10 Tales of Unlikely Partners The Odd Couple, Remington Steele, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Kirk and Spock, any couple in Friends or The Big Bang Theory or... Thrown together by chance, assignment, or circumstance. Driven apart by skills, personality, or they just don't trust each other. Until their lives are on the line and their only options are to cooperate-or die. Partnerships from the too perfect couple to the new met stranger. And when your partner isn't another person?