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Author: Larkmarn

Feb 4th 2014 at 7:13:52 AM

''{{Scrubs}}'' is a WorkCom first and foremost. It has a couple base elements with this, but isn't really an example.

Would it make sense to name this RoommateCom or maybe RoomCom to match SitCom, DomCom, RomCom, WorkCom, etc.? At the very least I don't like the "series" part of the name because it seems like it's specifically about a live-action TV show.

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': The webcomic begins with 20-something Marten Reid and his [[RobotBuddy AnthroPC Pintsize]]. The first "arc" has Marten and his [[BromanticFoil buddy Steve]] hanging out at a bar, bitching about their love and work lives. Marten soon gets a roommate in Faye, and they form a group of TrueCompanions along with Marten's OCD neighbor and Faye's coworkers. 
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': Jerry's apartment is the meeting place for the gang, which includes his neighbor [[BreakoutCharacter Kramer]], friend [[ButtMonkey George]], and ex [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Elaine]]. One of the show's taglines is that it's "a show about nothing," as it's mostly just about watching these entertaining personalities play off one another. 
* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' opens as a fairly traditional version of this, being about Scott and his [[TheLancer cool gay roommate Wallace]] as Scott has a comic love life and hangs out with the people in his band. However, things swiftly take a turn for the surreal every time a [[GenreShift fight breaks out]] and Scott has to battle his love interest's evil exes in order to date her.
* ''Series/TheRealWorld'' is an invoked example. The creators essentially took the basic elements of this trope (group of 20-somethings living together in a nice apartment not doing much work but a lot of partying) and decided to film them without a script, thus birthing the RealityShow genre.