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* ''FanVerse/TwoGuysAGirlAndAnAversionToSunlight''.
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* The core premise of ''DharmaAndGreg'', ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', and possibly ''IDreamOfJeannie''. In Dharma and Greg they have clashing personalities which their family thinks makes them incompatible, in ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', pretty much all of Samantha's relatives think she's crazy for marrying a mortal, and in ''IDreamOfJeannie''... she lives in a goddamn bottle. The former two series have romantic tension since they start out married, and the last has them begin in a master/more-powerful-servant relationship, making a recurring plot one or both spouses/interests getting doubts or clashing, only to reconcile and learn AnAesop.

* GreenArrow and BlackCanary, after years of relationship issues (cheating, abusive behavior, etc.), finally got married. When they sent out invitations to the wedding, the reactions from most of the superheroes was somewhere between hysterical laughter and taking bets on how long it would last.

* ''DeltoraQuest'': He's the handsome, brave, heroic and renowned king of a massive country. She was raised by trees.

* ''SayAnything''.
--> '''Diane Court''': "Nobody thinks it will work, do they?"
--> '''Lloyd Dobler''': "No. You just described every great success story."

* And touched on in Sonny and Music/{{Cher}}'s "I've Got You Babe" (''They say we're young and we don't know; won't find out until we grow...'')

* Music/OzzyOsbourne and his wife Sharon are another RealLife. When they got married, everyone expected his hard-driving rock and roll lifestyle to destroy any chance they had of staying together. 28 plus years later, they're still together.

* ''ILoveLucy'': CBS initially responded to LucilleBall's insistence that Desi Arnaz play the husband in her TV show by saying they weren't sure if audiences could believe that a celebrity like Lucy had a mixed marriage with an obscure Cuban bandleader. In response, Lucy and Desi gave a vaudeville tour across the country. The tour became a success, proving to the networks that a TV show of the duo would be huge.

* ChuckBerry's ''Never Can Tell'' (you may recognise it from ''PulpFiction'') is titled after the refrain the old folks use to recant their naysaying while the song describes the kids going on to live happily.

* The core premise of ''DharmaAndGreg'', ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', and possibly ''IDreamOfJeannie''. In Dharma and Greg they have clashing personalities which their family thinks makes them incompatible, in ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', pretty much all of Samantha's relatives think she's crazy for marrying a mortal, and in ''IDreamOfJeannie''... she lives in a goddamn bottle. Since the former two series have romantic tension since they start out married, and the last has them begin in a master/more-powerful-servant relationship, a recurring plot is one or both spouses (or whatever) getting doubts or clashing, only to reconcile and learn AnAesop.

* The core premise of ''DharmaAndGreg'', ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', and possibly ''IDreamOfJeannie''. In Dharma and Greg they have clashing personalities where they're family thinks makes them uncompatible, in ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', pretty much all of Samantha's relatives think she's crazy for marrying a mortal and in ''IDreamOfJeannie''... she lives in a goddamn bottle. Since the former two series have romantic tension since they start out married, and the last has them start out in a master/more-powerful-servant relationship, a recurring plot is one or both spouses (or whatever) getting doubts or clashing, only to reconcile and learn AnAesop.

* ''DarkHeartHigh'': Yuri's parents. For good reason - an EvilOverlord and a MagicalGirl aren't supposed to get married! And never mind having a *kid* on top of that!

* In Patrick O'Brian's ''{{Aubrey-Maturin}}'' series, the passionate, loud, lusty, and rather promiscuous Jack Aubrey falls deeply for Sophie Williams, a proper, virginal, and as it turns out rather undersexed young lady. His best friend wishes them well, but privately predicts woe; her cousin, Diana Villiers, doesn't bother to be private about it.

* Kirsty MacColl's "They Don't Know About Us", as covered by Tracey Ullman.

* Tracey Ullman's "They Don't Know About Us".

* The ''{{CSI}}'' episode "$35k OBO" begins with a couple leaving a restaurant, wishing one another happy anniversary and remarking, "And they said it would never last." Since it's ''CSI'', it doesn't come as all that much of a surprise when the trope is almost instantly violently subverted in more ways than one: [[spoiler: Not only are they both murdered, but it turns out they each hired ''the same hitwoman'' to kill the other]].

* [[{{VicTorious}}Victorious]] has Beck and Jade. No one understands how he deals with her, but they've been going strong for almost 3 years, and the implication is that they make each other better people as a result.

* Patti and Robin Lee Graham (the sixties teenager who sailed round the world alone) were not shockingly different but they did have a marriage that no one would have bet on. She was a teenage beach girl, he was a crazy( if not really as crazy as some when you think of it) boy who wanted to sail around the world. They met at 18 and eloped and are still together. That is more awesome than sailing round the world.

* Subverted in ''{{Friends}}'' while looking like a version of the trope played straight. Despite getting the audience to want Ross and Racheal together, the two have nothing in common and make a terrible couple as evidenced by the many, many times they become romantically entangled and crash hard.

* ''ILoveLucy'': CBS initially responded to Lucille Ball's insistence that Desi Arnaz play the husband in her TV show by saying they weren't sure if audiences could believe that a celebrity like Lucy had a mixed marriage with an obscure Cuban bandleader. In response, Lucy and Desi gave a vaudeville tour across the country. The tour became a success, proving to the networks that a TV show of the duo would be huge.

* The core premise of ''DharmaAndGreg'', ''{{Bewitched}}'', and possibly ''IDreamOfJeannie''. In Dharma and Greg they have clashing personalities where they're family thinks makes them uncompatible, in ''{{Bewitched}}'', pretty much all of Samantha's relatives think she's crazy for marrying a mortal and in ''IDreamOfJeannie''... she lives in a goddamn bottle. Since the former two series have romantic tension since they start out married, and the last has them start out in a master/more-powerful-servant relationship, a recurring plot is one or both spouses (or whatever) getting doubts or clashing, only to reconcile and learn AnAesop.

* Episode 24 of ''{{Clannad}}'', which covers an alternate-universe "Tomoyo end", is essentially this trope condensed to twenty minutes.

* The TropeNamer is ''SayAnything''.