couch potato

“You have permission to be a couch potato, as long as you have electricity so you can watch the tube,” Wexler said.

If given the option, do you think Striker, the main dog in your book, would opt for a couch potato life if the option had presented itself early?

In turn, others appeared to be arrhythmic "couch potatoes" that were only occasionally active -- plus, there were various "shades of grey" between these two extremes.

A farm grows human couch potatoes who are irrigated with constant streams of their favorite programming.

New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Veterinary Medicine provides some answers, but the study was more interested in solving a longstanding problem in veterinary medicine than turning canine companions into couch potatoes.