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| - "Just Friends" is the twelfth episode of Season 7 (and one hundred and ninety third overall) of Regular Show.
- Just Friends is the eighth episode in the second season of Lizzie McGuire.
- Just Friends is the seventh episode of Season 1 of Degrassi High, and the forty-ninth episode overall of the original Degrassi series. It aired on December 12, 1989.
- Just Friends was a double-LP reissue Big Bird Sings! and Let A Frown Be Your Umbrella. However, two tracks on Big Bird's album, The Noodle Story and The "J" Poem, were replaced by A Really Good Feeling and I Just Adore 4, and the order of some of the other songs was changed. The Noodle Story does appear on Oscar's album, and all tracks are the same as the original issue.
- Just Friends appears on the Jonas Brothers' second album, Jonas Brothers. It was written by Nick Jonas.
- Teasing at a romantic relationship between two platonic friends. The central driving force of many whole series, or an undercurrent to a main plot. The force with which the two deny any feelings is always inversely proportional to the truth. Just Friends is in essence, a relationship, a potential relationship or teased relationship between people who are simply Just Friends, in a normal, and regular manner. When a character uses the line "We're Just Friends" but no-one seems to believe them, this is likely to be the trope involved. This can take several forms: See also:
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| - "Just Friends" is the twelfth episode of Season 7 (and one hundred and ninety third overall) of Regular Show.
- Just Friends is the eighth episode in the second season of Lizzie McGuire.
- Teasing at a romantic relationship between two platonic friends. The central driving force of many whole series, or an undercurrent to a main plot. The force with which the two deny any feelings is always inversely proportional to the truth. Just Friends is in essence, a relationship, a potential relationship or teased relationship between people who are simply Just Friends, in a normal, and regular manner. When a character uses the line "We're Just Friends" but no-one seems to believe them, this is likely to be the trope involved. Alice's characterisations often include: All Girls Want Bad Boys, First Girl Wins, Single Woman Seeks Good Man. Often suffers from Oblivious to Love. Bob's characterisations often include: Unlucky Childhood Friend, Ridiculously Average Guy, Dogged Nice Guy, a Celibate Hero, a Knight in Shining Armor for his friend-girl. A tease used commonly in SitComs, dramas with single characters as principals. Friends drove this one into the ground repeatedly. Quite popular in teen-centric series that involve a main cast of friends of both sexes split 1:2 or 2:3. A show with this ratio given enough seasons will often produce a Just Friends relationship unless the two best friends of the lead share Belligerent Sexual Tension. It can go either way then. The Relationship Upgrade is used as a major plot point for a season Cliff Hanger or series finale. An easy way to generate tension. This can take several forms:
* Alice and Bob are friends, but start to develop mutual feelings for each other over the course of the series. They may worry that acting on these feelings will end up ruining their friendship.
* Bob has developed unrequited feelings towards Alice, but has declined to tell her. Bob refuses due to a fear of rejection, fear he isn't good enough, or simply because Alice is involved with Charlie. See I Want My Beloved to Be Happy for more information.
* Alice has developed unrequited feelings towards Bob, has told Bob of them, and been rejected. The driving force is often Bob's development of feelings towards Alice whilst Alice tries to maintain her feelings for Bob or works to overcome them. Can often become an Unrequited Love Switcheroo situation.
* Bob develops unrequited feelings towards Alice, that she may be aware of, but nothing he does can get him out of the "friend zone". If he tries to push the issue, this often leads to a crushing Downer Ending and Ship Sinking moment for Bob, often to the point where they never show up again, especially if they are a recurring character who isn't essential to the series. See also:
* Official Couple: Just Friends ships in works with the pair as two of a small cast of 3 or 4 characters will often have the only meaningful Ship Tease and relationship development, as writers are reluctant to involve what is often their only male or female character into a Love Triangle or make them look like a jerk for playing more than 1 of the other cast members against each other.
* Belligerent Sexual Tension: Rarely used by a Just Friends couple. When done it's often part of a Power Trio where the 3rd character is the calming influence, or the 3rd party is involved in their own more typical Just Friends relationship with the 'shared' partner of a Love Triangle. Harry Potter and ICarly are the best examples of this kind of Love Triangle, as the trios on both are obviously extremely close, but there is still a distinct difference between the relationships of Harry/Hermione and Carly/Freddie, compared to Ron/Hermione and Sam/Freddie.
* Better as Friends or I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: Used to sink one of these ships, or used as the starting state of the romantic pairing before they develop romantic feelings.
* 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).
* Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other, Will They or Won't They?, Single Woman Seeks Good Man, She Is Not My Girlfriend, Everyone Can See It, Last-Minute Hookup and Green-Eyed Monster: All potential aspects of the relationship as it is ongoing, but are not limited to the Just Friends type of romance.
* 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.
* Last Het Romance: In the event Alice or Bob discover they're gay once they start dating, they usually end up Just Friends... usually with a hefty heaping of "It's Not You, It's Me." It is also the title of a 2005 comedy film based pretty much entirely on the trope. It is now located at Just Friends. Examples of Just Friends include:
- Just Friends is the seventh episode of Season 1 of Degrassi High, and the forty-ninth episode overall of the original Degrassi series. It aired on December 12, 1989.
- Just Friends was a double-LP reissue Big Bird Sings! and Let A Frown Be Your Umbrella. However, two tracks on Big Bird's album, The Noodle Story and The "J" Poem, were replaced by A Really Good Feeling and I Just Adore 4, and the order of some of the other songs was changed. The Noodle Story does appear on Oscar's album, and all tracks are the same as the original issue.
- Just Friends appears on the Jonas Brothers' second album, Jonas Brothers. It was written by Nick Jonas.
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