"TV Couples We Wish Never Got Together" - Ann and Tom

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Throughout much of "Parks and Recreation", Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones) provided a voice of reason amid the wackiness in Pawnee, Indiana's titular municipal government office. That made her romance with the department's constantly hustling administrator, Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari), in the fourth season all the more puzzling.

During one of Ann's breaks from her on-again/off-again beau Chris Traeger (Rob Lowe), she agreed to see Tom despite a disastrous first date. Though poorly suited for each other, the couple went as far as moving in together despite being broken up, even as they quickly realized this was a mistake.




Ann and Tom formed one of those intentionally mismatched couples where the pairing was positioned to provide ongoing gags. The problem was that the jokes drawn from their relationship weren't all that funny, at least compared to everything else going on at the time.

And while Ann had questionable relationships prior to Tom, every decision she made in pursuing a romance with him seemed like an out-of-character step back. Tom and Ann couldn't split fast enough; Ann eventually reconciled with Chris, and their rekindled romance was going strong when Chris and Ann returned in the series finale.

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