Taking Bart Shopping Counts As Cruel And Unusual Punishment

Who has heard of the Broccoli Test? It is a way of telling how well the people in your ship understand each other, based off their ability to convey across a crowded grocery store that one of them should be procuring the broccoli, and not the arugula, or the milk, or the British orphans, without actually shouting "You moron, grab the broccoli!". Here is how my current ships would do on the Broccoli Test:

Sam/Dean (Supernatural): PASS. The show has demonstrated time and again that the Winchester brothers have a preternatural ability ot get into each other's heads and anticipate each other's moves. Plus Sam is totally in charge of the budget now (since left to Dean it all goes to strippers and beer), and he's anal enough to have an itemized shopping list and probably a floor map of the grocery store for maximum efficiency. Although who are we really kidding, thinking Sam and Dean would eat broccoli to begin with. You cannot cook broccoli in a motel room!

John Sheppard/Rodney McKay (Stargate: Atlantis): DEPENDS on who is getting the broccoli. Between the obsessive, almost stalker-ish observing of Rodney and the fact that his job/life depends on knowing when Rodney is being a pissy bitch and when he's justifiably panicked, John's pretty damn at reading Rodney. But Rodney has all the people skills of a raw turnip. Also he would get distracted by a long rant about the chemicals in modern processed vegetables and how they are going to kill us all and are those lemons you aren't touching the lemons are you Sheppard? and forget all about the broccoli.

Booster Gold/Blue Beetle (DCU): FAIL. SO MUCH FAIL. Unless the broccoli was going to be used in an epic prank on J'onn, because they are always on the same wavelength when it comes to making idiots out of their co-workers. But otherwise, their relationship is built on an Odd Couple-like alignment of quirks and comic misunderstandings, and this would definitely be one of the latter. And then supervillains would show up and trash the grocery store anyway, and they would never remember to go back and buy the broccoli afterwards, so they just order a pizza instead.

Merlin/Arthur (Merlin): FAIL. xmoonshine  is right: "Going by The Labyrinth of Gedref, I suspect Arthur would make some Significant Hand Signs, and Merlin would look confused, and when Arthur starts making Angrily Significant Hand Signs, Merlin would point questioningly at the milk. Then Arthur would stalk over to pick up the broccoli himself."

Steve/Tony (Avengers): PASS. Steve and Tony fight together enough to be pretty good at reading each other's cues. Heck, Tony knows Steve's favorite kind of bagel. Plus Tony is a supergenius with a computer in his brain and Steve is CAPTAIN AMERICA so I think they can figure out ways to get their point across. Not that Tony goes grocery shopping, because seriously, what does he have peons for if not to do his petty errands?

Tim/Kon/Bart (Young Justice/Teen Titans): FAIL. Kon would not try to signal to Tim to get broccoli because Kon Does Not Get Subtle; he would shout it across the store immediately, possibly even hijacking the loudspeaker to get his point across, and meanwhile Tim is headdesking repeatedly because he has already got the broccoli and the carrots and the hamburger and if he only had some birdarangs he could kill his boyfriend. And conversely, Tim would make obscure Bat-gestures and Kon would be baffled and think he was being summoned to fight crime and just grab everything he could reach and bolt for the check-out. They do not bring Bart. Not after what happened last time.

How well do your ships do on the Broccoli Test?