In real life, platonic relationships between men and women are everywhere, mainly because people work together and are married to other people. Therefore, they have a lot to talk about and there’s no sexual tension. However, these friends rarely see each other outside of work. On TV, everyone is younger than average and much less likely to be married. That often leads to sexual tension and/or eventual coupling, so true platonic friends are rare on TV. But they do exist, like Jerry and Elaine on Seinfeld.
Alright, this is cheating a bit as the two did date previously, but “staying friends” after a breakup has never seen a better representation on television. They split their time evenly between scheming, joking and wanting to kill each other, but when it came down to it, were more or less best friends. Yes, I know there’s the episode where they end up having sex, but that’s pretty much done on a bet, and one slip in a million episodes isn’t too bad.
See how hard it was to come up with a list of platonic friendships between opposites sexes on TV? There are five more in the list from TVOM that work out right, but you may have forgotten about.