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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]].

** In the manga, Sig and Izumi Curtis (of all people) are so lovey-dovey that they traumatized Ed and Al when they were kids. They hang on each other, invoke sparkly backgrounds, had a [[Meet Cute]] involving a bear carcass, and frequently [[Battle Couple|kick ass together]] while cooing at each other. Go figure.

** 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]]''.

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

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

{{quote|'''Seiji:''' [[A Love to Dismember|I'm in love with the scars on your neck...]] }}

** 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?}}

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

** This Troper cracked up at Chip referring to Muffy as "Cuddly Widdles" and "Wattling Kiddles".

* The pair of robbers (Amanda Plummer and Tim Roth) at the [[How We Got Here|end and beginning]] of ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' are this. They're even credited as "Pumpkin" and "Honey Bunny."

 

 

== Literature ==

* There's a character (Manilov) in [[Gogol]]'s ''[[Dead Souls]]'' who shares with his wife a sickeningly sweet affection.

** "...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.

* 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.

* Niles and Daphne of ''[[Frasier]]'' were like this for a while after they finally got together. One could argue that if you [[Will They or Won't They?|spend seven years pining after one girl]] you're allowed to be a little obnoxiously happy, the other characters was greatly relieved when the two got over this phase.

* 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.

{{quote|'''Hyde:''' ''(on the phone with Jackie)'' Whatever. Whatever. Yeah, like I care. All right, I'll talk to you later, Jackie. ''(hangs up)''

'''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]].

 

 

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

{{quote|"Does anyone else feel the urge to vomit? No? 'Tis just me?" }}

* 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."]

{{quote|'''Ronaldo:''' (while talking on the phone) "Oh, just a second, honey..." (yells at kissing couple beside him) "YOU KNOW THERE IS SUCH A THING AS TOO MUCH AFFECTION!" (goes back to his phonecall) "See you soonsies!"}}

** 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.

* Although not a ''complete'' example of this trope, there is one episode of [[My Life as a Teenage Robot]] in which Brad is about to be married to an alien who refers to him as "Bradley-Boo". [[Squick]].

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

** What's really fun is when you're friends with a couple on [[Facebook]], and you're constantly seeing their wall-to-wall posts consisting of [[Tastes Like Diabetes|"I luv u huny bunz! ^_^" "I luv u2 sweetie :-3"]]

 

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