Um, it's a hangout sitcom. The drama will *always* revolve around the characters romantic lives, because that's the nature of the show. Expecting the characters to be single and OK with it is like expecting a medical show to stop featuring sick people, or a police procedural to lay off all the crimes for a while.

Am I in a man cave… or a show's grave?

Things didn't work out neatly for Ted because the show needed to keep making new episodes, not because some inherent flaw in Ted's character doomed his wife to a premature death and him to trying to do his best friend's ex-wife.

Clackity-clack?
Takes me back.

Blane wasn't "relatively nice" though. He was a rich douchebag with rich douchebag friends, who wanted to slum it a bit with Andie, but was too embarrassed to take her to the prom. She shouldn't have ended up with either him or Duckie.

He's dead in the ground.

Dude, what are you wasting your time posting about it on avclub for? Sell the movie rights to that shit and become a millionaire!

Dude, what are you wasting your time posting about it on avclub for? Sell the movie rights to that shit and become a millionaire!