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[[File:Felmesbathtub.jpg|link=Zoids|thumb|400px|Why and how is that bathtub there?]]
[[File:Felmesbathtub.jpg|link=Zoids|thumb|400px|Why and how is that bathtub there?]]


This trope happens when a character is shown bathing in a bathtub that is in an environment where a bathtub shouldn't be—usually in a non-private place. This can range from a bathtub just being in a living room or kitchen to one being placed on the top of a cliff. Most of the people who bathe in awkwardly placed bathtubs are pretty comfortable about bathing naked in front of other people; in fact most of the time that is the situation.
This trope happens when a character is shown bathing in a bathtub that is in an environment where a bathtub shouldn't be — usually in a non-private place. This can range from a bathtub just being in a living room or kitchen to one being placed on the top of a cliff. Most of the people who bathe in '''Awkwardly-Placed Bathtub'''s are pretty comfortable about bathing naked in front of other people; in fact, most of the time that is the situation.


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== [[Advertising]] ==
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* Those Cialis commercials that have people sitting outside in bathtubs. Partially justified in that some resorts actually ''do'' have outdoor bathtubs to take advantage of pleasant views. Nevertheless, these are usually more like Jacuzzis than your traditional tub-with-little-wrought-iron-feet thing. Presumably the commercials can't show a couple sitting naked in a Jacuzzi together, given the context of what they're advertising.
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** The web comic ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' parodied this commercial by having Rudy coming across a saltwater lobster and a freshwater fish in separate tubs. The fish even said, "No, this isn't a commercial."


== Advertising ==
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* Those Cialis commercials that have people sitting outside in bathtubs. Partially justified in that some resorts actually ''do'' have outdoor bathtubs to take advantage of pleasant views. Nevertheless, these are usually more like jacuzzis than your traditional tub-with-little-wrought-iron-feet thing. Presumably the commercials can't show a couple sitting naked in a jacuzzi together, given the context of what they're advertising...
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** The webcomic ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' parodied this commercial by having Rudy coming across a saltwater lobster and a freshwater fish in separate tubs. The fish even said, "No, this isn't a commercial."

== Anime and Manga ==
* Colonel Felme of ''[[Zoids]] Genesis'' (pictured above) has been in this situation where she is taking a bubble bath in a bathtub that is on a table in the middle of a throne room while talking to someone.
* Colonel Felme of ''[[Zoids]] Genesis'' (pictured above) has been in this situation where she is taking a bubble bath in a bathtub that is on a table in the middle of a throne room while talking to someone.
* ''[[One Piece]]''
* ''[[One Piece]]''
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* In ''[[Banana no Nana]]'', [[Making a Splash|Mizukami Haruko]] goes around in a bathtub with wheels, pushed by servants. Justified in that she [[Conditional Powers|must spend twenty hours a day soaking in water to keep her powers.]]
* In ''[[Banana no Nana]]'', [[Making a Splash|Mizukami Haruko]] goes around in a bathtub with wheels, pushed by servants. Justified in that she [[Conditional Powers|must spend twenty hours a day soaking in water to keep her powers.]]


== Comic Books ==
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Chief Vitalstatix of ''[[Asterix]]'' often happens to take a bath when an important visitor (up to and including Julius Caesar himself) shows up. He always meets them either inside or even in front of his hut while still bathing. In the latter case, his carriers carry the tub with the Chief inside out through the door like they would usually carry him standing on his shield. At most, it's slightly inconvenient for him.
* Chief Vitalstatix of ''[[Asterix]]'' often happens to take a bath when an important visitor (up to and including Julius Caesar himself) shows up. He always meets them either inside or even in front of his hut while still bathing. In the latter case, his carriers carry the tub with the Chief inside out through the door like they would usually carry him standing on his shield. At most, it's slightly inconvenient for him.
** A Roman centurion wanting to impress the Gauls by "following their customs" subsequently receives envoys from the village in a bathtub (but still wearing his helmet, as Vitalstatix was doing).
** A Roman centurion wanting to impress the Gauls by "following their customs" subsequently receives envoys from the village in a bathtub (but still wearing his helmet, as Vitalstatix was doing).


== Films -- Live-Action ==
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Diva]]'': Philosopher-crook Gorodish relaxes with a cigar in the tub, out in the middle of his dark, cavernous loft, as girlfriend Alba rollerskates through the place.
* ''[[Diva]]'': Philosopher-crook Gorodish relaxes with a cigar in the tub, out in the middle of his dark, cavernous loft, as girlfriend Alba rollerskates through the place.
* ''[[El Dorado]]'': [[The Sheriff|J.P. Harrah]] is taking a much-needed bath. However, he can't leave the jailhouse for various reasons, and ends up having to bathe in the middle of his office. To make things worse, most of the cast finds some reason to walk in and out of the office through the course of the scene, [[Running Gag|each one offering him another bar of soap.]]
* ''[[El Dorado]]'': [[The Sheriff|J.P. Harrah]] is taking a much-needed bath. However, he can't leave the jailhouse for various reasons, and ends up having to bathe in the middle of his office. To make things worse, most of the cast finds some reason to walk in and out of the office through the course of the scene, [[Running Gag|each one offering him another bar of soap.]]


== Literature ==
== [[Literature]] ==
* The captain of the Golgafrincham B Ark in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]]'' has his bathtub in the middle of the bridge, and hasn't left it in several years.
* The captain of the Golgafrincham B Ark in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]]'' has his bathtub in the middle of the bridge, and hasn't left it in several years.
* ''[[Discworld]]'' does it in ''[[Discworld/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'' by accident. Ridicully was bathing in a tub up in his room when a storm blows it out of the window into the courtyard where he continues to bathe for a bit while half of the city watch are running about the campus.
* ''[[Discworld]]'' does it in ''[[Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]'' by accident. Ridicully was bathing in a tub up in his room when a storm blows it out of the window into the courtyard where he continues to bathe for a bit while half of the city watch are running about the campus.
* An inversion in the children's book "King Bidgood's in the Bathtub and He Won't Get Out!", in which the bathtub is in a perfectly reasonable place, but the activities taking place ''in'' the bathtub (such as a military exercise, a fox hunt, a banquet, and a masquerade ball) are entirely unreasonable. (The rest of the court is trying to come up with good reasons why King Bidgood needs to stop bathing, and he always responds by dragging the protestor into the tub with him.)
* An inversion in the children's book "King Bidgood's in the Bathtub and He Won't Get Out!", in which the bathtub is in a perfectly reasonable place, but the activities taking place ''in'' the bathtub (such as a military exercise, a fox hunt, a banquet, and a masquerade ball) are entirely unreasonable. (The rest of the court is trying to come up with good reasons why King Bidgood needs to stop bathing, and he always responds by dragging the protester into the tub with him.)
* The god of knowledge in the [[Perdido Street Station|Bas-Lag]] Verse is worshiped equally by humans and the aquatic vodyanoi, so is traditionally depicted as a fat man or skinny vodyanoi lying in a bathtub regardless of circumstances.
* The god of knowledge in [[Perdido Street Station|the Bas-Lag Verse]] is worshipped equally by humans and the aquatic vodyanoi, so is traditionally depicted as a fat man or skinny vodyanoi lying in a bathtub regardless of circumstances.


== Live-Action TV ==
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Umeko the Pink Ranger of ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]'' pulls this off in the last episode where she finds a way to distract the villain. A garage opens and the only thing in it is her naked in a bathtub washing herself and singing. The villain is puzzled why and how she was able to pull it off.
* Umeko the Pink Ranger of ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]'' pulls this off in the last episode where she finds a way to distract the villain. A garage opens and the only thing in it is her naked in a bathtub washing herself and singing. The villain is puzzled why and how she was able to pull it off.
* In the [[Andrew Davies]] adaptation of ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'', one of Cathy Morland's fantasies involves her bathtub being out of doors in the middle of a [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|fertile grove]]. With added Henry Tilney.
* In the [[Andrew Davies]] adaptation of ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'', one of Cathy Morland's fantasies involves her bathtub being out of doors in the middle of a [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|fertile grove]]. With added Henry Tilney.
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* For no readily-apparent reason, there's a bathtub inside a workshop in ''Surface'', a hidden object adventure game.
* For no readily-apparent reason, there's a bathtub inside a workshop in ''Surface'', a hidden object adventure game.


== Web Comics ==
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had an [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-03-10 unfortunate incident] when Jevee Ceeta found a bathtub on the ship map, tried to take bath in the dark (which makes sense for a "[[Human Subspecies|purp]]", as she explains on the next page) without checking it first - and stepped right [[Blob Monster|into]] resting Schlock.
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had an [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-03-10 unfortunate incident] when Jevee Ceeta found a bathtub on the ship map, tried to take bath in the dark (which makes sense for a "[[Human Subspecies|purp]]", as she explains on the next page) without checking it first - and stepped right [[Blob Monster|into]] resting Schlock.


== Western Animation ==
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Muriel from ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' does this at the end of an episode where the bathtub is in the living room in front of the TV.
* Muriel from ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' does this at the end of an episode where the bathtub is in the living room in front of the TV.
* ''[[The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'': The episode, "Zoobotnick" had Dr. Robotnik's tub in his palace room.
* ''[[The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'': The episode, "Zoobotnick" had Dr. Robotnik's tub in his palace room.
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' episode "Bright Lights, Dean City" depicts Dean's apartment in Manhattan as having a bathtub right in the middle of the living quarters. [[Red Herring|Goes completely unmentioned through the entire episode, save for one instance where Dean tries to catch some sleep in it during his father's visit.]] Possibly a reference to the urban legend discussed below in Real Life.
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' episode "Bright Lights, Dean City" depicts Dean's apartment in Manhattan as having a bathtub right in the middle of the living quarters. [[Red Herring|Goes completely unmentioned through the entire episode, save for one instance where Dean tries to catch some sleep in it during his father's visit.]] Possibly a reference to the urban legend discussed below in Real Life.


== Real Life ==
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The infamous kitchen-tub of NYC urban legend. A lot of New Yorkers claim that a friend of a friend once went to a party in a tiny apartment where the bathtub was in the kitchen. Fairly plausible—most Manhattan apartments are small and many are strangely laid out, though it seems unlikely that there are hundreds of apartments with kitchentubs and they're all rented by people who like to throw house parties.
* The infamous kitchen-tub of NYC urban legend. A lot of New Yorkers claim that a friend of a friend once went to a party in a tiny apartment where the bathtub was in the kitchen. Fairly plausible—most Manhattan apartments are small and many are strangely laid out, though it seems unlikely that there are hundreds of apartments with kitchentubs and they're all rented by people who like to throw house parties.
* There are still places where people's homes don't have bathtubs or shower stalls, in which people bathe in portable tubs filled via hose or bucket. Unless it's a warm day, this is done indoors in whatever room has sufficient space.
* There are still places where people's homes don't have bathtubs or shower stalls, in which people bathe in portable tubs filled via hose or bucket. Unless it's a warm day, this is done indoors in whatever room has sufficient space.
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