Brehs, was this the most forced couple ever on a black sitcom?

[FTBS]

nikka what??

The character development from season 2 and on between these two characters showed a bougie southern belle not grounded in reality who always has her daddy bail her out of everything turn into a semi-independent woman, and a goofy nerd turned into a somewhat mature individual with an engineering future get together. They complemented each other. He brought her down to reality, and she occasionally helped push him to his full potential. Sometimes they were the voice of reason to each other.

It could happen in the real world......right?

Naw breh . I loved that shyt as a kid but as an adult I see right through it. They went from only interacting indirectly via Denise to copping feels and having wet dreams immediately after she was gone. They basically just said "Hey these are the two biggest non-Denise characters...let's put them together". And yeah the opposites attract dynamic and the skills of Kadeem and Jasmine made that shyt entertaining and special, but there is no denying that shyt was forced and unrealistic. In real life a broad like Whitley latches on to either a Julian type or some star athlete without so much as having an actual conversation with Dwayne. I gotta ask...when was Whitley ever the voice of reason? When did she push him towards anything but insanity? All I ever saw was her stressing him out, playing games, and even actually taking his focus away from school and fukking up his grades. Sure a woman like Whitley could use a grounding influence like Dwayne but it's unlikely she would recieve it, especialy if he didn't look like Julian and come from money.

 

[blockboy504]

You can tell the nikkas who don’t talk to women in this thread

 

[Rollo Goodlove]

I always thought it would have made more sense to cast a male who was in Issa Rae's range on an attractive scale, an attractive Georgetown computer engineer settling down with a subpar looking social worker in LA?

No homo


bytch literally got a pie face and dead eyes

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Lark was GOD level I tell ya

 

[FeverPitch2]

for some reason this pissed me off . Always thought this show was a little too extra in how it depicted black people. They know they could have gotten a better looking couple Dynomitteeee!

Breh, you know Hollywood wasn't in the business of showing attractive non dysfunctional Black couples.
Still not, to be honest.

 

[FeverPitch2]

Did yall say this bullshyt already?

 

[Maddmike]

The black chick and white dude from boy meets world

 

[Gospel]

Carl & Harriet 2

Wait a minute they replaced Harriet with a high yellow too?

Don't tell me the original actress is carrying a burning hatred for Jaleel White!

 

[invincible1914]

We got a winner! What’s the deal with all the forced interracial couples on tv? You can almost hear the focus group deliberating in the background talking bout we reaching all the demographics.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

It was wack bro. That was one of his best friend's babymoms. That storyline sucked. lol.

I agree, it sucked. But I think we just have different reasons as to why it sucked.

The problem with it from the beginning was they kept thinking of new ways for Ross and Rachel to not be with each other, but still have them together. They have the baby out of wedlock, they don't see it as a reason to get back together again, and they want to date other people while having the baby......and also live together while having the baby. The whole thing was over before it started.

You remember that whole story where Rachel thinks that Joey proposed to her when he didn't? Ross spends the whole episode mad at Joey because Rachel said yes to him. Keep in mind that Ross didn't want to marry Rachel, and didn't have any plans of getting back together with her. But he felt hurt when he thought that she was engaged to someone else. Ross was obviously still in love with Rachel, but he wasn't going to make any moves, so whether or not anything was going to happen with Joey and Rachel, he had no say in it.

The storyline was confused and misguided is all I'm saying. If they had left it alone after Joey told Rachel he was in love with her, it would have been okay.

 

[FeverPitch2]

Taraji must have a hefty mortgage to do this c00n shyt

 

[Lootha VanDraws]

not forced.

one is a googley eyed Muppet.
the other is a frumpy mouthed't Muppet.

they both jim Henson looking than a mother fukker.


art barr

This cat needed a moustache in the worst way...

 

[Dameon Farrow]

That’s how you knew the show was on its last leg

I can't believe this got so many daps. The way they stayed at each other's necks it was obvious they'd hook up sooner or later. The hell?

 

[Dameon Farrow]

Taraji must have a hefty mortgage to do this c00n shyt

I wasn't gonna say it. And this 'movie' was loaded with negative stereotypes for all black males involved.

 

[2-Digit]

Naw breh . I loved that shyt as a kid but as an adult I see right through it. They went from only interacting indirectly via Denise to copping feels and having wet dreams immediately after she was gone. They basically just said "Hey these are the two biggest non-Denise characters...let's put them together". And yeah the opposites attract dynamic and the skills of Kadeem and Jasmine made that shyt entertaining and special, but there is no denying that shyt was forced and unrealistic. In real life a broad like Whitley latches on to either a Julian type or some star athlete without so much as having an actual conversation with Dwayne. I gotta ask...when was Whitley ever the voice of reason? When did she push him towards anything but insanity? All I ever saw was her stressing him out, playing games, and even actually taking his focus away from school and fukking up his grades. Sure a woman like Whitley could use a grounding influence like Dwayne but it's unlikely she would recieve it, especialy if he didn't look like Julian and come from money.

I'll admit that for the most part, she did push him to the brink of insanity most times, but for a couple of examples, there was the episode where his friend Zelmer was going to go off into the Persian Gulf and Dwayne was just going to write him off. I can't say that Dwayne and Zelmer ended the episode on the highest of notes, but it was Whitley who convinced Dwayne that there wasn't anything he could do to stop Zelmer from leaving, and that Dwayne needed to be more of a friend in Zelmer's time of need.

There's also the very last episode when she convinced Dwayne that he needed to squash his beef with Ron over the development of a computer program before they moved to Japan.

I'll give you that in the real world, a woman like Whitley will probably go for a Julian type, but as you've seen in the show, she wouldn't have been ultimately happy with him. How many women do we know that go for guys based on just status, but end up unhappy or single mothers? That's why Dwayne and Whitley are a couple that lots refer to as a good black TV couple IMO