10 Least Interesting Romances In Otherwise Great TV Shows

Are there any shows that completely lack examples of forced romance? Especially among long running sitcoms, it's surprisingly hard to think of too many. When a series has been on for years, too often the writers feel the need to pair up every single character together, as there apparently can't be any group of friends that don't date one another.

Of course, it's not like romance is inherently a bad thing in TV shows, but the best couples in television history were set up slowly and naturally over time. Jim and Pam, Ross and Rachel, and Leslie and Ben were all relationships that the series built up over the course of many seasons so that viewers were rooting for them by the end.

But writers don't always have that much patience, and far too often characters will get together for seemingly no reason other than that the script tells them to. In all 10 of these cases, a relationship occurs just because two people are attractive adults that share the same physical space, not because it's been made clear that something is drawing them together. 

With that in mind, let's take a look at the 10 least interesting romances in great TV shows.

The writers of The Office ran into a huge problem after Jim and Pam finally got together. Their romance was the heart of the series, and having them start dating in Season 4 was a good decision in terms of not stretching the storyline out, but where does the show go from there?

Jim and Pam became increasingly less interesting as time went on and they evolved from the flirty young kids into the boring married couple, so the writers tried to launch a new relationship: Andy and Erin. Erin was introduced as the new secretary in Season 5, and it soon became clear that Andy had feelings for her, another classic story of a salesman falling in love with the receptionist. 

Except these two were just not nearly as interesting as Jim and Pam, as much as the writers attempted to force them down viewers' throats. They tried their best with Andy's grand romantic gestures for Erin, like driving all the way down to Florida for her or trying (and failing) to get her an amazing Christmas gift. But eventually, after all that effort, the writers apparently just gave up, and so the series ends with Andy becoming more and more of a douche and Erin suddenly getting with the new salesman. Romance of the century, huh?