Ahh… love… it’s everywhere, and children’s media is no exception, in fact, sometimes the couples that are in love in these pieces of children’s media are as weird as they come. I’ve taken the liberty of sorting out some of the weirdest ones and listing them here with ten being the least weird of the group and one being totally insane. Some of these couples are more well known than others, while others are ones you probably have never heard of before. Keep in mind, I only included one couple per movie or franchise, for those that included more than one crazy couple I chose the one that was more crazy or had more success than the other.
Premiering in 2000, Dinosaur was a revolutionary film in terms of animation. It’s the first film EVER to put computer animated characters in front of live action backgrounds. But that aspect is not what we are talking about what we are talking about is the romance in this film. Aladar is a male iguanadon that grew up with a family of lemurs… not seeing any of his kind whatsoever until he’s a full grown adult. When he does, one of the first he meets is the female iguanadon Neera. He has to get through her brother Kron before he can win over her heart but he eventually does win her over when Kron is tragically killed by a carnotaur by giving her some comfort. At the end of the film audiences were treated to seeing Aladar and Neera’s batch of eggs, as Aladar’s lemur family greets his newly hatched son into the world. This isn’t necessarily a really crazy couple but the fact that Aladar hadn’t met any of his kind until adulthood puts them on this list.
While Manny premiered in the 2002 Ice Age Movie, Ellie didn’t come until Ice Age: The Meltdown in 2006 (a big year for this list) These two are both Woolly Mammoths so it doesn’t seem that this couple is that incredibly strange unless you consider the fact that Ellie is Manny’s second mate! That’s right Manny had a mate before Ellie but she passed away a while before the first movie, a quick review of the beautiful cavepainting scene in the 2002 film will expand on this. Another factor that earned this duo’s spot on this list is the fact that for a big chunk of Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ellie who was raised by a family of possums, firmly believes that she IS a possum. It’s not until, out of the blue, she remembers her possum mom finding her that she realizes that she is a mammoth. Even still she is extremely close to her possum “brother’s” Crash and Eddie, and the three are basically a package deal for Manny. Another bonus for this couple, in the 2009 film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Manny and Ellie welcomed their daughter Peaches into the world.
Even aliens need love and Stitch is no exception, in fact, Disney took the liberty of creating a character just for the sole reason of being his girlfriend. Meet Angel experiment #624, who premiered in the 2004 “Angel” episode of Lilo and Stitch the Series. She basically looks just like Stitch but is pink with longer antennas which look uncannily like long hair. Her best talent however is her singing which she frequently uses to convince the other experiments to be either good or bad, even though she premiered in 2004 it took until the 2006 “Snafu” episode for the two to get together. The reason that these two have made it onto this list is simple… Stitch and Angel are cousins! I dunno if there are any hillbillies in Hawaii but it seems like these two pretty much mastered that area. Even so, “Angel” was voted number one best episode of the series when Disney Channel had fans of the series vote on the official website… and we wonder why we let our kids watch these shows.
Those who enjoyed the first Brother Bear movie in 2003 were in for a shocker when they sat down in front of their tvs to enjoy this straight to dvd movie that came out in 2006. In the film it is spring, the season of love and noone is immune to it’s calls, not even good old Kenai, voiced by none other than Patrick Dempsey of Greys Anatomy fame. When Kenai runs into his old pal Nita he is thrilled to say the least, until he realizes that she only wants his help to return a necklace he gave her when they were little that apparently bound them together, meaning they could only be with each other. Of course, Kenai’s ‘McDreamy’ charm wins her over and at the end of the movie she ends up dumping the other guy, and changing herself into a bear so that she could be with him. This girl literally changed into a different species so that she could be with this guy! That’s not the weirdest part of this film though, anyone who has seen this movie won’t soon forget the literal bear wedding that is featured at the end of the film.
This is the only double couple in the list, but I couldn’t list two of them without the their best friends. Everyone knows of Scooby Doo and his owner Norville “Shaggy” Rogers or Shaggy for short. Crystal and Amber on the other hand are characters that not too many people know of. In the film Scooby Doo and the Alien Invaders which was released in 2000 (one of the two big years for this list) Shaggy and Scooby are sure that they have met their true loves in Crystal, an attractive female human who wears tye-dyed outfits and her pet golden retriever, Amber. They spend a great majority of the film together investigating recent reports of ‘alien activity’ in the local desert, and it seems that everything is going great until audiences were shocked with the reveal that Crystal and Amber were not what anyone thought they were, first they say that they are nature photographers, sweet! Then they say that they are not nature photographers but that they work for the government, investigating the alien reports, even more sweet! Then they say that yeah, they work for the government but not for any government on this planet… that’s right, Crystal and Amber are freaking aliens, not sweet! As Velma says “I always said everyone has somebody out there… but I never thought I meant out there.” It becomes quite obvious once this is revealed that it’s not going to work out since well long distance relationships never work out. The four part ways sadly and that was the last we saw of the groovy alien girls.
I’m not talking about the original Teen Titans comics here, I’m talking about the Cartoon Network TV show that started in 2003. Throughout the duration of this show which got canceled in early 2006 the fandom for these two was INSANE to say the least. It took until the TV movie Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo in late 2006 for the couple to actually become an item. You might be asking why in the world are these two on this list? Ok, think about this, Robin is a human… and Starfire, well, she is an alien, a Tamaranian to be exact, a Tamaranian princess to be even more exact. This is a couple made up of a mere human boy and an alien princess! They’ve made it to number five on this list because not only are they an interspecies couple (a big trend in children’s media these days as you will see with the rest of the list) but I’m sure that most male readers would love to be on the Robin side of this equation.
While they were both featured in the 2005 Madagascar movie, this wacky twosome didn’t become an official item until Madagascar 2 in 2008, making them the newest couple on this list. Audiences had no idea that it was coming until, about fifteen minutes into the second film Melman blurts out of nowhere that “I love you Gloria, I always have!” and the drama ensues. Completely oblivious to her best friend’s affections, Gloria goes off and finds a buff hippo guy to cozy up to by the name of Moto Moto (Which literally translates from Swahili into “Hot Hot”) who apparently only likes her for being “Big and Chunky”. It didn’t end sad for the tall guy however, because good old Melman Mankiewicz the third (yes, that is his real name, feel free to laugh all you want) finally managed to win Gloria over by attempting to sacrifice himself to the fire gods by jumping into a volcano… how romantic.
Like Melman and Gloria, this interspecies couple consists of a giraffe, but that’s about where the similarities end. This time around the female, Bridget is the giraffe and the male, Benny is… a squirrel. This strange couple who premiered in the 2006 film The Wild did not start off smoothly. Benny at the beginning of the film is obviously interested in Bridget, who seems to have no interest at all in having a relationship with a squirrel. Amazingly enough, by the end of the film after going through crazy adventures helping their pal Samson the lion retrieve his son Ryan, Benny is able to win Bridget over, actually earning a kiss from her! Apparently in this movie, more commonly known as Disney’s cheap version of the much more successful Madagascar series that Dreamworks created that kind of stuff happens. But hey, at least these two beat Melman and Gloria on this list… although the two couples next on the list are certainly much more bizarre.
This couple made up of two characters who have been around for around 50 years premiered in the 2000 broadway play based off of Dr. Seuss’s works. Horton is the well-known elephant from the “Horton Hears a Who and Horton Hatches the Egg” books and Gertrude is the little known blue bird from one of the ‘other stories’ in “Yertle The Turtle and Other Stories”. The writers of this play however decided to be a bit daring and pair the two up anyway. In the show Gertrude McFuzz (yes, that is her real name) has been living next door to Horton for a while and has found that well… she kinda is head over heels in love with the guy. The issue? She only has a one feather tail, which she is sure is a turn off, so she goes to the doctor of the jungle and literally gets “pillberries” to make it grow. Of course, Horton takes no notice and when he is kidnapped by the circus while he is watching over Mayzie’s egg she finds that the tail is too long to allow her to fly! Gertrude gives in and gets the tail plucked and goes through (I am not kidding here) being attacked by a dog, hurting her foot and being the victim of a hit and run among other things in order to find him at the circus and rescue him. This wins Horton over and when the egg hatches the two decide to raise the Elephant Bird inside together. Oh, and by the way, this play closed on broadway after only seven months, apparently the plot was too complicated, go figure.
This could quite possibly be the most well known couple on this list. This crazy couple made up of a talking donkey and a fire-breathing dragon first premiered in the 2001 film Shrek and are going strong. Like Horton and Gertrude, Bridget and Benny and Melman and Gloria above, they are an interspecies couple. However, Donkey and Dragon have 5 little things that shot them up to this number one spot, Their names are Peanut, Parfait, Coco, Bananas and Debbie and they are Dronkeys. That’s right, Donkey and Dragon somehow managed to mate and produce a litter of 6 kids who premiered in Shrek 2 in 2004. Note that I only said five names though, sadly enough one of the six mysteriously disappeared between Shrek 2 and Shrek the third which premiered with only 5 Dronkeys in 2007. Don’t ask how they managed to have kids though, even Donkey has no idea. In Shrek The Third when Shrek mentions that he knows how Fiona got pregnant, he just can’t believe it happened, Donkey responds with a serious “How does it happen?”
Honorable Mentions: Shrek/Fiona from the Shrek Franchise, Doppler/Amelia from Treasure Planet, Skipper/Bobblehead Doll from the Madagascar Franchise.
dronkeys are the cutest things ever.
yeah, I gotta say those Dronkeys are cute little braying, flying lizards. Cute list. I do wonder how the hippo/giraffe kids would look by comparison though.
Nice #1 choice.
I hate the dronkeys, so abominable and annoying… I always thought Melman was gay. Some spoiler alerts won’t hurt
definitely Donkey and the Dragon LOL
Good list overall but the title confuses me.
What relationship are you exactly talking about here ??
If you are talking about just ‘a relationship’, then you should have taken into account more of the emotional aspect… which is why I feel that at no.9, Sid the sloth and Manny the mammoth should figure instead of Ellie and Mann.
Those two shared a rather unusual relationship as friends.
They are also ugly.
Porco Rosso and Gina seemed like a wierd couple to me.
Well im glad donkey is first on the list. He is one of my fav character ever!
I demand you put a spoiler alert, you’ve already spoilt 2 for me. And a pretty good list- after the lame one yesterday.
wat bout wallace and gromit?
what about rodger and jessica rabbit?? they are pretty odd
Wall-e and Eve ?? But yay for Dronkies
david schwimmer is awesome, he is the best thing from friends too
@moo1407 (12): totally agreed should be 1 or 2 on the list
Sponge Bob and Patrick. And Dronkeys disgust me.
Oh dear
I’m a bit embarrassed for Listverse today
Interesting list.
All of these are from very recent cartoons without additions of older ones. How about Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd? Hell, how many times did they get married?
@Andy_Warth (16): I agree with you. They should have been added since they are much weirder than the other choices.
i didn’t know about Angel until now. I used to watch Stitch with my brother and sisters as a teenager. Angel is so cute.
@oouchan (18): Bugs and Elmer got married!!! I’m obviously of the younger generation so I didn’t know that, but am still old enough to know that he never knew that Bugs and Elmer got married!
But awesome list… Dronkeys are real cute =]
Yeah, Bugs Bunny was originally female, for those who didn’t know.
@archangel (20): They are having re-runs on Cartoon Network and my kid is totally entralled by them. I have seen at least 3 so far in which they get married. You should check them out. Also that doesn’t include how many times they both ended up in drag!
Gotta love the old ones.
@oouchan (22): strangely enough, I’ve noticed that we seem to enjoy two characters blasting away at each other with shotguns, dynamites, and crossing each other with cross-dressing.
Oh well… gotta love Looney Tunes!
Sh1t list
I love Listverse because of these “children”.
Why take these clever, imaginary flights of fancy and brusquely label them “bizarre”? These works of art were designed primarily with children in mind, with underlying messages of finding love in all kinds of interesting places, that love can conquer all.
Labeling such sentiments “bizarre” is not a far step from racism, homophobia and even *****ism. The listwriter spent a lot of time watching good stuff but I believe learned very little.
@26: Drop the pretentious act and develop a sense of humor. It is perfectly fine to poke fun at interspecies relationships in children’s cartoons, from the point of view of an adult. Heck, even from the point of view of my younger nephew, I have seen him poke fun at some of these on the list.
BOOORIINNNNGGGGGG…………………
@Hayloiuy (28):
Shut pu, you matured *****. Dronkeys are cute.
this wasn’t as funny as i thought
but a nice lol anyway =)
Ten Children’s Cartoons About Which I Know Waaaaay Too Much, But Here Are 500+ Words Detailing My Emotional Arrested Development
godawful list, who the hell cares about this
I have some points to make concerning the prior posts:
1a) The Bible is the Word of God.
1b) Most folks who call themselves “Christians,” do not have a clue what the Bible says (beyond knowing John 3:16 or Acts 2:38).
2a) The Constitution of the United States (and the events/people surrounding its conception) IS one of the Top 10 Incredibly Significant Moments in History.
2b) For over 200 years it created an environment where folks from all over the world tried to become its citizens. Most of the criticism from the point I make in 2a are going to come from individuals/groups in other countries whose Constitution/founding documents are not up to par with the U.S. Constitution. Those who are U.S. citizens; who do criticize it; don’t have a clue what it says.
2c) A significant majority of the people who hold/have held political office as of late in the U.S., are not adhering fully to the U.S. Constitution. This is from the President (President Obama, President Clinton, AND President Bush) on down. If they did; the United States would not be in the mess it’s currently in (and getting worse).
3a) God HAS Blessed the United States.
3b) God CAN also curse the United States.
Pro 14:34 “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”
Rom 2:11 “For there is no respect of persons with God.”
ehhh, this list could of been better. What about Kermit and Miss Piggy?
@Bill (33): Please stop with the preaching. You did it on the other list and now you are on this one.
Per the Read me first link above the comments box:
9. Can I preach in my comments?
No. The List Universe is not your personal pulpit. You can quote Scriptures, etc. in your comments if they are pertinent to the list – but you absolutely may not use the site as a source for conversions.
Just stop now. Thank you.
@Sno (34): Good call! I can’t believe I forgot them.
How about Goofy and Mable the cow? (I think her name was Mable.)
What a lame list.
No Kermit and Ms. Piggy?
Maybe not originally children’s media, but the muppets have definitely run their course through those waters.
The *****?
Worst. List. Ever.
poor list
good list.
Not the most interesting list Listverse has ever done (understatement).
I Love This List(:
about stitch and angel, and the comment of “hillbillies in hawaii.”
In a time not too long ago, royalty in hawaii could only touch and of course, marrry/ have ***** with other members of royalty. In such a small society it was very common for that to mean that you would probably end up marrying your cousin or even your brother or sister. As “hillbilly” as that might sound, such things were widely practiced in Europe (which caused a great deal hemophilia among the royalty across the continent) the classical egyptians and the Ptolemaic egyptians who followed. so you know, not really that unusual in that or indeed many royal cultures around the world.
very cute!
WTF is this? A list?
Yeah. What was your first clue?
I remember Crystal and Amber, I just forgot they were aliens!
“Premiering in 2000, Dinosaur was a revolutionary film in terms of animation. It’s the first film EVER to put computer animated characters in front of live action backgrounds.”
In 1988 “Who Killed Roger Rabbit?” incorporated animation with live action and live action backgrounds. True, the animation was the old cel animation, hand-drawn, but it far and away blows Dinosaur out of the water in terms of achievement.
no bert and ernie?
they’re clearly a tomatoman and a banananoid living together in a homo*****ual relationship (which was not ok back in the 70′s when i was a kid).
i’ll leave any “fruit people” puns for someone else to throw out there.
What about Flint and Lady J from GI JOE? Those two danced around each other but I don’t remember them ever admitting they were an item. Even though everyone who watched the show knew it.
YAAAAAAAWWWWWNNNNN!! Wow wasted my time on another idiotic list. Are these lists checked out before being posted cause damn there are some terrible ones and this one ranks pretty high among them.
This list was bizarre in that none of the relationships in it were actually bizarre…
This was basically just a list of relationships in children´s films which the author had tried really hard to justify them being on the list somehow.
Absolutely nothing bizarre about any of these?
Dumb and not even entertaining
the only weird thing about these are that they are interspecies….. not so weird considering all parties were consenting.
anyways, the dronkies are cuties
What about the movie ‘IGOR’? The whole EVA + IGOR tandem freaked me out A LOT!
I mean c’mon! The idea of loving your invention ROMANTICALLY is just PLAIN WRONG.
When I saw the lovestory unfolding, I was horrified! First off, they physically don’t match and second, she’s a manmade giant girl. Go figure.
I usually just pass over bad lists but this is possibly the lamest and most uninteresting list Ive ever seen.
“Gertrude McFuzz (yes, that is her real name)”
“(I am not kidding here) being attacked by a dog, hurting her foot and being the victim of a hit and run”
“Audiences had no idea that it was coming until..”
…Was this list written by an 11-year-old?
None of these seem too weird to me. Someone already mentioned that Manny and Sid are a much weirder duo – throw Diego into the mix and it just gets better. The love/hate Bugs/Elmer partnership would have been more appropriate as well. In fact that is the sort of relationship I was hoping for when I saw the title. Would have been a much more successful list too!
@oouchan (34): Proselytizing is only allowed when it fits the subject matter eh? On a cartoon list? I think not. Thanks for the assist.
@segues (48): I agree with the achievement of Who Framed Roger Rabbit but the visuals in Dinosaur were absolutely beautiful. I remember being amazed the first time I watched it with the kids.
I think the Skipper and doll are more bizarre than Melman and Gloria. Just saying.