peace of mind you have left, while waiting their turn to perpetuate the cycle. [[Obnoxious In-Laws]] serve to add to the misery. The audience may be left wondering, [[Just Eat Gilligan|"Why don't they just get a divorce, if they're so miserable?"]]
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The name, for those who don't get it, is a reference to the line of the traditional wedding vows, "Lawful wedded life."
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== Comic Strips ==
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* ''[[Mad About You]]'' became this in the later years.
* ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]''
* The husband is the frigid one, but ''[[Married...
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* As did ''[[Family Matters]]''.
* ''[[Til Death]]'' is somewhat of a [[Deconstruction]] in that the better you know Joy, the slobbier she seems, and the better a match for Eddie.
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* ''[[Keeping Up Appearances]]'' -- Poor Richard deserves a sainthood for putting up with Hyacinth for all those years.
* Any time a married couple is seen in ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'', it falls square into this.
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