# "Will they or won't they" relationships which were a "they won't" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606 "2012-05-31T01:44:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/21 "2012-05-31T09:04:28Z")
> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > They kind of had kids didn’t they? Lizard kids granted, but they still technically boinked. That was Janeway and Paris. Chakotay suddenly had a ‘they will’ relationship with 7of9 in the very last episode, even though there had been no foreshadowing of it whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/22 "2012-05-31T09:20:59Z")
I was going to say Josh and Donna from _The West Wing_, but I read the synopsis on Wikipedia and apparently they did. I had stopped watching by then. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/23 "2012-05-31T10:30:57Z")
Sally Field and Ron Liebman in _Norma Rae_. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/24 "2012-05-31T10:37:45Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > Obligatory: > > Would Mal and Inara be considered a “won’t?” The end of _Serenity_ left it a possibility, but not a definitive. Then they’d remain a ‘will they or won’t they’, since the possibility wasn’t cut off. Just the chance that the audience would see it. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/25 "2012-05-31T10:56:08Z")
Mulder and Scully on the X-Files? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/26 "2012-05-31T11:11:59Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > Don’t know if Joel Fleischman and Maggie O’Connell from _Northern Exposure_ count, but I think they would. They did - and then inexplicably announced it to the entire bar for no reason - but it didn’t really take. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/27 "2012-05-31T11:31:21Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Mulder and Scully on the X-Files? Umm…they had a baby together, so I think it was pretty much “they did.” ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/28 "2012-05-31T11:34:05Z")
It was brief, but _Friends_ teased a Joey/Rachel hookup late in the show’s run before landing firmly on “They Won’t.” There wasn’t a lot of chemistry there anyway; they were wise to put the kybosh on it. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/29 "2012-05-31T11:48:03Z")
Sam and Diane did have a relationship going there for awhile, and it was indeed physical. Only later, oddly enough, did we get the endless back-and-forth, before Shelly Long left the show. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/30 "2012-05-31T12:00:34Z")
Benson and Stabler from _L&O:SVU_ StG ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/31 "2012-05-31T12:32:08Z")
Not a TV show, but how about James Bond and Moneypenny? Must be the longest “Will they won’t they” going ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/32 "2012-05-31T12:37:03Z")
Beauty and the Beast (the TV show), i.e., Catherine and Vincent. Yes, in one episode they “mystically” kissed, but that was it. ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/33 "2012-05-31T12:38:04Z")
How about Picard and Crusher? Did they ever get together? ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/34 "2012-05-31T12:51:09Z")
> [@Bakhesh](#): > > How about Picard and Crusher? Did they ever get together? By the way, I meant Beverley, not Wesley 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/35 "2012-05-31T13:46:45Z")
Woo! In web comic world Marten and Faye from Questinable Content. The author set it up like they would but the focus became why Faye can’t. A much more subtle piece of writing than expected. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/36 "2012-05-31T13:53:10Z")
> [@Bakhesh](#): > > How about Picard and Crusher? Did they ever get together? According to the finale, yes they will. Then they won’t. But since Picard is now aware of the possible future, maybe they won’t. And then they will. Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/37 "2012-05-31T13:56:31Z")
In _Dawson’s Creek_, Joey ended up with Pacey, not Dawson. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/38 "2012-05-31T14:31:06Z")
This may not fit the category precisely, but… Kevin Arnold pined away for Winnie all through _ **The Wonder Years** _, but in the last episode, he reveals that they split up and he married someone else. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/39 "2012-05-31T14:33:42Z")
Tony Danza and Judith Light had still never committed to anything, as of the time _ **Who’s the Boss?** _ went off the air, had they? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606/40 "2012-05-31T14:39:40Z")
The series isn’t over yet, but on Treme: In the second season, Janette (Kim Dickens) and Delmond Lambreaux have some scenes together in NYC where they had an amazing level of chemistry together. I thought for sure they’d hook up but then nothing came of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-they-or-wont-they-relationships-which-were-a-they-wont/623606.md?page=3)