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Valentine's Day: The Best TV Couples

News Type: Event — Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:01 PM EST

Best All Around Couple -- Eric and Tami.

Smartest Couple -- Charlie and Amita.

Young Love -- Chloe and Jimmy.

Oddest Couple -- Angela and Hodgins.

I Can See Them Together Couple -- Chuck and Lou

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In honor of Valentine's Day, I thought I take a look at TV couples for shows airing this season (I'd say currently on TV, but with the strike we aren't left with much but reality TV). Here's my rundown of the most romantic couples on TV today.

Best All Around Couple

Hands down, the best all around couple has to go to Eric and Tami Taylor (Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton) of Friday Night Lights. This pair has to be the most realistic, but yet madly in love with each other couple on TV.

In two seasons, we've seen them fight and we've seen them make up. We've watched as they've handled issues around career, parenting, sex, money and even in-laws as a couple. Whether it's their witty dialogue or the sweet way they look at each other, Mr. and Mrs. Coach are the couple to be.

Smartest Couple

The combined IQ of Numb3rs' Charlie Epps (David Krumholtz) and Amita Ramanujan (Navi Rawat) has got to be through the roof. But even when they talk about their relationship is terms of simulations and game theory algorithms, this couple is too cute together.

Amita seems to know just when to give math genius Charlie space to figure out his latest calculation. And Charlie never seems to underestimate Amita's talents and has gone the extra mile to support her career advancement even if it might strain the relationship.

Young Love

Smallville's Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) might have had a crush on Clark Kent (Tom Welling) and his super hero ways, but I think she's found her real match in Jimmy Olsen (Aaron Ashmore). Together they are the perfect Daily Planet duo – an unrelenting reporter and her every faithful photographer.

What's better than watching this pair tackle the news? Watching them discover each other and their own feelings in their first real relationship. Remember what it was like to be young and in love?

Honorable Mention: It took the murder of a rapist to bring Friday Night Light's Tyra Collette (Adrianne Palicki) and Landry Clarke (Jesse Plemons) together. But bizarre plot twist aside, it's been interesting to watch these two kids from different backgrounds find each other.

Oddest Couple

If in the first season of Bones' you told me that Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin) would give Dr. Jack Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) a second look, let alone get engaged to him, I would have laughed you out of the room.

But as the romance began to kindle in the second season I couldn't help but cheer for Hodgins in his relentless pursuit of Angela. Then when they embarked on the adventure to find Angela's long lost first husband (she needs to get a divorce in order to marry Hodgins) and I watched the depth of their love unfold, I knew that this couple, as odd a combination as they are, were meant to be.

Honorable Mention: When Las Vegas' Mike Cannon (James Lesure) and Piper Nielsen (Camille Guaty) got drunk and did the ultimate Vegas cliché – got married – I was shocked at the pairing since neither had showed a significant amount of interest in the other. But I cheered when the two decided to forgo an annulment and give the marriage a shot.

I Can See Them Together Couple

When Rachel Bilson turned up on Chuck as deli owner Lou, I was very excited that Chuck (Zachary Levi) might actually have a chance at a real relationship for a change. But alas, he's still hung up on his handler Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski).

I continue to hold out hope that not only will Bilson return to resurrect her role as Lou, but that Chuck will finally realize that Sarah is not the right girl for him.

Honorable Mention: The sexual tension between Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and FBI Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) is one of the reasons we tune into Bones each week. But if the Christmas kiss is any indication of the depth of their attraction that we are in store for a great romance between the two some time in the future.

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vacelts

What's your favorite TV couple past or present?

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Reply#1 - Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:05 PM EST
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FDBryant3

Truest Love Couple: Adrian and Trudy Monk. To be honest they are the only couple that I care about on TV. That is saying something considering one of them is dead. If this show ends without resolving the mystery around Trudy, I am going to be very disappointed and will make sure everyone involved knows about it.

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Reply#2 - Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:47 PM EST
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vacelts

That's a great pick. I forget about them since Trudy is dead. But his devotion to her is priceless.

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#2.1 - Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:00 PM EST
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FDBryant3

Greatest Sci-fi couple: John Sheridan and DeLenn of Babylon 5.

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Reply#3 - Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:48 PM EST
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vacelts

I'll have to take your word I've never seen show.

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#3.1 - Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:07 PM EST
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Henry VII

Well, there was Ross and Rachel in the past...

...now I think I would have to go with Bill Henrickson and his wives.

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Reply#4 - Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:38 PM EST
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vacelts
Ross and Rachel

I liked them in the beginning, but by the end of the show I was over that relationship. I actually wanted her to end up with Joey.

Bill Henrickson and his wives.

If it's more than two people is it considered a couple?

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#4.1 - Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:02 PM EST
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Henry VII

I suppose they would technically be a foursome, but he is with them individually - each for differing reasons. Still, wouldn't want to discriminate...

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#4.2 - Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:15 PM EST
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vacelts

How about a new category -- Largest Coupling?

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#4.3 - Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:35 AM EST
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Restso

I'll stick with the old stand by: Homer and Marge Simpson.

Almost 20 years, through thick and thin, and still going strong. An inspiration to Americans everywhere.

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Reply#5 - Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:37 PM EST
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vacelts

See I just thought Marge was crazy for putting up with all his antics, but if you say its love then I'll believe you.

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#5.1 - Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:36 AM EST
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Adsterine

No Marshall and Lilly from How I Met Your Mother? Damn. That's probably the cutest and funnest couple in a sitcom right now.

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Reply#6 - Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:57 AM EST
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vacelts

You're right. How could I have forgotten Lilly and Marshal?! They are a very cute couple.

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#6.1 - Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:33 AM EST
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Jacob Nicolas

Ahem, anyone here see Pushing Daisies?
Ned and Chuck blow all other couples out of the water.

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Reply#7 - Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:13 AM EST
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vacelts

See I don't find them all that intriguing as a couple. In fact I find all that brooding and non-touching a little annoying instead of endearing. Olive's my favorite on that show.

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#7.1 - Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:23 PM EST
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Wendy-239340

One of my favorite past couples was Miss Parker and Jarrod form The Pretender. Talk about history and tension.

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