There Is Only One Bed: Difference between revisions

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'''Elaine:''' No, because I slept with my back to him. <nowiki>*long pause* </nowiki>|''[[Seinfeld]]'' }}

 

* It initially shows up in ''[[Mousehunt (film)|Mousehunt]]''. We don't know about the brothers' sleeping arrangements afterwards.

* In ''Anger Management'', it's highlighted with a funny exchange:

'''Dave:''' That's why I'm proud to be an American. }}

* In Mel Brooks' ''[[Life Stinks]]'', the protagonist and the love interest, being both homeless, share... a cardboard box. A knife is used as wall between the two.

* ''[[Leon the Professional]]'' (International Cut). After Leon turns down the [[Fille Fatale]] Mathilda's offer to sleep with him, Mathilda insists that at the very least he share the bed with her and not sleep on the coach.

* In ''[[Planes, Trains and Automobiles|Planes, Trains & Automobiles]]'', [[Steve Martin|Neal]] and [[John Candy|Del]] have to stay in a hotel room with only one bed. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when they wake up.

'''Neal:''' Those aren't pillows! }}

* The movie ''[[Leap Year]]'' has one of these scenes, although it makes sense as the pair are staying in a religious bed and breakfast and are pretending to be married in order to wait out a storm there. Funny because at first Declan gets the bed (after tricking Anna in a coin toss) and then Anna gets the bed (after realizing she's been tricked like ten minutes later) and then Anna takes pity on Declan for having to sleep in the shower. They wake up to realize they've been snuggling.

* ''[[The Proposal]]'': Because the family thinks that they're engaged, they are given a room with only one bed. It goes without saying, in-universe, that Andrew takes the floor.

* In ''Far and Away'', when Shannon loses everything, Joseph and Shannon have to take up rent in a whorehouse for a long time. There's only one bed, which she gets, of course. However, after an arguement their first day there, he uses her pillow for the night and fluffs it up a little just to annoy her.

'''Joseph:''' Not in a hundred years. }}

 

* In the [[Night Huntress]] novels, Cat wakes up in Bones' bed with him after she passes out. In an inversion, she ends up sleeping on the floor, since Bones doesn't see why he should have to give up his bed just because she's being silly.

* ''On Wings of Eagles'', the non-fiction novel by Ken Follet. Two of Ross Perot's men are flying back to the States after escaping from Iraq. There's a huge bed in the luxury airliner, and figuring there's room enough to two, the black member of the team flakes out next to his companion who's already on it.

"Relax. Now you can tell all your friends you've [[N-Word Privileges|slept with a nigger]]." }}

* Happened in ''[[Lolita]]'', just before the couple first had sex in a hotel at the beginning of their infamous road trip.

* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "The Shakespeare Code", the Doctor and Martha end up in a room with only a double bed, which they have to share. The Doctor doesn't see anything risque about this, but Martha finds it an excuse to flirt...which the Doctor in obliviousness promptly ruins by [[Wangst|lamenting about Rose]].

* In ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'', "Sleepover", Jonas and Bree wind up in a hotel with only a double bed. Jonas builds a "Great Wall of Jonas" out of pillows and sheets to separate the two of them, to reassure Daniel.

'''Jonas''': I wasn't, but now I am, 'cause you're not. }}

* ''[[iCarly]]'': During iTake On Dingo, the trio+ Spencer share a 2 bed, tiny hotel room. The floor recently had a dead body on it, so I doubt anyone was sleeping on the floor. No matter who slept in what bed with who (although it's a good chance it was probably Sam+ Carly and Freddie+ Spencer), it would get shippers excited.

** This leads to a conversation quite similar to the [[Seinfeld]] page quote. JD insists that they sleep head to toe. Turk claims it doesn't matter, as their genitals still line up, but JD says it makes it impossible for them to accidentally "lock in".

* ''[[Family Matters]]'' saw Urkel and Laura having to spend a night in a motel. Laura takes the bed, while Urkel tries to keep a roll-away folding bed to stay in place so he can sleep peacefully (it turns out [[Hilarity Ensues|the bed hates him with a passion]]). Laura, who spent the entire time making rude and sarcastic jabs at him, suggests he go sleep in the bathtub. After being in the bathroom about a second, he [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|runs back out and unloads on Laura for essentially being a total bitch to him.]]

** They compromise, though; she sleeps under the covers, he sleeps on top of the covers. This is followed by a hilarious moment wherein Steve, trying to prove that his intentions are pure, says "If I've had one single impure thought, may God strike me dead." Immediately there is a loud thunderclap, after which he concedes, "Well, maybe ''one''."

* Happened in the ''[[The 4400]]'' episode "Life Interrupted" (the [[Happy Place]] episode) where Tom wakes up in an alternate reality where the 4400 were never abducted. The only person who is also aware of the change is a woman named Alana, who does not know him yet everyone claims they are married. When they turn in for the night, Tom suggests a number of alternate places for him to sleep yet Alana suggests they share the bed to keep up appearances and because "it's a large bed. We can maintain our sectors."

== Theatre ==

* ''Cabaret'', "Perfectly Marvelous":

'''Sally''': We'll think of something. }}

* A throwaway line in Shakespeare's ''King Henry V'' mentions that Lord Scrope had shared a bed with the King when they were boyhood friends. (Evidently, in fifteenth-century England, it was the boys rather than the girls that had sleepover parties.) This makes it all the more shocking that {{spoiler|Scrope has taken bribes from the French to assassinate the King.}}