When one of Jeannie's friends inadvertently saw him naked and passed the word about his...attributes.
When Rodney decided to test out the concept of bisexuality and systematically slept with every person in his grad school cohort.
When Samantha Carter turned him down, Rodney went to a bar in Colorado Springs and had sex in the bathroom with a short-haired, blue-eyed girl. He never even asked her name.
Siberia. It was fucking cold, man.
Every time John Sheppard asked him to.
Five times that Rodney has admitted out loud he was wrong.
After Doranda, but only to Radek.
When he suspected that Cadman was the person who planted the bomb on Atlantis, but only to Carson, sure that word would get to her.
When he told Ronon that the cave was safe. Ronon was unconscious at the time.
When he was stuck at the bottom of the ocean, to Sam, who was a hallucination.
When he assumed Elizabeth was sleeping with Caldwell and she made the "yuck" face.
Five ways Rodney surprised someone.
When he was eleven months old, Rodney looked at his mother and said, "I want a sandwich for lunch." They were the first words he ever spoke.
When Rodney was five years old, he informed the kindergarten teacher that 2 is the only even prime number and 6 is the smallest perfect number. She had to look it up.
When Rodney was 14 years old, he graduated from high school. One of the jocks gave him a hard time, and Rodney landed a lucky punch that broke the guy's nose.
When Rodney was 22 years old, he asked his lab partner to marry him. She said "no" three days later.
When he was 36 years old, Rodney kissed John Sheppard in the mess hall. With tongue.
Five ways SG-1 folk figure out that John's claimed Rodney for himself (whether Rodney knows it or not).
When Teal'C and Ronon had lunch and swapped gossip.
When the databurst to Earth contained a mission video showing John patting Rodney on the ass as they went through the event horizon.
The tattoo.
When Sam asked Rodney to have dinner with her and he said, "I already have plans," then smiled at John.
The lemon was plastic.
Five things John has decided with a coin toss.
McDonald's or Burger King.
War and Peace or The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
Stay in Atlantis or move back to Earth. Best 3 out of 5.
Whether or not to ask Rodney to join his team.
Whether or not to ask Rodney out on a date. Best 5 out of 7.
Five Kinks of Rodney that John doesn't share! Or vice versa...
Toe-sucking. It totally grosses John out.
Bondage - John can't give up control.
Dirty talk. Rodney overthinks it and stammers and John giggles.
Semi-public sex. Rodney can't get it up on a balcony, in a transporter or in storage closets, and John has tried.
Spanking. It makes John laugh uncontrollably and feel stupid.
Five Time Rodney Was Pleasantly Surprised
When his first dissertation advisor (who he fought with for three straight years) clapped him on the shoulder, said "Nice work," and then offered to take a picture with him holding the diploma. The picture is still on his wall.
When Radek took over the labs while Rodney was in the infirmary for three weeks and nothing blew up. At least, nothing he knew about.
When John gave him a blowjob and was good at it.
When John let him be on top the first time they fucked. And the second.
When Elizabeth was the first one to forgive him for the Arcturus debacle.
5 of Rodney McKay's Pet Peeves.
That flying toasters screensaver.
Banana pudding. Anything other than chocolate or butterscotch is a crime against nature.
Colonels who squeeze the toothpaste from the middle and don't put the cap back on.
Colonels who take their spanking for doing #3 stoically.
Constantly having to assign Simpson, Kavanagh and the new girl with the black hair and the glasses to sewer repair duty for ogling John's ass.
5 things John has always wanted to do if he got back to Los Angeles.
Eat at Genghis Cohen.
Ride the Ferris wheel on the end of the Santa Monica pier for the 300th time.
See an explosion movie at the ArcLight in Hollywood.
Take Rodney for a drive up the PCH in a convertible.
Sit by the ocean and listen to the waves and think about how different they sound from the waves hitting Atlantis and wish he was at home.
Five things John knows about Rodney and will never tell
The location of his birthmark.
That Rodney wishes he could eat key lime pie, because it looks really good.
That Rodney sometimes keeps his eyes open when they kiss.
That Rodney has memorized the Kama Sutra.
That Rodney's a cuddler.
Things five members of the Atlantis expedition wanted to be when they grew up.
Cadman - ballerina (she got over it)
Lorne - monkey, because swinging from trees looked cool
Elizabeth - a mommy
John - pilot (it's all he's ever wanted to do)
Rodney - a fireman; then he turned four and wanted to be a pianist
Five things Atlantis personnel do on their downtime.
Zelenka - write long letters home that he'll never send
Elizabeth - Solitaire
John - Rodney
Rodney - John
Carson - Sudoku
Five things John and Rodney do when they think the other one isn't looking.
John
Stand up straight.
Laugh silently at Rodney's "people skills."
That thing where he rubs the back of his neck when he thinks about blowjobs.
Look at Rodney's ass. A lot.
Keep an eye on Rodney during missions.
Rodney
Nothing. He always assumes that John is watching and acts accordingly. Radek wonders why he bends over so much in the lab.
Five Things Laura Cadman Thinks Could Be Vastly Improved In Atlantis.
Girls' Poker Night - Katie can't bluff for shit, Heightmeyer bluffs too well and Miko doesn't come anymore after the incident with the popcorn.
The men - the only straight ones are ugly and the only pretty ones are gay.
Supply chain - the Deadalus forgot the Midol. Twice.
The food. Yak soup - 'nuff said.
Work. There are nowhere near enough opportunities to blow shit up.
What Rodney's five smiles are from John's POV
Evil Overlord/Destroyer of Worlds
The half-smile of "You are so fucked."
Big, fake "humor the natives even though they're only one step, evolutionarily speaking, from philodendrons. Stupid philodendrons."
ZPM
"You're a dork, but I love you."
Five things Laura learned whilst sharing Rodney's body she'll NEVER reveal.
Masturbating with a penis is fun.
He's in better shape than he thinks he is.
That she knows how much Rodney misses his cat.
That she knows how much Rodney misses his sister.
Meredith.
Five embarrassing things Carson has learned about Atlantis personnel as a result of being the doctor.
Bates had severe hemorrhoids. Carson wasn't actually all that surprised.
Katie Brown is a virgin.
John got the space clap. Twice.
Lorne has a superfluous nipple.
Parrish was born with a tail.
Five things John and Rodney find sexy about each other that they really shouldn't.
John
That Rodney wakes up all drooly and crazy-haired.
Rodney's receding hairline.
The fire in Rodney's eyes when he rips somebody a new one. Even when the somebody is John.
That Rodney talks with his mouth full.
Rodney with keyboard marks on his face.
Rodney
Hairy toes.
The noise John makes when he comes. It sounds like a dying moose.
John's utter laziness.
When John gets the math wrong on purpose.
That John uses a ton of product on his hair and then lies about it.
Five ways John helps Rodney's people skills that Rodney doesn't know about.
Grinning and shrugging at the person Rodney has just antagonized.
Making him beg, thus introducing the word "please" into his vocabulary.
Editing most of Rodney's emails with the help of ChuckTech before they go through.
Spankings for bad behavior, though the system doesn't work in the least.
Careful distribution of chocolate.
Five things Teyla saw that nobody else did.
Weir and Zelenka's first kiss.
Her mother being culled.
The look on Rodney's face when John told him he loved him for the first time.
Bates in his underwear; she's been trying to forget it ever since.
Her whole team high on alien roofies and doing the Macarena.
Three things that Ronon misses, and two that he doesn't.
He misses his wife.
He misses having a Taskmaster to make life simpler.
He misses the traditional Satedan dish that was like eggplant parmesan, but not.
He does not miss being on the run for seven years.
He does not miss the traditional Satedan dish that was exactly like liver and onions.
Five things that Zelenka always says in Czech that he will never tell anyone what they mean.
You were right and I was wrong.
Go fuck yourself.
My God, have you seen the ass on Elizabeth?
I have the largest penis in the science department.
If you don't get laid soon, you will combust and take the whole city with you.
Five things Rodney wrote in the margins of the Kama Sutra
"Defeats three known laws of physics. Try anyway."
"No one is that flexible."
"Possible spine damage."
"Try with Colonel Sheppard. A lot."
"Whose leg is that? *draws arrow* Whose arm is that? *draws more arrows* Oh, fuck it."
Four times Radek nearly declared himself to Elizabeth, and the one time he did.
When they both got drunk at the Non-Denominational Winter-Based Observance Party.
When they got trapped in the transporter.
When they were alone on a balcony for a few minutes.
When she visited the lab late one night because she couldn't sleep and he was the only one still there.
In the gate room in front of everybody.
Five things only John knows the others did when Lucius was around that he'll never report to the SGC but will hold over them for the rest of their lives.
Rodney's marmot impression.
Walking on his hands is only Carson's second best skill.
Gourd envy.
Teyla got into Lucius' pants. No, seriously, she tried them on.