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The guy always [[All Men Are Perverts|enthusiastically]] [[Genre Blindness|agrees]]. At which point she cheerfully robs him blind and leaves, leaving the robbed (and naked) guy stuck until someone finds him.

 

 

Sometimes the setup is used for dramatic, rather than comedic effect, as the person who was chained to the bed is now helpless and at the mercy of the person who tied them up or whoever discovers him. In the comic example the victim is nearly [[Always Male]]; in the dramatic example the victim might be male or female. If it ''is'' a woman chained to a bed it's much more likely that it's [[Double Standard|deadly serious]].

* Another British example, a car advert has a couple enjoying an improbably sexy dinner followed by aborted bondage on the stairs. He is left cuffed to the bannister staring at a piece of paper which reads "Ask before you borrow it."

* [http://www.visit4info.com/advert/Base-London-Unmodel-Behaviour-Base-London/21036 This] ad for, believe it if you can, a shoe store. No, it doesn't make any more sense to us.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* This is similar to Yamazaki Sakura's prefered source of revenue in ''[[Blue Seed]]''; she pretends to be a prostitute, insists that the guy take a shower, and then swipes his wallet. [[Comedic Sociopathy|Hilariously]], when one of them suggests some BDSM, [[Megaton Punch|she flips out on him.]]

* Played straight in a side story in the manga ''[[Mel Kano]]''.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Tulip does this to Jesse in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' and leaves him tied up for the whole day as revenge for leaving her behind when he went to Masada.

** Jesse was also tied to a bed by Miss Outlash. But she did knock him out first. And dress him in a Nazi uniform. Which was a bit awkward when his black female deputy encountered him walking around in said uniform.

* [[The Adventures of Barry Ween|Barry Ween]] left one of his male enemies dressed in lingerie and handcuffed to a bed in a sleazy motel room. With another man. And no memory of what happened.

 

== Film ==

* As seen in the image above, Sherlock Holmes walks right into this trap in the [[Sherlock Holmes (film)|2009 film]]. Although in this case he was drugged unconscious first. And to add insult to injury, the key was left under that pillow.

* ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Smith]]'' - the first time we see Jane kill anyone is when she's sent to play dominatrix to an arms dealer.

* In ''[[Heartbreakers]]'', Sigourney Weaver's character is tracked down by her ex-husband (well, the most recent one, anyway) in the midst of her scheming to capture the next one. He begs her to take him back. Being too busy to deal with him just at the moment, she persuades him to let her tie him to her hotel bed blindfolded, then takes off and leaves him to be discovered by the maid. Who doesn't exactly rob him, but does refuse to let him go until he offers her a bribe. Incredibly, he later teams up with this character and her daughter to enact another scheme.

* In ''[[Hostage]]'', Jennifer Smith (Michelle Horn) is tied to a bed by psycho serial killer mercenary Mars (Ben Foster). She's rescued in the nick of time by her kid brother before Mars can do anything rapey. In somewhat of a fulfillment of the quote above, Mars is later killed during a confrontation with [[Bruce Willis]] (although not shot in the face).

* In ''[[Idle Hands]]'', when things are getting hot and heavy with Molly, Anton ties his own hand to the bed. He's doing it for her safety, but she thinks he's just being kinky.

 

== Folk Lore ==

* There is also ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'', where Hephaestus chains Aphrodite and Ares to a bed as revenge for Aphrodite cheating on him. [[Aesop]] about 'smart outstrips the swift'.

** Although there's a difference between 'guy stupidly lets a girl tie him to the bed' and 'guy and girl are busy on the bed when a net of golden chains made by girl's angry husband traps both of them'.

 

== Jokes ==

* There is a joke about a man waking up to his wife giving him a silk cord and telling him: "Tie me up and do whatever you wish." He ties her up and goes fishing.

 

== Literature ==

* Happened in [[Anne Rice]]'s book ''Lasher''. Since that was a woman, it was, yes, deadly serious.

* In Peter Robinson's ''Friend with the devil'', one of the investigating detectives finds a suspect tied to the bed in a hotel room. She proceeds to interrogate both him and his lover, before letting the lover untie him. It's just as awkward and absurd as it sounds.

* In Courtney Milan's ''Proof By Seduction'', Gareth insists that Jenny wear a much fancier dress than the plain fare she prefers, and won't let her voice any objections. She [[Show Some Leg|lifts her skirts to above her knees,]] slooowly peels down one of her stockings, and then climbs on his lap for makeouts. While he's distracted, she uses the stocking to tie one of his hands to the chair behind his back. Then she climbs off his lap and archly tells him to free himself. When he furiously declares that he can't reach the knots with his free hand, she tells him she can't reach the laces on the back of that fancy dress either. She's too poor to hire a lady's maid, and the plain dresses are the only ones she can put on and off by herself.

* ''[[Vampire Kisses]]'': Played with in the first book when Raven distracts Trevor by making out with him and then stealing his clothes that he had taken off, thinking that he was gonna score with her. The next day at school, she plays a prank on him by supergluing his underwear to her locker.

* A very dark example of this is in ''[[Less Than Zero]]'' where a twelve year old girl is tied to a bed, and given drugs as she gets used as a sex slave.

* In ''[[Hilary Tamar|The Sibyl In Her Grave]]'' by Sarah Caudwell, bank director Edmund Albany gets found almost-naked and tied to a bed by one of the protagonists. It turns out that he referred to a French dominatrix as ''tu'' when she preferred ''vous''.

 

* Happened to George Costanza in ''[[Seinfeld]]''.

{{quote|Will I see you again?}}

* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', an amnesiac and confused Vala escapes from Mitchell by stealing his clothes and handcuffing him to a hotel room bed. The rest of team finds him half naked and covered in junk food.

* Happened to Greg's father Edward in ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'', involving Penn from [[Penn & Teller]]. The girl cuffs him and walks out, then Penn comes in. A pause, then Edward says, "Oh, I sure hope you're here to rob me."

* In ''[[The X-Files]]'' two-part episode "Dreamland," Mulder and a [[The Men in Black|MIB]] have [[Freaky Friday|had their bodies switched]]. When Scully figures out that something's wrong (in part because "Mulder" has been [[Celibate Hero|coming on to her]]), she gets control of the situation by playing along with his advances and then handcuffing him to the bed. (When he tries to talk his way out of it, addressing Scully as "baby", she warns him that if he does so again he will be "[[Groin Attack|peeing through a catheter]]".)

* Played straight in ''[[Life On Mars]]''. Sam Tyler is drugged by a prostitute (who is, of course, working for the antagonist of the day) and tied naked to his bed, left for his co-workers to find. And [[Blackmail|she took incriminating-looking photos]] of the two of them while he was unconscious.

{{quote|Oh...I wouldn't be so sure of that.}}

* Used chillingly on ''[[Shameless]]'', when Paddy is held captive like this and forced to take heroin.

* Used in an episode of ''[[Scare Tactics (TV series)|Scare Tactics]]'' where the "victim" begs the person being pranked to free her, only to have the captor return and threaten the prankee with the same fate before the reveal.

* Happens in ''[[The New Statesman]]'' entirely by accident and the (rich female) victim loves the experience, even as Alan gets back to the hotel and concludes that he doesn't have time to deal with her cuffs if he's going to make the flight home. Possibly the only non-serious version with a female victim.

* Another accidental version in ''[[Peak Practice]]'' - it's a medical show, so the one with the keys has a bad fall and can't get to the cuffs to unlock them.

* In ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'', Guy of Gisborne gets tied to a bed...by his sister. She then refers to him as a "present" for Prince John.

* A rare female version occurs in an episode of ''[[Friends]]''. Rachel finds Chandler handcuffed to a chair in her boss' office. Cue him insisting she uncuff him, and her wondering whether it's worth the risk of her boss knowing she was in there and firing her (he ends up handcuffed to a completely different piece of furniture before finally escaping). Chandler later gets revenge by leaving the boss chained up, in her slip, for Rachel to discover.

** A variation occurs, AGAIN involving Chandler, earlier in the show. Julia Roberts guest-stars as a girl Chandler humiliated as a child, and dates him for a while only to convince him to put on her underwear and get naked in a bathroom stall. She then runs away with his clothes. While he is technically not chained to anything, the effect is exactly the same.

* In Season 2 of ''[[Mad Men]]'', Don Draper is having one of his many extramarital affairs when, just before having sex, his [[Girl of the Week]] tells him that he has a reputation. Draper is not happy with this; he takes the belt of the bathrobe she was wearing, ties her hands to the bed with it ([[Genre Blind|to which she responds enthusiastically]]), then walks away.

* Happens to Rayanne in a ''[[My So-Called Life]]'' episode.

* Happens in an early episode of ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]''. The US Marshals are tipped off about an escaped con hiding with his girlfriend. Guess how they find them...

** Boyd Crowder ends up doing this to {{spoiler|Quarles near the end of Season 3. He messes it up however by having two Oxycontin addicts be guards, and leaving a nice bottle of the drug in the room.}}

** In season three, Quarles binds Brady to a bed and tortures him to death. The crime was part of Quarles' long history of abusing male hustlers.

* Happens to ''[[Angel]]'' all the time since his friends believe that is the practical solution every time he is in danger of having lost his soul. Inversely his vampire ex-friends chain him up for having a soul. Can't really win that one.

* Sam does this in ''[[Las Vegas]]'', before she leaves him to be ''raped'' by someone else.

* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', happens with Barney once...or so he says.

* Mentioned in one episode of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'', where Carlton sets up a prank of this nature on Will to teach him to respect women (somehow). Will escapes being tied to the chair and, having twigged to the plot, calls up Carlton and "explains" the situation, saying that he panicked and ''killed'' the woman. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

 

== Music Videos ==

* Happens to Joon of [[Korean Pop Music|MBLAQ]] in Kan Miyeon's video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_1KfUDB1zU Going Crazy]. He's later shown [[With My Hands Tied|with his hands tied]] with a [[Strangled by the Red String|red rope]], which symbolizes exactly what it seems: {{spoiler|The girl in the video kidnaps young men and tries to [[And Now You Must Marry Me|force them to marry her]]. When they (very rationally) reject her, she keeps 'em [[Unfortunate Implications|locked up together in her closet]]. So, quite literally, the man in the video is [[Strangled by the Red String]].}}

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* Happens to a gay couple in the comic strip ''[[Chelsea Boys]]'', both tied up in chairs by a kinky guy they met on the internet who then proceeds to rob them.

 

== Video Games ==

* One of Aurica's cosmosphere levels in ''[[Ar tonelico]]'' has her tie Lyner up in this fashion in attempt to rape him.

 

* Tip in ''[[Skin Horse]]'' lets Julie chain him to a bed with her police handcuffs for some kinky sex. Afterward, she leaves him chained up "for his own protection." However, the handcuffs don't present Tip with much difficulty in the end.

** [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php?view=archive&chapter=38295#strip3 "Honestly. Like I've never been handcuffed to a bed before."]

** What's interesting is the massive amounts of [[Dude, Not Funny]] reaction from the fan forum

*** Well, it was very much implied to be non-consensual (as Dominic claims to have had "no choice in the matter"), so treating it as comedy (compared to the male-on-female rape that is treated as [[Rape as Drama|drama]]) has some [[Unfortunate Implications]].

 

== Western Animation ==

** {{spoiler|[[Don't Explain the Joke|He used his penis]]}}

* In an episode of ''[[The Critic]]'', a female projectionist (who happens to be a very obsessed fan of movie critic Jay Sherman) invites him to her apartment, drugs his glass of wine, and when he awakens he finds himseif tied up to her bed with rolls of movie film. By the episode's end, his best friend Jeremy rescues him.

 

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