The Magic of TV Romance
October 9, 2009 by Michelle Smith
Filed under Relationships
Last night was the big Pam and Jim wedding on The Office. I’ve loved watching the Pam and Jim story progress. In the episode there was this part where Jim talks about the beginning, when he had a crush on Pam, but she was engaged to Roy, and how he waited 4 years and “…I think that even then I knew that I was waiting for my wife,” he says. Wow. Goosebumps.
I love a scene like that. I can remember a couple of my favorite wedding or proposal TV episodes, you know the kind that really stay with you. The first one that I really loved was back on that show A Different World, where Whitney is supposed to marry Byron, but she is confused because she still really cares for Dwayne. At her wedding to Byron, as they begin to say their vows, Dwayne walks down the aisle and he’s making the vows to Whitney instead. A romantic twist – I loved that!
Another favorite was on Wings when Joe proposed to Helen. Joe and Helen were involved earlier in the show, but they broke up and Helen fell for another guy named Davis. She accepts Davis’s proposal, but Joe sweeps her off her feet with a story about a couple of rocking chairs and how he always believed that they were meant to be together. I tried to find a clip of it, but I couldn’t. I think I remember it happening in an elevator.
Sometimes there’s this perfect storm of writers and actors and timing and romance – it’s TV magic. It’s silly, but watching something like that makes me want more romance in my own life. Do you have a favorite romantic scene like that? Did you watch Jim and Pam’s big night?
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I guess I am going to have to get caught up and watch The Office. I have heard nothing but good about that show. I really do not have an all time favorite TV romance scene. I do have a favorite movie scene though–An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant when he says, If it had to one of us, why couldn’t it have been me…. I cry everytime I watch that movie!
Good one! Thanks for commenting, Jackie. And the office is a good show.
One of my all time favorites…a Friends moment when Ross and Rachel get back together and Phoebe says something like, “She’s his lobster.” (It may have been “He’s her lobster” I don’t know for sure.) This was after one of Phoebe’s stories about how lobsters mate for life. My husband and I still use that on each other, “Honey, you’re my lobster.” Sickingly sweet, I know…but it’s true.
There were some great moments on Friends. Remember that time after Rachel sees ……I’m thinking it was a video of Ross getting ready to take her to a prom at the last minute because her date was a temporary no-show and later she walks up to him and just plants one on him when he totally did not expect it.