History Main / LikeAnOldMarriedCouple

* It's more subtle than usual, but in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Ron and Hermione's bickering strongly reminds Harry of Molly and Arthur Weasley's bickering at one point. Molly and Arthur ''are'' an old married couple. [[spoiler: Pretty damn cool method of {{foreshadowing}}.]]

* ''Franchise/TalesSeries'':

* Possibly ''WebVideo/Danisnotonfire'' and ''WebVideo/AmazingPhil''.

* Possibly ''WebVideo/danisnotonfire'' and ''WebVideo/AmazingPhil''.

* It's more subtle than usual, but in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Ron and Hermione's bickering strongly reminds Harry of Molly and Arthur Weasley's bickering at one point. Molly and Arthur ''are'' an old married couple. [[spoiler: Pretty damn cool method of foreshadowing.]]

* Another HoYay example has Doumeki and Watanuki of ''Manga/XxxHOLiC'' behave like this around each other, much to the amusement of Yuuko (and [[YaoiFangirl the readers]]).

* Happens in ''Spirit of Justice'' with [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Apollo and Athena]]. A magician in the second case mistakenly assumes they're a comedy duo practicing their "old married couple" routine when they were actually just conversing and interacting like they normally do. Apollo and Athena are both shocked that this is how they appear to others

* Happens in ''Spirit of Justice'' with [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Apollo and Athena]]. A magician in the second case mistakenly assumes they're a comedy duo practicing their "old married couple" routine when they were actually just conversing and interacting like they normally do. Apollo and Athena are both shocked that this is how they appear to others.
* If Soji is picked as the protagonist in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsV'', his dynamic with Nine comes off as this. He even states this during the prologue of the scenario where he gets the MidSeasonUpgrade.

** Sora and Riku start up this kind of bickering in Neverland and Hallow Bastion when Riku reveals that he has fallen into darkness. Sora behaves like a wife who was wronged by her husband when he finds out.

** And Frasier and Niles, of course, do this constantly, what with the nitpicking, unwarranted commentary, and the barrage of swiftly and pitch-perfectly thrown insults so easy and practiced that it's almost a reflex. Whenever they don't sound like [[Franchise/HarryPotter Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger]], they sound like [[ILoveLucy Fred and Ethel Mertz,]] to the point of DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything.

* If [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsV Soji Murakumo]] is picked as the protagonist of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsV, his dynamic with Nine comes off as this. He even states this during the scenario where he gets the Mid-Season Upgrade.

--->'''The Doctor:''' You graffitied the oldest cliff face in the universe!\\

--->'''The [[Creator/MattSmith Eleventh Doctor]]:''' Honey, I'm home!\\

* ''Series/DoctorWho''
** In the episode "Forest of the Dead", one of several arguments between the Doctor and River Song is interrupted by a character remarking that they're "squabbling like an old married couple". [[spoiler:Naturally, ''they are'', in fact, married]].
** The like-an-old-married-couple-factor is taken to the next level in "The Big Bang". [[spoiler:When the Doctor saves River from a constant time-loop, he teleports into the TARDIS and saves her life that way]]. The following dialogue occurs:
--->'''The [[Creator/MattSmith Eleventh Doctor]]:''' Honey, I'm home!\\
'''River:''' And what sort of time do you call this?
** "The Pandorica Opens":
--->'''The Eleventh Doctor:''' You graffitied the oldest cliff face in the universe!\\
'''River:''' ''You'' wouldn't answer your ''phone''!
** The first time Amy Pond met River, she eventually asked if River and the Doctor were married.

** The [[Creator/DavidTennant Tenth Doctor]] and Donna Noble. There had to be a reason why everyone kept mistaking them for married. It's ironic since Donna is the only long-term female companion in New Who who ''isn't'' hot for the Doctor.
** The Sixth Doctor and Peri seemed to do this a lot. Every episode with them has them exchanging insults and arguing about the stupidest things.
** And now added onto the list of girls who argue provocatively with the Doctor, [[RoboShip we have the old girl herself]], in "The Doctor's Wife".
--->'''The Eleventh Doctor:''' You are ''not'' my mother!\\

** "[[DoctorWhoS13E4TheAndroidInvasion The Android Invasion]]" gives us Kraal MadScientist Styggron and his colleague Chedaki, who do ''nothing'' but snark and snip at one another throughout the story.
** And this will almost always happen if two or more incarnations of the Doctor meet each other, but special mention goes to the Third and Second Doctors, who appeared together twice onscreen, and bickered as if it was the end of the world.
*** Creator/JonPertwee and Creator/PatrickTroughton probably liked doing that so much, that every time they met each other at a convention, they would pretend to hate each other and (drumroll please!) bicker like an old married couple.

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', because Edgeworth and Phoenix have finally hit that stage. Bobby Fullbright even points out that they're "close enough to argue". In their brief appearance in court together, they don't so much argue over facts as quibble about interrupting each other:

* Happens in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' with [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Apollo and Athena]]. A magician in the second case mistakenly assumes they're a comedy duo practicing their "old married couple" routine when they were actually just conversing and interacting like they normally do. Apollo and Athena are both shocked that this is how they appear to others.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse,'' Lars and Sadie are VitriolicBestBuds and Sadie wouldn't mind a RelationshipUpgrade. However, she CannotSpitItOut and he is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. You've never seen two people more {{Tsundere}} for each other. Even ''Steven'' jokes about it: when he suggests starting a gym, not long after Lars was unable to open a jar and they'd recently had one of their trademark arguments, Steven says to Sadie "You could beat up Lars," and to Lars "and you won't starve to death if Sadie divorces you!"

* ''Disney/Zootopia'':

'''Shinji:''' I’m not. I just enjoy winding you up, or have you not figured that out by now?

* ''Disney/ZooTopia'':

* ChildhoodFriends and HeterosexualLifePartners Liszt and Chopin from ''Manga/Classi9'' are roommates and often fondly bickering about their way of playing the piano. They're usually paired in duets when playing in public because it helps with Chopin's [[PerformanceAnxiety stage fright]] and Liszt has fewer chances to stay in his [[SplitPersonality demonic form]] long enough to hurt someone of himself.

** Bucky and Pronk Oryx-Antlerson, who are Judy Hopps' noisy neighbors argued like this for at least half of their screen time, which was at least a minute long. However, most of their bickering seems to be very immature as they mostly say "Shut up, no you shut up" to each other.

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', because [[HoYay Edgeworth and Phoenix]] have finally hit that stage. Bobby Fullbright even points out that they're "close enough to argue". In their brief appearance in court together, they don't so much argue over facts as quibble about interrupting each other:

Often applied to those with BelligerentSexualTension and UnresolvedSexualTension. Compare SlapSlapKiss. See also SheIsNotMyGirlfriend. For the JustFriends version, see VitriolicBestBuds. Can be a staple of having characters be MistakenForGay by way of adding to the HoYay-derived [[QueerPeopleAreFunny humor]].

Often applied to those with BelligerentSexualTension and {{UST}}. Compare SlapSlapKiss. See also SheIsNotMyGirlfriend. For the JustFriends version, see VitriolicBestBuds. Can be a staple of having characters be MistakenForGay by way of adding to the HoYay-derived [[QueerPeopleAreFunny humor]].

* During the ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' [[CoOpMultiplayer co-op]] {{speedrun}} [[http://www.twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda/b/304536039 at Awesome Games Done Quick 2012]], the other viewers joked that there was this kind of chemistry between romscout and [=ShadowWraith=]. In the [[http://www.twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda/b/305374114 bonus]] [[http://www.twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda/b/305374119 stream]], Flicky and PJ had a similar dynamic when they played ''The Adventures of Cookie & Cream.''
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', because [[HoYay Edgeworth and Phoenix]] have finally hit that stage. Bobby Fullbright even points out that they're "close enough to argue". In their brief appearance in court together, they don't so much argue over facts as quibble about interrupting each other:
-->'''Phoenix:''' (after Edgeworth withholds some info) Why didn't you just say so in the first place?
-->'''Edgeworth:''' You're the one who screamed "HOLD IT!" and cut me off!
* Happens in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' with [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Apollo and Athena]]. A magician in the second case mistakenly assumes they're a comedy duo practicing their "old married couple" routine when they were actually just conversing and interacting like they normally do. Apollo and Athena are both shocked that this is how they appear to others.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': when you talk to Kasumi on the ''Normandy'', she will mention that Joker and EDI are like an old married couple. [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend EDI claims that]] what they have is [[SpockSpeak "a platonic symbiosis rather than hormonally induced courtship behavior"]].

** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3:[[{{DLC}} Citadel]]'' has Shepard do this with his/her other love interests.[[note]]Exact wording of the love interest's dialogue depends on the character.[[/note]]

'''Shepard:''' Well I could have done that.
* During the ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' [[CoOpMultiplayer co-op]] {{speedrun}} [[http://www.twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda/b/304536039 at Awesome Games Done Quick 2012]], the other viewers joked that there was this kind of chemistry between romscout and [=ShadowWraith=].
** In the [[http://www.twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda/b/305374114 bonus]] [[http://www.twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda/b/305374119 stream]], Flicky and PJ had a similar dynamic when they played ''The Adventures of Cookie & Cream.''
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', because [[HoYay Edgeworth and Phoenix]] have finally hit that stage. Bobby Fullbright even points out that they're "close enough to argue." In their brief appearance in court together they don't so much argue over facts as quibble about interrupting each other:

** and, when Phoenix presents incorrect evidence:
-->'''Edgeworth:''' Hmph.
-->'''Phoenix:''' (Uh oh, I got the hmph treatment...)
** Happens once again in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'', but this time much more literally with [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Apollo and Athena]]. A magician in the second case mistakenly assumes they're a comedy duo practicing their "old married couple" routine when they were actually just conversing and interacting like they normally do. Apollo and Athena are both shocked that this is how they appear to others.
* ''Franchise/TalesSeries''

'''Cheria:''' *sigh* You're such a child.
*** Earlier:
---->'''Cheria:''' Sophie, have you been bathing regularly?\\