History Main / SocialSemicircle

* Sometimes readily apparent on ''Radio/OurMissBrooks''. ''Our Miss Brooks'' was filmed in front of a live studio audience at Creator/DesiluStudios, using the same camera equipment as ''Series/ILoveLucy''.

* A staple on ''Series/ILoveLucy'', which pioneered the three camera method and filming in front of a live studio audience. A typical dinner in the Ricardo's apartment would see Lucy and Ricky seated at opposite ends of the table, with the Mertzes seating side-by-side facing the audience. In the Connecticut episodes, they would all tend to crowd along one side of the circular dinette table. Oh well, the Mertzes were close friends after all!

* On ''TheGoldenGirls'', when all four women are at the kitchen table, Sophia pulls up a stool next to Dorothy rather than sitting on the camera side. There isn't even a chair on the camera's side. (We're probably meant to assume that the table - and the oven, which is stage left but lined up with said table - are up against the FourthWall).

* ''EverybodyLovesRaymond'' uses this at the kitchen table.

* Sometimes readily apparent on ''Radio/OurMissBrooks''. ''Our Miss Brooks'' was filmed in front of a live studio audience at Creator/{{Desilu}}, using the same camera equipment as ''Series/ILoveLucy''.

* Sometimes readily apparent on ''Radio/OurMissBrooks''. ''Our Miss Brooks'' was filmed in front of a live studio audience at Creator/Desilu, using the same camera equipment as ''Series/ILoveLucy''.
** One example is found in the episode "Spare That Rod!". Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton, Mr. Conklin, Walter Denton and Stretch Snodgrass are crowded along three sides of a cafeteria table.H

*** Done on ''[[Series/Seinfeld Seinfeld]]'' in the characters' apartments, though the coffee-shop scenes tend to [[AvertedTrope avert]] this for the most part.

*** Done on ''Series/Seinfeld'' in the characters' apartments, though the coffee-shop scenes tend to [[AvertedTrope avert]] this for the most part.

*** Done on ''Seinfeld'' in the characters' apartments, though the coffee-shop scenes tend to [[AvertedTrope avert]] this for the most part.

* Jesus and His apostles sit on one side of a long table in Leonardo da Vinci's ''The Last Supper''. Spoofed in Creator/MelBrooks' ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'', when Leonardo interrupts the supper to paint their portrait:

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' uses this, with a couch and two chairs in an approximate L-shape. Justified by the television in the apartment, as it makes sense that everyone should be able to see the TV from their seat.

* The ladies of ''TheView'' form a SocialSemiCircle around a lovely half of a table.

** Averted once and only once at the end of a ThanksgivingEpisode when Deborah sits at said table with her back to the audience.

* Ten characters in one frame (five of them the eponymous LivingToys), all on one side of a table in [[http://www.fuzzyfive.com/2011/comic/75-the-thrilling-conclusion-part-v/ this]] ''[[TheFuzzyFive Fuzzy Five]]'' strip.

* Jesus and his apostles sit on one side of a long table in Leonardo da Vinci's ''The Last Supper''. Spoofed in Creator/MelBrooks' ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'', when Leonardo interrupts the supper to paint their portrait:

** There's a joke where Jesus enters a restaurant and asks for a table for 26. When the waitress points out there are only 13 of them, he says, "Yes, but we all want to sit on the same side of the table.".

* [[Tabletop]] does this so that the gameplay is easily visible to the viewer. The tradeoff is that the players on the ends of the table are awkwardly far away from each other.

* Averted in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' at Monica's place but played straight as an arrow at Central Perk; apparently the couch is directly facing the back wall.
** We don't know what that wall looks like. It could have a fireplace, or a bookcase, both common in coffehouses. Or it could be 20 feet away, and there could be other tables.

* A ''[[http://yamara.com/2006/05/18/yamaras-dreme/ Yamara]]'' strip featured the title character (a halfling in a D&D gameworld) having a dream in which she sees the gaming groups from [=KoDT=], ''DorkTower'' and ''Commissioned'' and wonders why they're all on one side of the table. The answer: "Because the ''other'' side ... is for people like ''you''."

* ''FullFrontalNerdity'' does this as well.

* [[Tropers/{{Dmmaus}} David Morgan-Mar]] alludes to this trope in his commentary for [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/644.html this]] ''IrregularWebcomic'' strip, which uses it, whilst confessing to not know its name (he does now).
* The author comments in [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=935 this page]] from ''GunnerkriggCourt'' lampshade his own use of this trope.

* Justified on ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', as they usually sit at a booth at a bar with a chair on the side opposite the audience just because that would be the most convenient place to put a chair.

* Jesus and his apostles sit on one side of a long table in Leonardo da Vinci's ''The Last Supper''. Spoofed in Creator/MelBrooks' ''HistoryOfTheWorldPartOne'', when Leonardo interrupts the supper to paint their portrait:

* Used in ''TheBreakfastClub'', during the scene where the teenagers are sitting on the floor and opening up to each other.

* ''{{Reba}}''

* Often used in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' either at Monica's apartment or at the coffeehouse.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' uses this, with a couch and 2 chairs in an approximate L-shape. Justified by the television in the apartment, as it makes sense that everyone should be able to see the TV from their seat.