History Main / LonelyBachelorPad

* ''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, as they're starting out in life and living in an expensive city. Alternatively, they may have a good job, but they have other priorities like a big screen TV or a gaming rig. [[TheSlacker They would prefer to do]] as little housework as possible, or simply ''[[MenCantKeepHouse can't]]'' keep house because they never learned how and because GuysAreSlobs. [[EmptyFridgeEmptyLife The fridge contains only the basics or nothing at all]]. If they went through a hellish divorce or breakup, the fridge may be full of beer to use for [[DrowningMySorrows drowning their sorrows]]. Dinners are mostly take out pizza and Chinese food, so fresh supplies are not replenished in hhe fridge 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 utilitarian and welcoming to themselves. Especially if they are obsessed with their career goals.

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 ''[[MenCantKeepHouse can't]]'' keep house because they never learned how and because GuysAreSlobs. [[EmptyFridgeEmptyLife The fridge contains only the basics or nothing at all]]. If they went through a hellish divorce or breakup, the fridge may be full of beer to use for DrowningMySorrows drowning their sorrows]]. Dinners are mostly take out pizza and Chinese food, so fresh supplies are not replenished in hhe fridge until [[ItCameFromTheFridge they can walk out by themselves]].

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 ''[[MenCantKeepHouse can't]]'' keep house because they never learned how and MenAreSlobs. [[EmptyFridgeEmptyLife The fridge contains only the basics or nothing at all]]. If they went through a hellish divorce or breakup, the fridge may be full of beer to use for DrowningMySorrows drowning their sorrows]]. Dinners are mostly take out pizza and Chinese food, so fresh supplies are not replenished in hhe fridge until [[ItCameFromTheFridge they can walk out by themselves]].

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 ''[[MenCantKeepHouse can't]]'' 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 utilitarian and welcoming to themselves.

* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Walter White moves into the less-than-palatial Beachcomber apartment complex after Skyler throws him out. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pK7XeYLu88 A deleted scene]] shows Saul Goodman tracking him down to his new home, then [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] this trope by confessing that he lived there himself after his [[spoiler:third]] divorce:
-->"I get it, okay? I've been here myself- I mean ''this place'', literally. This is where every middle-aged washout ends up when his wife gives him the boot. [[spoiler:Three]] marriages, you think I haven't been here? Beachcomber apartments- last stop on the loser train!"

** Jimmy's best friend Marco lives in a messy basement apartment in Cicero, where Jimmy's sleeps on a air mattress on the floor during his brief stay. One night Jimmy and Marco bring back two women, having convinced them they are Creator/KevinCostner and his manager respectively, but the ruse is up once they sober up and survey the surroundings the next morning:
-->"Does this look like a manager's place to you?"

** ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': After he goes on the run and adopts the alias "Gene Takavic", Saul cannot form close personal relationships because of the risk of being recognised, and finds himself living alone in a sparsely-decorated house. The lack of decorative touches also reflect his attempts [[TheNondescript to avoid giving away even a hint of personality]].

-->"I get it, okay? I've been here myself- I mean ''this place'', literally. This is where every middle-aged washout ends up when his wife gives him the boot. [[spoiler:three]] marriages, you think I haven't been here? Beachcomber apartments- last stop on the loser train!"

-->"I get it, okay? I've been here myself- I mean ''this place'', literally. This is where every middle-aged washout ends up when his wife gives him the boot. [[spoiler:three]] marriages, you think I haven't been here?Beachcomber apartments- last stop on the loser train!"

* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Walter White moves into a less-than-palatial apartment complex after Skyler throws him out. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pK7XeYLu88 A deleted scene]] shows Saul Goodman tracking him down to his new home, then [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] this trope by confessing that he lived there himself after his [[spoiler:third]] divorce:
-->"I get it, okay? I've been here myself- I mean ''this place'', literally. This is where every middle-aged washout ends up when his wife gives him the boot."

* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Walter White moves into a less-than-palatial apartment complex after Skyler throws him out. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pK7XeYLu88 A deleted scene]] shows Saul Goodman tracking him down to his new home, then [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] this trope by confessing that he lived there himself after his [[spoiler:third]] divorce:

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': [[EmotionlessGirl Rei]] [[ArtificialHuman Ayanami]], her room contains only a bed, a desk with a few clothes, [[IllGirl a few medicines]] and [[MementoMacGuffin a pair of glasses]].

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

* ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'': 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/{{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. Subverted in that he keeps it mostly empty because having that much empty space for himself is a luxury he didn't get in prison.

* 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. Niles tries to put on a brave face and claims to be enjoying the new apartment until his father says he wouldn't mind living there either. Cue Niles freaking out about not living in luxury anymore.

** Miss Censordoll's apartment is an aversion, as hers is the most decorated and cozy of the apartments seen. And to be fair, her issues don't have so much to do with loneliness as much as it does with a ''massive'' god complex (to the point that the centerpiece is a replica of Moralton).

** Nurse Bendy's apartment double subverts this: it's lavishly decorated, but the decorations themselves show just how lonely she is. It's decorated more like a child's room and the centerpieces are a table with two teddies sitting in chairs that Nurse Bendy pretends are her husband and son, showing just how much her mental growth is stunted and how much she wants a family that she's unlikely to get since the town sees her as the town slut. (For emphasis, all the pictures on the wall feature the teddies.) [[spoiler:She throws away her 'Sonny' teddy when she's reunited with the son she was forced to give up, Joe.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'': This trope is gender flipped and invoked with the Aloneford, the building that advertises itself as 'Apartments for Spinsters'. The apartments seen play this a few ways:

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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 ''[[MenCantKeepHouse can't]]'' 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/{{Spectre}}'': While the place that he lives has a swanky exterior, Film/JamesBond lives a lonely life in a virtually character-less and barely furnished apartment with a bunch of unopened boxes, revealing [[MarriedToTheJob how much of a life he has]] outside of [=MI6=] and the broken man that he is.

Note that this trope is not limited to males; the phrase "bachelor pad" has been gender-neutral for years now.