First kisses are always exciting and special, and they're particularly breathtaking when
they're between TV couples who are meant to be together. That's especially true for the ones who
take extra long to realize their destinies. Here are the most long-awaited kisses in TV history.
As far as long-awaited TV kisses go, Friends' Ross Geller and Rachel Green
pretty much take the cake for the title of "Most Inevitable Kiss." But these two sure
took their sweet time in actually making it happen. The origin of their story is a tale
as old as time. Geeky high school boy sees popular high school girl and falls in love,
but girl is too preoccupied with other boys to notice. Thankfully, Ross and Rachel had a
second chance at love when Rachel re-entered Ross' life after her runaway bride ordeal.
Though their chemistry was undeniable, their dating lives didn't align properly for a long
time, as they didn't have their first kiss until well into Season 2. The moment we were
all waiting for from the very beginning finally happened on the episode "The One Where Ross
Finds Out." Rachel drunk-dialed Ross to leave a voicemail saying that she was finally over him,
and then she proceeded to forget about the incident until later.
Despite her best efforts, Ross heard the voicemail, and by the end of the episode,
they were locking lips at Central Perk. They had plenty of ups and downs to come
in the remaining seasons, but that first moment was nonetheless a moment of sweet catharsis.
Considering the fact that the very first scene of Gilmore Girls featured chemistry-filled banter
between Lorelai and Luke, it was surprising they took so long to kiss and actually become a couple.
Their first lip-lock didn't arrive until the end of the Season 4 finale — talk about a cliffhanger!
It certainly appeared that the eternally baseball cap-wearing Luke was smitten with Lorelai from the
beginning, whether or not he was actually prepared to admit it to himself or the nosy townspeople of
Stars Hollow. He was always there when she needed him, and he was her shoulder to cry on whenever
she was down. Lorelai, however, took a little longer to get to the same emotional place. She
dated multiple men and was even briefly engaged to her daughter Rory's English teacher before
she finally realized that grumpy old Luke was the perfect guy for her. During the Season 4 finale,
during which the Dragonfly Inn held a practice weekend prior to opening, it finally happened.
Despite Lorelai's ex Jason showing up and misleading Luke by claiming that he and Lorelai
were back together, Luke and Lorelai pulled through and ended up sharing a romantic kiss.
Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson's first kiss might just go down in history as one of the memorable TV
kisses between two teenage characters. The two initially met at the beginning of Glee Season 2,
in an episode aptly titled "Never Been Kissed." Kurt was visiting Dalton Academy,
where he watched Blaine and the rest of the The Warblers perform a fantastic rendition
of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream." They clicked immediately as Blaine encouraged Kurt to stand
up for himself against a school bully. Kurt eventually transferred to Dalton, where he felt
he would be better accepted, and he confessed his true feelings towards Blaine soon after.
Though Kurt's feelings were unrequited at first, something happened that changed Blaine's mind
later that season in the episode "Original Song." Kurt sang the Beatles song "Blackbird,"
which moved Blaine and made him realize Kurt was the guy for him. Later in the episode,
Blaine said something that really solidified their budding romance.
"Oh, there you are. I've been looking for you forever."
We would usually have a hard time considering Captain Hook from Peter Pan romantically suitable
for anyone. Nevertheless, sparks flew between his 21st century TV version and the courageous
Emma on Once Upon a Time from the minute they met, whether they wanted to admit it or not.
Despite their less than positive first impression when Emma tied Hook to a tree,
they had several sweet moments throughout the series. They finally locked lips to the delight
of eager viewers in the fifth episode of season 3, "Good Form." During their adventure through
the Enchanted Forest in search for Neal, Emma came to believe that Hook saved Prince Charming's life,
not realizing that Charming didn't exactly tell her the whole story. After Emma, Charming, Snow,
and Regina toast to Hook, Hook and Emma are left alone. And then after a little coaxing,
Emma leaned in to share a pretty hot first kiss with Once Upon A Time's resident bad boy.
Mindy Lahiri and Danny Castellano started out as frenemies on The Mindy Project,
but they always seemed to care for each other deeply despite their competitiveness. Their
friendship stabilized as the show progressed, but the underlying chemistry was always there,
though they never really seemed to realize it, at least not right away. But then their relationship
took a significant turn during the Season 2 episode "The Desert." This finally ended the
will-they, won't-they conundrum that had been simmering for a season and a half.
Here's how it happened: after spending some time in Los Angeles, Mindy had planned to get
back together with her then-boyfriend Cliff after she and Danny got home from their conference. But
Danny had other plans, as he tricked her into joining him to pay his estranged dad a visit.
On the way home, they experienced some turbulence on their flight. Startled,
Danny ran to the back of the plane to meet Mindy and ended up confessing his feelings to her.
They then locked their lips in what we would have to say is one of the most
exciting on-screen airplane kisses of all time. The bumpy flight would soon be over,
but they would have plenty of turbulence of a different kind to look forward to.
Though Jessica Day and Nick Miller clicked pretty much right away when
Jess moved into the loft shared by the main male characters on New Girl,
they really took their time before their first kiss. But when it finally happened: wow. Just wow.
In the Season 2 episode "Cooler," the gang started a game of "True American" after
Jess freaked out over a mysterious scratching sound. Eventually it was time for Nick and Jess,
who were in various stages of undress, to kiss while away from everyone else as part
of the game's nonsensical rules. So they tried to smooch, but they just couldn't go through with it.
At a certain point, it was getting to be just a little too much for Nick to handle.
"God, Miller, just kiss me already!" "No, not like this!"
Later that night, the scratching sound was heard by both Jess and Nick,
who investigated and found out that it was just the neighbor's dog. They later had a
bit of a late night chat and Jess was about to go to bed, but Nick had another idea.
"I meant something like that."
Though it was implied that Donna Paulsen and Harvey Specter spent a night together years
before the events of Suits, we didn't get to actually see them lock lips on our TV screens
until the Season 7 midseason finale. In the episode aptly named "Donna,"
their colleague Louis took the opportunity to apologize to Donna for asking personal
questions about her and Harvey's history during a mock trial. He shared his feelings about his ex
and told Donna that he regretted that he never shared his true feelings.
This conversation seemed to trigger something in Donna because she did
something very uncharacteristic soon afterwards. Though she was usually
a model of professionalism around Harvey, she decided to break down
the walls between them. When he came to her office to discuss his meeting with Jessica,
she leaned over and kissed him. He looked pretty shocked afterwards, so she made sure to say:
"I'm sorry, Harvey. I just had to know."
While this kiss was pretty satisfying in the moment,
it sadly led to some repercussions that resulted in a lot of strife for everyone involved.
Boy, did How I Met Your Mother take its sweet time to give viewers the pleasure of finding
out who the mother of Ted Mosby's children really was. Though clues about the Mother were revealed
throughout the series, we didn't actually find out who she was until the final season.
It turned out that Ted met The Mother, also known as Tracy, at Robin and Barney's wedding,
where she was a member of the band. Three days after the wedding, Ted took Tracy to an ill-chosen
Scottish-Mexican fusion restaurant on their first date. She suggested finding a different place,
so then they went for a walk. Suddenly, Tracy spotted her
ex and revealed to Ted that she had turned down his proposal the day before the wedding.
As she realized that she wasn't ready to start anything new, they began to walk back to her
apartment. Ted looked crushed as he walked away, but then she called out to him and they
finally fulfilled the promise that had been teased by the show's title for nine seasons.
"What are you doing?" "Remembering this." "Come on."
Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Jake Peralta and Amy Santiago started out as rivals at work,
but their competitiveness eventually blossomed into a genuine friendship,
then a sweet romance, and ultimately a marriage that as of Season 7 is still going strong. They
weren't always on the same page, though. They eventually came to the realization that they had
undeniable feelings for each other, but Jake was the first to admit the truth to himself.
By the Season 2 finale, they were contemplating a relationship but were acting cautiously because
they were colleagues first and foremost. Then the entire team at the precinct was put through an
emotional rollercoaster when their beloved Captain Holt had to leave quite suddenly. This provided
the perfect backdrop for Jake and Amy to put their professional rivalry and banter aside and cement
their relationship. So they shared a beautiful kiss and began dating for real soon after.
Though Ben Wyatt and Leslie Knope shared sizzling chemistry from their first episode together,
it took them quite a while to actually share a kiss, mostly for professional reasons. At
least they provided Parks and Recreation viewers with plenty of comedic relief in the lead-up!
By Episode 14 of Season 3, entitled "Road Trip," Ben and Leslie were struggling to keep their
flirtation at bay. It was clear to them and everyone watching that they wanted to start a
relationship. But they held back because of their colleague Chris Traeger's devastating rule that a
government superior and a subordinate couldn't be romantically involved. So, knowing that they
wouldn't be able to help themselves if they were together constantly, they decided to stay away
from each other as much as possible. But that plan proved to be quite difficult when Chris
sent them on a road trip to Indianapolis together. They overcame many obstacles during the excursion
before finally giving in to what they knew was undeniable. Their kiss during that episode was
just the beginning of a wonderful relationship that would last throughout the rest of the series.
Though Dawson's Creek's title character preferred to focus his attention on girl-next-door Jen,
it was pretty clear that he and his best friend Joey had feelings for each other as well.
But Joey spent the first two seasons trying to move on and find herself a new beau.
In Season 3, she began to date Pacey, much to Dawson's dismay.
This led to the infamous scene from which the hilarious "crying Dawson" meme originated.
Pacey and Joey's first kiss happened when Joey least expected it in Episode 17,
"Cinderella Story," after a huge argument between the two of them. Though sweet,
it was impulsive at its very core and it led to significant fallout. Dawson, Joey, and Pacey's
relationships took quite a hit because of that one little kiss, but viewers weren't too upset,
as the plotlines that followed only made the show that much more addictive.
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