There Is Only One Bed: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'', to the delight of yuri shippers everywhere.

** ''[[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.

* 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.

* 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.

* ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'' provides us with an episode in 2nd Gig where the [[Ms. Fanservice|Major]] goes to Taiwan to investigate ([[Long Story]]). She helps a young pickpocket get out of the mob and even lets him bunk in her hotel room for the night. Subverted in that [[Sex Bot|when the kid brings up if cyborgs can have sex]], [[Mrs. Robinson|the Major offers]], and he refuses. [[All Men Are Perverts|Stupid kid...]]

* In the manga version of ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'', Van and Hitomi are in a room with only one bed. Van says to her that he can't stand brats like her, [[Comically Missing the Point|but he won't mind sharing the bed]]. Hitomi punches him and demands that he sleeps on the floor.

* 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 him -- naked.

== Comicbooks ==

* 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].

* 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."

* Zizaged in French comic "Les démons d'Alexia" (Alexia's demons). Alexia is actually surprised here assistant Berenice rented a room with two beds. Then the local correspondent enters the room, and fall on one bed, exhausted. Berenice asks how they will deal with this, and the answer is off-panel. Notice that Alexia and Berenice are [[Ambiguously Gay]], but Berenice is much more extrovert (she's the one who invited Alexia to do sunbathing naked).

** 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.}}

* In ''[[Bandits]]'' they did the sheet thing on a double bed, but it didn't last very long.

* Happened in ''[[Alex and Emma]]''. Well, initially. They ended up having sex, but originally they were just going to share the bed.

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

{{quote|''(alarmed)'' "What are you doing in bed with me?"

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

* 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.

* ''[[Morecambe and Wise]]'' in many of their sketches, only without a trace of embarrassment. They treated it as something perfectly normal, and as a result so did the audience.

** Apparently Eric and Ernie objected to the original bed sketch precisely because of the [[Unfortunate Implications]], but writer Eddie Braben convinced them on the grounds that their heroes Laurel and Hardy had done the same. Eric did, however, insist on smoking his pipe as a symbol of masculinity.

* ''[[Scrubs]]'': When Carla got pissed off at Turk in the second season premiere, he and JD had to share a bed.

** 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".

{{quote|'''Steve''': ''NO!'' *[[Dramatic Thunder|thunderclap]]* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}ukH_g_HMonk "I will NOT sleep in the bathtub. YOU'RE gonna sleep in the bathtub!"]}}

** 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''."

** Another episode ("Julia and Suzanne's Big Adventure") cranked the discomfort up further. The Sugarbaker sisters were stuck sharing a Japanese capsule hotel room (think ''very'' tiny, the entire floor being the size of a single bed) with a man they had only recently met. Suzanne complains about a hand resting against her breast, and the guy reflexively apologizes. Julia stops him, says it's ''her'' hand and she has literally nowhere else to place it, so Suzanne's just going to have to put up with it.

* One episode of ''[[Genius]]'' has Dave Gorman and guest Johnny Vegas testing a "conveyor duvet" designed to prevent duvet hogging. The test of course leads to them both sharing a bed, and [[Hilarity Ensues]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOCLE6ru1jY Link]

* In an episode of ''[[General Hospital]]'', Lucky and Elizabeth have to share a hotel room that only has one bed. As usual, Lucky decides to sleep on the floor, but then Elizabeth decides to sleep next to him...on the floor.

* ''[[Silent Witness]]'' "Finding Rachel". A young female Australian backpacker with no cash convinces a reluctant Dr Cunningham to let her stay the night in his hotel room. The next day Professor Dalton turns up and [[She's Not My Girlfriend|draws the obvious conclusion]]. Cunningham replies that he slept on the floor and took a cold shower. A ''very'' cold shower.

* In the infamous "Ghost" episode of ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit|Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'', the fact that [[There Is Only One Bed]] in the safe room Alex is staying in, while Olivia is sleeping in the same room, ostensibly to protect her, has become a [[Fandom Specific Plot]] for the folks who ship them. This scene was deliberately written to [[Ship Tease]], as the producers are very much aware of the [[Les Yay]]. As are the actresses, who, luckily, are friends in real life.

* 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.

* In ''[[The X-Files|The X Files]]'' episode 'Arcadia', Mulder and Scully go undercover as a married couple and have to deal with this. Mulder, of course, goes into innuendo overdrive, but it's more played for laughs than anything else and he ends up sleeping on the couch anyway.

* When [[Chuck]] and Sarah go on the run at the end of season two, they end up staying in a motel with only one bed, which they share after Sarah refuses to let him sleep on the floor. This very nearly leads to them consummating their relationship. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when they are discussing how they're going to be locked up together because they broke the law, and Chuck mentions them sharing a two-bedroom cell. Sarah points they'll only need [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|one 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.

'''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.}}

* ''[[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.

** 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 [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080111 a later strip] reveals Zoe was actually sleeping on the couch; Zoe and Gwynn sharing a bed was just how Torg [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|liked to picture it]].

* In ''[[Sabrina Online]]'', Zig Zag deliberately sets up this scenario during a trip to a convention with Sabrina.

* In ''[[General Protection Fault]]'', Nick and Ki are forced to stay at a motel after a science fiction convention when Fooker leaves with their car. The only room available has only one bed, and Nick sleeps on the chair and Ki sleeps on the bed. It is implied that Fooker reserved the room [[Shipper on Deck|in an attempt to get Nick and Ki together]].

* 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.

* In an episode of ''[[Liberty's Kids]]'', John Adams and Ben Franklin share a bed in an inn.

** [[Truth in Television]], on one Congressional trip (and not particularly unusual for men travelling together in that era). Led to an argument about whether the window should be opened or closed.

* Only noticeable in the background but in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' when Harley and Ivy where hiding out in a small one room apartment [[Les Yay|there was only one bed]].

* Rarity and Applejack are forced to share a bed in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode ''Look Before You Sleep''. It's not ten seconds before they're kicking each other out of bed, stealing the sheets and engaging in hilariously childish bickering more suited to a ten year old.

* 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.

* 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... [[Sitch Sexuality|uncomfortable things to talk about in Confession on Sunday!]]"

** 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.