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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.]]''

* 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]]}}

{{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?}}

* Yuuki and Yume from ''[[Kanamemo]]'', and not even Yuuki's jealousy or Yume's ditziness can put any dents in that.

** 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!

* Ayano and Shimotakatani from ''[[High School Girls]]'' are constantly like this, to the disgust of Ayano's boyfriend-less friends.

* Peter and Denise of ''[[FoxTrot]]'' were known to be like this from time to time. One occasion featured them in a rather sweet moment, in which Peter talked about how unbelievably great it was to finally have a girlfriend like her. "''Just'' great?" she responds. "Okay, super-duper-ooper-great." "You're so cute." And then of course Jason and Marcus as spying on them behind a clump of bushes, causing Jason to whisper to him, "If I'm ever that cute, shoot me dead."

* One dialogue from ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|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]].

 

 

== Film ==

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

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

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

== 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.

*** 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.

 

 

'''Daisy:''' Colon, capital P!<br />

'''[[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.

* [[Chuck]]'s Alex and Morgan are one of the best example of this trope on television.

* 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.

 

 

== 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].

* ''~Pokémon~'' has several of these couples, who would constantly talk about "lovey-dovey" they are. For some creepy reason, they were often found in places like graveyards and abandoned ships.

* [[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.

{{quote| '''Yukimura:''' [[Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone|S-should I just leave them alone?...]]}}

* 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!

== 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.

** 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.}}

** In the special:

** [[Heterosexual Life Partner|Katie and Sadie]] have this as part of their extreme [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]].

* 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.

* Clover and Blaine have this type of relationship in the final season of ''[[Totally Spies]]''.

* 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.

{{quote| ''Big Macintosh'': SHMOOPY DOO!}}

* 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.

* Subverted in the ''[[Behind The Music]]'' episode about TLC. When Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez was dating football player Andre Rison, her bandmates would get annoyed by their sappiness. T-Boz mentioned how they'd always call each other baby: "Hey Baby... Baby... Baby..." and it cut right into Rozanda "Chilli" Thomas saying the exact same thing. Two years later... Left Eye [[Woman Scorned|burned his house down]] when she thought he was cheating.

* [http://gothic-charm-school.com/charm/?p=27 This] installment of Gothic Charm School provides some useful tips for dealing with people like this.