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* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: The characters literally think of each other as siblings despite lacking a blood relationship.

* [[Friends With Benefits]]: How some writers deal with their UST or sexual frustration, whilst not dealing with the relationship's emotional core (read: enabling them to continue drawing it out).

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Which is often given this type of relationship in slash [[Fan Fiction]].

* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: When a man and a woman are the equivalent of [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]. They tend to be the closest relationship either of them has with anyone, but there is no sexual or romantic component to their relationship. In short, they really ''are'' just friends.

* [[Stupid Sexy Friend]]: Even when they agree they ''should'' just be friends, one (or each) can't get rid of his/her sexual thoughts about the other.

 

It is also the title of a 2005 comedy film based pretty much entirely on the trope. It is now located at ''[[Just Friends (Film)|Just Friends]]''.

** And it got a lot more complicated with the end of season 6 and Brennan becoming pregnant with Booth's baby.

*** And they're together.

* ''[[Caroline in The City]]'': Richard had been hiding his feelings for Caroline through the run of the show.

* ''[[Coupling]]'': Sally and Patrick are friends, but develop feelings for each other.

* ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'': Although Britta and Jeff primarily had this happening for them in the first season, the case can be quite convincingly made that practically ''all'' of the study group members have had this with most-if-not-all of the other members at some point or other. The primary examples are Britta/Jeff, Jeff/Annie and Britta/Troy, as those pairings have more than just self-referential [[Crack Ship]] style [[Ship Tease]].

* ''[[Dawsons Creek]]'': Joey and Dawson.

** A DVD exclusive scene set after "Flesh & Stone" has the Doctor describing his previous companions this way. Unfortunately Amy tricks him into making the TARDIS computer display their images, and notes how many are young sexually-attractive females.

{{quote| '''Amy:''' Is that a [[Nubile Savage|leather bikini]]?}}

* ''[[Life With Derek]]'': This trope is the actual title of an episode which is devoted entirely to playing straight, subverting, deconstructing, and generally having fun with the trope.

* ''[[Numb3rs]]'': Charlie and Amita had to remain [[Just Friends]] whilst Amita was still a student (or a student teacher, one or the other) at ''CalSci''. After she became a professor, their relationship blossomed.

* ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'': According to [[Word of God]] (as if it wasn't already clear enough) this is what's going on with Howard and Vince. There's an obvious attraction between the two that's sometimes [[Lampshaded]], but the show is on Hiatus and they still aren't together

* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'': Randy towards Catalina. Randy loved her, but she considered them Just Friends. They end up getting married for a green card. For some reason, they went through with the wedding night sex except that Catalina made herself completely undesirable. Randy got over her because of her actions. This led to a [[Unrequited Love Switcheroo]] that was never really followed up on.

 

== Web Comics ==

** Marigold and Angus. They get drunk. She puts his hands on her boobs. He shoots her down.

** Elliot towards Padma.

* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'': Yumi and Ulrich. From the first episode of season 4, "We're friends, that's all..." comes close to be their [[Catch Phrase]].

* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': Danny and Sam. [[Everyone Can See It]] from roughly episode 11, but nothing becomes concrete until the final episode.

** [[Relationship Upgrade]] as a [[Grand Finale]] is ridiculed by ''[[Kim Possible]]'' and her platonic pal Ron in the show's third season, in a bit of [[Lampshade Hanging]] that foreshadows the end to the then series-capping TV movie. The two watch a weepy teen drama called ''[[Soap Within a Show|Agony County]]'':

{{quote| '''Ron:''' Oh, please! Are they still teasing that Charity and Danny are gonna get together?<br />

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