History Main / TwoGamersOnACouch

* Mordecai and Rigby in most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. Their ongoing quest to relax ultimately gets them into some [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent very]] [[SurrealHumor weird]] [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs predicaments.]]

* ‘‘WebVideo/VideoGamesAwesome'' has been [[UpToEleven Five Friends On A Couch]] for a great deal of its run, until other commitments got in the way of getting everyone together on a regular basis."Four Player Friday" still happen frequently, even if it's with more than four people. (Or not on a friday.)

* ‘‘Video Games Awesome'' has been [[UpToEleven Five Friends On A Couch]] for a great deal of its run, until other commitments got in the way of getting everyone together on a regular basis."Four Player Friday" still happen frequently, even if it's with more than four people. (Or not on a friday.)

* ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashisLiveCommentaryOnTheVillainess'' starts off with Endo and Kobayashi making live commentaries for a RomanceGame as a commentator practice, which is not that different from this trope's setup. At least, before they noticed [[NoInnerFourthWall Prince Siegward can hear what they say from the other side of the screen]].

* ''Manga/EndoAndKobayashisLiveCommentaryOnTheVillainess'' starts off with Endo and Kobayashi making live commentaries for a RomanceGame as a commentator practice, which is not that different from this trope's setup. At least, before they noticed [[NoInnerFourthWall Prince Siegward can hear what they say from the other side of the screen]].

* ''Webcomic/LittleGamers'': Shown in the article image. The characters spend a ''lot'' of time on the couch.

[[quoteright:263:[[Webcomic/LittleGamers https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Little-gamers2g1c_215.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:263: Why? Cause [[InformedAttractiveness we're cute]].]]

* Spoofed in ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', in which Strong Bad quips that most webcomics are about "slickly drawn [[WackyCollege college roommates]] [who] make nothing but video game inside jokes"; cut to a ''Penny Arcade''-like comic of Strong Bad and Strong Sad doing just that.

->'''Benjamin Oliver:''' So, what do you think?
->'''Noah Vanderhoff:''' I think it's two chimps on a Davenport in a basement.

Sometimes this is expanded into a ComicTrio, when they are accompanied by one or more characters who provide context, perspective, or episode-specific references. These may range from a TalkingAnimal or a DungeonmastersGirlfriend to a GamerChick, NerdNanny, RobotBuddy, MonsterRoommate, a {{Time Travel}}ler, a character from the franchise being reviewed or any other unexplained supernatural or SciFi element that serves as a plot device and may or may not change on a per-episode basis. Most of these series are set in the "real world" and these fantastical elements are {{handwave}}d as [[RuleOfCool really cool]].

* ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'': Wacky guy Ethan and straight man Lucas are roommates. Zeke the Xbot is their wacky RobotBuddy who wants to KillAllHumans. Lilah is the down-to-earth [[GamerChick gamer girlfriend]] of Ethan. Hilarity Ensues. The first strips actually poked fun at this very trope, and tried really hard to avoid it.

* This trope has shown up a couple of times in ''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity'', but as the series focuses mostly on the characters' tabletop gaming habits it's rare.

* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' starts off two one of the two guys (Shaun) questioning his half of the couch, and throughout the movie, tries to reorganize his life and his relationships... [[spoiler:but in the film's final scene, he's back where he's happiest, sitting on the couch playing video games with Ed, who's now a zombie but still able to play ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'']].

* WebVideo/JonTron (later [[NinjaSexParty Danny Sexbang]]) and Creator/{{Egoraptor}}'s LetsPlay series, ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'', is literally two gamers on a couch.

* Creator/JamesRolfe and Creator/MikeMatei of the ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' fame make ''LetsPlay/JamesAndMikeMondays'' episodes, complete with couch. (The same couch where most ''AVGN'' episodes are filmed, in fact.)

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9mTXDgfmbPVVmUdEthsAWg CouchCouple]]'', a YouTube channel that consists of mostly of [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] and tutorials, pretty much runs on this. Ben being the crazier one of the two, and always searching for secrets, and [[GamerChick Jo]] being a bit calmer, who prefers to do the main quest.

** King Dedede discusses the flaws of Super Smash Bros Brawl to Kirby, who's happily playing the game on the couch. Lampshaded FridgeLogic, how King Dedede is complaining about the game where he made his SSB debut. [[http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=1638]]

* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9mTXDgfmbPVVmUdEthsAWg CouchCouple]]'', a YouTube channel that consists of mostly of [[LetsPlay Let's Play's]] and tutorials, pretty much runs on this. Ben being the crazier one of the two, and always searching for secrets, and [[GamerChick Jo]] being a bit calmer, who prefers to do the main quest.

* Creator/JamesRolfe and Creator/MikeMatei of the ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' fame make ''LetsPLay/JamesAndMikeMondays'' episodes, complete with couch. (The same couch where most ''AVGN'' episodes are filmed, in fact.)

* Same goes for ''{{WebVideo/Xiil3gendaryzetsubou}}'' who are also literally two gamers on a couch (unless it's a solo project, that is).

* Creator/JamesRolfe and Creator/MikeMatei of the ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' fame make "''James and Mike Play''" episodes, usually uploaded on Monday, complete with couch. (The same couch where most ''AVGN'' episodes are filmed, in fact.)

* WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead had sketches which [[UnbuiltTrope practically played this trope]], but this was before video games had been broadly popularized. What they did instead was watch television or music videos (which was a medium of choice then...it was The90s), and [[MST give a running color commentary]].

--> -- ''Film/WaynesWorld''

* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' starts off two one of the two guys (Shaun) questioning his half of the couch, and throughout the movie, tries to reorganize his life and his relationships... [[spoiler:but in the film's final scene, he's back where he's happiest, sitting on the couch playing video games with Ed, who's now a zombie but still able to play ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters'']].

* [[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee Croshaw]] and Gabriel Morton are essentially Two Gamers In Yahtzee's Apartment when they record the Let's Drown Out series of videos--hour-long stream of consciousness recordings of one of the two playing a dull-to-watch or poorly constructed game (or the occasional good game) of times past whilst either critiquing the game, talking about gaming news, or being VitriolicBestBuds.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the NP stories are starting to show shades of this.