3rd Rock from the Sun? Been a while since I rewatched that, though. Kinda not "friends" but "co-workers".
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Hadn't thought of that one. It's a bit hard to decide if they should be considered coworkers or a family. I guess it technically counts cause they're a gender mixed group not actually related by blood. One of them is a kid but is actually the oldest. Although I'm not sure the aliens really had gender in the way humans do
being human kinda. the werewolf ends up dating someone who moves in so that kinda messes it up but the original trio never has relations I think.
Humans are horny and attracted to proximity.
30 Rock. None of the core group ever get together. There's a little bit of sexual tension between jack and lemon but it's always clear that it will never go anywhere
The IT Crowd i think, i don't remember in group romance in that show, maybe light flirty comedic moments but not more.
Douglas Reynholm tried to roofie Jen
Has there ever been a mixed-gender group of adult friends where there are no romantic entaglements within the group?
Maybe a group of aces?
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Dee and Charlie bang.
Mac bangs Dee and Dennis' mom.
Frank bangs Charlie's mom (a lot).
Frank, Charlie, and Dennis all bang the waitress.
Dennis tries to bang Mac's mom.
Frank and Mac both try to bang Dee and Dennis' Aunt Donna.
But all of these are one off bits rather than being part of a larger arc or plotline, so I think it still fits the spirit of the question.
But all of these are one off bits
Well that and the question was about "between the group", i.e. intra-group entanglements. The only one that's intra-group here is the first (to which what you said about a one-off applies).
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Probably not, because romantic entanglements make for better TV.
Very subjective. In my opinion introducing romantic subplots is the laziest of writing.
More like co-workers instead of friends but MAS*H.
Margaret and Frank were a couple and she hooked up with Hawkeye at one point
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Golden girls comes to mind. And maybe arrested development? but that's more family than a group of friends.
George Michael and maybe is a pretty big plot point 😂
Nice try, I thought of the A-team but there's no girls, there's some in later seasons but not really a major part.
I can't comment on Arrested Development cause I've never seen it, but Golden Girls are all women not a mixed-gender group
Damn it. I think I subconsciously ruled out of the mix gendered and ended up at golden girls just trying to think of a show that didn't feature romantic interest.
I'm a dummy, carry on.
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I was going to say Spaced till I remembered Twist and Brian have their weird thing and he maybe slept with Marsha. Tim and Daisy never hook up tho, but they do pretend to be a couple for a bit to get the flat.
Black Books - Bernard does mention he once possibly might have slept with Fran but she made him forget, and then it never comes up again.
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Three's Company?
Seems like that depends on a group of screenwriters with a masochistic enjoyment of denial. You have to think it would be a very tempting subplot to start.
As a result, most of the ideas people here have involve like three main characters. I'm not sure about 30 Rock.
Power Rangers?
The original Power Rangers were teenagers. And I thought Jason and Kimberly were a couple but I don't know, the only season I really watched was RPM, which has a romance between Dillon and Summer
That was my guess too
Ghosts? Does that count as a group of friends
The British one would qualify as one with no romantic entaglements (if you don't count the living couple) but the American one has several couples in the core group Thor/Flower, Trevor/Hetty, Pete/Alberta
Didn't know there was an American one tbh
They even recycled a lot of the same basic characters and plot points. It's has a pretty different feel though, so I'm not sure whether to be mad.
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Scooby-Doo?
Fred and Daphne are a couple I’m pretty sure
So are Shaggy and Scooby.
Ruh roh!
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Probably nothing that made it past one season, the writers eventually will turn to that. Good question, curious.
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