The 7 Weirdest Movie Couples of All Time
A run down of the 7 weirdiest couples ever to grace the big screen.
The love story has captivated audiences since storytelling began, and almost every movie seems to be required to have at least small romance in it. Throughout the history of movies, though, Hollywood has created some pretty non-traditional couples; from interracial to interspecies to inanimate objects. Some of the couples are innocent enough, while others are well, just read the list.
Belle and Beast (Beauty and the Beast)
Disney movies are innocent enough, right? Beauty and the Beast tells the tale of the most beautiful girl around, who exchanges her own freedom for that of her fathers. She falls in love with a giant wolf-bear-creature who actually turns out to be an ok guy (although he did imprison her father for no good reason). The strangeness of this couple is pretty obvious. Beast is a gigantic man-beast, while Belle is a sweet dainty girl. Today we call that bestiality, back then it was called true love. Different times, I guess Donkey and Dragon (Shrek)
There are lots of hookups going on in Shrek, but the strangest couple from that movie is Donkey and Dragon. If movies teach anything to impressionable young people, its that love conquers all. Pigs can fall in love with frogs, people can fall in love with mannequins or mermaids or robots and it all more or less works out in the end because they love each other. The factor that makes this couple so very peculiar, however, is the existence of dronkeys. If you missed the Shrek movies, dronkeys appear at the end of Shrek 2 as the mutant love babies of Donkey and Dragon. Donkey + Dragon + Love = Dronkeys? Something about that equation just seems wrong. Lets get biological here. Donkey is a mammal. Dragon is a reptile of some kind. A couple has to do SOMETHING to procreate. Now try fathoming what these two could do to make dronkeys. The whole situation is one big mind bender. Kip and LaFawnduh (Napoleon Dynamite)
Everything about the movie Napoleon Dynamite is strange, but Kip and LaFawnduh take the title of having the weirdest relationship in the movie (Starla the bodybuilder and Rex of Rex-Kwan-Do come in close second though). Take the whitest, short wiry nerd, with a silly mustache and Coke-bottle glasses and pair that with a tall black vixen and you get Kip and LaFawnduh. Even funnier than the physical contrast between the two is how their relationship sprouts, as well as their interactions when they actually meet. Although Kip claims to talk to hot babes all day, who would have actually thought he was chatting with women online? Kip standing awkwardly holding a big white sign with the word LaFawnduh scribbled on it, LaFawnduh dressing him up like a mini hip hop emcee and the quirky flirtations that go one between the two all add up to hilarious scenes. They even ride off into the sunset on a wild honeymoon stallion. Any couple that does that earns an immediate badge of weirdness. Kermit and Miss Piggy (The Muppets)
Lets face it. Muppets might be the best invention mankind ever came up with and these two have been lighting up the stage for decades. Besides the fact theyre Muppets and completely different species (pigs fall in love with frogs all the time in nature), this couple just has a weird dynamic. Hes just not that in to you is a phrase that could be used to describe Kermits half of the relationship. On occasion Kermit has even denied the existence of a romantic relationship between him and Miss Piggy, but come on, Kermit! You got married to her in The Muppets Take Manhattan! On the other half of the relationship Miss Piggy spends her days acting like a jealous lunatic, resorting to violence and anger if Kermit displeases her. As funny and entertaining as this is in Muppet form, in real life Miss Piggy would be taken off in handcuffs as Kermit tries to cope with the terrible reality of being a physically and verbally abused spouse. Gomez and Morticia Addams (The Addams Family)
How could these two not make it on this list? First theres Gomez, the guy with a pencil mustache who falls into uncontrollable fits of passion when people begin speaking French. Then, theres Morticia, the mother who feels the need to keep her family from doing anything that resembles a good deed. At least these two love each. From the way these two grope each other in the movies, one can only imagine that any moment between these two not portrayed on the screen is spent in the bedroom. Keeping the passion burning that hot after decades of marriage and multiple children deserves some sort of medal. Perhaps even stranger than their relationship itself is their misfit spawn. Pugsley and Wednesday spend their free time trying to kill each other with their twisted games, which Gomez and Morticia find just lovely. Heres a child services case just waiting to happen. Beatrix Kiddo and Bill (Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2)
Everyone has a story about a crazy ex (ask Ben Folds about the girl who stabbed his basketball). At least most crazy ex stories dont end in multiple murders on both sides. Beatrix Kiddo and Bill are both lucrative assassins until Kiddo gets pregnant with Bills child. She decides itd be a good idea to ditch him and marry some random bloke to give the child a life free from all the contract killings, but Bill gets all kinds of crazy jealous and decides to go on a murdering spree, kidnapping the child, to teach Kiddo a lesson. Kiddo lives and decides she needs to go on a murdering spree to get revenge. So, just keep that in mind the next time you get annoyed seeing your ex downtown; it could be worse. Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
Despite Johnny Depp being a total dreamboat and Helena Bonham Carter maintaining a strangely charming aura about her, these two created one of the most devious couples in movies. Sweeney swears a creed of vengeance upon the man who robs him of his wife and child, deciding to kill some townsfolk in preparation for his final act of revenge. Mrs. Lovett knows of Sweenys murderous nature, but instead of being the slightest bit concerned or disgusted, she decides to make meat pies out of the bodies and adopt an orphan child in the hopes that they can be like a real family. That sounds like real love to me. Ryan Heuer is from T-Shirts.com, an online company which sells new and vintage t-shirts. He is still trying to figure out the logistics of a dronkey.