The name " Doonesbury " is a combination of the word doone ( prep school slang for " someone who is out to lunch ", that is, someone who is clueless, inattentive, or careless ) and the surname of Charles Pillsbury, Trudeau's roommate at Yale University.

In April 1922, Mitchell was seeing two men almost daily ; one was Berrien “ Red ” Upshaw, whom she is thought to have met in 1917 at a dance hosted by the parents of one of her friends, and the other, Upshaw's roommate and friend, John R. Marsh, a copy editor from Kentucky who worked for the Associated Press.

THX is confronted by SEN, who uses his position as LUH's superior to change her shift, admitting he wants THX as his new roommate.

His first roommate is Girard Burke, the arrogant son of a wealthy spaceship builder.

The trip is fraught with problems as trivial as an annoying roommate and as serious as mutiny.

In the initial comics, he was nothing more than an inanimate appliance, although its sinister nature is suggested when after being brought home by the character Gabe, his roommate Tycho claims that DIVX players are " hewn cold from the bones of the stillborn.

However, Trudy soon became Pete's girlfriend, his partner-in-crime and roommate — whenever they hold residence out of prison, that is.

Vader's relationship to Luke Skywalker is parodied by Helmet declaring himself Lone Starr's " father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.

He is dating Sujata, Kayleigh's roommate.

* Georgina Tuskin-Hospitalized because of schizophrenia, Georgina is Susanna's roommate at the institution.

He and his roommate Ernie form a comic duo that is one of the program's centerpieces, with Bert acting as the world-weary foil to Ernie's naive trouble-making.

He and his roommate Bert form a comic duo that is one of the program's centerpieces, with Ernie acting the role of the naïve troublemaker and Bert the world-weary foil.

Laverne works alongside best friend and roommate Shirley and is known for being the cynic of the pair.

Other plot lines include Jessica's adopted daughter Corinne courting Father Tim Flotsky, who ended up leaving the priesthood, and the two eventually marrying and having a child who is possessed by the Devil ; Chester being imprisoned for Peter's murder, escaping with his prison roommate Dutch, and being afflicted with amnesia after a failed operation ; Jessica's other daughter, Eunice, sleeps with a married congressman, and then falls in love with Dutch ; Mary's stepson Chuck, a ventriloquist whose hostilities are expressed through his alter ego, a quick-witted dummy named Bob ; Jessica's love affairs with several men, including Donahue, a private investigator hired to find the missing presumed-dead Chester, her psychiatrist, and a Latin American revolutionary known as " El Puerco " (" The Pig "; his friends just call him " El "); Billy Tate's confinement by a cult called the " Sunnies " ( a parody of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, called the " Moonies " by its critics ), and then his affair with his school teacher who becomes unhinged ; Danny and his romantic trials with the daughter of a mobster, a black woman, a prostitute, and Chester's second wife, Annie ; and Burt's confinement to a mental institution, his abduction by aliens while being replaced with an oversexed alien look-a-like on Earth, and getting blackmailed by the Mob after becoming sheriff of their small town.

* Doreen, a rebellious young woman, is Esther ’ s roommate at the hotel in New York.

* In a third season episode of the television sitcom The Golden Girls, when it is asked what Rose Nylund ( dressed in a robe and slippers ) does, her roommate Dorothy responds, " She's Gary Hart's campaign manager -- it doesn't pay much, but you don't have to get out of bed to do it.

The story is told entirely in flashbacks narrated mostly by Quentin Compson to his roommate at Harvard University, Shreve, who frequently contributes his own suggestions and surmises.

Jerry is beginning to settle into college life with his roommate ( Tim McIntire ) when Pookie shows up one Saturday morning out of the blue.

He is also known for his numerous solo works and soundtrack contributions since 1991, in addition to being the founder and frontman for Temple of the Dog, the one-off tribute band dedicated to his former roommate, Andrew Wood.

The album is a tribute to their mutual friend, and Cornell's former roommate, Andrew Wood.

Despite having become a popular senior at Gold Crown Academy () and known throughout the student body to be a very talented ballet dancer, he possesses no emotions, and is largely dependent on his roommate and childhood friend Fakir for his well-being and survival.

* is Mytho's roommate and a talented ballet dancer in his own right.

Charlayne was `` tentatively '' admitted for next fall, after state investigators questioned her white roommate at Wayne State.

In her sophomore year at Rutgers, Flockhart met aspiring actress Jane Krakowski, the best friend of her roommate.

At Francis C. Hammond High School in Alexandria, Virginia, he did poorly academically, having little interest in school work, but was popular with other students, and after leaving decided that he wanted to study painting at college, thereby beginning his studies at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1964, where he was a roommate of Peter Wolf.

* Richard DeManicor as Scotty: Ash's college roommate.

In 1865, he ran for District Attorney, losing narrowly to his friend and roommate, Lyman K. Bass, the Republican nominee.

This was not to come: according to Telemann himself, a setting of Psalm 6 by him inexplicably found its way into his luggage and was found by his roommate at the university.

His roommate William Dunn Moseley later became the first governor of Florida.

In the summer of 1913, while he was a lifeguard on the beach at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, Rockne and his college teammate and roommate Gus Dorais worked on passing techniques.

Gutfreund's actions gave his roommate, weightlifting coach Tuvia Sokolovsky, enough time to smash a window and escape.

Michael Fortier, McVeigh's accomplice, was his Army roommate.

According to Holmes, it was an encounter with the father of one of his classmates that led him to take up detection as a profession, and he spent the six years following university working as a consulting detective, before financial difficulties led him to take Watson as a roommate, at which point the narrative of the stories begins.

Guare said working with Sondheim was like being with an old college roommate, they just talked and talked.

LUH has a male roommate, THX 1138.

On August 22, 1848, after a four-year engagement, Grant married Julia Boggs Dent ( 1826 – 1902 ), the daughter of a prominent Missouri plantation and slave owner, and sister of a West Point roommate, Frederick.

In 1901, King's roommate and best friend, Henry Albert Harper, died heroically during a skating party when a young woman fell through the ice of the partly frozen Ottawa River.

She appeared in the third episode of Season 3 of NBC's 30 Rock playing Liz Lemon's old college roommate who stalks Jack Donaghy.

Although he initially took a room by himself, his grief over the death of Eliza compelled him to find a roommate, which he did — Robert C. Schenck.

Wayne Kasserman co-stars as Mike's roommate and friend.

Tiddlywinks is sometimes considered a simpleminded, frivolous children's game, rather than a strategic, adult game.

She is portrayed as simpleminded, not that bright.

Her younger sister comments that Maki is somewhat simpleminded.