- Ant and Dec in everything they've ever been in, from their screen debut as PJ and Duncan in Byker Grove to their children's TV presenter gig to I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! They even appeared together on Desert Island Discs, which the BBC has never let anyone else do before or since. If you see them on TV, Ant is always the one on the left. Always.
- Game show host Geoff Edwards had a tendency to do this on the shows he hosted- the other slot would be filled by an announcer or other crew member:
- Him and the security guard, Emile Autori from The New Treasure Hunt, though it was nearly all one-sided on Geoff's part;
- Him and the stage manager/off screen judge, "Erik von Judge" (real name Erik Warner) from Play the Percentages, who Geoff would frequently snark about;
- Him and announcer Kevin McMahon from Starcade; the two would frequently tease each other (like Kevin claiming that he was gonna beat Geoff's high score on Sinistar);
- And finally, him and announcer Rod Charleboi on The New Chain Reaction; this pairing was actually required by law. To elaborate, that version was taped in Canada and rules required Canadian content, so Rod was given an on-camera role to meet the quota.
- Subverted in 30 Rock, with Grizz and Dotcom being anything but ordinary. They are, however, as close as "those two guys" can be for a man like Tracy.
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons, with a rare canon portmanteau name of "FitzSimmons". However, Simmons has had two episodes about her "solo adventures."
- 'Allo 'Allo!: Cairstairs and Fairfax are those two British airmen in the same uniform, both are brunettes and both sport a moustache. They always wear the same generic outfit as a part of their escape plan. They share a Catchphrase: "Hello!" "Hello!" They are practically indistinguishable.
- Kenan and Kel on All That; they even have Statler and Waldorf imitations. They got their own spinoff.
- Drake and Josh on The Amanda Show. They did too.
- The lift girls on Are You Being Served? Justified in that there were two lifts present.
- Babylon 5: We get two maintenance workers in a Season 5 episode with no clue what is going on as the station comes under attack by an unknown alien race.
- Battlestar Galactica (1978): Boomer and Jolly.
- Battlestar Galactica (2003): Dualla and Gaeta are occasionally shown talking about what is going on, but by the last two seasons that role has been taken up by Racetrack and Skulls, who frequently fly vital and extremely hazardous Raptor scouting missions without any idea what the overall mission objective is, and complain about it.
- Lem and Phil from Better Off Ted.
- Black Scorpion had Slugger & Specs.
- Often in Blake's 7 a pair of Federation soldiers or technicians would be shown discussing the local situation. This would provide a human (though not always humane) face to the Gas Mask Mooks which were the usual face of the Federation.
- Breaking Bad
- Jesse's stoner pals Badger and Skinny Pete have been described as the "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern" of the show, which is pretty fitting for a show often likened to the work of Shakespeare. Interestingly, they only become this trope from Season 3 onwards, after the death of their other friend Combo.
- Huell and Kuby are another pair.
- Hitchcock and Scully from Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- Jonathan and Andrew.
- Forrest with Graham.
- Ryan and Esposito from Castle fit very well, along with being possible darkhorses.
- Chuck:
- Jeffrey and Lester. These two may also be considered a Beta Couple to Heterosexual Life-Partners Chuck and Morgan. They have a rock duo called Jeffster, which is (unsurprisingly) terrible, or terribly awesome. Also, while they can be Those Two Guys in some episodes, they have some more in-depth treatment. First of all, they aren't indistinguishable from each other. Second, they aren't clueless about the show's Masquerade: it's revealed near the end of Season 2 that they know more about the Power Trio than anyone else, although they have still guessed wrong in a big way.
- One-off characters Matty and Scotty have many elements of Those Two Guys. They're two stereotypical mobsters who have almost identical personalities. One is somewhat heavier in build than the other, but otherwise unless you're paying attention it's hard to tell which is which. They are more central to the plot than is typical for this trope, but don't actually do all that much themselves and spend most of their on-camera time tagging along injecting Plucky Comic Relief, and Leaning on the Fourth Wall about Chuck and Sarah's relationship. Many viewers and critics expressed disappointment when they were unceremoniously killed off at the end by the episode's Big Bad.
- Chad and Roy, a pair of SWAT guys assigned to protect Chief Johnson after she got shot at in The Closer. They appeared in only one episode but they were really funny.
- Abed and Troy from Community.
- Control Z: Dario and Ernesto, the two less prominent members of the popular clique, seem to always be together.
- Whichever two lab rats happen to feature in any particular episode of CSI (particularly Archie or Mandy)... their personalities are just, y'know, those two lab techs. Yet they've almost all been around, just conversing in the background for the majority of the show. Every dozen or so episodes they get thrown a bone and have an actual episode featuring them. So much so that Hodges and Wendy have been upgraded to main cast members.
- Yick Yu and Arthur Kobalewscuy from Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High.
- Degrassi: The Next Generation: JT and Toby were it for Seasons 1-6 until JT was killed, then Danny and Derek for Seasons 6-7 until Danny outgrew Derek and matured, and now recently Connor and Wesley have settled into Degrassi's Those Two Guys mantle, which had people shuffling in and out of that spot since Season 8.
- Doctor Who has an interesting relationship with this trope.
- Writer Robert Holmes was fond of having two minor characters in his serials whose main purpose was hanging around in the background being funny and commenting on the story, to the point that Whovians refer to Those Two Guys as the "Holmesian Double Act". When writers in the Whoniverse create characters like this, it's always done in reference to Holmes — particularly in Eric Saward and Steven Moffat scripts.
- The iconic "double act" are Jago and Litefoot from "The Talons of Weng-Chiang". Jago owns the theatre where Weng-Chiang is hidden and his agent plies his trade, and Litefoot is a police pathologist and the Doctor's de facto landlord for the story. Both important to the plot to the point that they are more important than the Doctor until the finale. In fact, Jago and Litefoot were so popular they eventually got their own series.
- "The Robots of Death" has Poul and D84, though it ends unhappily — Poul has a Phobia-induced meltdown and D84 kills himself in a Heroic Sacrifice to save the Doctor. This was partly a Take That! at the book series the story was referencing.
- "Warriors' Gate" (not one of the Robert Holmes ones) has Royce and Aldo.
- "Revelation of the Daleks": Orcini and Bostock.
- "Planet of the Dead": Nathan and Barclay. At the end, the Doctor suggests to Captain Magambo that they might do well at UNIT, and she says she'll see what she can do.
- "A Good Man Goes to War" parodies the trope mercilessly with the introduction of the "thin one" and the fat one"Lorna: Don't you have names?
The Fat One: We're the Thin Fat Gay Married Anglican Marines. Why would we need names as well?.
- Craig and Eric from Drake & Josh — a Running Gag is everybody, especially Drake, always getting their names mixed up.Craig: I'm Craig!
Drake: Pfft, it matters... - Due South:
- Huey and Gardino.
- In the third season, it's Huey and Dewey.
- Tony Webster and David Harris-Jones from The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Great! Super...
- Officers Michael Francis Murphy and Tony Bellows from the live action The Flash series.
- Game of Thrones: Pyp and Grenn. Pyp is a steward in the Nights Watch, Grenn is a ranger in the Nights Watch, they joined and trained at the same time as Jon Snow, and are close friends with Jon and Sam. Dolorus Edd is added into the mix in Season 2, as a brother of the Nights Watch who is close to this group.
- Gilmore Girls:
- Madeline and Louise in first three seasons. They are Rory's classmates and friends with Paris.
- Later on replaced by Lucy and Olivia. They appeared in the last season when Rory was about to graduate from Yale.
- Matt Rutherford (the black guy) and Mike Chang (the Asian guy) from Glee. Only in the first season, though.
- Dawn and Stacey, the "Beatdown Biddies", later the "Toxic Twins", from GLOW.
- Gossip Girl:
- It has an extended version with Blair's entourage: an Asian-American nerd, a (possibly Hispanic for some extent) Queen Bee wannabe, an African-American beautiful girl an... well, the other one. For season three, it's done with Jenny's courtship.
- Isabel and Kati, particularly in the first season.
- Jakes and Johnny on Graceland.
- Jackson and Rico in a couple of episodes of Hannah Montana, where the frenemy duo is paired as singing third-person narrators.
- Potsie and Ralph from Happy Days.
- Horatio Hornblower has sailors Styles and Matthews gradually transform into this. In the first series, they play a part in Horatio's Character Development while he's a midshipman and new lieutenant, learning how to command; Matthews in particular is an experienced sailor who respectfully gives the boy some much-needed guidance. In the second series they're the only returning belowdcks charactersnote but still provide a window into the discipline problems with the crew. In the third series they don't have much plot significance at all, apart from Styles doing time as the Surly Seaman of the Week.
- Ted's children in How I Met Your Mother.
- Kaamelott: Many an episode is devoted to one of the usual duos pushing back the frontiers of human stupidity. Pretty much every character has been one of Those Two Guys in a three-person conversation, with the result of driving the third character (usually Arthur) up the wall, but several pairs stand out:
- Perceval and Karadoc are forever finding new and stupid "martial arts" and trying to explain it to someone, or complaining about something to Arthur at three in the morning.
- Yvain and Gauvain (Arthur's brother-in-law and nephew) are essentially Dumbass Teenage Sons in their twenties, who cannot be convinced to leave their fantasy world and be competent for a change.
- In later seasons, Bohort (Dirty Coward and Camp Straight) is often put in this role alongside Leodagan (Leeroy Jenkins and Jerk with a Heart of Jerk) so they can present diametrically opposite viewpoints and equally unrealistic solutions.
- Leodagan and his wife Seli are both greedy, cynical, powermongering jerks trapped in Awful Wedded Life. But woe betide anyone who disagrees with them because they are ruthlessly effective at comeback (given all the practice they have with each other).
- Roparzh and Guethenoc are a pair of rival peasants unique in that they spend more time trying to kill each other than leading peasant revolts, both of which end up destroying the kingdom's food stores.
- Mort Tubor and Bob Phillips in Knots Landing from Seasons Ten to Twelve. After Bob is Put on a Bus, Mort is on his own in Seasons Thirteen and Fourteen.
- Lenny and Squiggy from Laverne & Shirley.
- Finn and Munch often played this role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. They were nigh inseparable Heterosexual Life-Partners. At least until Munch retired.
- Leverage has FBI agents Taggart and McSweeten.
- Ray and Chris in Life on Mars, with Ray particularly embodying the values we've thankfully left behind.
- Life with Derek has Sam and Ralph, depending on the episode.
- Lost:
- Lost had Steve and Scott until one of them died (no-one can remember which). They very rarely appeared and rarely had few lines.
- A retconned example would be Nikki and Paolo, who were apparently there all along observing events until they got involved in the main story and promptly died in the third season (due to fan dissatisfaction with these characters showing up from nowhere and them being expected to give a damn).
- Mad Men has Ken Cosgrove, Harry Crane and Paul Kinsey as Those Three Guys for Series One. Characterisation Marches On by Series 2. Paul becomes a Bourgeois Bohemian; Ken becomes a more obvious Casanova Wannabe before becoming the Happily Married token Nice Guy in the office; Harry Took a Level in Jerkass.
- Lloyd and Dabney in Malcolm in the Middle.
- In M*A*S*H, there are Frank and Margaret in the first few seasons, whose status is lampshaded on several occasions. They are easy to recognize once you know which major of the duo is a lady.Officer: Which one is Burns and which is Houlihan?
Hawkeye: It doesn't matter. They're interchangeable. - Zito and Switek from Miami Vice provide a certain amount of comic relief and even have the opposing body types with the tall and skinny Zito and the shorter and pudgier Switek.
- The Muppets:
- Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street
- Statler and Waldorf
- Gonzo and Rizzo the Rat
- Doctor Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant, Beaker
- My Parents Are Aliens:
- They had Frankie and Pete for seven years. Frankie and Pete found out everything in Series 7 Episode 20 but then they had their memories erased. We were then subjected to the terrible Series 8.
- There was a kid called Mikey for the first three episodes,and occasionally a kid called Dave.
- Newhart: Darryl and Darryl - who never said or did a single thing.
- Flaca and Maritza from Orange Is the New Black.
- Rupert and Angus from Outlander.
- Pizza:
- Rocky and Habib. They tend to call all their cousins when they are in such trouble.
- Omar and Mohammad 2 (Those Two of Rocky and Habib's Cousins).
- Toula and Katrina.
- Power Rangers:
- Bulk and Skull, the school bullies in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Unlike most sets of Those Two Guys, they remained constant characters in every season of the continuous plotline, cameoed in the first season after the continuous plotline, and even cameoed in the 10th anniversary Reunion Show.
- Spiritual successors of Bulk and Skull from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers are Cassidy and Devin in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, an Alpha Bitch aspiring reporter and her cameraman; Victor and Monty in Power Rangers Ninja Steel, an egotistical jock and his nerdy sidekick; and Betty and Ben in Power Rangers Beast Morphers, a pair of bumbling sibling security guards.
- Lothor's nieces Marah and Kapri on Power Rangers Ninja Storm also qualify, despite being part of the bad guys' crew instead of in the Rangers' social circle. (Cassidy and Marah are even played by the same actress).
- Bulk himself returns in Power Rangers Samurai in this role for the first time in more than a decade, though Skull's son takes his father's place in the onscreen duo. This role gives Bulk the most appearances of any character in the series with nine seasons (As a regular in the six Zordon Era seasons, with a couple appearances in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, a cameo in Power Rangers Wild Force, and as a regular again in Samurai), having formerly been tied with his friend Skull and Tommy Oliver. Though Skull appeared in the finale of Samurai, making him tied with Bulk.
- Primeval has Tom and Duncan; Conner's geeky college friends who aren't in on the secret. Tom later contracts The Virus from a dodo and dies, and when Duncan finally reappears again in season 4, he has become a paranoid and reclusive Conspiracy Theorist.
- Red Dwarf is a show where Those Two Guys become the main characters. Who else would the camera follow after everybody else dies?
- Amy's friends Madison and Lauren on The Secret Life of the American Teenager along with Ben's friends Alice and Henry.
- Reginald and Mr. Hall from The Singing Detective.
- Frank and Cyril, from Slings & Arrows.
- In Sons of Guns, several scenes with Joe and Charlie on technical projects wind up working out this way.
- Sports Night has Chris and Will, and sometimes Dave. In the second season, as the supporting cast receded to the background somewhat, Kim and Elliot became this trope as well for a while.
- On Stargate Universe, Brody and Volker wound up becoming this.
- Supernatural:
- Ed and Harry Ghostfacers. They acquire a team later, but in their first appearance it's just them.
- Ed and Harry seem to consider Sam and Dean an example of this trope.
- Swiftand Shift Couriers has the twins, Mark and Mike Tanner.
- Taken: Howard Bowen and Marty Erickson, Owen Crawford's two closest lackeys, in "Beyond the Sky", "Jacob and Jesse" and "High Hopes". After Crawford murders Bowen, Erickson appears in the next two episodes, "Acid Tests" and "Maintenance", on his own.
- Brian and Kurt from the British TV series Teachers (2001) fit this trope almost exactly. Brian is the tall jock P.E teacher and Kurt is the short IT teacher. They could also be labeled as Heterosexual Life-Partners.
- Mitch and Russell from Truth Be Told are a rare example of Those Two Guys as the main characters of a TV show.
- Arby and Lee in Utopia.
- Weird Science: Matthew and Roger, seemingly the only friends that Gary and Wyatt have except for each other and Lisa.
- The West Wing's Ed and Larry. Or Larry and Ed. They're in every meeting, advise the President on every issue and no one knows who the hell they are. Lampshaded a couple of times when they are given the wrong folders, and when someone asks if they always walk around together, or the time when the pair are introduced to a new character and when they ask "which one is Ed and which is Larry?", Ed, Larry and Josh all respond "it doesn't matter".
- Laura Hall and Linda Taylor on Whose Line Is It Anyway?. They are musicians who almost never speak but are still part of the main cast. Sometimes a third female musician joins them.
- The Wire:
- Herc and Carver, for the first few seasons, are the detail's two grunts who don't have terribly distinct personalities and are rarely apart. As the show progresses, they separate and get their own plot lines, personalities and conflicts.
- Bodie and Poot represent the street-level perceptions of the drug game for the first several seasons and are generally seen together as part of the same crew.
- Yellowstone: Ryan and Colby represent the rank and file ranch hands at Yellowstone. They're rarely seen apart and don't have very distinct personalities. It's considered a dramatic turn when Ryan decides to become a Branded Man. Colby is visibly concerned and left calling after him as he departs.
- Z Nation has Sketchy and Skeezy, a pair of con artists that the protagonists run into once a season. Despite being selfish jackasses, they're pretty friendly guys who are on good terms with the heroes (especially Doc and Murphy) and don't try to con them even as they target everyone else they run into.
