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[[File:sdsds_copy.gif|link=Code Geass|frame|<small>Alright, who signed [[Action Girl|me]] up for [[Fan Service]] duty again!?</small> ]]
In film and television, characters that have just bathed or showered will often be wrapped in towels to preserve their modesty. Men will wear the towel wrapped around the waist, usually reaching to the knees, while women will wear it from under the arms to the hips <ref> or knees, depending on how long the towel is</ref>, covering themselves up even if there is no-one else around.
This is often [[Truth in Television]]: those who are accustomed to doing so while others are around will often cover themselves out of habit, even if they are alone -- not to mention that if you've just stepped out of a hot shower, the rest of the bathroom's going to seem a bit chilly, not to mention it soaks up extra dampness from the body and hair. A woman will also often wrap a towel around her hair, and effeminate males are sometimes shown to wear towels in the feminine style [[Played for Laughs|for comic effect]] or to establish their [[Camp Gay|effeminacy]]. Female characters ''can'' wear their [[Modesty Towel|modesty towels]] in the masculine way (or a mock-up of that way, which has one towel around the breasts and another wrapped at the waist, [[Bare Your Midriff|baring the midriff]]), but this isn't done that often and will most likely be used for [[Fan Service]] (or to establish a female character as acting like "one of the guys").
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* A Flash cartoon advertisement for a shower gel on French websites has a mother and daughter doing a [[media:Smoothie_1_9777.jpg|dance in modesty towels]]. With the last image, [[media:Smoothie_2_3595.jpg|the towels fall.]]
* Isaiah Mustafa of the ''[[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like]]'' Old Spice adverts is known for wearing one. It's all he wears in the personalized Youtube response videos, and even mentions that the only way to do community service is in a towel. Subverted in that whenever he changes the scene, he wears new clothes as the situation demands. [[Walking Shirtless Scene|But never a shirt.]]
* Many spoofs of advertisements featuring towel-only clad models have appeared through the years. However, North Scott High School in Eldridge, Iowa, took this a step farther in the spring of 2002 when members of the school newspaper, ''The Lance'', published a "centerfold" featuring students -- including several 18-year-old male and female students -- dressed minimally, including some girls wrapped only in towels. Related pictures (which also appeared in a "minimal clothing calendar") appeared on the April 25, 2002, issue's back page. The student editor told the ''Moline Daily Dispatch'' that his staff had gotten the idea from reading ads for such items as perfume and shaving cream in magazines that circulated at the school's library. The resulting newspaper gained noteriety in the community for several days as several conservative-minded community members expressed their concern about the morality of the feature and, despite the absence of outright nudity and a disclaimer that the students ''were'' dressed, the fact that child pornography had inadvertently been published. (All of the students pictured in the issue were seniors, but the worry was that some had yet to turn 18.)
* A woman is painting a naked male model wearing only a towel over certain parts you can't show on TV, and she is even painting the towel on the portrait, but her biggest concern was the problem the model had, a discolored toenail. (This was, of course, an ad for a toenail fungus treatment.) If she wanted not to show that, why didn't she just have him wear a bathing suit or underpants?
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** Akane herself dons the Modesty Towel quite a bit.
* In the ''[[Gintama]]'' anime, [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|Gintoki]] and [[Tall, Dark and Handsome|Hijikata]] got into a fight at a sauna, which consisted mainly of a lot of grabbing each other while wearing ridiculously tiny towels. Needless to say, it was '''AWESOME!'''
* One scene of Goku bathing in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' is censored with the use of a digital towel. They even animate it falling off to the ground as Goku jumps in. That is to say, animated it POORLY.
** Depends on the dub, because in the Latin-American one it went uncensored.
* Used [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilariously]] in one episode of ''[[Sailor Moon]] Stars''. When Seiya is hanging out at Usagi's house while her parents are out (it's completely innocent, don't look at me like that...), Chibi-Chibi spills cake all over him, so he uses her shower to clean himself up while his clothes are being washed. Meanwhile, the other girls show up... just in time for him to come out of the shower in what appears to be the tiniest towel on the face of the earth, asking where his clothes are. Then Chibi-Chibi complains that he's using her towel and proceeds to do her best to get it away from him. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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* One gets applied in the Anime Adaption of ''[[Eiken]]'', but ''[[You Should Know This Already|Eiken]]'' [[Gag Boobs|being]] ''[[Up to Eleven|Eiken]]'', this barely covers the girl's front as opposed to wrap around..
* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' has these for all the guys during the [[Hot Springs Episode|Hot Springs Epic Battle]] in the OAV. Much to the fangirls' disappointment.
* In ''[[Summer Wars]]'', Natsuki emerges from the bathroom to chase down [[Naked People Are Funny|one of her little cousins who had gone running from the bathroom without a stitch]], when she runs into Kenji. She quickly darts back in to the bathroom, while Kenji averts his eyes and insists that he saw nothing.
* Pictured above, Kallen of ''[[Code Geass]]'' does this when she's pulling [[Ms. Fanservice|double]] [[Action Girl|duty]] yet again, storming in on C.C. to complain about how their plan at the beginning of season 2 played out. Turned into a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when she realizes C.C. is in the middle of a meeting with a few gentlemen from the Chinese Federation. In an oddly-effeminate (if understandable) moment she screams and runs behind a screen, despite the men having gotten a good look already. Angrier than ever, she continues to complain to C.C. and almost has the towel fall off in the process.
** Special edition DVD revealed that the [[Noodle Incident|Aomori incident]] implied Kallen and C.C. fleeing wearing only towels.
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== Fan Works ==
* The ''[[Wicked Lovely]]'' [[Slash Fic|Nirial]] fanfiction ''[http://sana-the-random.deviantart.com/art/WL-Wishes-161500825 Wishes]'' has Niall wishing he had one of these.
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Mikuru had one of these the first time {{spoiler|she arrived at Nagato's apartment for training}}.
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** There was a commercial for ''Bad Company'' where Chris Rock ends up pulling the same gag.
* Speaking of Chris... Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker fight like this in a bath house during the second ''Rush Hour'' movie, replacing towels with bath robes. (They end up being thrown out naked anyway.)
* In ''[[The
* Subverted in ''[[Sorority Row]]''. A girl does have a modesty towel but as a punishment for going into the seniors' bathroom, she is forced to remove it and walk across the house back to her bedroom in the buff. Oh, did I mention this is a horror film?
* Some film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme had a fight in a bathhouse where everyone involved is wearing the typical towel skirt. At one point there is an "upskirt" shot that makes it obvious that they are still wearing underpants.
* Lampshaded and lampooned in [[The Three Stooges]] short film ''A-Plumbing We Will Go''. Curly has to evict a bather from a shower he needs to repair. After some bantering with the bather, Curly loses his patience and pulls the shower curtain, to reveal that the occupant had been showering with a towel already wrapped around him.
* A [[Deleted Scene]] from ''[[Diamonds Are Forever]]'' had Plenty O'Toole, a minor character and almost one-night-stand of James Bond, returning to his apartment wearing nothing but a white towel after she had been thrown out of his hotel room and landed in a pool while wearing nothing but her underwear and high heels.
** One scene in ''[[Thunderball]]'' has Bond encounter a [[Femme Fatale]] in the bath, and is asked for a towel for this purpose. Bond hands her a ''face towel''.
* In ''Youngblood'', Rob Lowe's towel falls off [[Eating the Eye Candy|to the delight of Cynthia Gibb.]]
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** In the seventh-season episode "The Naked and the Nerdy," during a bathroom scene Urkel humorously wears his towel high up on his chest, somewhat in the female manner. (Laura wears one too ... only after Urkel accidentally seen her in the buff.)
* ''[[Sisters]]'': The first two seasons (summer 1991-1992) of this weekly serio-drama featured the four main female leads sitting in a steam sauna, towels wrapped around their chests and chatting about whatever.
* Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes, which has aired its "surprise" presentations of $1 million checks on live television (usually on Super Bowl Sunday), once caught a 21-year-old girl wrapped in nothing but a towel answering the door of a winner.
* In ''[[Friends]]'', Chandler starts acting in a feminine manner after listening to the wrong [[Sleep Learning|subliminal tape]], complete with towels around the head and chest.
** In another episode, Rachel is victim of an interesting case of malfunctioning modesty towel.
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* Played straight in an episode of ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' when one of the title characters spent a good part of the episode wearing a towel that reached from his ankles to his ribs. Was it a towel or a carpet??
* This is standard practice in Japan on documentary or magazine TV shows that show public baths or hot spring resorts. While no one actually wears towels in the water at these baths in real life, the presenters or celebrities are shown wearing towels in the typical male or female style. There's even often a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen saying "Towels have been used for the purposes of filming", as if to reassure the viewer that this isn't some weird prudish resort, and they do allow good old-fashioned nudity in real life.
* ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'': Dr. Sloan's first appearance. His very first appearance was actually hitting on Meredith in the hospital, although the scene with the towel is probably his most famous.
* Hilariously subverted in an episode of ''[[Lucky Louie]]'' where a male character enters the kitchen wearing a towel the way a woman would, the "hem" barely concealing his package. Then, standing with his crotch a foot in front of Louie's face he casually bends backward revealing what the towel was meant to conceal.
* In Series Five of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Doctor, under the (mistaken) impression that his roommate is being attacked, races out of the shower to rescue him, barely managing to wrap a towel around his waist beforehand. Considering that this is the [[No Sense of Personal Space|Eleventh]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|Doctor]], it is rather impressive that he remembered to grab a towel at all.
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* The WWE's Val Venus (Sean Morley), as part of his "porn star" gimmick, wore a modesty towel around his waist during his standard ring entrance during the late 1990s. (Yes, a pair of wrestling trunks was underneath).
* At the WWF's 1987 "Slammy Awards," "Ravishing" Rick Rude, playing up his character as a sexy ladies'-man chippendale, did a strip-tease act when he came onstage to accept the "Jesse 'the Body'" award for best-looking male wrestler. At the height of his act, Rude began taking off his pants when "Mean" Gene Okerlund ran out and began wrapping a towel around an annoyed Rude's waist (Rude, of course, was wearing a thong). After his acceptance speech, he took one of the showgirls backstage and threw a towel on-stage, giving the impression that Rude was completely in the buff (off-stage).
* A week after the Terrell Owens-Nicolette Sheridan ''[[Monday Night Football]]'' "towel skit" aired and gained negative criticism by conservative critics and women's groups, a parody skit aired on ''[[Monday Night Raw]]''. Shelton Benjamin was initially in the Owens role, while -- despite wearing a nose brace due to a legit injury suffered a week earlier -- babelicious blonde diva Trish Stratus was the towel-clad Edie Britt (Sheridan's ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' character), this time with Benjamin trying to prepare for a match and Trish doing her best to turn on her sexual charms. WWE owner [[Vince McMahon]] entered the locker room to express (mock) outrage, claiming the swift downfall of society would result by solely said actions being aired on TV. Benjamin walked off disgusted, and after he left McMahon immediately focused entirely on Trish ... who took it all off. Cue the ''Monday Night Football'' theme as an orgasmic McMahon gleefully said, "Are you ready for some wrestlin'?"
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*** Fair being fair, in the female-MC campaign that comes with the portable version, Yukari's role in this scene is taken over by either Akihiko or Junpei, depending on the construction of your team. Only without any slapping involved.
** Mitsuru also comes out of her private shower (the only one in the dorm, at that) and lounges around in a towel while musing about her friends and fashion. She only doffs it when she walks out of frame again... which is lucky, since she was being recorded by a surveillance camera and was none the wiser.
* ''[[Persona 4]]'' uses this for its [[Hot Springs Episode|hot spring scene]] as well.
* [[Insufferable Genius|Kira's]] entrance in ''[[Arcana Heart]]'' starts with her wearing one that she dramatically [[Flung Clothing|flings away]] at the same time that she puts on her swimsuit.
* ''[[Maple Story]]'' has these as an equip. [[Lethal Joke Item|Oddly enough]], it's one of the best items a [[Min-Maxing|pure]] can have/make, as it's one of the few relatively cheap pieces of overall armor that can be scrolled numerous times for a specific stat.
* One of the people you must possess in ''[[Geist]]'' is a woman taking a shower. After you scare her out of the shower, she wraps a towel around herself. After scaring her a bit more and possessing her, you have to go get dressed before she'll leave the locker room.
* In ''[[The Sims 3]]'', if a character has their clothes stolen while skinny dipping, they immediately cover up in one of these on emerging from the pool.
* In ''[[Secret Agent Clank]]'', [[Ratchet and Clank|Ratchet]] and the more humanoid enemies wear these in the showers (and lose them upon taking damage, leaving them with [[Censor Box|Censor Boxes]]).
* [[Ar tonelico]] features [[Modesty Towel]] as a ''battle costume'' for Aurica. Somehow, it gives away most stats of all her clothes selection.
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** Yumi Ishiyama is seen in a Modesty Towel in at least two episodes, most notably the first. To be fair, the boys are seen wearing one even more often over the run of the series.
** One particular scene (which became [[Fan Service]] fuel to nearly all the girls watching it) near the end of the episode "Bragging Rights" had [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNAeQg0P6q8 Odd dancing around for "breaking the record of fastest shower"], while wearing only a [[Modesty Towel]]. For some reason, many fangirls wanted that towel to fall off.
* After soaking in his bathtub in a previous scene of ''[[Beast Wars]]'', Megatron comes out with a towel wrapped around his waist. Considering that he is a robot and thus always naked just like everyone else, it's not clear why he's done this.
** This is the villain who has a rubber ducky in his bathtub. ''Beast Wars'' sometimes does invoke the [[Rule of Funny]].
* In the ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' song about Larry's hairbrush, Larry is shown in a Modesty Towel (even though he doesn't wear anything other than the occasional period-appropriate headdress in the regular animated stories or on one occasion, in a corporate setting, a tie when his character was promoted) coming out of the shower, and everyone who walks into him still recoils in embarrassment. At the end, the Peach shows up and is ''also'' wrapped in a towel. The two are embarrassed by each other.
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