Hollywood Dateless: Difference between revisions

* Chandler Bing from ''[[Friends]]'', despite being good-looking and [[Tough Room|incredibly witty]], is constantly knocked by himself and others for having very little in the way of a love life. Gunther and Ross also count if you really get down to it.

** One episode, a while after he became {{spoiler|engaged to Monica}}, involved him not even being able to TALK to a women because she was beautiful, only being able to bashfully mutter a few whispers, and the characters acting like this had always been the case with him. Over the course of the past six or so seasons, Chandler had been shown successfully making some of the boldest and most hilariously charming pick-ups anywhere on television, to complete, gorgeous strangers.

** Another time, Rachel mentions that Monica "stumbles down the hall and sleeps with the first guy she finds." It may be that she's having trouble finding a ''committed'' relationship.

*** Of course, that was just in reference to the other holder of this Trope, Chandler.

** Charlie being dateless is actually quite justified, he's borderline retarded, lives in a dilapidated apartment and is regularly called out on having terrible hygiene. The only dates we ever see him on are ones the guys set him up on. He proceeds to torpedo these spectacularly. Dee on the other hand regularly complains about having trouble finding men yet in the "Dee Gives Birth" she's shown to have several regular sexual partners, two of which are actually in excellent shape and declared by the guys to be "legitimate lays".

* Cabbage Head on ''[[Series/The Kids In The Hall|The Kids In The Hall]]''.

* Perhaps the most notable example is George Costanza, whose role in ''[[Seinfeld]]'' is a slow-witted, self-centered, ugly failure who repulses women and can't get them to go out with him... except for, oh, the forty or fifty gorgeous women he dated over the course of the show. He even got a model whom he suspected was bulimic. He winds up getting engaged to the attractive daughter of a rich, Upper East Side, WASPy, old money couple- Susan Ross. Even if they were evenly-matched looks-wise, it's completely far-fetched status, class and money-wise.

** The worst episode for this is "The Strongbox" when George wants to break-up with a gorgeous woman because she talks to her food but she refuses to end the relationship. Finally, he sets it up so she'll catch him on a date with another gorgeous woman (who we learn had pursued George in the past but he had rejected for being "too tan") in the hopes that both women will dump him. However, they both take his infidelity in stride and announce that neither are ending their respective relationships with him and the episode ends with George having the "problem" of two hotties refusing to let him go no matter what.

** The show does make it out to seem more like she doesn't have a problem finding men to date, but rather that everyone she does date turns out to be completely insane in the end so she's forced to end all her relationships.

*** Also, Liz has plenty of her own problems to sort out so her trust issues/childhood trauma involving posters/etc. might have some effect.

* Alex Reiger was [[Flanderized]] into this at the beginning of ''[[Taxi]]'''s final season. To be fair, though, the writers got back on the ball pretty quickly and Alex went back to being his normal self.

* Goober Pyle on ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' is shy and awkward with women.