History Main / FreudianCouch

* Seen in TimBurton's adaptation of ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''.

* A recurring theme and plot device in ''Annie Hall''.

* In one of the {{Cherub}} books, James is in a therapy session. They have a slightly weird little dialogue which goes something like this:

* [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] does this on a grave in Conversations With Dead People when a vampire she's about to stake turns out to be a psych major who went to high school with her.

* ''TheFarSide'', whose creator was embarrassed he wound up doing them, since they had already become clichéd.
** One of these embarrassingly backfired when Gary Larson thought it would be funny to draw a creature who had to see a psychiatrist because of his severe anger-management problems at having been born as ''nothing but a disembodied eyeball''. Most readers either missed the eyeball entirely or thought it was just one of the buttons sewed onto the couch. In his 10th anniversary retrospective, Larson briefly tried to defend the cartoon before admitting that, yes, it sucked.

---> CIA Therapist: Okay, and how do you feel right now?
---> Stan: I dunno, a little...sad?
---> CIA Therapist: And do you know why?
---> Stan: Because I...miss him?
---> CIA Therapist: No, because you're a LADY!!
* Used as a throwaway gag in PhineasAndFerb. They cut away from Perry and Doofenshmirtz and when we see them again Perry has Doof on a couch talking about his childhood for a moment before they react to something happening offscreen.

* Used with a bench (complete with reading glasses and a notebook) by Twilight Sparkle in the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Lesson Zero" in an attempt to alleviate her friend Rainbow Dash's [[spoiler:mistakenly perceived]] anger issues.

* Used for a brief gag with Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash (with Twi being the therapist) in the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Less than Zero", although technically speaking it was a bench. Subverted in that Rainbow Dash did not have any anger issues with Applejack, further fueling Twilight's SanitySlippage.

* ''TheFarSide'', whose creator was embarrassed he wound up doing them, since they had already become cliché.

* Buffy does this on a grave in Conversations With Dead People when a vampire she's about to stake turns out to be a psych major who went to high school with her.

* In DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog, after [[spoiler: Penny's death]] Captain Hammer is seen crying on a couch, with a therapist facing him.
** Though let's be honest, it was more because Dr. Horrible KICKED HIS ASS.

** "When did you first become aware of this imagined 'plot to get you?'"

* Used in ''Ed Edd n Eddy'' when Edd is explaining to Jimmy about beating everyone up.

* Several classic Gahan Wilson cartoons. In one, the patient, dressed as Napoleon, is sitting up on the couch and reading a despatch while an officer in a Napoleonic uniform stands at attention. The psychiatrist fumes, "We'll never get anywhere with these constant interruptions from the front!" In another, the psychiatrist is a bespectacled, Freud-bearded corpse in advanced decay, and the patient on the couch, blithely looking at the ceiling, asks, "How long has it been since we had our little disagreement, Doctor?" Still another has the psychiatrist down on his knees kissing the hand of the patient, who says irritably, "This is not going to help my Messianic complex, Doctor!"

* Several classic Gahan Wilson cartoons. In one, the patient, dressed as Napoleon, is sitting up on the couch and reading a despatch while an officer in a Napoleonic uniform stands at attention. The psychiatrist fumes, "We'll never get anywhere with these constant interruptions from the front!" In another, the psychiatrist is a bespectacled, Freud-bearded corpse in advanced decay, and the patient on the couch, blithely looking at the ceiling, asks, "How long has it been since we had our little disagreement, Doctor?"

* Used in ThemeHospital as a treatment for mental problems such as Elvis Syndrome[cured by a psychiatrist telling the client how silly he looks]

* In DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog, after [[spoiler: Penny's death]] Captain Hammer is seen crying on a couch, with a therapist facing him.