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Sharinia
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09-07-2002

Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 3:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sharinia a private message Print Post    
I haven't seen it, but the first one that comes to mind is According to Jim with Jim Belushi and Courtney Thorne-Smith from Melrose Place. And there's Married With Children and the Simpsons -- maybe the wives aren't 'hot,' but they take good care of themselves and are married to slobs.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 3:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
King of Queens

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
King of Queens, Still Standing...and the Honeymooners, kickin' it old school..

I like Still Standing tho, that husband-wife team is quite funny....

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 3:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
Archie Bunker

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 5:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
Family with Sada Thompson and James Broderick. She was a stout woman and he was a avery attractive middle age man.
http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/celebrity/images/Artwork/tv-family.jpg

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 6:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Fred and Ethel Mertz

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 6:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Mr. Grant and Mary Richards? (Mary Tyler Moore show)

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 6:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
LOL - Thanks for trying. I'm sorry but I just think we're reaching pretty far back there.

Married With Children. He wasn't fat. He was a bit of a slob but she was no treat either.

Honeymooners. That was in the fifties or sixties wasn't it?

All in the Family (Archie Bunker). He wasn't slim but neither was Edith (and Edith wasn't hot).

The Simpsons. A cartoon about a chubby guy and a woman with big hair? Marge Simpson is hot?

Mr. Grant and Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) – he was her boss.

Fred and Ethel (I Love Lucy) from the fifties and Ethel was sweet but I don't think anyone would describe her as "hot"?

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Ha ha ha Jimmer, I think that was the point of the original poster:
<<For example, when was the last time you saw a sit-com with a fat wife and a hot husband? Now flip it and see how many you can name.>>


Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 9:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Beauty and the Beast? LOL..

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 8:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
On the Drew Carey Show did he ever marry? He's fat and I know his girlfriend was slim and cute.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 8:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Never mind above, I got it twisted around again. Scheesh, this is hard. We want a fat woman married to a hunk.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 9:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
LOL - I'll even settle for the other way around. Drew Carey might be a good one. The point is that most TV couples are fairly well matched size wise unlike the original comment that there were a lot of hot slim women with overweight guys (or vice versa).

By the way, I've seen quite a few couples who are very different sizes in real life. Just look at the Biggest Loser for example. Many of the spouses (both male and female) are not at all overweight.

Couchtomato
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09-09-2008

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 10:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Couchtomato a private message Print Post    
How about Good Times or The Jeffersons?

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 10:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Hey, there you go, CT. Weezie was large woman married to, if not a hunk, at least he was a lot smaller than her.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 10:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
OH, and in real life averge-sized Gerald McRainy married Delta Burke at about her largest. They will have been married 20 years in May.

Chewpito
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01-04-2004

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 10:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chewpito a private message Print Post    
If any one ever watched Y&R yrs ago, Brad was married to 'that Abbot sister' cant remember her name....but I think he was a money grubber....but she was def not slim..

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 11:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
http://www.slate.com/id/2111762/
Here's an article on mismatched husbands and wives in tv. They give quite a few examples. The only soap I watch is Bold and Beautiful, but even there they have Eric Forrester, where the actor is about 65 and the character must be similar, who's currently married to a 35 year old.

Sharinia
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09-07-2002

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 11:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sharinia a private message Print Post    
Beauty and the Beast
Why are fat sitcom husbands paired with great-looking wives?

Slate

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 12:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Of course, there are lots of comedies and dramas where the spouses are similar sized. I guess they do it in these comedies for humor (I haven't watched any of the ones mentioned in the article).

I have to admit that I've kind of lost track of the original point to this question anyway?

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 12:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Days of Our Lives. There was a pretty big nurse and her hot doctor husband that were the weirdest couple to put together, but they were partners in evil.

I can't remember their names, but I'm ashamed that I a) watched the show ever and b) thought it was weird for a very big girl to be with a pretty hot guy like that.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 12:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I am watching the I love Lucy Bowl today and am thinking Ethel doesn't look overweight but when I was a kid I thought she was fat. In the 50s she must have been seen as overweight. Our society as a whole has gotten much fatter over the decades. If someone made a fat joke about someone her size today it wouldn't even make sense.

of course I am about 20lbs bigger than I was in my 20s so maybe since I am bigger I judge differently.

I have a feeling the avg weight is much higher today. I see 200lb + people on a daily basis and in my 20s I don't remember seeing as many.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 1:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
That's a good point Pamy. From what I can recall, Ethel wasn't overweight. She didn't look like Lucy but she wasn't large.

I think weight is regional as well. For example, I suspect that people in California tend to be slimmer.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 1:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Fred just seemed a lot older than Ethel, but neither one of them seemed like prizes.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - 2:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Fred was 22 years older than Ethel. Vivian Vance would be 100 this year. Fred was born in 1887.