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Usually, this trope is invoked to simply indicate that the person is dreaming. When played straight, it is simply embarrassing, and not in the least bit [[Erotic Dream|erotic]] or [[Bad Dreams|terror-inducing]]. And it will never, ever be [[Dreaming of Things to Come|prophetic]]...although in comedy, it's occasionally subverted by having the "bad dream" turn out to [[Naked People Are Funny|not be a dream at all]]. This is definitely [[Truth in Television]].
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Not to be confused with an [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]], the everyday attire of a [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]], or someone who is [[Not Wearing Tights]]. Also not to be confused with [[Going Commando]].
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* Jeremy in ''[[Zits]]'' has a dream where he is naked at school and can't decide whether the most disturbing part is that he's naked or that no one notices.
* Jon in ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'' once had a nightmare, where he was about to address the assembly of the United Nations, with millions of people watching by television... and he forgot to wear pants.
* Played with in ''[[The Far Side (Comic Strip)|The Far Side]]'', where a professor realizes to his horror that he has come to a seminar without his ''[[Morally
* In ''[[Little Ego]]'', Ego has a dream where she ges to a party only to discover she had forgotten to put her dress on under her cape. While hiding from her hosts and the other guests, she meets a man who had forgotten to put on anything other than his bow-tie.
* In a variaton, one ''[[Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip)|Calvin and Hobbes]]'' story arc has Calvin rip his pants on the swings right before he has to present a math problem on the chalkboard. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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* A ''[[Star Trek Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]'' episode about dreams begins with Tuvok having one about being naked on the bridge.
* Referenced in the "Cabin Fever" episode of ''[[Myth Busters]]'', wherein Adam recounts a dream he had about piloting an airplane, in which he said it must be a dream because he wasn't wearing pants.
* In the episode of ''[[Malcolm in The Middle (TV)|Malcolm in The Middle]]'' [[The One With...|with Dewey's chicken pox and the dominoes]], Hal has a dream that starts with his wife on a white horse, and transitions to him having a test in school for which he didn't study... and suddenly he's in only his underwear.
** The actor who plays Hal appeared in a video acceptance speech for an award the show won, wearing a tuxedo. It wasn't until he stood with a mirror to his back that it became apparent he was only wearing a tuxedo(or indeed, [[Naked People Are Funny|anything]]) from the [[Mooning|waist up]].
* One episode of ''[[Night Court (TV)|Night Court]]'' has Bull come to work in the buff. "It's okay, I'm just having that nightmare where I go to work naked." "...Bull, this isn't a dream." Cue the slow burn, the girly scream, and the title.
* Referenced in ''[[ICarly (TV)|iCarly]]'' when Sam was having a nightmare and [[Butt Monkey|Gibby]] ran into the classroom in his underwear. Sam told him to "Get out! This is ''my'' nightmare!"
* In an episode of ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'', Ziggy reveals that he once dreamed that he had gone to school in just his underwear, only to realize that it wasn't a dream. Apparently there was a rash that had spread down the back of something too... Later on, he tests out a teleportation ability. Well, his suit teleported, he didn't; leaving him in just boxers and a helmet.
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* On ''[[How I Met Your Mother (TV)|How I Met Your Mother]]'', Ted has one of these dreams right before starting as a professor. Not only is he missing his pants, but he doesn't even have [[Indiana Jones|his hat and whip]]. Barney comments on it, telling Ted he should have had sex with the hot student in the front row because he already had his pants off.
* In an episode of ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', the hero dreams that he comes to work but forgets his shoes.
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== Web Original ==
* In the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'', one story has Phase going through a long series of nightmares. (Can superhero characters have PTSD?) One nightmare is her naked in the school cafeteria. At which point her [[Gender Bender|physical peculiarity]] is visible, and the rest of the [[Super
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** Played straight in another episode where Jake dreams that Rotwood points out that he's wearing his underwear to school.
* ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'': "I'm in my underwear, AT THE MALL!"
* In an episode of ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters (Animation)|Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' involving nightmares, this was Egon's nightmare. Subverted in that he doesn't have a [[Naked Freak
* In the ''[[My Gym Partner's a Monkey (Animation)|My Gym Partners a Monkey]]'' episode "The Hyena and the Mighty", Adam had a dream that he came to school in his underpants. Jake informed him [[That Was Not a Dream|that it wasn't a dream]].
* Not used, but referred to in the ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball (Animation)|The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' episode ''The Responsible,'' where Richard and Nicole have gone to a Parent's Meeting, and Richard is in his underwear.
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