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-->-- '''Squidward''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''

** In the episode "Squilliam Returns", while Squidward tries to stand up to [[TheMinnesotaFats his rival]], Squidward imagines Squilliam in his underwear, only to discover that Squilliam is really, really buff.

* In ''ComicStrip/CulDeSac''. Petey is nervous about an upcoming oboe recital - his mom gives him this advice and he looks horrified. She sighs "Okay, okay! Stop imagining!" He wails "I CAN'T!"

** Subverted in another strip. "Imagine that you're naked and the audience is full of Mary Kay salespeople with camcorders"

-->'''Barney:''' I'm sensing a little performance anxiety here. Little trick, picture everybody__\\

-->'''Tommy:''' All you got to do is picture yourself...naked.\\

* On ''Series/TheBradyBunch,'' Marcia imagines her driving tester in his underwear.

->''"Don't be intimidated, Squidward! Try to imagine him in his underwear!...Oh no, '''HE'S HOT!'''"''

* In the spelling bee episode of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' Ned gives this advice to Cookie, and at the end of the episode, the entire audience inexplicably becomes all-male and actually strip to their underwear to help Cookie win the bee.

* At one point in ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' the turtle, Filbert, can't realize his dreams of becoming a lounge singer because of stage fright. He's given this advice. It doesen't work. ("It's just too disgusting!" "Euw, you're right...") Until he's asked to perform at a club hosting a nudists' convention...

** In the episode "Oral Report", Sandy gives [=SpongeBob=] special goggles that let him see people in their underwear so he can get over his fear of speaking in public. Unfortunately, Patrick breaks them, which makes it seem as if the underwear come to life and heckle [=SpongeBob=].

--->'''Squidward:''' [[HoYay Oh no, he's hot!]]

* The same in ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', Thurmad is nervous about meeting Florence (an uplifted wolf) because he's just been watching a werewolf movie. He scolds himself for too much imagination and tells himself to imagine her in her underwear. [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00357.htm Which she is.]]

* In ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'', it's noted that very few people can stand up to Mrs Whitlow, UU's [[AlmightyJanitor terrifying housekeeper]], and it is ''not'' advisable to try and imagine her naked.

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* Four-year-old Prince Gareth suggests this to Beka in the third ''Literature/ProvostsDog'' book--his mother tells him to picture people in their loincloths during public functions. Beka is rather shocked since she doesn't think most people look ''good'' in that little and he admits it doesn't really work for him, he just pretends to make his mother happy. Later, he whispers the word "loincloths" when she's starting to freeze up during an elaborate royal ceremony, which makes her grin.

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* Roger gives Paige this advice in a ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' strip. It doesn't work, as her reaction is, "Wowza! It's just like a Chippendale show!"
* ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} is given this advice by Dogbert, before giving a speech to a group of engineers. It backfires when he apparently needs BrainBleach after what his imagination shows him.
-->'''Dogbert:''' Whoa! Cancel that. I just pictured four hundred naked engineers.\\
'''Dilbert:''' Too late.
** Subverted in another strip. "Imagine that you're naked and the audience is full of Mary Kay salespeople with camcorders"
* In ''ComicStrip/CulDeSac''. Petey is nervous about an upcoming oboe recital - his mom gives him this advice and he looks horrified. She sighs "Okay, okay! Stop imagining!" He wails "I CAN'T!"
* An ''ComicStrip/InsanityStreak'' strip had a speaker at a nudist convention telling himself "Imagine them clothed! Imagine them clothed!".

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* In ''Theatre/BatBoyTheMusical'', Meredith reassures Shelley about taking Bat Boy to the tent revival, telling her to "just imagine (the townsfolk) in their underwear".
* In the musical ''Theatre/WhenMidnightStrikes'', waitress/resting actress Josephina advises nervous party guest Edward to do this. After a few seconds silence as he can't stop staring at her, she storms off with a disgusted 'Dude, not me!'

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-->'''Tim:''' The first time I did ''Tool Time'', I was petrified, so I tried to picture the audience as just one person.\\

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''. Elf is told to imagine the audience in their underwear when she has to give a funeral speech. The problem is they're [[{{Robinsonade}} already wearing loincloths]].

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''. Elf is told to imagine the audience in their underwear when she has to give a funeral speech. The problem is they're [[{{Robinasade}} already wearing loincloths]].

* From a SpookySeance in ''SamAndMax'': "Mortimer Moleman, your entrance is cuuuuuued! To conquer your stage fright, just picture us nuuuuuude!"

* An episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' features this trope in Season 1 when the high school is holding a talent show.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Kate Lockley is nervous about giving a speech for her father's retirement party. Angel suggests she try "that old saw about imagining people in their underwear". Kate's eyes flick downward to check out Angel's body and she mutters "[[EatingTheEyeCandy Way ahead of you]]."
** And in "Parting Gifts"

* On ''Series/SaturdayNightLive,'' guest host Pam Anderson did an opening monologue where she said (paraphrased): "I'm really neverous. They say when you're nervous you're supposed to imagine the audience naked...that's not working. Maybe you're supposed to imagine ''yourself'' naked...no, that's not working, either. Oh wait, maybe you're supposed to '''really be''' naked! (takes off clothes) Oh yes, that's much better, I'm more relaxed now." (Full transcript [[http://snltranscripts.jt.org/96/96rmono.phtml here]])

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Squilliam Returns": In an attempt to stand up to [[TheMinnesotaFats his rival]] Squidward tries to imagine Squilliam in his underwear, only to discover that Squilliam is really, really buff.
-->'''Squidward:''' [[HoYay Oh no, he's hot!]]

* In ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'', shortly before Jefferson Davis is to be publicly awarded a medal of bravery by Mayor Norman Osborn, he contacts Spidey about his nerves for the expectation that he'll have to give a speech awards. Spidey initially suggests this trope, but then realises to his disgust that this would include [[BrainBleach picturing Osborn naked as well]], so he drops the notion.

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** In another episode Barney recommends it to Homer:
--->'''Barney:''' I had to give a speech once. I was pretty nervous, so I used a little trick. I picture everyone in their underwear. The judge, the jury, my lawyer, everybody.\\
'''Homer:''' Did it work?\\
'''Barney:''' I'm a free man, ain't I?

* ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsDigitalSeries'': "Fluttershy's Butterflies" has Fluttershy seeking help overcoming stage fright. In the "Ask Applejack" ending, Applejack advises her to imagine that [[CluckingFunny everyone in the audience is a chicken]]. It works, and Applejack is relieved because her backup plan apparently involved releasing ''actual'' chickens into the audience.

** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Wait,]] why is Finn wearing a ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' shirt?

* Apparently the oldest daughter in ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' is so awkward and nervous when talking in public because she's always picturing everyone naked, at all times (Or she is just a pervert). Her brother advised her to imagine audience with clothes.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "Homer Defined", Homer becomes a hero after accidentally saving the power plant. When he's invited to give a speech about how he did it, he imagines the audience in their underwear, then shrieks and hides behind the podium because he imagined himself in his underwear, too.
** Used again in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Homer is hired by Mr. Burns to help him write an important speech. Due to the fact that at the time he was hired, Homer had been using medical marijuana and found everything funny. Since he was clean now, and no longer found Burns funny, Marge suggests Homer [[{{Squick}} picture Mr. Burns naked]], [[BrainBleach resulting in him screaming]]. Trying to make the situation better, she then changes it to picturing him in a funny hat. This idea is worse, causing Homer to curl up in a ball shuddering.

* Lampshaded humourously in the pilot episode of ''Series/{{Shake It Up}}''. [=CeCe=] says she pictures everyone in the tryouts for ''Shake It Up, Chicago!'' naked, much to Rocky's {{Squick}}.
-->'''Rocky:''' [[LampshadeHanging I'm putting even more clothes on that!]]

* In an episode of ''Series/{{The Suite Life of Zack abd Cody}}'', Carey suggests this method to Cody for his big speech just as Zack [[VisualPun literally enters the lobby in his underwear.]]