But Seinfeld wasn't a romantic comedy. And Dave and Maddie really took less than a season to start dating, or something, and maybe two to get married; Sam and Diane started dating -- they gave us some payoff, at least -- by the end of the first season, and we had permutations of their relationship the whole first five years.

Still in all cases there's a point where there's just been enough of guy accidentally letting slip that it has occasionally crossed his mind that it would potentially be a pleasant event if perhaps she were to care to go with him on a date, and she giggles and nods, and then he panics and jumps up the telephone pole and apologizes and says such a thing was never on his mind and then hides underneath the mattress cursing his foolishness. You want them to just get on with it already.