Couples You Will Never Live Up To

Ah film and television. Escapisms from real life, that inspire and entertain us. And for those canny few, a place to steal smooth romantic moves from to impress our significant others. Or the example that will just make those significant others realise what you will never live up to. Either way, for V Day, here’s a collection of the best, live and learn and the most relevant time of year.

Danny Zuko & Sandy Olsen

Can you imagine how much fun life would be if we all could sing and dance in unison with no rehearsals? It would be as fun as this couple. And if that’s not enough, their car can fly. Your Ford KA just isn’t as cool now.

Noah & Allie From The Notebook

He built a house! Not some semi-detached 2 bedroom piece of lame, a lake house, with a wrap around porch and a room for painting in when he didn’t even know if she was coming back to him! Switch to a carpentry course immediately if your significant other has moved on, then see if they don’t come running back.

Jack & Rose

Forget the cheese, forget the hundreds of factual inaccuracies, this three and half hour relationship was intense! It involved money, and social rules, and in the end he DIES! No one could live up to what we all imagine their lives would have been like if he’d just got on the other side of the ruddy wardrobe door!

Han Solo & Princess Leia

How lame would it have been if she’d got with Luke (forgetting for a moment that he was her brother)? There’d have been no attitude or drama, and the sexy outfits wouldn’t be as big a fantasy for all of nerdom.

Buffy & Angel

They had sex and instead of not just calling her the next day he set about trying to ruin her life and destroy the world, only for her to kill him just as he got his soul back. And they could never have sex. But they still loved each other very much. It sounds slightly stupid but we all cried when he had to leave her in Season 3.

Leo & Claire as Romeo & Juliet

The most beautiful couple EVER. They weren’t really Romeo & Juliet, they were Leo & Claire, saying some nicely put together sentences, and looking through a fish tank set to cool music. You could try quoting Shakespeare to your boy/girlfriend, but it won’t make you as pretty as either of these two.

Rachel & Ross

The hair, the quips, the arguments the all-encompassing epic yet normal relationship of TV’s favourite friends who became a couple…Apart from Chandler and Monica obviously. Gives hope to all of us who have been hanging around our best friend just waiting for them to notice

Jim Levenstein & Alison Flaherty

Did we see it coming? No, did we quote it for months after watching it even though we were only 15? This film proves that if you sleep with a guy he will grow to love you.

Baby & Johnny

Ah, the days when a bump and a grind weren’t all it took to get a girl into bed. Nope, you needed to teach her a whole routine, and spend time in a lake first. Don’t ever put your baby in the corner.