Cargo Ship / Live-Action TV

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Cargo Ships in Live-Action TV.

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• Several Fringe fans have a habit of shipping the main characters with food, including Peter/bacon, Olivia/toast, and of course Walter/red vines.
• The Muppets Valentine Show reveals that grumpy, unapproachable George the janitor does have something he loves; his mop. Even George is amazed when he realizes this.
• BBC's Sherlock
  • John is paired with both jam and sweaters
  • Mycroft/Cake is popular too
  • Less popular is Umbrellacroft or Mybrella, Mycroft and that black umbrella that he's never parted from. There are several YouTube videos of Mycroft swinging his Umbrella as Rihanna croons in the background.
  • Also minor, but not unappreciated, is Sherlock/Deerstalker
  • Also minor, Sherlock/Skull
  • Sherlock's Purple Shirt/John's Stripey Jumper.
• Supernatural
  • The Winchesters' Impala is highly shipped.
    • Dean/Impala is practically officially canon. He calls her "baby". He gets mad when people touch her. He's all narked when he can't drive her. He hyperventilates when she goes missing. He almost kills Sam when he thinks he's the one who slashed his tires. I could go on.
    • The Impala gets paired with a number of other automobiles, including...
      1. John Winchester's truck
      2. KITT
      3. Various Transformers
      4. Crowley's Bentley
      5. TARDIS, by SuperWho fans. The DeLorean time machine is their offspring.
  • Dean is often shipped with pie.
  • There's also a highly amusing Castiel/Hamburger ship making the rounds.
• Doctor Who's a bit crazy with this (though we should point out that the TARDIS is sentient, and therefore would go under Robo Ship).
  • The TARDIS has also been paired with the computer system at Torchwood Three.
  • One episode also had K-9 link with the Tardis in a process he described as "stimulating" - while making suggestive back and forth motions. The Tardis' sentience arguably makes this a reverse cargo ship.
  • There's an entire community for Jack/the Doctor's severed hand; the Master as well has been paired with it.
  • Hand×Resurrection Glove.
  • The Tissue Compression Eliminator has been paired with the Sonic Screwdriver. It's madness. For added fun, include the Laser Screwdriver as well for that spicy Foe Yay Shipping angle.
  • Rose×Jack×Nine's leather jacket.
  • TARDIS/Enterprise exists. They have a baby, which apparently takes after its mum.
    • Which one is the mum?
  • The sonic screwdriver has been paired with multiple companions and Torchwood women. If it works by sound, it produces vibrations...
  • Doctor×sonic screwdriver...
    • In "Image of the Fendahl", the Doctor slams his screwdriver angrily to the ground after it doesn't open a lock. When the door eventually does open, there's a sweet little part (probably a Tom Baker adlib) where he picks the screwdriver up and kisses it as if to say sorry for treating it roughly.
    • In the non-canon Curse of the Fatal Death, the female Doctor happily stated, "It's got 3 settings!", one of which is apparently vibrate.
    • In the DVD minisode "Clara in the TARDIS", Clara refers to the Doctor as being in a codependent relationship with a screwdriver. It should be noted that in "The Rings of Akhaten", he considers it to be the only sentimental thing he has with him, even though he also has Amy's reading glasses.
  • Eleven/Fez.

• Heroes:
  • Mohinder was once jokingly paired with a smallish ceramic elephant he owns.
  • Nathan was shipped with a zuchinni.
  • Sylar×Mohinder's brain, if that qualifies.
  • Hiro×Waffles!
• iCarly:
  • Spencer/Bottle Bot
  • Gibby/Shirt.
• Firefly. Never mind that Serenity is literally a Cargo Ship, half the cast has been paired with it.
  • Mal×Serenity, obviously. It was Love at First Sight.
  • Kaylee×Serenity. Don't insult Serenity in front of her.
  • Kaylee×unspecified battery-powered object is canon, and—according to a possibly unreliable character—"Engines get her hot."
  • Kaylee×strawberries.
  • River×Serenity
  • River×coffin ("I'm very comfortable.")
  • Jayne×Vera.
• Power Rangers S.P.D.: Bridge×toast OTP!
  • Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Tommy×Saba. Of course, Saba is sentient, so it may not count.
  • Power Rangers Operation Overdrive Ronny×Drill Driver. It exists.
    • Heck, Ronny×drills is canon. In general, the way Ronny gets around anything technological is a goldmine for such things.
    • To a certain extent there's a certain level between every Ranger and their Zord (think back to Kimberly's Big "NO!" when the Thunder Zords were destroyed.) The most obvious was Tommy×Dragonzord.
• Kirk and the Enterprise, in Star Trek: The Original Series. This is as canon as canon gets: he talks about her in a dreamy, romantic way, expressly compares her to a woman, and the women in his life all know that they can't compete with her. In one episode, of course, a "programming error" has the ship's computer calling him "dear" and "darling".
  • In another episode, an alien woman comes on board whose tears cause all men (of any race) to fall in love with her on contact. While they do affect Kirk, he breaks out of it without a need for an antidote because he just loves the ship more.
  • In "The Naked Time", he even starts going on about how she won't let him date anyone else.
  • Also, there is a novel in the Expanded Universe where the computer on the Enterprise falls in love with him, and exhibits all the traits of a Clingy Jealous Girlfriend.
  • For that matter, the novel The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane (involving a new experimental FTL drive that turns out to break down the boundaries of reality itself as an unintended side effect) features a short scene/hallucination(?) in which Kirk appears to directly experience what being a starship is like from the Enterprise's perspective... and that suggests that his feelings may not be unrequited.
  • This is the subject of Julia Ecklar's Filk Song "[1]".
  • Please to be reading this fic, which is not the only one of its kind out there. Also, be aware the rest of the Kink Meme is mostly NSFW.
    • In TOS, Scotty's relationship was more of a proud parent thing. Naturally, this means if you mess with the Enterprise... Yeah.
  • Scotty sure does love his scotch.
  • An In-Universe example in "The Ultimate Computer" when Bones ships Spock with the newly-installed M-5 computer.
    McCoy: Did you see the love light in Spock's eyes? The right computer finally came along.
• Another In-Universe example in Star Trek: The Next Generation when Riker ships Troi with her chocolate sundae, especially since she describes the experience of eating the sundae in rather sensual terms.
• Star Trek: Voyager: Once upon a time, Captain Janeway was given a prehensile plant. It grabbed her. The fans and their keyboards lived happily ever after.
• In Eureka, the AI that runs Sheriff Jack Carter's house, S.A.R.A.H., seems to act a lot like a Clingy Jealous Girl and a housewife toward him.
  • Fargo has a tendency to create these. Not only was S.A.R.A.H. his creation, he also created an AI (Tabitha) for his car, which also turned into a Clingy Jealous Girl when he sold her (the car was an ancient Chrysler); she kidnapped him after making him fall into her trunk. As part of some very blatant but still well-done Product Placement, he settles the dispute by transferring Tabitha to his new Subaru.
• Life On Mars has Sam×Mobile Phone and Gene×Cortina. There's one fic in which the Cortina is paired with everybody — including the mobile phone.
• One first-season episode of FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman seemed to hint at Ruff×Fetch 3000.
• Along with the above quote, The Daily Show last year featured a visual representation mocking Rudy Giuliani's seeming obsession with cramming as many "9/11" references as possible in his political speeches, by having a number 9 and number 11 having sex on a bed, complete with erotic music.
  • It also ships Washington Monument×Pentagon.
• Stephen Colbert doesn't own a gun, he shares his life with one. On the overturning of Washington DC's ban on handguns: "Sweetness and I can finally be together!" The Couple has since announced their engagement after a hike on the Appalachian Trail, and Sweetness is now pregnant.
  • A Colbert Report episode had as it "Wørd" "Just Don't Do It". When trying to turn off teenagers, Colbert came with this:
    Colbert: If you don't tamp down your physical desires boys, you could go insane and find yourself copulating with the coin return of a vending machine. (Bright side: Free Kit Kat)
  • It may not be a physical object, but there's definite Stephen/Wørd potential going on. The Wørd acts almost exactly like Alice Kramden, after all.
• Sledge Hammer!:
  • Fans don't even need to engage in any Cargo Shipping for this show. Hammer and his gun are explicitly the Official Couple.
  • One very short fic ships Hammer's gun with a Hand Cannon from another canon — the Desert Eagle belonging to Kermit Griffin from Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.
• Knight Rider:
  • KITT with Michael Knight, Bonnie, or KARR is not at all uncommon in the Knight Rider fan community.
  • Parodied in a Dutch Knight Rider spoof (by Koefnoen). Michael and KITT bicker Like an Old Married Couple, and KITT accuses Michael of cheating on it when he goes to a car dealership looking for a new car. Eventually they reconcile when Michael offers that they go through the car wash together.
• Battlestar Galactica (2003):
  • "You probably love her more than you love me." Roslin to Adama, referring to the battlestar Galactica.
  • In "Flight of the Phoenix" Chief Tyrol runs his hands along the skin of a Viper during a maintenance inspection, while at the same time having flashbacks of caressing his ex-girlfriend Boomer (who turned out to be a "machine"). It's unknown whether this mental association is the reason the Chief labeled the Viper as "damaged beyond repair".
  • Boomer herself is seen stroking a Cylon raider in front of Tyrol in an earlier episode. Which he finds somewhat disturbing, though more because he's worried she's a Cylon too.
• Lunatics: fashion retailer Keith Dick loves a cash register he names Karen.
• Merlin:
  • Fans have taken to shipping Arthur×Merlin×hat.
  • Arthur/Tree Yeah.
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  • Gwaine/Apple, since he is commonly shown eating apples in season 4.
• Kenan & Kel: Who loves Orange Soda? Kel loves Orange Soda!
• Certain fans of Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters seem to ship J/Yoko, despite the fact that J is a robot.
• An episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse had Pee-Wee marry fruit salad, because he loved it so much.
  • Pee-Wee's relationship with Chairry can be seen this way. In The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway we also get Magic Screen×Firefighter.
• CSI: Miami: Horatio×Sunglasses; if only they'd make it canon...
• Top Gear is the embodiment of this trope. Richard Hammond×Oliver the Opel Kadett is pretty much canon, and Jeremy Clarkson has fallen in love with way too many cool cars to list here, his Ford GT and a Bugatti Veyron being the most obvious examples.
  • If you can drive and know the first thing about driving and cars, you will be car-sexual for the Bugatti Veyron.
  • James May claims that when he drives a cool car he gets a "fizzing sensation just behind [his] penis."
• Jeremy Clarkson waxing lyrical about the Lockheed SR-71 in his 2001 series, Speed. See this video from about fifteen minutes in. His expression. And the way he STROKES it.
• Stargate Atlantis fandom has shipped Atlantis, usually with John (or John with her), and a few threesomes. (Sometimes the city's sentient [or sapient] but never animate, except the one time.)
  • There is also a community for Carson×Chair fics.
• Farscape: Crichton with his gun, Winona. He will often comment that other identical pulse pistols "just don't feel the same", and claim "Winona would never have let me down" when other guns fail to work.
• According to Being Human (UK), ghosts can teleport objects, but cannot teleport a baby ghost unless they were biological relations in life. When Annie tries to teleport a baby she gets a toaster instead. Cue jokes about her relationship with it.
• Red Dwarf
  • Kryten×Washing Machines... Vacuum Cleaners...
  • Rimmer and Inflatable Ingrid.
  • Lister and the VR machines. BOTH of them!
  • Subverted in Series X when Lister becomes so desperate that he hits on the vending machine (the one with a French accent), which "she" points out is pretty weird.
• There's an episode of The Mighty Boosh involving men dating cocoanuts. And then there's Rudi and his guitar. One of the live shows also presents Vinces enormous blow dryer, so big "you can bum it," but Vince hasn't used that setting yet.
• Ryan Stiles on Whose Line Is It Anyway? has been known to be... quite close to one mobile boom cam on stage left (the audience's right). He's kissed it, tried to ride it, gotten into a bullfight with it (the camera won, by the way) and according to the deleted outtakes reel, they've... consummated. Yeah.
• James Franco on 30 Rock was shipped with a body pillow named Kimiko-tan. It's strongly implied that he and Liz Lemon had a threesome with it.
• Buster Bluth on Arrested Development briefly had an affair with his mother's maid Lupe, who was fired. He moved on to Lupe's replacement: a robotic vacuum.
  • In the second episode of the series, George Sr. expresses his enjoyment of an ice-cream sandwich by claiming he's "having a love affair" with it. Later, Michael catches Lucille shouting into the phone, "Then why don't you marry an ice-cream sandwich?" He doesn't believe her when she says she was talking to Gob.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Kendra's favourite stake "Mr. Pointy" did get its share of quips.
  • Spike's duster is shipped most often with Spike or Buffy, while Mr. Gordo has been shipped with Buffy and Angel.
  • Faith's knife from the Mayor has been in more than one fanfic as a masturbatory aid.
• Throughout the Angel episode "Double or Nothing", much is made of the "she" 17-year-old Gunn sold his soul for. He finally reveals... he asked for a truck.
  Fred: Oh, Charles. Your soul wasn't worth air conditioning?
• In Gossip Girl, there's Chuck Bass and his trademark scarf.
• Cody and his calculator in an episode of Suite Life on Deck, although it was in 5th grade. Zack comments that he bought "her" popcorn and took her to the movies.
• In Are You Being Served?, Mr. Mash has a somewhat disturbing attitude towards the female mannequins.
• From Drake & Josh
  Crazy Steve: She's a WOODCHIPPER! And her name is SALLY!
• The Tudors has Catherine Howard/Ring. And it's CANON too.
• Grant Imahara from Mythbusters does an absolutely adorable imitation of a teen being flustered by the object of his crush when he meets a bomb disposal robot. Colleague Tory Belleci lampshades this by saying things like "well, go on and talk to her".
• Glee:
  • Wes/Gavel is incredibly popular.
  • Blaine gets shipped a lot. Let's see: Bloor (Blaine/Floor), Blurniture (Blaine/Furniture), Bloffee (Blaine/Coffee), Bloulder (Blaine/Shoulder), Blocks (Blaine/Socks), and the incredibly canon Blicrophone (Blaine×Microphone)!
  • Stixtana (Santana×Breadstix) and Shrubtana (Santana×Person-shaped Shrub)
  • Fair (Finn×Chair)
  • Totcedes (Mercedes×Tater-tots)
  • Baquinn (Quinn×Bacon)
  • Emma×Grapes
  • West (Will×Vests) and Willboard (Will×Whiteboard)
  • Peggo (Puck×Eggo)
• In Pushing Daisies one of their cases involves a man who believes he's in a relationship with a life size doll. After a friend told him that she wasn't alive the doll strangled her, with him working the hands.
• On The Goodies, Graeme/Computer was very much canon. In one early episode, they went through a Meadow Run, romantic dinners, and near-marriage.
• The Big Bang Theory has Howard×Robot hand (literally no one in or out of universe belives he "fell" when it got stuck in a rather *ahem* sensitive area), Raj×Siri software (he literally goes on a date with his phone, has a fantasy where a human version of it asks him to make love to her, and has "her" refer to him as Sexy), Amy×Gerard The Electric Tooth Brush (yes she named it, and yes uses it to deal with *ahem* sexual fustration-and unlike Howard's robot hand she references using it again after the first episode she brings it up in), Amy×her tiara (well at least she doesn't have it "inflame her loins" like Gerard does) and of course, Sheldon×his spot (he doesn't love his spot, he loves his mother; his feelings for his spot are far greater).
• In Primeval there's Becker/Guns. Danny stresses the need to get him a girlfriend. And how happy he looks when he gets to use a real gun after suffering through the EMDs.
• Barney Stinson and his suits from How I Met Your Mother.
• House of Anubis has a couple, but the most popular is Victor/Corbierre—Corbierre being his dead, stuffed raven. Who he talks to as if it is alive and even panicked when Fabian 'kidnapped' it. It's no wonder many people like shipping it.
• Shatner On The Mount ships Star Trek: The Original Series' Captain Kirk with a mountain.
• An amusing subsection of the Criminal Minds fandom ships Dr. Spencer Reid with the maps he uses to make geographic profiles. It's common enough that "Map" is now a character option in the CM section of Fan Fiction.Net.
• In the Teen Wolf fandom, a fair amount of fans seem to ship Stiles/his jeep. He is, after all, the Launcher of a Thousand Ships, and he's clearly very attached to it...
  • There is also a section of fans who ship Derek/his camero. Frankly, that would be a step up for his love life.
• Once Upon a Time:
  • It's quite common for people to ship Hook/The Floor, this is mostly because he fell down a lot in season 2.
  • There's also Regina/The Poison Apple.
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • The show has Coulson/Lola (Lola being Coulson's Flying Car and most prized possession, to the point that this ship is occasionally acknowledged in-universe).
  • Has a nice real life sequel. Ming-Na Wen has recently bought herself a red, latest model Corvette. She calls it Lolita... "little Lola".
  • Following the early Season 1 episode "The Hub" there's also Fitz/Sandwich, due to Fitz spending much of the episode anticipating and then lamenting the sandwich Simmons makes for him.
• The Sketch Show: In-universe. One sketch involves a man going on a date with his dishwasher, only to have his washing machine walk in on them.
  Man: Honey, I can explain this!
• NCIS gives us Abby and her mass spectrometer, Major Mass Spec. There's In-Universe justification for this, as Abby once expressed her desire to have his "little mass-spec children."
• Invoked now and again in Flashpoint regarding Spike and Babycakes, the anti-bomb robot. In reality, the relationship is more analogous to a master with a beloved pet.
• In-universe in the Legends of Tomorrow Season 2 finale. Upon being reunited with his ATOM Exosuit Ray kisses the visor, embraces it, and swears he'll never leave it again. Jax observing the whole thing is notably weirded out.
  Jax: Really dude?
• One episode of Frasier gives him this attitude towards a motor home he's driving.
  Frasier: It's mine and it's big!
• Roseanne has Dan and his motorcycle.
• Jessie: Bertram and any one of his cooking utensils. Exaggerated in "Coffee Talk", where he falls for a coffee maker with a sentient A.I.
• The Umbrella Academy (2019) has Five/Dolores as a canon ship, Dolores being a department store mannequin that Five took with him for companionship after the apocalypse. He speaks about her as one would a lover ("We were together for 30 years"), has one-sided "conversations" with her about his problems, and cares for her so much that Luther wins an argument with him by threatening to drop her out a window. He even has ideas of her preferences, stating that she likes sequins, and reuniting with her was one of his first priorities when he got back to 2019. His behavior regarding her makes it clear that his time spent post-apocalypse left him a bit unhinged.
• Person of Interest. Root's enthusiastic Machine Worship is a Running Gag, and she claimed to Harold Finch (the Machine's creator) that her own relationship with the Machine was "more intimate". After Root dies the Machine admits to loving her as well. It's notable that Root's sexual preference is for women and the Machine seems to identify itself as a "she".
• Ghosts (US): has Hetty sitting on a broken washing machine several times.