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  • A couple in an early episode of 7th Heaven was this trope personified until the husband confessed to his wife that he'd never properly divorced his first wife. Much angst and screaming ensued and it was up to Eric to save the day.
  • On 3rd Rock from the Sun, Dick and Mary are like this whenever their on-off relationship is "on", to the great annoyance of the other Solomons and occasionally also Nina.

  • Sweets and Daisy from Bones. She calls him "Lancelot" (his first name is at least Lance, so it's an understandable nickname). It still makes you smile, even as you're trying not to vomit, because they're so matchingly dysfunctional.
    Daisy: Bye, Lancelot! Colon, end bracket, colon, capital D!
    Sweets: Semi-colon, end parenthesis, less than sign, numeral 3!!
    Daisy: Colon, capital P!
    Cam: Oh, dear God. I'm going to yak.
    • Cam also seems to regard Angela and Hodgins this way on occasion. In one episode, she threatens to get a bucket of cold water to throw on them.
  • Buffyverse:
  • An episode of Caroline in the City had Caroline sitting in a diner waiting for a friend, and being forced to sit through a couples wuvvy-duvvy baby talk and nicknames for each other. When her friend finally shows up, she asks, "Who are they?" Caroline responds, in total deadpan, "Billy-Bear and Cindy-Doodle. Satan sent them."
  • An odd example from Community. Jeff begins acting this way to Britta so that the school stops hating him. Then they both get into a bizarre competition of who can be the most nauseatingly romantic.
  • Danny and Lindsay on CSI: NY have been accused of this on occasion because of the back and forth comments and occasional flirting that comes out when they're working together.
  • Everybody Loves Raymond:
    • Ray and Debra go to Vermont to stay at a bed-and-breakfast for the weekend and end up across the hall from a sickeningly sweet couple (who have only been dating for 6 weeks) who can't stop giggling and making sexual innuendos at each other. Ray and Debra stare in disbelief at this behavior. At one point, Ray and Debra are outside their room, when they hear the other couple (thanks to their obnoxiously loud giggling) and actually rush to find their keys to get into their room before the couple can turn the corner and talk to them.
    • In another episode, Robert and Amy are acting like this shortly after getting married, which Ray and Debra don't mind too much — until Robert and Amy start giving Ray and Debra marriage advice. Ray and Debra, who have been married for over a decade, don't appreciate getting advice from newlyweds (or in Ray's words, from "the guy who married a stripper, then divorced a stripper, then married a regular person, then hung in there for three whole months"), and feel that Robert and Amy are being presumptuous, though Robert and Amy point out their observation that Ray and Debra really don't seem very happy most of the time. Then, the entire party is lectured by Marie and Frank, who—despite often butting heads — genuinely enjoy the witty back-and-forth between them; it's hinted that, despite the fact that Frank and Marie are definitely not this trope, they may actually have a happier and healthier marriage than either Robert and Amy or Ray and Debra, due to their complete honesty with one another and their mutual enjoyment of their back-and-forth. For Frank and Marie, the verbal sparring is a game, and doesn't detract from the fact that they really do love each other.
    • Frank and Marie are Happily Married, but they did briefly morph into the personification of this trope during the Italy episode. Ray in-universe thought it tasted like diabetes.
  • Frasier:
    • Niles and Daphne were like this for a while after they finally got together. If you spend seven years pining after one girl, you're allowed to be a little obnoxiously happy - but the other characters were greatly relieved when they 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.
    • The episode "The New Friend" features an example of this, when Frasier gives Roz a present. It's not a romantic display of affection, but the effect on Niles is the same:
      Roz: Oh, Frasier, I don't deserve your friendship.
      Frasier: No, I do not deserve your friendship.
      Niles: I deserve my own table; excuse me.
  • On Friends, Ross and Emily were briefly sickly sweet when they first started to be together. They spontaneously went to Vermont and Emily was excited about a deer eating fruit in the orchard, which excited Ross equally — because she was so excited about it.
    • Ross and Rachel had shades of this during their brief relationship. (Opposed to the The Masochism Tango of their break up). The writers comment on this, admitting it was hard to make the pair interesting while they were together.
    • This contrasts with Monica/Chandler, who admit they can't pull off pet names like sweetums and pumpkin, and, on their honeymoon, get annoyed at another couple for being sickly sweet. (They're in love but in an 'orderly fashion'). They're still Happily Married, adore each other and unlike Ross and Rachel last for over half the series, implying sometimes the strongest relationships aren't mush all the time.
  • Lilly and Oliver in Hannah Montana, after being friends since kindergarten, suddenly turn into this, even calling each other "Lilypop" and "Ollypop".
  • How I Met Your Mother:
    • One episode has Barney and Abby (Britney Spears) pretend to be a couple 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.
    • Lily and Marshall occasionally lapse into this. For example, their pet names for each other are "Lilypad" and "Marshmallow". They share food and like wearing couples' costumes for Halloween.
    • When Ted and Victoria started going out, it got to the point where Marshall and Lily were jealous of how lovey-dovey they were.
  • I Dream of Jeannie: The relationship between Major Healey and his girlfriends often takes this form.
  • In Never Have I Ever, Davi, Ben and Aneesa are put together in a group project. Davi is still pining for Ben's attention and trying to get over her crush. While at Davi's house, Ben and Aneesa talk cutesy, tickle and make jokes. Davi can't stand it and has to distract herself.
  • While most of their moments are well-done and genuinely touching, Bryan and David of The New Normal can verge on this at times.
  • Our Miss Brooks: Mr. and Mrs. Conklin can be like that.
    • In "Trying to Pick a Fight", it's revealed that one of Mrs. Conklin's pet names for her husband is "Sugar Cookie".
    • In "Mr. Boynton's Parents", Mr. Conklin buys Mrs. Conklin a black sheer negligee. "To Baby, from your Goodie" reads the card.
  • Applies (at first glance) to any relationship on Pushing Daisies, with the exception of those involving Emerson Cod.
  • The "Soup Nazi" episode of Seinfeld has Jerry and his Girl of the Week act like this to the annoyance of George and Elaine. George tries to give Jerry a taste of his own medicine by invoking this with his fiancee, but it backfires because she likes it and doesn't want to stop.
  • Smallville:
    • Chloe and Jimmy could be this on one of their good days. Just look at Clark's expression whenever he walks in on them kissing. In one episode, it's mentioned that Lois—who was then-currently living with Chloe—wants to move away solely to get away from their constant lovemaking, noting that it's just extremely awkward when she hears them through the walls. In another episode, poor Clark walks into their apartment and finds evidence of their, um, hobbies lying around.
    • Clark and Lana on one of their... er, bad days?
  • In the "Howling Wind" episode of Cirque du Soleil's Solstrom, a newlywed couple is soooooooooooo in love with each other that they barely pay attention to anything around them — not even the fact that the honeymoon hotel they've just checked into has magically become a Gothic Hell Hotel.
  • Sonny with a Chance: Sonny and Chad get into this after their Relationship Upgrade in the second half of the second season much to the annoyance of the rest of the So Random! cast.
  • One of the biggest criticisms of season one of Teen Wolf is that there was way too much of this between Allison and Scott. Season two eased up on this and turned them into more of a Battle Couple.
  • On That '70s Show the relationship between Jackie and Hyde makes Eric feel uncomfortable at first, despite being nothing like this. For Hyde, who is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, that probably is gooey and romantic.
    Hyde: (on the phone with Jackie) Whatever. Whatever. Yeah, like I care. All right, I'll talk to you later, Jackie. (hangs up)
    Eric: Eww! Do you mind not getting all gooey and romantic when I'm about to eat my breakfast?
  • 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.
  • Vicious has this when bitter old couple Freddie and Stuart have to tolerate Ash and his new, incredibly irritating girlfriend Chloe:
    Ash: She never drinks, isn't that right Chloe?
    Chloe: It's true. And nothing could give me more of a high that being with Ash...
    Freddie: Have you tried cocaine?
  • Wednesday While most versions of the Addams Family depict Gomez and Morticia as being very happily married, this version upgrades it to them being unable to keep their hands off each other for more than five minutes. And since Wednesday is older in this version than most portrayals, she finds it annoying and embarrassing.
    Wednesday: Wild jackals can control themselves better than the two of you!

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