Couch Potato

By and large, the news on the couch-potato front is reassuring. ❋ Joe Queenan (2011)

All we'd have to do is take a brief holiday from our generally couch-potato lives. ❋ Peter McAllister (2011)

Active men over 50 report better erections and have a 30 percent lower risk for impotence than their couch-potato, or mouse-potato friends. ❋ Jeffry Life (2011)

Or are you a couch-potato slob with a juvenile delinquent apprentice for a son, lurching from pratfall to catastrophe? ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Community" only became a buzzword for wholesome togetherness after pundits convinced Americans that their bowling-alone, couch-potato habits had left them bereft of one of life's greatest blessings. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This preference is lazy, unsophisticated and dumbed-down -- as I see it, philosophically inextricable from our lard-butted, couch-potato affinity for junk food, junk TV and celebrity gossip. ❋ Gene Weingarten (2011)

But I lik e to think I truly cut my political couch-potato teeth when I worked as a researcher in NBC News's 1976 presidential election unit. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2010)

America takes the couch-potato crown, with households goggling at the box for an eye-straining average of 8 hours and 11 minutes every day. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In our neverending quest to live a couch-potato Slurpy-filled life free of actual emotions and experience, we now are telling people to squeeze their resolutions into a 3 oz bottle so they can pass through airport screening. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or must we all admit finally that what poetry has become -- perhaps was destined to become in our assimilated, couch-potato culture -- is simply another industry of hermetic self-specialization? ❋ Unknown (2010)

many people [jump the gun] and label each and every couch-potato they encounter as a lazy and unproductive member of society; however, a couch-potato may indeed be be a very [functional], non-lazy person, but still watch excessive amounts of TV as an alternative to drugs and medication when dealing with their depression or [social anxiety] ❋ Sexydimma (2015)

Please [don't lie] around like a couch potato. [Get up] and do [something productive]. ❋ Light Joker (2005)

[Homer Simpson] from [The Simpsons] "You're such a [couch potato]!" ❋ RabbidSquirrel (2006)

[Brendan]: "Did you hear about Billy; he's in the hospital," Jon: "Ya I heard 12in Joe tried to give his MILF mom [the couch potato] but he [sat down] first," ❋ 12in Joe (2010)

Bob: dude I can [get up] Joe: why? Bob: because I am becoming a [couch potato], dont ruin my [zen]! Joe:🤨 ❋ You Know What I Mean (2021)

[Ryan]:stop being a couch potato and [come] play [outside] ❋ Reee Master (2020)

It's beautiful [outside] [and all] you want to do is watch [football]. Don't be a couch potato ❋ Bungalow Bill (2002)

"I'd [like to] now [how to] be a great [couch potato]!" ❋ ㄑㄦ (2015)

Did you [hear] [Weird Al] sining "Couch Potato" on [the radio] last night? ❋ FrodoBagginz (2010)

"That [spud] is [definately] a couch potato" "You mean, as opposed to an [ottoman] potato?" ❋ The_Phantom_Shitters (2005)