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  • Tracy and Kenneth are unarguably the token 30 Rock Ho Yay couple. Here's just one of many examples:
    Tracy: (getting down on one knee) Kenneth Parcell, would you take this ring .. and sell it in the Jewish part of midtown and use the money to get us a Nintendo Wii?
    Kenneth: Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes!
    • Jack to Kenneth in season one: "I'm gonna be your bottom, Kenneth. I want you to ride me as hard as you can." It Makes Sense in Context. Oh, and Jack's assistant Jonathan totally has a crush on him. That one may or may not be actual text...
    • In one episode Jack keeps talking about his attempts to get a promotion in ways that accidentally sound homoerotic "Tomorrow I'm going to be in a foursome with three other men and I'm going to give Geiss all of my attention!" (He was talking about a golf foursome, sure...)
    • And some Les Yay between Elisa and Liz.
      Liz: Are you a man?
      Elisa: Really?! That's your guess, a man? You want to see me naked?
      Liz: Kinda.
    • In one of the season finales, Jenna automatically assumes she and Liz will hook up when she suggests giving up on men.
    • Liz let Tracy produce a porno based on her life after using his behavior for book material without telling him. When the characters based on Liz and Jenna start making out, Liz is quick to leave, but Jenna... lingers. That same episode has plenty of Ho Yay between Jack and Devon:
      Jack: Sure, maybe you’ll ruin my career, maybe you’ll never see my again, but if you had forced me to take government bailout money..you’d be my boss.
      Devon: [gasp!] Oh my. You’d have to come back to Washington to report to me. Like a little school boy. Your hand sticky from candy. [..] You’d have to take it. I’d make you. I’d make you take it all.
      Jack: I’d roll over and let you give it to me.
      Devon: (not changing his tone) I’m honestly not trying to make this sound gay.
      Jack: (ditto) No one is, it's just happening.
    • Upon seeing Liz in her new pair of jeans, Jenna remarks, "I'd hit that," as well as saying "I'd experiment with that girl" after seeing a picture of a college-aged Liz.
  • A Bit of Fry and Laurie: The sketch "Judge Not" strongly implies that the judge is gay, and the lawyer's also attracted to him. Since a lot of it's apparently parodying homophobia, that's not surprising.
  • Ace of Cakes is brimming with dangerous amounts of Ho Yay between Duff and Geof. Yes, Ace of Cakes on the Food Network. A good part of the eighth season premiere centers around Duff begging Geof to play his guitar at a concert. Geof reluctantly relents and sings a gloriously sappy song he wrote while Duff sits, enraptured, in the audience and actually begins to lipsynch the song along with him.
  • Alias: Weiss and Vaughn shared many Ho Yay moments. These tended to be of the lighthearted variety, such as when Vaughn offered Weiss a drawer.
    • There was some pretty palpable amount between between Sydney and Anna, and Vaughn and Sark. Sark even managed to get his yay on with Marshall at one point.
    • Dr. Brezzel's assistant, Kaya, looked at Sydney (and everybody else for that matter) like she wanted to tear her clothes off.
  • On It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia between the four main leads. Even before Mac was an Armoured Closet Gay then officially came out as gay he had a lot of moments with his straight sexual predator friend Dennis. Meanwhile Charlie and Frank live together, sleep in the same bed together, and are always worried about how the other one is doing.
  • The Animorphs live-action series has Ax and Marco. In the books, it took them quite a while to trust each other, neither being the most trusting sort. Their screen relationship is much closer much faster, Marco being the main one teaching the Fish out of Water alien about Earth. The last episode involves a dance, where Ax asks Marco to slow dance, with the shyness you'd expect from someone asking someone they had genuine feelings for instead of the comedy of a Fish out of Water alien not understanding the significance. It's hard to imagine a Scholastic kids show would do that... but it's hard to take the scene any other way.
  • The 1980s TV version of Anne of Green Gables makes the les yay elements of Anne Shirley and Diana Barry's relationship a bit more obvious.
  • In Arrested Development, they definitely play up something between Michael and Gob. Especially in season 3.
  • Asylum, a show made by a lot of the same people who made Spaced features a character who would later be the inspiration for Brian, (played by Julian Barrett.) who shares a strange attraction with one of his fellow patients.
    Victor: Oh, Silent-Face! You mysterious, beautiful, bitch!
  • In the later seasons of The A-Team, there was quite a bit of Face/Murdock Ho Yay. For instance, in the Season 4 episode "Wheel of Fortune," Murdock wins a trip to Hawaii as a contestant on The Wheel of Fortune and then Face and Murdock high-five each other, hug, and hop around like a couple of Fan Boys who found out that they're going to meet either George Lucas or David Tennant. Then Murdock says he wants to take a girl to Hawaii, but Face basically tells him that they have to go together. Then, when Murdock disappears on the day they're supposed to leave, Face gets all worried and says, "He left without me!" When Face gets captured by the bad guys later on, he tells them that he should be in Hawaii "sucking on a mai-tai." Oh yeah, Face, we definitely know what you mean.
    • There's this gem from an episode in season one, where the Team rescues a reluctant Texas bride:
    Face: (calling to Murdock, running behind their truck in a wedding dress) "Come to me, my precious!"
    • In the third-season episode "Timber", they share a room. With one bed. And it seems that Face is naked under the covers.
    • More like the whole series. Hell, the second episode has Face declaring that he loves Murdock, even if the pilot is as crazy as a Mexican rabbit. Murdock returns the sentiment with an "I love you, baby" in the penultimate episode of season three.
    • It doesn't help, of course, that Face and Murdock's actors were (and are) good friends who's Gay Bravado frequently leaked on set.
  • Babylon 5:
    • Londo and G'Kar, even when they were supposedly deadly enemies. As early as the first season, Sinclair jokes about them arguing like a married couple. It became a running joke in fandom how often they seemed to get into situations stereotypically used in slash fic to induce sex or a declaration of love (accidentally married, trapped in a lift together, temporary telepathy, "I must give you no privacy whatsoever to protect you" bodyguarding...). Things got so bad that when J Michael Straczynski gave the actors a joke script in which G'Kar spontaneously changed sex and immediately decided to bluntly proposition Londo, they weren't certain that it wasn't serious.
    • There's a DVD commentary in which Garibaldi's actor jokingly refers to the scene in which he confronts Franklin over Franklin's drug abuse as seeming as if Garibaldi might be about to make a love confession.
    • Susan/Talia is not mentioned here because it's unambiguously canon, but many fans saw a lot of sexual tension between Lochley and the ghost of her old drug buddy in "Day of the Dead". Neil Gaiman subsequently confirmed it.
    • Some fans think that the implied depth of the relationship between Delenn and Susan after John's death might imply a sexual one, especially the description of Susan's tomb as created by Delenn in "Death, Time and the Incurable Romantic".
  • Being Human: Mitchell and George in seasons 1-3 and Hal and Tom in 4.
    • Both pairs have the whole Fur Against Fang Star-Crossed Lovers thing going on.
    • Hal and Tom are adorable together. With Hal's former Heterosexual Life-Partner Leo dead, Hal needs someone to keep him in check so he doesn't start, you know, eating people so he ask Tom to be that person for him. The whole scene reads like he's asking him out. Oh and the episodes title? Puppy Love - they both get female love interests in that episode, but still!
    • In one episode Hal and Tom pose as adoptive parents to explain the absence of a mother for baby Eve, leading to squeetastic moments like this.
    • They go on a double date and while walking behind them one girl remarks on how close Hal and Tom are
    Alex: (to Allison) When they say housemates, they do have separate bedrooms don't they?
  • Better Off Ted's Phil and Lem. At one point, they wind up sharing a hazmat suit.
  • Beyond Evil: Between Dong-sik and Ju-won. At the end of episode five Ju-won leans into Dong-sik's personal space and gets so close it looks like they're about to kiss.
  • The Big Bang Theory: Wolowitz and Koothrappali.
    • Even Leonard's mother noticed.
    "So Howard, Raj, have you finally built up the courage to admit your latent homosexual feelings for one another?"
    • "The night the heat went out..." "It was a bonding experience!"
    • And then, this happened. Granted, it is more or less accidental, but there nonetheless. Can you hear the squees of thousands of Yaoi Fangirls?
    • Also on the same show, Sheldon and Leonard. When Raj's mother calls from India in one episode she thinks they are "like Haroun and Tanveer" who are "sweet young men that recently adopted the cutest little Punjab baby". Despite Leonard denying it initially, upon realizing that they own the special edition of Fiddler On The Roof, Leonard notes, "Maybe we are like Haroun and Tanveer".
    • It's also a little suggestive that Leonard's mother is a less neurotic female Sheldon. Especially considering that there's quite a bit of discussion about the psychological complexes her unaffectionate parenting style gave Leonard.
    • Similarly, Amy, who Sheldon has kissed, confessed to loving and even had sex with and planned to propose to looks and dresses much like a female Leonard.
    • As of season four, Howard and Raj have now kissed on the lips. Then we get this Innocent Innuendo from Leonard the next day:
    Leonard: So Howard, did you have fun playing with Raj's big telescope last night?
    • Amy Farrah Fowler and Penny, although this is more of a one-sided crush.
    • Although Penny has since revealed that as a high school student in Nebraska, she participated in extracurricular activities with the gym coach who had a massive and unwise crush on her. Just to specify the gym coach's gender, they apparently went to a Mellisa Etheridge gig together. Penny was not explicit on what she had to do to get the A-grade for gym, but mysteriously remarked that "it all worked out OK".
    • In one episode, Raj and Stuart got a moment when Raj asked Stuart to hang out, but sounding more like asking him on a date.
    • In a season 3 episode, Penny and Sheldon fought over who Leonard would take to Switzerland for Valentine's Day until they both come down with the flu. Leonard ends up taking Raj, who is over the moon with all the romantic furnishings.
    • In somewhat of an It's a Wonderful Plot, the gang wonders what their lives would be like without Sheldon, Howard still thinks he and Bernadette could've gotten married since they would still go to the Cheesecake Factory where she and Penny worked, but Bernadette theorizes that she would simply assume Howard and Raj were a couple and not even bother introducing herself.
  • If you can find a single episode of Big Wolf on Campus without at least one Ho Yay moment between Tommy and Merton...some of the best include:
    • Tommy's constant willingness to help Merton, despite the latter never learning and almost always somehow being the cause of episode's conflict.
    • The fact that Tommy has done some very nice things for Merton, such as stating he was always willing to wolf out for him, and selling his prize thousand-dollar baseball card to get a cure for Merton becoming a statue because 'Nothing was more important to me-except Merton.'
    • The two also have absolutely no concept of personal space, and can be seen touching way too much every single episode.
    • Besides that, it seems like half the other characters think they're together- One episode has Tommy trying to get Merton to fit in with his jock friends, and one of them seems shocked that Merton would have a girlfriend, thus implying he'd think Merton would have a boyfriend. (Of course, he does have a lot of Ambiguously Gay moments.) Another early episode has Tommy's semi-girlfriend Stacey meeting them at the dance. Tommy bothers Stacey about who her date is, to which she replies with a question about who his is, looking directly at Merton. Keep in mind that the two had their arms around the others shoulder at this point. However, they quickly de-couplify.
      • And that's not even getting started on the obvious man-crushes Merton sports throughout the show's run.
  • The Blackadder series has plenty of Ho Yay moments, usually involving one of Tim McInnerny's characters or someone in drag.
    • The Blackadder II episode "Bells" is practically made of Ho Yay thanks to crossdressing. The overall plot involves Lord Blackadder trying to cope with his strange feelings towards his new servant boy (who is actually a girl). In one scene, Percy walks in on Baldrick in his bridesmaid outfit, SOMEHOW mistakes him for a woman, and asks for a kiss. Baldrick complies. The kiss lasts a full seventeen seconds.
    • In "Chains", Prince Ludwig reveals that he's had sex with three other characters, two of whom are men. On all occasions, he was in disguise (as a waitress with Blackadder, a sheep with Melchett, and stable boy with Queenie).
      • Queenie wasn't actually one of his conquests - she was fondling her horse. (Besides, if you were Queenie, would you be sleeping with someone you know only as "Shorty-Greasy-Spot-Spot"?)
    • The whole character of Captain Kevin Darling in Blackadder Goes Forth was practically made for Ho Yay just because of his name (almost canon because the creators and actors say that the character was born from the name). Captain Blackadder and General Melchett usually refer to him as just "Darling", prompting many awkward moments. The Funny Moment is the episode "Major Star" when Melchett is rehearsing for his date with "Georgina" and his repeated use of the word "darling" in his sweet-talk to the mirror starts to make Darling very uncomfortable...
    • A very Ho Yay-y moment from season 1, "The Queen of Spain's Beard". Edmund has been told to act gay to get out of marrying the Spanish Infanta by Baldrick, and is told to "practice" with Percy planning on helping him. Percy, in best camp voice, mentions some gossip about how "Prince Edmund's going to marry the Spanish Infanta" which enrages Edmund, who tackles Percy to the ground, and, uh, attacks him. Baldrick walks back in: "Yes, that's the sort of thing!"
  • Black Books: It's often implied that, for all his cruel bullying, Bernard has a bit of a crush on Manny, his assistant - he falls to pieces when Manny walks out to work in the shop next door, and it's played as if they're a couple getting divorced. Bernard mentions once that he used to think he was gay, but decided he couldn't handle the expected levels of personal hygiene ("...and all that dancing!"). There's also an episode where Bernard, Manny and Fran all have a crush on the same (male) writer and compete viciously for his attention. And the less said about Manny, the beard porn and the Japanese businessman, the better...
    • In the above-mentioned episode where Manny went to work in the shop next door, Evan — the 'other man' (played by Simon Pegg) — combined a bit of Ho Yay with a nineties Stepford Smiler work ethic and a slightly creepy obsession with Manny - specifically, moulding Manny into a mirror version of himself. The mere presence of 'a friend of Manny's' was enough to send Evan into a rant. Needless to say, this particular Ho Yay only went one way.
  • In Black Mirror: Nosedive, at the end of the episode, at the wedding Paul gives his speech and immediately goes over to the best man and shares a suspiciously intimate-looking frat-boy chest bump with what looks a lot like a Held Gaze. Not once does he so much as glance at his gorgeous, blonde Ms. Fanservice wife Naomi sitting at the table, and the look on her face says it all. This is meant to heavily imply that the whole marriage is a sham set up for a mutual ratings boost in the Facebook/TripAdvisor hybrid social media platform the episode revolves around.
  • Avon/Vila was one of the more popular ships in Blake's 7's heyday, although Avon/Blake remains the most popular. Avon/Tarrant gets a good look in too... What is it with Avon any way? Is it the leather?
  • Very long-running childrens' magazine show Blue Peter received the greatest mark of approval and respectability possible in 1972, when the then fourth-in-line-to-the-throne Princess Anne joined the presentation team. The Queen's only daughter joined the presenters, the golden team of Noakes, Purvis and Singleton, on a safari summer expedition to Africa, proving herself a natural and unaffected TV presenter and a possible talent in the making. However, she was seen to strip down to a bikini in the company of BP presenter Valerie Singleton, a woman around whom many rumours and legends have coalesced over the years. Singleton also shared a tent with the young princess when out on the veldt. While most authorities are of the view that nothing untoward or improper happened, it was let known on behalf of the Palace that a daughter of the royal house dallying with a woman suspected of being a lesbian was not exactly good PR, even if by no stretch of the imagination could a 1972 bikini be called "skimpy". Princess nne's contributions to BP were then scaled down to outside broadcasts and horse-related items, ending almost completely after her marriage in 1974.
  • Boardwalk Empire has three contenders for most Ho Yay:
    • Richard and Jimmy they start out sharing a Lingering Gaze in the hospital, and then Jimmy brings him along to Atlantic City and bargains with Nucky to get him a job, defending him whenever someone makes a comment about his appearance. Richard, in turn, who has no personal stake in any of the Nucky/Rothstein/D'Alessio madness, immediately starts offering to help Jimmy by offing people left and right. ...OK, so it's dark, but there's something very sweet about the two shell-shocked veterans bonding that way.
      • "What Does the Bee Do" has Angie getting in on the bromance and admitting they're good for each other. And "Gimcrack and Bunkum" made their bond pretty apparent:
        Richard: Would you fight for me?
        Jimmy: Down to the last bullet.
    • There's also Jimmy and Al, going back to the pilot. They bond over being the low men on the totem pole, then rise through the ranks together. By the time Al drops by Jimmy's house in Jersey in "A Dangerous Maid", playing with Tommy and speaking Italian with Angela, he comes off as Jimmy's ex, complete with tension with Richard.
      • There's a part where Al acknowledges their relationship might be "a little fruity" while they're both shopping for suits.
    • All of Team New York are basically married to each other. There's all of Luciano and Rothstein's interactions in Season 1, with Rothstein treating Luciano like a very well-kept pet. He dresses him, teaches him how to speak, and when Luciano does something wrong, Rothstein's there with a quiet "Charlie, no" and a restraining hand. Lansky and Luciano take over the Ho Yay in Season 2, rarely out of each other's company and always acting as a unit.
      • How do you read "some things, Charlie, you just have to swallow" in a non-homoerotic context?
      • In "Ourselves Alone", Charlie calls Benny a "crazy little kid" in Yiddish. Meyer responds "what can you do?" in Italian.
      • This goes even further in season 3, where they act like Benny Siegel's doting parents. A scene of them sending him out to make a heroin deal plays more like it's his first day of school.
      • Luciano comments on Meyer's beautiful face. What's even better is that he says it in Yiddish.
      • When Masseria makes a remark how Jews have sex through a sheet and therefore a joyless bunch, Luciano asserts otherwise; specifically that Meyer does it like a sailor on shore leave. It's not clear exactly how Luciano knows that.
      • In "Two Imposters", Meyer lights his cigarette with Lucky's.
  • Bomb Girls: Betty and Kate, mostly. In the finale, Betty buys a house and invites Kate to live with her. She accepts.
  • Bones: There is Les Yay vibe between Brennan and Hannah, Booth's girlfriend, in that hospital scene in Season 6.
  • Boston Legal: Heterosexual Life-Partners Alan Shore and Denny Crane. By the end, they joke about it more than any of the other characters, going far beyond the boundaries of Lampshade Hanging. It doesn't help that the series ended with the two of them getting married (so that Alan could have full access to Denny's money as Denny succumbs to Alzheimer's, but honestly...) At least, that was Denny's excuse for proposing. He also cited spousal privileges, like medical, next of kin, etc. And then blatantly admitted, "...you're the man I love." And let's not forget their wedding dance, on their balcony, to Louis Armstrong's "Fantastic, That's You." In short, Denny and Alan are dripping with more Ho Yay than every other example on this page. Combined. They're dripping with so much Ho Yay nobody mentions it because doing so would be tantamount to pointing at water and saying, "That's wet." Back in Season 2, when Alan helped Denny practice his Mambo (not innuendo, amazingly).
    Alan: Anything Denny Crane can do, I can do backwards and wearing high heels.
  • Boy Meets World:
    • Cory and Shawn did a non-stop torrent of jokes about this in later seasons. There was a break-up episode which revolved around this premise, Cory's fiancee admitted that she knew Cory loved Shawn more than her, Cory wished Shawn was there the night he lost his virginity ... you would need an encyclopedia to detail every single Ho Yay moment.
    • Continued in Girl Meets World when Shawn makes his reunion with Cory and Topanga, he addresses Topanga as "Mrs. Cory." Without batting an eye, Topanga fires back that he's "Mr. Cory."
    • Jack and Eric:
      Jack: (several times) What is this power you have over me?
  • Breaking Bad has some between various characters. Gale definitely seemed to have something of an admiring crush on Walt, and it's not like Walt wasn't overjoyed to be working with him. Walt and Jesse have their fair share as well. They fight a lot, sure, but that doesn't change the fact that by the end of the first episode, they've both seen each other in their underwear.
  • Charles and Sebastian in Brideshead Revisited. Charles's first descriptions of Sebastian are close to how would describe their first love, they're very familiar with each other, and while Charles does have later relationships with females, Sebastian seems to prefer men. For one reason or another (maybe the impact of visual vs. writing) they seem much more overt in the mini-series than in the book.
    • The homoeroticism of their relationship is specifically pointed out to Charles by Lord Marchmain's Italian mistress, who tells Charles that a man whose first love is another man will always prove to be a better lover for the women in his life than will a man who has only loved women. It is unclear whether she is referring to the idea of straight lads who love their male best friends before they ever fall in love with any female or to the idea that men are naturally omnisexual even though most will conform eventually to the expected straight lifestyle of wife and offspring — both notions fit the beliefs of the time period involved (and fit modern psychological theory as well).
  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine:
    • In-universe, Detective Keith Pembroke — a.k.a "The Vulture" — from the Major Crimes Squad seems to spend a lot of time thinking about and commenting on Detective Jake Peralta's "big white ass". A one-way version, in that Peralta cannot stand the Vulture and is clearly somewhat discomforted by these attentions.
    • Peralta himself has a great deal of Ho Yay with Detective Charles Boyle, and vice versa. The two are very good friends in a very bromatic way, Boyle goes out of his way to be flattering to Peralta and describes a collaboration between himself, Peralta and Detective Rosa Diaz as "his fantasy threesome" (of detectives on a case). Peralta takes a great interest in Boyle's love life and doesn't object to watching when a meeting between Boyle and his future fiancée starts getting rather amorous right in front of him.
      • In one episode, Peralta seems to hit on a woman and then a man with the same pick up line.
    • Detectives Rosa Diaz and Amy Santiago get a lot of slash fiction written about them. Judging by the Tomboy and Girly Girl dynamic they frequently have on the show, this is not entirely surprising.
      • It should be noted that "four-drink Amy" (who's "a little bit of a pervert") is only shown to hit on Rosa and Gina.
        Amy (drunk) to Gina: You are a true friend...and a hot little piece. *slaps her ass*
  • An unusual moment from the Pilot Movie of Buck Rogers: When Dr. Theophilus tells Twiki to place him on a table so he can get a "good look" at Buck, upon which he (it?) exclaims, "Well, now. What an attractive man you are, Captain Buck Rogers." This is right after Theophilus says that he/it wishes they will be able to watch a sunset together. It still counts if it's an AI with a male voice and referred to as "him" by human characters, right?
    • And Theophilus' report to Colonel Deering following said interview? "You can take my word, he's a wonderful man. Believe me." Those were his exact words.
  • The Bureau Of Magical Tgings: Imogen's fixation with Orla. At first she appears to be merely looking up to a role model. Then this GIF from 1x16 shows her interest. She is quite pleased to be simply acknowledged by her even non-verbally.
  • Burn Notice: Michael and Victor. Victor refers to Michael's "pretty head" on a couple of occasions. And they were going to run away to Cuba together.
    • Michael and Sam. Sam has broken dates with rich and beautiful women, gotten himself beaten up, sacrificed brilliant cars, and once attempted to get himself killed, all for Michael's sake and with only the barest twinges of regret. While less overtly demonstrative, Michael frequently trusts Sam with his life, going so far as to allow himself to back one of Sam's gambits completely blind and nearly be executed for it, as well as rescuing Sam despite the "trying to get himself killed" incident.
      • Lampshaded by Fiona in 3x04, "Fearless Leader", where Sam's holding Michael's hand because he's giving him a fake tattoo and Fiona walks in, quipping "I leave you boys alone for a minute . . .".
      • The reverse-interrogation scene in "Question and Answer", where Michael puts his life in Sam's hands, admitting via voiceover that he trusts Sam completely, and that's the only way it can work.
      • The Ho Yay is strong in "Breach of Faith", where Michael risks prison time to stay with Sam in a hostage scenario they accidentally walked into: "I leave when you leave, Sam".
      • And again in "Hard Time", where Michael actually goes to prison for Sam.
        Michael: Listen, I'll do it.
        Sam: You'd do that for my friend?
        Michael: I'd do that for you, Sam.
        Jesse: (watching them having a nonverbal exchange of "seriously?" "seriously") Uh, I hate to break up this beautiful moment you guys are having . . .
    • Seymour clearly has a massive (and massively one-sided) man-crush on Michael.
    • Most of the rival spies do it, but Gilroy seems to be actively hitting on Mike. The first thing he does when they meet is to talk about his hands. Not to mention their "date" in a hot-tub.
    • Even less expected than Gilroy hitting on Michael was that Michael seemed to be flirting back.
  • Buzzkill:
    • In the Nashville episode segment "Supermodel Surprise" one of the three main characters crossdresses as a tall, European model with long black hair, a gorgeous dress and black lipstick. The actor crossdressing actually does look surprisingly beautiful and more than passable. The crossdresser then goes to a straight bar where her two sidekicks sell up the idea that "she" is a beautiful European model who doesn't speak much English. Quickly an unsuspecting straight guy hits on the crossdresser. The obvious gag would be for the crossdresser to respond in a deep, baritone voice thus revealing "her" true gender. However, the comedian who is crossdressing "strictly for laughs" decides to do a more original comedy gag... he kisses the straight guy on the lips. Very passionately. And with tongue. And gropes him. And does so for an extended time. Not content to let a good "joke" go to waste the crossdresser insists on spends several hours for the rest of the episode passionately making out with the straight guy repeatedly, and mutually groping with him, while flirting with him and eagerly going on a long romantic date that lasts long into the day until the sun starts to set. We never see the reveal or the straight guy's reaction. Instead, after their last date and a -lengthy- goodbye kiss, the narrator of the episode makes a point of making fun of the straight guy for not realizing he'd actually been making out with a he all along.
    • The final episode of Buzzkill was "The Buzzie Awards" where the cast gave themselves awards for their best episodes in a parody of the Oscars. It even featured handsome muscle-clad men in speedos with gold-paint to parody the actual Oscar Awards. The crossdresser makes another appearance where she teases the straight guy she seduced for not having called her. She then concludes by wrapping her arms around one of the "Oscar Awards" (again, basically a speedo-clad muscleman in gold-paint) and giving a very lengthy French kiss to the guy.
  • The Charlie's Angels episode "Winning Is for Losers" basically centers around the Les Yay between Kris and golf pro Linda Frey.
  • The Charmed episode "The Fourth Sister" has some pretty blatant Les Yay between Phoebe and Aviva, to the point where Leo (being told by Piper that Phoebe is a lesbian) assumes they are together.
    • All three sisters get some with Eva in "All Halliwell's Eve" especially with Eva's whole "you felt the power" line.
  • Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Sabrina's relationship with her frenemy Prudence was a little bit charged before the episode where she was ceremonially obliged to obey Prudence's every whim, the first of which involved Sabrina preparing a warm buttermilk bath for her (complete with artfully scattered rose petals) and washing her back.
    • It's also implied that Sabrina's teacher-crush on the original Ms Wardwell had something to do with Lilith's taking her form in order to manipulate Sabrina to the dark side; most sixteen-year-old girls would not impulsively invite their social studies teacher to join them and their friends for coffee after crossing paths at the movies, and she's visibly a little bit gobsmacked when "Ms Wardwell" shows up the next day having taken all the levels in wardrobe, grooming, casually possessive touch, and kicking her feet up on the desk.
  • Every male character in Chuck seems to have this with every other male character. In S 2 E 6 where Chuck French-kisses Casey thinking that it can cure the virus.
    • Chuck has a couple of examples on the main page, but the episode Chuck vs the Alma Mater had one moment in particular which had a ton of Bryce/Chuck Ho Yay when it's revealed that Bryce got Chuck kicked out of Stamford because he wanted to save him from working for the military. Why was he so adamant about it? Because Chuck's a good guy.
    • Morgan and Chuck have moments in pretty much every episode. The way they talk about moving in together is just... wow. Perhaps they wrote in a female love interest for Morgan just to prove he's not gay.
    • Chuck also has some subtext with MI6 agent Cole. He starts by praising the man's courage, his ability to take a bullet, which then dissolves into the awesome tank tops he wears. At one point, he even tells Cole to stop him if it's getting weird.
    • In "Chuck Versus the Sensei", Chuck accuses Casey of being in love with him. However, this is completely justified a half-second later, as Casey gets so pissed off he is able to fight off the bad guy who had been kicking his ass for the last five minutes - which was what Chuck had intended.
    • While not necessarily Ho Yay, Adam Baldwin has a habit of staring at Zachary Levi's mouth during their scenes. Slash fans particularly enjoy those screencaps of those moments.
    • Casey and Mogan gets lots of this after Morgan becomes a member of Team Bartowski in season 3. They even move in together in season 4.
    Casey: You know, half of marriages end up in divorces. (Casey and Morgan drink juice at the same time)
    Chuck: It's nice to see yours is going so well.
  • Clarice: Clarice and Ardelia live together, spend much of their free time together, came up through Quantico together, and, in "Ugly Truth", almost end up sharing a bed, with Clarice sharing a Meaningful Look with Ardelia just before their pagers go off and interrupt the moment. Their relationship comes off as that of a lesbian couple in an extremely Transparent Closet. A later instance where they have a very intimate conversation while in only their underwear lying alongside each other on the bed just fuels this further.
  • The Closer:
    • The show has surprised a lot of its fans with the frankly blatant Belligerent Sexual Tension between Brenda Johnson and Sharon Raydor.
    • Also Flynn and Provenza, although their interactions frequently fall somewhere between Heterosexual Life-Partners and Ho Yay. But still, they seem to spend a lot of time together and always manage to get in trouble somehow.
      • When Provenza starts dating a much younger woman, Flynn reacts with irritation and condescension, and during the few moments when he's not mocking Provenza's new diet/clothes, he almost seems jealous. Provenza keeps a photograph of himself and his girlfriend on his desk, and when she breaks up with him, he removes the photo from the frame and throws it away. Later on in the episode, he discovers that Flynn has taken the opportunity to put a photo of himself in the empty frame. Then towards the end of the episode, we get this:
    Flynn: She broke off the engagement, huh?
    Provenza: Yep. I'm old, and I'm all alone.
    Flynn: Well. As usual, you're only half right. You're pretty old.
    • Also, in Fool's Gold, we learn that apparently, Provenza's four ex-wives ship them:
    Liz Provenza: Oh, and if you ever wanna just vent, we all get together every couple of months.
    Flynn: Who's we?
    Liz: Louie's other wives. We think of you as the fifth.
  • USA Network's Common Law is pretty much built around this trope.
    • The show’s tagline is ‘It’s like marriage. Only with bullets.” and the title itself is a play on the phrase ‘common law marriage’. The episodes are given titles like ‘Soul Mates’, ‘Ex-Factor’, and ‘Performance Anxiety’.
    • It’s pretty clear that in spite of all their bickering and disagreements, they work amazingly well as a team. If they didn’t their captain wouldn’t be wasting his time putting them through couples’ therapy, he’d just re-assign them.
    • In one episode, Wes comes knocking on Travis’ trailer while Travis is in there with his current girlfriend. Neither one seems to think it’s particularly odd that they’re having a conversation while Travis and the girlfriend are getting it on, and when Wes apologizes to him (something he rarely does), Travis immediately opens the door and agrees to follow a lead. The girl is understandably not impressed, memorably saying to Wes “Did you embroider Travis’ name on your new black panties? No? I did.”
      • Also, this line from Captain Sutton: “They are the yin to each others' yang. I hope you have a trick up your sleeve to unite their chi.”
      • Travis (referring to his ex-partner): "Look Wes, I just don't want to air all our dirty laundry in front of him."
  • Control Z: Gerry and Raúl in Season 2 when the former kisses him, after Gerry's admitted he likes men.
  • In CSI, the original Las Vegas, the character of Hodges shows a great deal of affection and worship toward Grissom, his superior. This demonstration often seems to go beyond just hero worship.
    Hodges: So, I scored two tickets to this Alec Knight lecture. He's of course you know, challenging that the Russian claim that the Romanov remains done in Petersburg are authentic. Open bar.
    Grissom: Are you asking me out?
    Hodges: Is that a yes?
    • Greg and Nick have quite a fan following as well. In early seasons, Nick playfully says "Leggo my Greggo," Greg says "I thought we had a relationship" and Nick accidentally replies to Greg's "rock on" hand gesture with the sign language gesture for "I love you".
  • Eric and Horatio in CSI: Miami. It isn't so strong as it was in the early seasons. Or at least it wasn't until the seventh season premiere. [What else can one make of Horatio's "it might have failed. I didn't want to put you in the way!" explanation as to why he didn't include Eric in his fake death scheme? Eric was all but shouting "Call me, okay?" after Horatio as he walked away at the end, too.
  • Damages: if Patty and Ellen were guys the slash would break the internet. In the show, both women are lawyers, and Ellen oscillates repeatedly between being Patty's protegee and her rival. They have an extremely tense and emotionally intimate relationship, especially in the third season, where Patty recruiting a new associate to replace Ellen is played suspiciously closely to a love triangle with the new associate as the "rebound girl"; Patty, falsely believing that Ellen did something to screw her over, turns up at Ellen's flat drunk and in a state of hysterical rage and despair that seems completely unlikely for a purely professional relationship; and when they are trying to make up we get the memorable line "you're trying to seduce me with bourbon". This is downplayed in the final season, in which their relationship becomes much more a hostile parent-child surrogate one.
  • Darna: The 2022 TV adaptation has plenty of unintentional subtext between Narda and Regina (its versions of Darna and Valentina), due how quickly the two grow close and despite competing for the same guy. Some examples include: When Narda gets hired by Regina's practice, she repeatedly asks when she can see Regina and is more excited to see her then her crush Brian. In one episode when Regina accidentally yells at Narda, they both spend the episode devastated. Regina, in particular, spends the night Drowning Her Sorrows out of guilt and when she she sees Narda again, instantly runs over to hug her while proclaiming that she can't lose her. When Regina can't find Narda one episode, she spends the entire episode simply waiting by her desk, before acting suspicious towards Noah in a way that seems unintentionally like a jealous girlfriend, and when Narda lies and says her grandmother was sick, Regina makes sure to send her a fruit basket. When their love interest Brian is hurt one episode, the two spend a prolonged time comforting each other.
  • Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High have their share. Degrassi: The Next Generation has its own page. Among others, everyone who sees the first season at least entertains the though of Voula's girlcrush on Steph.
    • "Caitlin's gay, you know. She's a lesbian."
    • Arthur and Yick's bromance is truly legendary. LEGENDARY.
    • There's also a lot of subtext for Snake and Wheels, too. Someone (who may or may not have had way too much time on their hands) actually went through the episodes and wrote down every even the ''least'' bit slashy moment. Every. Single. One.
    • It's not really Ho Yay for Marco. He actually IS gay. The Ellie stuff was him trying to make himself straight.
    • Darcy and Manny!
    • Eli and Adam seem to be headed in this direction. Since Adam is transgender and played by a girl, the writers have set up Adam as a Shipper on Deck for Eli/Clare so that if the Real Life UST between the actors get out of hand people can point out that Adam is practically the captain of the HMCS EClare.
  • The Devil Judge: Yo-han and Ga-on. Yo-han gets very close to Ga-on and touches his shoulder while asking if he lives alone, buys him new clothes and takes him on what's basically a date in all but name, and even gets Ga-on to move into his house. Even the promotional poster shows them staring into each other's eyes.
  • Dexter Season 3 has plenty of Ho Yay between the titular character of Dexter and the character of Miguel Prado.
    • Even Dexter's sister notices, at one point asking him what was up with all the "sexual tension" between them.
    • Also a small amount of Ho Yay between Quinn and his CI, Anton.
    • Dexter was infatuated with the Ice Truck Killer before he ever met the guy. Definite schoolboy crush there. And then there's the flashback to his teenage years where he tells his father he doesn't like girls. Sure, he then expounds on it, saying he likes to be alone. But you can totally tell by Harry's expression that he's getting the wrong idea.
  • Dick & Dom have always been prone to casually hugging. And casually asking each other "How many points shall we give the winner of this, darling?". And casually holding hands as they stroll along a riverbank (to set up the "Duck!" "What?" "No, a duck." joke).
  • Dirk Gently: Dirk and Macduff emanate waves of hostile codependence.
  • Sometimes shows up on Dirty Jobs.
    Mike: "Why am I lying on another man lying on a crocodile?"
  • Doc Martin: Surprisingly, between Martin and PC Penhale. In the episode with Penhale's brother, Penhale runs around Martin's office and hugs the Doc while shirtless. Later that same episode, Penhale gives Martin a present and mentions their "special relationship."
  • Dollhouse: Echo and Sierra.
    • Victor and Ballard have their moments, too. Ballard seems to have a thing for pushing Victor up against walls...
    • Same for Topher and Boyd.
      Topher: Anything for you. Because I love you. Deep, deep man-love.
    • There's also a brief moment in "Vows" which features Sierra's imprint coming on to Ivy.
      If you did wish to tie me down and spank me, I suppose I would be helpless to resist?
    • Also in "Vows", Echo and Whiskey pawing all over each other in flashback.
    • And in "The Left Hand" there's some vicious implications of Caroline/Bennett.
      • Not to mention "Getting Closer", which features several flashback scenes that show the two were very...close.
    • Mag and Kilo, in "Epitaph 2". Though to be fair, that's canon (Mag is canonically a lesbian and that look they gave each other at the end...)
      Mag: Oh I dunno, the Asian one is kinda cute.
      Zone: She's a tech head Mag. Beat She's a girl Mag.
  • Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 has some between Chloë, the eponymous bitch, and June, her roommate. In the third episode, Chloë takes in a foster child, having told Children's Protective Services that she and June are cohabiting lesbian lovers, since CPS would not place a foster child with a jobless single woman.
    Chloë: Come on, June, you moved in the first day we met. I bagged me quite the trophy. (Slaps June on rear.)
  • Constable Benton Fraser, RCMP and Detective First Class Ray Vecchio, or his replacement, Detective First Class S. Raymond Kowalski, in Due South.
    • Some of the more blatant examples being things like "Fraser hangs out in the bathroom while Ray V showers", "Ray K asks Fraser if he thinks Ray's attractive (on the second day after they met and despite there being a woman in the room)", "gratuitous underwater mouth-to-mouth", and "literally riding (on a dogsled) into the sunset in the finale."
    • And to balance out the list above (because it mostly lists Fraser/Kowalski examples): "Ray V calls Fraser a pet name - Benny," "The two axes scene" and "Not on your life, Benny." Ray V also never hit Fraser in anger. Kowalski did.
  • Euphoria: Rue and Jules' friendship drips with homoerotic overtones. Then it drops the subtext after they kiss and move into a romantic relationship.
  • Carter and Grant in Eureka. For example, the midseason finale, "I'll Be Seeing You", drops the title twice. The first time, it's the song playing while Carter and Allison share a romantic slow dance (ending in a kiss that lasts 63 years). The second time, it's the last thing Grant says to Carter before he leaves to travel the world with his newly acquired wealth.

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  • Family Matters: Urkel's relationships with Carl and Eddie verge on this.
    • Eddie and Waldo's relationship also has hints of it.
    • At times, Laura and Myra seem to have elements of Les Yay.
  • Jo and Blair from The Facts of Life are notorious for Les Yay. If the Unresolved Sexual Tension isn't obvious from their fight sequences, then their moments of maybe more-than-friendship cement the Yay. Only a few episodes after Jo's first appearance, they even go so far as to essentially cross-dress as one another, exchanging the butch/femme dynamic.
  • Farscape.
    • Most glaring was the relationship between Magnificent Bastard Scorpius and his Smithers, Braca. Braca shows almost puppy-like devotion to Scorpius, who in turn treats him like a faithful pet. However, the roles are reversed in one episode where Braca has apparently defected to another Big Bad, and has Scorpius drugged and on a leash - at one point, he's compelled to beat Scorpius, hissing "This is for every time I had to say yes," and no, we never find out what he had to say yes to. In a later episode, we find out that the "defection" was another plan by Scorpius (one that relied entirely on his faith in Braca); specifically, we find out when they run into each other again onboard Moya, without anyone else's knowledge. Braca warmly gushes, "It's good to see you, Sir." Scorpius just grins his horrible, skeletal grin and licks Braca's face. Farscape knew kinky. Biblically.
    • And there was also some heavy-duty innuendo involving Scorpy and his Arch-Enemy John. First of all there's the way that Scorpy calls John by his first name all the time and constantly invades his personal space. But things got absolutely undeniable in the fight scene around the cliff-hanger of "Into the Lion's Den", which ends with Scorpy lying full length on John face-to-face and looking as if he's about to kiss him. And finally there's the notorious "Scarran blood vow" scene in "Prayer", where the director and the actors just said "to hell with subtlety" and introduced the mutual finger-sucking.
    • Also John/D'Argo, which was magnificently played with in "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Out Of Their Minds".
    • Chiana, thanks to some Imported Alien Phlebotinum, went on a lust bender which had her about to jump the alien-of-the-week, and put the moves on Aeryn. Hell, Chiana hits on just about everyone at some point or another. Her most notable moments are in "Twice Shy", where a shapeshifting Emotion Eater consumes her libido while disguised as a humanoid woman; and in "Bringing Home the Beacon" when she first seems very enthusiastic about pretending to be a lesbian couple with Noranti, and then gets mildly tortured by a dominatrix masseuse and seems to suffer no trauma whatsoever.
    • Delvians share "unity" regardless of gender, however despite its clearly sexual side-effects, is primarily a spiritual bonding.
  • The Ted and Ralph sketches from The Fast Show feature a posh landowner forever trying to pluck up the courage to ask out his farm worker.
  • Adam Baldwin speculated in the Firefly Official Companion Vol. 2 that Joss was trying to create Ho Yay subtext between Simon and Jayne, and it probably would have been more thoroughly explored if the show hadn't been abruptly cancelled.
    • Jayne has, on more than one occasion, referred to Simon (or various body parts of his) as "pretty."
      • Mal's prone to making comments like that as well. Simon must just be a gay magnet. In "Jaynestown", while mocking Simon, Mal goes on about how pretty he is...and then glances at his butt. So Yeah...
      • To say nothing of the fight in the Big Damn Movie. Mal shoves Simon onto a table at one point.
      • Simon in general feels like a Transparent Closet most of the time anyway. His reaction to the male whores in "Heart Of Gold", or his vehement denial that he and Kaylee are anything to Mal..Yeah.
    • There were vibes of this from River and Kaylee in "Objects In Space", and in the pilot when Kaylee looks over at a sleeping River.
      • River spying on Kaylee and Simon making love in the BDM. She could have just been curious as to what was going on, but...
      • Also, from the original BDM script, there's this line during the scene after River has just gone beserk at Fanty & Mingo's:
      Mal: What if she went off in the middle of dinner, or in bunk with Kaylee, did that give you a moment's pause?
    • Kaylee and Inara have too many moments to count. Even their first on screen interaction was slashy. In this Q&A with Jewel Staite, one of the questions was, "In real life, who would you choose: Mal or Simon?" Her answer was "Inara."
    • Saffron tries to kiss Inara in "Our Mrs. Reynolds" (yes, it was intended as a ploy, but YoSaffBridge makes it clear the manipulations are their own reward). Made more interesting when considering Inara is revealed as servicing female as well as male clients in "War Stories".
    • The unit Malcolm Reynolds led during the pre-series war for Independence was the "57th Overlanders." One of the more Ho Yay filled Shakespearean sonnets is his 57th.
  • Pops up a lot in Flight of the Conchords, most obviously in Jemaine's "Bret, You've Got it Going On" song: "Why can't a heterosexual guy tell a heterosexual guy that he thinks his booty is fly?" Not to mention the business about Jemaine putting a wig on Bret and spooning him...
  • Fox News: Megyn Kelly and Janice Dean in this clip.
  • Franklin & Bash. Evidence? The whole pilot.
  • Charlotte's boyfriend towards Frasier. He falls asleep leaning on him, he asks him for a neck rub, he gives him a longer goodbye hug than his ex-girlfriend...
  • Will Smith from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air had strong elements of Ho Yay with both Carlton and his best friend Jazz. This is not to say that Will (the character) was comfortable with such undertones, as he once had a role on a Show Within a Show soap opera, but quit because he was uncomfortable with acting very close between his character and his character's brother.
  • On Fringe, Walter Bishop and William Bell are the living embodiment of this trope, with Walter affectionately referring to him as "Bellie". Makes you wonder what else went on in that lab...
    • In the "Brown Betty" episode, Olivia and Astrid.
  • Uncle Jesse and Joey on Full House. Seriously.
    • Between all three of them actually. Bob Saget often jokes about it.
    • Well, they do live in San Francisco (don't hit me)
    • We all know that Joey killed Danny's wife.
    • Jesse was Danny's late wife's brother; using one's boyfriend's sister as a 'beard' is an old tradition.
  • In The Gates, which focuses on a human cop and his family moving into a gated community that's secretly inhabited by supernatural creatures, there's a fair bit of obvious Ho Yay involving main werewolf jock Brett and his friend Lukas, though one-sided: Lukas keeps trying to break up Brett and his girlfriend, yet when another guy moves in on her Lukas actually attacks said other guy because it's bumming Brett out. Then Lukas convinces Brett to go running with their werewolf buddies, which involves more human nudity than one might guess.
    • There's also some Ho Yay between Human Cop Dad Nick Monahan and English Vampire Dad Dylan Radcliffe; possibly lampshaded[/played with when they wind up carpooling to a father/daughter dance (with their daughters, of course) and Nick comments "Do you get the feeling our wives are trying to set us up?"
  • General Hospital has its moments. Sonny and Jason were pretty attached to each other for a while, possibly justified in that Sonny hired Jason and helped him get back on his feet after a car crash that left him with total amnesia.
    • And now we've got Spinelli and Jason. Before Spinelli was flanderized and became unable to say words with fewer than three syllables, he informed Jason that he was "cute, but rough around the edges." Spinelli also called him "Master" for a while. He didn't mean it in that sense, but it's still a bit jarring.
      • Jason (and Sam) ran into a burning hospital to save Spinelli.
      • More recently, Johnny Zacchara took several bullets while saving him from an ambush.
    • Now we've got the artist Franco being absolutely obsessed with Jason.
  • In Generation Kill, Sgt Brad Colbert has it with both his superior officer Lt Nate Fick, due to them undressing each other with their eyes every time they're in a scene together, and with his RTO and best friend Cpl Josh Ray Person, whom he also shares some long glances with. Furthermore, Colbert and Person are often described as an old married couple and as the Mom and Dad of the Humvee.
    • It gets even worse if you watch the DVDs with the commentary on. Stark Sands, the actor who plays Fick, and the real Evan Wright talk about the eye-language, but they suddenly start speaking awkwardly for a moment as if they want to lampshade this trope. Worse still, the commentary for episode four includes, among other things, PJ Ransone and Alex Skarsgård (Person and Colbert) having a truly bizarre conversation about a scene that starts with Ransone saying, in a squeaky, girly voice, "This is the day I saw the Iceman's penis!". It ends with Ransone declaring that Skarsgård "has a huge cock" that he shouldn't be ashamed about.
    • And, of course, "Fruity" Rudy Reyes.
  • Shaolin Fantastic and Ezekiel Figuero on The Get Down, to the point where other characters outright state the romantic tension between the two.
  • The Skipper and his "little buddy" on Gilligan's Island:
    Skipper: If you were a girl, I'd kiss ya'!
  • Gilmore Girls: In "Girls in Bikinis and Boys Doing the Twist" Paris and Rory kiss.
  • In-Universe example: Elle MacPherson and Kate Capshaw had a lesbian sex scene in the Showtime mini-series A Girl Thing.
  • In the Netflix series Glow Up, at the end of episode 6, contestants Nikki and Tiffany act like a couple about to depart from one another, and are very physically close during the "Face-Off" challenge to stay in the contest. The two hug, hold hands, lean into each other, Tiffany rests her chin on top of Nikki's head, and she even kisses Nikki's forehead.
  • The Goodies had a few moments. Not surprising, considering all main characters were male and shared one flat. Special mention goes to any instance of Tim and Bill arguing Like an Old Married Couple. Even lampshaded, in "Superstar", when Tim and Graeme had dressed up as a Camp Gay couple in leather and fur and were casually flirting with Bill to make him notice that, in his superstar state, he got some unwanted attention. (Definitely makes some more sense in context.) When it worked, this ensued:
    Both: It worked! (move to hug, then pull away) Get off!
    • Also, in "The End", it's revealed Tim (dead-drunk, but still) has at least three nicknames for Graeme — "Grayhound", "Graybags", and "Fuzzychops". Squee.
    • Not to mention the bit in "The End" where Bill points out that Tim will never be able to have children and says "For the next three years we three are doomed to be bachelors gay... that's an idea innit." whilst Bill and Graeme camply put their hands on Tim's shoulders and stroke his hair.
  • The Good Place: Eleanor's snarking about too-perfect Tahani can get into annoyedly mentioning how pretty she is, which coupled with Tahani's touchy-feeliness makes for prime Ho Yay material. The first season finale takes it from subtext to the very borderline between subtext and text when Eleanor describes her as a "hot, rich fraud with legs for days..." and then interrupts herself with "Side note: I might legit be into Tahani." Tahani and Chidi look at each other in surprise and/or confusion.
  • Gossip Girl:
    • Epic quantities of Les Yay, especially the first season which has as a major plot the makings-up/breakings-up/betrayals/heart-to-hearts of Serena and Blair. Blair's 'training' of Little J, the passive-agressive jealousy between Vanessa and Serena, Serena and Georgina, Serena and Poppy... The Blair/Serena Les Yay is to the point that they both dumped their respective dates at prom, and spent the rest of the night together remembering old days. There is also their Cat Fight in 2.06 "New Haven Can Wait."
    • In the first season, Nate sleeps at Chuck's an awful lot. It doesn't help that, in the novels, Chuck was bi. Chuck and Nate live together as of 3.09, so those sleepovers live on. Then there are comments like these...
    Chuck: A week ago you couldn't get Bloomberg to give you a quote to the Spectator, now you're canceling on him? It's a bold move, Nathaniel. I'm almost aroused.
    • In one episode, where Blair tricks Chuck into kissing a guy as part of their "game." His response: "You think that's the first time?"
    • Nate and Dan seem to have chemistry.
  • Gotham
    • Gordon and Bullock can't seem to go an episode without getting in each other's face or arguing like an old married couple.
    • Oswald obviously has a thing for Gordon, or just wants to be his friend.
    • Also, Fish Mooney auditioning and training a Femme Fatale henchwoman apparently requires a lot of kissing and flirting. You know, for practice, or whatever.
    • On a more disturbing note, many viewers were Squicked when in "Red Hood" Barbara went from complimenting Selina's appearance to violating her personal space and trying to get her to wear sexy clothing.
    • Gordon and Richard Sionis, as the latter takes more than a passing interest in Gordon the minute he steps into his office.
    • Ed and Oswald have quite a bit of it once they start interacting in Season Two, with Ed acting like a Stalker with a Crush and the two essentially sharing an apartment. Leslie even initially mistakes a phone call between them as Ed talking to his dead girlfriend.
    • Barnes seems to take it rather harshly when he finds out about Gordon's misdeeds and is forced to arrest him.
    Barnes: You broke my heart!
  • Mark Sloan & Derek Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy.
    Mark: I came to Seattle to get you back.
    • Also George O'Malley and Alex Karev.
      Alex: I'm down with the rainbow.
    • Derek and Burke during the latter's surgery, when Derek has to wake him up half-way through and calm him down.
    • Mark and Jackson, lampshaded heavily.
      • You know they were about to kiss at the end.
  • Nick and Monroe in Grimm — middle of the night phonecalls, quasi-romantic dinners for two (cooked by Monroe, specifically for Nick, complete with soft music playing in the background), and conversations that make them sound Like an Old Married Couple.
  • Guardian: The Lonely and Great God: Kim Shin and Wang Yeo. They're supposed to be Vitriolic Best Buds, but their relationship has hints of Belligerent Sexual Tension as well. When Wang Yeo thinks Kim Shin is going to share a room with Eun-tak his reaction is oddly dramatic and almost jealous. Later he tells Kim Shin he loves him — as a joke, but still. Then he asks Kim Shin to send Eun-tak away so he and Kim Shin can be happy together "like we used to be".
  • Have I Got News for You has had a few things over the years. In one episode, Paul Merton looked up dreamily, and we got a clip of him and Ian Hislop skipping together through a field. Another time he claimed that a paper aeroplane Ian had thrown across the studio contained love letters to him...
  • Hannibal: Will and Hannibal. Enough to make quite a few viewers question whether or not it's actually a Ship Tease.
  • Hellcats has had its fair share of incredibly Les Yay moments over its first season between main characters Marti and Savannah. Among the highlights:
    • Marti, a law major, ditches a law rally across the state to help the Hellcats in a flag football game after faking being sick, something only Savannah knows. When Marti shows up unexpectedly in the fourth quarter, Savannah goes up to her and happily exclaims, "You chose us over lawyering." Marti responds to Savannah, "I didn't. I chose you over lawyering."
    • After Savannah's boyfriend Dan cheats on her with Marti, the best friends suffer through a rift. When Marti goes to check on the supposedly-injured Savannah before a meet, Savannah rejects Marti's apology and hits her with a pillow to take out her frustrations. Marti can only laugh, and Savannah tells her to stop because it's not funny and continues hitting her with the pillow. Marti continues to be amused and begins hitting Savannah with a pillow as well. This escalates into a full-on pillow fight that ends with the two laughing, lying down on the bed and Savannah finally accepting Marti's apology. However, when Marti goes for a hug, Savannah rejects her and says, "Hugs come later." "Hugs come later" obviously means before the next commercial break.
  • Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: The friendship between Hercules and his best friend Iolaus can be seen as Ho Yay. (This actually being quite toned down from the actual classical Greek stories, in which the two were lovers AND paternal uncle and nephew.)
  • Highlander. Duncan/Methos was so blatant it was practically canon and arguably the reason Methos was kept on the show. The episode "Chivalry" is a particular standout, complete with sexy Freudian sparring, cute domestic moments, and Methos killing one of Duncan's creep ex-girlfriends. And if that's not your thing, there's Duncan/Richie for the mentor/student shippers, and Joe's epic Bromance with Duncan AND Methos. There was even Les Yay, a remarkable feat for a show with comparatively few regular female characters. Word of Gay says Amanda was in a relationship with her mentor, Rebecca. Sadly, the producers were worried about Moral Guardians, and hid their bisexuals. The Les Yay between them is still off the charts. Oh, and then there's Lord Byron, who came across as being constantly out for threesomes with Methos and whatever poetry groupie crossed his radar.
  • Hogan's Heroes: Hogan and Klink. A number of the scenes with Hogan trying to convince Klink of something are about halfway to seductive flirting, as are a number of his witty comments ("Don't you love me anymore?"). Klink, canonically desperate for Hogan's approval, has a habit of standing very close to him when they're talking.
    • Given that nearly every exchange between Hogan and Klink involves Hogan lying or manipulating him, it's possible he's just leading him on.
  • Homicide: Life on the Street, which occasionally crossed over with Law & Order'', had Munch and Briscoe, who canonically share an ex-wife. ("You'd think they were married in a previous life.") Briscoe had sex with Munch's ex-wife.
    • Also Bayliss and Pembleton. To elaborate, Pembleton urged Bayliss to get to know his "dark side" sexually speaking, and be less squicked out by cases involving gays. Once Bayliss took his advice, he also showed subtle hints of being attracted to Pembleton, who didn't quite know what to do with this.
    • In Season Six Pembleton even says (albeit jokingly) that he and Bayliss are "joined at the hip".
  • Horatio Hornblower: In the first six episodes, Horatio and Archie are inseparable during the time that they serve together. Archie at least has taken great risks for his friend (example: running across an exploding bridge for Horatio in the fourth episode, or returning to the prison where he'd spent the last several months just for the sake of honouring a promise Horatio made) and is clearly very fond of him. Horatio, in his less-emotional way, returns the sentiment: Archie is just about the only person who can make him smile, and while he's usually quite outwardly calm under pressure, Horatio just about falls apart when Archie tries to starve himself to death in "The Duchess and the Devil." Those two have far more chemistry together than Horatio and either of his subsequent love interests (his French girlfriend Mariette and his eventual wife Maria) and the way they exchange long, lingering looks is very suspect. The way Archie all-but-ogles Horatio in his new lieutenant's uniform ... their relationship culminates in Archie sacrificing his good name to save Horatio from hanging, then dying heroically.
  • I Love Lucy: Though both Lucy and Ethel are married to men (and more or less happily so), their extremely close friendship led to some suggestive moments on occasion.
    Lucy: Ethel, we're going to have a baby!
    Ethel: We are?! Oh, isn't that wonderful?! I never had a baby before! I mean, I've never been let in on it so soon.
    Lucy: 'Let in on it'? Well, you knew it even before I did. This whole thing was practically your idea!
  • I Love New York: Two of the gents on had, at the least, throbbing mancrushes on one another. Mind you, this is a Bachelor-styled show where all the men were ostensibly vying for Tiffany "New York" Patterson's affections. Interestingly, one is, in fact, One Head Taller than the other.
  • Human Target: The guys have a few moments:
    • Near the end of episode 10 of season 2, Guerrero looks like he's giving Chance bedroom eyes when they're talking in the diner.
      • Guerrero and Chance are a little bit closer due to the fact that they used to work with each other for the Old Man.
    • At the end of episode 9 of season 1, Winston tries to tell Chance how much he means to him, which causes Guerrero to say, “For God sakes, get a room already!”
    • On episode 1 of season 2, after Chance and Guerrero save Winston, Chance leaves the team because he felt bad that he was the one who couldn't prevent Winston's kidnapping. When Chance comes back, Winston acts like a jilted lover until Chance apologizes to him.
    • Chance and Baptiste have some tension going on between them.
    • Guerrero and Winston fight like an old married couple any chance they can get.
  • Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis.
    • Inspector Lewis and Sergeant Hathaway in the spin-off.
  • Of all shows, Iron Chef America had an example. Jeffery Steingarten was bemoaning the fact that among the snails that were today's theme ingredient, none of them were African snails, which he preferred. Alton Brown then suggested he take the other male judge out so they could have some. Cue looks between the two judges and appropriate music.
  • Both Jackass and Wildboyz are filled with intentional Ho Yay. In one episode of Wild Boyz, Steve-O even lays an almost-naked Chris Pontius across his lap and spanks him with the thorny leaf of a Mexican cactus!
    • Pontius, according to interviews, really likes to start masturbating around his male friends. And try to get them wet.
  • Jeeves and Wooster has less of this in the show than in the original books, thanks to the absence of Bertie's narration, but makes up for it by having double-act Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie playing the titular characters. If you've seen some of the stuff they do in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and factor in the supposed Heterosexual Life-Partners thing...yeah. These guys slash themselves.
    • And then there was "The Delayed Arrival" with Jeeves in drag. And I quote: "Why are you two holding hands like that? Is that some...English custom?"
    • Since most of the script is based off novels written/set in a Genteel Interbellum Setting, a lot of the dialogue can sound a little odd, but seriously Jeeves..."Miss Stoker will be here at any moment, sir, and I'm sure we wouldn't wish to be discovered in a state of undress."

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  • Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger:
    • Marvelous and Joe in episode 12.
    Captain Marvelous: "The one I want is you."
    • The first time Luka and Ahim slept together on the couch, it was a cute moment that came after Luka tried comforting Ahim. The second time...well, here we are. There are other moments that can be be seen as shipping, especially episode 23, their focus episode (and Gogo V tribute).
    • With the villains, Marvelous and Basco have a thing going on, while Joe and Cid act very, very close in some of their flashbacks.
    • In a flashback, Basco asks a wounded Marvelous, "Want me to feed you ... like a couple?" He's teasing, yeah, but still.
  • Kamen Rider Double features a secondary Rider called Kamen Rider Accel, who has the unusual ability to shift into a bike. There are several scenes in the series in which the titular Kamen Rider Double literally rides Accel. Because the Double transformation consists of two people inhabiting one suit of armor, Double riding Accel is often called "the threesome" by fans.
    • Shotaro and Phillip definitely have an air of this, referring to each other as "partner" among other things. There is even an episode where they break up and get back together in a Heartwarming Moment.
    • In #22, Aya Kujo manhandling Saeko and pinning her down to the floor while crouching over her.
    • Kamen Rider Decade has, eventually, Tsukasa and Kaito. At first it can easily be filed under the same as the Double situation: you can like someone without it being sexual. But the road to it is was as rocky as any romance arc, especially when both are different flavors of Jerk with a Heart of Gold and love picking on each other. However, the moment that you really don't need Shipping Goggles to see is in the big Kamen Rider/Super Sentai teamup: Kaito was hurt because of Tsukasa's Batman Gambit and so decides to punish him by using the villains' Humongous Mecha to attack the Rangers and Riders! After it's all over, they halfway make up, but with Kaito basically deciding that they need to take a break from their relationship for a while. Kaito takes Decade's Kamen Ride card as a momento, though. (Of course, Tsukasa kinda needs that, so this means at some point, they'll have to meet again, and Kaito will be in control. To be continued?)
    • Kamen Rider Kiva has several bath-sharing scenes.
    • Literally any moment in Kamen Rider Build can be interpreted as this. Sento and Ryuga call each other by insulting nicknames constantly, but will always be there for each other. Sento absolutely freaked when it looked like Ryuga had been killed in a battle with Evolt, followed by relief when he appeared to be fine, then panicked even harder when it turned out that Evolt had possessed Ryuga. The same thing happened when Evolt possessed Sento. There's also the people who ship Kazumi with the Three Crows, and those who ship him with Gentoku, who is canonically in love with Sawa. And those who hadn't guessed that Sento is Takumi Katsuragi may or may not have attempted to ship them together. The shipping going on in Build is insane.
    • Kamen Rider Revice has a lot between Sakura and Aguilera. Aguilera takes an interest in Sakura after seeing her fighting prowess and wants to get her to join her, while Sakura also seems to care for Aguilera and wants to get her to turn good. Helped by lines like this:
    Aguilera: I've been waiting for you, Sakura-chan.
    Sakura: Just how much do you like me?
  • Keen Eddie frequently insinuated and confirmed that partners Eddie Arlette and Monty Pippin were deeply attracted to each other.
  • The titular Kenan & Kel.
  • Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger:
    • Kaito is...quite interested in trying to get his rival Stacey to become an ally throughout the show, to the point where it led to a notable fandom for them as a ship developing. He also has a fair bit of it with Zocks, as well, which has naturally led to an OT3 developing between the three in the fandom.
    • Magine has three separate instances; her interactions with Sabella in the Kamen Rider Saber crossover episode, her interactions with Flint in Episodes 18 and 37 and the scene of her walking a bride to the aisle with their arms locked in Episode 8.
  • In episode 7 of the mostly-forgettable Kindred: The Embraced, Prince Julian and the Nosferatu Primogen Daedalus have a meaningful chat, and Daedalus spikes Julian's wine (...) with his own blood. For the power-boost, one assumes, but given the scene it's not surprising that one reviewer's comment was along the lines of 'I suddenly understand why the Prince has such unwavering support from the Nosferatu Primogen— Clearly Daedalus is gay for his Prince.' Well, that explains it as well as anything else in the show.
  • Spence and Danny from The King of Queens. There's an episode where Spence is jealous of all the time Danny is spending with Doug, Deacon, and Richie and while they are out playing paintball, tackles him to the ground. And later on in the series they share an apartment together and often when they argue, they act as though they're in a lover's quarrel instead of a fight between friends. One episode had them pretend to be a gay couple to get a free plasma screen TV that only couples qualify for and get married when they find out that the couples have to be married to get said TV.
  • The original Knight Rider series has some uncomfortable subtext between Michael and KITT. Don't try and tell me you didn't see it.
    • Could that be called "Auto-eroticism"?
    • Tons in "Knightmares"— KITT: "The old Michael Knight was also someone I was very fond of."
  • The Larry Sanders Show has an example in which David Duchovny, a real person, possesses an intense and slightly discomforting heterosexual man-crush on Larry Sanders, the titular (and very fictional) talk show host.
  • Wilder and Noah in The Latest Buzz, they even have more than one 'break up' episode.
    • Noah and Rebecca's dad also have this in one episode, complete with over the top break up.
  • On Law & Order proper, Serena Southerlyn. Despite the sudden nature of her departure from the show, there were hints toward her gaiety. Episode 13x10, "Mother's Day," features a Hello, Attorney! corporate attorney working defense pro bono for her aunt. The first thing she does is ask Serena if she can buy her some coffee. Then she finds Serena out jogging to ask her a favor. When the favor turns out to have been a ploy to help her win, and the Hello, Attorney! has shades of Amoral Attorney using her aunt's case to get ahead at work, the angry conversation has shades of I Thought It Meant and for the rest of the episode, Serena's more than happy to get back at her. At the end, she's asked Serena out for drinks, "probably wants to talk sentence recommendation".
  • LazyTown: There is so much Sportacus/Robbie slash out there that it seems to outnumber any other kind. And it doesn't come from nowhere either: one episode had Robbie falling asleep and happily murmur "Hello, Sportacus." There's also the ridiculous amount of times Robbie touches Sportacus or jumps into his arms. They have the latter down to a fine art. Sportacus rescues Robbie almost as much as he rescues the kids.
  • Believe it or not, Wally and Eddie on Leave It to Beaver. In one episode Wally plans on going to a dance with Eddie and has to be convinced that going with a pretty girl is perfectly acceptable. Talk about those repressive 50s!
    • In another episode, June has gone to help her sister Peggy with a new baby, while her aunt Martha comes to watch the boys. Aunt Martha insists on buying Beaver a short pants suit, because that's how boys his age dressed when she was a child. The snooty salesman comments, "Not many mothers have such good taste nowadays." Beaver replies, "She's not my mother. My mother went to have a baby with my aunt Peggy." The looks on the faces of Aunt Martha and the snooty salesman are priceless.
  • Kahlan and Cara of Legend of the Seeker have quite a following.
    • There's a reason the majority of the fandom is 'Gay For Kahlan'.
  • Leverage: In "The Experiment Job", Eliot and Sophie are trying to get info about the mark from Detective Grayson, who is clearly frustrated that her investigation of a murder was quashed by political connections. Eliot tries to turn on the charm to get the info they need, and Grayson indicates to them that the tactic might prove more successful if Sophie were to make the advance instead. Eliot takes it in stride, and Sophie, for her part, seems flattered.
  • Lie to Me: Lightman has a few definite Ho Yay moments with Jeff Buchanan. Shame about the spectacular self-detonation of the relationship in the seventh episode.
    • Cal gets very confrontational when trying to provoke honesty from his subjects. He's emotionally violent with women, but with men he gets more physical. In "Secret Santa," his pinning a soldier to a wall and menacing him from three inches away got very... intense.
    • Certainly not limited to this example; Cal usually turns relationships around to get whoever it is to trust him, which can come off as manipulating the subjects into being attracted to him.
  • Life On Mars. When you have at least one reviewer acknowledging that the real romance of the series is between Sam and Gene...
    • There's a John Simm interview where this was actually put to him as a question. John Simm is both amused beyond belief and not entirely dismissive of the idea that the entire point was Sam coming to terms with being gay.
    • You'd think Ashes to Ashes (2008) would have less of this, being the Distaff Counterpart sequel, but you'd be reckoning without Shaz's pretty well canonical girl-crush on Alex ("I'd pay!") and whatever the hell is going on in Ray's head as regards Chris.
      • And then there's the graffiti Alex imagines on the tunnel wall in season 3, episode 4. "Gene <3 Sam," indeed. She later notes this down as "Gene/Sam," which either makes this the most blatant subtext ever or an outright shout-out on the writers' part.
      • Not to mention whatever the hell is going on between Gene and Jim Keats.
  • Had The Lonely Island sitcom been picked up by Comedy Central, Jorma and Akiva were definitely headed in this direction. In the two episodes produced, Jorma climbs into Akiva's bed when he's lonely, almost kiss before Andy interrupts, and most likely kiss (off-screen, unfortunately) after deciding not to kill someone for their pinky just yet.
  • Look Around You even has Ho Yay. At the end of the "Music 2000" episode, everyone is watching presenter Jack Morgan's musical performance, oblivious to the fact that the two male competitors in the titular competition are making out right next to them.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Elrond and Prince Durin are close friends who haven't seen each other in 2 decades. When Elrond suddenly appears in him home, Durin acts like a bitter ex whose old flame left them with no explanation one day and now returned to rekindle their relationship as if nothing happened, while Durin remade his life with someone else.
  • Lost gives us eight examples: Jack and Sawyer, Jack and Locke, Jack and Sayid, Sawyer and Sayid, Saywer and Jin, Charlie and Hurley, Charlie and Desmond, and Hurley and Sayid.
    • And now Season 4 gives us Sawyer and Hurley.
    • Season one had more than a little subtext between Locke and Boone. Shannon teased him about it more than once...
    • No mention of Locke and Ben? Lampshaded in season 5.
      Locke: Can I ask you a question, Ben?
      Ben: I'm a Pisces.
      • This had been apparent as early as season 3, as seen in this bit of Harlequin Romance prose.
    Ben: And then you come striding out of the jungle, to make my dream come true.
    • And the season five finale even gives us hints of Ben/Jacob, which is disturbing on so many levels.
    • Let's not forget when Kate and Juliet fell in the mud while handcuffed together...
    • The alt!verse gives us Kate/Claire and Sawyer/Miles
    • Season 6 gives us lots of fun with Jacob/His Enemy, and Jacob/Richard.
      • The whole thing with Jacob and his enemy becomes a lot more interesting with the revelation that they're twins.
    • Kate/Claire seems even more clear after the series finale, when they remembered their past on the island by looking at each other and the baby they both consider to be their child, rather than a love interest like most of the other characters.
      • Also, Kate tells Claire that she will help her figure out how to be a mother again when they get off the island, which brings to mind a rather adorable image of the two of them raising their son together.
      • Not to mention the hugging and hand holding in another episode. And Kate spends a good amount of her time worrying about Claire, like if she's okay, where she is, and what not.
    • Jack and Hurley.
    • In the DVD Commentary for "The Moth", Dominic Monaghan says (probably joking) Charlie and Jack have a lot of Ship Tease in that episode.
    • Although it may only be one-sided, the scene between Jin and Keamy in the flash-sideways universe makes no attempt to be subtle with the homoeroticism.
    • Sawyer and Jack had so much subtext (particularly in the first three seasons) that fans who grew tired of the Jack/Kate/Sawyer love triangle quickly jumped to shipping Jack/Sawyer. Said subtext is often lampshaded in-universe as well (see quote at the top of this very page).
  • Malcolm in the Middle, strangely Malcolm and Reese get some of this. Reese gives Malcolm a hickey in one episode and wishes to be with Malcolm forever in another. In another episode Malcolm, after finding gay porn that had his, Reese's and Dewey's faces edited onto the stars' bodies says he's not homophobic and wouldn't mind if they were in a gay relationship, it's just that they're not. Reese's only problem with the porn, meanwhile, is that he has better abs than the guy his head was superimposed onto. Even though he suggests not enacting revenge over it, Dewey's the only one not to say anything tolerant about the situation.
    • The show's working title? Fighting In Underpants.
    • There's also Dabney and Lloyd, Malcolm's two effeminate classmates who like to talk about his eyes and think he is "handsome".
  • M*A*S*H with Hawkeye/Trapper, Hawkeye/Henry, Hawkeye/Sidney, Hawkeye/Mulcahy, Hawkeye/ANY MALE CHARACTER YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE.
    • Hawkeye and Trapper especially liked to joke around about this trope, with Hawkeye once saying prior to leaving for the front "Don't mess around with any other doctors while I'm gone." For a show that started in the early seventies, they pulled a lot of joking Ho Yay, although a lot of that may have been to upset the extremely homophobic Frank Burns.
      • Although Frank was prone to Ho Yay himself when drunk: in one episode he cajoled Hawkeye into calling him "beautiful", then complained that "you only love me for my body."
    • There's an archive of all the slashy quotes in MASH.
    • Anyone recall how Hawkeye spiralled when BJ rebuffed all attempts to determine what the initials B and J stood for? There was an anticlimatic non-resolution if memory serves.
    • Special mention should be made of Radar. He's bad at adult relationships but very earnest, so when he admires his co-workers (Henry, Hawkeye) he shows it through a puppyish devotion and gratefulness when they pay attention to him. This can be interpreted as a father-son vibe or a fanboyish crush.
    • In one episode, Hawkeye is suffering from severe sleep deprivation. Henry tells him "I'm taking you to bed" - half out of it, Hawkeye mumbles "you're the second person to make me that offer today. Guess I must be obvious or something."
    • Hawkeye somehow got away with making blowjob jokes (like not being able to fit his mouth around a howitzer or sinking down to his knees when BJ was doing pull-ups) and cracks about wanting to be bent over.
  • Season 4 of MasterChef Australia saw some fans seeing something between contestants Ben and Andy. The editing team often showed the reaction of one of them before showing the face of the other who was being judged at the time. The official twitter even jumped on board, referring to them as 'Bandy'. There was also this article which featured them in its top 5 australian reality tv bromances.
  • Tony and Gary in Men Behaving Badly, as confirmed by Word of God: "Nobody ever picked up on it, but Men Behaving Badly was about a same-sex relationship. Everyone latched on to the lad thing, but to me there was always a significant homoerotic content in the relationship between Gary and Tony. You always got the impression that they'd rather be left alone together, but that was something that they could never admit to themselves."
  • Miami Vice saw Crockett and Tubbs frequently jump between Ho Yay and Heterosexual Life-Partners. The most flagrant Ho Yay sequence comes in the episode 'Evan', which involves many references to a gay cop who died several years earlier in the line of duty. Don Johnson's portrayal of Crockett in this episode can easily come across as Crockett being romantically involved with the gay cop before his death, and at several points in the episode, Tubbs seems willing to take comforting Crockett over his loss to a decidedly more physical level.
  • Mike & Molly: Mike and Carl, big time.
    Mike: Why is it that at least three times per week someone thinks we're gay?
    • During the episode where Mike is honeymooning with Molly in France, Carl is temporarily partnered with a new recruit whom Carl is overtly generous to and considerate of, in his usual fashion. At the end of the episode, the recruit kisses Carl in the precinct locker room, obviously taken with what he assumed were romantic advances on Carl's part.
  • Mock the Week:
    • Frankie Boyle made note of the fact that he'd discovered slash fiction—of himself and fellow "perfect-attendance" comedian Hugh Dennis. When Hugh raised his arms as if in victory, Frankie asked him why he was celebrating, as he was the receiver. True to form, Frankie noted that he was most offended by the fact that the writer claimed his pubes were ginger.
    [The answer in the "If This is the Answer..." round is 2035]
    Stewart Francis: Is it 'when will Dara Ó Briain succumb to my... advances'?
    • Bad Things To Say On A First Date.
      Russell: Whoa... how pissed was I when I asked you out?!
      Andy: Not as pissed as I was when I said "yes"!
    • Unlikely lines to hear from a thriller:
      Russell: I have amnesia. The tattoos on my body will tell me what happened. ...'Dara was here'?
      Dara smiles wryly at the camera and presses the buzzer.
    • The legendary Dara/Ed Byrne bromance gets an overdue Lampshade Hanging in season 16:
      Hugh: Will Dara cop off with Ed? Find out tonight on: Love Ireland.
  • Adrian Monk and Captain Stottlemeyer: In one episode, Stottlemeyer moves in and the two go through typical "lovers' quarrel" situations while reminiscing about Stottlemeyer helping Monk through his "rough patch" of over three years after Trudy's death, when he was unable so much as to leave home. In the episode when Monk has to fake his own death, Natalie says "He loved you! He really loved you!" as she's flipping out at Stottlemeyer for "killing" him. And Monk all but comes onto him in the episode when he gets drunk.
  • Monty Python's Flying Circus, anyone? The fact that Graham Chapman was gay in real life made it more interesting.
    • What was interesting was that Chapman routinely played the 'straight man' on the Circus. And, routinely, the only straight man.
    • Graham did, however—apparently without effort—portray a marvelously bitchy Oscar Wilde.
    Wilde: Your Majesty is like a dose of clap.
    Cleese, fumbling a bit, as Whistler: Before you arrive is pleasure, and after is a pain in the dong.
  • Mick and Josef from Moonlight are a prime example. Throughout almost every episode, Mick and Josef are ALWAYS in each other’s personal space, being excessively touchy-feely, undressing/molesting/mentally raping each other with their eyes, giving each other sultry looks, licking their lips, and/or arguing Like an Old Married Couple. Then there's this scene.
  • Watch this clip from the Mork & Mindy pilot and try and tell me there's no Ho Yay between Mork and The Fonz (mostly on Mork's part).
  • Motherland: Fort Salem: Besides the not-at-all subtextual relationship between Raelle and Scylla, the first episode also has Raelle tease the virginal Tally that she'll show Tally her witch's mark once they get to know each other better. This is after mentioning that her witch's mark happens to be an inch away from her vagina.
  • The Muppet Show: How about Statler and Waldorf? Not only do they argue Like an Old Married Couple at times, during the ballroom sequences they're sometimes seen dancing with each other. Statler also dated Lionel Barrymore. Admittedly, it was because Ethel was busy.
    • This is Waldorf's wife. If that doesn't convince you, nothing will.
    • Or, from that logic, Gonzo and Rizzo certainly qualify as well. They live together, and are probably the Muppets No. 1 Crack Pairing.
    • Gonzo was also very appreciative when Scooter was turned into a chicken by the rare and bizarre disease cluckitis.
    • This Muppet Labs sketch pretty much spelled it out for anyone who wasn't already suspecting something between Bunsen and Beaker.
    • Rowlf and Fozzie make a pretty popular pairing, seeming to stem from their enjoyable onstage chemistry, particularly in the English Country Garden number.
    • In two obscure "Muppet Melodrama" skits, Wayne plays a hero who's supposed to rescue Miss Piggy from Uncle Deadly, but instead really hits it off with Deadly and forgets all about his damsel in distress. In fact, Piggy is doomed to die because Wayne decides to ASSIST Uncle Deadly after the two share a series of heavy compliments.
  • Mr. Robot has a fair amount of this between Elliot and Tyrell. Tyrell has been shown having sex with both men and women, and is clearly attracted to Elliot. Elliot also shows interest in Tyrell, and is particularly concerned about finding out what happened to him after he went missing. Tyrell's actor Martin Wallström remarked: “You see Tyrell with his wife and you don’t have that sort of sexual tension between them, but between Elliot and Tyrell there’s really something, there’s a tension... He wants to consume him. That tension, how much he wants Elliot, that's so interesting. It's almost like it's physical. One of my favourite things about playing Tyrell is Elliot scenes where like... I want to hug you. I want to do things I can't talk about here.”
  • My Country: The New Age:
    • Oh so much between Hwi and Seon-ho. Exchanging Longing Looks, tending each other's wounds, sleeping side-by-side... And then of course there's "Your sword still feels affectionate."
    • There's also some (mostly one-sided) Ho Yay between Bang-won and Hwi. When Bang-won says "Our emotions can't be controlled" and asks Hui-jae "Has [Hwi] ever been mine?" it sounds exactly like he's angsting over unrequited love.
  • Surprisingly, there's a large number of Ethan/Benny fanfictions in the My Babysisters A Vampire corner of Fanfiction.net.
  • My Two Dads: Michael and Joey.
  • Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
    Dr. Forrester: Frank, I'll give you three seconds to stop licking my face.
    TV's Frank: Count slow.
    • That's nothing. Crow and Servo once got married.
    • Mike would sometimes say some pretty ambiguous stuff, like how he may have had a boyfriend named Steve who died and how he got Grizzled Old Prospectors syndrome from kissing a surly truck driver.
    • And if the writers saw Ho Yay in the movie being riffed, they usually didn't hesitate to lampshade it.
      [Guy slams his friend onto a car and straddles him to give a Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! speech]
      Crow: Oh, would you just kiss him instead of holding him to death!
  • Mythbusters, of all shows. According to Jamie:
    "We got a lot of gay fan mail when the show first started. Something to do with being in San Francisco and being a big, burly guy with a big moustache. But we're both Happily Married. To women."
  • On The Nanny, there's been some sexual tension between Fran Fine and C.C. Babcock. C.C. views Fran as a threat to winning Maxwell Sheffield's affections, even though Maxwell never regards C.C. as anything more than a business partner. Though it seems their romantic troubles somehow bring them toward each other. There's been several episodes in which Fran is shown smooching C.C., sometimes on the lips! One episode had Fran asking C.C. for help, and in response, C.C. pretends to have an orgasm, yelling things like "OH, YES! OH, GOD! THIS IS GOOD!".
    • There was also some Les Yay between Val and C.C. Also, Niles and Maxwell.
  • G Callen and Sam Hanna of NCIS: Los Angeles. Really, the Ho Yay subtext has pretty much become text at this point.
    Hanna: I really look forward to having Dom as a partner.
    Callen: You'd miss me. I complete you.
    • This immediately after Callen asking Hanna if he had a history with their suspect, and Hanna responding with "We weren't dating, if that's what you're asking."
    • Kensi once asked Hanna how long he and Callen had been married.
    • And then there's the credit sequence, fully half of which is taken up by Sam and Callen exchanging meaningful looks.
  • There's this banter between Reba McEntire, K.T. Oslin's bus driver and K.T. Oslin on Nashville Now.
  • Surprisingly there is little Ship-to-Ship Combat in the Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide fanbase. Instead fans either tend to lean on Ned/Moze or Suzie/Moze. In season 1 Moze and Suzie have a rocky relationship however afterwards they become quite friendly, at worst Friendly Rivals.
  • New Girl: There's a one-sided element of this to Nick and Schmidt's friendship, much to Nick's dismay.
    • Schmidt's jealousy at being the only one in the group to have not seen Nick's penis.
    Schmidt: Wait, Nick's going to show his penis to the ocean and not me! *runs after him*
    • Also, there's those times when Nick accidentally says borderline-romantic things to childhood friend Winston and then scrambles to correct himself.
      • In response, Winston is pretty defensive of Nick's attractiveness.
    • Nick can get weirdly over-invested in some of Jess' love interests. (Unlike her, his feelings for Russell have not diminished over time.)
    Nick: Ah, the only man we both loved.
    • Two words: lap dance (two more words: eye contact). Nick reached a new level of dismay at this point.
    • Schmidt and Robby. Schmidt even called them "married."
  • Night and Day:
    • Josh Alexander and Ryan Harper in spades, to the extent that it's difficult to imagine it's not deliberate.
      • Ryan frequently gets very close to Josh's face when he's insulting him.
      • At one point Ryan orders Josh (as part of his debt to Ryan for saving his life) to tell Della he'd rather spend time with Ryan than her, and Josh ends up shouting: 'I want to be with Ryan!'
      • Later, Josh allows himself a little smile when Ryan asks him to 'show me' how to kiss; and did he really need to practice on Josh's arm when he'd already enjoyed a fairly intense snog with Celeste?
      • Then there's Josh's rendition to Ryan of 'I'd do anything; for you, dear, anything...'
      • Not to forget the magic carpet dream sequence where Genie Josh, trapped in the lamp, repeatedly implores Ryan to 'rub me'.
    • Sam Armstrong and Dennis Doyle to a lesser extent. Owing purely to restricted living circumstances they share a bed throughout most of the series - and occasionally one of them wakes up on top of the other, resulting in awkwardness aplenty.
  • Sean McNamera and Christian Troy on Nip/Tuck. Played absolutely seriously and intentionally; as if the infamous threesome scene from Season 2 weren't enough, later seasons have featured many, many explicitly homoerotic scenes, and at least one on-screen suggestion that Christian's compulsive womanizing may be an attempt to overcompensate for his questionable sexual identity.
    • Also, when Christian gets therapy, his therapist seems to really support the idea that Christian's womanizing is because he is in love with Sean.
    • Not to mention the episode where Sean attacks Christian for screwing his wife and says "I loved you most of all".
  • Being a gay drama, Noah's Arc runs on this, sometimes even involving characters who arent explicitly gay.
  • Nobuta Wo Produce, a Japanese drama, is filled not only with Ho Yay, but also Les Yay. The majority of these moments are between Shuji and Akira. Akira seems to have little to no understanding of personal space when it comes to Shuji; he latches onto the guy at every opportunity, rests his head on his protesting shoulder, makes kissy faces at him, makes suggestive comments about how "their bodies can never be separated" and at one point, climbs into bed with him. A bed made for one person. Although Shuji only reciprocates a couple times, the Ho Yay really piles up in the end, when they frolic in slow-motion on a beach in winter, complete with ass-grabbing, and splishy-splashy, and soaking wet school uniforms.
    • As for the Les Yay, in the love confession day episode, Nobuta stops Shuji right before he is forced to decide between showering her with flowers (for love) and water (rejection) and asks that her bully, Bando come to choose instead. Nobuta is doing it to ask her to stop bullying her, but because it is in front of the whole school, people are a little confused when flowers rain down on Nobuta. Later, she is seen spreading the flowers in the wind with a wistful expression on her face.
    • This video sums it up nicely.
    • And with only a little tweaking for plot accuracy, so does this one.
  • No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain and Russian fixer Zamir have a little of this going on, especially when Bourdain spends an episode contemplating the revenge he will take on Zamir for Anthony's experience in the Turkish bath.
  • NUMB3RS: David and Colby. It's especially apparent in the later seasons, but it shows up as early as Season 2.
    • In "Rampage", Colby becomes understandably (but somewhat excessively) upset when he learns it was his bullet that took out a suspect in custody during an unrelated shooting in the bullpen. David spends most of the rest of the episode being worried about him.
    • While the entire team is rattled by the events of "The Janus List"/"Trust Metric", it's David who is hit the hardest; he's the only one who seems to take it personally, and he seems to be trying very, very hard to convince himself he doesn't care, that their friendship was never real, even after Colby is exonorated. It seems like he's more upset about Colby lying to him than anything else.
      • Not to mention what happens when he and Don find Colby on the freighter. He tries to play it off later as part of the job, but the whole time he's doing CPR, he's practically begging Colby to stay alive. That's not professional obligation, that's love.
      • Also look at how Colby reacts to David keeping him at arm's length. He is absolutely devastated thinking he's losing his friend, and that smile on his face at the end of "Velocity" seems to be as much about how he got that fishing lure back as about getting it back.
    • David spends a decent portion of "12:01 AM" driving Nikki crazy by comparing her to Colby. Not to mention the random phone call he makes just to check in with him.
    • The crowning moment, of course, comes in "Friendly Fire". Nikki bets them that she can get a better date than they can for dinner. David and Colby win...by bringing each other. Nikki goes from being irritated with them to being pretty much full on Shipper on Deck after that.
  • The Odd Couple: Felix and Oscar.
  • Michael of The Office has a way of getting into these situations. Also, Kevin and Oscar in "Niagara." Yes, we know that Oscar is actually gay.
    • Also interesting is the Dwight-Ryan conspiracy in "Manager and Salesman."
    • Dwight & Jim. In the episode where Dwight is fired (he was re-hired in the next episode) he doesn't say goodbye to anyone, but does stop to give Jim a big hug. Also, in the episode where Jim (with Karen & Pam's help) tricks Dwight into thinking that he's turning into a vampire, Dwight has tears in his eyes when he "realizes" that he must be the one to put Jim out of his "suffering".
      • In 'Pam's Replacement' (aptly named, much?) Dwight shoves his face into Jim's crotch. Multiple times. Without explaination. Later Jim admits that he "hasn't felt that way about someone in a long time". Why, yes, he is talking about Dwight.
      • At one point, Dwight says to Jim through a closed door, "Let me in, I want to watch you get dressed." before Jim gets changed into a costume. That's it.
    • In "Michael Scott Paper Company," Dwight and Andy are competing to impress Erin as they play a song together. However, they eventually forget about her as they are singing and she leaves the room while they continue their duet.
    • Michael has been enamored of Ryan for a long time.
      • Michael repeatedly writes about Ryan in his diary; when read a Jan's deposition, anyone who didn't know Ryan believed he was a woman Michael was in love with, based on some entries.
      • In "Night Out" Michael says Ryan is good looking and defends him against the other people in the office.
    • A weird version of this is beginning to blossom between Andy and Darryl. They started a band to try and impress Erin, with Darryl acting as Andy's support system/shoulder to cry on.
    • Dwight towards Michael, arguably. Dwight is always trying to please Michael, takes care of him when he's hurt, and in the episode "Koi Pond" calls him handsome when trying to cheer him up.
  • In the fifth and final season of The Originals some unexpected fuel gets added to the Klaus/Stefan ship, albeit after Stefan's death. On the parent show The Vampire Diaries a flashback of their first meeting shows they formed a very fast friendship (though that later became more of a frenemies situation) as well as the Incest Subtext between Rebekah and Klaus making the scenes of their days partying in 1920s Chicago come across almost like a Love Triangle or even throuple. In a flashback to the 1930s it is revealed that in order to hide that he daggered Rebekah, Klaus has been writing letters to Elijah impersonating her for over a decade. A recurring theme in these letters? Gushing about how blissfully happy and deeply in love and she is with Stefan, to the point that Elijah described it as 'nauseating.' Given that Klaus compelled Stefan to forget about him and Rebekah when Mikael found them instead of just killing him to tie up loose ends, (or killing him just out of jealousy, as he did to several of Rebekah's previous lovers) plus how few people outside his family he has ever cared for in over a thousand years, one can't help but wonder if the endless lovesick descriptions of a romance with Stefan meant a little bit more than just a way to cover his tracks (and annoy Elijah.)
  • HBO's Oz was famous for that rarest of rare beasts, canon slash, especially Beecher/Keller, but there was plenty of Ho Yay to be had. O'Reilly/Stanislofski, O'Reilly/Adebisi, Adebisi/Said, Schillinger/Scott Ross, Schillinger/Keller, Torquemada/Alvarez which became canon in the last season.

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  • The Pacific:
    • Sledge and his best friend Sid. The homoerotic subtext between these two "best friends" is just too obvious to ignore. Their reunion in Part 5 makes it more blatant.
    • Sledge/Snafu seems to be popular in fandom as well. The fact that Snafu seems to have no concept of personal space when it comes to Eugene just adds fuel to the fire.
    • Band of Brothers: Winters and Nixon are practically the canon ship in the fandom. Also, many a fan has speculated that the writers of the show made the relationship between Webster and Liebgott be more than just friends. Spiers/Lipton is also popular, based mostly around the conversation they have at the end of "The Breaking Point" and how Spiers treats Lipton when the latter is ill.
  • Katherine and Mundi in Parallax. Katherine is generally disinterested in boys, as evidenced by her conversations with the boycrazy Melinda, and when Veronica sends Katherine to Mundi's world to "learn something about herself", Katherine spends almost the entire time dancing with Mundi and thoroughly enjoying herself. Mundi seems quite keen to get Katherine to open up to new experiences and fends off the only boy to show an interest in her.
  • On Parks and Recreation, Leslie calls Ann "beautiful" with astonishing frequency, even at times where it makes little sense to mention it. Then there was them holding hands as the pit got filled in, the whole "practice date", and of course Ann's evening as Leslie's trophy wife. One episode sees Leslie accompany Ann to a sperm donation bank when the latter decides to conceive a child, and the donor outright asks if they're a couple, to this response:
    Leslie: [Gazing fondly at Ann] Tragically, we are both heterosexual.
    • Brandi Maxxxx also seems to have a liking for Leslie.
    • When Andy assigns code names for everyone on Leslie's campaign based on sexual desire, Chris is "If it had to be a dude, it would be him"
  • Jez and Mark on Peep Show. We have the episode where Mark threatens to leave Jezz for 'Johnson' and Jezz claiming (to himself) that he is 'the one' for Mark.
    • There's also the episode where Jez begins a relationship with Mark's sister, at least partially to spite Mark; the two are later having sex when Jez realizes that Mark's sister is very similar in many ways to Mark himself, which prompts a note of panic on Jez's part...
    • When they go away for the weekend on Mark's stag do, Jez speculates "maybe the pressure will build to the point where we actually try to fuck each other".
  • Perfect Strangers: Balki and Larry, of the Kissing Cousins variety. Bronson Pinchot and Mark Linn-Baker's chemistry, high level of physical comedy and real-life friendship only emphasizes this.
  • Done intentionally in Pretty Little Liars with Alison and Emily; Ali, being her usual Manipulative Bitch self, flirted with Emily and called her "her favorite", very aware that Emily had feelings for her, in order to manipulate her. Whether Alison ever truly felt something for Emily or it was just plain manipulation is made quite ambiguous.
    • In season 2, Emily offers Hanna to be the Romeo to her Juliet due to Caleb not being there for her at the moment. And Hanna accepts.
    • Mona seems to be sort of... obsessed with Hanna, and has told her that she loves her in situations that were quickly interpreted by fans as more than friendship... even after she's revealed to be the first A.
    • Caleb and Lucas definitely had some moments prior to Lucas' turn to darkness on season 3. Caleb spent all season 2 living on Lucas' house and he was the only guy at school he truly liked, according to Caleb himself.
    • Also, Jenna and Shana, who as of the season 3 finale may or may not be canon. Shana is canonically lesbian and, according to Melissa, in love with Jenna; the two met in secret various times (only shown to the viewer) and were seen holding hands on the last encounter (although it could be non-romantic, since Jenna had just told her she was losing her eyesight again).
  • Primeval: If it's a dude, Nick Cutter has had a Ho Yay moment (or several) with it.
    • And he's not the only one. Helen, for example, gets a creepy moment with Jenny in the season 2 finale.
  • Princess Agents has a mostly one-sided example between Yan Xun and Yuwen Yue. Yan Xun constantly pesters Yuwen Yue in a way that's reminiscent of a child annoying their crush. Especially in episode six, where Yan Xun climbs into bed with Yuwen Yue and strokes his face with a flower.
  • Prison Break has Michael/Lincoln for the incest in the first season. At least in the beginning, one-sided T-Bag/Michael was canon. Then Mahone came around with his obsession with Michael's body tattoos. Then we get to the cage match...
    • T-Bag commonly flirts with everyone, specially the guys. On season 1 he puts the moves on Tweener, he then sexually abused of Seth until he commits suicide, and he had a whole lot of tension with Abruzzi, like when T-Bag discovers the break-out plan and Abruzzi pins him down, puts a finger on his lips and commands him to shut up. Really subtle, huh?
    • Lincoln and Sucre had their moments, season 3 in particular. Lincoln looks hurt when Sucre leaves Panama with no desire to help him, and looks relieved when he returns. And they also shared a hotel room during their stay in Panama. And when they part ways in season 4, it looks like a couple breaking up...
    • Tweener and Michael. When they plan to escape Fox River, Tweener is forced to tell Bellick and despite knowing this, Michael decides to bring him along. And in season 2, he shows genuine sadness when he learns that Tweener was killed, which causes him to have a My God, What Have I Done? moment.
    • Sara and Gretchen have a serious Les Yay vibe going on in season 4. Gretchen summons her to a motel room, takes off her own shirt and tells Sara to torture her like she did to her in season 3. And in the movie, their relationship develops further while they're in prison together in Miami and it's what eventually consummates her Heel–Face Turn.
  • Psych: Heterosexual Life-Partners Shawn and Gus. Insinuations of them dating are almost as common as pineapples. Shawn is always quick to deny these insinuations, though; he insists that Gus is way out of his league.
    • Shawn certainly does seem to enjoy making Gus squirm about it, though.
    • Also Shawn and Lassiter. Lassiter certainly slams him against walls a lot, and there's a scene where Shawn sits on his lap (the most extreme of Shawn's numerous intrusions into Lassiter's personal space). Given that Shawn is also very fond of women, it really makes a great deal of sense to read the character as bisexual.
      • This is practically confirmed in the pilot episode:
        Shawn: This is a great plan. Cameron McAllister deserves to be commended.
        Gus: Maybe you should date him too.
        Shawn: [Confidently] Maybe I will.
    • In one episode where Shawn and Lassie switch partners for half the episode (Shawn teaming up with Juliet and Gus with Lassiter), Gus comments to Shawn that he thought of going to the hot dog stand with Lassiter, but then rejected the idea because "it sorta felt like cheating." Of course, this leads to an insight about the case, but it's worth noting that the entire set-up for the episode felt like a really bad four-way break-up and subsequent hook-up.
    • Promos show Juliet and Vick getting a little too friendly.
    • And then there's "The Head, The Tail, The Whole Damn Episode." Lassiter attempts to "out-Spencer Spencer" when he declares his wild theory about a murder to the press. Even though he becomes a general laughingstock ("Detective Dipstick," as a newspaper labels him), Shawn believes him and goes as far as to say that by working together on this, they will become like one. He even explicitly names the fandom nickname for their pairing, Shassie.
    • And then, there's this.
    • One episode has Shawn Mistaken for Gay when he uses a bunch accidental innuendos when speaking with a male cop, who understandably assumes he's being hit on.
  • Psychopath Diary: In-woo is very interested in Dong-sik and says things like "I must have him". One of In-woo's "friends" even assumes Dong-sik is In-woo's lover.
  • Just look at the motivations of Buddy, the murderer in the Pushing Daisies episode "Frescorts". Holy crap. Depraved Homosexual anyone?
    • Chuck and Olive have quite a bit of Les Yay themselves, which is ironic since they're in love with the same man.
  • QI has an element too, between Stephen Fry and Alan Davies. Stephen has accidentally referred to Alan as 'darling' before, although he has also called him a 'doe-eyed sack of shit', so read into that what you will ...
    • There's also the fact that Stephen tends to use terms of endearment with everyone, including most of the female contestants. The fact that he's only called Alan "dear" sometimes could actually be a deliberate effort to censor himself.
    • To quote Alan Davies himself: "I think people watch it because they think there is a chance we might shag."
      • One episode of QI had Alan asking Stephen if he could join 'the Gay Community'.
      • "Some people say it's the most homoerotic double-act on television. And that's probably true." - Alan Davies, 50 Not Out.
    • That episode where guests Rob Brydon and Ben Miller kissed. And expressed their enjoyment of it afterwards.
    • While this didn't happen so much in the early seasons, as the show has gone on, many of QI's other panelists also flirt quite openly with Stephen, once they found out that he doesn't object and will often play along with it. Some of the most obvious moments have been from Phill Jupitus and Jimmy Carr. The general rule here is that the later in the show's run a particular episode is, the more Ho Yay it will have.
      • Stephen's interactions with Jack Whitehall on one episode were so brimming with ho yay that they had to refute people who believed they were actually together.
        Stephen: You're being rather flirty tonight Jack. I quite like it.
        Jack: My sphincter just tightened!
  • The most emotional relationship in The Qin Empire is easily the one between Ying Quliang and Wei Yang. Yes, Duke Xiao of Qin and Shang Yang. They constantly hold hands, exchange looks and smiles, refer to each other as soulmates, and are willing to sacrifice absolutely anything for the sake of their shared dream of hegemony.
    • The slope scene is absolutely infamous.
    • When Ying Quliang collapses at Hangu Pass, knowing he's about to die, he's surrounded by his wife, his son, and Shang Yang. He and Shang Yang reach for each others' hands simultaneously.
    • The normally confident, fearless Wei Yang shows his vulnerable side almost exclusively around Ying Quliang. Just look at the arc preceding Ying Quliang's death, and his slow mental and emotional breakdown afterwards.
  • The Ho Yay between Sam and Al in Quantum Leap is practically canon. The second season episode What Price Gloria? features the first instance of Sam leaping into a woman. Al is incredibly attracted to Sam in female form, to the point where he seeks help from the project's staff psychologist. Of course, the audience sees Sam as a man throughout most of the episode.
    • In multiple episodes, Al calls Sam names like "cutie" and "darling" and Sam, while mind-crossed with Al in one episode, calls him "baby."
  • The Queen's Gambit has plenty of tension between Beth and Cleo, and even teases the possibility of something between them when Cleo wakes up in her bed in Paris. Sure, Beth is in the bath fully clothed, but still...
  • Name me any two guys in Reaper. The devil's unhealthy obsession with Sam? Sock and Ben dancing together? Sock "inadvertently" grabbing Sam's ass?
    • It just stepped up a level with Sock's whole dialogue to Ben about how beautiful he is, inside and out, how his eyes draw people in, right after they both temporarily lost their girlfriends.
  • On Red Dwarf, the subtext pretty much became canon by the end of the show; between Lister's dream of making out with Rimmer, and Rimmer's 'low' self threatening to 'have' Lister. Oh, and Rimmer taking on Lister's ex-girlfriend's form: 'It's Kochanski's body, it's Kochanski's voice. I mean, what's the difference? Come on!'
    • One word: Blue.
      • Although Lister did wake up screaming. (No, not that kind of screaming, you perverts.)
  • Amanda Clarke (who is really Emily Thorne) and Emily Thorne (who is really Amanda Clarke) in Revenge seem to have an intensely homoerotic friendship, although the sexual attraction seems like it might be a little one-sided, since it seems as though Amanda (really Emily) is head-over-heels in love with Emily (really Amanda), but it's not clear that Emily reciprocates. Of course, it's not clear that Emily is capable of love or even genuine friendship.
    • In one episode, Amanda (really Emily) open-mouth kisses another woman, although it's at least mostly just to provoke her boyfriend. Nevertheless, one does not get the impression that she had never done such a thing before.
    • Nolan Ross is a ho yay magnet. He's canonically bisexual, and apart from the ill-fated affair he had with an ambitious con man, the subtext heavily implies that he's deeply attracted to, and maybe even in love with, Jack Porter.
  • Revolution:
    • Has a lot of this between Miles Matheson and Sebastian Monroe, especially in flashbacks of the two of them. Including one where Monroe refused to leave Miles' side when he sees that he is wounded even though they were in the middle of a battlefield. The pilot episode, episode 3, episode 10, episode 15 are examples of episodes showing flashbacks of the these two together.
    • Not to mention the hallucination scene in episode 9 that has Miles talking to an imaginary Monroe.
    Monroe: I know your dirty little secret. The one you don't want to tell Charlie or Nora.
    • The Season 1 finale, "The Dark Tower", really blurs the lines between subtext and text. From Monroe telling Miles he's only ever cared about the Monroe Republic because Miles cared about it and that "everything I have ever done was for you" to Miles saving Monroe's life (twice) and admitting he could never kill him. And then Tom Neville hangs a massive lampshade on the whole thing:
    Neville to Monroe: You have a borderline erotic fixation on Miles Matheson.
  • The new Robin Hood features quite a bit of homosexual subtext between the Sheriff and Guy of Gisbourne.
    • By season two, they must have known, as it features the Sheriff rolling onto Guy in bed, offering to kiss him, bathing in front of him, and so on. And if you think it's coincidence, his first line of the season is, with his arms spread wide, "Tell me you'd rather have a woman than all this!" He was referring to a map showing a large parcel of ill-gotten land, but still.
    • Actually, the allegations of Robin Hood and his Merry Men being a little too "merry" for the Church's liking was what introduced Maid Marian into the legend.
    • And Robin and Much in the new series are a bickering married couple, most notably when Robin cradles a sobbing Anti-Villain, after he realizes his personal reasons to want Robin dead are based on a lie, and Much complains, "You've never held me like that!"
    • Then there's Allan/Will, who were extremely close during Season One and almost eloped ran away together in the season finale. Technically, both of them had crushes on Djaq, but the fact that she spent the entire season disguised as a boy certainly muddied the water a little bit...
    • Not to mention Guy/Allan. After a bout of torture (in which Guy throws a bucket of water over a shirtless Allan), Allan agrees to provide inside information on Robin and the outlaws. Guy then proceeds to change his clothing in front of Allan, dress him up in matching black leather, and have an erotic dream about him. Even the Sheriff catches on, referring to Allan as "Gisborne's boy" and remarking "Kissing in the moonlight?" when he walks in on them together in the dark.
    • In Season Three, Allan (who by this stage is well and truly the fandom's Little Black Dress) is often paired with Much. Again, there was something of a Love Triangle between the two of them and Kate, but the two of them seemed far more interested in each other, and half the fandom speculated that if it didn't work out with Kate, they were more than likely to start making out with each other instead.
    • Finally, there's Robin/Guy. They're all the other ever talks about, Robin ditches his new girlfriend Kate in order to go on a field-trip with Guy, and eventually Guy dies in Robin's arms. For a second there, it honestly looks like Robin is going to kiss him goodbye.
  • Brutus and Cassius on Rome.
    • And more overtly, Marc Antony and Vorenus.
    • And more bromantically, Vorenus and Pullo. "There, there, lamb," indeed.
      • Bromantically? It's so overt that Pullo's wife gets jealous of Vorenus. In fairness, most pre-modern cultures did not make the assumption that a man's closest relationship would be with his wife. Bromance, with or without actual sex, was a societal norm, not an exception. The jealousy kicks in when the wife realizes that she may not be able to compete with her male rival for her husband's affections.
      • Without actual sex, for ancient Roman society. Essentially, the farthest a relationship could go between two men was Ho Yay, unless they wanted to risk their citizenship (which was everything). But that doesn't stop the subtext, especially when you get into the arbitrary divorce and remarrying to cement "political" relationships, which means marrying a woman with the feminized name of ally (Julius Ceasar's ally Pompey marrying his daughter Julia, for instance).
      • Not quite; as long as there was no penetration. . .
      • Not to be too overtly Classics major-y, but technically speaking, anal sex between two men was acceptable in ancient Rome—for example, in this case it could be considered acceptable; but only with Vorenus as the top, since Pullo was a freedman and Vorenus was born a pleb. It was acceptable for someone of a higher social status to penetrate someone of lower social status. This is also the case in terms of age difference. Even if the two men were of the same age and class, it was possible to get away with penetrative sex as long as neither man admitted to being the penetrated party. Roman stigma around gay sex was not about an aversion to homoeroticism, but rather to the idea of a man allowing himself to be put in the place of a woman.
      • From a middle American standpoint, the sexual norms of classical Rome are so dramatically different they verge into Blue-and-Orange Morality territory.
  • There's plenty on Royal Pains:
    • The majority of interactions between doctor Hank Lawson with patient Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz are in the form of intimate walks/talks together. For people who'd just met and are so incredibly different, the two form an extraordinarily close bond. How close? Despite whatever disagreements between them, Boris knows he can still depend on and tries to work in a way that benefits Hank. While Hank doesn't appreciate being deceived, manipulated, or the conflicts it can cause in his life, remains dedicated no matter what issues they're having and does enjoy helping Boris out in the different world he operates in. The pair navigate a tricky dynamic with one another; their relationship can be on the outs for a variety of reasons, but they'd just as easily embrace the opportunity to move past any disputes so they can be together again.
      • After a series of lies on his part, Boris outright tells Hank he likes him when Hank threatens to leave Shadow Pond unless Boris tells him the purpose of the shark in his basement. Later, though only knowing each other for a short time, Boris reveals the real reason behind letting Hank stay in the guest house was not just to have Hank be his doctor. It was to have someone he knew he could trust to stay and help treat the crippling symptoms and dementia caused by his condition until his inevitable death.
      • Boris also has a tendency to whisk Hank away in secret affairs around the globe. One of Evan's lines lampshades exactly how homoerotic that sounds under the context of professional confidentiality.
      Evan: Henry, I thought you went back to New York to do things with Boris you're not allowed to tell me about.
      • It gets complicated when Dr. Marisa Casseras (Boris's old flame) debuts. Things are initially tense between Marisa and Hank; their interactions are best described as meeting an ex who's still in love and that your significant other still likes. Hank sees them dancing together and looks like a pissed off boyfriend. Once things become much more amicable between the two doctors the Threesome Subtext shoots through the roof. Marisa desires for them to stay together, being the cause of Boris and Hank's reconciliation when Boris chose to emotionally push Hank away by evicting him from Shadow Pond. Then having no objections to Boris's offer for Hank to join them as they travel the world that summer (Hank accepts) or in the finale, for Hank to become apart of their family (sadly he declines). With Marisa constantly Put on the Bus or taking a backseat, and none of Hank's other relationships ever panning out, it's hard to tell who their Love Interests are supposed to be. Especially with the way Boris phrases how the former offer requires he be Hank's exclusive patient.
      Boris: At this point, I'm not interested in sharing you anymore. I would need a full commitment.
    • Evan Lawson's tendency to fanboy and willingness to flatter to get what he wants leads to this often (even saying he has a "man-crush"). Though he's utterly terrified of him, Evan tries his best (and often fails) to stay on Boris's good side. He eventually succeeds and Boris approves Evan's business venture, buying out the hospital and appoints him to be the new hospital administrator. There's a lot of Incest Subtext with his close Sibling Team with Hank and how remarkably intimate they can be with one another. Hank’s ability to diagnose a patient after staring at Evan’s ass certainly didn't help. Neither did being mistaken for their little sister's fathers. The brothers' discussion over Hank not falling in love with him like he did with the previous administrator, and Evan's joke that Hank is just jealous Boris is with him now made season 7 play out like a Sibling Triangle.
    • While Jill is Hank's Designated Love Interest, they are constantly on/off. She and Divya have a relationship much closer to that of an actual couple. In a Shout-Out episode to The Hangover, the two wake up at some beach together in a taxi with their taxi driver referring to the pair as "Jillya". Further implications can be made when Jill begs Divya to come with her on a night out with a bunch of her old friends, who will inevitably try to hook her up with various men due to Jill being the one single woman left.
      Jill: But if you came...I could avoid all that.
      • Implications are explicitly made by a guy Jill knew in high school, asking if they were there "together". When he starts to pester Divya to return to the club with him as they leave, Jill tells him to back off. He mocks Jill, saying the reason she couldn't hold onto a dude was because she was the dude. Divya floors him with a kick to the back.
    • Paige is offered a job in London, but shortly returns home, destroyed to find out it was only because her boss wanted to sleep with her. It suddenly strikes Evan that Paige's boss was a woman.
  • Sanctuary manages to pack a considerable amount of subtext (although it's almost too blatant to be called subtext) into the few episodes where James Watson and John Druitt are on screen together. Sometimes Druitt is Ax-Crazy, but they never have any problems getting right in each others' personal space and having very emotional discussions about the way the Ripper Case affected them both. In Normandy, Magnus even asks who Druitt is actually jealous of when he reacts badly to discovering that she (his ex-fiancée) and Watson are now in a relationship.
  • Schitt's Creek:
    • There's quite a few moments between Alexis and Twyla, especially in the sixth season, with flirty subtext.
    • Roland's attachment to Johnny feels like a borderline crush at times.
    • When Patrick first moves to town and starts working with David, Patrick's sexuality is ambiguous and David assumes he is straight. Alexis and Stevie both notice moments of romantic tension between the two and encourage David. The series ends with David and Patrick getting married.
  • Why would Doctor Who spinoff and Torchwood sister show The Sarah Jane Adventures be exempt just because it's (usually) Lighter and Fluffier than the other two and aimed at kids?
    • In the first episode, new neighbor Maria finds Sarah Jane happily - almost tearfully - bidding farewell to an ethereal butterfly-woman of the same species as the one Tosh was involved with in an episode of Torchwood. The alien leaves Sarah Jane with a heart-shaped communicator and promises to write her poetry.
    • Some viewers see quite a bit of one-sided adolescent sexual confusion in Maria's feelings towards Sarah, especially the way Maria talks about her in voice-over a couple of times.
    • No commentary on the Ho Yay present in this show is complete without a mention of Luke and Clyde. During a webchat from university in series three, Luke decides to mess with him by claiming to have really 'clicked' with one of his new mates. Clyde's reaction is pure jealousy. Russell T. Davies has confirmed in a DVD commentary that Luke is gay and that had the series continued his relationship with his new "friend" would have been overtly depicted as romantic. The latter part was eventually made canon in the webisode "Farewell, Sarah Jane".
    • In Revenge of the Slitheen there is a lot of Ho Yay between Glune, the headmaster Slitheen and Kist, the science teacher Slitheen. Although Kist has a son, Korst, his wife is never mentioned.
  • Who else, but the Ambiguously Gay Duo from Saturday Night Live?
    • Arguably this is the stated premise of the Schmitts Gay commercial parody: two frat boys housesitting at a run-down, decrepit place are surprised when the backyard magically transforms into a poolside paradise - and then thank their lucky stars when the pool is filled with Speedo-clad hunks!
    • And speaking of Ho Yay on SNL, it should be noted that a lot of live-action sketches have a lot of sketches where Ho Yay is featured. Whether this is because of SNL hiring more men than women or the fact that the writers find these kind of sketches easier to pen is not known.
  • Pick any duo of characters played by Eugene Levy and Joe Flaherty on SCTV. Probably the most obvious choices are comedian Bobby Bittman and talk show host Sammy Maudlin, who actually do kiss on screen at least once.
  • Seinfeld: Jerry and George, which was lampshaded in "The Outing." Between Jerry and Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez in "The Boyfriend."
    • Pfft, those are nothing compared to Kramer/Jerry. Case in point: "The Kiss Hello." After a rant about how Jerry hates kissing, Kramer passionately kissed him.
    • In "The Pledge Drive", Kramer tells a man, who he believes to be in love with Jerry, that he knows how it feels before telling him "And Jerry is a very sexy man."
    • Susan's father is revealed to have had a passionate affair with gay author John Cheever in his first appearance, though it's never mentioned again.
    • In "The Suzie", George and Kramer, who's breaking up with George on the behest of a girl, act as if they are the ones breaking up, than later act as if they are getting back together.
    • In "The Pick" Kramer gets a few positive comments from men about his physique and George agrees at the end "Your buttocks are spectacular".
    • Susan became a lesbian after breaking up with George and is shown really hitting it off with another woman.
  • Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street.
    • Unless there's some incest going on, this is ignoring the fact that Bert and Ernie were created to be brothers.
      • Despite this, in one early episode Bert invites over his identical brother Bart, who Ernie has apparently never met before (Bart, however, has obviously been told of Ernie...).
      • While they were originally intended to be brothers that idea was scrapped and they went for an odd couple angle.
      • Another version says that they were supposed to be father and son, but this was abandoned when the producers decided having the son (presumably Ernie) constantly getting the better of his father would be a bad example.
    • Case in point: One episode has a What If? scenario where Ernie is a poor-but-honest farmboy who wants to marry a princess and live in the castle. To do this, he must pick the magic apple from a tree, as directed by his Fairy Godmother. He tries, but fails, because it's too high up. Ultimately, Ernie gives up, but then the apple falls from the tree and lands in his mouth. A king comes along and requests that Ernie marry his daughter who ends up being... Bert. In drag. It is a hilarious sketch.
    • Then there's this adorable little gem. D'aww.
    • Lampshaded in this 2013 cover from The New Yorker magazine, commemorating the Supreme Court ruling that struck down the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act.
    • CTW has always denied this, and Frank Oz has said that neither he nor Jim Henson would have considered it. (Considering that the show debuted mere months after Stonewall, it strains credibility that it would be done on a kids' show) However, when told that later (gay) writers saw it this way, Oz said this interpretation was valid.
  • Lucy and Roxanne had a few Les Yay moments in the 7th season of 7th Heaven. The most notable of these was in the episode "I Love Lucy" where, after getting into an argument earlier after Lucy accused Roxanne of trying to steal her boyfriend (and later fiancé in the same episode and husband later on in the same season) Kevin, Lucy apologizes and Roxanne mentions she loves the song that's playing in the background of the fancy restaurant they're in. Lucy agrees she loves the song too and Roxanne asks Lucy to dance, leading to them holding hands and twirling around together. This only lasts for a few seconds because Kevin and Roxanne's boyfriend Chandler enter the room and see them dancing, prompting them to voice their discomfort of Lucy and Roxanne dancing together to each other. Needless to say, they cut in to dance with their respective girlfriend/fiance.
  • Shadowhunters:
    • Clary and Izzy have a much more loving relationship in-show than they do in the books. Aside from just being generally nicer to each other, they also get a lot of sweet, touchy moments, with Isabelle brushing Clary's hair back, holding hands, and staring into each other's eyes, etc.
    Isabelle: Do you think red's my color?
    Clary: With a body like yours, Iz, anything's your color.
  • Sharpe: There was a fair amount of this between Heterosexual Life-Partners Sharpe and Harper, even after they both married women.
  • Skins: Tony and Sid. Not only are they intensely emotionally involved with each other (to the extent that Sid's crush on Tony's girlfriend can definitely seem like he's in love with her and Tony as a couple), but they've woken up in bed together more than once. It doesn't hurt that Tony is canonically open to the possibilities of a little walk on the m/m side every now and again.
    • Tony kisses Sid once on the lips and once on the forehead, they sleep naked or mostly naked in the same bed, and Tony cries when he's sending Sid off to New York to find Cassie.
    Tony: "I always loved you the best, Sid."
    • Cook practically makes out with Freddie in Series 3. Heck, they've told each other 'I love you' more times than they've said it to Effy.
    • Aren't we forgetting about the infamous blowjob between Tony and Maxxie in Season 1?
      • I think we're also forgetting the entirety of Emily & Naomi's storyline.
    • In Generation three, we have Franky and Mini. Between the constant staring at each other, Mini stroking Franky's hair and commenting on her "fuck-me eyes", the almost flirtatious banter between each other, lines like "See you on the field, stud." and the two having a general obsession with each other, the pair have become a goldmine of subtext. Hell, people were shipping them a long time before the first episode even aired.
      • And not to forget Mini and Liv - "I still love you."
  • Sonny with a Chance: When Sonny's best friend from Wisconsin comes to Hollywood for a visit, Sonny starts acting like a Clingy Jealous Girl as soon as Tawny gets close to her.
  • Long simmering on So You Think You Can Dance, the Ho Yay reached full-boil as the producers finally opened up to expressive choreography for male-male pairs. It went through the roof when Season 7's Kent Boyd & Neil Haskell (all-star) danced a work choreographed by former dance-testant Travis Wall (walking ball of Ho Yay all by himself) about betrayal by a friend. Just friends? Yeah, right.
  • Harlan and Radu occasionally on Space Cases, i.e. the fencing scene where they're arguing over who a girl would like looks more like they're flirting with each other.
    • Theoretically, Commander Goddard's former friend turned enemy (and space pirate) Reaver have tension in their scenes that drips with history and subtext. Possible ex-boyfriend drama.
  • Encouraged / parodied by Tim and Mike in Spaced ("Hi babe."). Although Tim had a couple of girlfriends over the course of the series, he never really objected to the fact that Mike had a painfully obvious crush on him, and the two were often seen holding hands.
    • In fact, almost anything where Simon Pegg and Nick Frost star together seems to have a little Ho Yay in it, since the two actors consider each other 'Heterosexual Life-Partners', and have gotten over the usual male phobias about physically expressing affection for another man. See also the entry on Hot Fuzz in Ho Yay/Films.
  • Lucretia and Ilythia in Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Oh my, Lucretia and Ilythia. Not really even subtextual, since they repeatedly kiss each other on the mouth, and at various points fondle one another.
  • Despite the cast being largely heterosexual, Spin City nearly jumps the barrier from subtext to just plain old text. For example, in the episode "My Best Friend's Boyfriend", Mike thinks Carter's boyfriend is hitting on him, so he tries to seduce him to confirm his suspicions. He's wrong.
  • Dan and Casey in Sports Night.
    • The most notable example probably being the episode "Thespis", where Dan spends the episode being upset that Casey doesn't remember the date of their first broadcast together, and it is eventually revealed that Casey turned down an offer to have his own late-night network show—which was the beginning of the end of his marriage—to work with Dan on a local sports show.
  • The episode "Duet" of Stargate Atlantis has a same-sex kiss and one that just looks like it from the outside. In this case it was Lt. Cadman kissing Dr. Brown (both women) while in Rodney's body. At the end of the episode she kisses Dr. Beckett, making it look like Rodney kissed Beckett.
    • You can't talk about the Ho Yay in SGA without bringing up Sheppard and McKay's Slap-Slap-Kiss relationship. It is so touching when Rodney is running to John and calling his name in "The Shrine" during one of his periods of early-Alzheimer's-related distress.
      • Also, this scene in "Tracker". Poor John.
    • McKay/Zelenka. Sheppard once told them "Oh, just make out already!", following the immortal line from McKay.
    McKay(To Zelenka): Well, you do do your best work under me...
    • Shepard's unique relationship, such as it is, with the male Wraith he Christened Todd after a guy he knew in college.
    • Let's be honest, if Stargate's target audience was just that little bit different, the sheer amount of potential examples here would probably launch up so quickly we'd need a Stargate page
  • Stargate SG-1 is teeming with Jack/Daniel Ho Yay. The actors' chemistry, combined with things like the "Spacemonkey" hug, Daniel's Blood of Sokar hallucination, Jack pushing up Daniel's glasses, the scene in "Threads" in which after descending naked into Jack's office, Daniel emerges with the SGC flag wrapped around his waist and explains his descension to the team while Jack looks away awkwardly, strokes the flagpole beside him, and tugs his shirt down, and every Jack/Daniel moment of "Abyss". Michael Shanks (Daniel's actor), once confused by the idea of Jack/Daniel, has since likened the Jack/Daniel relationship to that of a bitchy gay couple, and the two are sometimes referred to by fans as "The Old Married Couple in Space".
    • Like everything, the episode "200" mentions this, featuring a wedding scene that has Jack and Daniel standing at the altar together. Daniel points out that if Sam(antha) doesn't appear it'll look like the two of them... and trails off at an angry stare from Jack.
    • Sam and Janet, even beyond raising Cassandra together, were very close despite Janet not being a part of the SG-1 True Companions. It is incredibly telling that Sam completely breaks down after Janet is killed, and until the reveal it is easy to assume Jack was the one killed instead (with whom Sam was implicitly in love).
    • Sam has some pretty epic moments with RepliCarter, spending most of their time together having no regard for the other's personal space and staring intensely into each other's eyes.
    • By the end of the series, Sam and Vala have gotten quite close too, spending quite a bit of time together. Their female bonding can be easily confused for, well, female bonding.
    • Ba'al and O'Neill have some hints of this... which is unbelievably disturbing since when they first met Ba'al tortured Jack to death, repeatedly. Interesting that also provided an opportunity for some heart-warmingly loving scenes between Daniel and Jack.
      • There are also some people who would ship Daniel with (different, very male-looking) members of the Unas race.
  • In the TV Series Starsky & Hutch, the title characters would hug each other or cry during some sad moment. They were often wearing leather jackets at the time.
    • There's a shot of them dancing with each other in the credits.
      • In fact, David Soul (the aforementioned "Hutch") has been quoted as saying, "What the show really is, is a love story between two men who happen to be cops." Not quite Wordof God, but certainly telling.
    • This was played up tremendously in The Movie.
  • Strangers From Hell: Oh so much between Moon-jo and Jong-woo. Moon-jo calls Jong-woo handsome, films him because he looks nice, says he'll be anything Jong-woo wants... He even kills Jae-ho for annoying Jong-woo and explains it by saying, "Jong-woo is very special to me." And as he dies Moon-jo tells Jong-woo, "Honey, now you and I will be together forever."
  • Strike Back, full stop. Michael Stonebridge and Damien Scott become Fireforged Friends in the first arc, and are clearly affectionate toward each other thereafter, promising to be there to watch each others' backs while they delve into the possible conspiracy at Section 20. Although Stonebridge was married and Scott is a Handsome Lech womanizer, a lot of their exchanges veer straight into Ho Yay territory. They even use the "you complete me" line, albeit ironically.
    [The satellite Section 20 is using to provide support and monitor them goes out of range]
    Stonebridge: Guess we're on our own now.
    Scott: Just the way I like it.
  • On Succession, Tom and Greg's touchy-feely interactions have shades of this (albeit mostly one-sided on Tom's part). Tom almost bullies Greg into a kiss when the two first meet, takes Greg out to a fancy restaurant to celebrate the latter's first paycheck, is visibly hurt (to the point of tears) when Greg attempts to "break up" with him, and acts very jealous when Greg starts preferring the company of his cousin to Tom's.
  • Surprisingly, Disney's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody contains plenty of Les Yay for London and Maddie's love/hate relationship. When their their lives were made into a Show Within a Show, London was changed to a male character called "Madrid" to create a romance between the two of them.
    • Also, Estaban the bellhop sometimes seems to have Smithers' reasons for working for Mr. Moseby, such as saying, while smiling, "He never yells for me. He yells at me... but only when I deserve it, which is often. He's a great man..."
    • Referring to the bed London just slept in, Maddie commands London to "strip(,) and make the bed". London is obedient.
    • Maddie is London's friend "for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health..."
    • London tries to buy Maddie jewelry after she comforts her.
    • As a school assignment, Maddie and London have to take care of a baby doll. They get really into being the baby's mommies and end up fighting about parenting styles as if they were a real couple raising a baby.
    • Not to mention Maddie's friend Corrie seems to have an obvious crush on London.
  • Suits gives us Mike & Harvey.
    • Episode 202 seems to have been written with fandom in mind. Granted, Mike was supposedly speaking on behalf of the slice of pineapple when he said: "I love you Harvey!", but it is hard not to see subtext. Especially since after Harvey takes a bite of the pineapple Mike takes it back and takes a bite as well, right next to the one Harvey took.
  • In Super Junior Mini Drama, there is a whole episode dedicated to Ho Yay. The assignment of the episode is to write a script about "forbidden love between two (male) members." Some of the acting can be seen here (especially notable stuff starts 3:58)
  • Taskmaster: Above all, Greg and Alex's relationship, originally a fairly standard tyrant/flunky dynamic, becomes more and more eroticized and BDSM-y as time goes on. They get a Big Damn Kiss in series 6, episode 6, to the contestants' and audience's delight.
  • Kurt and Brian in Teachers. In one episode they were accidentally sent a Christmas card by their bank which believed they were a married couple (Kurt and Briony). Cue much worrying from Brian that, if they were married, he'd be the wife, and an attempt to be seen as two separate people. Another episode involved them discovering that your pupils widen when you look into the eyes of someone you love. Naturally, they realise that their eyes widen only for each other...
  • This is parodied in the show Testees when the two main characters lose their memory because of one of the products they are testing and their friend tells them they are gay lovers then tries to get them to have sex in front of their entire apartment building.
    • The trope is also lampshaded at the beginning of the episode when the two main characters say that they look like they're really "close" and begin to think they may be gay. Probably because they share an apartment, go everywhere together, work together and appear in most pictures together.
  • Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has more than a bit of this between Jesse and Riley—their first meeting has Jesse calling Riley a "pretty girl"—which gets disturbing when you consider Jesse is probably in her thirties while Riley is a teenager, and gets even more disturbing when its revealed that Jesse was trying to make Riley provoke Cameron into killing her.
    • During the fight between Jesse and Riley, Riley tells Jesse that she trusted and loved her. Whether it was romantically or not is open to interpretation, but yeah.
    • In "Allison from Palmdale," there is some minor Screw Yourself subtext between Allison and Cameron, which is also quite disturbing when Cameron casually kills Allison for lying to her. Talk about a relationship gone sour...
      • From the same episode there is a bit of this between Cameron and Jody.
    • In another episode, there was more than a little chemistry between John and Charlie. The writers were probably trying to make the relationship into one of surrogate-father and son, but John's doey eyes and the enthusiastic way he greeted Charlie made it look far more like he had a crush on the other man.
    • Cameron and Chola (the Latina lookout). The crew even joked about this in the episode commentaries.
    • Forgotten about the biggest Les Yay in the show? Cameron shows Sarah much more obedience than she shows John, despite the fact she's programmed to obey John. They have several very romantic/sexual moments. There's a reason why they got the name 'Camerah' after one episode.
      • Probably the biggest example of this is in the first episode, after Cameron gets shot repeatedly and is shown extracting bullets from her torso. Sarah is sitting there across from topless Cameron, watching at her while she's prying bullets out of her skin, and casually tells Cameron once she gets finished to "put those back in the holster."
  • Fez from That '70s Show tends to have feelings for all of his friends. This exchange from when Kelso went to police training takes the cake, though:
    Hyde: Kelso, I love you!
    Kelso: Shut, up.
    Eric: I love you too!
    Fez: I LOVE YOU THE MOST!
    Hyde: (beat) Dude, we were just kidding.
    Fez: Oh.
    • With Jackie and Donna:
      Jackie: Oh, I just love kissing, don't you Donna?.
      (beat)
      Donna: I'm gonna go find Eric.
    • The guys were hoping this was what would happen when Annette spent the night at Donna's place with Donna and Jackie. It didn't.
    • From the finale
      Kelso: Did you just stick your tongue my ear?
      Fez: Maybe.
      Kelso: (chuckles) I liked it.
  • That Mitchell and Webb Look: * Ho Yay: Invoked in-universe in the "Snooker Commentator" sketches, in which Ted and Peter get very enthusiastic about the appeal of a young, blonde, handsome player. In Ted's case, it appears to be a man-crush, whereas Peter apparently has a much deeper attraction.
  • Jamie and Malcolm of The Thick of It and In the Loop. There, I said it.
    • Number 10's press tyrants aren't the only ones. There seems to be Ho Yay between Malcolm and everyone he encounters, and this is largely due to his tactic of unnerving people by flirting with them. He saves most of the Ho Yay for Jamie though.
    • Hell, Malcolm has shoved Ollie up against a bathroom wall and groped him, overrides Steve Fleming by saying "never mind what Mummy says, listen to Daddy" and signs off his phone call to Jamie with "I love you" (in response to Jamie's unnervingly cute "missing you loads!") The man is a ho-yay machine.
    • Ollie has enough Ho Yay with Dan Miller that Glenn and Hugh speculate that he might be bisexual.
    • In Series 4, Fergus and Adam. No Sense of Personal Space, always seen together, and then there are those squash games...
  • Tin Man included several conversations between Cain and Glitch that could easily be interpreted as flirtation. (It doesn't help that Alan Cumming is openly bisexual and Neal McDonough played a Star Trek character who was gay in the Expanded Universe.)
    "Want to dance?" "I'll lead, you follow."
    • Not to mention the fact that after a brief memory short-circuit, the line that makes Glitch remember Cain is, "Good morning, sweetheart."
    • No mention of the scene in the truck? Let's see, they spent the series up until that point in constant bicker, and after it have mellowed out significantly. There's also the fact that Glitch would have had to get Cain out of those sopping wet clothes, and that one of the first aid measures for hypothermia would be bundling up together. Granted, Cain would have been WAY out of it, and Glitch couldn't hold a thought in his zippered head for more than a minute at a stretch, making anything past getting comfortable a tough go.
    • Then again, folks, remember this IS Oz, a universe that is loaded with Ho Yay and Les Yay to start with. You could make a good case for Glitch and Cain's predecessors (Scarecrow and Nick Chopper), while Ozma and Dorothy is more text than subtext. Add in Maguire and Laumer's Oz, and things get even heavier in those regards.
    • There's a pit of squicky subtext between Azkadellia and DG.
  • Todd and the Book of Pure Evil contains a large amount of this between its male characters, from Curtis' instistance that Todd is his "everything", to Jimmy the Janitor openly reading gay porn without any previous hint of being attracted to men. The character of Atticus Murphy Jr., however, is this trope personified. His entire character could be defined by his single-minded obsession with the titular character and his unusually frequent tendency to spit out Accidental Innuendo in the face of his sworn adversary. Notable examples of this subtext include Atticus spending an entire night standing outside of Todd's house watching him masturbate for the sake of "investigating" and not-so subtly hinting that he wanted Todd to anally rape him during a particularly heated argument. This is all of course played for laughs but has gone far from unnoticed by the fanbase.
  • Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger has three: Ban and his "aibo," Hoji, Ban and Sixth Ranger Tetsu, and, well, any of the male Rangers and Doggie Kruger. Of course, there's also the subtle subtext of Jasmine and Umeko during their team-up episodes, but that's less obvious than the others. Then again, one of the male Rangers did say they act like lovers, and there's the wedding dresses scene in their special end title...
  • Engine Sentai Go-onger Hanto/Gunpie vibes are pretty strong, particularly when you consider that the former wore a dress to masquerade as the other's love interest.
  • Uchu Sentai Kyuranger has been slowly gaining momentum. Lucky x Garu and Balance x Naga have been popping up thanks to the characters' close partnerships. The most popular of all has to be Champ x Stinger, especially after the former's heroic sacrifice.
  • Top Gear (UK) likes to lay on the subtext, but this took the cake.
    Hammond: When we left the action, Jeremy was in the lead just approaching Doncaster, I was in second place and as you would expect Captain Slow was bringing up the rear...
    May: Steady.
    Hammond: ...Hoping to take me from behind.
    May: Yeah alright.
    Hammond: And then press home his advantage and take Jeremy in the tunnel...
    May: Stop saying things like that!
  • Almost every episode of Torchwood. Even when it's in the text, there's usually another one being subtexted. The most likely pairing that isn't in the text is probably Gwen and Tosh.
    • In a deleted scene for the episode From Out of the Rain, the Ghostmaker lovingly strokes the hair of one of the clowns in his circus, who smiles, shyly at him.
  • This trope is the reason Randy and Mr. Lahey have been known to dress up as Tonto and The Lone Ranger on Trailer Park Boys.
  • True Blood:
    • Season 3. Bill shows up in Sam's motel room, shirtless. He makes Sam remove his shirt, all the while flirting like crazy. He goes in for the kiss... And Sam wakes up, having dreamt the whole thing.
    • Also, Season 2's interludes between Eric and Lafayette, which was confirmed to be intentional on the actors' part.
    • Eric and Godric have a very deep relationship, built on "centuries of faith and love". This, combined with Eric's insane protectiveness and submissiveness towards Godric, kind of makes them look like lovers.
    • Given the nature of vampire familial relationships, I'd say a physical relationship between Eric and Godric is rather likely. Eric sleeps with his "sister" Nora and his "daughter" Pam and Pam in turn with her "daughter" Tara. And we know for a fact that Eric is bisexual sooo...
    • Seriously, Eric and everyone in Season 3. He's manipulating people every which way he can, which involves a shameless amount of flirting, especially with Russell and Talbot.
    • In season two, Eric and Bill are mistaken for a couple by a shop assistant. There's also this:
      Sophie Anne: All this alpha-male posturing. Why don't the two of you just fuck each other and get it over with? I could watch.
    • The show is so full of Ho Yay that it's starting to spill into real life.
    • Claudine seems incapable of keeping her hands off Sookie...
    • And Tara has always seemed rabidly protective of Sookie, especially in the first season.
    • And season 4 episode 2 Jason tells a guy, "It's not that I don't appreciate you licking me, because I do..."
    • From season 5 onwards, the relationship between Tara and her maker Pam is filled with subtext, and even Jessica points it out towards the end of the season when she asks Tara if she likes Pam. And in the season finale, when Pam and Tara finally kiss, she quickly stated:
      Jessica: I knew it!
    • Hoyt looks seriously hurt when Jason referred to Rene as his best friend instead of him (who has known him all his life), and when Jason doesn't get that he wants to stay over at his place in season 3 to leave his mother. And also, when Jason has an Erotic Dream about Jessica in season 4 after drinking her blood, she changes into Hoyt halfway through the dream!
    • Jason and Ben /Warlow in season 6. Sacrificing his plan to save Jason? Check. Erotic Dream that includes neck-licking and loads of sexual innuendos? Check. Touching Jason's face way too long and close before glamoring him every single time he does it? Check.
    • Sookie and Violet in the season 6 finale:
      Sookie: I'm his sister, what the fuck?
      Violet: Oh. (Beat). Then, you're my sister too. (fully kisses her on the lips)
      Jason: ...She's European.
    • 6x09 gave us this jewel between Eric and Jason (remember vampire blood heals you, but also gives you erotic dreams about the vampire you drink from):
      Eric: Help me remember, have I ever healed you before?
      Jason: I don't think so.
      Eric: (smirks) Well, you are in for a treat. (cuts his arm to give him blood) And when you dream of me, dream of nice things.
      • And in 7x02, Jason does indeed dream of "nice things". Sort of. Actually, the dream is surprisingly intense, and not only sexual, but Jason also dreams that he and Eric have been having some kind of relationship!
  • The new TNT drama Trust Me is made of this trope. The main characters are at the very least Heterosexual Life-Partners. At the end of the first episode, Connor is talking to BFF Mason about how he still wants to work with him as his "partner." He says he always does better work if he knows Mason will be reading it, prompting Mason to ask if Connor's planning on kissing him. It doesn't help that Mason is played by Eric McCormack.
    • Connor also gets a few good lines. At one point he says of Mason, "It's getting harder to pin him down these days." Slightly less slashy in context... but only just.
    • And now there's some Connor/Tony Ho Yay when the two decide to partner up together.
      Tony: I felt like we had a connection. It's been a long time since I had that feeling.
    • And in the same episode we're right back to Connor/Mason Yay when Mason wants to fly Connor out to L.A. for a hockey game since he feels bad about missing the one they were going to attend together (in Chicago, where they both live and work). The whole conversations comes across like a couple who's recently broken up. Mason wants to get back together, but Connor rubs his new BF/partner, Tony, in Mason's face instead.
  • Charles Brandon and Henry from The Tudors, as well as Thomas More and Henry.
  • At the end of Lucy Worsley's 12 Days of Tudor Christmas, a tale is recounted, and then reenacted, of Anne of Cleaves and Catherine Howard dancing together after Henry VIII went to bed.
  • Two and a Half Men: Charlie and Alan. They're only brothers because of Executive Meddling to appease the Moral Guardians.
    • In one episode Charlie actually gets in the shower with Alan. And in another episode Charlie gets in bed with Alan and says they should spoon. Alan warns him that him he keeps touching him he's going to loose his hand. Charlie tells him its not his hand that's touching him.
    • The Japanese ran with this when putting together the intro sequence for overseas airings of the show...or as they call it, "Out Couple".
    • Alan and Walden keep ending up together, with one of them naked. And Alan had a "problem" in the morning.
  • About a third of the jokes in 2 Broke Girls riff on the homoeroticism of Max and Caroline's friendship. The other two-thirds are ethnic humor and rich-are-different jokes.
    • Caroline asks Max to come out and see something she bought:
    Max: If I'm coming out for anyone, it'd be that hot dragon tattoo chick.

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  • Betty and Amanda on Ugly Betty. Amanda has often made jokingly bisexual remarks to Betty as part of her sex-obsessed personally, but now that they've moved in together the Les Yay is getting harder to shrug off as a joke. Their heartwarming Golden Moments show a lot more chemistry than Betty has had with most of her Standard Betty Boyfriends. In the online Webisode, Amanda even told Marc that she had a sex dream about Betty.
  • Unnatural History set off slash fic between cousins Henry and Jasper after only three episodes were aired.
  • The Vampire Diaries: Jeremy and Tyler. This probably reached its zenith when Tyler is hanging out with two cute teen girls when Jeremy shows up. Apparently to be polite he invites Jeremy to join them. They then go to his house, at which point Tyler invites Jeremy to "see his sketches" if you know what I mean (it means see his sketches, but it sure sounds like a euphemism), ditching the other two until one of them comes looking for them, and when she finds them apologizes for interrupting them if they were having a "moment". Yeah, their sexual tension is strong enough that tertiary characters notice.
    • Note that when you apply a bit of Fridge Logic to the situation, Jeremy's sketches seem to be solely of Tyler. Hell, that's barely a step away from drawing little hearts around your crush's name in a notebook.
  • Veronica Mars:
    • In season one, Meg Manning referred to Veronica as her "knight in shining armor", gave her a corsage, and took her as her date to a school dance. Before the dance, though, she made Veronica dress in an extremely provocative outfit; Veronica referred to the costume as "Manila Whore Barbie" (the look was meant to emulate Madonna's early career; it was an '80s dance). Once they got to the dance, though, Meg refused to dance with Veronica, telling her "Forgive me, gal-pal; I'm weak," even before her secret date shows up. Afterwards, Veronica goes out to her car, borderline crying, VOing that all love does is get you alone at the spring dance strapped into uncomfortable underwear. Yeah, that's not even Subtext anymore.
    • In "An Echolls Family Christmas," Duncan and Logan were wearing identical boxers at the beginning of the episode, after being forcibly stripped by Weevil when he suspected them of cheating. Another character asks if they coordinated beforehand. Later on, after they had a fight, Logan asked "So are we breaking up, then?"
    • Logan and Weevil also had a vibe going on, which wasn't helped by Logan's actor lending some gestures to the character that could be described as "flaming".
    • Logan and Lamb have their fair share too.
      Lamb (to Logan): Hey good-looking, we'll be back to pick you up later!
    • There's also the rather Yandere-ish description of the killer's motives in the conclusion of Dean O'Dell's murder.
      You murdered Dean O'Dell to destroy Professor Landry, because he used you, then betrayed you...Bet he'll change his mind about you not being that smart.
  • Ragnar and Athelstan in Vikings. When Ragnar first finds Athelstan, he pushes him up against a wall and gets in real close. A few moments later, Rollo walks in and dejectedly comments how there aren't any women in the monastery, and the group looks to Athelstan. Later, Ragnar invites Athelstan to have a threesome. And after the timeskip, his reactions to Athelstan's supposed death, Seer-prophesized survival, and arm ring are rather striking and emotional as well.
    • There's also the scene where Ragnar and King Ecbert discuss a possible alliance while in the bathtub together, particularly the part when Ecbert openly stares at Ragnar as he undresses. Ecbert's also quite fascinated and touchy-feely with Athelstan, who is yet again considered to join a threesome by Princess Kwenthrith. Ecbert promptly shoots that idea down, stating that Athelstan is a celibate monk and very spiritual man.
    • Athelstan seems to be popular all around. Some guys at the Ritual Sacrifice showed interest in him, too. But being the Good Shepherd that Athelstan is, he consistently refuses the advances of everyone, male or female.
  • The Villains of Valley View: Hartley and Amy have a lot of moments which fans see as unintentionally romantic. The two become quite touchy-feely with each other, which even Amy's brother comments on, and Amy's dislike and mistrust of Declan can come off like she is jealous of Hartley being interested in him. On another instance, Amy even says that Hartley makes her life better and makes her a better person.
  • Warehouse 13 has Myka and a female HG Wells in a extremely tense relationship. The two actresses discussed their characters and storyline and how to spice it up a little, and decided to fall in love a little bit.
    • Fall in love a little bit? whenever the two are in the same room after 2x01 they constantly look like they want to jump each other.
    • Before that, James MacPherson and Artie. When James died, Artie spent alot of time mourning him, acting like a widower more than someone who'd lost their friend.
  • Wednesday:
    • The developing friendship between Wednesday and Enid come off to many fans as unintentionally romantic. In the pilot, the two quickly open up to each other despite not getting off on the right foot and Enid happily tries to hug Wednesday as soon as they meet. In one episode, Wednesday flat out threatens Enid's date if he hurts her. One of the few times Wednesday actually gets sad is when a fight causes Enid to move out, and when Enid moves back in it's because she thinks she has to take care of Wednesday and Thing. In the final episode, Enid even finally learns to transform to save Wednesday and the two finally hug when it is all over. Enid once points out to Wednesday that they shouldn't work as friends as well as they do in a way that sounds like a line from an Opposites Attract Rom Com:
      Enid: Because we work. We shouldn't, but we do.
    • Although small, Xavier and Ajax have their moments being close friends. While talking to Enid, Ajax at one point in their conversation affectionally refers to Xavier as 'my man' while at the same time commenting that Xavier has a hidden side that few realize and that he has a complicated relationship with his father, something that Xavier has not even revealed to Wednesday. In the parents weekend episode, Xavier can be seen happily sitting at a table with Ajax and his mothers, implying that he has a good relationship with Ajax's family or that Ajax is fond enough of Xavier to introduce him to his family.
  • There's a really unnerving scene in the 1980s Disney children's series Welcome to Pooh Corner (the same show that gave us the Too Smart for Strangers trope, coincidentally enough) in which Tigger's mirror reflection comes to life and begins teasing him. Just look at the part where mirror-image Tigger reaches under the mirror and grabs real-Tigger in the exact spot where his genitalia would be if he were a real animal. Then there's the rather...romantic hand gesture the two Tiggers make while they're dancing together, and the immediate cut afterward to the overly mirthful TV host (wearing a thick red sweater, no less) saying: "That was a good song, wasn't it?" Ick. You can watch the (poorly taped) video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEOEOLtX-WM.
  • Ed and Larry in The West Wing, who are always seen together at work. Lampshaded in one episode.
    • What about Josh and Sam?!
    • Hell, what about Josh and Leo?
    • Hell, Bartlett and Leo! The President even gave him a kiss before going into surgery right after the assassination attempt, though that was a Heartwarming Moment in context.
      • They even make cracks about it ("Uh, they thought I having dinner with Abbey, so just pretend there's no candlelight." / "Yeah, and that we're not paranoid homophobes."), blatantly tease and flirt (jokingly...or not?) and repeatedly get into husband/wife-like Accidental Innuendo. And Stockard Channing and John Spencer once joked that while Abbey was Bartlet's wife, Leo was his mistress.
    • No love for Josh and Santos? Josh stares after Santos like a besotted schoolboy, constantly!
  • Whitechapel (TV Series) has police detectives Kent and Chandler... Kent starts out kind of hero worshiping/ imitating his new boss, Chandler, but goes on to shoot him some very suggestive looks, and is extremely jealous of Chandler's girlfriend in series three.
  • The Wild Wild West features the adventures of "partners" Jim West and Artemus Gordon who spend most of their time together on board a private train. They are constantly acting like a married couple whenever they're on the train, with Jim leaning on Artie's shoulder, Artie patting Jim lovingly (even on the tummy in some episodes), and both of them changing in front of each other. In several episodes, they remark on how "good-looking" the other is, including an episode where Jim wants to disguise himself as another man, and Artie says that Jim is "much better looking" than the other guy.
    • Neither seems terribly interested in relationships with women. Artie has an intense distrust of women, and though Jim is always seducing women for information, he never ends up with them past the end of an episode. Often episodes end with Artie glaring at Jim jealously as the latter goes off to what can be assumed is their shared sleeping quarters with the Girl of the Week.
      • In the episode "The Night of the Big Blast", Jim even meddles in Artie's relationship with a woman (an old friend of Artie's who seems to be his mental match), going so far as to interrupt Artie's kiss at the end of the episode with a jarring sound meant to imitate an explosion. Jealousy, indeed.
  • In The Wire, McNulty and Bunk have a lot of this going on, particularly in this interesting conversation:
    McNulty: You know why I respect you so much, Bunk?
    Bunk: Mmm.
    McNulty: It's not 'cause you're good police, 'cause y'know, fuck that, right?
    Bunk: Fuck that, yeah.
    McNulty: It's not 'cause when I came to homicide, you taught me all kinds of cool shit about...well I dunno. Whatever.
    Bunk: Whatever.
    McNulty: It's 'cause when it came time for you to fuck me...you were very gentle.
    Bunk: You damn right.
    McNulty: See, 'cause you could'a hauled me outta the garage and just bend me over the hood of a radio car...but no, you were...you were very gentle.
    Bunk: I knew it was your first time. I wanted to make that shit special.
    McNulty: It was, man. It fucking was.
  • Without a Trace: Agents Martin Fitzgerald and Danny Taylor share as much banter, rapport, and meaningful looks with each other as they do with their female partners, if not moreso. Danny also completely freaks out when Martin is shot—he's absolutely horrified when he sees that he's been shot, babbles hysterically while telling their supervisor what happened, has to be dragged away to let the medics work, can barely hold still to let his own injuries be treated, and almost screws up the subsequent investigation when he's so determined to kill Martin's assailant that he almost shoots an innocent civilian. Had it been Martin's ex Samantha acting like that, viewers would have unanimously agreed that she was still in love with him. Danny also recognizes when Martin develops an addiction to painkillers and is the one to push him to get help for it—the two of them practically exchange held gazes when Martin finally joins him at an AA meeting and the handshake they exchange when he tells him that he's gotten a sponsor, etc., reads a lot like Holding Hands.
  • In Wizards of Waverly Place Alex is very friendly with her brother's girlfriend, Juliet.
    Juliet (while hugging Justin): Justin, your hand's a little low.
    Alex: No, that was me.
  • The episode of Would I Lie to You? in which Rob Brydon appears has him engage in Ho Yay with both David Mitchell (Actor) and Robert Webb. He lavishes the pair with compliments, but insists that he personally finds David Mitchell the more attractive of the duo. Not in a gay way, of course.
    David Mitchell: I'm not quite sure how to take this, but thanks.
    • The last episode of David Mitchell's The Bubble had Robert Webb as a guest and the show starts off with the two of them going off on a tangent together, while the two female guests coo over how much the two seemed to have missed each other in the three days the guests had been trapped in the bubble. One female guest then spilled the fact that Robert referred to David as "my David". David Mitchell reacts in stunned horror while a very embarrassed Robert protests that they were talking about 2 Davids and was just clarifying which David. Later in the same episode we see the guests trapped in the house together playing Jenga, apparently drunk when one female guest, Miranda Hart, tries to psyche Rob out by saying to the camera:
    Miranda Hart: [Robert] keeps talking about this Abby he's married to but we all know he's talking about David.
    • At the end of the episode, David Mitchell reads out headlines and the guests have to buzz in and guess if they are true of false, as the guests have been cut off from the outside world for three days. David reads out this one:
    David: Comedian David Mitchell has announced he is splitting from long-term comedy partner Robert Webb in order to concentrate on his solo career. [awkward silence]
    Robert: [looking as though he is about to cry] Fake!
    David: It is fake, yes. [Beat] Hell of a way to break it.
  • X Company has Tom and Neil, who start off rather antagonistic until the end of season one, when they write a propaganda love poem together and exchange some downright smoldering looks while doing so. Tom then gets shot, and Neil's complete devotion to him during this ordeal is downright adorable, including holding Tom's hand (which Tom comments is "nice"), sitting in the backseat of a car propping him up (which Aurora could have done just as easily), fussing about how he'll need to be bundled up because the rescue plane will be cold, and practically losing his mind when he finds out that there isn't actually going to be a rescue. Tom attempting to comfort Neil at this point is equally adorable. Tom does eventually get evacuated, and when he returns, Neil hugs him. When Tom later dies, Neil is devastated and cries into his dead chest. His reaction to his actual girlfriend dying is far more subdued.
  • The homoerotic relationship between Xena and Gabrielle in Xena: Warrior Princess constantly walked the line between subtext and text.
    • It's text, actually. They're established as literal soulmates. In the modern-day reincarnation episodes, they get married and everything.
    • Xena and Callisto.
    • Gabrielle was canonically lusted after by a Valkyrie in a later season, and it was implied that Najara was in love with Gabrielle as well.
      Xena: (about Najara) "She's a tough girl, but she's got a weakness. It's the same one I've got."
    • In "The Play's the Thing", Gabrielle's play convinces two girls to become "thespians".
    • There's also Lao Ma, who attempted to teach a younger, angrier Xena the value of peace, and of dancing with girls.
  • The X-Files:
    • It had Mulder/Krycek — in one episode, Krycek even kissed Mulder on the cheek.
    • Skinner/Doggett which the Television Without Pity recapper noticed and commented on a lot.
    • Monica Reyes seems to be hitting on Scully in the episode "Existence".
      Reyes: I have to say, with everything I know you must be feeling, you look amazingly beautiful, Dana.
      (*pause*)
      Scully: And what about what you're feeling? Any vibrations, Agent Reyes?


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