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{{quote|'''Benjamin Oliver:''' So, what do you think?
'''Noah Vanderhoff:''' I think it's two chimps on a Davenport in a basement.
|''[[Wayne's World]]''}}
'''Two Gamers on a Couch''' is an archetype of the [[Web Comics]] medium. Many of the most popular webcomics (and the people who read and write them) have an interest in [[Video Games]], and the two gamers on the couch, playing games and shooting the breeze about whatever crosses their minds, is the purest expression of this fanbase/author background.
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* ''[[The 40-Year-Old Virgin]]'' brought the trope to the film, with a good mix of [[Volleying Insults]]. In fact, a picture of said gamers, plus the line "You know how I know you're gay?", has become a [[Memetic Mutation]], such that anyone asking the question merely posts the picture.
* Jollyjack's Sequential Art comic, at his website Collected Curios, falls into this at times. http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php
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* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', the NP stories are starting to show shades of this.
* [[Gorillaz]]' short ''Game of Death'' has 2D and Murdoc playing a fighting game, with Noodle and Russell as their respective characters.
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