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* StupidSexyFriend - Even if you think you ''should'' just be friends with someone, good luck getting rid of those sexual thoughts.

* Jerry {{Seinfeld}} and Elaine. One {{UST}} episode that [[NegativeContinuity doesn't actually seem to be canon]]. It's PlayedForLaughs with in the last episode as they seem on the edge of a DyingDeclarationOfLove during a plane crash, only to quickly backpedal again when they survive (Elaine claims she was about to say "I've always loved U...nited Airlines").

* Willow and Xander in ''[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'', once Xander accepts that Buffy thinks of him like a brother and gives up on his DoggedNiceguy approach. Much later, in the Season 8 comic book, [[spoiler:Buffy realizes that she has feelings for him, only to learn that he and her younger sister Dawn are now a couple]].

* Willow and Xander in ''[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'', once Xander comes to terms with the fact that Buffy thinks of him like a brother and gives up on his DoggedNiceguy approach. Much later, in the Season 8 comic book, [[spoiler:Buffy realizes that she has feelings for him, only to learn that he and her younger sister Dawn are now a couple]].
** Also Cordelia and Wesley, whose smoldering {{UST}} when they met in ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' came to a head with their first kiss -- which quickly became their very awkward and physically uncomfortable ''last'' kiss. Their friendship continued to grow in ''{{Angel}}'', but they aren't above playfully making fun of each other over which one's the worse kisser when recounting the story.

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* Jerry {{Seinfeld}} and Elaine. One {{UST}} episode that [[NegativeContinuity doesn't actually seem to be canon]].
* Willow and Xander in ''[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]''.
** Also Cordelia and Wesley.

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* JD and Elliot from ''{{Scrubs}}'', after their third break-up/make-up. (It almost stuck, too.)

* FanPreferredCouple - It won't happen even though it probably should.

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend - Yes, she is. Or, at least, she will be.
* PlatonicLifePartners - It just won't happen. Ever.

* FanPreferredCouple - It won't happen even though it probably should.
* BelligerentSexualTension - When JustFriends crosses over into willful stupidity.
* [=~I Don't Want To Ruin Our Friendship~=]: They're JustFriends, and worried about losing that if they try to become something more.
* AmicablyDivorced - A couple was married, but despite the divorce are still on good terms.

* BelligerentSexualTension - When JustFriends crosses over into wilful stupidity.

->We agreed that in the future we would only meet for professional purposes, or if we were drunk and felt like having emotionally destructive sex.

* [[spoiler: George and Izzie]] from ''GreysAnatomy''. A bit of a {{wallbanger}} since [[spoiler: an entire marriage ended because of it.]] Whoops!

* JoeQuesada is [[OneMoreDay trying to set up]] [[{{Spider-Man}} Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson]] as this, after they spent multiple decades as the OfficialCouple. Needless to say, fans aren't buying it.

* TheStraightWillAndGrace - It just won't happen. Ever.
* LikeBrotherAndSister - It won't happen because it would be too squicky for them (or one of them, [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend much to the other's dismay]]).

* BelligerentSexualTension - When JustFriends crosses over into willful stupidity.

* Nelson Muntz and Lisa Simpson in "TheSimpsons".

* In ''ElTigre'', despite the romantic persistence of Manny's father Rodolfo, his ex-wife Maria keeps insisting that they should remain JustFriends.

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