Exiled to the Couch: Difference between revisions

== [[Anime]] ==

* Averted by ''[[The X-Files]]'''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":

{{quote|'''Eddie Van Blundht''' (as Mulder, in his apartment): Where the hell do I sleep?}}

{{quote|'''Fletcher''' (after finding Mulder's bedroom full of junk): This guy hasn't been laid in ten years. }}

{{quote|'''Scully:''' Mulder, when did you get a bed?}}

* Played with in ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' 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.)

* Inverted in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. In Season 7 Spike expects to have to sleep on "[[Monty Python's Flying Circus|that diabolical old torture device, the comfy chair]]" when Buffy wants him to stay the night, but Buffy invites him into her bed (for [[Hold Me|comfort]], not for sex) showing Spike that she's forgiven him {{spoiler|for his [[Attempted Rape]] before he became ensouled.}}

* Amy Duncan does this after an argument to husband Bob in the [[Disney Channel]] show [[Good Luck Charlie]]. 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!"

* In [[NCIS: Los Angeles]], 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.)

== [[Video Games]] ==

* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''[[Grim Grimoire]]'' where, instead of threatening to send her partner to the couch, Lillet threatens to send ''herself'' to the couch if her partner doesn't stay put. It's made all the more amusing for its open aversion of [[Hide Your Lesbians]].

* In [[Mega Man Star Force]], when Luna Platz and the boys visit a ski resort in the second game, Luna forces Geo Stelar to sleep on the couch in their room after she catches him, Bud Bison and Zack Temple talking to the ski resort owner's daughter. Her exact words to him after he says that he is going to bed are No, you are sleeping on the couch.

* The author of [http://www.hellokittyhell.com Hello Kitty Hell] claims repeatedly that every time he slags on Hello Kitty, his wife exiles him to the couch AND the Hello Kitty sleeping bag.

* After the Monica Lewinsky story broke, and after Bill Clinton finally 'fessed up to his wife, Hillary moved him out of the Presidential bedroom.

* The Filipino idiom "outside the kulambo" ("kulambo" means "mosquito net") is a variant of this. In some areas, people slept with nets draped like tents over their beds to prevent mosquito bites; wives who kick their erring husbands "outside the kulambo" would ensure he would have to [[Disproportionate Retribution|sleep somewhere uncomfortable while fending off the bites of (sometimes, dengue-carrying) mosquitos]].