History Main / LonelyBachelorPad

''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', the Bachelor Arms apartment complex, which is mostly inhabited by suicidally depressed divorced men, including Kirk Van Houten. Every apartment shown inside fits this trope.

* In ''Discworld/MenAtArms'', Carrot and Angua discover that Captain Vimes lives in a one-room undecorated apartment with no furnishings but a bed. [[spoiler: He puts all his disposable income into the Watch Widows and Orphans fund.]]

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'', it's mentioned that Raiden's home looks like this, despite having a girlfriend. A sparse bed, bare walls, nothing else. When Rose broke in there because she started getting paranoid that he had a second girlfriend (he wouldn't let her visit his room), she commented that "There was nobody there. Not even you."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'': Linguini's initial place of residence is one of these. In his own words, "I know it's not much, but it's... not much."

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. In a flashback to when Leonard became Sheldon's roommate, it's shown that the living room is furnished with just a couple of lawn chairs and a TV.

%%* Rocky's house in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', including Mr. Vanhouten's apartment, and the apartment Principal Skinner lives in briefly.

''Videogame/TheLastSovereign'': [[CrusadingWidower Simon]]'s home in Feroholm at the start of the game is basically a wooden shack containing only a bed, a bucket, a portrait of his beloved wife (dead these past twenty years), a letter from his adopted daughter, a map of the continent, and a table on which rest the previous two. It still manages to be one of the nicer hovels in the desolate shanty town given that it's the only other building besides the bar with a ''door''.

These guys either don't have much disposable income, or have other priorities like a big TV or gaming rig. [[TheSlacker They would prefer to do]] as little housework as possible, or simply ''can't'' [[MenCantKeepHouse keep house]] because they never learned how. [[EmptyFridgeEmptyLife The fridge contains only the basics, or nothing at all]], or food supplies are not replenished until [[ItCameFromTheFridge they can walk out by themselves]]. They like having lots of open space around. Or to put it another way, in fiction women want their apartment to be cozy and welcoming to guests. Men want their apartment to be a place to utilitarian and welcoming to themselves.

* In ''Anime/GhostInTheShellArise'', young Motoko Kusanagi's apartment is pretty sparse -- consisting of a four walls, a bed, a bathroom, and a chair. This is in stark contrast to the apartment she shares with her boyfriend in the original manga, which is more decorated -- at least until it's blown up.
* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': [[EmotionlessGirl Yuki]] [[ArtificialHuman Nagato]]. Kyon comments on how empty the places feels and ask himself if Yuki feels the same way as her apartment.
* ''Anime/KaraNoKyoukai'': Ryougi Shiki's apartment is very sparse, containing only a bed and a clothes stand. The refrigerator is also mostly empty save for a few cartons of [[ProductPlacement Haagen-Dasz]] ice cream.

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* ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'': The compartment where the robot B.E.N. resides blends emptiness with salvage and litter strewn haphazardly. As he explains to the arriving Jim Hawkins, Doctor Doppler and Captain Amelia: "Sorry about the mess. When you've been baching it for 700 years, you kinda let things go."

* ''Film/BoilerRoom'': After work a couple of the guys from J.T. Marlin all get together at the house of one of their senior brokers, which is a huge, almost completely empty domicile aside from a tanning bed and a big flatscreen TV. Seth even asks one of his colleagues if the owner just moved in, but is informed that he's actually been living there for months.

* In ''Discworld/MenAtArms'', Carrot and Angua discover that Captain Vimes lives in a one-room undecorated apartment with no furnishings but a bed. [[spoiler:He puts all his disposable income into the Watch Widows and Orphans fund.]]

* In ''Literature/LesMiserables'', Marius stayed in a run-down apartment after his grandfather kicked him out of the house. It turns out that he lived in the same apartment with the Thenardiers. After the scuffle between Valjean and Thenardier, Marius left and stayed with Courfeyrac's place instead.
* In ''Literature/VenusPrime'', whenever Sparta is on her own for extended periods of time, her dwellings become quite... Spartan. It's especially pronounced in the fourth book, when she develops a particularly bad drug addiction that causes her to spend a lot of time in a stupor.

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* ''Series/{{Graceland}}'': Subverted with Jakes - the modest apartment he buys in the second season has a very nicely-furnished room for his son, because he's hoping his son will visit him. After he finds out that his ex has taken away his custody, he smashes the room's contents to bits.
* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': One episode has Tim design the ultimate male bathroom. The toilet unfolds into a recliner, there's a fridge and a large TV for sporting events... All good for a single person to live in, of course, but there's no way two people could live in it.

* [[ShrinkingViolet Hanako]] [[BreakTheCutie Ikezawa]] from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo''. Even if Yamaku's rules and rooms tend to be minimalist, Hisao comments on the heavy ambience of her room.

Contrast with FengSchwing, where a bachelor pad is made for seduction.

* ''Series/{{Life}}'': An ongoing subplot, where Crews has bought a big house with the settlement money he got from his lawsuit against the state of California for wrongful conviction, but he has practically nothing in it.

* ''Manga/KaraNoKyoukai'': Ryougi Shiki's apartment is very sparse, containing only a bed and a clothes stand. The refrigerator is also mostly empty save for a few cartons of [[ProductPlacement Haagen-Dasz]] ice cream.

* Lucas Kane's apartment in ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' is [[FriendsRentControl pretty swanky]], but it still gives off a definite bachelor pad vibe, right down to the unopened boxes lying around and there being just a mattress on the floor rather than a bed. He's just gone through a break-up, so this is to be expected; his ex even comes over in one chapter to pick up some of the things she's left behind, although at this point he has the option of seducing her into getting back together with him.

These guys either don't have much disposable income, or have other priorities like a big TV or gaming rig. [[TheSlacker They would prefer to do]] as little housework as possible, or simply ''can't'' [[MenCantKeepHouse keep house]]. [[EmptyFridgeEmptyLife The fridge contains only the basics, or nothing at all]], or food supplies are not replenished until [[ItCameFromTheFridge they can walk out by themselves]]. They like having lots of open space around. Or to put it another way, in fiction women want their apartment to be cozy and welcoming to guests. Men want their apartment to be a place to utilitarian and welcoming to themselves.

These guys either don't have much disposable income, or have other priorities like a big TV or gaming rig. They would prefer to do as little housework as possible. They like having lots of open space around. Or to put it another way, in fiction women want their apartment to be cozy and welcoming to guests. Men want their apartment to be a place to utilitarian and welcoming to themselves.

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* In ''Anime/GhostInTheShellArise'', young Motoko Kusanagi's apartment is pretty sparse - consisting of a four walls, a bed, a bathroom, and a chair. This is in stark contrast to the apartment she shares with her boyfriend in the original manga, which is more decorated - at least until it's blown up.

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* In one ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} comic, a woman breaks into his apartment and sees that the only thing in it is a pile of old newspapers he uses as a mattress. Possibly justified in that he isn't staying very long.

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* ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'': The compartment where the robot [=B.E.N.=] resides blends emptiness with salvage and litter strewn haphazardly. As he explains to the arriving Jim Hawkins, Doctor Doppler and Captain Amelia: "Sorry about the mess. When you've been baching it for 700 years, you kinda let things go."

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* In ''Series/TheXFiles'', the Cigarette Smoking Man has a minimally furnished, dimly lit apartment that emphasizes how empty his life is outside the [[TheConspiracy Syndicate]]. When Mulder ambushes him there in "One Breath", he points out that he has "no wife, no family, some power..."

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* In ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', Jenna Simmons' apartment during her infiltration of HYDRA is so bare that Coulson decides to risk her cover to buy her groceries.

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* In ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Men at Arms]]'', Carrot and Angua discover that Captain Vimes lives in a one-room undecorated apartment with no furnishings but a bed. [[spoiler:He puts all his disposable income into the Watch Widows and Orphans fund.]]

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* In ''Manga/GhostInTheShell: Rise'', young Motoko Kusanagi's apartment is pretty sparse - consisting of a four walls, a bed, a bathroom, and a chair. This is in stark contrast to the apartment she shares with her boyfriend in the original manga, which is more decorated - at least until it's blown up.

* Rocky's house in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', including Mr. Vanhouten's apartment, and the apartment Principal Skinner lives in briefly. - '''ZCE'''