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Lesbian Scientistics: The Kissing Edition

One thing therapy teaches you is that sometimes it's nice to have someone repeat your emotions back to you, especially after a particularly tempestuous week. So, here you go:

We don't have a lot of words left over at the end of this week, but we want to end it on a high note, so we decided to do a little research on kissing.

We used a formula Gossip Girl taught us: (Number of times mentioned on the Internet) + (Number of other characters talking about your storyline) / (Years you've been in high school) = (Popularity). We had to tweak it a little, substituting fan videos and number of seasons for some of the variables, but we've come up with the most popular lesbian kissers according to the internet.

It was impossible to determine exactly which exact kiss per couple was most popular, but here's what our research shows:

Of course, we all know that most popular doesn't necessarily mean best, so we're opening up the real Scientistics to you. Shelve the emotional week for just a little while, and tell us your all-time favorite lesbian kiss on television.

My personal favorite is Helen and Nikki from Bad Girls, the one right before Helen ruins it by saying, "S--t happens."

Emily's picture

videos?

Where are the guilty pleasure videos to accompany the article?!
HotHandle's picture

We need visuals!!!

I totally agree...  where are the clips from "Bad Girls", "The L Word", and "South of Nowhere"?

And, do we get to vote for our favorite kissing scenes?  I vote for Naomi Watts in "Mulholland Drive"...

 

yayaya63's picture

naomi rocks

I'm with you hott to touch...naomi watts in Mulholland drive...the hot flush of wanton desire...the quickening of the heart...the thrill and torment of anticipation...it's all there

FreewheelNat's picture

Alice & Dana's kiss should

Alice & Dana's kiss should be way up there with Bette and Tina's! 

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Mitch's picture

FTW

Helen & Nikki FTW!!  Spencer and Ashley shouldn't count, because they don't have quality kisses like the rest of them.  Spashly only has that, "I Love you, but we can't display it." kinda kiss.
drip's picture

... and then they play with

... and then they play with each other's hair.

I guess that means hairdressers get more action than anyone else I know (According to the world of Ashley and Spencer's writers).

sazmo's picture

When Alice and Dana finally get on!!!!

WooooooooHoooooooooo

I'm new here!

Howdy girlies I'm from Belfast, Northern Ireland :-)

My fav kiss of all time is when Alice and Dana FINALLY get it on when they are making up the engagement bags.

So So HOTTTTT!

 

 

 

 

yaddayadda's picture

Yes!

That's my favorite, too! "Finally," indeed!
kreigen's picture

Here here!

I'll third that statement! Made me love the song too!

The closer you get to the light, the greater your shadow becomes, but don't be afraid...

Risque's picture

My fav has to be the first

My fav has to be the first kiss between Nikki and Helen in Nikki's cell - loved the little sound of pleasure from Helen!
ThinkArt's picture

okay so...

so i youtubed it and found the cheeZ-est and actually quite well done *sigh* helen and nikki video. i agree, these women have to have the best chemistry ever. i can't wait to see who they get for the US version. afterellen...do you have any updates on this?

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nQb9edhNc8

Caroline's picture

Helen and Nikki! I'm

Helen and Nikki!
I'm rewatching my Bad Girls DVDs at the moment - part way through series 2 - so Helen and Nikki have been at the front of my mind recently. =D
Natazzz's picture

I heart that graph

I heart that graph...

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Anonymous's picture

Alice and Dana :D

Alice and Dana :D

 

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense"

-Buddha 

Marianna's picture

OH yeah baby, Tina and Bette!

I'm a wee nbit drunk right noe so i can't think that well asides fromwaht i see, but yeah, Tina jyst kept getting hotter and Bette Porter  . . . well any kiss with her would just be smokin. XXXXX MWAH!

SubtextRules's picture

I'd like to add Callica to this list (R.I.P)

As much as I loathe and despise those pricks over at ABC, there is no denying the fact  that Callica's first kiss in the elevator was HOT! Nothing can beat that little rub Brooke did with her thumb on Sara's face. It still get's me hot and bothered. And as much as I want to say that having a guy there ruined it, it didn't! Mark's reaction was priceless, "On call room RIGHT NOW!" Oh how I shared those sentiments. That was a damn spanking good kiss!

And I agree with the rest of the readers, this article is just not complete unless we have streaming videos to compare kisses. :-D What a happy day that would be. Only problem is I wouldn't get my work done. On second thought, no visual aids. My career depends on it!

 

Witthestars's picture

I second that.

I have to agree. ABC sucks. Callica hot. Although my personal fav was the season finale kiss. It was like Callie was so drawn to Erica. She found her so irresistible she couldn't speak so just had to show her. Definitely HOT!!!
Low-Ren-Zo.'s picture

ABC CAN SUCK IT!

Because that's totally the catch phrase rght now. or something.

 

Yeah I'd say Callie and Erica is one of the hottest lesbian kisses to me. Because it was all new and sexy. I love new and sexy. I can't really say any L Word kiss scenes had me goin cuz well...i expect everyone to make out with each other on that show. But I like the element of surprise.

 

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Lauwer's picture

i'm sorry

but where the fcuk are Shane and Carmen? I mean they enjoyed their on-screen kisses alot themselves even, judging from the sizzling chemistry...*sigh*
garanger's picture

i'm NOT sorry!

EVERYTHING Shane and Carmen did was HOT! I don't think we'll see that kind of chemistry for a long time to come!

Kristina K's picture

Pepa and Silvia's first kiss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNXo_vfEyO0 (ffwd to 3:28)

From Spanish series Los Hombres de Paco. It's just so pretty it makes me shiver every time I watch it.

Phoenix's picture

O_O

Damn, I have got to figure out how to watch that show.

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rieann's picture

Pepa and Silvia

Oh definitely Pepa and Silvia! They have such an amazing chemistry!
sayiph's picture

This is absolutely the Best

This is absolutely the Best kiss I've seen on TV!! (well, in youtube actually), and also one of the best developed relationships...

All their scenes are also available with english subs:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BE6A055499A2A380

 

 

jordan-writes's picture

Alice and Dana's first

Alice and Dana's first kiss will always bee my favorite. That's my favorite scene in all L Word history (followed by the pot brownie party of course)... Man this makes me want to go watch the L Word again... I just had a marathon! Not again lol... I'll go watch Bend it Like Beckham instead. Mmmmm Keira Knightley

karen's picture

totally!

there is no lesbian on screen kiss that could ever rival the initial kiss between alice and dana. it was beyond romantic and tender! it was love!!

 

ahem.. anyway, dana and alice's first kiss surpasses any of those fools'.

Martha's picture

Alice and Dana

I would say Alice and Dana.  Bette and Tina's are hot, but Alice and Dana gets my vote.
Bankhead's picture

4 a.m

Alice and Dana

maclay's picture

Mmm... Danish

Alice and Dana in the bathroom at the Planet in the first ep of season 2 -> HAWT!

Sportylady's picture

SD as usual, you rock out

SD as usual, you rock out the Lesbian Scientistics.

Of course I'm going with Nikki and Helen!  Every kiss of theirs is memorable, the end of season 3 will always be my top favorite kiss(ing) scene ever.  I'm such a dork, I'm smiling just thinking about it.  Can't even answer the number of times I re-watched that scene.

chloe121212's picture

I'm right there with You

StuntDouble.  Loved that kiss between Nikki and Helen. Ahhh Nikki.. wait was I.  Oh yeah, I have to give a shout out for Bette and Tina.  I can't really chose a specific kiss because they're all so hooootttt.  Have Mercy.

"I don't kiss girls who wear doilies"

 

Ahhh_Cool's picture

I'm going to have to buck

I'm going to have to buck the trend and say the best kiss is between Willow and Tara when they get back together in the episode Entropy in season 6 of Buffy (right before Tara gets killed). Not only is that an amazing scene, but I'm pretty sure there'd never been a lesbian make-out quite like that on broadcast television before.
rusty_tiffany's picture

i'm have to agree. that

i'm have to agree. that scene is amazing.
alex's picture

dont hate, but...

im going to have to go with the first time marissa and alex kissed on the oc. from the stolen glances at each other's lips to the hand holding during rachael yamagata's set to the beach... SO hot.

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Anonymous's picture

Malex FTW.

I think I still have a vendetta against Josh Schwartz for that one.

2nd=Jenny and Nikki.

 

 

 

 

rusty_tiffany's picture

i can't believe i forgot

i can't believe i forgot about them! the first kiss on the beach is good, but what about when the were making out behind julie's back (literally), and then when marissa shows up at alex's house to tell her that she told julie about them? especially the extended version of that scene...
Doreen's picture

Whoa!

I just checked out the Silvia&Pepa Youtube link..glad they're only related by marriage!;-)

Ok, by request:

The first Alice/Dana Kiss:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39-f_2Skk7o

some Alice/Dana Goodness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9PePJiQtCc&feature=related

Tara/Willow (all I could find were music vids..but aahh the leather jacket..Amber Benson, come to my window!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQxhMt_tTfQ

Layla/Jackie (forward to 2:30)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDERNhSyj1w

Helena/Dylan (Tea,anybody?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt2nqDTUGIo&feature=related

 

Some Spashley cheese (folks, it's dark and rainy here and I'm squashed by Grey's and the ballots..so forgive the Mark Anthony..)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QduuuThDa8Q

Xena says it all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Krx6oVhrcY

Lena Headey surprise:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7dO0p-2JSw

and enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyM7f5-jsEY

Now I actually do feel better..nice topic against depression:-)

Take Care,gals

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"Have fun!"

"Don't have too much fun!!You'll end with one of those sexy transmission diseases!!" 

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Anonymous's picture

Gabrielle from Xena...

Gaby has ALWAYS turned me on... thanks for the links...
lashun's picture

hmm kiss...

the first kiss between me and Carmen de la pica morales... oh wait... that didn't happen. Just because I keep playing it over and over in my head doesn't mean it is real.

DANA n Alica was hot!!

garanger's picture

WHOA!

Carm always told me that I was her first kiss!!

fallon ash's picture

Bette and Tina!!

Yay! The statistics totally agree with me! And I have to say that the kiss between Bette and Tina in the club last season (ep 4 I think?) is my absolute favourite, their 'first' kiss in waaay too long. Perfect build-up through the first eps of the season, perfect kiss. And Jennifer Beals and Laurel Holloman certainly know how to make it look real.

 

vdpro's picture

I totally agree...

That kiss in the club is the hottest kiss i have ever seen! It was perfect, hell, it was damn beyond perfect - I guess it is mostly because they've build up tension so well trough whole 4th season continuing in first episodes of S5 - and that kiss was so passionate and tender and bittersweet all in one and I swear I've cried when I watched that ep. I remember a friend of mine (who's not gay) sent me an sms after that episode saying that it was such a magnificient kiss and such an emotionaly loaded scene that it actually hurt to watch it. I wholeheartedly agreed... and kudos to JB and LH - their chemistry is so...so...REAL. They are, for me, most believable couple on TV.
Clara's picture

Bad Girls is UK right? How

Bad Girls is UK right? How comes I've not seen it and know more about the US ones even tho I like in the UK?!! I'm odd!

Also, how much of Bad girls is about that couple? Like the L Word is pretty much all girl girl couples and their drama, and all I've heard of SON is Spashley but I ifugre it must be more because if that homophobic guy left over gay storylines it must have been a small part for him to have had a part before... just wondering if i'd have to watch loads of BG and sift through it all to find that couple? thnxies!!

pS. LOVE the first chart nearly as much as the last one. A lot HAS happened. Live in UK so no Maddow watching on election night, is it worth youtubing it now its over? Did she solely host? like THE main person? pretty big, she seems.. awesome!!

Keeva99's picture

For pure perv value...

Jenny & Marina's first kiss in the bathroom...hot! :P

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Gia007's picture

WILD SIDE!!

Two words for you all 'WILD SIDE'!  Joan Chen and Anne Heche in a clinche in the ladies room.  Ahhhhhhh.......!  Grrrrr.....!  I love all the above mentioned shows but this was just hot hot hot!  Nuff said.

shmilers's picture

Dana and Alice fo

Dana and Alice fo shizzle... they have the best chemistry. That first kiss scene makes me cry everytime.

 And yeah Marissa and Alex were rather hot together too. especially that scene where marissa is all rainy hehe

lann88's picture

Helen and Nikki!

Their last scene together was awesome!  The kiss was tender, open-mouthed, and it saw them get their happily-ever-after!  Plus Simone Lahbib has amazing lips!  YOW!
countrycomfort's picture

If these are my choices....

...then I'd have to pick Helen and Nikki.

However, my all time favorite is probably Tiffany Thiessen and Jaime Pressley in the defunct "Fastlane".  What I love about their hot tub kiss is how completely comfortable both actresses are. 

Nice. 

jayweh's picture

well I haven´t seen all of

well I haven´t seen all of the kisses but I always liked the way alice and tasha kissed. looked very real to me.
jayweh's picture

runners up are sugar and

runners up are sugar and kim (sugar rush) and pepa and silvia (los hombres de paco)