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* A variation in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''. Film/JamesBond has been seducing the women being treated in Blofeld's mountain clinic to find out what's going on and because, well, [[TheCasanova he's James Bond]]. Then Bond makes an arrangement to see Ruby. That night he sneaks into her bedroom, but when "she" turns to face him, it's Blofeld's middle-aged henchwoman Irma Bunt.
-->'''Bond:''' ([[OhCrap Gasp!]]) Fancy meeting you here, Fräulein! ''(A goon knocks him unconscious.)''

* A variation in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''. Film/JamesBond has been seducing the women being treated in Blofeld's mountain clinic to find out what's going on and because, well, [[TheCassanova he's James Bond]]. Then Bond makes an arrangement to see Ruby. That night he sneaks into her bedroom, but when "she" turns to face him, it's Blofeld's middle-aged henchwoman Irma Bunt.

* In Genesis in ''Literature/TheBible'' Jacob offers his labor as the bride-price for Laban's daughter Rachel, the younger sister of her less-desirable sibling Leah. After the wedding feast Jacob goes in to the tent to "be with" his new wife. "And in the morning, behold, it was Leah!"

* ''LightNovel/IfHerFlagBreaks'': In episode 3, Souta is awakened by Akane on top of him. A few moments later, Megumu is also found sleeping next to him.

* ''Film/FortyEightHours'': During the beginning of the film after the opening credits end, we see a close up of a sleepy Jack Cates lying on his pillow. Then the camera pans back revealing Elane Marshall [[SexyShirtSwitch who is wearing Jack's blue shirt]].

* Shinji and Asuka ''both'' have a moment of this immediately after their RelationshipUpgrade in ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'', though they were more surprised that it wasn't AllJustADream ([[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex a really, really nice dream]]) than who the other person in the bed was.

-->-- ''Machinima/TheStrangerhood''

* As quoted above, this is how the first episode of ''Machinima/TheStrangerhood'' starts out.

** The much-loved episode, the "Pineapple Incident", has this as a premise. The comedy is stretched out as the girl Ted Mosby wakes up with isn't revealed until much later in the episode.
** In "World's Greatest Couple", which provides the page image, Barney Stinson wakes up next to Lily Aldrin. HilarityEnsues. [[spoiler: They didn't do it, by the way.]]

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In Genesis in ''Literature/TheBible'' Jacob offers his labor as the bride-price for Laban's daughter Rachel, the younger sister of her less-desirable sibling Leah. After the wedding feast Jacob goes in to the tent to "be with" his new wife. "And in the morning, behold, it was Leah!"

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* One episode of ''Series/MyHero'' has Piers waking to see first a glass with false teeth in it on the nightstand, then the old lady the teeth belongs to opposite him.

* Turned UpToEleven in ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'''s season 4 episode "And Circumstance". The last ten minutes is completely saturated with it. [[spoiler: Madison slept with Lauren's boyfriend, Henry hooks up with Adrian, Ben ends up in bed with a completely new girl, though they explicitly stated that Ben and the girl simply fell asleep together and didn't have sex...]]

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5037969/1/Good-Morning-Harry Good Morning Harry]]'' this happens to Harry twice after going out drinking with Charlie. The first time he ended up in bed with Draco. The second, it was Percy.

With a little bit of tweaking this can also be a Horror Trope - say if the hapless victim rolls over in bed to find the monstrous villain in bed with them. Of course, [[TouchOfTheMonster the sexual connotations to this aren't an accident]]. Another variant is TheMurderAfter, when the surprise bedmate is a freshly murdered corpse.

* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' does this to punctuate [[https://kevinandkell.com/2021/kk0211.html Rudy and Fiona's first time]] together.

* In ''Fanfic/SomethingInTheNight'', Marinette wakes up after a somewhat agrestive sexual encounter with Chat Noir, and is shocked to find her high school crush Adrien next to her.

%%* ''Anime/SteelAngelKurumi'' does this the first night Kurumi's at Nakahito's house.

** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E5NonSequitur Non Sequitur]]", Harry Kim wakes up with his girlfriend on Earth. The problem is he should be stranded with his shipmates on the other side of the galaxy. He spends the rest of the episode trying to work out what happened and get back to Voyager, [[WhatAnIdiot much to the puzzlement of the audience]].

[[caption-width-right:350: Surely this is a violation of TheBroCode.]]

** In "World's Greatest Couple", Barney Stinson wakes up next to [[spoiler: Lily Aldrin]]. HilarityEnsues. [[spoiler: They didn't do it, by the way.]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' fanfic ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7463174/1/Joyride-Reversed Joyride Reverse]]'' has Lance waking up to see Kitty in his bed, but didn't think much of it since he thought it was another dream of them together. It's when he finds her clothes on the dresser that he realizes this isn't a dream and his crush really was in bed with him
... at which he promptly faints.

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': In "Room Service", Frasier's ex-wife Lilith shows up looking for [[SexForSolace sympathy sex]] after her husband leaves her. The characters go out to dinner and the episode cuts to Lilith in bed in her hotel room with someone under the covers next to her. The audience is meant to assume Frasier gave in, but then the man rolls over to reveal Niles instead. HilarityEnsues when Frasier shows up, having decided he does want to sleep with Lilith, forcing Niles to hide in the bathroom while Lilith tries to get rid of Frasier.

See also WhatDidIDoLastNight. Contrast with NotStayingForBreakfast.