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Not That Kind of Partner

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Not That Kind of Partner	comment	Since "domestic partner" is a common way to refer to a person you live with and have a romantic relationship with (carnal benefits optional), police officers, lawyers, and other people who work with colleagues also get to utter the above Stock Phrase when introducing their professional partners, Not That There's Anything Wrong with That optional. This trope is Older Than They Think because "partner" has always had that double meaning, and it's a handy way to drop in some Ship Tease or Ho Yay, but expect to see this trope pop up more and more in lieu of (or in conjunction with) She Is Not My Girlfriend. Compare and will likely overlap with Strictly Professional Relationship.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_18acb3a5	comment	In The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode "Mistaken Identity", Will and Carlton are falsely arrested in connection to a rash of carjackings in the area. When the latest victim comes to the jail to see about his car, he tells the sergeant in charge that the boys weren't responsible and that they're "[his] partner's son and nephew". Before the obvious assumption is made, Uncle Phil clarifies that the man is his legal partner and then berates the cops for ignoring protocol, demanding that they release Will and Carlton immediately.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_22211d68	type	Not That Kind of Partner
Not That Kind of Partner / int_22211d68	comment	Bones: Often but not always averted. Everyone seems to think Booth and Brennan are a couple but they always say "we're not a couple, [he/she]'s my partner," and the corrected almost always knows what they mean.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_22e860f4	comment	Inverted in an episode of Psych when a man introduced his "partner." Career policeman Lassiter simply did not comprehend that he meant lover and assumed business partner or partner-in-crime.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_3503ee70	comment	In the pilot of Common Law, Wes and Travis realize in the middle of their therapy session that the rest of the group thinks that Wes and Travis are domestic partners as opposed to police partners. The fact that it was a couples' therapy group probably had something to do with that assumption.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_3e5de40b	type	Not That Kind of Partner
Not That Kind of Partner / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: JD refers to his Heterosexual Life-Partner Turk as his "partner" (since they're more or less an internal medicine/surgeon team), then hurriedly clarifies "not that type of partner". Later, it's revealed that his patient had the right idea to start with and got the wrong idea from the correction.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_455e3038	comment	Inverted in the King of the Hill episode "My Own Private Rodeo". Dale's father admits to him that he's gay, and that his 'special friend' Juan Pedro is actually his partner. But, Dale being Dale, interprets this as his father actually being a government agent partnered with Juan while undercover at the gay rodeo, and freaks out. Dale realizes his misunderstanding by the end of the episode, and wholeheartedly accepts his father once he does. After all, John Redcorn's gay, and Dale's been friends with him for years!
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_5862c34d	type	Not That Kind of Partner
Not That Kind of Partner / int_5862c34d	comment	In CAPOW, the term "partner" gets lobbed about quite a bit to Ship Tease eventual Official Couple (and professional partners) Talon and Samui.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_625e571	comment	Law & Order: Criminal Intent: When Bobby Goren's brother, Frank, first met Eames, he got the wrong idea, which he then passed along to their mother. Frank eventually recognized the misunderstanding (though he continued to doubt that the relationship was strictly platonic), but their mother (terminally ill in addition to her long-term schizophrenia) never quite figured it out.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: Mulder and Scully run into this. The fact that they're closer than most married couples likely doesn't help the situation.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_6c9193a1	type	Not That Kind of Partner
Not That Kind of Partner / int_6c9193a1	comment	The Venture Brothers Return to Spider-Skull Island begins with Dr. Venture admitted to a hospital emergency ward. Brock goes to follow him in but is stopped by a doctor.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_81fbcc95	type	Not That Kind of Partner
Not That Kind of Partner / int_81fbcc95	comment	Something similar in the English dub of Samurai 7. Kambei calls his war buddy his "old wife", and this is translated as having him refer to the guy as his "mate". So, in English as in Japanese, the other characters are surprised when they meet the guy and find out he isn't a (female) love interest.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_8b32c2a9	comment	Cut and Run: Though they do become an Official Couple later, FBI Special Agents Zane Garrett and Ty Grady have gotten this. After a car accident, an EMT tending to Ty asks Zane if they're partners. He answers yes, not thinking anything of it. It's only when Zane specifically mentions working on a case that she realizes they meant completely different things.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_8ba4613a	type	Not That Kind of Partner
Not That Kind of Partner / int_8ba4613a	comment	In the Death Note AU Ragnarok (Skeptikitten), Matsuda is Light's partner at the NPA. Mello asks if he's his partner in every sense of the word.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_8d840f59	comment	Reba: Van auctions a day of working out with him in a silent auction and the winner of the auction was an effeminate man who wants to understand football better because his "partner" always talks about it. Turns out he's straight and he was talking about his business partner.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_9a67b688	comment	In Case Closed Shuichi Akai refers to Gin as "the one that got away" (even going so far as calling Gin his koibito, i.e., "lover") so anyone who overheard him talking would think "ex-girlfriend who initiated the breakup" rather than "criminal that slipped through his fingers"; Kaito, when asked about his relationship with Conan/Shinichi by the Suspect of the Week, uses the identical metaphor, since he both anticipates that his Worthy Opponent would always show up to thwart whatever he's doing but also dreads the interference.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_bd310eaa	comment	Parodied in El Goonish Shive, with Mulder and Scully expies Wolf and Cranium, who replace Will They or Won't They? with They Totally Are. Everyone understands what Cranium means when she calls Wolf her partner, but only because she's correcting herself from saying "boyfriend".
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor is always having to clarify that a "companion" is not sexual (actually, the term is an Ascended Meme, being used to refer to those travelling with the Doctor by fans long before the Doctor started using it.)
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_d2d206b6	comment	Inverted in American Beauty: when welcoming Colonel Fitts to the neighborhood, Jim Olmeyer introduces Jim Berkeley as "my partner". Colonel Fitts asks them to cut to the chase and proceed with the sales pitch, as he presumes they're business partners, and reacts with disgust when he realizes they mean romantic partner.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_e67a7d6c	comment	There has been some confusion on the term "partner" in Negima! Magister Negi Magi (between the festival and summer arcs).
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_ead7c180	comment	Very common in The Hollows books between Ivy and Rachel; compounded by the fact that with Rachel under Ivy's protection, other vampires assume Ivy must be getting blood and/or sex in return.
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Not That Kind of Partner / int_f1ed3426	comment	Hol Horse says this word for word in Iron Touch after Sara misinterprets him calling Sting his "partner" as his boyfriend or fiancÃ© rather than coworker.
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Samurai 7 / int_1cafce28	type	Not That Kind of Partner
Ragnarok (Skeptikitten) (Fanfic) / int_1cafce28	type	Not That Kind of Partner
American Beauty / int_1cafce28	type	Not That Kind of Partner
Scrubs / int_1cafce28	type	Not That Kind of Partner
The Mallorca Files / int_1cafce28	type	Not That Kind of Partner

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