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.
I love the dronkeys, so cute. What about Eva and Wall-E though?
What about:
Kermit and Miss Piggy?
Spongebob and Sandy (or is it Spongebob and Patrick?)
Barry and Vanessa in Bee Movie? Insectuality?
Roger Rabbit and Jessica Rabbit?
Wally and Eve?
Edward and Bella for that matter? Perhaps not children’s media but it’s targeted at teens who are legally children. And the relationship of a 108 year old vampire with an underaged 17 year old human girl who digs the idea of being his prey? Messed up.
In Beauty and the Beast a candlestick and a feather duster makeout.
roger and jessica rabbit? kermit and miss piggy? ren and stimpy? WHY ARE BERT AND ERNIE NOT ON HERE?!
jeezus h. christ…i don’t think there’s EVER been a list so bad that i had to say so in the comments.
one of the worst lists on this site. terrible writing.
Yet another spongebob reference… what about Mr. Krabs with his WHALE of a daughter? No pun intended. Makes me wonder who Mrs. Krabs was.
@Chanchita (57):
Clearly its not, you smart ass *****/prick, depending on your gender. And if it was, that’s nothing short of mindblowing
O.K, this list was slightly strange in that it seemed to judge cartoons, which are designed with the intention of being zany, by real life standards, but still. The subject matter of the list is so off the wall that the person who wrote it clearly did so because they enjoyed what they were writing about, and just did it for a bit of a laugh. If you don’t like it then take it up with the owner of the site, after all, he clearly deemed it to be up to standard, and its his site and there for his responsibility. But don’t start *****ing about the person who wrote the list, when all they were doing was writing about a subject matter they found entertaining just for some enjoyment with the hope that others may enjoy reading it, which some people clearly have. That’s no crime.
It’s much more admirable than what many other people do on this site, those people who either,
Write a list purely to push some sort of agenda (I’m looking at you Shannon)
OR
Write a load of lists they don’t really care about, just so they can feel like they’ve had something published. Maybe even refer to themselves as writers. (I’m looking at you Flamehorse/Ianz)
OR
Write a list so clearly flawed in it’s facts that you wonder why the person wrote the list when they clearly know dick all about the subject. (I’m looking at you %75 of the lists that appear on this site which deal with ‘facts’)
All of these types of people are, wait for it, *****ing pathetic.
Have a go at them, by all means, but not people who write lists that you just don’t enjoy. If you don’t enjoy it, *****ing skip it. Or don’t visit the site.
But don’t criticize a list because of grammar or writing, or, worse still, say things like,
‘What about so and so, how could you leave them off, what
a crap list!’
ITS OPINION *****STICK!
To sum this up, stop being such *****ing internet losers.
I’m sorry but this list is just…gross.
i understand that a list like this is completely subjective, but i find it odd that you have the teen titans on the list but don’t even mention the most famous human-alien relationship in comics(and subsequently cinema and television): superman and loise lane.
Wow some of you guys seem to think the internet exists only to please you.
I think this list while probably not going to go down in listverse history as the greatest of all time is still good enough to feature here (maybe a few relationships missing as some people have said).
Variety is the life blood of this site and if you dont like a particular list go read a different one and stop *****ing like the site is called johnverse or maryverse.
That will be all.
And for the people who are complaining about the writing, its different, not bad, different. It gives the list the authors personal touch and as long as you can read it then no one needs to know needs your approval for how the list is written.
seriously people freakin chill.
This is another terrible list. One more list with junk like this and I am not coming back to the site. Trolling through five lists of drivel isn’t worth the few interesting lists that pop up from time to time.
Not so long ago, in a forest in Sri Lanka there was an elepant named Ellen. She has a mouse friend named Sarrat. their frienship turn into a romantic relationship. The only thing that Sarrat wasn’t able to prove was his love to Ellen through *****.
One night,while Ellen was about to sleep under the coconut tree, Sarrat secretly run behind Ellen and started kissing her. Without Ellens knowledge, Sarrat was trusting his manhood into Ellen’s behind when a coconut felled into her head. “Ouch”, cried Ellen. Sarrat stopped what he is doing and run infront of Ellen’s face and kiss her,”Does it hurt, Honey?”
@mikerodz (71):
…………aha
no penguin and hula doll from Madagascar 2??
@Woyzeck (63): a little too much time on your hands? maybe? and what exactly is it supposed to be? Talk about a Rorschach test – can’t tell if it’s boobs or peckers or none of the above.
I think Manny was looking at that wall and thinking about how he was alone. He thought he was the only mammoth left. He might have been thinking about his parents and siblings. I’m pretty sure he would have mentioned it more if he had a family before.
@Carl (77): yeah he did have a family; can’t remember if they were killed for meat (I think so) but it could have been some natural disaster.
@ 77 Carl:
If you couldn’t see that the family that was killed was his own (his meaning he was the father) You certainly have a unique way of looking at the world.
Where is spongebob and patrick or ren and stimpy?
@Tired of Crap (71):
I like the list, therefore my like cancels out you distain. No one wants to hear it just like no one wants to read about me not wanting to read about not wanting to read crap.
Hey Arnold and Helga?
pretty bad list :/
@Tired of Crap (71): i agree with this man
@ants1 (69): your a douche bag.
Not bad list,I thought the frog & the princess gonna be #1
When I started reading I really expected to see Ernie and Burt have a listing…go figure.
But when it comes to strange relationships how can you not mention Cat-Dog from the Nickelodeon series..perhaps not romantic, but certainly bizarre.
@yah, (84):
I may be a Douche bag but im a right Douche bag
Telling someone there list is crap is about as useful a Dr telling a patient they are dieing and not telling them why.
You can dislike someones list but unless you tell them why whats the point? Support your statement and throw in a bit of creative criticism.
Not liking a list because of its content is absolute BS its not like someone tricked you into reading it, thats why there is that thing at the top called a title!
A good idea for a list. Failing to evoke any real interest in me for only covering the small facet of the US American market.
There’s a pretty big world around it. Usually being covered (sometimes more or less) on listverse lists. What a waste of ideas, it could’ve been interesting.
Spongebob and Patrick!
nice list! thanks.
If by ‘childrens’ media’ you also mean comic books then, although Superman and Lois Lane are an odd couple, even more odd is Superman and Wonderwoman.
@ archiealt (66)
OK, so I was in a seriously bad mood earlier and I didn´t need to insult the author personally. So I´m sorry for that.
But I maintain that this list was uninteresting, strange, and poorly written.
And to people saying “not every list is tailored to you blah blah”, that is true, but that is why we put our comments on each individual list. When there´s a good list, I say so. When it´s *****, I say so. Not much point in comments if you´re only allowed to leave positive feedback.
This list didn’t really do it for me. The idea was solid, but the execution was poor. Many of these choices were not even that bizarre. There are many that are circumstantially a bit odd, like the dinosaurs and the brother bear examples, but those are more plot points then the actual relationships themselves being persistantly bizarre. I will agree that the cousins examples and the cross breeding dronkeys are bizarre, but this list missed the mark over all.
Who on Earth okay’d this list?
I mean, i’m used to learning new historical facts or cool things I didn’t know before
Instead I see a list like this. Listverse must really be running out of ideas, has it jumped the shark?
@Jon (21): Reference please? Bugs Bunny was, as far as I know, ALWAYS male, and the ‘marriages’ in the cartoons were to comic effect.
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Terminator 2 had a 3d digital computer generated character in 1992, Dinosaur didn’t do anything first. And it was after Walking with Dinosaurs, and years after Jurassic Park. Dinosaur was nothing special. :/
How about Victor and the Corpse Bride,Victor falls in love with her and almost allows himself to be killed,so he can stay in the underworld with her,maybe she was beautiful,when she still had a pulse,but now she’s a rotting corpse,now that’s a wierd couple,by the way,I loved the movie
poop
Seseme street were on the movie, Kermit was the frog and the Pig should be no. 1, they are the coolest because pig will always beatup frog in the end.:)
This is the writer of this article, and you have NO idea how THRILLED I am to have this up here!
Thank you to all who enjoyed the article, I appreciate your kind sentiments.
ANd for those who disliked the article, I’m sorry that I was unable to entertain or please you.
I believe that archiealt totally understood my motives for posting this list.
I enjoy watching cartoons, and lately I have been noticing interesting couples that are featured in them, I figured that making a list of them wouldn’t hurt. I wanted to share some of these interesting duos with others and maybe even introduce a few to some new people (I know there is one person up there who now knows about Angel because of this list… awesome!)
The main reason that I chose “Bizarre Relationships” as the title was because I have seen the other “Bizarre Relationship” lists on this site and figured it would help this list get on.
I’m not looking for this to be the best list on the website, and I’m not looking to win any awards but, at this rate, I have a feeling that this list might just make the “Controversial lists” section, so, thanks guys!
Oh and for those wondering about my age… I am twenty years old, I’m not a child!
Thanks again for reading my list, I am glad that at least some of you enjoyed it.
@Kelly Riley-Congratulations. This list is not exactly my cup of tea, but if all the list were the same genre or limited to only historic lists (which I love)it would not be as interesting to find out what list has been chosen to be published each day. Thank you for a fun list. Commenters- take the list in the spirit it was written. It is a lighthearted entertaining list, not a scientific list. I do wish corpse bride would have been featured. Zombie love IS my cup of tea.
what about Otis and Daisy from the nickelodeon film Barnyard. Both Otis and Daisy both have udders, meaning they are both cows.
Victor and the Corpse Bride… necrophilia!?
SpongeBob and Patrick or SpongeBob and Sandy.
Ren and Stimpy.
Beauty and the Beast.
And how about Bumblebee (Transformers) and the guy who owns it?! That’s pretty weird to me.
McQueen and the Porsch-girl car (from Cars).
Peter Pan and Tinkerbell.
Jack Skellington and Sandy.
@62: if you are going to mention Bella and Edward, then you have to mention Buffy (the Vampire Slayer) and Angel (200 something years old vampire with soul, who happened to be her boyfriend).
Hmmmmm…I have to say something about the Manny-slash-Ellie thing…From what I gathered I thoguht that the family in the cave drawnings were his mom, dad, and him as a baby…but I guess I was wrong?
PeeWee Herman and a bowl of cereal. He liked it so much he married it.
@Neal (106):
PeeWee Herman and his own hand. In public. More than once.
I’m sorry to say this list felt like a bit of a stretch. I mean sure they’re kind of weird but they are kid shows so what would you expect.
Stupidest list ever.
@toastedmilk (68):
I can think of two reasons:
a) The author doesn’t consider the Superman series to be “children’s media” as it’s probably best known through film and TV, directed at adults in all cases.
b) The author is like me, and would choose Starfire over Lois without a second thought. ^_^ b
This was a pretty lame list, but I agree that Donkey and Dragon are the weirdest couple in Children Media. Plus, their spawn are just so cute!
Hmm. This does it, I’m taking Listverse off my bookmarks indefinitely, at least until JFrater comes back.
Thanks for turning off my favourite site ever, random list-authors.
I don’t know but I’m sure I’m gonna like these movies… I haven’t got the chance to watch them yet…
I thought the cave painting in Ice Age showed Manny as the kid, cuz the big mammoth was killed. So Ellie was not Manny’s second mate, she was his first!
Oh and @ archiealt (66), it´s smart ass *****.
Umm.. I have to agree with S. In Ice Age Manny remembers what happened when he was a kid. Those were his parents not his wife and kid! Tsk tsk tsk! Pay more attention people :p
In Dungeons & Dragons, female dragons can shapeshift to any form to mate with any creature type to produce half-dragon offspring.
How about Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street? They have a picture of themselves over their beds (I’m sure they’d be sleeping together if this wasn’t a kid’s show) and they act like an old married couple, especially grouchy Bert. No wonder Bert finally had it with Ernie’s immaturity and left to join the Taliban, LOL.
I agree, that’s what I thought the cave painting was, too. Manny as a kid and his parents.
Don’t listen to those losers…. I loved this list! So cute, in a creepy yet endearing way.
Loved it!