Sleeping Single/Playing With

Basic Trope: A married couple sleeping in two separate beds.

• Straight: Both members of the couple have their own bed.
• Exaggerated: Both members of the couple have their own bedroom.
• Justified: The couple live in a society where it is unusual for people to share a bed.
• Inverted: There Is Only One Bed
• Subverted: The couple is shown to have two beds, and then both get into the same one.
• Double Subverted: However, it was only to better warm that bed up
• Parodied: The couple have "his and hers" everything, from sinks to telephones to front doors.
• Deconstructed: The couple are unable to have sex due to their never sharing a bed.
• Reconstructed: The couple find a way to have sex despite their never sharing a bed.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: The couple sleep in a bed that comfortably fits two people.
• Enforced: The show is created in a time/place where airing pictures of two people in the same bed is considered improper.
• Lampshaded: The set designer for a Show Within a Show mentions having to make room for two beds.
  • "So...your bed or mine tonight?"
• Invoked: One character, seeing how happy the couples in 1950s sitcoms are, suggests to their spouse that they adopt a two-bed lifestyle.
• Defied: One character, knowing their spouse would try to make them live in this style, makes sure their bedroom is too small to accommodate two beds.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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