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{{quote|'''Sheldon:''' ''[[Serious Business|This seat is ideally located, both in terms of the heat source in the winter and the crossbreeze in the summer.]] It also faces the television at a direct angle, allowing me to immerse myself in entertainment or gameplay without [[The Spock|being subjected to conversation]]. As a result, I've placed it [[Sophisticated As Hell|in a state of eternal dibs.]]''
'''Leonard:''' ...''Can you do that?''
'''Sheldon:''' ''"[[Pretentious Latin Motto|Cathedra mea, regulae meae]]" - that's Latin for "My chair, my rules"''|''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''}}
A character is extremely territorial about where he sits: a favourite chair, spot on [[The Couch]], park bench, or whatever. Either they never sit anywhere else, no one else is allowed to sit there, or often both.
This can develop, as on ''[[Friends]]'', from characters always sitting in the same place [[Social Semi-Circle|out of necessity]] in a [[Three Cameras]] show, and eventually having their relationship with that spot [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the pilot of ''[[Star Trek: The
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* As mentioned, the Central Perk sofa on ''[[Friends]]''. One storyline even revolved around a pair of bullies kicking Ross and Chandler off it.
** Another example is Chandler's single-episode [[Compressed Vice]] of getting extremely territorial over chairs he's recently got up from.
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** Averted for Cafe Nervosa however, as there are three or four tables the characters occupy at different times.
* Kelso's lunch bench on ''[[Scrubs]]'' - [[Compressed Vice|at least, according to a single episode]].
* Archie Bunker on ''[[All in The Family]]''. So much that when Mike and Gloria moved out to the house next door and Archie came to visit, Mike had a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]:
{{quote|''Arch, I been waiting five years to say this: '''Get outta my chair!''' ''}}
** Said chair later officially becomes "Archie's chair" when he's at the Stivics' house. For exceptionally noted house guests (Sammy Davis Jr., for example) Archie insists that they sit in his chair and he takes Edith's, relegating her to the sofa. Archie's chair is now in the Smithsonian Institution. It was sent there after CBS ended the series the ''first'' time — the producers then had to re-create the chair when they decided to continue.
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'''Alfred Bester''': ''Captain Sheridan.''
'''Captain Sheridan''': ''Get the hell out of my chair!'' }}
** Similarly, in the first episode of the show, [[Da Chief|Garibaldi]] is using Ivanova's workstation to do research on various merchant ships that have been hit by [[Space Pirates|Raiders]].
{{quote|'''Commander Ivanova''': ''Mr. Garibaldi, you're sitting at my station, using my equipment. Is there a reason for this, or to save time should I just snap your hand off at the wrist?''}}
* One of the main jokes on ''[[Kingswood Country]]''. Ted Bullpit does not allow ''anyone'' to sit in his armchair. "Outta the chair! Outta the chair!" nearly counts as a catchphrase for the show.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Also, ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]''. Eustace always sits in his chair and in a few cartoons would refuse to get off it and would get mad at anyone who tried to sit in it. His catch phrase eventually became the trope name, "This is my chair."
* Woody's "spot" in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'', especially in the episode where the carnies steal their house, but also lampshaded/parodied in various opening credits.
{{quote|'''Homer:''' Marge, he's messing up my ass-groove! It took me years to get that groove right!}}
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