Vitriolic Best Buds/Theatre

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Examples of Vitriolic Best Buds in Theatre include:

  • The broadway musical Mame features a song about this, entitled "Bosom Buddies", where Vera and Mame take turns sniping at each other while still simultaneously declaring their great affection. This is a type two.
  • Rod and Nicky in "Avenue Q" are this way too. From the song "It Sucks to be Me":

Rod: We live together -
Nicky: We're close as people can get.
Rod: We've been the best of buddies,
Nicky: Ever since the day we met.
Rod: So he knows lots of ways to make me really upset! [Nicky: What?!] Oh, every day is an aggravation -
Nicky: Come on, that's an exaggeration!
Rod: You leave your clothes out, you put your feet on my chair.
Nicky: Oh yeah? You do such anal things like ironing your underwear!
Rod: You make the very small apartment we share a Hell!
Nicky: So do you! That's why I'm in Hell too!

    • By the end of the play, Nicky finds Rod a boyfriend to make up for outing him at Brian and Christmas Eve's wedding.
  • Why, Bialystock & Bloom, of course! Their friendship comes into question when Springtime turns out to be a huge success, but by the end, they've become Fire-Forged Friends.