Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ''Series/{{Cheers}}:'' As mentioned up in the opening paragraph, the bar operates like this. The regulars sit at either end, but never on the side supposedly right next to the wall. On rare occasions, someone might sight on the far side, but those are usually the RecurringExtra.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 14,21 (click to see context) from:
Nowadays the practice is less often forgiven as the three camera setup becomes less common, and directors have more options for camera placement.
Often achieved in a non-intrusive way by use of TheCouch. The camera is presumed to be filming from the location of the television, since no modern family would arrange a room with seats facing away from the television. As a result, this is more intrusive when used in other settings: one wonders how Sam kept ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' afloat so long with one entire side of the bar unused.
One way to avoid this is via a RoundTableShot; but that tends to be used sparingly so it doesn't get annoying.
See Also StandardizedSitcomHousing.
Often achieved in a non-intrusive way by use of TheCouch. The camera is presumed to be filming from the location of the television, since no modern family would arrange a room with seats facing away from the television. As a result, this is more intrusive when used in other settings: one wonders how Sam kept ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' afloat so long with one entire side of the bar unused.
One way to avoid this is via a RoundTableShot; but that tends to be used sparingly so it doesn't get annoying.
See Also StandardizedSitcomHousing.
to:
Nowadays, the practice is less often
One way to avoid this is via a
See
Changed line(s) 41 (click to see context) from:
* Used in ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', during the scene where the teenagers are sitting on the floor and opening up to each other.
to:
* Used in ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', during the scene where the teenagers are sitting on the floor and opening up to each other. In this case, since the filmmakers weren't using a three-camera setup, the framing is used for artistic effect rather than just for convenience; the idea is that the viewer is filling the remaining portion of the semicircle, adding to the intimacy of the scene.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* For Canadian Thanksgiving in 2022, Pixar [[https://twitter.com/Pixar/status/1579616515665842176 tweeted out]] a ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' promotional image which features Mei and her parents arranged within a narrow arc as opposed to the T-shaped seating arrangement that they use to eat dinner in the film.
[[/folder]]
* For Canadian Thanksgiving in 2022, Pixar [[https://twitter.com/Pixar/status/1579616515665842176 tweeted out]] a ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' promotional image which features Mei and her parents arranged within a narrow arc as opposed to the T-shaped seating arrangement that they use to eat dinner in the film.
[[/folder]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 61 (click to see context) from:
* ''Series/That70sShow'' does this any time a group sits down at the Foreman's kitchen table. This was {{Lampshaded}} on one occasion (specifically during a ''Last Supper'' parody) when Jackie questions why everyone is sitting on the same side of the table. Averted, though, in some scenes in the basement, where the characters are presumably sitting around a table. The camera is in the middle, rotating to face whoever's talking. This also serves to [[NoSmoking keep off-camera]] whichever character is supposed to currently be holding the joint being passed around.
to:
* ''Series/That70sShow'' does this any ''Series/That70sShow'':
** Any time a group sits down at the Foreman's kitchentable. table they gather on one side. This was {{Lampshaded}} on one occasion (specifically during a ''Last Supper'' parody) LastSupperSteal, when Jackie questions why everyone is sitting on the same side of the table. Averted, though, in some scenes table.
** Averted in thebasement, recurring basement scenes, where the characters are presumably sitting around a table. The camera is in the middle, rotating to face whoever's talking. This also The limited visibility serves to [[NoSmoking keep off-camera]] whichever character is supposed to currently be holding the joint being passed around.
** Any time a group sits down at the Foreman's kitchen
** Averted in the
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 61 (click to see context) from:
* ''Series/That70sShow'' does this any time a group sits down at the Foreman's kitchen table. This was {{Lampshaded}} on one occasion (specifically during a ''Last Supper'' parody) when Jackie questions why everyone is sitting on the same side of the table. Averted, though, in some scenes in the basement, where the characters are presumably sitting around a table. The camera is in the middle, rotating to face whoever's talking. This also servers to [[NoSmoking keep off-camera]] whichever character is supposed to currently be holding the joint being passed around.
to:
* ''Series/That70sShow'' does this any time a group sits down at the Foreman's kitchen table. This was {{Lampshaded}} on one occasion (specifically during a ''Last Supper'' parody) when Jackie questions why everyone is sitting on the same side of the table. Averted, though, in some scenes in the basement, where the characters are presumably sitting around a table. The camera is in the middle, rotating to face whoever's talking. This also servers serves to [[NoSmoking keep off-camera]] whichever character is supposed to currently be holding the joint being passed around.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ''Film/KansasCityPrincess'': Dynie barges in on Marie and her boyfriend Mr. Greenway at the club, uninvited, dragging Rosie along. Dynie brings along two chairs but, instead of placing them at opposite sides of the table like a normal person, puts both on one side so that everyone's face is in front of the camera.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
usage in descriptions is fine; my mistake
Changed line(s) 69 (click to see context) from:
* The sofa is the indispensable prop in ''Series/LesFillesDaCote''. The three girls and others are often seen interacting or having in-depth conversation while sitting on the sofa in their apartment with the camera angle directly in front. Of course, this is also an aspect of MsFanservice, as TheNineties fashions tended towards short skirts and bare legs. The occasional panty shot was not edited out of the final show, though one wonders why this was not spotted in editing. Discussions in the boys' apartment tended to be around the dining table and shot from the waist up - but also stuck to this principle.
to:
* The sofa is the indispensable prop in ''Series/LesFillesDaCote''. The three girls and others are often seen interacting or having in-depth conversation while sitting on the sofa in their apartment with the camera angle directly in front. Of course, this is also an aspect of MsFanservice, as TheNineties fashions tended towards short skirts and bare legs. The occasional panty shot PantyShot was not edited out of the final show, though one wonders why this was not spotted in editing. Discussions in the boys' apartment tended to be around the dining table and shot from the waist up - but also stuck to this principle.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
trope def-only
Changed line(s) 69 (click to see context) from:
* The sofa is the indispensable prop in ''Series/LesFillesDaCote''. The three girls and others are often seen interacting or having in-depth conversation while sitting on the sofa in their apartment with the camera angle directly in front. Of course, this is also an aspect of MsFanservice, as TheNineties fashions tended towards short skirts and bare legs. the occasional PantyShot was not edited out of the final show. One wonders why this was not spotted in editing. Discussions in the boys' apartment tended to be around the dining table and shot from the waist up - but also stuck to this principle.
to:
* The sofa is the indispensable prop in ''Series/LesFillesDaCote''. The three girls and others are often seen interacting or having in-depth conversation while sitting on the sofa in their apartment with the camera angle directly in front. Of course, this is also an aspect of MsFanservice, as TheNineties fashions tended towards short skirts and bare legs. the The occasional PantyShot panty shot was not edited out of the final show. One show, though one wonders why this was not spotted in editing. Discussions in the boys' apartment tended to be around the dining table and shot from the waist up - but also stuck to this principle.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
quality upgrade
Changed line(s) 4 (click to see context) from:
[[quoteright:350:[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_tos_table_8662.jpg]]]]
to:
[[quoteright:350:[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_tos_table_8662.jpg]]]]org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_tos_table.png]]]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 62 (click to see context) from:
* Possibly a related example, Soap Operas. Pay attention some time, and you'll notice that someone will turn their back to someone and keep conversing with them (so they're both facing the camera.) Often they use it during tense dialogue, to make it seem like "I'm too ashamed to look at you," but turn around and talk to someone, it looks and feels weird.
to:
* Possibly a related example, Soap Operas. Pay attention some time, and you'll notice that someone will turn their back to someone and keep conversing with them (so they're both facing the camera.) camera). Often they use it during tense dialogue, to make it seem like "I'm too ashamed to look at you," but turn around and talk to someone, it looks and feels weird.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 53 (click to see context) from:
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' justifies this by almost never having the whole group sit at a table together. Their typical eating/socializing arrangement is to sit around the living room, where it's normal for furniture to be oriented in a rough semi-circle, facing the television (which conveniently also orients them toward TheFourthWall).
to:
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' justifies this by almost never having the whole group sit at a table together. Their typical eating/socializing arrangement is to sit around the living room, where it's normal for furniture to be oriented in a rough semi-circle, facing the television (which conveniently also orients them toward TheFourthWall).the FourthWall).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 53 (click to see context) from:
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' uses this, with a couch and two chairs in an approximate L-shape. Justified by the television in the apartment, since it (conveniently) happens to be placed where the audience would be and it would make sense for everyone to be able to see the TV from their seat.
to:
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' uses this, with justifies this by almost never having the whole group sit at a couch and two chairs table together. Their typical eating/socializing arrangement is to sit around the living room, where it's normal for furniture to be oriented in an approximate L-shape. Justified by a rough semi-circle, facing the television in the apartment, since it (conveniently) happens to be placed where the audience would be and it would make sense for everyone to be able to see the TV from their seat.(which conveniently also orients them toward TheFourthWall).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ''Film/LightInThePiazza'': A very obvious use of this trope when Sig. Nacarelli, Fabrizio's father, meets Meg and Clara for the first time. Meg and Clara are sitting on opposite sides of a square dinner table with Fabrizio (who's courting young Clara) between them. When Sig. Nacarelli shows up, he awkwardly sits down next to Fabrizio, with the two of them squeezing together on one side, rather than him sitting on the open fourth side and putting his back to the camera.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8,9 (click to see context) from:
-->-- '''Andre''', ''Series/{{Victorious}}''
to:
-->-- '''Andre''', '''Andre Harris''', ''Series/{{Victorious}}''
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 103 (click to see context) from:
* ''Web Video/{{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.
to:
* ''Web Video/{{Tabletop}}'' ''WebVideo/{{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.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ''Series/RedDwarf'''s sixth series introduced a central table on Starbug for communing and dining and utilized this setup. Series VII inherited this, and Lister and Rimmer's cell in Series VIII also used this layout.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 28 (click to see context) from:
* Jesus and His apostles all sit on the same side of a long table in Leonardo da Vinci's ''The Last Supper'' (and in other less well-known paintings of the subject). Examples in other media are often aping this painting.
to:
* Jesus and His apostles all sit on the same side of a long table in Leonardo da Vinci's ''The Last Supper'' ''Art/TheLastSupper'' (and in other less well-known paintings of the subject).subject). This makes everybody's reactions (Jesus has just explained that there's a traitor in their midst) clearly visible. Examples in other media are often aping this painting.
Added DiffLines:
* Parodied in ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' during the Last Supper scene. Jesus and his disciples initially sit on all sides of a long table. But then an artist named Leonardo shows up to [[Art/TheLastSupper paint the scene]], and he insists for the sake of visibility that they all crowd onto the table's far side.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 49 (click to see context) from:
* Averted in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' at Monica's place but played straight as an arrow at Central Perk, and we never see what the rest of the palace looks like but the cast is always conveniently on one couch or some nearby chairs facing the camera.
to:
* Averted in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' at Monica's place but played straight as an arrow at Central Perk, and we never see what the rest of the palace place looks like but the cast is always conveniently on one couch or some nearby chairs facing the camera.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 25 (click to see context) from:
[[folder:Art]]
to:
[[folder:Arts]]
Changed line(s) 29,30 (click to see context) from:
[[folder:{{Film}}]]
* Used in ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', during the scene where the teenagers are sitting on the floor and opening up to each other.
* Used in ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', during the scene where the teenagers are sitting on the floor and opening up to each other.
to:
*
* The roleplaying gamers in ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'' only use half of the titular furniture, since the head and
Changed line(s) 33 (click to see context) from:
[[folder:LiveActionTV]]
to:
* Used in ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', during the scene where the teenagers are sitting on the floor and opening up to each other.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
Changed line(s) 36 (click to see context) from:
** 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.
to:
** One example is found in the episode "Spare That Rod!". Rod!" Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton, Mr. Conklin, Walter Denton and Stretch Snodgrass are crowded along three sides of a cafeteria table.
Changed line(s) 43 (click to see context) from:
* On ''Series/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 the table - are up against the FourthWall).
to:
* On ''Series/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 the table - --- are up against the FourthWall).
Changed line(s) 48 (click to see context) from:
* The ladies of ''[[Series/TheView The View]]'' form a SocialSemiCircle around a lovely half of a table.
to:
* The ladies of ''[[Series/TheView The View]]'' ''Series/TheView'' form a SocialSemiCircle Social Semi-Circle around a lovely half of a table.
Changed line(s) 63,64 (click to see context) from:
[[folder: Newspaper Comics]]
* In the ''ComicStrip/SallyForthHoward'' strip for 10th June 2019, Hil and her friends are studying for finals, and Duncan asks why they're all sitting at the same side of the table. Hil replies "My dad has a theory, but if he shares it people will just avoid us. More so." (Ted Forth is something of a FourthWallObserver.)
* In the ''ComicStrip/SallyForthHoward'' strip for 10th June 2019, Hil and her friends are studying for finals, and Duncan asks why they're all sitting at the same side of the table. Hil replies "My dad has a theory, but if he shares it people will just avoid us. More so." (Ted Forth is something of a FourthWallObserver.)
to:
*
Changed line(s) 67,68 (click to see context) from:
[[folder:Pinball]]
* [[http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=48&picno=50452 The artwork]] for the pinball machine ''Alien Poker'' depicts one side of the rectangular table completely unoccupied, not even by onlookers--naturally, this is where the camera would be.
* [[http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=48&picno=50452 The artwork]] for the pinball machine ''Alien Poker'' depicts one side of the rectangular table completely unoccupied, not even by onlookers--naturally, this is where the camera would be.
to:
*
Changed line(s) 71,75 (click to see context) from:
[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Wrestling/TheNexus does this everytime they talk to each other. Sometimes they justify it by having them watch the action in the ring on a monitor, but not always. It creates the weird effect of someone speaking to the person directly behind them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:{{Theatre}}]]
* Wrestling/TheNexus does this everytime they talk to each other. Sometimes they justify it by having them watch the action in the ring on a monitor, but not always. It creates the weird effect of someone speaking to the person directly behind them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:{{Theatre}}]]
to:
* Wrestling/TheNexus does this everytime they talk to each other. Sometimes they justify it by having them watch the action in the ring on a monitor, but not always. It creates the weird effect of someone speaking to the person directly behind them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:{{Theatre}}]]
Changed line(s) 81 (click to see context) from:
[[folder:{{VideoGames}}]]
to:
Changed line(s) 85,86 (click to see context) from:
[[folder:{{Webcomics}}]]
* The roleplaying gamers in ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'' only use half of the titular furniture, since the head and foot of the table generally mark the borders of a panel.
* The roleplaying gamers in ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'' only use half of the titular furniture, since the head and foot of the table generally mark the borders of a panel.
to:
* The roleplaying gamers in ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'' only use half of the titular furniture, since the head and foot of the table generally mark the borders of a panel.
Changed line(s) 98,99 (click to see context) from:
[[folder:WebVideo]]
* {{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.
* {{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.
to:
*
Changed line(s) 102 (click to see context) from:
[[folder: WesternAnimation]]
to:
Changed line(s) 106 (click to see context) from:
[[folder: RealLife]]
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 47 (click to see context) from:
* 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. On the few occasions where they sit somewhere else, it's at a corner booth in the back which again naturally justifies the angle.
to:
* Justified on ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', as they usually sit at a booth at in a bar with a chair on the side opposite the audience just because that would be the most convenient place to put a chair. On the few occasions where they sit somewhere else, it's at a corner booth in the back which again naturally justifies the angle.