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** A similar twist occurs in "Dot's Quiet Time." Dot wants some peace and quiet to read a book and searches all over the world to find a spot where she won't be bothered. However, when she finally finds one, she realizes that she actually ''liked'' having some distractions and begins blasting loud music on her stereo.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E63TheMindAndTheMatter The Mind and the Matter]]", Archibald Beechcroft initially revels in his solitude after he makes everyone else disappear. However, after several hours, he becomes incredibly bored.

* The news. Depressing, oftentimes biased and innacurate. But we do need to know whats going on in the world. Especially with pandemic and bad weather
* Copyright laws. Sure it ruins the fun when something gets rereleased but without it artists and other content creators wouldnt get royalties they deserve and it helps prevent plagerism for better or worse.

* ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'': Anthony Bridgerton initially found Kate Sharma elusive and a nuisance as she constantly blocks his ways in courting her younger sister, Edwina. But, when she tells him about her plan to return to India once Edwina is married, he is visibly shocked. After a constant denial of his feelings at first, he eventually acknowledges that he can't imagine his life without Kate.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Squidville", Squidward is tired of [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick bothering him and ruining his day, the last straw for him being when they accidentally destroy his house. He sees an ad on TV for Tentacle Acres, which is full of octopuses like him, and moves there. At first, he finds it relaxing and comfortable but after a while, he gets bored of it. Later, he pines for [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick to come back and cause a little chaos. When they don't, he starts causing the chaos and eventually gets kicked out of the town.
** Squidward realizes this at the end of "SB-129".

* Tomoe and Nanami from ''Manga/KamisamaKiss.'' Tomoe is a {{Kitsune}} that has been forced to serve Nanami against his will and is typically very rude and condescending towards her. Nanami thinks he's a JerkAss in return. However, should anything happen to Nanami he freaks and should another man take interest in her [[GreenEyedEpiphany watch out]]. Meanwhile, Nanami hasn't bothered to hide the fact that she has developed feelings for Tomoe.

** Helga and Arnold technically have a one-sided version of this. At ''least'' OnceAnEpisode, we see Helga slip off into private to deliver a [[TastesLikeDiabetes flowery, romantic poetic rant about her yearning for her one true love]], usually following a statement to the tune of "What a twerp, what a loser, what a football-headed dweeb. How I hate him. [[HereWeGoAgain And yet...]]"

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* At least one ''Animation/AstroLOLogy'' short demonstrates that the Gemini twins can't agree on what activities they think are fun to the point where they split up based on their disagreements, but they legitimately can't stand not being in the other's company and ultimately care about each other as siblings.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Principal Bump has never said it aloud, but it is apparent he does like the chaos that some of his current and former students, like Eda and Luz, cause at Hexside. [[Spoiler:when he has to expel Luz for an episdoe, he's very much unhappy about it, and is more than happy to have her return at the end of said episode.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Principal Bump has never said it aloud, but it is apparent he does like the chaos that some of his current and former students, like Eda and Luz, cause at Hexside. [[Spoiler: when he has to expel Luz for an episdoe, he's very much unhappy about it, and is more than happy to have her return at the end of said episode.]]

* Social media. A cesspit of stupidity, petty politics, and posts that bring out the worst in people. But without it, it'd be tougher to keep in touch with friends and family who live long-distance and those who don't have many friends in real life.

A development often used in [[ThePowerOfFriendship buddy]] films and [[ThePowerOfLove romantic]] comedy. One person, often a loner type, is paired off with someone else against his/her will.

They can't stand the person/situation and wishes for his old routine. When he gets his old routine back, they suddenly realizes they miss that person a lot and does everything in their power to get her back. Usually, happens when a bickering pair become VitriolicBestBuds, or generate an AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther situation, whether it's a fraternal sort of love among buddies, or romantic love.

* Referenced in an episode of ''Series/ILoveLucy''. When Lucy is getting up to yet another ZanyScheme, her husband Ricky remarks, "Women. Can't live with 'em, but it sure would be hard to live without 'em." Fred -- who has a NoAccountingForTaste marriage with Ethel -- adds, "You could still try."

* [[GoodCopBadCop Police officers]]. For all the protests against PoliceBrutality, actual [[PoliceBrutalityGambit or otherwise]], trustworthy cops are needed to put the real criminals in their place.

* Music/{{Saliva}}’s "Always"

* ''ComicBook/HaloBloodLine'': The Covenant warrior Thon 'Talamee is constantly annoyed by his younger foolish brother Reff, but has protected him from harm all his life in the belief that Reff is destined for greatness. Unfortunately for him, Reff doesn't return his affection and thinks of his brother's care as condescending. [[spoiler:When Reff decides to turn on the Covenant, Thon tries to stop him, but Reff kills him first.]]

* This is pretty much a staple of Creator/RumikoTakahashi's works.
** ''Manga/UruseiYatsura:'' Ataru [[CasanovaWannabe constantly chases all girls other than Lum.]] Yet whenever Lum disappears from his life, he'll instantly drop his perverted maneuvers and go to great lengths to get her back. That doesn't stop him from [[StatusQuoIsGod immediately resuming his lecherous ways]] the moment she's safely back.
** ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has Ranma and Akane. Once he had disappeared she was depressed and cried when she thought nobody was looking. When Ranma thought Akane [[spoiler:was dead after touching one of Saffron's devices,]] he was completely apathetic and emotionless.
** ''Manga/InuYasha'': Pretty much the same example as the above for [=InuYasha=] and Kagome. All they ever do is fight, mostly leading to Kagome storming off after a massive sit. However, anytime they're separated for too long, all Kagome can think about is [=InuYasha=], while [=InuYasha=] will be unbearable to be around until Kagome's back. And in any fight, they will put themselves in any kind of danger to save the other (which more than half the fight is of [=InuYasha=] taking all those moutain busters to keep everyone else safe).
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
** The most predominant example would be England and France. The two have known each other since the beginning of time and despite all of their bickering, they are quick to defend the other when a third party intervenes.
** Another example is Spain and Romano, who actually did live together for a while. Despite Romano constantly referring to Spain as a 'tomato bastard' the two do look out for each other.

* ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan''. This trope occurs despite the fact that the titular character spends most of her time "accidentally" ''killing the male lead'' and then reversing the process (and that's "accidentally" with a large helping of sadistic glee).

* The morning after Morinaga takes advantage of a doped-up Souichi in ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'', the extremely homophobic Souichi attempts to murder Morinaga, and yells that he doesn't want to see his face again. When Morinaga takes his declaration to heart and disappears from his home and university for weeks, Souichi predictably falls apart. Of course, with his [[{{Tsundere}} tsunderish]] personality, his first action upon seeing Morinaga back is to punch him ''hard'' and scream at him for hiding himself for so long.
* [[DeadpanSnarker Kyon]] from the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' series constantly, '''constantly''' complains, rants and grumps about Haruhi and the SOS Brigade. In the 4th novel of the series, [[spoiler:he is finally freed from Haruhi and the SOS Brigade, only to realize that he actually misses Haruhi. Or just the "weird events", [[UnreliableNarrator who knows]]... After a RedPillBluePill decision, he returns.]]
** He never stops [[DeadpanSnarker his cynical snarking]], but he seems to see Haruhi in a different light (and appreciates her good deeds). He also ''does'' stand to his decision, repeatedly saying that he "wanted to be here", creating a TrueCompanions-like relationship.
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', this is Sakura's friendship with the titular character.
* Eva from ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' spends a good bit of time plotting to make Tenma's life a living hell (getting him imprisoned and such), although every now and again she'll remember that she loves him and beg him to come back to her. She broke up with him, incidentally.
* In the Jdrama, ''Series/NobutaWoProduce'', Shuji says he hates Akira, but the two are actually very good friends. Maybe too good...?
* In ''Manga/ZettaiHeiwaDaisakusen'': Euda is stuck in an awkward love-hate relationship with her 'fiance', Johanne, although she herself [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove ain't fully aware of her feelings...]]

* Natsu and Gray, from ''Manga/FairyTail''. They pretty much complain and fight but do admit to themselves they respect the other. Heck in the Galuna Island arc when Gray twice tries to use Ice Shell, a spell that will turn the user into ice to trap their opponents. Natsu stops him both times spelling out that he doesn't want Gray to die.
** Gray also has this dynamic with Juvia. He constantly spurns her romantic advances and reminds her that he's not interested. However, as time goes by he shows that he truly cares for her, which culminates on [[spoiler: the time Invel forces them to fight each other to death, and they choose to commit suicide rather than killing the other. When Juvia saves him, he begs her not to die, promising to take her feelings more seriously.]]
* [[MessianicArchetype Yuu]][[UnluckyEveryDude ri]] and [[RoyalBrat Wolf]][[{{Tsundere}} ram]] in ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh''. Yuuri spends the first two seasons trying to back out in an [[AccidentalMarriage engagement that he accidentally caused]] in the second episode when Yuuri first enters the other word. Both of them hate the idea at first but Wolfram accepts his role as he constantly tries to get Yuuri to accept his as his husband. Yuuri constantly plots breaking the marriage on multiple occasions but always fails because Yuuri simply doesn't understand the demon world. However, the small things that piss Yuuri off at the beginning of the series, which range from Wolfram calling him "Wimp" (this was originally his BerserkButton at the beginning when the two argued each other) and Wolfram going everywhere declaring himself the spouse of Yuuri and [[MistakenforCheating accusing him of Yuuri cheating on him with every girl he meets.]] However, as the series goes on, the small things that annoyed Yuuri at the beginning is met with indifference as he slowly gives up on trying to break up the engagement. However, once season 3 hits and Wolfram [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies calls the engagement off]], this actually shocks Yuuri to the point where he works to get Wolfram back and then finally declares that he's not allowed to break it off. This is a sign that Yuuri is still confused with his feelings for Wolfram but won't let him design things on his own. Shortly after though, they fall right back into the roll.
* In ''Manga/WildRose'', Kiri and Mikhail don't get along initially and like to anger the other. Since Kiri literally can't live without Mikhail because he otherwise loses his sanity around humans, they are stuck together. Over time they both come to appreciate each other in spite of their differences and in the end [[EmotionlessBoy Mikhail]] hesitantly admits "You are necessary to me" in response to Kiri's LoveConfession.
* In ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''[=/=]''Anime/{{Robotech}}'', Misa Hayase/[[DubNameChange Lisa Hayes]] ''despises'' cadet pilot Hikaru Ichijo/Rick Hunter, and he returns her contempt...yet when she thinks for a moment he was killed in a Valkyrie/Veritech hit, she panics, and later when she's threatened by a Zentraedi, Hikaru/Rick berserks. When Cadet Ichijo/Hunter becomes Lt. Ichijo/Hunter and then begins to rise up the ranks, the tension gets worse because they're always encountering each other...and discovering to their dismay that they work well together. Pretty much everybody that knew them saw what was happening before they did, though.
* Tomoe and Nanami from ''Manga/KamisamaKiss.'' Tomoe is a {{Kitsune}} that has been forced to serve Nanami against his will and is typically very rude and condescending towards her. Nanami thinks he's a JerkAss in return. However, should anything happen to Nanami he freaks and should another man take interest in her [[GreenEyedEpiphany watch out]]. Meanwhile, Nanami hasn't bothered to hide the fact that she has developed feelings for Tomoe.
* ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion'' has a downplayed variant of this. Due to his past, Rei's very persistent in living independently. He's also reluctant to get close to the Kawamoto family, despite their willingness to welcome him into their home, and will sometimes abstain from visiting when he has the choice. However, when he returns to his apartment after staying in their house and living with them for several days due to sickness, he's become much more aware of how empty and quiet his own place is.
--> '''''Rei''': "That house is like a kotatsu. When you go inside, it's so warm it feels like you're about to melt...But when you leave, you'll be reminded that your everyday life that felt fine before is'' freezing cold.''"''
* [[VillainProtagonist Light]] [[SerialKiller Yagami]] of ''Manga/DeathNote'' seems to have this relationship with [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist L]] to some degree. He spends much of their time together monologuing about how much he hates L and how many of L's strange quirks drive him crazy, until [[spoiler: he actually manages to kill L]]. After that... Light doesn't hate him anywhere [[StealthPun near]] so much and even seems to [[AntagonistInMourning miss him]] to some degree.
** Not only that, but L is the person Light sees standing by his side as [[spoiler: he's ''dying'']].
* Mahiro from ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' gets easily annoyed by how clingy and off-the-wall his alien PrettyFreeloaders Nyarko, Cuuko, and Hasta are, but in the finales of both TV series he gets a harsh reminder of what life would be without them. In the first season finale, he's put in a "Last Man on Earth" situation and realizes how lonely he is; in the second, the trio is about to be reassigned away from Earth, and hearing a heartbroken Nyarko say "Does this mean I have to leave Mahiro forever?" makes him realize that he's about to lose them for good. After the latter situation is resolved, Mahiro remarks "I get the feeling you three will always find a way to stick around me," but it's obvious he views that as a good thing.
* Jeremy and Ian from ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns''. Jeremy tells Ian that he needs to see him because Ian is the only one to know that he is a murderer and [[RapeAsBackstory why he did it.]] To the point that when they do not see each other Jeremy [[SanitySlippage just about]] [[DrivenToSuicide loses it]]. Additionally, Ian, though knowing their relationship is [[TheMasochismTango not a healthy one]], cannot focus his studies or anything else when Jeremy does not see him.
* In one episode of ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'', Francine comments, "Tomcats! You can't live with them, and you can't throw them down a well and drown them!"

* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'': Spider Jerusalem. "Editors. Can't live with 'em, and the mass grave by my compound is getting full."

* In ''ComicBook/PierreTombal'', the Grim Reaper would love nothing more than to reap Life, but it's been shown that without her, the world would be lifeless and he'd be left with nothing to do, so he tries to tolerate her existence. Sometimes.

* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} and Odie. Garfield even says this line after Odie saves him from being bitten by another dog.
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': [[ShipTease Hinted at]] with Calvin and Susie.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'', Despite constantly complaining about them, [[TemperCeratops Cera]] seems to genuinely value her friends.

* ''Film/MyFairLady'': Henry and Eliza seem to have this problem.
-->'''Henry''': I was serenely independent and content before we met.
--> Surely I can always be that way again, and yet
--> I've grown accustomed to her looks, accustomed to her voice,
--> Accustomed to her face.

* ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' has a song called "I Hope That Something Better Comes Along", sung by Kermit and Rowlf and referring to Miss Piggy (and, by extension, women in general). It opens with the lines, "''You can't live with 'em / You can't live without 'em...''"

* In ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'', Neal Page keeps trying in vain to lose Del Griffith. When he finally does, he finds he actually misses Del's company [[spoiler:and ends up going back to invite Del to come home with him]].

* Somewhere in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', Mara Jade tells her husband Luke: "Sometimes I can't stand you, and I love you for it." Awwwwww.
* Literature/SunnyRandall has this relationship with her ex-husband Richie, and though they've divorced they still see each other and have hooked up a few times since the divorce, to the detriment of both of their other relationships.
* ''[[Literature/TheVampireChronicles Interview with the Vampire]]'' sees this trope reflected in the relationship between Lestat and Louis. They live together and share a quasi-romantic relationship for like seventy years-- during which Louis constantly complains about how much he despises Lestat, and Lestat insults and denigrates Louis. Expanded upon in ''The Vampire Lestat''.
* Fisk seems to have this relationship with Michael in the ''Literature/KnightAndRogueSeries'' (Michael is too sweet to not stand Fisk). He spends his time alternating between griping about Michaels naive, cheerful, chivalrous attitude, and fretting about Michael's wellbeing. According to Michael, Fisk will try to protect him from anything from the noose to chills, all while being insultingly sarcastic.
* ''Literature/SisterhoodSeries'' by Creator/FernMichaels: This seems to happen between the Vigilantes and their boyfriends. In one book, Jack Emery makes a comment about women and how you can't live with them and you can't live without them. A short time later, Nikki Quinn makes a comment about men and how you can't live with them and you can't live without them. At least the feeling is mutual!
* A darker twist on this appears in ''Literature/ThereseRaquin'' where Thérèse and Laurent find Thérèse's husband Camille to be more of a roadblock than anything, but once he's dead they find that being constantly haunted by his memory is far, far worse.

* ''Literature/HankTheCowdog'': Hank and Pete the barn cat may not like each other, but when Pete doesn't show up for dinner scraps that they'd usually fight over, Hank feels like eating scraps is no good without having a rival to fight over them.
* Cruelly played with in ''Literature/GoneGirl''. [[spoiler: Nick wants to leave his controlling, emotionally empty wife, Amy. However, Amy sets things up to where Nick practically begs her to come back, because he would go to prison and possibly face the death penalty for her murder, which Amy fakes to set Nick up. In the end, Amy comes back and makes this trope clear to Nick, much to his and his twin sister's horror.]]
* In ''Literature/CarryOn'', Simon constantly proclaims his hatred of his roommate Baz and how he makes his life a living hell but when Baz is mysteriously absent from school for two months, he grows increasingly worried and spends pretty much all of his time trying to find out what happened to him.

* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
** Dr. Kelso initially couldn't stand his wife's snoring. She got the operation, but [[RuleOfFunny (this being Scrubs)]] only exacerbated the problem. Cue this trope:
--->'''Kelso:'' Here's the twist. Now, whenever she goes out of town, I can't fall asleep without the sound of that gasping, wheezing woman lying right next to me. Trust me. If I ever met a Japan air stewardess who snores like Enid, I'd marry her tomorrow.
** Dr. Cox and his ex-wife Jordan have this sort of relationship. Both are snarky, {{jerkass}} misanthropes who can't stand each other...and it's made abundantly clear that they'd never be happy with anyone else.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
** Cordelia and Xander are oh so very much like this in Seasons 2 and 3.
** Buffy and Spike regularly cycle through this in Season 6. Lampshaded in the MusicalEpisode.
-->"First I'll kill her, then I'll save her / No, I'll save her, then I'll kill her!"
* ''Series/{{Oz}}''. A black inmate on Death Row is subject to constant racist taunts by a redneck in the next cell. After first breaking his hand when he punched the wall in frustration, he then gets smart and carefully digs a hole into the wall, then after one comment too many punches his fist through what's left and throttles the redneck to death single-handed. Unfortunately, that means he's the only inmate left on Death Row, and the episode ends with him looking sadly into a hand mirror, with only himself for company.

* The actual line was parodied twice on ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun''. In the {{pilot}}, Harry declares "Women, you can't live with 'em... and yet they're everywhere." In a later episode, Dick declares "Women, you can't live with 'em and you can't have heterosexual sex without 'em."
** To which Harry responds, "That's ''probably'' true."
** Also in one episode Judith says to Mary, "Men, can't live with 'em" ''[beat while Mary waits for the rest]'' "Goodbye, Mary."
* Norm, of course, subverts the line in ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': "Women. Can't live with them, pass the beer nuts."
* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries:'' Damon and Elena, until the last four or so episodes of the first season. After that, they drop the "can't stand them" part.

* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', when Sheldon and Amy end their friendship over an argument as to whether Neurobiology or Theoretical Physics is the more important science, Howard offers the opinion: "Women, can't live with 'em, can't successfully refute their hypotheses".
* Invoked almost word for word in ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' by Bedelia when talking to Will about his plan to escape with Hannibal. Will starts the show by being hostile to Hannibal who becomes his therapist, his friend, and his enemy successively and eventually [[OneTrueLove his intellectual soulmate]]. They are constantly drawn to each other throughout the seasons even though Hannibal is a murderer and Will tries to neutralize him in various manners. They take the trope next level in season 3 [[spoiler: after Will finally admits that he finds killing "beautiful", pulls Hannibal into an embrace and [[TakingYouWithMe pushes both of them off the nearby cliff, possibly to drown the both of them]] although WordOfGod says they did indeed survive.]]
* ''Series/TheITCrowd'' parodies this, with [[NoSocialSkills Moss]], resident nerd among nerds, trying to deliver the line to Roy. He begins nobly, 'Women -- can't live with them...' before trailing off and realising he has absolutely no idea how to talk about romantic matters or advice to give thereof. Later on, he delivers the gender-flipped version:
-->'''Moss:''' ''Men'', can't live with 'em...
* Carlos towards Sister Bertrille in ''Series/TheFlyingNun''. As much as he complains about her getting him into trouble, he feels worse without her around.
-->'''Carlos:''' When she's around I tell her to get lost, but when she does I go looking for her!
* George Bluth's relationship with his family in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. It's particularly apparent in the Netflix revival, where we find that [[spoiler: after finally wrenching himself away from them at the end of Season 3, he didn't have the great time you would have expected; if anything he seems to be ''worse'' off without them]].

* Referenced in an episode of ''Series/ILoveLucy''. When Lucy is getting up to yet another ZanyScheme, her husband Ricky remarks, "Women. Can't live with 'em, but it sure would be hard to live without 'em." Fred -- who has a NoAccountingForTaste marriage with Ethel -- adds, "You could still try."
* ''Series/KillingEve'': This is ultimately Eve's feeling towards Villanelle, who is [[VillainousCrush openly in love with her]]. Over the course of the series, it becomes obvious that Eve does love her back, but is deeply afraid of [[ToxicFriendInfluence her own darker qualities that come out when she's around]], and struggles with the fact that Villanelle is an unrepentant murderer. (Specifically, the fact that, while Eve ''is'' bothered by it, she's well aware she's not nearly as bothered as she ''should'' be.) [[spoiler:However, at the end of Season Three, when Villanelle truly attempts to [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy let her go]] and walk out of her life forever, like Eve claims she wants, Eve finds that she can't give her up.]]
* Smallville: Both Tom Welling and Erica Durance have said of Lois and Clark: “They can’t stand being around each other, but they can’t stand NOT being around each other.”

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Cloud and Barret constantly fight about their politics and their [[RedOniBlueOni generally opposite outlooks]], but soon begin to respect one another as allies. During the portion of the game where Barret attempts to go off to deal with his old friend Dyne alone, Cloud insists on coming with him because he can't stand the thought of Barret dying on him; during Cloud's significantly longer and sadder absence, Barret goes into a deep, fuming depression.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', [[TheStoic Squall]] spends the first two discs of the game grimly resisting Rinoa's efforts to get him to open up to her. When she falls into a coma at the end of disc two, however, he realizes how much he doesn't want to lose her, and abruptly she becomes his main priority.

* Also a long-running plotline in ''Webcomic/BittersweetCandyBowl''. Mike and Lucy spend most of their time agonizing over this fact.
* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' Gwynn tends to flirt with this trope a lot in regards to the rest of the main characters.
** So did Zoe to some extent. The boys drove her nuts, but when she moved back home, she found she missed them and ended up getting a job consisting entirely of recounting their crazy antics over the radio.

* Francine and Stan to their sponsored African child, Tungee, in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''. He shows up on their doorstep and quickly aggravates them with his overly sunny disposition. They ditch him at Costgo, only to realize how much they miss him. They go back to get him but he annoys them again on the car ride home so they jump out of the car to get away from him...only to immediately complain that they miss Tungee again.
** This is also the general relationship between Stan and Roger, as is especially shown the episode "You Debt Your Life" where Stan saves Roger's life repaying him for when Roger did the same years prior and kicks him out, it soon becomes clear Stan misses him and, reaching to a point where he rents the attic out to Andy Dick who acts just the same as Roger and eventually ([[ItMakesSenseInContext after losing and regrowing both of his legs]]) Stan finally admits that despite Roger bugging him he likes having him around just didn't want to admit it, and until Hayley pointed it out he didn't even remember the debt.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS2E2ChuckieVsThePottyTogetherAtLast Together At Last]]", Betty separates Phil and Lil when they fight over their Reptar doll, following advice from Dr. Lipschitz about separating twins every now and then to help them maintain independence, courtesy of Didi. At first, the twins are glad to be away from each other, but it isn't long before they begin to miss each other, and they spend the rest of the episode trying to get back together. When they finally reunite at the end of the episode, they hope they never separate again, but soon argue over which one of them started the fight that got them separated in the first place.

-->Mario: Brothers. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.