Honestly I Shipped Them Long Before That Episode Came Out - Tumblr Posts

So if I understand this correctly this example should illustrate:

"A Better Pill to Swallow" (that Pokémon episode where Team Rocket drank a potion that made them extremely attractive to Pokémon and Meowth fell in love with James) can be ship fodder or catnip (pun intended) for shippers.

It is not a shiptease or ship bait because it's really unlikely that the writers of Pokémon intended for the audience to ship James and Meowth.

I wish more people understood the difference between ship fodder/catnip for shippers, and an actual shiptease or bait.

The former is just a character dynamic or type of story that is fun to extrapolate from.

The latter is intentional on the part of the writers and much much less common.

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