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* In ''Series/ModernFamily'', Gloria's snoring is so bad that Jay not only leaves the bed, he goes to a hotel (after lying to her that he's going away on business) just so he can get some sleep. It's inverted by the end of the episode, with Gloria enjoying the comfy hotel and Jay back at home with Manny.
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** Most contemporary Orthodox Jewish couples simply use twin beds which they can push together when it's permissible to be intimate and pull apart when it isn't.

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** Most contemporary Orthodox Jewish couples simply use [[SleepingSingle twin beds beds]] which they can push together when it's permissible to be intimate and pull apart when it isn't.isn't. Another common solution is to have one of them use a guest room if their house is large enough.
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* Happens on ''{{Amen}}'' when Thelma gets fed up with Reuben's neglect.
* Presumably happens on the ''TheCosbyShow'' after Elvin comes home late from dinner with an ex-girlfriend. After politely greeting the woman and her sister, Sondra goes into the bedroom, but when Elvin tries to follow her, he finds the door locked.
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* Not even Guile is spared from being sent to the couch in the [[StreetFighter UDON comic adaptation]], as his wife Julia sends him to the couch for missing their wedding anniversary. The reason being? He was fighting Charlie and lost track of the time.

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* Not even Guile [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Guile]] is spared from being sent to the couch in the [[StreetFighter [[Comicbook/StreetFighter UDON comic adaptation]], as his wife Julia sends him to the couch for missing their wedding anniversary. The reason being? He was fighting spent the day sparring with Charlie and lost track of the time.time (not to mention he thought it would be the day after).



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-->'''Ki's mother:''' ''Aiya!'' You are ''still'' sleeping on couch tonight.

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-->'''Ki's mother:''' ''Aiya!'' ''Àiyá!'' You are ''still'' sleeping on couch tonight.
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-->'''Ki's mother:''' ''Àiyá!'' You are ''still'' sleeping on couch tonight.

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-->'''Ki's mother:''' ''Àiyá!'' ''Aiya!'' You are ''still'' sleeping on couch tonight.



* Liberty does this to Uncle Sam ocassionally in Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}. Uncle Sam has a bad habit of being [[ItsAllAboutMe very self-centered]] and Liberty sees how he [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3274 loses the perspectives]] sometimes or [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4622 has very bad suggestions]].

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* Liberty does this to Uncle Sam ocassionally in Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}. Uncle Sam has a bad habit of being [[ItsAllAboutMe very self-centered]] and Liberty sees how he [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3274 net/view.php?date=2009-08-23 loses the perspectives]] sometimes or [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4622 net/view.php?date=2013-05-02 has very bad suggestions]].
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* In Music/BonJovi's "Misunderstood", he gets exiled for coming home shit-faced after spending the night drinking with his buddies, and then attempting to save face but only [[DiggingYourselfDeeper making things worse]].

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* In Music/BonJovi's "Misunderstood", he gets exiled for coming home shit-faced drunk after spending the night drinking with his buddies, and then attempting to save face but only [[DiggingYourselfDeeper making things worse]].
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* In Music/BonJovi's "Misunderstood", he gets exiled for coming home shit-faced after spending the night drinking with his buddies, and then attempting to save face but only [[DiggingYourselfDeeper making things worse]].

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* There's one furniture ad of a couple who start an argument entirely so one of them can sleep on the sofa.
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* Averted by ''TheXFiles'''s Fox Mulder, who sleeps on the couch all the time, despite having no wife or significant other to exile him. It's a {{Fanon}} running gag that he doesn't have a bedroom. It was lampshaded twice by characters impersonating Mulder. In "Small Potatoes":
--> '''Eddie Van Blundht''' (as Mulder, in his apartment): Where the hell do I sleep?
** And in "Dreamland", in which Morris Fletcher goes so far as to clear out Mulder's bedroom, buy a bed, and put mirrors on the ceiling above it.
--> '''Fletcher''' (after finding Mulder's bedroom full of junk): This guy hasn't been laid in ten years.
** And given that nobody remembers Fletcher's purchases, it comes as quite a surprise to Scully that Mulder is no longer sleeping on his couch. In "Monday":

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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Averted by ''TheXFiles'''s for Fox Mulder, who sleeps on the couch all the time, despite having no wife or significant other to exile him. It's a {{Fanon}} running gag that he doesn't have a bedroom. It was lampshaded twice several times, mostly by characters impersonating Mulder. Mulder.
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In "Small Potatoes":
--> ---> '''Eddie Van Blundht''' Blundht:''' (as Mulder, in his apartment): apartment) Where the hell do I sleep?
** And in "Dreamland", in which Morris Fletcher goes so far as to clear out Mulder's bedroom, bedroom (filled with cardboard boxes and piles of paper), buy a bed, and put mirrors on the ceiling above it.
--> ---> '''Fletcher''' (after finding Mulder's bedroom full of junk): This guy hasn't been laid in ten years.
** And given Given that nobody remembers Fletcher's purchases, purchases (it should have disappeared as other stuff caused by the time anomaly, but didn't), it comes as quite a surprise to Scully that Mulder is no longer sleeping on his couch. In "Monday":



* Played with in ''TheDickVanDykeShow'' episode "Give Me Your Walls". Rob and Laura are annoyed by a painter who has been working on their living room for a long time. Rob swears that he will tell him to get out of their house soon, and if he doesn't, he himself vows to sleep on the couch. Laura walks right up to him and says that he had better get her out. (Oddly, Rob and Laura are always seen in separate beds.)
* Mr. Bennett spends most of ''LostInAusten'' having exiled himself to the library, after Mrs. Bennett allows Jane to marry Mrs. Collins. This only ends after [[spoiler:she tells off Lady Catherine at the climax of the series.]]
* A humorous example/inversion on OneLifeToLive. After bickering with her lover, a fed-up woman grabs the sheets and angrily declares that SHE will be sleeping on the couch. Subverted a year later when the same couple was genuinely estranged. She didn't kick him out, he left the bedroom despite her pleas for him to stay, and slept in the guest bedroom.

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* Played with in ''TheDickVanDykeShow'' ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'' episode "Give Me Your Walls". Rob and Laura are annoyed by a painter who has been working on their living room for a long time. Rob swears that he will tell him to get out of their house soon, and if he doesn't, he himself vows to sleep on the couch. Laura walks right up to him and says that he had better get her out. (Oddly, Rob and Laura are always seen in separate beds.)
* Mr. Bennett spends most of ''LostInAusten'' ''Series/LostInAusten'' having exiled himself to the library, after Mrs. Bennett allows Jane to marry Mrs. Collins. This only ends after [[spoiler:she tells off Lady Catherine at the climax of the series.]]
* A humorous example/inversion on OneLifeToLive.''Series/OneLifeToLive''. After bickering with her lover, a fed-up woman grabs the sheets and angrily declares that SHE will be sleeping on the couch. Subverted a year later when the same couple was genuinely estranged. She didn't kick him out, he left the bedroom despite her pleas for him to stay, and slept in the guest bedroom.



* ''{{Friends}}'': Discussed several times between Monica and Chandler but doesn't actually happen as they usually [[{{HappilyMarried}} make up pretty quickly]].
* Amy Duncan does this after an argument to husband Bob in the DisneyChannel show GoodLuckCharlie. Not content with that, when Bob can't find the couch, she tells him she's sent it for cleaning, along with the one in the basement. When Bob says he'll sleep on the air mattress in the garage, she replies: "Popped it!"
* There's at least one furniture ad of a couple who start an argument entirely so one of them can sleep on the sofa.
* In ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'', Deeks had to sleep on the couch in the NCIS Los Angeles headquarters due to his own house undergoing what is implied to be a strong pest infestation, which also resulted in him failing to pick up Kensi from the airport when she returned from Hawaii. He later has to keep company with Kensi until midnight after the infestation clearing at his house was delayed, to which she agrees, if he meets certain conditions, such as him driving and him paying, and having him do her laundry for a month (later specifying tht its outer-wear when realizing that he might go for the underwear as well.)

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* ''{{Friends}}'': ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Discussed several times between Monica and Chandler but doesn't actually happen as they usually [[{{HappilyMarried}} make up pretty quickly]].
* Amy Duncan does this after an argument to husband Bob in the DisneyChannel show GoodLuckCharlie.''Series/GoodLuckCharlie''. Not content with that, when Bob can't find the couch, she tells him she's sent it for cleaning, along with the one in the basement. When Bob says he'll sleep on the air mattress in the garage, she replies: "Popped it!"
* There's at least one furniture ad of a couple who start an argument entirely so one of them can sleep on the sofa.
* In ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'',
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Deeks had to sleep on the couch in the NCIS Los Angeles headquarters due to his own house undergoing what is implied to be a strong pest infestation, which also resulted in him failing to pick up Kensi from the airport when she returned from Hawaii. He later has to keep company with Kensi until midnight after the infestation clearing at his house was delayed, to which she agrees, if he meets certain conditions, such as him driving and him paying, and having him do her laundry for a month (later specifying tht its outer-wear when realizing that he might go for the underwear as well.)



* {{GenderInverted}} in ''Series/{{Dexter}}''. Lieutenant [=LaGuerta=] denies responsibility for an operation-gone-haywire and uses Debra as a {{Scapegoat}}. Her husband and Debra's immediate superior, Angel, is disgusted with this action and sends her to sleep on the couch.
* On ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' Carla gets mad at Turk and kicks him out of the room. An unusual example since Carla wasn't living in the apartment at the time, so she was kicking Turk out of his own room since she didn't like sleeping at home, and Turk sleeps [[ThereIsOnlyOneBed with]] [[HoYay JD]] instead of on the couch.
* PlayedForDrama on ''DowntonAbbey''; Cora exiles Robert from their bed after she blames him for [[spoiler: Sybil's death]].

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* {{GenderInverted}} in ''Series/{{Dexter}}''. In ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', Lieutenant [=LaGuerta=] denies responsibility for an operation-gone-haywire and uses Debra as a {{Scapegoat}}. Her husband and Debra's immediate superior, Angel, is disgusted with this action and sends her decides himself to sleep on the couch.
* On ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' Carla gets mad at Turk and kicks him out of the room. An unusual example since Carla wasn't living in the apartment at the time, so she was kicking Turk out of his own room since she didn't like sleeping at home, and Turk sleeps [[ThereIsOnlyOneBed with]] [[HoYay JD]] JD instead of on the couch.
* PlayedForDrama on ''DowntonAbbey''; ''Series/DowntonAbbey''; Cora exiles Robert from their bed after she blames him for [[spoiler: Sybil's death]].
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* Charlie [[http://thewretchedones.smackjeeves.com/comics/1731484/page-35/ kicked John out of their bedroom]] in [[http://thewretchedones.smackjeeves.com The Wretched Ones]]. Charlie became angry when John didn't believe he saw an apparition of a plague doctor and locked himself in their bedroom.
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* A man with an injured shoulder once exiled ''himself'' to an easy chair so his wife could sleep without him tossing and turning from the pain. Sleeping in a recliner resulted in ''him'' sleeping comfortably for the first time in weeks.
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-->'''Yakko:''' [[ThomasJefferson Tom Jefferson]] stayed up to write\\

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* {{GenderInverted}} in ''{{Dexter}}''. Lieutenant [=LaGuerta=] denies responsibility for an operation-gone-haywire and uses Debra as a {{Scapegoat}}. Her husband and Debra's immediate superior, Angel, is disgusted with this action and sends her to sleep on the couch.

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* {{GenderInverted}} in ''{{Dexter}}''.''Series/{{Dexter}}''. Lieutenant [=LaGuerta=] denies responsibility for an operation-gone-haywire and uses Debra as a {{Scapegoat}}. Her husband and Debra's immediate superior, Angel, is disgusted with this action and sends her to sleep on the couch.
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* In ''Film/CapeFear'', presented as a GilliganCut. After a quarrel with his wife about his infidelity, the protagonist invokes their team work. Zoom upon his wife's face -- cut to him with a blanket on the couch.
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* On ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7946332/1/Theoretical-Relatives Theoretical Relatives]]'', after Robin shares his secret ([[spoiler:that he's Jinx's cousin]]) with [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans the team]], Starfire is offended that he didn't do it earlier (and didn't even tell it to her). So, she goes to his room, comes back with his bedding, and states that the bed has been inexplicably destroyed. Of course, until the investigation into the causes is complete, it cannot be replaced - so, he'll be sleeping on the couch for now.
* In ''[[http://jeconais.fanficauthors.net/This_Means_War/index/ This Means War]]'', after Harry and Ginny start dating, all the Weasley brothers object. Once their measures become a bit too much for the couple, the latter recruit their girlfriends to their side and... well, there are enough complaints about this trope to reduce the Weasley determination.
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* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'', Sims who are not at a high relationship status will refuse to share a bed. If two Sims in a relationship who have recently been in a fight, their relationship status will drop, and this is likely to happen.

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* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'', Sims who are not at a high relationship status will refuse to share a bed. If two Sims in a relationship who have recently been in a fight, their relationship status will drop, and this is likely to happen. Unless the player decides to buy an extra bed.
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Compare to ThereIsOnlyOneBed, where two characters who aren't in a relationship have to share a room but aren't comfortable to sleep together in one bed.
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* Part of a failed attempt by a delusional women to punish her honest partner in [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-match-made-in-size-7/1490 this]] 'Website/NotAlwaysRight' story. Somewhat hilariously, it backfired for her in pretty much every way it is possible to backfire (and the fact that they didn't actually ''live'' together was only the ''start'').

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* Part of a failed attempt by a delusional women woman to punish her honest partner in [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-match-made-in-size-7/1490 this]] 'Website/NotAlwaysRight' story. Somewhat hilariously, it backfired for her in pretty much every way it is possible to backfire (and the fact that they didn't actually ''live'' together was only the ''start'').
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* ''{{Series/StarTrekVoyager}}'' once had Tom go to Harry's quarters after a fight with B'Elanna. Harry simply handed him a pillow and blanket before returning to bed, implying that this was a fairly common occurance.
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* Inverted on an episode of ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''. After an argument, Debra willingly goes to sleep on the couch - but takes all of the bedcovers with her ''AND'' turns down the thermostat in the house.
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* Part of a failed attempt by a delusional women to punish her honest partner in [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-match-made-in-size-7/1490 this]] 'NotAlwaysRight' story. Somewhat hilariously, it backfired for her in pretty much every way it is possible to backfire (and the fact that they didn't actually ''live'' together was only the ''start'').
** Performed more successfully in [[http://notalwaysromantic.com/bosomless-buddies/18799 this]] 'Not Always Romantic' story (the spinoff site of NotAlwaysRight).

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* Part of a failed attempt by a delusional women to punish her honest partner in [[http://notalwaysright.com/a-match-made-in-size-7/1490 this]] 'NotAlwaysRight' 'Website/NotAlwaysRight' story. Somewhat hilariously, it backfired for her in pretty much every way it is possible to backfire (and the fact that they didn't actually ''live'' together was only the ''start'').
** Performed more successfully in [[http://notalwaysromantic.com/bosomless-buddies/18799 this]] 'Not Always Romantic' story (the (a spinoff site of NotAlwaysRight).Website/NotAlwaysRight).
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* In ''Theatre/BarefootInThePark'', when Corie is on the verge of divorcing Paul, she shuts herself in the bedroom and throws out a pillow, blanket and sheet so Paul can go to sleep on the sofa. He tries to... and then snow starts falling through the broken skylight on his head, leaving him with a cold the next day.
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* [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-02-05 This]] ''DominicDeegan''.

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* [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-02-05 This]] ''DominicDeegan''. He's still there [[http://dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-03-10 a few days later]].
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* [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/73406/rainbow-in-the-dark Looks like this will happen]] in the last chapter of ''FanFic/RainbowInTheDark'', but with Spike's basket (Far too small for Brownie). It gets subverted when Rainbow Dash allows Brownie to sleep in the bed with her.
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* ''{{Friends}}'': Discussed several times between Monica and Chandler but doesn't actually happen as they usually [[{{HappilyMarried}} make up pretty quickly]].
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* Liberty does this to Uncle Sam ocassionally in {{Sinfest}}. Uncle Sam has a bad habit of being [[ItsAllAboutMe very self-center]] and Liberty sees how he [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3274 loses the perspectives]] sometimes or [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4622 has very bad suggestions]].

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* Liberty does this to Uncle Sam ocassionally in {{Sinfest}}. Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}. Uncle Sam has a bad habit of being [[ItsAllAboutMe very self-center]] self-centered]] and Liberty sees how he [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3274 loses the perspectives]] sometimes or [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4622 has very bad suggestions]].
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* Liberty does this to Uncle Sam ocassionally in {{Webcomics}}/{{Sinfest}}. Uncle Sam has a bad habit of being [[ItsAllAboutMe very self-center]] and Liberty sees how he [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3274 loses the perspectives]] sometimes or [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4622 has very bad suggestions]].

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* Liberty does this to Uncle Sam ocassionally in {{Webcomics}}/{{Sinfest}}.{{Sinfest}}. Uncle Sam has a bad habit of being [[ItsAllAboutMe very self-center]] and Liberty sees how he [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3274 loses the perspectives]] sometimes or [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4622 has very bad suggestions]].
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* Liberty does this to Uncle Sam ocassionally in {{Webcomic}}/{{Sinfest}}. Uncle Sam has a bad habit of being [[ItsAllAboutMe very self-center]] and Liberty sees how he [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3274 loses the perspectives]] sometimes or [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4622 has very bad suggestions]].

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* Liberty does this to Uncle Sam ocassionally in {{Webcomic}}/{{Sinfest}}.{{Webcomics}}/{{Sinfest}}. Uncle Sam has a bad habit of being [[ItsAllAboutMe very self-center]] and Liberty sees how he [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3274 loses the perspectives]] sometimes or [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4622 has very bad suggestions]].
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* Liberty does this to Uncle Sam ocassionally in {{Webcomic}}/{{Sinfest}}. Uncle Sam has a bad habit of being [[ItsAllAboutMe very self-center]] and Liberty sees how he [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3274 loses the perspectives]] sometimes or [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4622 has very bad suggestions]].

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