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BEST QUEERBAIT TV SHOW - FINAL ROUND

Supernatural* (Dean Winchester/Castiel) vs. BBC Merlin (Merlin/Arthur Pendragon)

Supernatural

BBC Merlin

Voting ended onSep 28, 2025

*Shows marked with an asterisk feature minor queer storylines

Submitted propaganda under the cut:

Supernatural:

"just trust me bro"

"I mean. This is the supernatural website. You guys know"

"It was the longest and greatest queerbait of all time. Twelve years of tension just for both of them to die wanting, one of them still in the closet."

"Destiel is so bizarre. I thought it was entirely made up during my first watch of SPN 1-7, figured I'd never get it during my second watch until Season 6. Then I couldn't stop seeing it. In everything. For the next NINE seasons. And then retrospectively for the preceeding two/three. The market research. The widower arc. The divorce arc. The specific episodes that make you ask yourself "Did I miss the episode where they got together??" Record-breaking fanfiction. Narrative parallels. The Market Research (for emphasis). It's nonsensical. Who tf else was doing it this purposefully for this long??"

"the ultimate queerbait. even when it went canon it was still queerbait."

"I mean like…c’mon."

"you know its true. we all know its true."

BBC Merlin:

Come on have you watched this show? You know. I don't need to spell it out for you

"He is your destiny" "Two sides of the same coin" - repeated inuendos, magic being a metaphor for queerness, etc

op's addendum:

Literally based on smallville who might as well have written the book on queerbaiting and supernatural powers as a metaphor for gayness. Also gay as fuck to be canonically destined to be at the side of another man until death does you apart and then some.

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BEST QUEERBAIT TV SHOW - THIRD PLACE MATCH

House M.D.* (Gregory House/James WIlson) vs. Star Trek** (James T. Kirk/Spock)

House MD

Star Trek

Voting ended onSep 28, 2025

*Shows marked with an asterisk feature minor queer storylines

**While the original Star Trek aired at a time where there was no queer representation on TV, Kirk and Spock have been revisited many times, notably on the ongoing projects: Alternate Original movie saga and Strange New Worlds. The prolonged insistence in keeping them friends while knowing and squeezing the most iconic gay ship in TV history could be read as malicious intent. Eye of the beholder.

Submitted propaganda under the cut:

House M.D.:

"Other shows might have queerbaited in more distressing ways, but House queerbaited with a love for the game and a passion for the craft. Always intentional, always flawless."

"They are insane, they literally ride a motorcycle into the sunset together at the end of the series."

"House and Wilson love each other, most important people in each other's lives. Unconditional love. When they make gay jokes it physically pains me to know that they were never going to do anything romantic or crazy sexual style with them."

Star Trek:

"I mean, the OG ship. The looks, the touching, pon far"

"Invented slash, though they weren't intentional queerbait at the time I mean… Look at them. Responsible along with Spn for inventing omegaverse. Modern day iteration actors will NOT stop making jokes about the ship, and saying the ship name at comic cons. I'm losing my mind I'm losing my goddamn mind. I'm getting fucking queerbaited by the oldest slash ship,,,"