You Can Leave Your Hat On: Difference between revisions

In the days of VHS rentals, this could cause technical difficulties, as that small section of the tape would get an inordinate amount of wear.

 

 

If an unwilling subject is ''forced'' to disrobe, it falls rather into [[Shameful Strip]].

 

[[I Thought It Meant|Has nothing to do]] with [[Please Keep Your Hat On]], despite being extremely similar in name.

 

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== Females ==

* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has an interesting variation on this. The girls go with Negi to Konoka's temple complex, and they create a bunch of magical decoys to take the girls' place so no-one will notice their absence. The clones then decide to do a striptease act for some reason. Surprisingly, it hasn't caused too much trouble (at least not compared to the release of the [[Sealed Evil in a Can|really big demon]] in the meantime).

* ''[[Dominion Tank Police]]'': In the first OVA, the [[Catgirl|Puma sisters]] perform a mirror striptease out of their [[Naughty Nurse Outfit]]s to [[Show Some Leg|distract the police troops]] coming to apprehend them. [[All Men Are Perverts|It works.]]

* ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'' uses a striptease, complete with pole-dancing, as the [[Transformation Sequence]] when it goes normally.

 

* ''[[Barbarella]]''

* ''[[Sin City]]'' has a character who is actually a stripper. In fact, she is sometimes depicted wearing nothing but a hat, invoking this trope to the T.

* Not surprisingly, it happens in ''[[Little Ego]]'', during one of the heroin's many [[Erotic Dream]]s. While stranded in the desert, Ego's guide recommends [[Getting Hot in Here|she remove her clothing]]. As Ego is disrobing, the scenery changes around her and she finds herself performing a striptease on stage.

 

* ''[[Metropolis]]'' (1927). [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Robot Maria]].

* ''[[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]]''. [[Nipple-and-Dimed]], but leaving you wondering how the BBFC gave it a PG rating.

* In ''Prunelle Blues'', the eponymous Prunelle (Valerie Steffen) does a strip on stage at the very beginning of the movie.

* ''Escape to Athena'' (1979). The POW's put on a variety act for their German guards, the climax of which is a strip show by an interned female USO performer. While the Germans are busy leering over her performance, the Greek Resistance sneak up and take them all prisoner.

 

* In Carl Hiaasen's most famous novel, ''Strip Tease'', Erin is a stripper and he describes her stripping fairly graphically at times. Much like bowling in ''[[The Big Lebowski]]'', however, stripping is incidental to the plot of the book, only used as a setting and occasionally a source of the action.

* ''1001 Tales of [[Arabian Nights]]'' has one particularly rowdy tale where three gorgeous sisters pick up a porter, get ridiculously drunk and then each strip in succession for the porter, who then returns the favor. [[Best Known for the Fanservice|Can't remember any of the other 1000 nights....]]

* ''[[Otherland]]'' features a [[Brain Bleach]] [[Fetish Retardant]] subversion in a [[Metaverse|virtual]] strip club catering to, shall we say, a more perverted clientele. The girl disrobing for the slavering customers isn't taking off her clothes, but her ''skin''.

 

* ''[[Baywatch]]'' has a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7LunVRTcUk scene with Carmen Electra]. Guess what song she used for the striptease?

* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. To wit: in order to remember a diagnosis after a commotion-induced amnesia, House goes on a [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]], where he meets a mental image of [[Hospital Hottie|Cuddy]]. Given that this is [[Dr. Jerk|Dr.]] [[Magnificent Bastard|House]], she is quickly given a [[Instant Cosplay Surprise|costume switch]] into a [[Sexy Schoolwoman]] outfit and strips while helping with said diagnosis. It's more of a [[Subverted Trope|subversion]], though, since she stops after he starts to lose focus. She then [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the whole thing by saying that he'd rather be diagnosing than indulging in fantasy. He then [[Take a Third Option|takes a third option.]]

* In one episode of German comedy ''Zwei Himlische Töchter'', Kikki (Ingrid Steeger) [[It Makes Sense in Context|does a strip to coax a bull into boarding an airplane]].

 

* The whole subject of [[Tom Waits]]' "Pasties and a G-String".

* And do we need to mention (again) the [[Trope Namers|trope name]]? Didn't think so...

 

* [[Liv Tyler]] has a striptease scene in the [[Aerosmith]] video for "Crazy". Somewhat [[squick]]y in that it's the lead singer's daughter and all.

* [[Kylie Minogue]]'s video to "Put Yourself in My Place". She starts off floating around wearing a spacesuit...

 

* This one even appears in the [[Fanon]] of '''[[The Bible]]'''.

** The relevant part of the Gospels merely state that Herodias' daughter "danced" and got the head of John the Baptist. The fanon (specifically [[Oscar Wilde]]'s ''[[Salome]]'') has it as something called "The Dance of the Seven Veils", where she wears precisely seven veils over her body and removes all seven of them.

** Similarly in the book of Esther the Persian king summoned his queen Vashti "wearing her royal crown, in order to display her beauty to the people and nobles, for she was lovely to look at" (which she refused to do, and he banished her for it). This has been interpreted by some to mean "wearing ''only'' her crown".

 

* In 1997, during an Extreme Championship Wrestling Pay-Per-View, damage to the ring caused a lengthy delay in the action. To calm down the notoriously rowdy ECW crowd, Kimona Wanalaya (later known as WCW's Leia Meow) voluntarily performed a long, "Seven Veils"-type striptease, until the ring could be repaired.

 

* "Whatever Lola Wants" in ''[[Damn Yankees]]''. Amazingly, Joe decides to [[Ignore the Fanservice]].

* And, of course, ''[[Gypsy (theatre)|Gypsy]]''.

* "Take Back Your Mink" in ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'', in which the [[Chorus Girls|Hot Box Dolls]] observe no distinction between "take back" and "take off."

 

* When you visit Votowne a second time in ''[[Anachronox]]'', a reporter wants to schedule an interview with you, complete with a photoshoot. If the active member is Stiletto, he'll point out that he wants her to wear her beret for the shoot... and ''only'' her beret. If you have an other character active, the line is changed to include some other item that person wears, such as Sly's trenchcoat or Paco's cape.

* There is a rather entertaining scene in ''[[A Dance With Rogues]]'', in which the character can make a show of it while stripping for a minor character who won't help her unless she pays him or screws him. If you make a show of it, he "goes off" prematurely and performs the teleport you wanted him to in a fit of rage.

* ''[[Heavy Rain]]'': {{spoiler|Madison is held at gunpoint and forced to strip tease for a skeezy nightclub owner.}}

 

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'': This trope was referenced in the background of the Jäger Bar in Mechanicsburg, where the Jäger {{spoiler|impersonator}} girls are seen dancing on-stage without their trousers on, singing "But I've still got my hat!" This is a bit culturally significant, due to the [[Nice Hat|importance of hats in Jäger culture.]]

* The Web page for the ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110515085619/http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/bonobo-conspiracy/ Bonobo Conspiracy]'' featured a "Site Traffic Strip-O-Meter". The more traffic the site received, the more clothes the cute girl removes, as explained in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120606020819/http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/creative/bonobo-conspiracy.php#stripometer the FAQ].

* ''[[Flipside]]'': When Maytag has sex with on guy she does this.

 

* The Web newscast ''[http://www.nakednews.com/ Naked News]'' has stripping news anchors.

 

* ''Fablio le Magicien'', an old animated series illustrating La Fontaine's tales (adapted from Aesop's) with anthropomorphic animals, had two episodes featuring a striptease (one by a female rat and one by a female bird).

* ''Il giro del mondo degli innamorati di Peynet'' has a striptease performed by a girl in a series a psychedelic images accompanying a song, in the scene set in Britain.

 

== Males ==

* Mercilessly teased in ''[[Full Metal Panic Fumoffu]]'' with Sôsuke. Due to losing a bet he made with a [[Camp Gay]] trio from the music club, he ended up having to keep his end of the promise and swim naked in a lake while they watch. He slowly unbuttons his uniform and starts slipping his jacket off his shoulders. And despite the fact that he was, in no way doing it sensually (in fact, his whole attitude is pretty much trying to get it over with), coupled with how he didn't even get that far into it, the whole scene still seemed [[Fetish Fuel|strangely erotic]] and something that would ''definitely'' whet the appetite of fangirls (or [[Even the Guys Want Him|fanboys]]). For Sôsuke, him publicly stripping is about as [[Chaste Hero|erotic as you can get him]]. Kaname's intervention was something of a [[Moment Killer]], unfortunately....

 

* [http://neoyi.deviantart.com/art/Only-a-Hat-91151950 ''This'']{{broken link}} ''[[Chess Piece]]'', which is called "Only a Hat"... and has Vlad wearing... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|only a hat]].

* What with all the sexy men, sexy hats, and sexy men wearing sexy hats, this was inevitable in the [[That Guy With The Glasses]] [[Kink Meme]] [http://taekarado.livejournal.com/21601.html?thread=402529#t402529 wasn't it?] It's also quite common in fics for [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] to ALWAYS keep his hat on.

 

* ''[[The Full Monty]]'': It's also, in a way, ''about'' this trope—the plot concerns a group of poor men who decide to do what no other male strip act does and "go the full monty", i.e. full-frontal nudity. It's a comedy, BTW. In fact, the last scene of the movie is ''set'' to "(You Can) Leave Your Hat On". And the final piece of clothing they toss off, to go the "full monty" is naturally, their hats.

* In ''[[The Transporter]] 3'', Valentina makes Frank do one of these in exchange for his car keys.

* ''[[Pennies From Heaven]]'' has a [[Christopher Walken]] striptease. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7rseCwM9mU Must be seen to be believed.]

 

* The ''[[Anita Blake]]'' books occasionally go into detailed and often lengthy descriptions of ''male'' strip acts. Given the number of professional strippers in Anita's harem, it's surprising how well she manages to avoid more of these. (The female strippers Anita encounters are almost invariably [[Disposable Sex Worker|disposable sex workers]] who've already been disposed of.)

* Daemon, from The ''[[Black Jewels]]'' series, is ''very'' good at this. There's a reason his bedroom skills are referred to as "poisoned honey". Oh, and he's a pleasure slave. Who more often than not ends up brutally killing the corrupt Queens he serves.

 

* The ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketches "Taking Your Clothes Off in Public" and "Secretary of State" have male stripteases, both performed by Terry Jones. In the second, he twirls his nipple tassels while making a political speech, and is followed by a belly-dancing Graham Chapman.

* In the season 2 premiere of ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'', {{spoiler|Chris enjoys watching ladies strip off in a Soho nightclub. His girlfriend Shaz is rather annoyed at this. To make it up to her, seemingly on Alex's suggestion, he puts on a police uniform of the time and does the Full Monty, to Gene and Ray's huge bemusement. Not, however, having rip-off trousers, when he moves over to kiss Shaz after dropping his Y-fronts, he trips over the trousers around his ankles}}.

* ''[[Castle]]'', as a cop show, was pretty much guaranteed to have a Strip Club Episode sooner or later. None of the main cast actually stripped (although Detective Ryan was encouraged to audition), but there were a lot of professionals. Including Hans von Manschaft.

 

* [[Yoshiki Hayashi]] of [[X Japan]] does this at least four times: his NUDE photobook, the Standing Sex and Longing commercials, and a set of fliers passed out for Yoshiki Mobile at the 2008 concerts....

* Angus Young of [[ACDC]] always strips down to [[I See London|his underwear]] in concerts.

 

* '''[[The Bible]]''': King David himself is so overcome with joy at the recapture of the Ark of the Covenant and its return to Jerusalem that he is moved to do a Chippendale in the street, to strip down to his royal loincloth and dance for joy—an action that earns him the Queen's reproof and criticism.

 

* ''The Full Monty'' is also a Broadway musical. Yes. Being a Broadway musical (that is to say, live theater), if, say, the lights should malfunction during even ''one'' show, then the audience might see what it's not supposed to. Worse yet, should an actor feel a little cheeky (no pun intended. Well, maybe a little) during a performance and jump ahead of the light cues, the audience gets more than they bargained for. Or less, depending on the actor in question.

 

* [[Memetic Mutation|Most famously]], ''[[Hark! A Vagrant]]'' did a short ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' send-up comic, ''[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=120 Ooh Mister Darcy]'', wherein Mr. Darcy states "I will leave my cravat on". This comic has been [[Memetic Mutation|remade constantly]] with characters from various other fandoms, declaring which item of clothing they will leave on.

 

* In [[Vic Mignogna]]'s ''Real Fans of Genius'', this is inverted in the [[Yaoi Fangirl]] tribute: the hat will come off, but ''nothing'' else.

* In a DVD extra, [[The Nostalgia Critic]] stripteases out of a soaking wet [[Ghostbusters]] uniform while Rob (Doug's brother) films it and hums stripper music.

 

* In one episode of ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' a boomerang changes everyone's personalities to their near-polar opposites. When Edd gets hit, he suddenly becomes something of a stripper (though really he seems to just be complaining about heat and he has no nudity taboo). The only thing he has on by the end of the episode is his hat.

* Happens to [[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|Baloo]] in the ''[[Tale Spin]]'' episode "Vowel Play".