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Has there ever been a show about a mixed-gender group of adult friends where there are no romantic entaglements within the group? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Seinfeld- Jerry and Elaine are exes and breify get back together at the end of season one

Friends- lots of romantic entaglements but mainly Chandler/Monica, Ross/Rachel, and Joey/Rachel

How I Met Your Mother - two of the main characters are a steady couple, the other three are a love triangle

Big Bang Theory- by the end, it's three couples and one single guy

Any shows like these where the main characters never date each other or hook up with each other?

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[–] Discover@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Love the show, but Dee and Charlie hook up in 'The Gang Misses The Boat'. She also admits to SAing him later in 'Time's Up For The Gang'

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, it does happen, although I still went ahead with the comment because I don't consider that a "romantic entanglement".

The show has 178 20-ish-minute episodes over 17 seasons.
Of those, there's one B-plot in one episode ("The Gang Misses the Boat") ten seasons in and a later one-off reference to it in "Time's Up for the Gang" (S13).
The show has mostly minor elements of serialization, and there's no ongoing romance between the core gang at any point; if you accidentally missed those two episodes (or one and walked away to get a drink without pausing for like a minute on the other), you'd literally never know.
Arguably the closest we get is Mac's obvious crush on Dennis, but this is rarely played for any kind of actual drama; it's almost exclusively a punchline, and Dennis never reciprocates in the slightest.

"Entanglement" to me implies that the two or more characters have ongoing romantic feelings for each other that are explored or at least consistently shown over multiple episodes.