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?

    • GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      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.

      I think Frank bangs Dee and Dennis’ cousin Gail the Snail

      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.

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      Mac is gay for Dennis, and Charlie and Dee had a fling in The Gang Misses the Boat

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        Addressed the Charlie and Dee thing below; I just don’t consider a one-off, single-episode B-plot like that 10 seasons into the show (with a later throwaway joke in one episode three seasons later) a “romantic entanglement” for what’s an ongoing 17-season comedy show.

        Mac’s crush on Dennis is the closest we come, but that’s still very distant from “romantic entanglement” to me; that implies an entanglement, where in reality Mac’s one-sided crush is infrequently referenced and pretty much always for laughs, and Dennis clearly demonstrates at every turn that literally nothing will ever come of it. The audience is always deliberately shown that this will never turn into anything; there’s no “will they, won’t they” going on because the answer is always and in perpetuity “won’t they”.

        TL;DR: There’s no actual arc or plotline.

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      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’

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        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 only comes up infrequently, is rarely played for any kind of actual drama, and is almost exclusively a punchline, and Dennis never reciprocates in the slightest.

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