Iconic Sitcom Couples Trivia Quiz

Ricky and Lucy are on the sitcom "I Love Lucy" which was on air originally from 1951 to 1957. Lucille Ball and husband Desi Arnaz play Lucy and Ricky on the show. Lucy is seen making up plans and schemes to try to mingle with and become a part of show business. Ricky is a bandleader and Lucy desperately wants to become a performer.

The show is regarded as one of the best and most influential sitcoms of all time. It was nominated for several Primetime Emmy awards, winning many.

Rob and Laura Petrie are a married couple on "The Dick Van Dyke Show". The show starred Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore and was originally on air from 1961 to 1966. Rob is a comedy writer and Laura is his wife and the show comically portrayed daily life and work scenarios for the couple.

In total the show won fifteen Emmy Awards and was listed at number thirteen on "TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" in 2002.

"The Jeffersons" is one of the longest-running sitcoms in American television history, airing from 1975 to 1985. Isabel Sanford played Louise and Sherman Hemsley played George. The show was a spinoff of "All in the Family" and is about the Jeffersons living life in Manhattan, prosperous from George's dry-cleaning business.

The show was nominated for several Emmy Awards and when Sanford won for Best Actress in 1984, she became the first African-American actress to do so.

Steven and Elyse Keaton are the ex-hippie parents to a very conservative son on the TV show "Family Ties." Airing from 1982 to 1989, the show focuses a lot of its humour on the generational and political differences between the parents and their three children.

The show won numerous awards, including several Emmys. It also had a number of quite notable guest stars including Tom Hanks, River Phoenix, and Geena Davis.

"The Simpsons" debuted in 1989 after being included as shorts for the "The Tracey Ullman Show." The show focuses on the life of the Simpsons, including homemaker Marge and simpleton Homer. The animated sitcom parodies American life and culture and was named the 20th century's best television series by "Time".

It's won numerous awards and the Simpsons have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

"Mad About You" debuted in 1992 and focuses on New York newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman. In the show, Paul is a documentary filmmaker and Jamie is a public relations specialist. Jamie has a difficult time with Paul's mother and this dynamic becomes the source of a number jokes on the show. Throughout its run, the show had many, many famous people guest on it, including Bruce Willis, Kevin Bacon, Yoko Ono, Al Gore, and Rudy Giuliani.

There are also cool little connections to other shows that take place in New York, including "Friends" and "Seinfeld."

They might be one of the most iconic television couples, so much so that they don't need their last names for you to know who they are! The two are characters on the show "Friends" that debuted in 1994. Many of the six main friends on the show had relationships but nothing is quite as special, funny, sad, or rooted for, as the relationship between Ross and Rachel.

This show earned nominations for most of the cast as well as some of their guest stars, including Bruce Willis and Reese Witherspoon. "Friends" won top television show every single year between 1995 and 2005 at the ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards.

"Malcolm in the Middle" premiered in January 2002 and centers around a dysfunctional, lower-middle class family called the Wilkersons. Hal and Lois initially have four boys, with another introduced in season five of the show. Malcolm, is a genius and the third born of the sons and the show is told from his perspective. The father, Hal, is an immature and kind of useless but lovable character and Lois, the mom, is a stubborn and headstrong woman.

Bryan Cranston, of "Breaking Bad" fame, plays the role of Hal... and that still completely blows me away because the character he plays in "Breaking Bad" is nothing like Hal at all. There is an alternate ending of "Breaking Bad" on the DVD box set where Hal wakes up from a dream and that dream is of course all of "Breaking Bad".

This is the iconic couple of the American version of "The Office", which debuted in 2005. Fans watched them flirt and hoped they would get together through the first three seasons of the show. When we meet Jim and Pam, Pam is engaged to be married to someone else while Jim keeps his crush on her to himself. Together they play pranks on a fellow co-worker and over time, and despite relationships with other people, their friendship blossoms into love.

"The Office" received 164 nominations and won 30 awards. The episode in which Jim and Pam get married, called "Niagara," was nominated for writing. More than nine million people watched this episode when it was originally aired, making it one of the most watched of the show.

This couple appear together on the police sitcom "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" which debuted in 2013. Raymond Holt is the captain of the precinct where the shenanigans of the show take place for the most part. Captain Holt is the first African-American gay captain of the NYPD on the show and is proud of that fact. He is married to Kevin Cozner who is a professor. Cozner and Holt are a quite refined and stoic couple with equally deadpan senses of humour.

The show has received high praise for its representation of LGBTQ people and has received numerous award nominations. Andre Braugher, for his portrayal of Captain Holt, has been nominated several times, winning Critic's Choice Awards in 2014 and 2016.