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If you can remember the shows, you can almost certainly picture the living rooms (or coffee bar) and the requisite couch.
The couch is, of course, prepackaged in [[Standardized Sitcom Housing]] (however, you do have to buy your own TV), and can often be found in a [[Social Semi-Circle]]. (That said, don't put [[Two Gamers
See also [[Local Hangout]].
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* ''[[According to Jim]]'': There is a couch in the living room the other cast members use, but Jim normally sits in his chair to the left of it.
* ''[[All in The Family]]'' (no, not the two chairs in the center. Over to the right some, by the door, under the window -- yeah, there).
* ''[[Are You Being Served?
* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'': Possibly referenced in an episode where Sheldon's "spot" on the couch is dirtied by a paintball and being the high-strung, type-A nerd that he is, he has to deal with either finding a new place to sit or simply turning the cushion over, which he refuses to do, because [[Super OCD|it doesn't have his butt imprint on it.]] Before the couch was there, it was simply a lawn chair Sheldon used as his "spot."
* ''[[The Cosby Show]]''
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** Not only is there a couch in the main apartment, the cast never has a problem getting the exact same booth in a crowded, lively bar. One episode shows that this was because one of the bartenders would shoo away anyone sitting in their regular booth. The writers wanted to avert the latter and have them more realistically sit in different places at different times, but they were told this would be too expensive.
** Barney's couch faces the [[Fourth Wall]], which in his apartment ''is'' a TV.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Jeffersons]]''
* ''[[Married...
* On ''[[MASH]]'', the cots in the Swamp frequently served much the same purpose.
* ''[[Men Behaving Badly]]'': The sofa became practically another character in the show, and the last non-special episode, "Sofa," was even ''about'' its replacement.
* ''[[One Day At a Time]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Roseanne]]'' -- And, damn, that couch (and the ever-present blanket flopped over the top of it) was ''uglyyyy!''
* ''[[The Royle Family]]'': Although neither the sofa or Jim's chair are the standard "facing the fourth wall" set piece. Instead, the camera freely shifts around the room and we do even get to see the fourth wall a lot.
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* ''[[Seinfeld]]''
* ''[[Still Standing]]'' had the couch. In fact, most scenes took place in the living room in the vicinity on and around said couch.
* ''[[That
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* ''[[3rd Rock
** Subverted in that the Solomon's don't ''own'' an actual couch. They make do with two or three ratty chairs and an ottoman. In the episode when Harry gets amnesia, the first thing he says when he sees the living room is, "No sofa, that's weird."
* ''[[Til Death]]'': Played straight with a couch, though the easy chair to the left of it was used just as often. The other is a literal one in front of the kitchen, of the TV variety. Rarely are people seen in the kitchen when this second couch was used.
* ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' has 2. The first is the kitchen table, where normally only 3 of the 4 seats are ever used.
** Subverted in one episode. The kitchen table hosted Alan, Lauren and their children around the table. While the least important character has his back to the fourth wall, a camera cuts around to show him face on, and the fourth wall is indeed visible behind him.
* In one episode of ''[[
== Theatre ==
* All of ''[[Mary, Mary]]'' takes place on one domestic set, which includes a sofa.
== Web Original ==
* ''[[
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* Present in [[Manwhores]]
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* ''[[Family Guy]]'', though the couch and furniture often move around for the sake of keeping a wide number of characters on the screen at once.
* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'': The title characters were well known for sitting on a couch and critiquing music videos.
* Similar to Are You Being Served? above, [[Sidekick (
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