E4 Humans, though that's cause they're all "siblings" (fully sapient sentient androids made all by the same creator, over multiple years)
Was gonna say Being Human, then I remembered that Russel Tovey does turn one of his girlfriends into a werewolf and she goes from side character to main character after that
The IT Crowd i think, i don't remember in group romance in that show, maybe light flirty comedic moments but not more.
Douglas Reynholm tried to roofie Jen
Do.. do you consider attempted sexual assault/rape a "romantic entanglement"?
What the fuck.
I don't, and don't "what the fuck" me before I've even responded
Then why did you say it?
The question was about any shows with a mixed gender group of friends with no romantic engagements between them.
Someone said IT crowd, you then brought up one person attempting to roofie someone. Based on the available information, this very strongly implies that you are considering this a "romantic entanglement".
If you didn't think that was a romantic entanglement, why the fuck would you bring it up?
sorry I strayed a bit from the assignment, please back off
Since when was he anything more than a side-character? Or friends with any of them?
He was at worst a villain, at best an annoyance
30 Rock. None of the core group ever get together. There's a little bit of sexual tension between jack and lemon but it's always clear that it will never go anywhere
Jenna & Frank hooked up that one time though
Has there ever been a mixed-gender group of adult friends where there are no romantic entaglements within the group?
Facts lmao
Only Murders in the Building
That's only if you only consider the 3 main characters. They each have relationships with recurring characters.
The discussion is whether there is a show where the main group of friends have no romantic entanglements WITHIN THE GROUP. So yes, Only Murders in the Building qualifies unless the main three date or hook up with eachother
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Dee and Charlie bang.
Mac bangs Dee and Dennis' mom.
Frank bangs Charlie's mom (a lot).
Frank, Charlie, and Dennis all bang the waitress.
Dennis tries to bang Mac's mom.
Frank and Mac both try to bang Dee and Dennis' Aunt Donna.
I think Frank bangs Dee and Dennis' cousin Gail the Snail
But all of these are one off bits rather than being part of a larger arc or plotline, so I think it still fits the spirit of the question.
But all of these are one off bits
Well that and the question was about "between the group", i.e. intra-group entanglements. The only one that's intra-group here is the first (to which what you said about a one-off applies).
Mac and the waitress do hand stuff.
Mac is gay for Dennis, and Charlie and Dee had a fling in The Gang Misses the Boat
Addressed the Charlie and Dee thing below; I just don't consider a one-off, single-episode B-plot like that 10 seasons into the show (with a later throwaway joke in one episode three seasons later) a "romantic entanglement" for what's an ongoing 17-season comedy show.
Mac's crush on Dennis is the closest we come, but that's still very distant from "romantic entanglement" to me; that implies an entanglement, where in reality Mac's one-sided crush is infrequently referenced and pretty much always for laughs, and Dennis clearly demonstrates at every turn that literally nothing will ever come of it. The audience is always deliberately shown that this will never turn into anything; there's no "will they, won't they" going on because the answer is always and in perpetuity "won't they".
TL;DR: There's no actual arc or plotline.
3rd Rock from the Sun? Been a while since I rewatched that, though. Kinda not "friends" but "co-workers".
Hadn't thought of that one. It's a bit hard to decide if they should be considered coworkers or a family. I guess it technically counts cause they're a gender mixed group not actually related by blood. One of them is a kid but is actually the oldest. Although I'm not sure the aliens really had gender in the way humans do
Though do you count that even though one of the characters is obsessed with his romantic entanglement outside of the group, to the point that I'd consider Mary a part of the group with how much she's there. Iirc each of the other characters pairs up with someone, too.
That is a tough call. She was a series regular, therefore a main character, but not really part of the core group
Humans are horny and attracted to proximity.
Probably not, because romantic entanglements make for better TV.
Only well written romance... which is not most romance on TV
Very subjective. In my opinion introducing romantic subplots is the laziest of writing.
Golden girls comes to mind. And maybe arrested development? but that's more family than a group of friends.
George Michael and maybe is a pretty big plot point 😂
More like co-workers instead of friends but MAS*H.
Margaret and Frank were a couple and she hooked up with Hawkeye at one point
I want to say Resident Alien. The core 3 adult friends don't have any romantic relations as far as I remember. Although there is one love triangle involving one of the main and side characters I guess. But the majority of the show is about real beautiful mixed-gender friendships IMO.
Power Rangers?
The original Power Rangers were teenagers. And I thought Jason and Kimberly were a couple but I don't know, the only season I really watched was RPM, which has a romance between Dillon and Summer
Feels like asking if there's a show where the main characters never eat together. Sex and food are sorta what we do. Like as a species. A show would have to be very limited in scope to leave one of those things out.
Ghosts? Does that count as a group of friends
The British one would qualify as one with no romantic entaglements (if you don't count the living couple) but the American one has several couples in the core group Thor/Flower, Trevor/Hetty, Pete/Alberta
Probably nothing that made it past one season, the writers eventually will turn to that. Good question, curious.
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