

Image Credit: Columbia TriStar Televisionįirst Kiss: Season 3, Episode 17 (Note: Pacey also briefly kissed Joey in Season 1, but she pushed him away.) Image Credit: Courtesy of Universal Television Wait Time: 44 episodes (including Christmas episodes) Wait Time: 41 episodes (Note: Shaw was introduced in Season 2, Episode 16, which is when she first crossed paths with Root.)įirst Kiss: Season 3, Episode 16 ( no video available)

Wait Time: 40 episodes (Note: Jason became a widower in early Season 2.)

Note: Though we have expanded the list to the Top 60, we nonetheless blow a fond, farewell kiss to the couples who have slipped off the chart over the years: “Avalance,” “Malec,” Parks and Rec’s Leslie/Ben, “LoVe,” The Nanny and Mr. ♦ In the case of characters who were introduced later in a show’s run, we calculated from the destined duo’s first shared episode. ♦ We limited our list to real and meaningful kisses, so you won’t find fleeting one-offs, “undercover” lip-locks or imaginary/dream smooches. Before you bellow, “So-and-so deserves to be on the list!!!,” do the math. ♦ This is a quantitive, not a qualitative, list, based purely on the number of episodes until that First Kiss was shared. The current results - expanded to a Top 60 (plus ties) and sorted from the shortest to longest wait - are updated with several “firsts” from the past 18 months, the inclusion of a few overlooked oldies-but-goodies (wow, that pivotal JAG peck was hard to pinpoint), and the restoration of three shows that had been squeezed out of the previous ranking. Well, TVLine did the difficult, arduous math, considering dozens of Will They/Won’t They pairs and tabulating exactly how many episodes it took them to share that first, big kiss.

When it comes to that first kiss, it’s all about the buildup - and our favorite TV shows certainly love to make us wait for that much-anticipated first smooch.īut which small-screen couple waited the most episodes before they locked lips?
