Happy Loving Couples

A couple make friends with another couple, and it goes horribly wrong.

Just Shoot Me!

Appearances

• The Bob Newhart Show: Season 3, episode 8, "Brutally Yours, Bob Hartley" (1974). Bob and Emily make friends with Ed and Janet, a couple who are both teachers at the school where Emily works, but they find their new friends a bit too needy, and when Bob gets fed up and tells them what he thinks, Ed and Janet let loose on him and Emily.
• Newhart: Season 1, episode 13, "The Visitors" (1983). Dick and Joanna are excited that their couple friends they met on vacation in Europe, Sam and Janet, are coming to stay at the inn, but when Sam and Janet arrive, they spend all their time with other people and completely ignore Dick and Joanna. As they're about to check out, Dick and Joanna tell Sam and Janet that they're hurt because they didn't spend any time with them, and that they thought they were friends. Sam and Janet then coldly explain that they don't see them as friends, and that they like to have fun with a lot of different people, as if this is a perfectly reasonable explanation.
• Wings: Season 6, episode 13, "Have I Got a Couple for You" (1995). Joe and Helen start hanging out with another couple named Gwen and Scott, and they're having a great time, but they suddenly stop hearing from their new friends, and they won't return their calls. When Joe and Helen catch them at the airport about to go on a trip, Gwen and Scott explain that they find Joe and Helen too needy, and they need some space.
• Dharma & Greg: Season 3, episode 12, "Looking for the Goodbars" (1999). Dharma and Greg feel like they need more couple friends besides Pete and Jane. They audition a few couples, and they don't work out, but they run into Cynthia and Doug on the street and hit it off right away. The two couples spend all their time together until suddenly Cynthia and Doug stop calling. Dharma and Greg track them down and find them having dinner with another couple, so they confront them for "cheating" on them.
• 3rd Rock from the Sun: Season 5, episode 10, "Gwen, Larry, Dick, and Harry" (2000). Mary wants her and Dick to socialize with other couples, so they start hanging out with a couple named Gwen and Larry. After their first couple of outings together, Gwen and Larry ghost Dick and Mary. Dick tracks them down and asks them why, and they say it's because they don't like Mary. They find her tedious, pretentious, and self-absorbed. Dick asks Gwen and Larry to give them one more chance, but they act bored when Mary tells a story they've already heard, so Dick tells them to get lost.
• Just Shoot Me!: Season 4, episode 17, "With Thee I Swing" (2000). Maya and Elliot have no friends in common, so when they meet a nice couple, Ben and Lori, in a restaurant, they invite them to go to a "swing club" with them. While Maya and Elliot were talking about a swing dancing club, Ben and Lori have a...different interpretation, so when they all meet up at Maya's apartment, and Maya and Elliot see that Ben and Lori have stripped down to their skivvies, Maya suggests they "give them half an hour" to "do whatever it is they gotta do, and then we'll ask them if they wanna go swing dancing."