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[[File:barneylily2x05howimetyo_5383.jpg|link=How I Met Your Mother|thumb|450px| Surely this is a violation of [[The Bro Code]]]]
[[File:barneylily2x05howimetyo 5383.jpg|link=How I Met Your Mother|thumb|450px| Surely this is a violation of [[The Bro Code]]]]




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* In the final season of ''[[Slings and Arrows]]'', [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Richard]] wakes up, turns to one side, and sees that he's in bed with an actress from the musical he's producing. Next episode the same thing happens with the same actress ... but then Richard turns the other way and discovers [[Bi the Way|the musical's (male) writer.]] {{spoiler|This was just one way of showing Richard's final [[Face Heel Turn]] to the [[Dark Side]], and by the finale he's been fully seduced by [[Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll|Sex Drugs and]] [[The Musical|Musical Theater.]] }}
* In the final season of ''[[Slings and Arrows]]'', [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Richard]] wakes up, turns to one side, and sees that he's in bed with an actress from the musical he's producing. Next episode the same thing happens with the same actress ... but then Richard turns the other way and discovers [[Bi the Way|the musical's (male) writer.]] {{spoiler|This was just one way of showing Richard's final [[Face Heel Turn]] to the [[Dark Side]], and by the finale he's been fully seduced by [[Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll|Sex Drugs and]] [[The Musical|Musical Theater.]] }}
* Happened in the season 4 finale of ''[[Friends]]''. It's early morning, Chandler's in bed, Ross runs in, ecstatic about his wedding, and he runs back out. Then Monica pokes her head out from under the covers and says "Do you think he knew I was here?" Thus began Chandler/Monica.
* Happened in the season 4 finale of ''[[Friends]]''. It's early morning, Chandler's in bed, Ross runs in, ecstatic about his wedding, and he runs back out. Then Monica pokes her head out from under the covers and says "Do you think he knew I was here?" Thus began Chandler/Monica.
** Also from ''[[Friends]]'', Chandler ended up on a blind date with Janice, who he's dumped twice in the last three months. The next morning, we see him wake up, with two hands on his chest. A third hand comes into shot, rubbing his eyes. He looks down at the two hands on his chest, then -- with mounting horror -- over at Janice in bed next to him..
** Also from ''[[Friends]]'', Chandler ended up on a blind date with Janice, who he's dumped twice in the last three months. The next morning, we see him wake up, with two hands on his chest. A third hand comes into shot, rubbing his eyes. He looks down at the two hands on his chest, then—with mounting horror—over at Janice in bed next to him..
** Additionally Ross and Joey wake up together on a sofa after having a nap. It's played off in the manner of the two drunken guys version.
** Additionally Ross and Joey wake up together on a sofa after having a nap. It's played off in the manner of the two drunken guys version.
* How the episode "Last Night Gus" began in ''[[Psych]]'' with Lassie waking up on the couch in the Psych office on top of [[Cloudcuckoolander|Woody the Coroner]]. The rest of it however fits perfectly
* How the episode "Last Night Gus" began in ''[[Psych]]'' with Lassie waking up on the couch in the Psych office on top of [[Cloudcuckoolander|Woody the Coroner]]. The rest of it however fits perfectly
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* [http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010105&mode=classic This] ''[[User Friendly]]'' strip. A slight variation, in that it's later revealed that {{spoiler|Pitr was just looking for a warm place to sleep, and no hanky-panky took place}}. Not that this prevents him from demanding "dinner and a movie" next time...
* [http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010105&mode=classic This] ''[[User Friendly]]'' strip. A slight variation, in that it's later revealed that {{spoiler|Pitr was just looking for a warm place to sleep, and no hanky-panky took place}}. Not that this prevents him from demanding "dinner and a movie" next time...
* The [http://www.freakangels.com/?p=23 very beginning] of ''[[Freak Angels]]'' embodies this trope, although it's about a woman, KK. Including improbable bed partner ("Please, God, don't let me have fucked a guy from the Lambeth Road")
* The [http://www.freakangels.com/?p=23 very beginning] of ''[[Freak Angels]]'' embodies this trope, although it's about a woman, KK. Including improbable bed partner ("Please, God, don't let me have fucked a guy from the Lambeth Road")
* ''[[Concession]]'' has roughly the [[Squick|Squickiest]] version conceivable.
* ''[[Concession]]'' has roughly the [[Squick]]iest version conceivable.
** Later happens to the same guy, who wakes up with ''three'' other people (two of them he's happy about, the third not so much).
** Later happens to the same guy, who wakes up with ''three'' other people (two of them he's happy about, the third not so much).
* ''[[Captain SNES]]'' uses the above-mentioned variation of this trope after [[Mega Man (video game)|Dr. Wily]] is elected Vice-[[President Evil]] to [[Final Fight|Haggar's]] [[Our Presidents Are Different|President Buffoon]]. Wily wakes up one morning to [http://www.captainsnes.com/2005/04/19/477-wilys-lament/ discover Haggar in his bed...and complaining about Wily hogging all the covers].
* ''[[Captain SNES]]'' uses the above-mentioned variation of this trope after [[Mega Man (video game)|Dr. Wily]] is elected Vice-[[President Evil]] to [[Final Fight|Haggar's]] [[Our Presidents Are Different|President Buffoon]]. Wily wakes up one morning to [http://www.captainsnes.com/2005/04/19/477-wilys-lament/ discover Haggar in his bed...and complaining about Wily hogging all the covers].