3rd Rock from the Sun? Been a while since I rewatched that, though. Kinda not "friends" but "co-workers".
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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
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
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
Humans are horny and attracted to proximity.
being human kinda. the werewolf ends up dating someone who moves in so that kinda messes it up but the original trio never has relations I think.
Has there ever been a mixed-gender group of adult friends where there are no romantic entaglements within the group?
Maybe a group of aces?
Facts lmao
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.
Tricky – because they’re entangled off set(?)
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Probably not, because romantic entanglements make for better 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 😂
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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
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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.
Harry and D'Arcy dated for a few episodes (maybe only one or two, I don't recall clearly). There was a bit of teasing that Asta and Harry would be a thing at some point but thankfully that never materialized.
There were definitely romantic relationships with side characters - Sheriff Mike had a couple, obviously the mayor and his wife, Harry and the bird lady, Liz had a boyfriend (though he rarely appeared or was even mentioned), plus D'Arcy tried a few times to find love and Judy... had several flings?
Yeah my main thinking was that at least those relationships (with the exception of d'arcy/the mayor) weren't central to the friend group/drama, but of course there's gonna be romantic relationships in anything because they are a part of life. As far as I remember, the harry/d'arcy thing was an awkward date in a very early episode but maybe I'm misremembering.
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
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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
Also, Thomas+Allison.
It was one-sided and played for laughs, but it's pretty much always there, so you might count it.
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I was going to say Spaced till I remembered Twist and Brian have their weird thing and he maybe slept with Marsha. Tim and Daisy never hook up tho, but they do pretend to be a couple for a bit to get the flat.
Black Books - Bernard does mention he once possibly might have slept with Fran but she made him forget, and then it never comes up again.
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Scooby-Doo? No, they're supposed to be teens.
Fred and Daphne are a couple I’m pretty sure
So are Shaggy and Scooby.
Ruh roh!
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Probably nothing that made it past one season, the writers eventually will turn to that. Good question, curious.
Seems like that depends on a group of screenwriters with a masochistic enjoyment of denial. You have to think it would be a very tempting subplot to start.
As a result, most of the ideas people here have involve like three main characters. I'm not sure about 30 Rock.
They would have to think something awaits for them in the divine for resisting.
https://youtu.be/jXO5axomU7Q (perhaps my favorite and most relatable Hank Green video in recent memory)
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.
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