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Expect her to have to bend down, a lot, slowly. Expect also that the screen—which is apparently supposed to ensure some form of modesty—will be as thin as paper and positioned right in front of a source of light, leaving absolutely nothing to the imagination and thus utterly defeating its supposed purpose.
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Alternately, she's taking a shower - and stretching, of course - in a shower stall with a frosted-glass door.
== Anime and Manga ==▼
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▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[Umisho]]''; various props made it seem like the silhouettes of the undressing girls suddenly grew extra bits.
* Shizuru in ''[[My-HiME]]''... in [[Fan Disservice]] mode, since the scene in question is a flashback of her apparently raping Natsuki in her sleep (although whether it actually happened is debatable).
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', with Rei.
** [[Nipple-and-Dimed|Slightly less so in]] ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]''.
* Reversed version in ''[[One Piece]]''. Califa's silhouette is shown while she is ''dressing'', after she takes a bath in front of Nami to humiliate her.
* ''[[R.O.D the TV]]'' has [[Hot Librarian|Yomiko]]'s Sexy Silhouettes in its opening credits.
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* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' episode "Black Dog Serenade". Faye Valentine's silhouette is seen behind a shower curtain while she is taking a shower.
== [[Comic
* Played in a sophisticated manner in ''[[Le Petit Spirou]]'', where the curvaceous Maths teacher is seen waiting for a car lift. It's dark and headlights casts a clean shadow of her against a nearby wall. Add the fact her skirt is rather sheer, and that's about as nude as a fully dressed person's shadow can be. Cue slow motion walking.▼
== [[Film]] ==
* Just about every title sequence of a ''[[James Bond]]'' movie will feature these.
* Played with in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''. Eddy sees what he thinks is the silhouette of Jessica Rabbit in a hotel window, but once he gets up there, much to his horror it turns out to be Lina Hyena from ''[[Li'l Abner]]''.
* The first ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movie.
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* Used in some [[Busby Berkeley Number]]s.
* Subverted in ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'': The sexy silhouette turns out to be a weirdly bound guard.
* The second ''[[Cannonball Run]]'' movie had the girls changing in the back seat with a blanket hanging in front—when a track pulls up behind with high beams to highlight them perfectly. Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise (who think the ladies are ''nuns'') are
* Happens to [[Mulan]] in the beginning of her movie.
* Spoofed in ''The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult'' when Tanya (Anna Nicole Smith) undresses behind a screen {{spoiler|but reveals a [[Biggus Dickus]]}}, much to the [[Squick|chagrin]] of Frank Drebin and Rocco.
** {{spoiler|With a 90-degree angle!}}
* Played straight in ''[[The Shadow (film)|The Shadow]]'', when Penelope Ann Miller's character strips behind one of these while talking to Alec Baldwin's character.
* In ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]'', Irene Adler does this to Sherlock Holmes.
* Played around with in ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]''. Robin and Marian are both behind a curtain that they don't know is see-through, and Robin, as he finishes an incredibly overdone opera-style love song, drops to one knee, causing his sword scabbard to rise up like a... [[Gag Penis|you know]].
* A character arc point in ''[[The Brady Bunch (film)|A Very Brady Sequel]]'' revolves around Greg and Marcia watching each other in this way. Then, they figure out that, well, if Roy is alive, then, [[Not Blood Siblings|well]]...yeah.
* In ''[[Leap Year]]'', this trope is played with when [[Amy Adams]] showers, unaware that her [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|love interest]] is watching her silhouette through the curtain - he points this out to embarrass her, and then gives her a similar show.
* Nicolette Sheridan got one in ''[[Beverly Hills Ninja]]''. And so did [[Fan Disservice|Chris Farley]].
== Live Action TV ==▼
* Willow in a scene from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Ohhhh.
* T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) in the ''Carbon Creek'' episode of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''.
* Rachel does it in the hospital during the ''Laryngitis'' episode of ''[[Glee]]'', prompting Finn's rendition of [[Two Guys and a Girl|"Jessie's Girl"]].
* ''[[Eureka]]''{{'}}s Jo Lupo (Erica Cerra) while taking a shower in "Momstrosity".
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* The logo for Dirty Workz, the Belgian [[Hardcore Techno|hard dance]] record label.
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-10-05 presents] Susan this way. [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-17 Twice]. Quoth the forum, "Hot damn!"
** And [http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1840 later], [[Identical Stranger|Diane]].
* ''[[Seekers (webcomic)|Seekers]]'': In their first meeting, Eloya spends hours staring at Giselda's shadow on the canopy before ever seeing her face.
* The trope is used [https://web.archive.org/web/20080906031222/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00526.html here] on Thelma from ''[[Nip and Tuck]]''.
* ''[[Dangerously Chloe]]'' had the succubus (co-)protagonist first appearance like this, when she is summoned into Overworld on the 3rd page.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Happened at least once on ''[[Futurama]]''.{{context}}▼
* In a nice bit of [[Parent Service]], Minerva Mink does this in ''[[Animaniacs]]''.▼
▲* Happened at least once on ''[[Futurama]]''.
▲* In a nice [[Parent Service]], Minerva Mink does this in ''[[Animaniacs]]''.
▲== Western Comics ==
▲* Played in a sophisticated manner in ''[[Le Petit Spirou]]'', where the curvaceous Maths teacher is seen waiting for a car lift. It's dark and headlights casts a clean shadow of her against a nearby wall. Add the fact her skirt is rather sheer, and that's about as nude as a fully dressed person's shadow can be. Cue slow motion walking.
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