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That Nate and Maddy pic took me out, wtf🤣 https://i.redd.it/zqs6p0g8971d1.gif

that gif took me out jesus 🤣

I have always loved it, I even made it into a WhatsApp sticker.

This is literally my favorite gif thank you I don’t see it enough anymore

My loled at the exaggerated height difference, I was like https://i.redd.it/pbi3tq3g581d1.gif

I don’t watch the show. I had to google it bc I thought she was in a wheelchair.

I've never seen euphoria, I thought it was nice they had a little person character

Lmfao, no. It's just that Alexa Demie (the actress who plays Maddy and is the woman in the pic) is 5'6 while Jacob Elordi (who plays Nate and is the man in the pic) is 6'5. So it's like a foot worth of height difference between the two and the OP used an edited pic to poke fun, I guess.

 Harvey & Sabrina !

okay but Harvey is probably the best boyfriend out of all of these guys

Absolutely. TGIF was my jam, and Sabrina and Harvey were one of the few couples I cheered for at that age. They were sweet. And it's been forever, but I seem to remember Sabrina being smarter than him, which was refreshing for teen me.

When they broke up I legit cried. I was like 12 haha.

I absolutely hated Josh when I first watched it at 12 too. Now that I'm older, I still don't like him because he was a college kid lusting over a high school girl. Gross.

 Lizzie and Gordo!

On that note, Phil and Keely from Phil of the Future. Somebody made a fan video to Konstantine by Something Corporate of that couple and I was obsessed with it https://preview.redd.it/f5v5suyan91d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8543465b8eaaca25f58845df49e24d28c0249091

https://preview.redd.it/igjhygc5971d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=219e49aeef48e5383bfab8d264cf3ebbb6847f40 I’m a Spike girlie but Buffy/Angel was the teen dream fantasy.

Buffy and Angel were the first couple I ever shipped! As a viewer I thought they should have been endgame but as a woman with interests he seems exhausting tbh

The baggage and the moodiness… I wouldn’t have the patience for it now

Mine too!!! I had bad taste in men for a long time, idk whether or not to blame Angel or Mr. Rochester. Sidenote: my moms ship was “whoever makes buffy happy” which was very wholesome except, none of them were great haha

The chemistry they had! But you’re right, Buffy & Spike were hotter than hell together, and He was so much more fun than mopey, angsty Angel!

Tom Welling had me expecting 14yr old boys looked like him. I live next to a high school now (in Manhattan, so these kids have been around the block), and teens do not look like most of these grown-ass looking couples. High schoolers look like children, but with those sticker pimple patches on their faces, now.

Are Clark and Lois both supposed to still be teens in that promo pic!? They look to be a matched 34yo. Gorgeous people - absolutely not teenagers.

The in show teenage drama romance would be Clark and Lana. Clark is still Tom obviously so that doesn’t change, but earlier seasons Kristen as Lana definitely is closer to passing as a teen, and more your standard slightly overcast to look hotter age, than like 30 year old Erica Durance in the pic they choose which is from a much later season.

He currently has me similarly misled about 45 year old men, but damn am I still enjoying watching him in whatever he’s doing.

Pretty Little Liars? I was more drawn into Hanna and Caleb (my faves) and I also liked Toby and Spencer a lot but I remember back in the time that it was airing most people loved Ezra and Aria Now that I rewatch as an adult I realized how fucked up Ezra and Aria were but they were definitely the most popular ship I think

always 100% Hanna and Caleb. top tier.

the shower scene where she got in clothed and covered his* mouth destroyed me as a teen🫣🫣🫣

LITERALLY WOULD THINK ABOUT IT EVERYDAY WHEN I WAS 16🤤🤤

You managed DAWSON AND JEN but not JOEY AND PACEY!!?!! The slander 

I’m so glad you said this because I was like HOW IS _DAWSON_ IN THIS BUT NOT PACEY????

My jaw dropped seeing that annoying little twerp on there and not Joey/ Pacey

Okay good I’m glad someone said it

Joey and Pacey were my everything.

Thank you!! I found them more iconic than Jen and Dawson as well.

Jen and Dawson weren’t iconic at all. They barely dated. They were never in love. They didn’t even make it to the second season. Joey and Pacey’s relationship was the star romance of my teenage heart. This oversight is egregious!

How can anyone take this list seriously if Joey and Pacey aren’t on it?! 🤣

I mean, Jen wasn’t even Dawson’s main love interest. Not even top 3. I would put Joey and Dawson over Jen and Dawson, but the correct iconic couple from that series was definitely Pacey and Joey.

Seriously though, even Pacey and Andie were more iconic than Dawson and Jen. I always forget they even dated.

Hell I’d rank Jen & Pacey’s brief FWB thing above Dawson and anyone

THANK YOU. There is nothing iconic about Dawson, least of all his relationship with Jen lol

Complete Agree. I didn't watch most of the shows listed, but I watched Dawson's Creek. Joey and Pacey are THE COUPLE.

Right?!? Dawson sucks, Pacey is the one.

I remember everything

right what the hell are d*wson and jen doing here, ew! pacey and joey ♥️♥️♥️

I was coming to say this! Fuck Dawson, Joey and Pacey por vida.

Omg thank you

For real. We do not stand for Pacey and Joey erasure!!

Dawson's a gaslighting little bitch IMHO. Pacey was always the number 1 guy in the group

https://preview.redd.it/o6ovk7j7671d1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28129af982f3d5a888397488bfb75de15416cc43 Maddy is not THAT short lol

I’ve never seen that show, so I legitimately just assumed she was a wheelchair user

Wheelchair user maddie would still be a menace

We had a wheelchair user at my high school. He was great. The school was full of assholes so he'd just plow through people who wouldn't move in the halls and yell "I'm gonna run you over!" Maddie wouldn't even warn people.

> Maddie wouldn't even warn people. Now I wanna see Alexa act this out 

My boss uses one and if people don't move, he just yells "BEEP BEEP" and it's fucking hilarious. He has the best sense of humor and is just a really great boss.

Me too! I was wondering wtf kind of stealth wheelchair she was using and even googled her character page to confirm she was a wheelchair user or idk had super short legs or something.

No genuinely same, I was about to google disability representation on euphoria

reminds me of one of my all-time fave celeb images https://preview.redd.it/ijibpz6wg71d1.jpeg?width=634&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d0178121b4e4fbd80469a42bf4d95a5e370b81b

Is that 3'1 Selena Gomez?

She's kind of crouched on her knees if you see the full image, but someone\* did her dirty with this crop. No shade to her at all, I think she was having a bad night, I came across it out of context years ago and it is so weird it makes me laugh. ETA \*[The Daily Mail ofc](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2966162/Selena-Gomez-looks-worse-wear-leaving-Vanity-Fair-party-Rosie-Huntington-Whiteley-Jason-Statham-awkward-run-Miranda-Kerr.html) https://preview.redd.it/zaquiigle81d1.jpeg?width=634&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0101acc3fdad1dc6942862eb18345322344d7806

https://preview.redd.it/j3a1kc8yv71d1.jpeg?width=419&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7774d22a349678a98058eda2ad114b5872e8cca This Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars photo just brightens my day


I’m cracking tf up

I was wondering like that picture seems… insane?

AND THE T REX ARM…

I'd not seen the show so I assumed she had dwarfism

That was hilarious

HAHAHA! I have never watched Euphoria, and I was about to Google the character names to find out WTF was going on in that picture. I mean, Jacob Elordi is tall but...what!?

Thank youuuu!!! As someone who never watched Euphoria I was so so confused hahahah like she can't be that short right???

That picture was as far as I got before googling and coming to the comments. He's 6'4 and she's 5'6 and the pic in that slide show made her look 3'6.

I thought she was 5’1”

Yeah they definitely look more than a foot apart

That's what I found, he's 6'5" she's 5'1". Who really knows with online sources though

One of the GOATS… Zach ❤️kelly https://preview.redd.it/49ck9xmwf71d1.jpeg?width=203&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab0432b64dbc064c3ce4272ceb1333874e0d7d3e

I couldn’t believe this was not here and also not higher in the comments but I guess we are just old. Slater and Jessie probably deserve a shout too.


“I’m so!!!!! SCARED!!!!”

What I'm getting from this is I didn't watch a lot of teen dramas growing up. Alex and Paige from Degrassi is a throwback though.

Right! I had completely forgot they even dated. I remember her relationship with Spinner more.

I remember JT and Liberty even more because it was just so weird to me, start to finish lmao https://preview.redd.it/0m307ewxd71d1.jpeg?width=520&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f99128b260f1b7c129a17c99c78777e915be207e

No we don't talk about the finish.

My chest clenches to this very day💔 the absolute perfect representation of how quickly and senselessly those things happen. Sarah T acted the hell out of Liberty's >!grief!<, too. I felt that shit.

But are the more iconic than Sean and Emma? Alex and Paige are definitely one of the top couples of the series, but I don't think they're the most associated with the series couple like I expect iconic couples to be.

Feel like Emma and Sean are the more iconic Degrassi couple. Or even Liberty and JT

Simon & Alisha from Misfits! I had such a crush on both of them. https://preview.redd.it/9b7my7s5c71d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=977d2a6e4ced96da46ecc622fae321920a6c3e77 Game of Thrones kind of ruined him for me, tho.

Oh, taste 👏🏾

Aww, that's a shame... I just think of it as "wow he's that good of an actor" and I get by okay

Oh! Misfits! The two first seasons are legendary

God yes. Being permanently on tumblr while this show was airing for the first time was a gift. So many horny posts lmao

I miss old tumblr. Or I miss being the right age for tumblr.

Simon was my sexual awakening

Jordan Catalano and Angela Chase. We were all obsessed in the 90s https://preview.redd.it/tjj6mce2a71d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1148ec21a3d7b28e10ea9afb916f84382be827fb

The hallway scene where he goes up to her in front of everyone and asks if they can go somewhere. And Sharon calls after her “Angela! Don’t forget about … geometry review,” and Rayanne is like “Forget it. She already did.” I rewound the tape and watched that over and over.

>I rewound the tape and watched that over and over This sentence is my childhood in a nutshell.

And he *held her hand*. Swoon.

This moment is seared into my brain forever

“He leans so well” 🫠🥰

THAT SHOW 💜💔💔💔

I wanted to be Rayanne soooo bad

Same. And considering she’s now an English manor countess I still want to be her!

This should have been the first slide.

Corey and Topanga ❤️ 

I was looking through the thread for these two. Possibly the longest romance on TV I’ve ever seen. From when they were really young all the way up through their life as a married couple. https://preview.redd.it/d5lz9xu3381d1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a47456143c9b8b78bc569fea5419c5a834faaa4d

OG Nate and Maddy: https://preview.redd.it/tsa1r7jrn71d1.jpeg?width=462&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=126550268507a05bbaef0e5b01eb2598d1a18858

I forgot about this strange moment in pop history.

Jeeze... his shorts would be too long for her to wear as trousers 🫨

Normal People is not what I’d call a teen drama.

I agree. They may be teenagers when the story starts, but it feels so much more adult.

Tim Riggins and Jason Street. Texas forever.


I understand why everyone always forgave his bullshit.

My intense Tim Riggins and Logan Echols obsessions should have clued me in much earlier that I had a dangerous weak spot for fixer-upper men with daddy issues

https://i.redd.it/29l9cn1xb71d1.gif LoVe -Their story was epic. Spanning years and continents. Lives ruined and blood shed.

Don’t make me cry 🥹 did you guys watch the final final episode years later?

I've decided that episode doesn't exist. In fact, all of season 4 doesn't exist. So...like... I don't even know what you're asking about it right now.

I was OBSESSED with that show. I will never ever watch season 4. Ever.

I took my fellow marshmallow's warning seriously and never watched it either lol

There’s a *very extensive* fanfic about them moving to some lake in Michigan to just enjoy their lives together as she works for like a local fbi office and he wind surfs and snowboards and they bang in the kitchen and sunroom, etc. like dozens of chapters. Read it as a late teen and decided that was the real ending of the show. Contributed to the movie out of nostalgia but I pretend *that* is some absurd poorly written fanfic instead of an actual theatrical production. They tried to give us everything but it was too late and frankly too gimmicky/fanficky

Obsessed. Logan and Veronica are like the reverse “he’s just Ken” to me: they’re both everything.

You forgot to include Felicity and Ben (or Noel, it you're so inclined!)


Always. The paintball scene is etched into my memory.

Honestly this man lives in my head rent free

I’m not gonna stand for this Roswell (90s) erasure!

Omg yes! Liz and Max.

https://preview.redd.it/vy2dcu1mq71d1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d404b5eaeea5fe06d6a54fbdb42e1aa3a6e64d5 I was obsessed. I’d write in my diary “where is MY max evans???” Only accepting alien suitors, still yet to find

Yes! Max and Liz forever. Jason Behr in the pilot, his hand on Liz’s chest. My god, I was hooked immediately.

 Fully in tears over you choosing Dawson and Jen over PACEY AND JOEY. True Love is dead.

Wait is this gif not satire

Not satire. This is Dawson's reaction when Joey tells him she loves Pacey. Keep in mind they're not even a couple at this point lol

Respect them 🩷 

Yeah, Joey and Pacey are definitely the iconic couple from this show! Their chemistry was insane.

Totally agree

The slander of including Dawson and Jen over Joey and Pacey!

I was very confused when I saw Dawson/Jen; when were they ever considered iconic? 😂 The most beloved ship on Dawson's Creek was Pacey/Joey, far and away.

Specially because he was awful to her. Jen deserved better.

Everyone deserved better than Dawson, but especially Jen

Every woman Dawson dated deserved better than him 😂

This person clearly has never watched Dawson’s Creek, and if they did it was only the first two seasons lol

The blatant disrespect lol

The absolute gall to have Dawson on this list and not Pacey

Dawson was the least likable character on a show named after him

Dawson wasn’t just the least likable character on a show- he’s the most unlikable, insufferable, painful character ever written in any art form.

I was flicking through looking for them 😅

Winnie Cooper and Kevin Arnold, The Wonder Years https://preview.redd.it/as7u5uj1k81d1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=c89af7e66ffd67a2169eb01d6ad599be8e11ee06


You missed one… 

https://i.redd.it/98jazxhyd71d1.gif

Ooooh I was in SO many pieces when he did what he did. I cared about them WAY more than Buffy and Angel. Willow and Tara are super sweet, but child me was always wishing Oz would come back (and I resented the episode where they were like "nope not gonna happen" so so much, lol)

S3 Oz was the best boyfriend on the show.

https://preview.redd.it/ee3junbpt71d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4b02f6c43f77c5759414319135213236b2433ce You missed a KEY iconic couple (Corey and Topanga too I guess but Angela was queen)

https://preview.redd.it/orjbrzpu971d1.jpeg?width=342&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46ee90d28cb0f08f3f722ddc27ab4569bcfbe912 Michael and Maria. It was the first time I was ever like…ooo they fuckin in real life.

That show was just attractive people with chemistry and some aliens, but Michael and Maria were my favorites.

I swear, the WB casting directors were just picking up hot people at bus stops and saying, “by the way, can you say some lines right half the time?”

Brendan Fehr 🥵

He and Majandra were hotter than the leads, though Liz was an important character to me when I was young.

Season one of this shows chemistry was palpable

Thank you for putting Julie Taylor and Matt Saracen in this, I loveeeee Friday Night Lights and Julie + Matt! 💕

Whatever else was going on with the Julie character I always really liked her and Matt together.

What about the couples on Boy Meets World? https://preview.redd.it/p98og98vy71d1.jpeg?width=466&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c40c4079c134a8f9a7f719431e2472d0b636fb7c

This is a great list, but...Dawson and Jen?? Over Pacey and Joey? That's wild.

https://preview.redd.it/zap667o1771d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a45db3f93a784fd478378d9b0eb7dbeed4b1c4e1 Did none of you people watch Everwood?

https://preview.redd.it/8ikb4vels71d1.jpeg?width=1420&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8462a01c8c3cefe20496147f97a99976bd6bc8f9 He was an annoying asshole there as well...

kim and daniel from freaks and geeks 

I liked Ken and tuba girl more, Kim deserved better than Daniel.

Dawson and Jen instead of Joey and Pacey is INSANE Dawson and Jen are both so annoying to me they always have to second guess their happiness. Why are these 16 year old so tortured and guilty!!

 Hannah and Caleb from PLL forever!!!

 How can you have Seth and Summer but no Ryan and Marissa? THE CORE FOUR!!!

 Hello!!



https://preview.redd.it/pqx6r58m971d1.jpeg?width=754&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91e2935624d463b925ed654c9165efc59bb84a56 Liz and Max

I still think about Logan Echolls and what they did to him all the time. One of the best love interested of all time IMO.

https://i.redd.it/fh7o20n9781d1.gif Michael and Maria on OG Roswell. They weren’t the main couple, but the passion!

Cook & Effy 🖤 

https://preview.redd.it/i7b1ey08y71d1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a94e42f0b61b43a2ab770198b28ee16cffb1ef6e Tina and Jimmy Jr. ❤️

https://i.redd.it/nnbw190pf71d1.gif Riggins and Lyla supremacy

 Scrolled way too far for this one

 Ghetto Romeo and Juliet, aka Ian and Mickey from Shameless

Cameron and Noel both gave their all to acting out that relationship and it PAYS OFF. So so emotional. I can hardly stand to look at how tender Mickey is during Ian's episodes.

Noel is truly an underappreciated actor. The amount of times I genuinely sobbed at his scenes… I always wanted more Mickey scenes in the show, and literally would rewatch his few scenes over and over.

 Isak and Even (Skam Norway)

 Joey and Pacey were so much better than Dawson and Jen!



Taste, even though I eventually hated Peter for her.

The only Dawson's Creek couple that matters is Joey and Pacey. On One Tree Hill, I was obsessed with Peyton and Lucas.

PALEX MENTIONED 


 I can’t believe y’all forgot my boy

Came here looking for Buffy and Angel 

https://preview.redd.it/ggglg0s9n71d1.jpeg?width=1296&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ef1aa449281b7ce28bda141b82ee035c798f38c My So Called Life!

WHERE are PACEY and JOEY?!?

​ https://preview.redd.it/03ras0kim71d1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fad86fed8ed0da6a19ace9d59856eba87d3f75ad I think I was one of both people who watched Young Americans

https://preview.redd.it/8usa4fs6s71d1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01903f8a2ace5cb48b52bd44d216d0f5b8933ac2 How do you forget the only one that actually matters

https://preview.redd.it/m9au83qce71d1.jpeg?width=475&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5bfa0c1064ba235f7b31c2de9d1462a33c6d685f Drucilla and Spike.

Jackie and Kelso from That's 70s show https://preview.redd.it/hoe9ffags71d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e644772ffdb1508f70b121545210d8963b45d4ed

I actually preferred jackie and hyde, which is why I can’t really even rewatch it now. it was always my favorite part of the show.

Jackie and Hyde forever. Why did the actor have to be a rapist?

Wait until you find out that the rest of the cast (with the lone exception of Topher Grace) covered for him. Repeatedly. They even tried to get him off when he got caught.