History Main / LonelyBachelorPad

* In ''Film/TheAccidentalTourist'' Macon's boss describes his apartment, a bachelor pad in a awinging building reserved for adults, to Rose, Macon's sister. She interprets it as an establishment for lonely people who have no-one to look after them.

* In ''Film/TheAccidentalTourist'' Macon's boss describes his apartment, a swinging bachelor pad in a building reserved for adults, to Rose, Macon's sister. She interprets it as an establishment for lonely people who have no-one to look after them.

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* In ''TheAccidentalTourist'' Macon's boss describes his apartment, a swinging bachelor pad in a building reserved for adults, to Rose, Macon's sister. She interprets it as an establishment for lonely people who have no-one to look after them.

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Contrast with FengSchwing, where a bachelor pad is made for seduction. Unrelated to AsceticAesthetic, where the décor is stylishly minimalistic. See also HorribleHousing.

* ''Film/MysteryRoad''. Despite having an ex-wife and daughter in the town where he's staying, Jay Swann lives alone in a house on the outskirts of town. This shows not only his isolation from his family, but from the community in general, given that he is an Aboriginal police officer and therefore mistrusted on both sides of the racial divide.

* ''Series/ColdCase'' episode "Flashover" reveals that Det. Vera lives in such a state, and not just environmentally. A medical report found by his partner, Det. Jefferies, showed that his heart was also a ticking time bomb. It wasn't always like that; he was originally married, but after cheating on his wife numerous times and being unable to get her pregnant, she left him four seasons earlier.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'': Overlapping with FengSchwing, Jeff's apartment is a classic rich man's tasteful bachelor pad, to the point that it looks like it came straight out of a magazine. That means it's rather dull and boring, with almost everything colored some shade of gray. When he hosts a party, Annie comes over early to "help decorate," and within five minutes has filled with place with colorful pillows, curtains, and overall made it look like the well-loved home of a married couple.

* ''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.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'': Guy Town, from the episode of the same name, is an entire apartment complex specifically designed around this trope, which is owned by sleazy AmoralAttorney Guy Bilzerian and caters exclusively to divorced, single men. With the exception of the lavish penthouse owned by Guy, every apartment are run-down single rooms ''that don't even have any outlets'', just extension cords leeching electricity from a Chevron station next door. Guy Town also features an outdoor pool infested by genital worms, a topiary garden where all the sculptures are shapes like girl-on-girl sex, and an in-house store selling alcohol, porn, lube and drugs.

** Also played straight when Brian is forced to leave the Griffin house after becoming a town pariah, and moves into a dilapidated apartment fitting this trope to a T. The light fixtures don't even work, leaving Brian sitting alone in the dark eating instant Mac N Cheese.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Sid's home is dilapidated and messy which made him worried when Lorenzo suggested that he could come over his place to make their school project. To remedy this, he asked Arnold if he could borrow his room for a while. Arnold, being a NiceGuy, lets him borrow it until he suspected that Sid is lying to Lorenzo and told him to tell him the truth.

* ''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.

Contrast with FengSchwing, where a bachelor pad is made for seduction. Unrelated to AsceticAesthetic, where the décor is stylishly minimalistic.

* Goro Majima's apartment in ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'' is just a few steps away from being entirely vacant, housing just his futon (typically seen piled up in a corner of the room) and a small table with a radio.

* ''Film/UpInTheAir''. in the movie, the apartment that Ryan keeps in Omaha is sparsely furnished with an almost empty refrigerator.

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

* ''Series/TheWire''. For a while, [=McNulty=]'s apartment has nothing but a mattress on the floor, which makes it very uncomfortable when he wants his kids to visit.

* From what little we see of it, Jamie's room in ''Webcomic/LeftoverSoup'' likely remains this way throughout the series--he doesn't even have a ''mattress''. His roommate had assumed the previous tenant had left the bed behind when she moved in with her new husband, and mistakenly advertised it as a "furnished" apartment. According to the commentary, [[LimitedWardrobe he also owns only one pair of pants]]. Ellen, for her part, kept a comically barren fridge before he moved in.

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 be utilitarian and welcoming to themselves.

* ''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.
* ''Film/MysteryRoad''. Despite having an ex-wife and daughter in the town where he's staying, Jay Swann lives alone in a house on the outskirts of town. This shows not only his isolation from his family, but from the community in general, given that he is an Aboriginal police officer and therefore mistrusted on both sides of the racial divide.

* 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 as the Thenardiers. After the scuffle between Valjean and Thenardier, Marius left and stayed with Courfeyrac's place instead.

* In ''Literature/EleanorAndPark'', Eleanor’s father used to live in one right after he and her mother split up. According to Eleanor, he once served her clam chowder in a highball glass due to not having enough bowls and only had two towels.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', 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/FamilyGuy'': Averted with Glenn Quagmire's house, which is decorated in a very stylish, vintage Playboy style, but also has photos of friends and family. It does however fit the EmptyFridgeEmptyLife trope.
** Played straight in one cutaway about "depressing single guys apartment" where a realtor shows a prospective buyer around a small, cramped kitchen. He mentions that the oven is just decorative.
** Also played straight when Brian is forced to leave the Griffin house after becoming a town pariah, and moves into a dilapidated apartment fitting this trope to a T. The light fixtures don't even work, leaving Brian sitting alone in the dark eating instant Mac N Cheese.

* On ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Niles has to temporarily move into the "Shangri-La", a singles apartment complex. The cramped apartment has little in the way of comfort but filled with reminders of the previous tenant's sad and lonely life.

* In ''Literature/EleanorAndPark, Eleanor’s father used to live in one right after he and her mother split up. According to Eleanor, he once served her clam chowder in a highball glass due to not having enough bowls and only had two towels.

* ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'': The compartment where the robot B.E.N. resides blends emptiness with salvage and litter strewn about 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."