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... Grown-ups are gross.
Leela: You have got to be kidding! ZAP Leela: ... I mean, that's so sweet! ZAP Leela: ... I mean, awwww! dat's sho shweet! — Futurama, "Love and Rocket"
Some marriages are painful, others are dead, a few are happy, and then there are those which are... cute.
They use pet names even Fluffy The Terrible winces at, cuddle incessantly, never argue (unless you count their "you're cuter" exchanges as such) and basically turn all nearby salt into sugar.
Usually, they're as indestructibly upbeat as you think. Other times, the show will delight in giving them one tiny imperfection, problem, or Single Issue Wonk that makes them turn into The Masochism Tango.
In anime, these are often referred to as a "bakappuru" (portmanteau of "baka" and "kappuru") or stupid couple by other characters annoyed by their loveydovey antics. See also Glurge Addict.
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Examples
Anime & Manga
- In Fullmetal Alchemist, Hughes has this kind of extreme affection for his wife Gracia and his daughter Elicia, but perhaps atypically, it makes him really likeable rather than annoying. It helps that he's a pretty Badass Knife Nut.
- In the manga, Sig and Izumi Curtis (of all people) are so lovey-dovey that they traumatized Ed and Al when they were kids. They hang on each other, invoke sparkly backgrounds, had a Meet Cute involving a bear carcass, and frequently kick ass together while cooing at each other. Go figure.
- Chet and Addy in Haré+Guu. Even the romantically-minded Marie refers to them as "Chetttttt" and "Addyyyyyy".
- It's mentioned that every once a Month Adi gets into a fight with Chet over the stupidist things. But always gets back together with him after he says some sappy line.
- Kazuya and Akane at the end of Mai-HiME, possibly to balance that out their counterparts put in an impossible position in Mai-Otome.
- Umi's parents in Magic Knight Rayearth are more than Happily Married. They take any excuse to fawn and coo all over each other. Even Umi herself is thoroughly disgusted by their incessant, diabetes-inducing displays of affection.
- Similarly, Mimi's parents in Digimon Adventure.
- In Infinite Ryvius, Lilith and Emerson, to the point where they're nicknamed the "Love Love Couple". However, they slowly grow apart over the course of the series.
- Pedro from Excel Saga had this kind of relationship with his family... until everything went horribly wrong.
- In Gals!, Ran and Tatsuki call themselves a stupid couple
- In School Days, Makoto and Sekai are called a stupid couple by Hikari.
- Kanade and Yukino from Candy Boy. Yes, they're both girls. They are also fraternal twin sisters.
- Honoka and Ginji Kawai in Magical Project S.
- Noriko and Shimako from Maria-sama Ga Miteru, which leads to some mild teasing by the other girls of the student council.
- Tokyo Mew Mew: Ichigo's parents couldn't be lovey-dovier if they tried.
- Hayashi and Morimoto from Godannar seem to exist only for comic relief and to annoy characters with less-than-perfect relationships. At least until the Distant Finale, where Hayashi is revealed as Chekhovs Gunman
- Lovely Complex: Nakao and Ishihara fit this perfectly.
Comics
- Hourman and Liberty Belle in Justice Society of America. Thankfully, the lovey-dovey stuff doesn't get in the way of them kicking ass in battle.
- "Richandamy" from the comic strip Zits are a high school relationship taken all the way to symbiosis.
- Amusingly, Richandamy were based on two college friends of creator Jim Borgman. They were actually named Rich and Amy, he was tall and she was short, and they practically were that inseparable. They're now Happily Married with three kids.
Films
- Winsor McCay had a couple like this in one of his early minor features.
- In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, this proved to be Jessica and Roger's relationship.
- Spoofed in the movie Naked Gun 33-1/3: The Final Insult. While at marriage counseling, Frank and Jane start calling each other sappy pet names. At first the therapist smiles at the display, but after a few more he says "Mr. and Mrs. Drebin, I'm a diabetic. I think you two ought to go now."
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Googly-Bear and Schmootzy-Poo Mike and Celia in Monsters Inc.
- WALL-E and EVE.
Literature
- There's a character, Manilov I think, in Gogol's Dead Souls who shares with his wife a sickeningly sweet affection.
- Lavender and Ron in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. On second thought, just Lavender.
- Bill and Fleur fit this trope as well.
- Parodied in a book by Tom Holt, where a bickering couple are tricked into overdosing on love potion. They start using pet names at the end of every sentence but retain their normal personalities, leading to sentences like, "Don't be such a bloody idiot honey-bunny".
- Edward and Bella, Alice and Jasper, heck, just about every couple from Twilight.
- Every vampire couple. The only human couples worth mentioning are either broken up (Bella's parents, Jessica and Mike), basically nonexistent (Angela and Ben), or barely begun by the end of the series (Charlie and whatsherface).
Live Action TV
- The "Soup Nazi" episode of Seinfeld where several of the characters in relationships had a sort of competition to be the most sickeningly sweet.
- An episode of How I Met Your Mother has Barney and Britney Spears (not playing herself) pretend to be like this in order to make fun of Ted. Barney then proposes to her, but he thought it was part of the act and she thought it was for real.
- When Ted and Robin were going out, they got Barney to do what they wanted once by threatening him with sickeningly sweet behaviour.
- Niles and Daphne of Frasier were like this for a while after they finally got together. One could argue that if you spend seven years pining after one girl you're allowed to be a little obnoxiously happy, but this troper (and the other characters) was greatly relieved when the two got over this phase.
- A later episode in the last season also has an interesting P.O.V based example; at one point, both Martin and Niles — both of whom are in happy, stable relationships, Martin about to get married again and Niles married with his first child on the way — sigh about how happy they are. From their perspective, it's merely a content but throwaway musing. Frasier, however, happens to be going through a particularly dismal time in his already pretty grim love life, so from his point-of-view, Martin and Niles are being insufferably smug and sneering about their good fortune.
- Lilly and Oliver in Hannah Montana, after being friends since kindergarten, suddenly turn into this, even calling each other "Lilypop" and "Ollypop".
- Buffy and Spike, when one of Willow's accidental spells made them want to get married, treated each other like this.
- True Blood: Hoyt and Jessica in Season 2, until after enduring hours of abuse from his mother, Jessica quite justifiably snaps and snacks on Maxine's juicy jugular, thereby pushing Hoyt's Relative Button.
- To a lesser degree, Sookie and Bill.
Music
- Mocked in the Irving Berlin song "Snooky Ookums".
- The whole point of the song "Lucky" by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat. [1]
- Mocked in the song "Mon coeur mon amour" ("My heart my love") by French singer Anaďs.
Video Games
Web Comics
Western Animation
- A featured couple in Futurama who ran the candy company Romanticorp inspired the page quote from Leela, with a little assistance from The Professor and his cattle prod.
- And from I Dated a Robot:
Lucy Liu-bot: You're cute!
Fry: No, you are!
Lucy Liu-bot: No, you!
Fry: No, you!
Professor Farnsworth: Oh dear! She's stuck in an infinite loop, and he's an idiot!
- Also the Alternate Universe versions of Fry and Leela.
- Once Scott and Jean finally get together, Kurt and Kitty gleefully mock them as being this by going full out daytime-TV.
- Jérémie and Aelita from Code Lyoko can sometimes slip into this. They do have fights or misunderstandings a few times, but it is always resolved by the end of the episode.
- Subverted in Batman The Animated Series. Joker and Harley do act this way, but this just makes their relationship even creepier.
Real Life
- Admit it, you know at least one couple like this, don't you? And if you're not one half of that couple, aren't they annoying?
- And if you are, congratulations! Don't mind us, we're just bitter.
- I would guess most of us have had ROOMMATES in a couple like this. Weren't THOSE some fun days.
- There's always at least one showmance like this in a theatre production. To everyone involved, it's a distraction.
- Subverted in the episode of Behind the Music about TLC. When the late Left Eye first started dating NFL star Andre Rison, her bandmates would get annoyed by their sappiness. T-Boz mentioned how they'd always call each other baby, "Hey Baby... Baby... Baby..." and segued right into Chille saying the exact same thing. Two years later she burned his house down.
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