Suggestion: An Odd Place To Sleep

Another imageless page. How about this◊ picture of Kyle and Amanda sleeping in the bathtub from Kyle XY? I can clean up the image a little if you guys like the idea. Or try and get a better screenshot from a You Tube video of that scene that I watched recently. Are there better suggestions?

I think it works well. I looked through the actual examples on the page, but nothing really struck me as potentially better.

Yeah, I also looked at the examples and couldn't really find anything good. I know it would be Fan Myopic of me to suggest a picture of Mulder sleeping on the couch and it wouldn't be obvious to someone whose never seen the The X-Files that he sleeps on the couch all the time.

I like the suggestion, though it can't be very comfy!

I'm not sure I'd count sleeping on a couch unusual at all. I do it all the time.

Along the lines of the Kyle XY suggestion, there's this. I'm afraid that I honestly don't remember clearly whether this is depicted as a usual sleeping-place for the character, but I suspect that it was.

(I don't know whether images from IMDB are fair game, so my apologies if they are not. ^^; )

Proposal: A 2-panel shot from Aliens, the first of a shot of the Marines jostling around in the dropship, and the second of Hicks asleep in his harness.

The problem with this trope is that we need to find a way to show that the character regularly sleeps in the weird place. Whether that be a bathtub, a cupboard or a cardboard box.

Yes, IM Db images are fair game. I do like that suggestion, though.

It's probably possible, somehow, to illustrate that it's a common place to sleep. It's not easy, though. The only thing I can think of is that the location somehow looks worn in. A collage could work, if the person is wearing different clothes, so it's clearly different times.

That's not a bad idea. So if we're going for a collage idea, then an example from something with multiple episodes would be better than an example from a movie or something unless the movie shows the person sleeping in the odd place multiple times.

I'm thinking Snoopy from Peanuts. But I could only find one panel from the original so far where he's sleeping on his usual roof. (And one in which he's complaining that sleeping in his owner's lap on a couch is uncomforable for him.)

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[5]◊ I think that's good enough...

edited 27th Aug '12 6:50:29 PM by NoyTelin

I like 12.1 12.3. The last frame?

edited 27th Aug '12 7:18:08 PM by rodneyAnonymous

#3's the best of those strictly because of Woodstock and his feet hanging off the edge of the roof.

Yeah I like 12.3 best too. I was trying to find a strip that makes it evident that the roof is Snoopy's usual sleeping place, but I guess the image of him lying there is iconic enough that most people will know.

That is a good point. Snoopy is very well known.

Actually, I should have looked on the Peanuts wiki earlier... [1]. A combination of some panels might work if we want to make his staying there absolutely clear. Still favoring 12.3 though.

Yes! Perfect. Somewhere between 4 and 10 panels, maybe.

Panels 3, 7, 8 and 9:

edited 27th Aug '12 9:05:39 PM by shark33

I like 19.1

19.1 is fun, but there's too much small writing. I prefer 19.2.

Fair enough.

Either is good, but I think 19.2 is a little better. Incorporating 19.1 into the page example would be a good idea.

If I have to read the picture, I might as well just read the page. Supporting 19.2 as well.

Bump...anyone else?