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Some marriages [[Destructive Romance|are painful]], [[No Accounting for Taste|others are dead]], [[Happily Married|a few are happy]], and then there are those which are... ''[[Tastes Like Diabetes|cute.]]''

 

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* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Hughes has this kind of extreme affection for his wife Gracia and his daughter Elicia, but perhaps atypically, it makes him really likeable rather than annoying. It helps that he's a pretty [[Badass]] [[Knife Nut]].

** It's mentioned that every once [[No Periods, Period|a Month]] Adi gets into a fight with Chet over the stupidest things. But always gets back together with him after he says some sappy line.

* Umi's parents in ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' are more than [[Happily Married]]. They take any excuse to fawn and coo all over each other. Even Umi herself is thoroughly disgusted by their incessant, diabetes-inducing displays of affection and refers to it as "the perpetual honeymoon".

* Similarly, Mimi's parents in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]''.

* Pedro from ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' had this kind of relationship with his family... [[Big No|until everything went horribly wrong]].

* In ''Gals!'', Ran and Tatsuki call themselves a stupid couple

* Kanade and Yukino from ''[[Candy Boy]]''. Yes, [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|they're both girls]]. They are also [[Twincest|fraternal twin sisters]].

* Honoka and Ginji Kawai in ''[[Magical Project S]]''.

* ''[[Lovely Complex]]'': Nakao and Ishihara fit this perfectly.

* From ''[[Vampire Knight]]'', we have {{spoiler|Yuuki's parents, Haruka and Juuri}}.

** Just to make it clear, they're both utterly bug-duck crazy: {{spoiler|Mika was Seji's stalker until he took a baseball bat to her skull for finding a decapitated head when she broke into his apartment. She got plastic surgery to look like Seiji's true love, making Seiji think Mika was said true love, and they got together. Then the truth came out, but the pair are so crazy they stick together anyway. Oh, and Seiji's true love was said previously mentioned decapitated head, which his incestuous big sister got rid of because she wanted one less rival for her brother's affections (but that's another story)... Did we mention they were crazy yet?}}

* Michi and Yoshirin, the young couple from ''[[Crayon Shin-chan]]'', are a clear parody of this trope. Apart from occasional (and pretty dumb) break-ups, all they do on the series is be lovey-dovey with each other. At least on the original and Spanish dubs.

** In a different episode, Ranma and Akane pretend to be this type of couple [[Please Dump Me|to get Ukyo out of the Tendo household]]. Unfortunately for them, they've made a habit of arguing and find being lovey-dovey with each other a daunting task. But hey, it makes for good television!

* Himeno's father Kaoru and her (very wealthy) stepmother Natsue from ''[[Prétear]]'', to the embarassment of their daughters.

* Yukio Ayashiro and his wife Noriko in a two-part episode of ''[[Detective Conan]]''. It's a little more justified as they had ''just'' gotten married, tho. Their old friend and the local [[Private Defective]] Kogoro openly lampshades the trope:

* [[Say My Name|Tamahome! Miaka! Tamahome! Miaka!]] in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''.

* ''[[Shaman King]]'' has Faust and Eliza. When they're first introduced, it seems more like [[Love Makes You Evil]] or [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]], but when Anna reunites them with her Itako powers, they definitely fit this trope. They even flirt during a major fight, and he carries her around [[Bridal Carry|Bridal Style]] while crossing a river.

* Katsuo and his wife in ''[[Yakitate!! Japan]]''. Their cutesy gushing only helped to encourage Kuroyanagi to eliminate Katsuo in the semi-finals of one [[Tournament Arc]].

* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'': Count the times Eureka and Renton argue with each other, come on. That's right, 1. They argued ''once'' in a 50-episode show. And that scene lasted shorter than 1 minute.

 

 

* Apollo and The Midnighter from ''[[The Authority]]'', surprisingly. They're very affectionate but will still rip out your spine if you make one of them mad and god forbid you actually harm one of them or their adopted daughter - you will wish you had never been born.

* Hourman and Liberty Belle in ''[[Justice Society of America]]''. Thankfully, the lovey-dovey stuff doesn't get in the way of them kicking ass in battle.

* "[[Portmanteau Couple Name|Richandamy]]" from the comic strip ''Zits'' are a high school relationship taken all the way to symbiosis.

** Amusingly, Richandamy were based on two college friends of creator Jim Borgman. They were actually named Rich and Amy, he was tall and she was short, and they practically were that inseparable. They're now [[Happily Married]] with three kids.

* One dialogue from ''[[Empowered]]'': "No, you should wear that outfit (tee hee)!" - "No, you should wear that outfit (tee hee)!" No wonder the Caged Demonwolf [[Imagine Spot|imagines a scene]] with better dialogue, in his usual [[Purple Prose|flowery style]].

* In ''[[Monica's Gang]]'': in the teenage spinoff, Monica and Jimmy Five abandon their normal personalities of [[Tsundere]] and [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] and become one of these when they finally start dating. This ends up disgusting the other characters so badly that many of them start to root explicitly for the breakup of the couple.

 

 

* In ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy Returns]]'', whenever the Evelyn and Rick kiss, they'll get a disgusted look and the "Find yourself a room" comments from their son and/or Evelyn's brother Jonathan.

* In ''Antz'', Chip and Muffy (the [[Cultural Posturing]] wasps).

 

 

== Literature ==

** "...if Ron was going to begin calling her 'Lav-Lav', he [Harry] would have to put his foot down."

** Bill and Fleur fit this trope as well.

* In the second book of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, the Band comes across a pair of owls that do not give their names but refer to each other as Sweetums and Swatums. They preen each other and talk about eating sugar gliders while speaking to the group.

* In Salman Rushdie's ''Haroun and the Sea of Stories'' Prince Bolo and Princess Batcheat are like this, to the disgust of absolutely everyone around them. Bolo is so oblivious (and stupid) that he constantly praises the silly Batcheat for her beauty and her singing voice, both of which are described in detail as completely horrendous.

 

 

** Lily and Marshall occasionally lapse into this.

* Danny and Lindsay on ''[[CSI: NY]]'' have been accused of this on occasion because of the back and forth comments and occasional flirting that come out when they're working together.

* Lilly and Oliver in ''[[Hannah Montana]]'', after being friends since kindergarten, suddenly turn into this, even calling each other "Lilypop" and "Ollypop".

* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]] and Spike, when one of Willow's [[Power Incontinence|accidental]] spells made them want to get married, treated each other like this.

** To a lesser degree, Sookie and Bill.

* In the "Howling Wind" episode of [[Cirque Du Soleil]]'s [[Widget Series]] ''Solstrom'', a newlywed couple is soooooooooooo in love with each other that neither notices that the honeymoon hotel they've just checked into has been magically transformed into a Gothic [[Hell Hotel]]. {{spoiler|In the end they become happily-in-love vampires.}}

'''[[Only Sane Man|Cam]]:''' Oh, dear God. I'm going to yak. }}

* A couple in an early episode of ''[[7th Heaven]]'' was this trope personified until the husband confessed to his wife that he'd never properly divorced his first wife. Much angst and screaming ensued and it was up to Eric to save the day.

* On an episode of ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'', Ray and Debra go to Vermont to stay at a bed-and-breakfast for the weekend, and end up across the hall from a sickeningly sweet couple (who have only been dating for 6 weeks) who can't stop giggling and making sexual innuendos at each other. Ray and Debra stare in disbelief at this behavior. At one point, Ray and Debra are outside their room, when they hear the other couple (thanks to their obnoxiously loud giggling) and actually rush to find their keys to get into their room before the couple can turn the corner and talk to them.

** In another episode, Robert and Amy are acting like this shortly after getting married, which Ray and Debra don't mind too much — until Robert and Amy start giving Ray and Debra marriage advice. Ray and Debra, who have been comfortably married for over a decade, don't appreciate getting advice from newlyweds (or in Ray's words, from "the guy who married a stripper, then divorced a stripper, then married a regular person, then hung in there for three whole months"), or Robert and Amy's insistence that their marriage is "unhappy" because they don't behave like this trope anymore.

'''Eric:''' Eww! Do you mind not getting all gooey and romantic when I'm about to eat my breakfast? }}

* Applies (at first glance) to any relationship on [[Pushing Daisies]], with the exception of those involving Emerson Cod.

* Kayley and Simon were starting to show signs of this before [[Firefly]] was [[Screwed by the Network|canceled.]]

== Music ==

* Mocked in the Irving Berlin song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-dkVdPr7AY Snooky Ookums]".

* Mocked in the song "Mon coeur mon amour" ("My heart my love") by French singer Anaïs.

* "Disgustingly In Love" by [[Mitch Benn]].

 

 

* A mod to ''[[Baldur's Gate]] 2: Throne of Bhaal'' adds a character who seeks out romance with Imoen. In one memorable exchange, they use so many consecutive pet names for each other that even the good-aligned party members find themselves tempted to agree with Sarevok's comment: "Say the word, and I will kill them both. ''Please.''"

** If like me you were ready to hunt across the Internet after reading that, it's [http://www.pocketplane.net/kelsey kelsey].

** Because [[Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies]] (and by extension, scary places).

* [[Happily Married]] couple Maeda Toshiie and his wife Matsu from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]''. On one occasion Toshi came to Matsu's rescue on the battlefield, and they shared a tender moment together, leaving their opponent Yukimura at a complete loss of what to do.

** In ''[[Tales of Hearts]]'', Shing and Kohak. Other party members occasionally complain about it. At one point Hisui and Beryl actually raise their [[Relationship Values]] through their mutual annoyance at the main couple's sheer couple-ness.

* The Dancing Couple from ''[[The Legend of Zelda]] Ocarina Of Time'' (and later, ''Majora's Mask''), who seem completely oblivious to anything other than each other.

** They do the same for a romance with [[The Chick|Leliana]].

** If you help two Dalish elves get together, they begin acting like this, while [[Deadpan Snarker|Morrigan]] [[Memetic Mutation|disapproves]].

* In [[Super Robot Wars Judgment]] [[Blue Comet SPT Layzner|David]] will remark he considers [[Martian Sucessor Nadesico|Minato and Tsukomi's reactions to each other]], albeit while they are kinda heartwarming, they still [[Tastes Like Diabetes|trigger his gag reflex.]]

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/boxbrown/bellen/series.php Bellen]''.

** Arguably, Elan and Haley from the same comic... when they're together.

* ''[[Xkcd]]'': [http://xkcd.com/515/ "No one must know."]

* A featured couple in ''[[Futurama]]'' who ran the candy company Romanticorp inspired the page quote from Leela, with a little assistance from [[The Professor]] and his cattle prod.

** And from ''I Dated a Robot'':

'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Oh dear! She's stuck in an infinite loop, and he's an idiot! Well, that's love for you. }}

** Also the [[Alternate Universe]] versions of Fry and Leela.

* Once [[X-Men: Evolution|Scott and Jean]] finally get together, Kurt and Kitty gleefully [[Crowning Moment of Funny|mock them]] as being this by going full out daytime-TV.

* Geoff and Bridgette in ''[[Total Drama Island|Total Drama Action]]'', becoming so annoying that they're {{spoiler|the first ones voted off.}}

'''Both''': Ew! }}

* Jérémie and Aelita from ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' can sometimes slip into this. They do have fights or misunderstandings a few times, but it is always resolved by the end of the episode.

* Subverted in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''. Joker and Harley do act this way sometimes, but [[Mad Love|this just makes their relationship even creepier.]]

* Subverted on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. Lucius tries acting this way whenever he's around Jez. However, [[Gold Digger|she seems largely uninterested in returning his affection]].

* A both odd and hypocritical version of this appared on ''[[Kick Buttowski]]'' with Ronaldo witnessing a kissing "couple".

** The couple in question were of course... Kick and Ronaldo's girlfriend (whom he was talking with on the phone), Kendall.

* A variation of this occurs in ''[[Beast Wars]]'', where this is only on one side of the relationship, that of [[Knight in Shining Armor]] [[Idiot Hero]] Silverbolt, while the object of his affections, the [[Dark Action Girl]] [[Femme Fatale]] [[Kuudere]] Blackarachnia, despite returning his affections, is as annoyed by it the same as everyone else.

* Professor Utonium and Miss Keane become this in an episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''. {{spoiler|They break up when it turns out that he doesn't like her cat.}}

* Big Macintosh and Cheerilee act like this in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Hearts and Hooves Day", thanks to a love potion provided by the Cutie Mark Crusaders. They spend nearly half the episode staring into each other's eyes and calling each other cutesy pet names.

** The "sickening" part is quite literal, they visibly sicken the Crusaders repeatedly with their cutesy pet names.

 

 

* You might know at least one couple like this.

** There's always at least one [[Showmance]] like this in a theatre production. To everyone involved, it's a distraction.

 

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