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{{quote|'''Celes:''' Did you disrobe before or after she left?
'''Ignaros:''' If you must know, I have not put on pants for the last two days, [[Mildly Military|ma’am]].
|''[[Descendant of a Demon Lord]]''}}
Nudity is one of the last great taboos, particularly in the United States. Whereas it's OK to show violence, blood, and to a certain extent "hate speech" on TV, a tiny bit of nudity will cause an outright scandal. Just ask [[Wardrobe Malfunction|Janet Jackson and her "nip slip"]], which got more attention then the show she was putting on at the time, despite its sexually suggestive content that some say bordered on sexual assault by her co-star.▼
▲Nudity is one of the last great taboos, particularly in the United States. Whereas it's OK to show violence, blood, and to a certain extent hate speech on TV, a tiny bit of nudity will cause an outright scandal. Just ask [[Wardrobe Malfunction|Janet Jackson and her "nip slip"]], which got more attention then the show she was putting on at the time, despite its sexually suggestive content that some say bordered on sexual assault by her co-star.
So while nudity itself is right out, the insinuation of nudity, as well as the reaction to it, is just titillating enough to make it onto the air, especially on comedies.
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The [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]] won't understand why everyone's freaking out, while the [[Shameless Fanservice Girl]] won't care. [[Ms. Fanservice]] and [[The Vamp]] will understand, but... that's probably the idea.
It's tempting to suppose that nudity is funny precisely because it's so unusual in the "civilized" world, and weird things are naturally funny. However, this logic goes out the window when you learn that nudity has been a prominent ingredient in humor for [[Older Than They Think|at least 3,000 years]]. Even the ancient Egyptians found naked people funny, and they weren't themselves shy about baring their arms or legs, or even their chests. So maybe the humor lies primarily with [[Gag Boobs|boobs]] and [[Gag Penis|penises]], which have been shameful to expose since Neolithic times.
Special mention goes to nudism. Nudism is a philosophy that basically boils down to "There's nothing wrong with being naked in certain situations, including some group situations". [[The Theme Park Version
* If a character is introduced as a nudist, that character will be either extremely young and attractive or extremely old and ugly, depending on whether the character is being played up for [[Fan Service]] or comedy, with few exceptions. Middle-age and underage nudists do not exist (although the latter have some very obvious reasons for their omission). Has a touch of realism in
* As a general rule, any nudists will be [[New Age Retro Hippie|new age hippies]], or if they're old, actual original hippies. Talk about mantras, releasing the inner calm, etc., is common.
* Depending on age, nudist characters are either airheads or old Zen
* Said nudists will either be extremely puritanical, and often militant about their nudity (so called "Right to Nude" activists demanding the right to go naked on a local beach, for example) or extremely perverse (in which case they are really "swingers"). Almost universally, they will refuse to acknowledge ([[No Social Skills|or genuinely not recognize]]) that they are making other people uncomfortable with their nudity, nor will they ever get uncomfortable themselves. ([[Truth in Television|This one has a surprising amount of truth to it]].)
* Revelation of said nudism will cause, on average, one character to react angrily and one other to reveal that they have always been interested in nudism, were really raised as a nudist, or experienced something similar in their past. For example, sunbathing on the beaches during a European trip. These will almost invariably be an upset man and an open-minded woman, or an extremely interested man and an extremely offended woman. If there's any [[Will They or Won't They?|sexual tension]] between the two, it'll almost definitely be that couple.
** If there is a third person, it will likely be the perverted friend who completely misses the point and spends the entire episode trying to sneak peeks or take photos. If there is an older cast member, he or she will probably already be naked when everyone else arrives.
* If a male character decides to go to a nudist beach or resort to look at women, said women will either not exist or be extremely old.
** If a character disrobes at a beach and neither a sign clearly saying "Nude Beach" nor other nude people are visible, it will turn out that it is not, in fact, a nude beach. The character either went to the wrong beach, was misinformed (maybe it ''used'' to be a nude beach), or just assumed it was a nude beach (most likely because they're tourists who think all the beaches in whatever country they're in are clothing-optional, or because they're from a country where (in the writers' imaginations) all the beaches ''are'' clothing optional). Although, again, some [[Truth in Television]] to this, as the United States is almost unique<ref>The only other similar country is China</ref> without even a single legally protected clothing optional beach. Every Nude Beach in the US is instead politely ignored by the local authorities, and not actually legally protected.
Especially common during [[Sweeps]]. See also [[
For specific examples of Nudity as humor, see:
* [[Birthday Suit Surprise Party]] - Events conspire to leave a character nude for a surprise party.
* [[Naked People Trapped Outside]] - Events conspire to trap a character naked outdoors.
* [[Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen]] - [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Invisible Streaker]] - Logically, if ''you'' are invisible, that doesn't mean ''your clothes'' are.
Contrast [[Full
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Tōru from ''[[My Hero Academia]]'' is an [[Invisible Streaker]] version. In fact Tōru was going to be a dude until the [[mangaka]] thought it would be funnier if she was a girl.
* [[Go Nagai]] surely is the earliest example in manga. He started the trend with ''[[Harenchi Gakuen]]'' and he used the trope in most of his works: ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' (in one episode several characters strip themselves for not apparent reason), ''[[Cutey Honey]]'', ''[[Devilman]]'' (sometimes), ''[[Dororon Enma-kun]]'', ''[[Kekko Kamen]]''...
* A running gag in ''[[Maicchingu Machiko Sensei]]'' is that Machiko ends up naked in every episode. No exceptions, and the universe often takes extreme measures to strip her, such as having a box fall in just a way to catch the corner of her dress. Of course, one of her students also loves to intentionally strip her, expose her panties for her by flipping up her dress, and occasionally outright grope her (as a way of saying hello). All of these are played as a [[Running Gag]]. The title word, Maicchingu, refers to the pose she makes after losing her clothing, and it's played up for as much [[Fan Service]] as possible (for a early 1980s TV series). It's such a part of the series that they included it in the opening title sequence. The big catch? [[Maicchingu Machiko Sensei]] is a kids show, she's an elementary school teacher, and so her students are all around 8 years old. Oh, and it played on Japanese TV, rather completely subverts [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]], and was aimed squarely at kids the age of Machiko's class.
* The lesser known clean [[Manga]], ''Nippon no Razoku'' (Literal translation: Japanese Naked Tribe; figurative translation: Japanese Nudists) involves a group of nudists who attempt to take over Japan, or... something. One of the main characters, a young tomboy is relatively normal, except for her relative [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|lack of a nudity taboo]], as well as the fact that once she disrobes, she [[The Messiah|gains superpowers]].
** This manga takes the trope at face value and subverts it at the same time: The leader of the nudists acts like a pro wrestler instead of being
* Episode 6 of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', wherein the entire cast is near-naked for most of the episode.
* An episode of the second ''[[Lupin III]]'' series, had a scene parodying the nudist colony moment in ''A Shot in the Dark'' (see film examples below). The Clouseau and Cato characters wore only fig leaves.
** And a later episode of the same series had the Lupin gang forced to make an emergency helicopter landing at a nudist colony. Goemon protested, needless to say.
* Played straight and deconstructed in ''Invisible Girl Ea'', a Japanese video-game storyline turned live-action TV miniseries. Ea's compulsive [[Invisibility]] prohibit her from wearing clothing, as her skin being touched causes her invisibility to turn into a Predator-style CGI effect. The comedy comes when the main male lead has to make excuses and generally freaks out when Ea's powers turn off, usually at the worst possible times. The deconstruction comes when the main male lead and Ea [[Blessed
* In Chapter 52 of ''[[The Wallflower]]'' (which was translated to ''[[Market
** This starts off with her [[Hadaka Apron|putting on only an apron]] to cook breakfast that morning, to attempting to go to school naked (Kyohei forces her to put on her school uniform's optional dress part (designed to be worn with a uniform under it), to casually stripping said flimsy dress off in front of some pornographers who scouted her when she was in a daze. It's only after the pornographers bring in the male model to have sex with her that she snaps out of her delusion.
* Yoruichi from ''[[Bleach]]'' is completely nude when she changes into a human, which she is not bothered by - to the point where she can use this to irritate Ichigo.
* ''[[Naruto]]'''s Sexy No Jutsu is another example, though the main bits are covered in clouds of smoke. Severe nosebleeds abound when Naruto uses this technique, except for [[Lovable Sex Maniac|Jiraiya]], of course.
* Francis/France in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', and he isn't content with being the only naked one.
** Let's not forget Heracles/Greece, the only one aside France who will just casually walk around
** When Arthur/England gets drunk, he [[In Vino Veritas|forgets about his manners]] and lets his [[Covert Pervert]] run free.
** And in the Noto-sama games, [[Lovable Sex Maniac|Noto and Yamato]] do their best to strip whomever they come across...
* Need we mention the elephant dance of ''[[
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Franky spends nearly an entire episode without any pants, after his were stolen to bait him.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' had a [[Running Gag]] during the [[Tournament Arc]] involving Takane D. Goodman, who ends up getting [[Clothing Damage|stripped naked]] pretty much every time she appears. It gets to the point that in one of her later appearances, the joke is that she isn't naked. Even the other characters (who, being denizens of the Negiverse are quite used to [[Clothing Damage]] happening to just about everyone on a regular basis) start referring to her as a stripper.
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** Comes to a head in the latest [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when the heroes accidentally find out [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v31/c285/6.html how Evangeline spends her free time].
* The entire plot of ''[[Those Who Hunt Elves]]'' is made for the purpose of taking advantage of this trope.
* ''[[
* ''[[Doraemon]]'' has Shizuka, the main character's love interest. A [[Running Gag]] that's been going on for 25 years now is that any time she takes a
* ''[[Ranma
* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', we have Grey Fullbuster, Reitei Lyon, and their teacher Ur. While technically they don't get completely naked in frame, it's heavily implied that the three spent the majority of their training that way.
** When Grey first meets Lucy, he's already in his boxers, which mysteriously disappear... and he asks Lucy for her panties...
** Accidentally stripping seems to be limited to Gray though; Ur was horrified when it became habit for him and he started doing it in public.
** It looked like Lyon picked it up in the Nirvana arc.
* Also from a manga of Hiro Mashima's, Julius of ''[[Rave Master]]''. At first he was just a pretty boy. Once he became a [[Good Is Dumb|good guy]] he took his narcissism to the next level by insisting that not only should everyone be able to see his beautiful face, but also his beautiful... '''everything'''. His explanation for why he'd strip usually didn't include the actual reason for why he stripped.
* The one of the many charms of ''[[
* Hamaya from the manga ''[[Girl Got Game]]'' has on three occasions suddenly appeared in front of his friend, stripped down to his birthday suit. Two times were because one thing or another tore all his clothes off; the second time he had just eaten halluciongenic mushrooms when he took his clothes off.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Eden of the East]]''. We first see Akira Takizawa [[Naked First Impression|naked]] in front of the White House. The entire scene counts as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
* ''[[Kore wa Zombie Desu
** After losing most of her powers, Haruna's [[Magical Girl|Masou Shoujo]] clothes have a tendency to suddenly disappear.
* Otawara of ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' has a hard time keeping his pants on, and his underwear either goes with them or [[Going Commando|was never there in the first place]]. Prepare to see a lot of his bare butt in this series.
* Most of the fanservice in ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Sung "Girl One" Li in ''[[Top Ten]]'' is an [[Artificial Human]] [[Waif Fu|martial artist]] that can change the color of her skin at
** Note that the purple is her basic skin tone, "that of a waterlogged corpse", according to TPB extras.
** The justification behind this is that she was created by a couple of perverted videogame fanboys who programmed her with compulsive nudism, of a
* Marvel's [[She
* During [[Peter David]]'s run on ''[[
* Marvel's Susan Storm-Richards, AKA: The Invisible Woman of the ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'', has sometimes been a victim of unwanted public nudity, usually just narrowly avoiding complete and utter humiliation by turning invisible.
* In ''[[Catwoman (
* At least once in the stories of [[Wilhelm Busch]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
== Film ==
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* ''Confetti'' was a movie about three couples preparing for their weddings. One of the couples is a naturist couple, who are preparing a nude wedding. A slight subversion, as they are not played up as sex objects, merely a normal couple who happen to be nude. Both the actress and actor complained loudly after the movie hit theaters, claiming they were deceived about the amount of nudity required and how much would be left in the final film.
* ''Carry On Camping'', an old ''[[Carry On]]'' film, had two hornballs trying to trick their wives into going to a nudist campground. They screwed up, however, and drove to the ''other'' campground with the same name. Then Barbara Windsor's top flies off.
* ''[[
* ''A Shot in the Dark'', the second [[Pink Panther]] movie, involved Inspector Clouseau having to sneak onto a nude resort to find a witness. They end up having to escape for some reason or other, and end up arrested for their trouble.
* The audience is "treated" to Jason Segel's full-frontal privates at the outset ''[[Forgetting Sarah Marshall]]'' ... the shock value of the penis had the audiences howling.
** By extension ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|har har]]), anything even tangentially related to [[Judd Apatow]] is likely going to involve giving the audience a peek at some guy's schlong. Suffice to say that Apatow has [[Accidental Innuendo|a firm grip]] on this trope.
* This happens in ''[[Kindergarten Cop]]'', where the protagonist (Arnold Schwarzenegger's character) walks in on his partner having sex with her fiancé; the whole scene is played for laughs, especially when the guy covers himself using her ''very'' feminine bathrobe. The guy later reappears at the end of the film, where Schwarzenegger jokes that he didn't recognize him with his clothes on.
* The titular character in ''[[Life of Brian]]'' makes an accidental naked appearance in front of a crowd that thinks he's the Messiah.
** Something of a subversion: One ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' episode featured a recurring BBC announcement that one channel was showing a debate on censorship between the Bishop of Bristol and a nude man. At one point, the debate is shown, where the nude man argues vehemently that such filth shouldn't be shown on television.
** Played straight with Terry Jones' nude organist character in many episodes. Subverted in "The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker", the humour being [[Not Distracted
** Another sketch had a cricket game being held in a nudist colony; Complete with a fully clothed "Streaker" being marched off the field by a nude police officer holding his helmet over the streaker's trouser fronts.
** They continued to do so with their post-Python work as well, including John Cleese's nude scene in ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]''. Terry Jones also (allegedly) wrote the [[Novelization]] of Douglas Adams' ''[[Starship Titanic]]'' in the nude, and only agreed to writing it if he could do so; he also apparently played the organ while nude in ''[[Monty Python]]'s Complete Waste Of Time'' to taunt players for breaking the rules.
* A recent car commercial depicts the driver of the crossover being pitched coming across a hot air balloon that's landed in the middle of the road, and offers to take the entire crew with him to wherever they're going. "There's one thing. We're nudists." As he's backing up, he checks the mirror, flinches, and looks out the dash-mounted rear window camera instead.
* The 1980s B-movie ''The Invisible Kid'' featured an [[Invisible Streaker|invisibility potion that didn't affect clothes]] and only worked for a little while. When the effect wore off, the character(s) usually materialized ''au naturel'' in an inconvenient place.
** This is extremely common in fiction using Invisibility, especially if it's a teen+ comedy or the subject is female. Indeed, the [[Rule
* Which means we should bring up the ''[[Fantastic Four (
* [[An American Werewolf in London|"A naked American man just stole my balloons."]]
* In the [[Jackie Chan]] movie ''The Accidental Spy'', a ''hilarious'' fight scene starting in a Turkish bath has him fighting in the nude against a couple of [[Mooks]], in a ''busy'' Istanbul market, all the while trying to [[Hand or Object Underwear|cover up using newspapers, hand brooms, bowls of spice and other objects]].
** Then there's also a scene in [[Rush Hour]] where he and Chris Tucker don't reach the same nakedness level while fighting their rivals in a bath house, but end up thrown out butt naked.
* In ''Da Ali G Movie'', Ali has cuffed both his hands to the railing of his local city hall to protest the closing of his favorite community center. The rival gang takes the opportunity to come by and pull down his pants, as he can't do a damn thing about it. [[It Gets Worse]].
* Very much subverted thrice in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
* The bath scene in Disney's ''[[Mulan]]''. Beginning with Mulan nearly getting caught out by three fellow soldiers, continuing with Mulan being completely freaked out by the three ugly naked men in far too close proximity...[[It Got Worse|and then the over-the-top payoff when]], upon lamenting she never wants to see another naked man again, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|the ENTIRE ARMY stampedes nude into the river]].
* ''[[The Rugrats Movie]]'': The scene where Dil pulls down Tommy's diaper showing his behind. His diaper usually slips down while he talks to his friends.
** ''[[Rugrats in Paris]]'': In the end, where Angelica rips Coco LaBouche's dress to expose her underpants.
* ''[[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]]''
* In a combination of both this and [[Fan Service]], ''[[The Proposal]]'' has the scene where Sandra Bullock takes a bath, but the towel is in the adjacent bedroom - with an angry dog! And to make things worse, after removing the dog from her way (with [[Hand or Object Underwear|arms strategically positioned]]), she collides with an equally naked Ryan Reynolds...
* The final match in ''[[Shaolin Soccer]]'' ends with a kick so [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|powerful]] that the ensuing [[Razor Wind]] shreds the opposing goalie's clothes clean off his body.
* Mr Chow in ''[[The Hangover]]'', or as he's more commonly known: "the naked Asian dude."
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* In 1984's ''[[Electric Dreams]]'', downstairs hottie Madeline walks in on [[Adorkable]] Miles just as he has left the shower; Miles desperately tries to cover both himself and his sentient computer Edgar, who has a crush on Madeline and wants to meet her.
* ''I Love Trouble'' features Julia Roberts skinny dipping and then getting her humorous punishment for it by getting photographed by a bunch of boyscouts.
* ''[[X-Men (
* The [[Crowning Moment of Funny|funniest scene]] in ''[[Sideways]]'' happened to use this trope.
* The opening credits of ''[[Austin Powers|Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me]]'' play over a scene wherein Austin decides to celebrate his newfound singleness by taking a stroll through the hotel in the buff, his naughty parts [[Scenery Censor|concealed by various objects]].
* In ''[[The Maiden Heist]]'', George is obsessed with a nude male statue called "The Bronze Warrior", and strips completely naked in order to fully appreciate the piece-and compare the statue's physique to his own. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when George is in the middle of admiring the statue naked, when a guard comes 12 minutes ahead of schedule. George ends up hiding in a crate, still naked. Major [[Fan Disservice]], unless you have always wanted to see William H Macy's bare backside.
* In ''[[Mystery Men]]'', Invisible Boy can only become invisible when no one is looking. After using his power during the [[Plot Tailored to
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'''The Bowler''': Maybe you should put some shorts on or something, if you want to keep fighting evil today. }}
* ''[[We Were Soldiers]]'', suprisingly enough. There is a delted scene where a soldier tells a story about a previous unit he was in, where their platoon commander, [[Ensign Newbie|fresh out of ROTC]], ordered all of his soldiers to put on all of their decorations so he could see what kind of men he was leading. He particularly gets in the face of the [[Old Soldier|big ugly scarred platoon Sergeant]]. The sergeant returns to the barracks, and comes back wearing ''only'' his combat boots, with his decorations ''[[Exact Words|pinned directly to his chest]]'', and wearing a Medal of Honor. The lieutenant, seeing the medal, is forced to salute the platoon sergeant.
* The fantasy rom
== Literature ==
* Though he's not really a nudist, per se, when Zedd shows up in ''[[Sword of Truth|Wizard's First Rule]]'', he's on his Wizard's Rock stark naked; Kahlan reacts with shock, and Richard makes it clear this is a normal thing for him. He later suggests to a sorceress that she try it some time, though this is less about comedy and more about Zedd being a horny old man.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Werewolf Sergeant Angua of
** Similarly, female vampires are unable to do that whole "turn into a swarm of bats then re-form in full clothing" thing that male vampires are able to do, [[Double Standard|for some reason]]. Sally
** While not actual nudity, but in one illustration in ''[[
* When [[Codex Alera|Invidia Aquitaine]] is supremely [[Out
* In ''[[Redwall|Martin the Warrior]]'', the [[Big Bad]] Badrang cuts a random minion's belt when he finds himself needing a rope. The belt was holding up the kilt which was the only thing said minion was wearing, and he ends up with his fellow soldiers and the whole slave line laughing at him. Since they have fur, this [[Half
* In ''The Trouble With Moonlight'' by Donna MacMeans, the heroine, Lusinda Havershaw, is a beautiful virgin who can turn invisible when she absorbs enough moonlight, but her clothes do not turn invisible with her, so in order to work as a spy and retriever of lost trinkets she must be completely naked. If she is away from the moonlight for too long, her invisibility will wear off and she will phase back into her visible self. Three times in the book she becomes trapped in a house on a mission and away from moonlight and she is forced to make a hasty escape before she materializes, so as to avoid capture and humiliation. In both instances, she is witnessed in her half visible state and assumed to be a ghost, at one point described as "a ghost with a shapely backside".
* [[X Wing Series|Wedge Antilles']] "greatest revenge" on Wes, who'd been pranking him for months, involved tricking Wes into a situation where he was naked, smeared in fruit-and-leaf-compost, grabbing the Ewok doll he'd been pranking Wedge with to [[Hand or Object Underwear|hide behind]], and seen by the entire squadron. And it was [[Crowning Moment of Funny|awesome]].
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* There is actually a show from the Ukraine called "Naked and Funny", which is a hidden camera show in the style of ''[[
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* There is actually a show from the Ukraine called "Naked and Funny", which is a hidden camera show in the style of ''[[Candid Camera (TV)|Candid Camera]]'', but often featuring public nudity played for laughs. It's also one of the many reasons to love Europe.
* ''[[Baywatch]]'' did this once, with the requisite random Baywatch girl who suddenly remembered she was really interested in this kind of stuff, even defending their rights against another, suitably offended Baywatch girl. Also had the crazy old naked man subtype, as well.
* ''[[Caroline in The City]]'' had a scene when Caroline decided to allow her nude body to be seen by her fiancé for the first time. Unable to bear the embarrassment, she covered her eyes, disrobed and walked out to her fiancé... and two friends, who had just arrived.
* ''[[The Kids in The Hall]]'': The heart of a few skits, like one where an employee at a meeting won't stop giggling while going over his report, leading to the revelation that he wrote the whole thing while naked, much to the disgust of everyone else there.
* ''[[Monk]]'' had a nudist episode, wherein Monk had a meltdown about there being naked people on the beach, trying to accuse the nudist he met of being the villain, despite his airtight alibi. Said nudist was a new-age hippie, of course. Monk's fear of nudists turns out to come from a memory he had when he was young in which he was seen naked and then being hit by someone and being held upside down. He gets over it when he realizes he was just remembering his birth. Toward the end, Monk's female partner revealed she used to hang out on nude beaches in Europe during college.
** Another example is when Monk used this to prove a woman was lying about being blind by bailing out a known streaker and setting up a meeting with her in the park where he would usually run and watching her reaction. Her own laughter and notice of the streaker sealed the deal.
* Likewise, the ''[[Baywatch]]'' parody ''[[Son of the Beach]]'' had a nudist episode. Slightly memorable because the European male-bimbo character's censor-bar for his... bits... was hilariously large, and that of the main character was nearly nonexistent.
* Mentioned in several episodes of ''[[Star Trek:
** In another episode, Lwaxana Troi shows up to her own wedding naked, after getting tired of her fiancé and his advisors' cultural insensitivity towards her.
** Data's "mother" (Soong's wife) mentions that Data originally had no concept of modesty, and thus wouldn't wear clothing because he didn't see the need to. Naturally, an anatomically correct android in the buff was a problem. His shipmates thought it was pretty funny.
** The start of ''[[Star Trek
* On ''[[Star Trek
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* Averted in ''[[Star Trek
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* In an episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'', Jerry has a girlfriend who was not that concerned with wearing clothes when there was no one around to see her except her boyfriend, with whom he discovers that there is "good naked" (walking, for example) and "bad naked" (coughing). She didn't react especially well to Jerry deciding to take the same approach - she apparently felt that ''all'' male nudity was "bad naked."
** In another episode, Jerry was on a subway car across the aisle from a fat man and he fell asleep. When he woke up, everyone else on the train had gotten as far away from the fat man as possible, because he was now naked.
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'''JERRY''': See, that's your problem. You should be. }}
* In the first episode of ''[[Malcolm in
* ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'': Nude Day. The fact that what you're seeing is a man in a naked woman costume is one of the more alarming things on the entire show, and that's saying something.
* ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' had an episode where the main character and his wife, upon having finally gotten their last roommate to move out, decided to get naked inside the house. They like it to the point that they're naked most of the episode, and talking about visiting a nude beach. The rest of the episode was one [[Scenery Censor]] gag after another, until their neighbors' perverted kid managed to get blackmail photos of them... cleaning the rain gutters in the nude. Huh.
* Three words: [[Friends|Ugly Naked Guy]].
* An episode of ''[[
** In the spincycle episode, Lacey learns that the women of Dog River have a nude calendar every few years or so and she is tasked to find people to sign up. Karen and Wanda are about to strip wherever they were and Lacey stops them each time. Turns out Emma thought Lacey wouldn't bother with being in the calendar so Lacey goes to her and the photographer and strips naked. Then it turns out that the photographer was just a customer of the diner.
* The first episode of ''[[Rome]]'' had Atia nonchalantly walking around completely nude in front of her son, to help establish the different social attitudes of ancient Rome. [[Fan Service|Cough]].
* The ''[[
* ''[[Firefly]]'': The episode "Trash" is a [[How We Got Here]] bookended with naked Mal, stranded in a desert. "Yep...that went well..."
** This shows the personality differences between the female characters very well. Inara (who has seen plenty of naked men) simply tells him he is naked; Zoe pretends it isn't happening and calls him Sir with usual military demeanour; Kaylee grins from ear to ear; River (too young) is conveniently absent (she probably would have made an inappropriate and frank comment on his anatomy).
* On ''[[Designing Women]]'', the decorators were hired to work at a nude resort. [[Hilarity Ensues]] as much as it ever does, which doesn't say much.
* Used on ''<nowiki>
** Not to mention the episode where Hawkeye goes to dinner in the mess hall wearing nothing but his boots, just to see if he could get a rise from the [[Empty Shell|other war-weary members of the camp]].
** In one memorable episode, after Hawkeye has fallen victim to one too many of BJ's pranks, he convinces Winchester, also a victim of BJ's joking, to aid him in stripping BJ of his clothes while sleeping, nailing his blanket and pillows to his cot so that he can't use them as cover, and then relocating him to the nurse's tent. Then they make the P.A. announcer call for all surgeons to report to the E.R., forcing a naked BJ to run out naked in front of the whole camp.
* As above, the first the audience sees of Zedd in ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'' is the old wizard naked talking to the clouds. Well, talking to a rooster about the clouds, anyway. Which is to say that Kahlan catches him naked, and holding his [[Curse Cut Short|c--]]
** [[Animaniacs
* In an "On the next episode" gag of ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', Tobias, a former Never-nude, overcompensates when briefly cured. He walks down to the family breakfast naked.
* In the ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' episode "The Naked Man" the gang learns of and uses the titular seduction technique:
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'''Step 2:''' Strip naked.
'''Step 3:''' When your date comes back in, they're so impressed by your bravado that they have sex with you.
* Works two out of three times* }}
** The "inventor" says that it's a "Hail Mary" play. As in, the date's not going so good, you know there won't be a second one, so you may as well give it a try since you've got nothing to lose.
* In one episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', the Slayer gets turned into a rat. When she's turned back to human, she is (obviously) naked but retains her modesty with some conveniently placed furniture.
** Luckily for her, this happens in the presence of Oz, who is cool about it, because...
** Oz ends up naked all the time. Commented upon in various DVD commentaries
* In the ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'' episode "I'm with the Band", Sam is confronted by a bully while showering after gym class and shoved out in the school hallway naked.
* In an episode of the 80s detective show ''[[Simon and Simon]]'', Rick and A.J. go undercover at a nudist resort. Standard hijinks for this trope ensue, with A.J. considerably more at ease than his brother. At one point they end up at a dinner party only to find everyone dressed but themselves. Apparently it was resort practice to always dress for dinner. Even A.J. is cowed, and after donning their [[Hand or Object Underwear]], they beat a hasty retreat.
* ''[[
** Not to mention Wild Boyz
* There was one episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' where Daniel Jackson came back from the dead naked. (It's implied that it's some sort of Ancient practical joke that Oma was playing on him.) He wound up landing in Jack's office while the General was trying to have a briefing with the rest of SG-1 (Sam and Teal'c, at the time). [[Hilarity Ensues|It was awkward.]]
** The other time he came back from the dead naked (yes, this happens to him more than once) was played less humorously... except when we find out that his nickname translates to "The Naked One."
* In a ''[[
** In "Gridlock", as the Doctor tries to track down the carjackers who took Martha, one of the couples occupying the cars he climbs through is a pair of nudists. He doesn't hang around long enough to bother giving them an alibi.
** How about Donna Noble and the Doctor-ganger's first conversation, after he's just grown out of the spare hand on the TARDIS:
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Doctor Double (emphatically): Oh yes!
Donna (glancing down, then pointedly to the left) ....You're NAKED!
Doctor Double (just as emphatically): Oh yes! }}
* Hal Sparks once did an entire episode of ''[[Talk Soup]]'' in the buff.
* In an episode of ''[[Roseanne]]'' the main characters discover that they can look from their window into their neighbours home and see the elderly neighbours walking around in the nude. Naturally they spend their every waking moment obsessed with this view. If only they'd had internet!
* ''[[Supernatural]]'' has Cupid, who caused some very awkward moments when he hugs people...
* In a rare case of this trope being invoked entirely though dialogue, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_cwI1Xj4M this] classic scene from ''[[Extras]]'' in which Patrick Stewart recounts a plot which involves women's clothes falling off. This led to the [[Memetic Mutation|memetic]] line "I've seen '''everything.''' I've seen it all."
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"No."
[[Beat]]. }}
* Aside from being the first ever winner of ''[[Survivor]]'', this is what Richard Hatch is known for.
* In the Bitter Suite episode of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', Xena and Gabrielle wake up in Illusia completely naked. Gabrielle notices her own nudity when she is musing over whether or not she is in the Eluysian Fields before running away, hands over her chest protectively, to avoid being seen nude by Joxer, who later provides her with clothes. Xena is initially dressed in blue and beige robes by her nemesis Calisto, but when she confronts Ares, the God of War strips her completely naked with two quick sword slashes, exposing her firm, shapely body before his minions, much to her quiet yet humorous anger.
* In one ''[[
* In ''[[Charmed]]'', Piper and Phoebe arrive to rescue Prue from a kidnapper who had dealings with demons, only to find that Prue and the kidnapper(who only wanted Prue's help against the demons) have just had sex;
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'''Phoebe''': We're rescuing you from the tall, dark, and naked man.
'''Prue''': I told you to stay away.
'''Phoebe''': Yeah, now I know why. He is yummy. }}
* ''Bones''; in the Season 7 premiere, Angela becomes very interested when she learns that {{spoiler|Brennan took a photo of Booth making an omelet while naked.}}
* [[Family Feud]]: "Name something that a burglar would not want to see when he breaks into a house." Contestant's answer? '''NEKKID GRANDMA!'''
* Richard Hatch from the first season of [[Survivor (TV series)|Survivor]] infamously went around naked when he celebrated his birthday on the island. [[Fridge Brilliance]] sets in when Sean notes that he is celebrating in his "birthday suit".
* In the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' episode "Sic Transit Vir", Ivanova has a [["Not Wearing Pants" Dream]] in which she's wearing, in fact, nothing at all. Claudia Christian was given the option of doing the scene in her nightclothes or completely starkers; citing this trope, she went for starkers. Now ''that's'' dedication.
== Music ==
* The [[Ray Stevens]] song "The Streak".
* The video for Blink182's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7l5ZeVVoCA "What's my age again?"]
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]''. Raiden's attempts to keep modest even though there's nobody (but the player) watching provide some humor in an otherwise disturbing and highly frustrating [[No
* ''[[Saints Row|Saints Row 2]]'' gives the player the option of removing all of the player character's clothing, complete with [[Pixellation]]. You can then play a streaking minigame with the goal of disgusting as many people as possible. The fact that it keeps score for this adds to the game's [[Refuge in Audacity]] tendencies.
* ''[[Katamari Damacy]]'': Lalala is simply 'the nudist cousin'. While other cousins are distinguished by their colorful clothes, unique shapes and/or quirky personalities, [[Pronoun Trouble|she]]'s just naked. And sunburnt from running around naked all the time.
* Don't forget ''[[
** Fistpump of win in ''MML2''!
* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' allows you to unequip character armor and robes at any time (even in the middle of battle). Players who pay attention to character [[Relationship Values|approval bars]] will see a [[Face Heel Turn]] coming along and wisely remove their armor if they're planning on leaving with it (thus making angry, drama-charged moments gagfests while you stare at your party members' adult diapers). See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scwUB7cEsac this] video for the dangers of leaving party members in the flesh.
* Ran Yakumo of ''[[Touhou]]'', according to [[Fanon]], likes to randomly shed her clothes and become the "Suppa Tenko" (Naked Heaven Fox). In one particular fan comic, exposure to Chen's cuteness ''causes her to go Suppa Tenko via [[Clothing Damage]].''
** "[[Running Gag|... one particular fan comic]]"? There's an entire ''pool'' of Suppa Tenko jokes on Danbooru, many of them "[[Memetic Mutation|CHEEEEEEEEEN]]"-induced. Since Tenshi's name can be written as "Tenko", sometimes she joins the fun just for the hell of it.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto:
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...
'''Abdul Amir''': Things do not look good, son.
'''Yusuf Amir''': Don't judge a book by its cover, father. That's what you taught me.
'''Abdul Amir''': When a book is called guns... drugs... hookers... and ''no pants''... I think I don't need to read it. }}
* You get some funny remarks in ''[[Morrowind]]'' when you talk to people naked.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[The Bare Pit]]'' ([[NSFW]] if your workplace objects to naked people, otherwise pretty wholesome), originally titled ''Loxie and Zoot'', is an Australian webcomic that takes place at a nudist resort, now celebrating 10 years of online publication. Completely subverts the majority of the trope, although some of the more obvious storylines (a pervert with a camera, a prude trying to harass the resort, etc) are still used.
** The comic's creator even added his own Naked People Are Funny plot in its [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/thebarepit/thebarepit/series.php?view=single&ID=95066 longest storyline]
* A minor lawyer character in ''[[Unshelved]]'' is a nudist. His idea of a Halloween costume is to put on clothing. He is a good example of the "Right-To-Nuder" subtype, as he spends all day at the library arguing about his First Amendment rights.
** Or maybe not - he shows up in one storyline wearing a full suit and tie: that is, the storyline ''in the nudist colony''.
* Quentyn, hero of ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'' has some problems keeping his pants on, either having pursuers grab at his clothing or needing to change clothing in a hurry. The humor comes less from [[Half
* Played straight in ''[[I Was Kidnapped
* While ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' has an oft-times nude country of werewolves, they are not this trope. No, that would be [https://web.archive.org/web/20130316100738/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-05-29 Brian], the fat guy who likes to do his stretches at the cruise ship's pool. Naked.
* In ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Elan's interpretation of D&D's armor check penalty rules is as follows: If heavy armor makes it harder for you to be stealthy, being naked must make you [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0025.html invisible.]
** To a point, he's right: The men don't want to look at him, and the women are... [[Distracted
* When loveable megalomaniac and [[Friendly Hostility]] star Collin needs to take a break from his stressful life, he takes boyfriend, slave, and fridge-dwelling demon to the beach. Still unable to relax, Collin strips nude...on a non-nude beach. Those poor nuns....
* It's a bit of a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' that, as a [[Cute Monster Girl|furry monster,]] Molly gets to parade around completely naked. Her sister Golly, on the other hand, likes clothing.
* Chop Chop Ninja Doom from ''[[Springiette]]'' enjoys nakedness a lot, although she has trouble understanding when's the right time for it [https://web.archive.org/web/20170917071548/http://www.springiette.net/strips/96
* Zach Weiner, the author of ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'', is always naked. ''[http://www.survivingtheworld.net/GuestLecture9.html Always.]''
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' has played with this. An early gag pointed out the problem with nudist camps is lack of quality control. Elsewhere a chapter (and later a book) is titled "Game Called on Account of Naked Chick."
* [[Demon Eater]] plays with it. Demons don't reproduce with sexual organs, but there is a group that want to be like humans. They don't quite get the appearance right, with one of them being an anatomically correct male but without skin, while another is an anatomically correct albino female... without a head.
* Wil of ''[[Questionable Content]]'' goes on a vision quest and runs into a guy from a nearby senior nudist colony, at first mistaking him for his "spirit animal". When he relays this story to the members of the reservation, they dub him "Wil Talks-to-Dongs".
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling|Abigail DeCarlo]] in ''Dangerously Chloe'' once happily demonstrated to her brother a [[Incredible Shrinking Man|shrunk]] (female and quite furious) angel, to the embarrassment of everyone except herself. Later she was given spirit-seeing goggles, which instantly turned her from {{spoiler|freaking out over her brother's death, even after she was told it's reversible so far}} to snickering "You're all [[Out-of-Clothes Experience|naked and floaty!]]"
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Used in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' with Sam Sorenson, who spent a good portion of his time on the island running around naked.
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* ''[[Gaia Online]]''{{'}}s Gino Gambino gets possessed by a god with no nudity taboo during the Demonbusters event. Said god promptly [[Large Ham|hams it up]] with lines like "FEELS GOOD, MAN!" and goofy poses. Since Gino straddles the line between [[Bishounen]] and malnourished, this may double as [[Fan Service]] or [[Fan Disservice]].
** Oddly enough, the Overseer in his own shape wears clothes.
* ''[[SMG4]]'' has Mario regularly taking his clothes off. It's not really explained why he likes being naked, though it's apparently a nuisance for the Mushroom Kingdom. One episode almost lampshades it. In Mariotube 2, Luigi decides to add a segment on his news channel about how Mario decides to go streaking once more and how everyone within a kilometer of him goes blind, only for Mario to barge in and start dancing naked. Luigi yells at him to leave, because nudity would get his channel banned from Youtube. Unfortunately for him, he's already too late.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* Every character on ''[[Family Guy]]'' has been naked for a laugh at least once. Usually it's Peter Griffin, whose gut hangs down low enough to cover his genitals. In one episode, they find out their neighbors are nudists, and most of the family ends up naked in an attempt to show acceptance. In a later episode, they run into the nudists at a KISS concert - wearing nothing but face paint and guitars, of course.
** From the episode "Deep Throats:"
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** In the episode where Peter becomes a cigarette company executive, he has the kitchen coated in Teflon for easy cleaning. Everyone falls over, as Peter remarks that he didn't think they'd do the floor too. Then Stewie slides by on his butt, bare naked, and happily announces "I'm ''Nudes on Ice''!"
* Pretty much every main character on ''[[
** In the episode "Pranks a Lot," a bus stops beside a naked Spongebob and Patrick.
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'''Everyone on the bus:''' ''(laugh hysterically)'' }}
** Later in the episode when Mr. Krabs notices that Spongebob and Patrick are nude:
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'''Spongebob:''' "Yeah, the invisible paint [[Captain Obvious|stains clothes.]]" }}
** And don't forget at the end of the episode when Spongebob and Patrick are exposed for their prank:
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'''Spongebob:''' Patrick!
'''Patrick:''' Yeah?
'''Spongebob:''' We should have bought the whoopie cushion! }}
* [[Action League
* ''[[The Fairly
* ''[[
* ''[[The Mask (
* ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'': This sometimes happen to the the title characters themselves. Old Man Hunger is portrayed as naked.
* In ''[[Rugrats]]'' episode 54: Naked Tommy, Tommy wants to shed his clothes to be like his dog, Spike, so he tries out naturism. He also wants Phil & Lil to do it too, so they do so. Chuckie doesn't want to.
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* In the ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' episode "Summer Love", Gertie, Arnold's grandma, surfs onto a nude beach - where everybody's naughty bits are obscured by one thing or another. Her response?
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'''Nudists:''' ''(run away screaming)'' }}
** Later she shows up at the non-nudist beach with some surfers - and without her clothes - with a [[Censor Steam|surfboard]] obscuring her nudity. Grandpa Phil is not amused:
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'''Phil:''' Aw, Pookie, nobody wants to see ''that''!
'''Gertie:''' ''(laughs)'' }}
* In ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'' episode "Sans-A-Pelt", Norb and Dag lose their fur after a failed magic trick exposing their naked bodies.
* [[Loriot]]'s animated sketch ''Die Herren im Bad'' (''The Gentlemen in the Bath'').
* The episode "Over Exposed" in ''
* ''[[
* ''[[I Am Weasel]]'': I.R. Baboon possesses a bright red butt that he never wears pants to cover, and therefore is ridiculed for it
** Theres also I.B. Red Guy who is a regular on the show, while still keeping his role on ''[[
*** His first introduction in the pilot/short: "[[Incoming Ham|HELLOOOOO!!!]] It's ME, the devil!" He only assumes the title "Red Guy" when the show went into full production.
*** This is even lampshaded, as he uses a variety of aliases, all of them making reference to it: Mike Hiney, Officer O'Fanny, the King and Queen of Cheese, Larry the Molting Fairy, Dr. Lackslacks, Officer Pantsoffski, Mr. Lackapants, Major Wedgie, Ben Pantsed, and Mr. Clearbottom.
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'': Tommy Gilligan was a victim of this trope. In one episode he makes the wrong interpretation of what a birthday suit is, and in another episode, somewhat more deliberately, he's trying to avoid getting a bath.
* In ''[[Rick and Morty]]'', Rick has appeared naked disturbingly often, played for [[Black Comedy]] and [[Fan Disservice]] each time.
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'': Hank gets caught in a passing tornado holding his dear life to a telephone pole. His clothes slowly tears off leaving him nude. As the eye passes, he chooses a potted cactus over a Texas flag to cover himself to make his way to the shelter.
* [[Regular Show]] had [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsX4FOegj40 an example] where Pops get a surprise guest (while in the nude).
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* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Iroh is seen in a hotspring relaxing. Zuko becomes impatient and tells him to get out and, as Iroh begins to come out, Zuko is disgusted by the sight and tells him to get back in for a few more minutes before leaving. [[Scenery Censor|Zuko's hand censors him.]]
* Although he himself never cracks a smile about it, ''[[Kick Buttowski]]'' ends up naked on the show...so much it's hard to count. This is met with fear, indifference or laughter.
*In three of the [[Foghorn Leghorn]] shorts "Little Boy Boo", "The High and the Flighty", and "Crockett-Doodle-Doo", we see Foghorn Leghorn naked, covered in nothing but his bare pink skin and pores (as his birthday suit), he is shown naked three times.
* In the ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' short "A Bacon Strip", from the episode "The Acme Acres Zone", Plucky tricks Hamton into skinny-dipping in Montana Max's pool. When Hamton reluctantly does so, Max steals his clothes, and Plucky runs off, lest Max get him in trouble too. Hamton is then forced to make his way home while trying to conceal his nudity. Once he gets there, he finds a surprise birthday party waiting for him.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* There exists [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq89kNQLZ1I a police video] wherein two drunk women pulled over by the police proceed to strip naked and play in some nearby sprinklers. Jay Leno later ran it on ''[[The Tonight Show]]'', where it was played for laughs.
* In [[Community
* This Trope occurs in the story of how the great artificer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes Archimedes] discovered [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes%27_principle the principle named after him]. As the legend goes, he was consulted to figure out how to tell whether a crown that the king had commissioned was made from the pure gold he had supplied to the jeweler, or whether the jeweler had substituted silver for gold to make a crown the same weight. When Archimedes took a bath, some of the bathwater overflowed the edge of the tub, prompting him to realize that an object displaces its equal volume in water. He leapt out of the tub and shouted, "Eureka!" and ran to report this discovery to the king... [[Absent-Minded Professor| Forgetting to get dressed first.]]
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