Monday, February 09, 2015

Unhappy Valentine’s Day: 5 Really Bad TV Dates

Love is in the air, but how about the airwaves? Just about every television sitcom has featured a dating dilemma at one time or another, often with hilarious results. From a frog-topped pizza to a mega wardrobe malfunction, welcome to sitcom love, American style. In honor of Valentine's Day, check out these TV dates that went awry.
Poor Greg Brady. He has a date with the grooviest chick at school, but, thanks to a bad bet, he's stuck taking his kid brother to a frog jumping contest. Luckily Greg's date, Rachel, is a good sport and agrees to go to a drive-in movie with him after the contest. Too bad Greg goes to the snack bar to grab a snack and finds that his little bro left the frogs in the back seat of his car. Can you say a large pizza with pepperoni and frog legs? Talk about an unappetizing date!

On "Friends," Ross Gellar wants to look cool for his hot date with Elizabeth, so he buys some leather pants. But when the leather gets too hot an on his legs, his date stops cold. Ross rushes for a bathroom break to try to cool down, but the sweaty pants get stuck on his legs and he can't get them back on. Add a frantic phone call to Joey and the bad advice to try slapping talcum powder and lotion on his legs and you've got a recipe for pasty pants!


On "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Minnesota's resident single lady dated a variety of interesting men, with one of her strangest dates being with an older gentleman who turned out to be her pal Murray's dad! But Mary Richards' date with her newsroom boss, Mr. Grant, took the cake. Thankfully they decided to stay friends without benefits and the series ended one episode later or this could have turned into major shark-jumping. Besides, would we really ever want to witness a love scene between Mare and Mr. Grant?

When they first met, Doug Heffernan was a beefy club bouncer and Carrie Spooner was a vampy vixen. They ended up on a default date after their BFFs hooked up, but it wasn't love at first sight. Doug and Carrie's first date night featured an SAT quiz (the only book Doug owned), a retro black light show, and gin-spiked beers. And although the night culminated with their first fight, in the end these opposites attracted.

New York single lady Carrie Bradshaw had plenty of bad dates on HBO’s “Sex and the City”  -- from a frat boy who didn't keep toilet paper in his house to an insecure writer who broke up with her via a Post-It note. But one of her worst dates occurred on the series finale, when she accompanied then-boyfriend Aleksandr Petrovsky to his museum opening. Petrovsky accidentally slapped her, broke her beloved "Carrie" necklace and ditched her to mingle with his artsy friends. Carrie took the first flight out of Paris with her knight in shining armor, Mr. Big. Hey, maybe that wasn't such a bad date after all…



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