Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25306358-20140815234603/@comment-995426-20150102175648

There already sorta kinda has been guy-on-guy (b)romance. They just had to walk very carefully around it and pointed it out belatedly long after the fact. :) So yeah, they already write these kinds of things here and there, but tend to be very, very discreet in case certain parents might catch on to what's going on. (Tropes wikis call that "getting crap past the radar," though most young people today might agree that this isn't actually crap&mdash;it's mostly only their parents or grandparents who think so.)  Even the Korrasami revelation scene in the final scene of the final episode of Nickelodeon's The Legend of Korra didn't go further than hand-holding and eye-gazing.  But in many ways, spooning can be as intimate as kissing&mdash;it symbolizes a deeper level of implicit interpersonal trust where there are virtually no emotional walls or awkwardness, and still enjoys the benefits of being relatively G-rated and easily overlooked by parents' eyes.

There are two other easily overlooked moments in, which even I didn't notice until the third or fourth time I watched it, and I think they made it that discreet on purpose. When Mikey first sees LH again, Mikey gazes at LH asleep and makes heart eyes. Later in the same episode, Mikey mentions to his brothers how much LH likes body rubs. I mean, it's not like LH is an overgrown dog&mdash;he's a person who walks, talks, thinks, feels, breathes and has a heartbeat, and has been to second base with Mikey&mdash;that's certainly more than Donnie has done with April or Leo has done with Karai&mdash;none of the turtles have been as successful at love than Mikey, and Nickelodeon actually got away with it! :)