All the talk of gay marriage has made us to start thinking about what factors help constitute the perfect couple.

Is it shared good looks? Shared creative ability? Shared low standards and fear of being alone? Well, nobody really knows for sure. But this week, we hand-pick some of our favorite duos and discuss what it is that we like about them.

Whether they're gay or straight, fictional or real, there are some couples that just seem right together, like Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, or Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner. And there are some who seem like couples even if they technically aren't, like Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King, or Amy Poehler and Tina Fey. Especially Poehler and Fey.

Who are your favorite couples? Let us know who you think should have made our list!

Also, Rock Band is now the sponsor of our video blog! (Apparently they were really impressed with my guitar skills.) It's very cool that they're willing to put their name on something produced by the likes of us, and now I have an excuse to play Rock Band 2 all day and call it "work." I love my job!

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Jane Austen once wrote, "Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery," and we couldn't agree with her more. This week, Dara and I attempt to put the "pleasure" back in "guilt" with an episode of Hit List devoted to our favorite guilty pleasures.

Be they musical, culinary, cinematic or esoteric, some of our most cherished guilty pleasures seem to have their origins in our childhoods. We're not sure what to make of that, but we're working through it by indulging them.

You might share some of our forbidden appetites, such as Bon Jovi, Showgirls, and Man vs. Wild, and if so, tell us more! (I'm disappointed that I forgot to mention Pants-Off Dance-Off, but I suspect we could devote an entire episode to it at some point in the future. Who cares what TV Guide has to say about it?)

If you can turn us on to some new guilty pleasures, please do. Dara and I are committed to furthering our education.

Finally, if you want to meet our friend Marbles Harsgrove, who we talk about at length in this episode, visit her here. Prepare yourself for extreme awesomeness!

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Lists are verrrrry scarrrrry! At least our list is, on this particular week. In honor of Halloween, Dara and I decided to compile a list of the women who scare the crap out of us. Don't worry about our safety: We had our drums and guitar armor-plated for just such an occasion.

You'll see some familiar faces here — Margaret Hamilton as The Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz, Linda Blair in The Exorcist, Kathy Bates in Misery. You will not, however, find your ex-girlfriend on our list; not because she hasn't earned her spot, but because she wouldn't sign the release form.

So grab your bucket of peeled grapes eyeballs and cold spaghetti worms and join us in our haunted parlor for a horrifying episode of Hit List. If we've forgotten someone really terrifying, give us her name and tell us why she belongs here. But do so at your own risk!

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Mama said to knock you out! Okay, okay, she probably didn't say that. It's safe to say that most women aren't trained to throw punches first and ask questions later. But this week we pay homage to the women of film and television who do just that. They lack impulse control and they get away with it!

It's not just that we envy them, we also appreciate the fact that they can look amazing while rearranging someone else's face. Whether it's Michelle Yeoh, Jada Pinkett Smith, Uma Thurman or Michelle Rodriguez, our "knockouts" are women whose mugs you might not mind looking at as you're falling to the floor. And as we all learned from Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a little consensual fisticuffs can easily function as foreplay.

So grab your gloves and celebrate female hand-to-hand combat with us. If we've forgotten some pugnacious lovely, just let us know. We don't have to fight about it!

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In this episode of the Hit List, Dara and Karman discuss fashion in music videos.

They judge the efforts of women like Cher, Missy Elliott, Annie Lennox, Alicia Keys, Cyndi Lauper, Gwen Stefani, P!nk, and Eve in categories like leather, hair, hats, tattoos, and ... garbage bags? "It's a legitimate category!" according to Dara. You be the judge.

Plus, they coin a new term: crog. See if you can guess in advance what it is.

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Dara and I have seen a lot of lesbian movies in our time, and this week we'd like to offer you the opportunity to learn from our viewing mistakes.

Rather than smack-talk the movies that have left cinematic scars on our fragile psyches, in this Hit List we talk about some of our favorites.

Whether you like your lesbian movies tough (Stranger Inside), sweet (Imagine Me & You), or downright dour (High Art), there's plenty of quality films to choose from.

Watch as we discuss the importance of happy endings, two movies in the making that we think will be on our list in the future, and how a couple of dudes managed to make our favorite lesbian movie of all time.

Did we forget one? Tell us what's on your list!

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This week, Dara and I talk about some of our favorite pistol-packing mamas in pop culture — the kind of women who gun down murderous cyborgs, retire vampires, or hide firearms in their hair.

Women like Sarah Connor in the the Terminator movies and TV show; Geena Davis in The Long Kiss Goodnight; Pam Grier in Foxy Brown; Scully/Gillian Anderson in The X-Files (does a cell phone count as a weapon?); and everyone in the upcoming movie Bitch Slap.

Watch as we debate who would make the perfect female version of Blade, why a woman with ass-kicking abilities is so very compelling, and the importance of well-maintained eyebrows.

Did we forget someone? Tell us who's on your list!

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In this episode, Karman and Dara discuss the guys from TV and movies they'd want to be, including James Bond, Mr. Smith, Blade, and the new Batman.

Even though this episode is about men, for some reason, it keeps coming back to women...and Dara shocks Karman with a story from her past!

Plus, Karman reveals who else she wanted to be as a child besides Fonzi (hint: it involves an eye patch).

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Last May, when AfterEllen.com Editor-in-Chief Sarah Warn was shooting video of some of the AE vloggers waxing poetic about the women on the AE Hot 100 List, she grabbed my fellow writer/vlogger Dara Nai and me, stuck a fake guitar and drumsticks in our hands, and told us to opine about some of your favorite celebrities.

We were reminiscing about this recently over a session of Rock Band, and decided that we needed a reason to do it all over again. Thus, Dara & Karman's Hit List was born.

So each week, until we run out of random topics, Dara and I will sit down in front of the camera with our plastic instruments, fire up the lava lamps, and share with you lists of a few of our favorite things. These topics will include films, women, TV, women, music, women, or women.

In honor of the back-to-school season, our first episode is devoted to the most memorable co-eds from some of our favorite films and TV shows. Whether they wear plaid skirts, seduce their teachers, or pack some government-issued heat, we give all of the women on our list "A's" for effort.

The theme song is "Seven" by Vagiant — check them out at MySpace.com/vagiantboston — and of course, the awesome graphics were made by Kayla Jones. You can also hit us on our MySpace pages at MySpace.com/KarmanKregloe and MySpace.com/bad_machine.

Let us know in the comments who you'd put on your list, as we believe in continuing our own education.

AE reader Er1e has kindly transcribed the episode for our hearing impaired readers.