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* In ''Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami'', after Light's [[EvilBrunetteTwin twin brother Dark]] shows up, their parents make Light's bed into a double bed. A few chapters later we get this:
-->It was the early morning and Light and Dark were in bed together but only because there parents were to poor to get separate rooms [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday its not like their gay or anything]]! Light [[AccidentalInnuendo came all over the bed]] from the window of the room. Dark reached round and grabbed the [[RougeAnglesOfSatin cock]] from the table. It was seven oclock.
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* ''VisualNovel/MonsterRoadtrip'': Should you choose to stay in the room with only one bed in the Cheap Motel, [[LemonyNarrator the narrator]] will immediately just call you a "horny fuck". As if that wasn't enough, Polly and Scott decide to [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerate]] this trope by calling ''every single person they can'' to join them!
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* ''Fanfic/CrossAngeTheKnightOfHilda'': Zigzagged between [[OriginalCharacter Rio]] and Hilda. On their way to save Ange from execution, Hilda reluctantly offers to let him sleep with her as compensation, but instead Rio crashes on the couch. Then by the time they arrive in the [=DRAGONs=] Earth, Hilda is comfortable enough to sleep in the same bed with Rio, knowing he won't try anything without her consent. (Along with protecting him from becoming [[HornyScientist Dr. Gecko's]] next "test subject.")
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* [[https://youtu.be/HIkoEOvgGFg This is what happens]] when Madoka invites Homura for a sleepover in the ''Franchise/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita game, ''The Battle Pentagram''. While focusing on being sweet and adorable, this scene is the most explicit portrayal of PseudoRomanticFriendship in any official media for the franchise so far.

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* [[https://youtu.be/HIkoEOvgGFg This is what happens]] when Madoka invites Homura for a sleepover in the ''Franchise/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita Platform/PlayStationVita game, ''The Battle Pentagram''. While focusing on being sweet and adorable, this scene is the most explicit portrayal of PseudoRomanticFriendship in any official media for the franchise so far.
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* ''Series/MrAndMrsSmith2024'': Even though they're already having sex by that point, John and Jane don't actually sleep in the same bed together until they have no other choice but to do so while undercover at a vacation spot. This is briefly discussed by the characters.
-->'''Jane:''' You know we've never slept in the same bed?
-->'''John:''' That's not true. Is that true?
-->'''Jane:''' Yeah.
-->'''John:''' Mm, one bed, one bathroom... you sure you're gonna be okay?
-->'''Jane:''' I mean, you're the one that goes downstairs every time after we have sex.

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One old-school SubTrope is ChasteSeparatingSword: share the bed, but lay a sword between the bedmates to show it's chaste and they won't touch.



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* Literature/{{Aladdin}} does this in the original version. He falls for the Sultan's daughter, who has just been married to another man: he sends his genie to bring the princess and her bed to him but leave the poor bridegroom in the latrines. (He shares the bed with the princess but puts a sword between them to protect her virtue). After a few nights of this, the bridegroom [[ChildMarriageVeto calls off the marriage]], giving Aladdin a chance to swoop in.
* PlayedForDrama in "Literature/TheTwoBrothers" as recorded by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm. The one twin with his entourage of animals gets the StandardHeroReward for slaying a dragon, marries the Princess and settles down with her. After this, however, he gets in trouble with a witch who turns him to stone. His identical twin brother, meanwhile, comes to town with his own entourage of animals (also perfectly identical twins to his brother's animals) and is immediately mistaken for his brother. When the young queen brings what she thinks is her husband to the royal bedchamber, the twin brother lays out a sharp double-edged sword between them to keep from pulling an adulterous BedTrick on her. After he rescues his brother, this [[ChekhovsGun sword proves rather important]] to establishing his continued chastity and faithfulness to the purity of his brother's marriage.
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* Creator/CJCherryh's ''Literature/MorgaineCycle'' has Morgaine and Vanye given a room with a single bed in the first book, ''Gate of Ivrel''. Vanye offers to sleep on the floor, but Morgaine tells him not to be an idiot and waste the first comfortable bed they've had in ages. She puts the demon sword Changeling down the middle and tells him to deal with it.

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* Creator/CJCherryh's ''Literature/MorgaineCycle'' has ''Literature/MorgaineCycle'': There are a pair of {{UST}}y scenes, one book apart, that both deal with the idea of Morgaine and Vanye given sharing a room with a single bed in bed. In both, Morgaine uses the first book, word "overnice", a MeaningfulEcho.
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''Gate of Ivrel''. Vanye offers to sleep on the floor, but Ivrel'' has a scene where Morgaine tells him offers Vanye half the bed, but he insists on sleeping on the hearth instead. The glimpse he got of her half-undressed for bed is nearly more than he can handle.
--->'''Morgaine:''' Thee does
not have to be an idiot and waste overnice. Thee is welcome to thy half.\\
'''Vanye:''' ''[miserable on
the first comfortable bed they've had in ages. She puts hard stone]'' It is warm here.
** ''Well of Shiuan'' has a scene where they actually ''do'' share a bed, with
the demon sword Changeling down ''Changeling'' [[ChasteSeparatingSword lying between them]]. Vanye is ''hyperaware'' of Morgaine's presence, and the middle UST is nearly more than he can handle. He considers getting up and tells him to deal sleeping on the hearth again.
--->''And in her hand was ''Changeling'', that always slept
with it.her; she laid it atop the coverlet, a thing fell and dangerous, in the valley that would be between them. Vanye rested very still, felt the mattress give as she settled beside him and drew the covers over her, heard the gentle sigh of her breath.\\
And felt the weight of ''Changeling'', that rested between.\\
He held no more urge to sleep, his heart still beating rapidly. [...] He listened to her breathing, felt the small movements that she made, and tried to distract his mind to other thoughts, staring at the dark rafters. He cursed silently, half a pious prayer, wondering how she would understand it if he did withdraw to the hearthside.''



** There's a famous legend about a knight who ran into this problem while escorting a lady and solved it by putting his sword down the middle of the bed. Nimble Dick tries to talk Brienne into a similar arrangement while they're traveling, but it's clear that he's just making fun of her and/or hitting on her.
** Brienne however has no problem sharing a bed with her squire Podrick Payne, and it's not played for sexual tension at all as he's only twelve.

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** There's a famous legend about a knight who ran into this problem while escorting a lady and solved it by putting his sword down the middle of the bed. Nimble Dick tries to talk Brienne into a similar arrangement while they're traveling, but it's clear that he's just making fun of her and/or hitting on her.
** Brienne however has no problem sharing a bed with her squire Podrick Payne, and it's not played for sexual tension at all as he's only twelve.
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Misuse: Electively sharing a bed when there are more beds to be had is not this trope.


** Averted when Daenerys shares a bed with her handmaidens Irri and Jhiqui, after [[spoiler:her husband Khal Drogo dies]]. [[SleepsInTheNude They all sleep nude too.]] Eventually Dany ends up having sex with Irri.
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* In ''Fanfic/TheSagaOfTheLastTwoSaiyans'', the palace Goku and Vegeta share on their personal planet only has one bed. The two are required to share it to keep up the ruse of being married.
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* In ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' Kiichi Gotoh and Shinobu Nagumo are driving through a major storm on their way back from a conference. The only place they find to stay for the night is a [[LoveHotels medieval love hotel]], which only has a single bed. Being a chivalrous guy, Gotoh offers to sleep on the couch, giving Nagumo the bed. whereupon she points out there's only one blanket. The situation is complicated by Gotoh's blatant crush on Nagumo, with hints that she cares for him as well.

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* In ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' ''Patlabor: The New Files'' Kiichi Gotoh and Shinobu Nagumo are driving through a major storm on their way back from a conference. The only place they find to stay for the night is a [[LoveHotels medieval love hotel]], which only has a single bed. Being a chivalrous guy, Gotoh offers to sleep on the couch, giving Nagumo the bed. whereupon she points out there's only one blanket. The situation is complicated by Gotoh's blatant crush on Nagumo, with hints that she cares for him as well.
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* In ''Fanfic/JudgementDayDragonBall'' Goku and Vegeta’s house in the afterlife only has one bedroom, with only one bed in it. At the time when they first start living there, the two are faking being in a relationship. While Vegeta has no qualms about sharing a bed, Goku finds it uncomfortable at first.
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* French movie ''Film/OnGuard'' has a hilarious sequence when the Duc de Nevers is traveling to marry the woman he loves and needs to share a bed with his new friend Lagardére. As they get into bed, the Duc comments that his marriage will surprise a relative who "thinks I only like boys. Ever dabbled in sodomy?" The unnerved look on Lagardére's face is '''priceless'''. So is the way he clutches at the blankets.

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* French movie ''Film/OnGuard'' has a hilarious sequence when the Duc Duke Philippe de Nevers is traveling to marry the woman he loves and needs to share a bed with his new friend Lagardére. Lagardère. As they get into bed, the Duc Duke comments that his marriage will surprise a relative who "thinks I only like boys. Ever dabbled in sodomy?" sodomy?". The unnerved look on Lagardére's Lagardère's face is '''priceless'''. So is the way he clutches at the blankets.
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* Subverted in ''Webcomic/PMDTheRogueTeam''. After arriving at Tabor's home, he tells Erin he has only one hay bed that they'll have to share, but he only says that to make fun of her. Erin gets the bed and he sleeps in a hammock instead.
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* Koyuki and Maho (LOTS of {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST there) of ''Manga/{{BECK}}: Mongolian Chop Squad'' share a single bed in an episode where she crashes at his house, but nothing ends up happening between them.

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* Koyuki and Maho (LOTS of {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST there) of ''Manga/{{BECK}}: ''Manga/{{BECK|1999}}: Mongolian Chop Squad'' share a single bed in an episode where she crashes at his house, but nothing ends up happening between them.

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