When Friends ended in 2004, much disappointment was there because we had lost our favorite bro duo in Joey and Chandler, but we only had to wait a few years before The Big Bang Theory gave us the best friend duo of this generation in Raj and Howard.

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The two were inseparable during the twelve years we saw them onscreen, and their antics had us entertained all the while. There were also quite a bit of romance elements injected in the relationship, leading to these 10 times where Raj and Howard were Friendship Goals.

10 When Raj Made Fun Of Him

You can’t claim to be the best friend of a person when you haven’t taken the mickey out of them for something embarrassing they once did. Making fun of your friend is all in good fun, as you know it’s all in a lighter context.

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For Howard, there could be no greater embarrassment than the reveal that he had intimate relations with his own cousin. This was confessed by him when he and the guys were unknowingly high, and Raj kept this in mind. When they were relatively more sober, Raj took his opportunity to laugh at Howard for what he did along with Leonard.

9 When Howard Missed Raj

Howard is the reluctant one in this dynamic in showing his feelings. He tries to be manly about things and doesn’t admit he wants Raj around just as much Raj wants him. It was most evident in Season 3, however, when Howard’s longing for Raj was to the brim.

Here, Raj began spending time with Sheldon for work, leaving Howard lonely and sad without his best friend to accompany him in his various exploits. Howard would almost completely lose it, as he instead hounded Leonard and Penny instead because he had no other option. It was a great reminder that Howard did need Raj in his life.

8 When They Had Their Moment In The Planetarium

You can’t contain Howard when he wants to brag about himself, and his greatest achievement in becoming an astronaut led to him boasting about this fact for the rest of the series. In the build up to this scene, it appeared as if Howard would try to steal Raj’s spotlight when the latter gave his speech at the planetarium, but things took a very different turn.

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Instead of bickering, the two would start complementing one another. This developed from simple complements to an all-out bromantic scene as Raj and Howard would become extremely mushy in praising the other, culminating in an embarrassed Bernadette watching her husband admit his love to his best friend in public.

7 When They Did The Kissing Simulation

Had Raj and Howard not been interested in women, then you can be certain they would have become a couple long back. Even as straight men, the two would engage in a lot of weirdly intimate moments.

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In this scene, Raj and Howard all but made out in full as they demonstrated to Leonard what a physical kissing simulator was like. While they maintained they were only testing it out, Raj and Howard still went ahead with going all in with their kissing game and were shown to even enjoy it. It was actually the same as kissing each other in the face, but this was the closest we got to seem fully locking lips without argument.

6 When They Hit On The Goth Girls

The only person you want to have as your wingman is your best friend, and Raj and Howard had made it a habit of theirs to go out into town and try to pick girls up together. As you would expect from two guys who knew nothing about women, things didn’t go too well.

We saw them dress up as emo or goth dudes just so they could have common ground with women interested in similar things. After they did manage to nab a couple girls’ interest, Raj and Howard found themselves way in over their heads by ending up at a tattoo parlor and almost getting real tattoos. They went home empty handed, but at least they still had each other.

5 When They Accidentally Kissed For Real

There wasn’t riotous laughter when we saw Raj and Howard kiss, but applause of the highest level because we finally got to see it. By Season 4 of The Big Bang Theory, these two had been shown on many occasions to be weirdly close, with the only exception being actual kissing involved.

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While it might have been an accidental kiss, considering Raj was really trying to kiss Bernadette, it did result in a fact that Raj and Howard did kiss in canon. For the fanbase at least, this was the culmination of a lot of physical tension we’d seen between them. And even in real life, you do somehow and some way kiss your best friend at one point.

4 When Howard Gifted Him Cinnamon

Unfortunately for Raj, we never got to see him find the woman he would marry. Raj ended the series alone as he began, with only his dog to share the bed with him. Still, he did consider Cinnamon to be the same as a real person, and the one to hand him this companion was Howard.

Along with Bernadette, Howard felt bad for Raj for being unlucky in love once again, and decided to surprise him with the dog Raj would end up making something like a surrogate wife. Although Howard made fun of Raj for being so taken with Cinnamon, he was inwardly glad his friend wasn’t feeling lonely anymore.

3 When Howard Forgave Raj For Crushing On Bernadette

It is a betrayal of the highest order to see your best friend try make the moves on your girlfriend, and Raj was very close to doing so when his feelings for Bernadette reached fever pitch.

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At this time, Raj was also facing flak from Leonard for getting into bed with Penny, making it a very tough time for him where his friends were shunning him. However, Howard became a very big man and chose to forgive Raj for thinking he could nab his girlfriend, and never held it against him moving forward. For his part, Raj also ended his obsession with Bernadette and became something of a brother-like figure for her.

2 When They Had Their Falling Out (But Made Up)

Yes, we’re pointing toward a time when their friendship ended, but there is no way any two best friends haven’t had a similar falling out. When you’re so very close to someone, there’s bound to be a big fight at some point, which tests the strength of your friendship.

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After Raj cut Howard off for belittling him all the time, Howard would attempt to make up to him; when this didn’t work, they ended up in a bouncing castle for Howard’s daughter, where their friendly feelings resurfaced and they had a wonderful time acting like children. Their friendship was both resurrected and became stronger than ever before.

1 When Howard Stopped Him At The Airport

People were sour we didn’t have a big romantic Raj moment with his love interest in the series, but it actually did come to pass - it just involved admitting his love to Howard and vice versa.

Here, Howard raced to the airport, like they do in romantic movies, and stopped Raj from leaving for England to be with a woman who clearly was not right for him. Howard would assure Raj of his love for him, and begged him to stay with him where Raj’s real home was. Raj did get his big romantic ending here as the airport broke in applause as they embraced, and their 12-year pseudo love story had its happy ending.

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