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*** As depicted on TV, that "mansion" wasn't much bigger than most sitcom apartments.
* A couple of times on ''[[Bewitched]]'', Samantha "twitched" Darrin there with her magic.
* Parodied on ''[[The Red Green Show]]'', where one of the recurring segments featured Red and another Lodge member offering men advice on what to do when their wives are mad at them so they ''wouldn't'' end up getting [[Exiled to the Couch]].
* Played with on ''[[Medium]]''. Dad starts sleeping on the couch and the middle daughter tells her younger sister their parents are going to get divorced "because that's what happened to [her friend's] dad and then he took her to Disneyworld!" Actually, it was just an experiment to see if mom's habit of waking up from [[Nightmare Dreams|horrific psychic dreams]] in the wee hours of the morning was cutting into dad's sleep (it wasn't, surprisingly enough).
* Daphne used this against Niles on ''[[Frasier]]'' when their lives get complicated after {{spoiler|Maris murdered her lover}}.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Used [http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070427 at least] [http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20061208 three] [http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20051019 times] in ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'' with the engaged couple Lilah and Ethan.
** It was recently inverted in this [http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20090727 strip] With Ethan telling Lilah to sleep on the couch.
* [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-02-05 This] ''[[Dominic Deegan]]''.
** And [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2007-08-15 this one].
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* In Orthodox Judaism, it is not kosher for a man to touch a menstruating woman -- evenwoman—even his wife -- untilwife—until her period is over and she's been ritually cleansed by bathing in a mikveh. Naturally, this means one or the other can't sleep in the bed. Which one departs is supposed to be up to the couple, but think about which is easier: spending a few nights on the couch, or trying to make a woman on the rag do so?
** 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.
* 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.
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