Did anyone else ever notice how truly WTF some of the promos for supernatural have been? Like you look at them and think “just what the everloving HELL are they trying to say here??” 

Take for example the very first season’s extended promo that aired in the UK. Known by many Padalecki enthusiasts as the boner promo for Jared’s obvious… uh… enthusiasm about the proceedings, it starts out with the standard Supernatural set up: the boys chilling in a generic abandoned house. Right from the opening shot, it looks like they maybe just had a fight. Perhaps they were playing an intense game of gay chicken that went a step too far and got confusing: 

Then out of nowhere, Sam gets groped by a ghost:

See what I mean? ENTHUSIASTIC. Dean is presumably still hanging out over by the wall on the other side of the room divider watching. It’s not voyeuristic or weird for one brother to watch another get felt up by a spirit, is it? Nah. But then she disappears abruptly and after some mutual sexy glowering, Dean heads in Sam’s direction perhaps to help him curb that enthusiasm:

No idea what the network was trying to say here but I LIKE IT VERY MUCH. 

Then you have season 6 promo photo shoot. Once again, it features brothers smoldering in a filthy flophouse.  

Sam’s knowing little smirk. The way he’s sitting with his legs spread wide. The fact that they have their hands resting right around the crotchal region in almost every picture. The prominently featured mattress. Really, CW? REALLY??

And finally just to prove they are still capable of providing us with wonderful confusingly sexual promos, we have season 12′s sizzle reel. 

Because why not make sexy eyes at your brother while pulling out your -ahem- sword? And if he reciprocates by whipping his own (larger) sword out, the least you can do is express how impressed you are, right?

Of course. It would be rude not to. One can only assume that they’re sauntering off for further phallic comparisons at the end there. 

Mmm. Protective Sammy picking Dean up off the floor and them standing there without an inch of space in between them. Yes, please.