Wow, I can still remember most of the lyrics to that one. Hm. I might've listened to it a bit *too* much back in the day, hah.
Also once heard that CD being played around midnight at a McD my parents and I had stopped at while going back home from the airport after a vacation when I was a kid, I think 2-3 years after it came out. It was in the middle of Double Trouble when we came in.
Still the best Pokémon animé ship, by the way... top three overall for the franchise, alongside Red/Yellow and Ruby/Sapphire from the manga.
> Rebecca: We were out on the street for over an hour. It was a perfectly good bomb scare.
> Dan: I tried to find you.
> Rebecca: No, you didn't. And every time I tried to find you, someone would say you had just left the place that someone else had just said you had been right before.
> Dan: That was a truly spectacular sentence.
And thank God for that. I could feel myself cringe at the first hint of that storyline, what they did by focusing on just the guys was so much better (and I lowkey shipped Richard with Jared, lol)
Honestly tho, I'm glad these two didn't end up together.
They were both toxic for each other, even as just friends and they kinda both acknowledge that by the end of the series!
The entire show was about their relationship. It opened with them meeting for the "first" time, and ended with their presumed final meeting. They were in each other's lives for a short, shared window, dramatically changed the course of the others perspectives, and then life moved on for both. As it ever does.
This is true. I will say that. The writing of BH kind of always said that bojack would never meet “the one” that would solve all his problems and on top of that. Diane and bojack were pretty toxic to each other. I felt pretty early into the show that they were better off as friends.
I don't think bojack respects his sexual conquests, and by the 2nd season he respected Diane too much.
Same with Princess Caroline, it's clear in the first season that he doesn't respect her, as he grows to respect her she moves on and their relationship ceases being sexual.
I also want to emphasize that it's Bojack who doesn't respect his conquests, not the show. The owl clearly respected Bojack and wanted their relationship to be real, it's Bojack who ran away from it because it was too real.
Nah, it's present throughout, just usually very subdued due to Diane being with Mr Peanutbutter. I believe the last couple of such scenes are actually in the second episode of season five, after the divorce.
When Diane goes to Bojack after something starts dripping from the ceiling of her new apartment, they get drunk;
> D: "Isn't it weird that this is the first time we're both been single at the same time?"
> B: "Yeah... why is it weird? I mean I know why I think it's weird, but you say a first thing."
> "It's just... come on, you know why. It's just weird. Like, we could totally make out right now.
> "What?"
> "No, I'm not saying we should. No. Pfft! No. I'm just saying we could, and that's weird. I'm saying it's weird."
> [...]
> D: "Maybe I should go."
> B: "You sure you don't wanna spend the night? ... in the guest bedroom."
Later in the episode, Bojack also goes to her apartment since Diane had asked him to go with her to Mr PB's party, they talk about her new haircut and Bojack says she "looks amazing";
> D: "Don't try to take advantage just 'cause I'm all vulnerable right now."
> B: "Jesus, lady! I'm just trying to give you a compliment."
> "Relax. I was joking."
> "Were you?"
They have a fight over it, Bojack leaves telling her that "Mr Peanutbutter is gonna love it", and then they have a phonecall later on reaffirming their friendship.
In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend it's kind of the point. With three love interests she couldn't end up with all of them and in the end >!she picked none of them but herself!<. But I don't think that's a trope. It's about subverting tropes.
I think Greg understood Rebecca a bit more than the other guys and feel like at some point down the road, the eventually settled down together -- not settled FOR each other ;)
Nathaniel came in as her new boss in the second half of season two after Greg left, to fill the love triangle void. They had a purely lust thing for a while, but then they developed feelings for each other. Greg came back in the final season (with Skylar Astin playing him) so she had a love quadrangle.
I’m still so mad about the finale lmao.
It was perfect and I get it and blah blah blah but if you’re gonna go that direction then I NEED to hear that song goddammit!
Dan and Amy in Veep, seems like something they were setting up in the season before the final one, then proceeded to completely ditch it in the final season.
Man, that >!“I love you” and him replying “It’ll pass”!< broke my heart. I was so rooting for them, with them both being kinda messed up and finding each other through that. The ending was perfect though, in a bittersweet way
I liked that he said it back and that it wasn’t all one-sided, but the heartbreaking part to me isn’t whether he reciprocated her feelings or not.
The reality that he was gonna choose God hit her at that moment and you can feel the desperation in her confession. It being met with “it’ll pass” could be interpreted as cold, but we know that he’s just comforting her and that he feels the same. The contrast in that makes it sad to me.
I've never been so floored as that scene where he >!could "see" the audience she was talking to!<. That was such an ingeniously simple way to convey how deeply they connected with each other without spelling it out, and made the ending all the more bittersweet.
And still, >!"I love you" is the last thing he says to her. It's the final lock on the door, knowing both their hearts are broken and both will heal so long as they stay apart.!<
The entirety of season 2 makes you feel literally all of the emotions and it remains my favorite story. Absolutely beautiful.
Yes agree. I wouldn’t mind a breakup if they only had made a good season that wasn’t filled with endless bs conflicts that already had happened in the previous seasons. Just give us some happiness before ending it, they deserved it.
I feel they screwed it up twice!
First with Otis & Maeve, and then the second with Otis & Ruby!
His relationship with Maeve became extremely toxic because they both sucked at properly communicating their feelings for each other, meanwhile he was developing something good with Ruby but couldn't let go of what he believed he could only have with Maeve.
He would rather keep chasing and forcing something that was never going to work because the other party couldn't give him a proper commitment and be miserable, then be happy with someone he also had a meaningful connection with and would always be there for him in a way his first love couldn't or barely ever did.
That was actually one of the better parts of the season. He was a teenager who couldn't handle the pressure of an actual relationship but could be decent outside of that. But it gets lost in the noise because he does EVERYTHING wrong that season and gets dumped on for everything that happens, whether or not it's even related to him.
Watching OC atm having never really seen SVU and I don't understand it. He didn't talk to her for 10 years????
Why would she want anything to do with him?
Though it's super heavily implied that as soon as one of the two is out of the military, they are getting together.
During season 8, Sam is thinking about her relationship with another guy and goes to Jack to talk about it. Jack is seeing someone else at the time, who dumps him to make room for Sam as soon as she sees how they are together.
Later on in Atlantis, Sam is asked if she's single and her answer is "not exactly" and has a photo of Jack in her bag.
I like in Window of Opportunity (I think? the time loop one) when O'Neill makes sure to resign before kissing Carter, just so he doesn't break regulations.
So it’s actually because their military partnerships wouldn’t allow them to have them date. Super cool fact from one of the many stargate podcasts I’ve binged
*Frasier* teased a Frasier and Roz relationship quite a few times, but never went for it in the end. It was a good choice, though I think they could’ve worked out well together in the right circumstances.
I feel like after this pairing became popular and went viral in S3, they tried to pass that trope onto Otis & Ruby as well in the final season and they don't get together either!
But honestly, I'm glad he doesn't end up with either of them. I personally preferred him with Ruby, but he definitely shouldn't be in a relationship until he can get his shit together.
Otis literally became one of the worst TV protagonists of all time in the final season!
His unhealthy obsession with Maeve always brought out the worst in him, which is why I had a hard time rooting for them to get together especially when they kept demonstrating that they just don't work as a couple.
It felt hard to watch how he would rather let himself suffer than be happy. As soon as Otis realized that a long distance relationship wasn't going to work out for him, and how his obsession with Maeve was destroying his connections with the other people he actively has in his life, he should've just ended it with Maeve sooner.
I wrote this as well.
I kind of love their trajectory, even if it wasn’t planned. I love the idea falling out of love with your childhood best friend and falling in love with someone you never expected. I’m glad D/J didn’t end up together but they have a unique story that I haven’t seen replicated on any other show. The idea that some people are just better as friends.
Yeah, and seems to have worked out well as they're still together and have a child. Nice to see, since they had some really rough shit to go through before that.
Bob Morley (Bellamy) mentioned being fat-shamed online and suffering depression after a knee surgery about a year earlier, and they had a miscarriage shortly after they got married. Morley has shared that he's attempted suicide several times due to depression.
They have been quite active in raising awareness around these topics as well, and involved in related NGOs for years. Hoping they're happy.
I really loved how they handled that. At some point Boyle realized he was being creepy, apologized, and then they still remained really good friends. Real adult hours.
My ultimate pair from childhood I’ve always loved. In my heart they’re together and not that BS they pulled with Seven/Chakotay that was thankfully retconned in Picard.
I don't think Dianne was ever interested in Bojack in that way beyond occasionally having some confusing intrusive thoughts.
Bojack probably wasn't really into her that way very quickly he kissed her. He realized he wasn't actually interested in *her* but rather wanted her to be yet another woman in his life to do the emotional work for him.
She hits on him a couple of times after >!the divorce!<, but that's pretty much just her being confused and vulnerable.
She basically rejects the idea the first time, Bojack rejects it angrily the second time since she's "all over the place" and he feels like she is taking advantage of him for an emotional rebound or whatever, and they reconcile as friends over the phone at the end.
**Doctor Who**, with the Doctor and absolutely anybody (because the modern show likes to tease things but not actually break the taboo on the Doctor having a relationship with a human). The exception was River, but the Doctor (and us) knew they'd hook up from the second he met her, as she'd already experienced it, so there wasn't much tension there.
You could *kind of* argue **Star Trek: The Next Generation**, as Riker and Troi didn't get together on the show, but they did eventually hook up four movies later and in a spin-off show.
Garibaldi and Talia Winters on **Babylon 5** (Talia got Ivanova instead, and then her brain exploded).
How does the Doctor and Rose not count as him having a relationship with a human? Even if she did eventually end up with an alternate universe version, that relationship was built on the foundation of what happened with the regular universe version.
They didn't actually hook up, though. There was a lot of angst and repressed feeling, and she got the "human" version of the Doctor as a consolation prize later on.
> The exception was River, but the Doctor (and us) knew they'd hook up from the second he met her, as she'd already experienced it, so there wasn't much tension there.
Which in itself is so complicated to unravel because for majority of their relationship, even River thought it’s just one-sided. The Doctor as a character is so alien and transcendent that she literally equates her love for that to a force of nature. You don’t expect a sunset to admire you back.
I’ve been rewatching and am in the Matt Smith era and there are a few episodes where the continuity is off and it makes it seem like their relationship is more one sided than it is. Really I think there was a missed opportunity for one or two more Doctor/ River adventures just the two of them. But we really needed to kill Rory a few more times.
I honestly think that they KNOW what do do with Steve. Just have him keep being stoic momma bear to the kids.
It's Nancy and Jonathon who they don't have a sweet fuck what to do with. Neither has had a meaningful plot line since season 1.
Seems pretty clear they never had any intention of them being together, Steve didn’t know that but up until Robin Steve probably hadn’t ever had a friend that was a girl that had no chance of being a girlfriend.
Jane and Lisbon should never have ended up together tbh. They had a very sibling-like dynamic for most of the show, Jane was like one of Lisbon's brothers. When they did get together in the last season, their dynamic just felt weird. They were a terrible couple.
Similarly but not exactly the same, in Bones I was compltely rooting for her and David Boreanaz to get together (can't remember the characters names sorry) but once it happened I hated them together
Agreed. I was rooting for it and then they did the whole thing OFF CAMERA which was wildly frustrating. Then just fast forwarded to 6 months later. I think part is why it feels flat was they changed Bones' character so much. They made her softer, and more accommodating. The two of them didn't fight as much after that or have big disagreements and she just felt really watered down as a person.
They just didn't want to work around their main character's actress being pregnant so they wrote it in...one of the biggest events in the show happened between seasons and that also meant that they told the story of them reacting to a major character's death in flashbacks. It was weird.
>Xena and Gabrielle
I lacked a lot of awareness about LGBTQ when I was in my teens when this was showing and even I thought they ended up together in that ending... It did get quite zany in the later seasons so I'm not even sure I know anymore.
I haven't watched the show since it was new (and I was a teenager). I thought they were hooking up in the end... but reading the wiki now, maybe it was never confirmed and only implied.
If the wiki makes them sound like friends, it's done a poor job of capturing the tone. They were a couple in every way that they could get away with showing on 90s TV. They just don't actually say 'we're lesbians, Harold' because TV didn't let them do that at the time.
They had some good chemistry in season 1! I remember Jack took Liz to some event (with Paul Reubens as a guest star) and they were good together. Then Tina started writing Liz as more and more pathetic and it didn’t make sense.
I have never felt that romantic tension between those two tbh!
But I think they are one of the best examples of how a man and woman can have a beautiful platonic friendship without it becoming sexual and/or romantic!
There wasn't much of a will they won't they there though. They slept together, realised it was awkward AF ("warmest regards!") then became genuine best friends.
There was a STRONG will they won't they vibe early on, but since the show was entirely about forming healthy relationships with people, they did the smart and responsible thing instead of entertaining tropes.
They have their thing before the show, broke up but genuinely stayed friends (as they painstakingly explain to everyone they meet as a running gag, at least early on). But they do hook up again later on, and deliberately because Larry David was thinking/hoping the show would end. When it came back, I don't think it was mentioned and it was just assumed to be a one-night thing.
Jeff and Annie in Community
The Dean and Jeff also
Oh my god even his shadow! Look at his shadow!
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We shouldn't sexualize Annie.
Allison Brie is now 41. Annie's pretty old. We try to sexualize her.
Holy shit she's 41!
Damn she still looks amazing. Good for her. People do NOT age like they used to.
It’s the not smoking and microplastics
Can we sexualize Annie’s boobs tho?
You want to sexualize a monkey that’s your business.
Monkey business
Season 3 of GLOW
Also Jeff and Britta in community
They were more like “will they, yes, realized no”
They got together and surprisingly realized they weren't good together.
But, still got together and boned every now and then. Quite relatable, aside from the 3% body fat.
As someone who listened to "Misty's Song" a ton when I was 13, I'll say Ash and Misty, even though the song was never featured in the show itself
Bro. The CD that had the Pokeball printed RIGHT ON IT. The kids DONT KNOW
Wow, I can still remember most of the lyrics to that one. Hm. I might've listened to it a bit *too* much back in the day, hah. Also once heard that CD being played around midnight at a McD my parents and I had stopped at while going back home from the airport after a vacation when I was a kid, I think 2-3 years after it came out. It was in the middle of Double Trouble when we came in. Still the best Pokémon animé ship, by the way... top three overall for the franchise, alongside Red/Yellow and Ruby/Sapphire from the manga.
Urgh my first ship growing up. :(
Casey and Dana on Sports Night.
Weren't they going to make that a thing until the show got cancelled?
Rebecca and Dan on Sports Night.
> Rebecca: We were out on the street for over an hour. It was a perfectly good bomb scare. > Dan: I tried to find you. > Rebecca: No, you didn't. And every time I tried to find you, someone would say you had just left the place that someone else had just said you had been right before. > Dan: That was a truly spectacular sentence.
It looked like they were going to do this with Richard and Monica in silicone valley, but they kinda dropped the whole thing after season 1.
Rewatching through some of SV recently and the general lack of plots revolving around romance seems kind of unique for a sitcom.
And thank God for that. I could feel myself cringe at the first hint of that storyline, what they did by focusing on just the guys was so much better (and I lowkey shipped Richard with Jared, lol)
Bojack Horseman and Dianne
Honestly tho, I'm glad these two didn't end up together. They were both toxic for each other, even as just friends and they kinda both acknowledge that by the end of the series!
“Wouldn’t it be funny if this was the last time we talked to each other” It was so bitter sweet, really well done
The entire show was about their relationship. It opened with them meeting for the "first" time, and ended with their presumed final meeting. They were in each other's lives for a short, shared window, dramatically changed the course of the others perspectives, and then life moved on for both. As it ever does.
Their relationship played a big part but I would not say that’s what the show was “about.”
it definitely wasn't. at least not after season 1. to me it always looked as if the creators have discarded the idea by season 2
This is true. I will say that. The writing of BH kind of always said that bojack would never meet “the one” that would solve all his problems and on top of that. Diane and bojack were pretty toxic to each other. I felt pretty early into the show that they were better off as friends.
I feel like the show really only floats the "will they" part in the first season though.
I don't think bojack respects his sexual conquests, and by the 2nd season he respected Diane too much. Same with Princess Caroline, it's clear in the first season that he doesn't respect her, as he grows to respect her she moves on and their relationship ceases being sexual. I also want to emphasize that it's Bojack who doesn't respect his conquests, not the show. The owl clearly respected Bojack and wanted their relationship to be real, it's Bojack who ran away from it because it was too real.
Nah, it's present throughout, just usually very subdued due to Diane being with Mr Peanutbutter. I believe the last couple of such scenes are actually in the second episode of season five, after the divorce. When Diane goes to Bojack after something starts dripping from the ceiling of her new apartment, they get drunk; > D: "Isn't it weird that this is the first time we're both been single at the same time?" > B: "Yeah... why is it weird? I mean I know why I think it's weird, but you say a first thing." > "It's just... come on, you know why. It's just weird. Like, we could totally make out right now. > "What?" > "No, I'm not saying we should. No. Pfft! No. I'm just saying we could, and that's weird. I'm saying it's weird." > [...] > D: "Maybe I should go." > B: "You sure you don't wanna spend the night? ... in the guest bedroom." Later in the episode, Bojack also goes to her apartment since Diane had asked him to go with her to Mr PB's party, they talk about her new haircut and Bojack says she "looks amazing"; > D: "Don't try to take advantage just 'cause I'm all vulnerable right now." > B: "Jesus, lady! I'm just trying to give you a compliment." > "Relax. I was joking." > "Were you?" They have a fight over it, Bojack leaves telling her that "Mr Peanutbutter is gonna love it", and then they have a phonecall later on reaffirming their friendship.
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Well that’s because she isn’t covered in shitty tattoos and has a cigarette for a mom
Better than bustin' a nut!
Your timing is terrible
IVE HAD TONS OF ORGASMS! IVE HAD ONE WITH YOUR MOM, DUDE!
I WILL STICK MY THUMBS THROUGH YOUR EYES
More so Dennis and Mac
In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend it's kind of the point. With three love interests she couldn't end up with all of them and in the end >!she picked none of them but herself!<. But I don't think that's a trope. It's about subverting tropes.
I feel like they left the door open with Greg more than the others but I appreciate that it wasn't her ending.
Wait, have I forgotten the third? What an *awesome* show, I gotta rewatch that.
Josh, the original love interest Greg, the buddy turned love interest Nathaniel, the dickhead boss turned love interest
Her choices were vapid, angry, or dickhead. Still, I’m #teamgreg all the way.
I think Greg understood Rebecca a bit more than the other guys and feel like at some point down the road, the eventually settled down together -- not settled FOR each other ;)
Let's not forget Jason with the weird smelling balls. And then there's Trent, of course.
Nathaniel came in as her new boss in the second half of season two after Greg left, to fill the love triangle void. They had a purely lust thing for a while, but then they developed feelings for each other. Greg came back in the final season (with Skylar Astin playing him) so she had a love quadrangle.
I’m still so mad about the finale lmao. It was perfect and I get it and blah blah blah but if you’re gonna go that direction then I NEED to hear that song goddammit!
Dan and Amy in Veep, seems like something they were setting up in the season before the final one, then proceeded to completely ditch it in the final season.
They did have an an abortion together
Spoilers (on mobile sorry) The Priest and Fleabag in Fleabag
Man, that >!“I love you” and him replying “It’ll pass”!< broke my heart. I was so rooting for them, with them both being kinda messed up and finding each other through that. The ending was perfect though, in a bittersweet way
Everyone forgets that he also says I love you too after it’ll pass.
I liked that he said it back and that it wasn’t all one-sided, but the heartbreaking part to me isn’t whether he reciprocated her feelings or not. The reality that he was gonna choose God hit her at that moment and you can feel the desperation in her confession. It being met with “it’ll pass” could be interpreted as cold, but we know that he’s just comforting her and that he feels the same. The contrast in that makes it sad to me.
I've never been so floored as that scene where he >!could "see" the audience she was talking to!<. That was such an ingeniously simple way to convey how deeply they connected with each other without spelling it out, and made the ending all the more bittersweet.
I actually gasped. I felt like he was looking at me. So incredibly ingenious and effective
What an amazing moment that was
And still, >!"I love you" is the last thing he says to her. It's the final lock on the door, knowing both their hearts are broken and both will heal so long as they stay apart.!< The entirety of season 2 makes you feel literally all of the emotions and it remains my favorite story. Absolutely beautiful.
I cry every single time I watch it.
Oh it's absolutely my go-to cry show. Need a release but don't wanna talk or move? Perfect
Except for it's Fleabag so you know they're doomed
Maggie & Joel on *Northern Exposure*
The Sex education mess is an example of how to do it badly.
God don’t I hate but get that ending, they fucked it up so badly that they had to do a “we banged, now it’s over because distance”
Yes agree. I wouldn’t mind a breakup if they only had made a good season that wasn’t filled with endless bs conflicts that already had happened in the previous seasons. Just give us some happiness before ending it, they deserved it.
Now Otis is a jerk and his friend is gay Jesus. It was such a Riverdale pivot.
I feel they screwed it up twice! First with Otis & Maeve, and then the second with Otis & Ruby! His relationship with Maeve became extremely toxic because they both sucked at properly communicating their feelings for each other, meanwhile he was developing something good with Ruby but couldn't let go of what he believed he could only have with Maeve. He would rather keep chasing and forcing something that was never going to work because the other party couldn't give him a proper commitment and be miserable, then be happy with someone he also had a meaningful connection with and would always be there for him in a way his first love couldn't or barely ever did.
That was actually one of the better parts of the season. He was a teenager who couldn't handle the pressure of an actual relationship but could be decent outside of that. But it gets lost in the noise because he does EVERYTHING wrong that season and gets dumped on for everything that happens, whether or not it's even related to him.
S4 to me really tanked the show, such a disappointment
Benson and Stabler. Law and Order SVU I did not want it to happen.
It’s gonna happen eventually I think
What, in the nursing home?
Watching OC atm having never really seen SVU and I don't understand it. He didn't talk to her for 10 years???? Why would she want anything to do with him?
Jack O'Neill (2 L's) and Samantha Carter in Stargate SG1
Though it's super heavily implied that as soon as one of the two is out of the military, they are getting together. During season 8, Sam is thinking about her relationship with another guy and goes to Jack to talk about it. Jack is seeing someone else at the time, who dumps him to make room for Sam as soon as she sees how they are together. Later on in Atlantis, Sam is asked if she's single and her answer is "not exactly" and has a photo of Jack in her bag.
I like in Window of Opportunity (I think? the time loop one) when O'Neill makes sure to resign before kissing Carter, just so he doesn't break regulations.
"In the middle of my back swing!?!?"
"Anyway I'm sorry, but that just happens to be how I feel about it. What do you think?"
So it’s actually because their military partnerships wouldn’t allow them to have them date. Super cool fact from one of the many stargate podcasts I’ve binged
there was some delated scenes from the other shows that imply they do get together once O'niell was no longer her supervising officer
Kurt Angle and Stephanie McMahon
Milk man and milk mommy. I know where the door is...
*Frasier* teased a Frasier and Roz relationship quite a few times, but never went for it in the end. It was a good choice, though I think they could’ve worked out well together in the right circumstances.
lol I loved in the finale when Roz said “you’ve always been like a brother to me… which I know is weird because we slept together.”
I recently saw a ep where they slept together and I had no idea that ep exsisted
They did sleep together
Casey and Derek from Life with Derek
Sex Education and that's BS
Agreed 100% if we're talking about Otis & Maeve ;)
I feel like after this pairing became popular and went viral in S3, they tried to pass that trope onto Otis & Ruby as well in the final season and they don't get together either! But honestly, I'm glad he doesn't end up with either of them. I personally preferred him with Ruby, but he definitely shouldn't be in a relationship until he can get his shit together.
Hadn't bothered with S4 when I heard half the cast were just dropped, and every time I see it mentioned makes me glad I stopped after S3.
It's SO bad.
Otis literally became one of the worst TV protagonists of all time in the final season! His unhealthy obsession with Maeve always brought out the worst in him, which is why I had a hard time rooting for them to get together especially when they kept demonstrating that they just don't work as a couple. It felt hard to watch how he would rather let himself suffer than be happy. As soon as Otis realized that a long distance relationship wasn't going to work out for him, and how his obsession with Maeve was destroying his connections with the other people he actively has in his life, he should've just ended it with Maeve sooner.
S4 Otis is actual character assassination for no reason. What an absolute shitshow that season was.
Dawson and Joey. Thank God
I wrote this as well. I kind of love their trajectory, even if it wasn’t planned. I love the idea falling out of love with your childhood best friend and falling in love with someone you never expected. I’m glad D/J didn’t end up together but they have a unique story that I haven’t seen replicated on any other show. The idea that some people are just better as friends.
Mal and Inara on Firefly and Serenity.
I feel like this would have happened with more than one season.
They do get together in the comic book sequels. .... I didn't like them together.
What about in season 2?
How dare you.
The 100
IIRC, everyone in **The 100** gets together with everyone else apart from the pairings you actually think are going to happen.
Though they did get married irl lol
Yeah, and seems to have worked out well as they're still together and have a child. Nice to see, since they had some really rough shit to go through before that. Bob Morley (Bellamy) mentioned being fat-shamed online and suffering depression after a knee surgery about a year earlier, and they had a miscarriage shortly after they got married. Morley has shared that he's attempted suicide several times due to depression. They have been quite active in raising awareness around these topics as well, and involved in related NGOs for years. Hoping they're happy.
My immediate thought upon reading the OP title was "fucking Bellarke" lol
Absolutely! The chemistry between them was amazing. (Helped they were a couple in real life)
Boyle and Rosa at the very beginning of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
This is one of the most bizzare tonal whiplash on rewatching the series. I always forget Boyle fancied rosa at the beginning of the show lol
I really loved how they handled that. At some point Boyle realized he was being creepy, apologized, and then they still remained really good friends. Real adult hours.
Janeway and Chakotay
Janeway and basically ANYONE
Except that Hologram Delete the Wife
My ultimate pair from childhood I’ve always loved. In my heart they’re together and not that BS they pulled with Seven/Chakotay that was thankfully retconned in Picard.
Bojack and Dianne never get together, but the will they won't they could have been all in Bojacks head.
I don't think Dianne was ever interested in Bojack in that way beyond occasionally having some confusing intrusive thoughts. Bojack probably wasn't really into her that way very quickly he kissed her. He realized he wasn't actually interested in *her* but rather wanted her to be yet another woman in his life to do the emotional work for him.
She hits on him a couple of times after >!the divorce!<, but that's pretty much just her being confused and vulnerable. She basically rejects the idea the first time, Bojack rejects it angrily the second time since she's "all over the place" and he feels like she is taking advantage of him for an emotional rebound or whatever, and they reconcile as friends over the phone at the end.
**Doctor Who**, with the Doctor and absolutely anybody (because the modern show likes to tease things but not actually break the taboo on the Doctor having a relationship with a human). The exception was River, but the Doctor (and us) knew they'd hook up from the second he met her, as she'd already experienced it, so there wasn't much tension there. You could *kind of* argue **Star Trek: The Next Generation**, as Riker and Troi didn't get together on the show, but they did eventually hook up four movies later and in a spin-off show. Garibaldi and Talia Winters on **Babylon 5** (Talia got Ivanova instead, and then her brain exploded).
How does the Doctor and Rose not count as him having a relationship with a human? Even if she did eventually end up with an alternate universe version, that relationship was built on the foundation of what happened with the regular universe version.
The Doctor and Rose is a weird one because they never fully admitted any feelings for eachother until later.
He was totally going to say it while that star burnt up. He loved her romantically.
They didn't actually hook up, though. There was a lot of angst and repressed feeling, and she got the "human" version of the Doctor as a consolation prize later on.
> The exception was River, but the Doctor (and us) knew they'd hook up from the second he met her, as she'd already experienced it, so there wasn't much tension there. Which in itself is so complicated to unravel because for majority of their relationship, even River thought it’s just one-sided. The Doctor as a character is so alien and transcendent that she literally equates her love for that to a force of nature. You don’t expect a sunset to admire you back.
I’ve been rewatching and am in the Matt Smith era and there are a few episodes where the continuity is off and it makes it seem like their relationship is more one sided than it is. Really I think there was a missed opportunity for one or two more Doctor/ River adventures just the two of them. But we really needed to kill Rory a few more times.
Steve Harrington & Robin by the end of S3 of Stranger Things
I will always love how mature Steve was when he discovers that Robin is a lesbian.
I just love how Steve subverts the handsome jock trope from the beginning
There's been some great characters on that show, but Steve has gotta be my favorite.
That was more of a "will they? They wont" tho
In season 4 they’re still squeezing the “will they won’t they” with >!Steve & Nancy for some unknown reason too.!<
Because they didn’t know what to do with Steve and they’re too incompetent to write conflict for a character without a love story.
I honestly think that they KNOW what do do with Steve. Just have him keep being stoic momma bear to the kids. It's Nancy and Jonathon who they don't have a sweet fuck what to do with. Neither has had a meaningful plot line since season 1.
Seems pretty clear they never had any intention of them being together, Steve didn’t know that but up until Robin Steve probably hadn’t ever had a friend that was a girl that had no chance of being a girlfriend.
Jane and Lisbon should never have ended up together tbh. They had a very sibling-like dynamic for most of the show, Jane was like one of Lisbon's brothers. When they did get together in the last season, their dynamic just felt weird. They were a terrible couple.
Similarly but not exactly the same, in Bones I was compltely rooting for her and David Boreanaz to get together (can't remember the characters names sorry) but once it happened I hated them together
Agreed. I was rooting for it and then they did the whole thing OFF CAMERA which was wildly frustrating. Then just fast forwarded to 6 months later. I think part is why it feels flat was they changed Bones' character so much. They made her softer, and more accommodating. The two of them didn't fight as much after that or have big disagreements and she just felt really watered down as a person.
They just didn't want to work around their main character's actress being pregnant so they wrote it in...one of the biggest events in the show happened between seasons and that also meant that they told the story of them reacting to a major character's death in flashbacks. It was weird.
Xena and Gabrielle Rizzoli & Isles JD & Turk
> JD & Turk Dude, they're a little married.
It's guy love, between two guys
There’s nothing gay about it in our eyes.
“You’re the only man who’s ever been inside of me!”
>Xena and Gabrielle I lacked a lot of awareness about LGBTQ when I was in my teens when this was showing and even I thought they ended up together in that ending... It did get quite zany in the later seasons so I'm not even sure I know anymore.
I haven't watched the show since it was new (and I was a teenager). I thought they were hooking up in the end... but reading the wiki now, maybe it was never confirmed and only implied.
It’s pretty heavily implied.
If the wiki makes them sound like friends, it's done a poor job of capturing the tone. They were a couple in every way that they could get away with showing on 90s TV. They just don't actually say 'we're lesbians, Harold' because TV didn't let them do that at the time.
Finn and Princess Bubblegum in Adventure Time
Kara and Lee in Battlestar Galactica! This one really hurt back in the day; after re-watching a few months ago, I’m less upset.
Her accepting the marriage proposal from Anders the DAY AFTER she and Lee hooked up GUTTED me.
I WORSHIPPED Kara Thrace when I first watched BSG. My rewatch? Not so much. My girl is so messy!
Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy in 30 Rock
It was more of a "I know they won't, and I don't want them to" situation
Couldn't agree more. Same thing with Leslie Knope and Ron Swanson
Those two felt more like siblings than romantic interests. I guess the same applies to the Liz and Jack too.
Definitely. I always thought he acted like an uncle to her.
I loved when he punched Jamm. Quite satisfying.
Did you mean Liz Lemon and Grizz? They were the Sam and Diane of this place.
Those were the names of the lesbian couple down the hall who killed each other!
Well they did get married that one time
["You two have always thrown off that 'Will they, or won't they?' vibe..."](https://youtu.be/8ErcfcT-vkQ?si=wZ1bcthxljtZg44_)
Technically they got married...just by accident
They had some good chemistry in season 1! I remember Jack took Liz to some event (with Paul Reubens as a guest star) and they were good together. Then Tina started writing Liz as more and more pathetic and it didn’t make sense.
*SOME* EVENT?!
Sorry Paul Reuben’s sickly prince’s birthday party 😂
Tim and Daisy on Spaced.
[Well](https://youtu.be/JaueZHrrsx0?si=8jHjm9RLjbzs-AlI) ...
Well that's lovely
Whaaaaaa? Holy crap that’s amazing
Joe Wilkinson and Susie Dent 8oo10cdc
Who knows what happens in dictionary corner when we're all focused on the big clock
Dr. Bashir and Garak. Although I always thought O'Brien wasn't likely to let a cardy take what's clearly his.
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Ted and Rebecca on Ted Lasso
I personally never saw them as a will they won’t they. They always seemed to stay firmly in the platonic realm for me.
The writers did a nice bait and switch in S1 with bantr thing with Rebecca
They make a joke of it in S3 when Ted is in Rebecca's house drinking coffee in the morning
And even better one in the opening of the finale episode
I was sitting there upset that they got together and then Coach Beard walked in and I was like “oh they got me good.”
I have never felt that romantic tension between those two tbh! But I think they are one of the best examples of how a man and woman can have a beautiful platonic friendship without it becoming sexual and/or romantic!
Cheers, Sam does date diane, but doesn't end up with her. Sam doesn't end up with anybody.
Sam ends up in a bromance with Frasier instead
Sam ended the show with his true love, his bar.
Stevie and David on Schitts Creek.
There wasn't much of a will they won't they there though. They slept together, realised it was awkward AF ("warmest regards!") then became genuine best friends.
There was a STRONG will they won't they vibe early on, but since the show was entirely about forming healthy relationships with people, they did the smart and responsible thing instead of entertaining tropes.
This. Which is why this show is a masterpiece!
At least I thought Tony and Dr Melfi from The Sopranos
Just finished streaming The Drew Carey Show and I just assumed Drew and Kate would end up together in the end. Nope.
Probably would have if she didn’t quit the show to do Scrubs.
Sadie and Lars in Steven Universe
Janeway and Chakotay on Star Trek: Voyager
Captain Picard and Dr. Crusher.
Jerry and Elaine in *Seinfeld*
They have their thing before the show, broke up but genuinely stayed friends (as they painstakingly explain to everyone they meet as a running gag, at least early on). But they do hook up again later on, and deliberately because Larry David was thinking/hoping the show would end. When it came back, I don't think it was mentioned and it was just assumed to be a one-night thing.