How the TV Couples bracket works
Rank TV couples without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Jim & Pam or Ross & Rachel? Leslie & Ben or Walt & Jesse? — and after 23 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Nobody can hold 24 shows in their head at once, but everybody can answer "this one" — so the order you end up with is one you will actually stand behind.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 24-slot size (Round of 24, Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 24 shows in the field. 24 is not a power of two, so 8 of them draw a first-round bye — spread evenly across the draw rather than handed to whoever happens to land at the top of it. Entrants are drawn at random each time, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
23 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 248 matchups
- Round of 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-3 minutes start to finish.
All 24 entrants
All 24 entrants are listed below, including Jim & Pam, Ross & Rachel, Leslie & Ben and Walt & Jesse.
Jim & Pam
The Office
Ross & Rachel
Friends
Leslie & Ben
Parks and Recreation
Walt & Jesse
Breaking Bad
Chandler & Monica
Friends
Jon Snow & Ygritte
Game of Thrones
David & Patrick
Schitt's Creek
Meredith & Derek
Grey's Anatomy
Jake & Amy
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Nick & Jess
New Girl
Randall & Beth
This Is Us
Coach & Mrs. Coach
Friday Night Lights
Carrie & Mr. Big
Sex and the City
Marshall & Lily
How I Met Your Mother
Buffy & Angel
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Eleanor & Chidi
The Good Place
Ted & Rebecca
Ted Lasso
Philip & Elizabeth
The Americans
Turk & J.D.
Scrubs
Shiv & Tom
Succession
Joel & Ellie
The Last of Us
Daphne & Simon
Bridgerton
Walt & Skyler
Breaking Bad
Eric & Donna
That '70s Show
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 24 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 1 completed TV Couples brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Jon Snow & Ygritte
4W - 0L · won 1 bracket
100%
win rate
- 2
Daphne & Simon
3W - 1L
75%
win rate
- 3
Meredith & Derek
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 4
Buffy & Angel
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 5
Jim & Pam
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 6
Ross & Rachel
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 7
Marshall & Lily
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 8
Joel & Ellie
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 9
David & Patrick
0W - 1L
0%
win rate
- 10
Coach & Mrs. Coach
0W - 1L
0%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Judge the whole run, not just the best season, or every prestige show wins by default.
- 2The default run puts all 24 shows in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Watch for the show you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
TV Couples bracket FAQ
How many shows are in the TV Couples bracket?
The pool holds 24 shows. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 23 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 24, Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. 8 entrants start with a first-round bye, spread evenly through the draw. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 24 slots.
Which shows are included?
Jim & Pam, Ross & Rachel, Leslie & Ben, Walt & Jesse, Chandler & Monica, Jon Snow & Ygritte, David & Patrick, Meredith & Derek, Jake & Amy, Nick & Jess, Randall & Beth and Coach & Mrs. Coach, plus 12 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank TV couples take?
About 2-3 minutes — 23 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up and nothing is stored until you reach the final.
Is this a tv couples tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other show grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 23 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two shows that never met. If you would rather place the shows into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 24 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community tv couples ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the TV Couples community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 24 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which shows are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own shows, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 24 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.