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{{quote| "''Take my wife.'' '''Please!'''"}}

A species of [[Dom Com]] based on the premise that monogamous marriage is rather like a long, slow, exquisite torture by a sadistic god from whose maleficent clutches escape is impossible. Husbands are [[Bumbling Dad|child-like buffoons]] who watch too much football, leave the toilet seat up, [[All Men Are Perverts|ogle hot women]], and forget anniversaries. Wives are frigid, nagging, [[Jerkass|hateful shrews]] with [[All Women Are Prudes|zero interest in sex]]. [[Kids Are Cruel|Chil]][[Teens Are Monsters|dren]] destroy your home and what little peace of mind you have left, while waiting their turn to perpetuate the cycle. [[Obnoxious in In-Laws]] serve to add to the misery. The audience may be left wondering, [[Just Eat Gilligan|"Why don't they just get a divorce, if they're so miserable?"]]

''[[Married... Withwith Children]]'' was probably the first time this trope was seen on American television, but it's been a mainstay of [[British Telly Tropes|British shows]] since [[The Fifties]].

* The form reached its pinnacle of perfection in the sitcom ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]''.{{context}}

* ''[[The King of Queens]]''{{context}}

* ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]''{{context}}

* The husband is the frigid one, but ''[[Married... Withwith Children]]'' fits otherwise.

* ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' occasionally slipped into this.{{context}}

* As did ''[[Family Matters]]''.{{context}}

* ''[['Til Death]]'' is somewhat of a [[Deconstruction]] in that the better you know Joy, the slobbier she seems, and the better a match for Eddie.

* ''[[My Family (TV)|My Family]]''{{context}}

* ''[[Keeping Up Appearances]]'' -- Poor—Poor Richard deserves a sainthood for putting up with Hyacinth for all those years.

* Done in plenty of old cartoons -- examplescartoons—examples include ''[[Porky Pig|Porky's Romance]]'',{{context}} ''[[Donald Duck|Donald's Diary]]'',{{context}} and ''[[Daffy Duck|His Bitter Half]]''.{{context}}