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{{trope}}
[[File:Leap Year - Only One Bed.jpg|thumb|400px|link=Leap Year|So now what do we do?]]
{{quote|'''Jerry:''' Spent the night at James', did we?
'''Elaine:''' Yeah, but we reversed positions, so there was no funny business.
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'''Elaine:''' Yeah, you know, head to toe.
'''Jerry:''' So what? Your genitals are still lined up.
'''Elaine:''' No, because I slept with my back to him.
[long pause]
|''[[Seinfeld]]''}}
Two characters have to share a room for the night. Just one problem:
A source of embarrassment, [[Unresolved Sexual Tension
It speaks to one's character if they insist on sleeping on the floor (or, in slightly more luxurious settings, the couch); often this will make the other upset that they then have to "owe" that person. It also speaks of their character if they demand the ''other'' person take the floor.
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{{examples}}
* Koyuki and Maho (
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* Koyuki and Maho (LOTS of [[UST]] there) of ''[[Beck]]: Mongolian Chop Squad'' share a single bed in an episode where she crashes at his house, but nothing ends up happening between them.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|Amnesiac]] Makoto in ''[[Kanon]]'' insists on sleeping with Yuuichi because Pirozhki the cat is sleeping with him one night. It turns out there's another reason, and then we all get [[Tear Jerker|really, really sad]].
* Conan and Ran in ''[[Detective Conan]]''. Ran doesn't think anything of sleeping in the same bed as her little friend during one dangerous night. Conan is distracted enough by it to not be able to focus on the case.
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** ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5|Yes! Precure 5]]'' took it further with its expanded cast. Much further. Further enough that shippers of all kinds decided it was probably best not to read any meaning into it.
* Lina and Gourry from ''[[The Slayers]]'' have to share a room in a tavern. Lina insists that Gourry takes the bed, but at the end they ''both'' sleep on the floor, since Gourry thinks it's not chivalrous to sleep comfortably while she's not.
* Subverted two ways in ''[[Code Geass]]''. When C.C. shows up [[Back
* In ''[[Patlabor]]'' Gotoh and Shinobu get stuck in a major storm on their way back from a conference. The only place they find to stay is a [[Love Hotels|love hotel]], which naturally only has a single bed. He offers to sleep on the couch, of course. The situation is complicated by Gotoh's blatant crush on Shinobu.
* [[Ms. Fanservice|Shiranui Mai]] is all a-twitter that the hotel room she and Andy Bogard are staying in in ''[[Fatal Fury]]: the Motion Picture'' has only one bed. Andy sleeps on the couch.
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* Parodied in ''[[Candy Boy]],'' when [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Sakuya]] imagines a ''king sized'' bed for what what would happen in Spring ''if'' she and Kanade shared a room, in which Sakuya [[Rich Bitch|custom]] designed. Kanade replies, to herself, with "Wait, why is there only one bed?" with an obviously annoyed look on her face.
* In one arc of ''[[Shugo Chara]]'', Ikuto lives in Amu's room for while. Amu tries to make him sleep on the floor but Ikuto, being Ikuto, just crawls back in the bed.
* In ''[[Ranma
* By a third party's intervention in ''[[Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual|Dual]]'', Kazuki and Mitsuki are not only forced to spend a night together, but also nude. It doesn't help that of the [[Harem]], she's the least active in looking for his affection.
* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' has this happen twice in the manga. In the first instance, Miaka and Tamahome are fresh into the relationship but were placed unconsciously in a single bed to get some battle injuries healed (it's not [[Intimate Healing|that kind of healing]], but they still get bonus points for having been deprived entirely of clothes by Taiitsukun); the next time, Tamahome ends up on the floor due to [[Virgin Power]] and all that, but after a tender little conversation, he goes up to Miaka's bed and promptly falls asleep before they get to <s>first</s> <s>second</s> third base. The anime only has the first instance.
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* In ''[[Asobi ni Iku yo!|Asobi Ni Iku Yo]]'' after Kio's house becomes the Catian Embassy and Aoi and Manami get drafted as its security detail, they end up sharing Kio's bed, having ejected Kio himself to the couch.
* In ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'', Holo teases Lawrence about saving money by taking a room with a single bed. It doesn't really matter, since they usually sleep together in a not-particularly spacious cart while traveling anyway.
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', whether or not there is an extra bed at Germany's house we will never know, because Italy insists on sleeping in the same bed as
* Goes from awful to absolute worst in the ''[[Midori Days]]'' manga. The class goes to a ski resort, and Seiji and Ayase get lost in a snowstorm. Freezing cold, they decide to spend the night in an awkwardly-placed love hotel, with one bed. Ayase divides the bed with a blanket - that doesn't stop things when they accidentally start up some of the... ''kinkier'' mechanics of the bed. ''And then the entire class finds them.''
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'''s only episode with Kaworu shows him sharing his bedroom with Shinji. However, Shinji insists on sleeping on the floor since he asked Kaworu to let him spend the night there in the first place.
* ''[[No. 6]]'': In the novels, it is expressly stated that [[Ho Yay|Nezumi and Sion]] share a bed at night.
== Comic Books ==
* In one of the Superman/Batman annuals, [[Superman|Clark Kent]] and [[Batman|Bruce Wayne]], both ignorant of the other's secret identity, are [http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1346854.html?#cutid1 forced to share a room] with a single bed. [http://i345.photobucket.com/albums/p388/proteus_lives/Scan11181.jpg They weren't very happy about it].
* [[Scott Pilgrim]] and his gay roommate Wallace have to share a futon because their apartment is apparently too small for another bed. Or Scott being a total freeloader who doesn't want to spring for a bed of his own.
* In ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', Quatermain and Murray visit a school, posing as a married couple, with Nemo as their servant. They are shown to their rooms: a big one with a huge luxurious bed for the "married couple", and a small one the size of a closet with a tiny cot for the "servant". Nemo imperiously informs Mina that "you will, of course, take the single room"... Cut to Quatermain and Nemo both squeezed into the servant's room, and Quatermain's sardonic comment of "Women" and Nemo's admission that women are "hardly my strong point."
*
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* In ''[[It Happened One Night]]'' (1934), the couple, (who barely know each other) have to share a room with twin beds. They hang a sheet between the two beds and call it "The [[Analogy Backfire|Wall of Jericho]]." This is probably where anything similar comes from.
** And is borrowed directly for episode 9 of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''; Asuka declares the (sliding paper) door between her sleeping area and Shinji's "the impenetrable Wall of Jericho". Not quite There Is Only One Bed, {{spoiler|though Asuka later sleepily wanders into Shinji's bed. This being ''Evangelion'', hilarity does ''not'' ensue.}}
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* In the first ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movie, before Ms. Kensington showed any attraction to Austin. She made him [[Exiled to the Couch|sleep on the couch]].
* ''The Sure Thing'' borrows a lot from ''It Happened One Night'' including doing the "one bed" bit twice (without the "wall").
* Played straight (so to speak) in ''[[Mulholland Drive]]'', when Betty suggests to Rita that she needn't sleep on the couch, as the bed is big enough for two. As Rita disrobes and get into bed naked, Betty realizes she feels sexually attracted to
* In ''[[Idiocracy]]'', Joe and Rita have to share the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House. Joe, naturally, takes the floor, even after Rita invites him into the bed. To add to the humor, Rita is a former prostitute.
* This happened in ''No Holds Barred'', a 1989 Hulk Hogan vehicle.
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{{quote|'''Shannon:''' Give me back my pillow.
'''Joseph:''' Not in a hundred years. }}
== Literature ==
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* Happened in ''[[Lolita]]'', just before the couple first had sex in a hotel at the beginning of their infamous road trip.
* In ''[[Beachwalker]]'', the female protagonist spends much of the book hiding a severely injured fugitive in the aftermath of an earthquake. There is only one bed, and there are some nights when it's too cold for her to sleep on the floor. Made even more awkward for her by the fact that he is wearing nothing but [[Bandage Babe|bandages]] and his underwear, since he's injured to the point of being barely able to move, and repeatedly dressing and undressing him would shift the bandages and aggravate his wounds.
== Live-Action TV ==
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** In the first season episode "Angel," Buffy and Angel face this problem when Angel spends a night in Buffy's room. Buffy offers Angel her bed, but he declines. Their first kiss occurs about 24 hours later.
** In the seventh season episode "Showtime," Kennedy tries to engineer this in order to seduce Willow.
** Hilariously averted in ''[[Angel]]'' "Rm w/a Vu" when Cordy turns up at a shirtless, dripping wet Angel's apartment desperate for a place to
* While being secretly ferreted behind enemy lines in the ''[[Star Trek: The
** There's also the two times that Q decided to hop into bed with Picard. The first time, he does it to taunt and annoy Picard, but in the second, he pretends to be the woman Picard went to bed with the night before. There's no reason for him to do it, he just does, and after Picard gets over the shock of finding Q there, they have a civil conversation.
* In one episode of ''[[Designing Women]]'', Suzanne and Anthony share a motel room with only one bed. Initially, Anthony tries to sleep in the car (at Suzanne's insistence), but she relents after the temperature outside drops well below freezing.
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* In one episode of ''[[NCIS]]'' Tony and Ziva spend a few days in Paris and their room only has one bed. Tony tells a witness Ziva took the couch. Ziva tells McGee that Tony took the couch. By the end of the episode it is revealed they shared the bed.
** Another example is when McGee and Abby are in Mexico and have to share a one-bed hotel room. The woman getting the bed is subverted when Abby sleeps in the room she is given for her class on solving cold cases after McGee uses tap water to brush his teeth.
* In the infamous "Ghost" episode of ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit|Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'', the fact that
* In an episode of ''[[The War at Home]]'', Dave, Larry and Kenny stays in a motel room with only two beds. Dave ends up sleeping on the floor because he doesn't want [[Pet Homosexual]] Kenny sleeping with neither Larry nor himself.
* Never actually shown on ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', but frequently talked about, especially when teams spend the night in a remote location.
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* In ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' the reason Earl and Randy share a bed is because the motel rooms with twin beds don't have a pool view (and are above a meth lab) so it's either not have a pool view (and deal with the occasional bullet coming through the floor) or share a bed.
* Happens in ''[[Lois and Clark]]'' when the two are pretending to be married (in a hotel for honeymooners, no less!) in order to get a scoop. Lois forces Clark to take the couch.
== Theatre ==
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* ''[[Peter Pan]]'': In the Lost Boy's "Home Under the Ground", all the boys share a bed except for Michael, who has his own cradle. That's eight boys sleeping in the same bed. This detail appears in the book as well, but it was probably originally added for the purpose of comic stage business: stage directions indicate that [[Team Mom|Wendy]] won't let them turn over in bed unless a signal is given, at which point they all turn over at once.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Grim Grimoire]]'' has Lillet Blan more or less kidnapping/adopting/eloping with Amoretta Virgine the [[Artificial Human|Homunculus]], not least because she's [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|grown quite fond of Amoretta]], but more immediately to make sure she's safe. (This is a very real concern, considering what happened to her in [[Groundhog Day Loop|previous time-loops]], sometimes of her own choice.) However, Lillet has only one bed. Neither of them mind,
▲* ''[[Grim Grimoire]]'' has Lillet Blan more or less kidnapping/adopting/eloping with Amoretta Virgine the [[Artificial Human|Homunculus]], not least because she's [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|grown quite fond of Amoretta]], but more immediately to make sure she's safe. (This is a very real concern, considering what happened to her in [[Groundhog Day Loop|previous time-loops]], sometimes of her own choice.) However, Lillet has only one bed. Neither of them mind, however -- Amoretta has only existed for 106 days, and has not had physical affection of any kind. She thus ''really'' enjoys snuggling, and is apparently so vigorous about it that, in her sleep, she knocks Lillet out of bed more than once. Lillet doesn't mind that either, but she does (in an amusing inversion) threaten to [[Exiled to the Couch|exile]] ''[[Exiled to the Couch|herself]]'' [[Exiled to the Couch|to the couch]] and leave Amoretta in the bed alone if Amoretta doesn't keep safe.
* Happens in ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'' when Cless and Mint first arrive in the past. They're both embarrassed by the situation, and it ends with Cless sleeping on the floor.
* Happens in ''[[Shenmue]] II'', when Ryo is invited to stay with Master Tao (Xiuying). He's quick to point out that she has only one bed, and she's even quicker in pointing out that he'll be taking the couch.
* Happens in Legaia 2 Duel Sage, due to one of the inn's rooms having a broken door, forcing Maya and Laang to sleep together. The player can have Laang either be bashful about sleeping with Maya, or have him jump at the chance.
* Happens in the ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' parody mod ''The Sinister Series'', where an initial sign that Cordelia is warming up to the player is her insistence that he take the bed because she had been cold, rude, and standoffish since the two first met.
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* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-05-22 Tedd and Grace discuss Tedd's glasses] whilst lying in the same bed for non-sexual reasons, although Tedd finds this disappointing, and [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-05-25 his father seems suspicious].
** At a hotel room [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-17 with two beds and three people], Grace [[Defied Trope|cuts short discussion on who shares with whom]] by reminding Sarah and Susan that [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|she can turn into a squirrel]].
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** Much later, Emily again stays over at Ash's house. [http://www.misfile.com/?page=1552 They share the bed.] [[Squee]].
** The situation comes up again in the fanfic ''[[Misfiled Dreams]]'', where a blizzard knocks out Ash's power and Ash and Rumi are more or less forced to spend the night at Emily's. Em gives Rumi her sleeping bag, and since it's too cold for anyone to sleep on the floor, she and Ash share her bed. The above-mentioned [[Fridge Logic]] is circumvented by Emily saying that her mom (away at the time) would kill her if anyone slept in the master bedroom. Yes, it ''does'' go somewhere, but if you want to know where, you'll have to read the story.
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', this is played for [[Fan Service]] when [[Five-Man Band|the gang]] all share a tiny apartment, and Zoe and Gwynn have to [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/080108 "snuggle" in the only bed]. Parodied when [
* Happens in [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/02/07/episode-1092-the-rule-of-three/ this] ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'' episode, creating some rules for when this happens and isn't gay.
* In ''[[Sabrina Online]]'', Zig Zag deliberately sets up this scenario during a trip to a convention with Sabrina.
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* [[Penny Arcade]] offers a [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/7/21/ solution] to the "who gets it" dilemma.
* Used [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/12112002/ here] in ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' with two characters who have known each other since grade school.
* During the "trip to E3" story arc in ''[[Full Frontal Nerdity]]'', the hotel room ''had'' two beds ... but three occupants (not counting Shawn the webcam). Nelson solved the problem by scamming three large bags of promotional stress balls and piling them into a [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ffn/index.php?date=2005-05-18 "bed"]{{Dead link}} for Lewis.
* Subverted every which way in ''[[Girly]]''. At first, Winter doesn't need a bed, since she's willing to sleep standing up in Girly's front yard ([[Cloudcuckoolander|yep]]). But on the second night, its raining, so Winter agrees to come inside and take the couch...but ''[[Deus Ex Machina|an elephant wanders into the scene and eats the couch]]'', leaving only the one bed.
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* Several ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoons did this with Porky and Daffy as a comedic setup. In one, they were business partners who roomed together, and in another, they were strangers at a packed hotel.
* In episode 19 of ''[[Sym-Bionic Titan]]'', in the second motel that Lance and Ilana stay in, the room only appears to have one bed.
== Real Life ==
* Happens all the time at conventions due to how expensive hotel rooms can be.
* The tradition of [[wikipedia:Bundling (tradition)|bundling]]. Sometimes it'd get really cold, and the couples would get together all warm and cozy, and sometimes there were ...babies!
** "And sometimes there were... [[
* This scenario is often encountered in real life, in general. Some people choose to sleep on the floor rather than share a bed, though. Also, back in the old days, entire families would often sleep in the same bed, because beds and the soft stuff that goes on them were expensive and rare but also for the sake of not freezing to death in the night.
** Similarly some kings managed to get beds large enough to allow ''over a hundred people'' to sleep together. And apparently put them to use that way. To sleep, you know, not just...
** It was general practice in inns and such for quite a long time, too. Again, expense of beds and linens, and also of building and maintaining an inn large enough for everyone to have his own room.
* This was (and is) also common practice among Eskimo tribes, being that the alternative to cuddling up with a family member was freezing to death. Having two separate beds in an igloo would be impractical, and having two igloos for two people would be even ''more'' impractical.
* [
** Referenced in ''[[Paul]]'', where Graeme and Clive share a hotel room with one bed when they go to Comicon.
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