Alright, let's look at it like this: they have a fairy tale romance. They know it. The show knows it. The audience knows it.
Let's look at the key players involved:
Pam:
Bio:
Born Pamela Morgam Beesly, she has one sister, Penny. Started working at Dunder Mifflin in 1999 as the receptionist. She met her first love, Roy, while attending Valley View High School where they'd eventually enter a long lasting engagement until the man, the myth, the legend Jim Halpert won her heart.
Jim:
Bio:
The man, the myth, the legend, the big tuna, the every man, the guy you want to be, and the guy you will never be Mr James Duncan Halpert. Bored with his boring job as a boring paper salesman, Jim finds ways to make it through the day by tormenting the ACTUAL BULLY OF THE OFFICE DWIGHT K. SCHRUTE and having a very kind, sweet, and heart tugging flirtatious banter with Pam.
Both:
While Pam is engaged to Roy, best person James Duncan Halpert slowly grows attached to her while becoming the reason he stays at the office. They have a flirty and fun relationship where they both start having the feels for one another. Some think Jim was in the wrong for making a move on Pam while she was engaged but she was with an emotional abusive jerk who didn't really care for her. Fair game, feelings are feelings, and Roy was a jerk. Jim eventually confesses his love for Pam because he wanted her to know he felt and then he kissed her. He then departed ways to the Stamford Branch because being near Pam hurts him too much. He eventually dates a nobody and that ends. Parallel to this, Pam is finding herself as a single, femalelawyer receptionist. She goes on dates, learns to love art more, and generally grows as a person. She eventually lets Jim (and everybody know since they were all at the beach) that it sucks that Jim ignores her because she really misses their day to day life. Eventually Jim has an opportunity to move to corporate, but he denies that and leaves the nobody to drive back to Scranton where he asks Pam out on a date.
Fast forward through some love dovey stuff: buying a house, marriage, kids, and an awful last season drama, the 2 are stronger than ever and are moving to bigger and better things outside of Dunder Mifflin.
The challenge: can you provide a better example of a OTP on-screen couple as well defined and romanticized as Jim and Pam? I doubt you can because everything else sucks.
Let's look at the key players involved:
Pam:
Bio:
Born Pamela Morgam Beesly, she has one sister, Penny. Started working at Dunder Mifflin in 1999 as the receptionist. She met her first love, Roy, while attending Valley View High School where they'd eventually enter a long lasting engagement until the man, the myth, the legend Jim Halpert won her heart.
Jim:
Bio:
The man, the myth, the legend, the big tuna, the every man, the guy you want to be, and the guy you will never be Mr James Duncan Halpert. Bored with his boring job as a boring paper salesman, Jim finds ways to make it through the day by tormenting the ACTUAL BULLY OF THE OFFICE DWIGHT K. SCHRUTE and having a very kind, sweet, and heart tugging flirtatious banter with Pam.
Both:
While Pam is engaged to Roy, best person James Duncan Halpert slowly grows attached to her while becoming the reason he stays at the office. They have a flirty and fun relationship where they both start having the feels for one another. Some think Jim was in the wrong for making a move on Pam while she was engaged but she was with an emotional abusive jerk who didn't really care for her. Fair game, feelings are feelings, and Roy was a jerk. Jim eventually confesses his love for Pam because he wanted her to know he felt and then he kissed her. He then departed ways to the Stamford Branch because being near Pam hurts him too much. He eventually dates a nobody and that ends. Parallel to this, Pam is finding herself as a single, female
Fast forward through some love dovey stuff: buying a house, marriage, kids, and an awful last season drama, the 2 are stronger than ever and are moving to bigger and better things outside of Dunder Mifflin.
The challenge: can you provide a better example of a OTP on-screen couple as well defined and romanticized as Jim and Pam? I doubt you can because everything else sucks.
