The death of sitcoms: When the guy gets the girl.

That doesn’t only apply to sit coms, when House and Cuddy got together in House MD. The show went down, then it went up again once Cuddy left the show.

kinda weird how shows get less funny in later seasons
like stand up comics arent as funny in their older years

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"I Dream of Jeannie."

I honestly think it's really not fair to let the humor dry up when the main couple(s) on the show finally get together, or even get married. The trouble is, it removes the sexual tension between them because if they just wanta get their rocks off, they can go home and do it, rather than be stuck in a "will they or won't they?" situation.

JIM GOT PAM

It depends on the concept of the show, in family sitcoms you have an already married couple and they can be funny. I think in a show like Big Bang theory it is about single nerds or geeks and if you introduce a relationship it shifts the focus from the original theme too much and stops being funny because writers don't know what to do with that now.

It's not just you. That is EXACTLY when they die.

The writers don't realize that the endless tension of pursuit is what drives the show for the most part.

On the other hand, I guess they could argue that audiences, en masse, would get tired of endless pursuit so the writers have to "give them something" to keep their interest.

I'll briefly reference the show Twin Peaks: A murder mystery basically. The networks forced the shows creators to reveal the killer early in season 2. After that happened the ratings tanked. The creators (Lynch/Frost) revealed they did not intend to reveal the killer (at least not nearly that soon) because the mystery was the golden goose that laid the golden eggs for people to follow and retain interested.

TECHNICALLY ROSS ONLY "HAD" RACHEL FOR SHORT TIME,THEN LOST HER UNTIL THE END OF THE SHOW...LEONARD "GOT" AND THEN LOST PENNY FOR A WHILE TOO.