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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]]''.

* In ''[[Infinite Ryvius]]'', Lilith and Emerson, to the point where they're nicknamed the "Love Love Couple". However, they [[Character Development|slowly grow apart]] over the course of the series.

* 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]]''.

* ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'': Ichigo's parents couldn't be lovey-dovier if they tried.

* Hayashi and Morimoto from ''[[Godannar]]'' seem to exist only for comic relief and to annoy characters with less-than-perfect relationships. At least until the [[Distant Finale]], where {{spoiler|Hayashi is revealed as [[Chekhov's Gunman]]}}

* ''[[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?}}

** 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.

 

 

== Film ==

* [[Winsor McCay]] had a couple like this in one of his early minor features.

* 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.

*** When contemplating the idea of Ron and Hermione getting together, Harry fears (among other things) that they might turn out like this, using Bill and Fleur as an example.

* Parodied in a book by Tom Holt, where a bickering couple are tricked into overdosing on love potion. They start using pet names at the end of every sentence but retain their normal personalities, leading to sentences like, "Don't be such a bloody idiot honey-bunny".

** Every vampire couple. The only human couples worth mentioning are either broken up (Bella's parents, Jessica and Mike), basically nonexistent (Angela and Ben), or barely begun by the end of the series (Charlie and whatsherface).

*** The werewolves and the girls that they imprint on. To the point in which the other wolves in the pack do not look forward to mindlinking with a wolf who had just been visiting his imprintee.

* 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. }}

* 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.

* An odd example from ''[[Community]]''. Jeff begins acting this way to Britta so that the school stops hating him. Then they both get into a bizarre competition of who can be the most nauseatingly romantic.

 

 

== 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]].

 

 

== Video Games ==

* Phoenix plays one-half of this equation in the first case of ''[[Phoenix Wright]]: Trials And Tribulations''. Too bad for him that his sweetheart isn't anywhere near as into him as she pretends. {{spoiler|Okay, [[Twist Ending|maybe]] [[Twin Switch|she]] [[Becoming the Mask|is...]]}}

** 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.

* 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.

** While playing their mini-games in ''Majora's Mask'', you actually get the option to ''shoot them'' to increase your time limit. Much fun!

** 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.

* Ezekeil and Ariel in ''[[Sinfest]]'', pictured above.

* ''[[Slightly Damned]]'' has set a new bar for this trope with Buwaro and Kieri.

* 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.

*** Although they're not really ''sickeningly'' sweet.

* 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 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.

* 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.}}

** 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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[[Category:Love Tropes]]

[[Category:Marriage Tropes]]

[[Category:Just for Pun]]

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