"Behind the sofa" is a British pop culture phrase describing the fearful reaction of hiding behind a sofa to avoid seeing frightening parts of a television programme, the sofa offering a place to hide from the on-screen threat, with the implication that one wants to remain in the room to watch the rest of the programme. The phrase is most commonly associated with Doctor Who. Although the phrase is sometimes employed in a serious context, its use is usually intended to be humorous or nostalgic.[1]
^Leith, Sam (4 July 2008). "Worshipping Doctor Who from behind the sofa". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 July 2008. The cliché about Doctor Who — that it had us "hiding behind the sofa" — is more telling in its tone than its questionable factuality. It connotes nostalgia, and a pleasurable mixture of fright and fascination — but above all it connotes domesticity. It united fear and soft furnishings in the British mind.
"Behindthesofa" is a British pop culture phrase describing the fearful reaction of hiding behind a sofa to avoid seeing frightening parts of a television...
series for 18 months. The phrase "Hiding behind (or 'watching from behind') thesofa" entered British pop culture, signifying the stereotypical but apocryphal...
Who". The Times. p. 15. Still, the Daleks are the boss space horrors, something to get the children hiding behindthesofa. Kistler, Alan (26 November 2013)...
The dogs arrived in Praia da Luz on 31 July 2007 and were taken to apartment 5A, nearby wasteland, and the beach. Both dogs alerted behindthesofa in...
the highest-rated episode of The Royle Family. In November 2010 Gold broadcast a two-hour episode called "BehindTheSofa", with interviews from the cast...
In 2012 he contributed to the book BehindtheSofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who. In 2014, an article he wrote for The Guardian—"Too much talk for...
appeared in the special The Royle Family: BehindtheSofa shown on Gold, featuring clips of The Royle Family and interviews with Aherne, Cash and the cast,...
are hiding behind his sofa to surprise him. Dev tells Stella that he loves her, only for her to gently reject him, as the four behindthesofa emerge. Dev...
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didn't ever confide in her. Yana and Les eventually slept together behindthesofa in the living room, only for Cilla's son Chesney to catch them. Cilla soon...
was positive towards the episode and praised the Mummy, saying, "At last, a proper new scary monster to get us behindthesofa," something he felt had...
example) results in a crescent behindthesofa being wasted. Dome builders using cut-board sheathing material (common in the 1960s and 1970s) find it hard...
catchphrases are now part of British popular culture. "Hiding behindthesofa whenever the Daleks appear" has been cited as an element of British cultural...
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was a U.S. Act of Congress promoted by the Presidency of George W. Bush. It reauthorized the Elementary and...
"Water of love, deep in the ground, but there ain't no water here to be found" as a child hiding behindthesofa and wishing that the water of love would...
Machine "Various reviews of Invasion of the Bane at BehindtheSofa". Behindthesofa.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-03-05...
of the Moving Image (MOMI), London. This exhibition was titled "BehindTheSofa" and after closing at MOMI moved to the Exploratory, Bristol. The MOMI...
rolled in a rug and placed behind a sofa. Trail's watch had stopped at 9:55 p.m., believed by authorities to be the time of the killing. David Jon Madson...
ISBN 978-1-907232-90-9 (2010) Metro newspaper weekly column (2012–2016) BehindtheSofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who (contributor) edited by Steve Berry...
DVD: BBC Worldwide. Sylvester McCoy (2020). BehindtheSofa (The Curse of Fenric) (Blu-Ray). Doctor Who The Collection: Season 26. BBC Studios. Howe, David...
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