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** Lampshaded in the final season: "Is there anyone here that hasn't slept together?" [[hottip:*:Well, Xander and Buffy haven't, but not for lack of trying on Xander's part.]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny And Xander and Spike (who shared a one-room basement apartment for several months) just stare at each other...]]

** Lampshaded in the final season: "Is there anyone here that hasn't slept together?" [[hottip:*:Well, Xander and Buffy haven't, but not for lack of trying on Xander's part.]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny And Xander and Spike just stare at each other...]]

** But considering the fact that the writer for ''Total Drama'' was the original writer for ''DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', this shouldn't come as a surprise.

The DatingDoSiDo is the tendency for a long running piece of fiction to recycle characters. In shows dealing with relationships especially, the tendency is that the longer the story goes on, the greater the likelihood that ''everyone'' will at some point have been in a relationship with everyone else. Well, usually not ''quite'' everyone, but still, the number of people having been in a relationship with other people is probably greater than could be expected under normal circumstances.

** Lampshaded in the final season: "Is there anyone here that hasn't slept together?" [[hottip:*:[[CompletelyMissingThePoint Well, Xander and Buffy haven't, but not for lack of trying on Xander's part.]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny And Xander and Spike just stare at each other...]]

* ''Series/{{Popular}}'', though it was a high school show and perhaps a JustifiedTrope. That said, boy, Josh did sure get to make out with/boink what, all the female cast short of April Tuna?

* ''Series/GossipGirl'', complete with an actual chart on the Gossip Girl blog. Lampshaded whenever they have to explain it to someone new.

** Lampshaded in the final season: "Is there anyone here that hasn't slept together?" [[hottip:*:[[CompletelyMissingThePoint Well, Xander and Buffy haven't, but not for lack of trying on Xander's part]].]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny And Xander and Spike just stare at each other...]]

[[quoteright:350:[[DegrassiTheNextGeneration http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/DegrassiDating.gif]]]]

* ''{{Friends}}''. Rachel dated Ross and Joey. Monica and Joey had some UST before the show started, and she married Chandler. Ross almost slept with Phoebe when his wife dumped him, then he had a VERY complicated relationship with Rachel. Then there's that whole Ross/Rachel/Julie/Russ mess. The flashback and WhatIf episodes make it even ''more'' complicated...
* ''{{ER}}'' .
* In "{{Coupling}}", Susan dated Jeff, Patrick, and Steve; Steve dated Susan and Jane; and Patrick has been involved with Susan, Jane, AND Sally.
* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Name any two characters ([[HoYay including characters of the same sex]]), and they'll either have been {{canon}} at some point or have a (sometimes very small, but still there) {{fanfic}} following.

* ''GossipGirl'', complete with an actual chart on the Gossip Girl blog. Lampshaded whenever they have to explain it to someone new.

* Just about every low-quality [[SoapOpera daytime soap]] tends to have this to some degree.
* ''{{Popular}}'', though it was a high school show and perhaps a JustifiedTrope. That said, boy, Josh did sure get to make out with/boink what, all the female cast short of April Tuna?
* ''DegrassiTheNextGeneration''. See the picture above. Note that the prominent use of gay and bisexual characters, along with LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters and several [[CastHerd cast herds]] is almost enough to make the entire thing circle in on itself. We pray they never involve TimeTravel. [[RenamedTropes Was originally the]] TropeNamer.
* ''{{The L Word}}'' fits this one quite nicely, especially "[[LoveChart The Chart]]", which basically kept track of all their partner switch-ups.

* ''Series/{{Angel}},'' like ''{{Buffy}},'' is full of this. Cordelia was in love with Angel, [[{{Squick}} slept with his son]], and had some {{UST}} with Wesley back in their Buffy days. Fred had a crush on Angel, and dated Gunn and then Wesley (who had been sleeping with Lila). Darla was Angel's sire and his lover for 200 years; Lindsey was briefly infatuated with Darla (possibly as a transference of his [[HoYay obsession with Angel]]), and was later a couple with Eve, who slept with Angel. Angel and Spike were both in love with Buffy, and both had been involved with Drusilla, [[HoYay and then there was that one time...]]

* ''{{Skins}}''.

* In ''BatmanBeyond'', Dana is pretty much the only recurring character with only one love interest. Even her steady boyfriend [[DatingCatwoman wanders from time to time]]. {{Alpha Bitch}}es Chelsea and Blade seem to have a new boyfriend every episode, frequently each other's previous flames. Nelson Nash also bounces between girlfriends more than once.

* Lots of comics have this to some degree, but the best example would have to be ''{{Spider-Man}}''. All of Peter Parker's girlfriends (except Deb Whitman) have dated other members of his supporting cast at various points. Sometimes multiple members of said supporting cast. ''SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' rectified this oversight by adding some WillTheyOrWontThey between Deb and Flash Thompson.

* ''{{Glee}}'' has made impressive headway in this direction, for a show that's been on for a grand total of two seasons:

Compare NoGoingSteady.

* This is mostly averted in ''NoahsArc'', but played very straight in the movie with lot of sexual crossovers between Noah, Wade, Baby Gat, Chance, Ricky, and Brandon (basically all the main characters except Alex and Eddie).

* In the reimagined ''BattlestarGalactica'', most of the main characters go through a series of relationships with everyone else, sometimes at the same time. Lee and Kara stand out as particular offenders of the trope.

The DatingDoSiDo is the tendency for a long running piece of fiction to recycle characters. In shows dealing with relationships especially, the tendency is that the longer the story goes on, the greater the likelihood that ''everyone'' will at some point have been in a relationship with everyone else. Well, usually not *quite* everyone, but still, the number of people having been in a relationship with other people is probably greater than could be expected under normal circumstances.

* ''Two Guys and a Girl'' (not to be confused with [[TwoGuysAndAGirl the trope with the same name]]) had this to the extreme in the final few seasons. Pete had gone through 3 girlfriends, fell in love with the eponymous "girl" Sharon, and had sex with Berg's mom and ex-girlfriend. To say nothing of the cavalcade of women Berg went through.

* ''{{Angel}},'' like ''{{Buffy}},'' is full of this. Cordelia was in love with Angel, [[{{Squick}} slept with his son]], and had some {{UST}} with Wesley back in their Buffy days. Fred had a crush on Angel, and dated Gunn and then Wesley (who had been sleeping with Lila). Darla was Angel's sire and his lover for 200 years; Lindsey was briefly infatuated with Darla (possibly as a transference of his [[HoYay obsession with Angel]]), and was later a couple with Eve, who slept with Angel. Angel and Spike were both in love with Buffy, and both had been involved with Drusilla, [[HoYay and then there was that one time...]]

[[DegrassiTheNextGeneration http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/DegrassiDating.gif]]
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--> -- '''Kitty''', ''{{That 70s Show}}''

* ''[[{{ptitle8on2br9g}} That 70's Show]]'' had a pretty tame version of this, mostly centering on how by the end of the show's run, Jackie dated three of the four young male regulars. More notable was the lampshading -- see the page quote. The WhatIf episode makes it a little more complicated, revealing that Hyde would have started dating Donna if Eric hadn't kissed her at the end of the first episode.

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* ''TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' - basically all teens dated more than one person with the sole exception of [[NiceGuy Randy]] [[BetaCouple and]] [[AlphaBitch Sally]] and Hobbie Brown, who remained single.

* ''TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' - basically all teens dated more than one person with the sole exception of [[NiceGuy Randy]] [[BetaCopule and]] [[AlphaBitch Sally]] and Hobbie Brown, who remained single.

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!!Examples

[[folder: ComicBooks]]
* Lots of comic-books have this to some degree, but the best example would have to be {{Spider-Man}}. All of Peter's girlfriends (except Deb Whitman) has dated other members of his supporting cast at various points. Sometimes multiple members of said supporting cast.
** ''SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' rectified this oversight by adding some WillTheyOrWontThey between Deb and Flash Thompson.

[[folder: LiveActionTV]]

* ''{{Friends}}''. Rachel dated Ross and Joey. Monica and Joey had some UST before the show started, and she married Chandler. Ross almost slept with Phoebe when his wife dumped him, then he had a VERY complicated relationship with Rachel. Then there's that whole Ross/Rachel/Julie/Russ mess...
** The flashback and WhatIf episodes make this even more complicated...
* ''{{ER}}''

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Name any two characters, even femslash or slash, and they'll either be canon at some point or have a (sometimes very small, but still there) fanfic following.
** Lampshaded in the final season: "Is there anyone here that hasn't slept together?" And Xander and Spike just stare at each other...
*** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Well, Xander and Buffy haven't, but not for lack of trying on Xander's part...]]

* Just about every low-quality daytime soap tends to have this to some degree.

* ''[[{{ptitle8on2br9g}} That 70's Show]]'' had a pretty tame version of this, mostly centering on how by the end of the show's run, Jackie dated three of the four young male regulars. More notable was the lampshading - see the page quote. The WhatIf episode makes it a little more complicated, revealing that Hyde would have started dating Donna if Eric hadn't kissed her at the end of the first episode.
* ''Two Guys and a Girl'' (not to be confused with [[TwoGuysAndAGirl the trope with the same name]]) had this to the extreme in the final few seasons. Pete had gone through 3 girlfriends, fell in love with the titular "girl" Sharon, and had sex with Berg's mom and ex-girlfriend. To say nothing of the cavalcade of women Berg went through.

** Finn and Quinn, Finn and Rachel, Rachel and Will, Puck and Rachel, Puck and Quinn, Puck and Mercedes
** Rachel and Jesse, Puck and Santana, Brittany and Santana, Finn and Santana, Kurt and Brittany, Terri and Will, Emma and Will, Emma and Ken
** Will and Shelby, Quinn and Sam, Artie and Tina, Mike and Tina, Sam and Quinn, Artie and Brittany, Emma and Carl
** [[OverlyLongGag Will and Holly, Rachel and Blaine, Sam and Santana]] [[spoiler: Kurt and Blaine, Santana and Karofsky, Sam and Mercedes]]

* ''{{Skins}}''
* BeverlyHills90210: Both the original and new series have many examples of this.

* This is the entire raison d'etre of DieselSweeties. Even Metal Steve, the cast virgin, got in on the action until his surprise marriage to Allie V.
* Israeli children suspence-action-drama series ''HaShminiya'' (The Octette) has this. At one point, one of the character’s older sister comments, ‘Is there any combination in the Octette you haven’t tried yet?’

* BatmanBeyond: Dana is pretty much the only recurring character with only one love interest. Even her steady boyfriend [[DatingCatwoman wanders from time to time]]. {{Alpha Bitch}}es Chelsea and Blade seem to have a new boyfriend every episode, frequently each other's previous flames. Nelson Nash also bounces between girlfriends more than once.

** But considering the fact that the writer for Total Drama was the original writer for Degrassi: The Next Generation, this shouldn't come as a surprise.

* BatmanBeyond: Dana is pretty much the only recurring character with only one love interest. Even her steady boyfriend [[DatingCatwoman wanders from time to time]]. [[TheLibby Libbies]] Chelsea and Blade seem to have a new boyfriend every episode, frequently each other's previous flames. Nelson Nash also bounces between girlfriends more than once.

* On ''SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' Mr. Kraft dated both Hilda and Zelda at different times. Sure it's dramatic, but I'd hate to be in Sabrina's position on that one.