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* A '90s UsefulNotes/TacoBell ad featured several boys on a beach gawking at a sexy female lifeguard (played by Debbe Dunning, better known as Heidi the Tool Time Girl on ''Series/HomeImprovement'') while she lunches on a quesadilla. One boy works up the nerve to talk to her, and ends up fainting... and when she muses about giving him mouth to mouth, his friends faint too.
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* A '90s UsefulNotes/TacoBell ad featured several boys on a beach gawking at a sexy female lifeguard (played by Debbe Dunning, better known as Heidi the Tool Time Girl on ''Series/HomeImprovement'') while she lunches on a quesadilla. One boy works up the nerve to talk to her, and ends up fainting... and when she muses about giving him mouth to mouth, mouth-to-mouth, his friends faint too.
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* ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'': A younger, invoked example. Stacey immediately crushes on the local lifeguard Scott Foley, who works at the Sea City beach. Stacey starts neglecting her job as a mother's helper with Mary Anne to fetch him drinks and fawn over him, and since he knows he's good looking, he lets girls do it -- though he has a girlfriend.
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* ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'': A younger, invoked example. Stacey immediately crushes on the local lifeguard Scott Foley, who works at the Sea City beach. Stacey starts neglecting her job as a mother's helper with Mary Anne to fetch him drinks and fawn over him, and since he knows he's good looking, good-looking, he lets girls do it -- though he has a girlfriend.
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* ''Series/SonOfTheBeach'' is basically a ''Baywatch'' parody starring a cast of babes who work as lifeguards on a beach. It cranks the fanservice through the roof but also focuses on world-renowned lifeguard Notch Johnson (played by Creator/TimothyStack). Notch is considered by several members of the female cast to be the hottest man on earth but is intentionally cast a very average-looking, pasty skinned and out of shape man.
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* ''Series/SonOfTheBeach'' is basically a ''Baywatch'' parody starring a cast of babes who work as lifeguards on a beach. It cranks the fanservice through the roof but also focuses on world-renowned lifeguard Notch Johnson (played by Creator/TimothyStack). Notch is considered by several members of the female cast to be the hottest man on earth but is intentionally cast a very average-looking, pasty skinned pasty-skinned and out of shape out-of-shape man.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "The Deep End", Dipper's crush Wendy Corduroy becomes a lifeguard at the local pool, making Dipper decide to try to become assistant lifeguard so he can spend more time with her. Downplayed, since, outside of Dipper's crush and a single line of dialogue from Mabel pointing out that Wendy could be in a bikini, the lifeguard job isn't particularly sexualized.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "The Deep End", Dipper's crush Wendy Corduroy becomes a lifeguard at the local pool, making Dipper decide to try to become an assistant lifeguard so he can spend more time with her. Downplayed, since, outside of Dipper's crush and a single line of dialogue from Mabel pointing out that Wendy could be in a bikini, the lifeguard job isn't particularly sexualized.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E1TheAlgaesAlwaysGreenerSpongeguardOnDuty SpongeGuard on Duty]]", [=SpongeBob=] notices how everyone at Goo Lagoon is admiring Larry the Lobster who's serving as the lifeguard at the beach. This makes him want to impersonate being a lifeguard so he can be popular too. He later finds out that Larry isn't just there to look good and actually rescues a drowning swimmer which makes the sponge worry that he's over his head because he can't swim.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E1TheAlgaesAlwaysGreenerSpongeguardOnDuty SpongeGuard on Duty]]", [=SpongeBob=] notices how everyone at Goo Lagoon is admiring Larry the Lobster who's serving as the lifeguard at the beach. This makes him want to impersonate being a lifeguard so he can be popular too. He later finds out that Larry isn't just there to look good and actually rescues a drowning swimmer which makes the sponge worry that he's over his head because he can't swim.
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': Whenever a story takes place on a beach, expect Betty and Veronica to fawn over the male lifeguard.
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* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Taric, the Shield of Valoran, is already [[{{Hunk}} easy on the eyes as is]], but his alternate [[BeachEpisode "Pool Party" skin]] redesigns him as a hunky lifeguard (who uses [[ImprobableWeaponUser a dual-sided megaphone instead of a mace]]), and his splash art [[MrFanservice is about 70% of his man-chest]]. This notably makes him one of the few "Pool Party" designs that are played for straight {{fanservice}} -- compare him to Renekton, who is also made a lifeguard, but he's still [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile a 9-foot tall crocodile man]].
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* The music video for "Superlove" features Music/{{Tinashe}} and several other women as lifeguards rescuing hot men and dancing sexily in red swimsuits. In one part of the video, two of the female lifeguards fight over which of them gets to perform CPR/make out with one of the beach-goers.
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* The music video for "Superlove" features Music/{{Tinashe}} and several other women as lifeguards rescuing hot men and dancing sexily in red swimsuits. In one part of the video, two of the female lifeguards fight over which of them gets to perform CPR/make out with one of the beach-goers.
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* A 90s '90s UsefulNotes/TacoBell ad featured several boys on a beach gawking at a sexy female lifeguard (played by Debbe Dunning, better known as Heidi the Tool Time Girl on ''Series/HomeImprovement'') while she lunches on a quesadilla. One boy works up the nerve to talk to her, and ends up fainting... and when she muses about giving him mouth to mouth, his friends faint too.
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-->'''Maddy''': Please tell me you didn't just fire our old lifeguards and replace them with strippers!
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-->As a lifeguard, we tend to get hit on by single moms all the time. It's kind of nice. It's one of the perks. We tend to call them [=MILFs=], [=GILFs=], cougs - if you're looking for that type of thing, I'd check out your local pool. I mean, where the babies are swimming, there's gotta be a MILF around there.
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-->As a lifeguard, we tend to get hit on by single moms all the time. It's kind of nice. It's one of the perks. We tend to call them [=MILFs=], [=GILFs=], cougs - -- if you're looking for that type of thing, I'd check out your local pool. I mean, where the babies are swimming, there's gotta be a MILF around there.
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* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'': One of the purchasable items in the Krypt is a picture of Sonya in a red bikini, working as a lifeguard. The text warns against faking a drowning to get mouth-to-mouth resuscitation from her.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Mercy's summer skin has her as a lifeguard. If this skin is equipped and one of her highlight intros plays, the camera slowly pans up her body ''Series/{{Baywatch}}''-style.
* ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'': Cassie is an attractive female lifeguard at the Summerville Public Swimming Pool who swims there naked after closing time. She agrees to a FriendsWithBenefits arrangement with the MC when he stumbles upon her.
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* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'': One of the purchasable items in the Krypt is a picture of Sonya in a red bikini, working as a lifeguard. The text warns against faking a drowning to get mouth-to-mouth resuscitation from her.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Mercy's summer skin has her as a lifeguard. If this skin is equipped and one of her highlight intros plays, the camera slowly pans up her body ''Series/{{Baywatch}}''-style.
* ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'': Cassie is an attractive female lifeguard at the Summerville Public Swimming Pool who swims there naked after closing time. She agrees to a FriendsWithBenefits arrangement with the MC when he stumbles upon her.
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* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'': One of the purchasable items in the Krypt is a picture of Sonya in a red bikini, working as a lifeguard. The text warns against faking a drowning to get mouth-to-mouth resuscitation from her.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Mercy's summer skin has her as a lifeguard. If this skin is equipped and one of her highlight intros plays, the camera slowly pans up her body ''Series/{{Baywatch}}''-style.
* ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'': Cassie is an attractive female lifeguard at the Summerville Public Swimming Pool who swims there naked after closing time. She agrees to a FriendsWithBenefits arrangement with the MC when he stumbles upon her.
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* In ''Film/TheSandlot'', Wendy Peffercorn, a very attractive teenage girl, is the lifeguard at the pool the kids go to. Squints, the nerdy kid of the group, has it bad for her, prompting him to concoct a scheme where he pretends to drown so Wendy will save him and give him mouth to mouth.
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* In ''Film/TheSandlot'', Wendy Peffercorn, a very attractive teenage girl, is the lifeguard at the pool the kids go to. Squints, the nerdy kid of the group, has it bad for her, prompting him to concoct a scheme where he [[MalingeringRomancePloy pretends to drown so Wendy will save him and give him mouth to mouth.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E1TheAlgaesAlwaysGreenerSpongeguardOnDuty SpongeGuard on Duty]]", [=SpongeBob=] notices how everyone at Goo Lagoon is admiring Larry the Lobster who's serving as the lifeguard at the beach. This makes him want to impersonate being a lifeguard so he can be popular too. He later finds out that Larry isn't just there to look good and actually rescues a drowning swimmer which makes the sponge worry that he's over his head because he can't swim.
-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' If being a lifeguard meant [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin guarding their lives]] I would have never said yes.
-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' If being a lifeguard meant [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin guarding their lives]] I would have never said yes.
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Lifeguards in fiction are an easy source of {{fanservice}} for a number of obvious reasons:
* Their job requires them to hang around in [[WalkingSwimsuitScene swimsuits]] (if female) or [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless]] (if male);
* They're frequently [[WetAndWildTropes soaked, upping the attractiveness factor]];
* They are naturally required to be athletic and in shape;
* The prospect of being [[RescueRomance rescued]] by an attractive person, who may or may not need to give CPRCleanPrettyReliable or the KissOfLife, is romantic.
As a result, if characters [[BeachEpisode go to the pool or beach for an installment]], expect at least one scene ogling the sexy lifeguard. If the lifeguard actually has to save anybody, expect the characters to swoon over this (or even try to invoke it for themselves). This also has a tamer variation for for child/young teen characters, for whom the innocent activity of swimming in a public place will become more exciting when [[PrecociousCrush a hot older teenager is the lifeguard watching over them.]]
On the other hand, someone might want to be a lifeguard thinking that this trope is in play, and expect to score dates while on the job. If the lifeguard is male and knowingly using his good looks to get girls, he may be a MuscleBeachBum.
In the United States, the popularity of the long-running television show ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'', which put its cast of models and modelesque actors in soapy, sexy situations while lifeguarding, contributes to this trope. Any ''Baywatch'' parody/reference will emphasize the hotness of the lifeguards and the sexiness of their plots.
Compare InherentlyAttractiveProfession (with which it can overlap if everyone assumes lifeguards are attractive), as well as other jobs that are frequently sexualized like HotMenAtWork, FiremenAreHot, HospitalHottie, FairCop, and HelloAttorney.
Please note that this is not about any lifeguard [[HollywoodBeautyStandards who happens to be played by a good-looking actor]]. The work must portray them as attractive in part due to their job, or ''assume'' that lifeguarding is implicitly a sexy job.
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* A 90s UsefulNotes/TacoBell ad featured several boys on a beach gawking at a sexy female lifeguard (played by Debbe Dunning, better known as Heidi the Tool Time Girl on ''Series/HomeImprovement'') while she lunches on a quesadilla. One boy works up the nerve to talk to her, and ends up fainting... and when she muses about giving him mouth to mouth, his friends faint too.
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* ''Anime/MyHime'': Inverted. In episode 9, Mai serves as a lifeguard during her summer vacation. While Mai is the show's preeminent display of BuxomBeautyStandard, and she is clad in a flattering bikini during her lifeguard tenure, it is one of the few times her attractive physique is NOT played for fanservice, as she is clearly bored near to tears as she blandly calls through a megaphone for a raft that is out too far to come back in and says they can still have fun while playing by the rules.
* ''Anime/SquidGirl'': Goro Arashiyama, Tatsui Isozaki, and all the rest of the Lifesavers are tall, muscular men who [[WalkingShirtlessScene tend to go around in just their swimming trunks]], showing off their pecs and abs, and there's an audible gleam to their teeth when they smile. Their Fanservice is [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], though, as Goro has SingleTargetSexuality for Chizuru, and Isozaki usually strikes out with the ladies he tries to flirt with, particularly the ShrinkingViolet Ayumi, though that may have more to do with her social anxiety than anything against Isozaki in particular. The rest of the Lifesavers in the show are shown in the background and go unnamed.
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* ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKidDogDays'': Rodrick throws himself into a pool and pretends to be drowning so that the lifeguard, the attractive Heather Hills, will give him mouth-to-mouth. Unfortunately for him, Heather is pretty apathetic about lifeguarding and it's a man who comes to his "rescue" instead.
* ''Film/Baywatch2017'''s promotional materials emphasize the attractiveness of its young lifeguard cast, with Matt shown shirtless with a glistening chest and the women posing sexily.
* Invoked in ''Film/Piranha3DD'', where female stripper lifeguards are part of Chet's HotterAndSexier renovations at the water park.
-->'''Maddy''': Please tell me you didn't just fire our old lifeguards and replace them with strippers!
-->'''Chet''': ''Water-certified'' strippers.
* In ''Film/TheSandlot'', Wendy Peffercorn, a very attractive teenage girl, is the lifeguard at the pool the kids go to. Squints, the nerdy kid of the group, has it bad for her, prompting him to concoct a scheme where he pretends to drown so Wendy will save him and give him mouth to mouth.
* Parodied in ''Film/WrongfullyAccused'', in which the opening from ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' is re-enacted with a number of goofier details, such as adding a "boing, boing" sound to the takes of the female lifeguards running.
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* ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'': A younger, invoked example. Stacey immediately crushes on the local lifeguard Scott Foley, who works at the Sea City beach. Stacey starts neglecting her job as a mother's helper with Mary Anne to fetch him drinks and fawn over him, and since he knows he's good looking, he lets girls do it -- though he has a girlfriend.
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* ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'': From a mid-segment interview with a lifeguard in "Muffed Dive":
-->As a lifeguard, we tend to get hit on by single moms all the time. It's kind of nice. It's one of the perks. We tend to call them [=MILFs=], [=GILFs=], cougs - if you're looking for that type of thing, I'd check out your local pool. I mean, where the babies are swimming, there's gotta be a MILF around there.
* ''Series/TheBabySittersClub2020'': In "Boy-Crazy Stacey", Stacey goes to the beach with Mary Anne to help babysit Mallory's many siblings, but she gets distracted mooning over a cute older lifeguard, who teases her and calls her cute. A comment by his girlfriend at the end of the episode implies that he's accidentally led on many a tween girl.
* ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' became known for putting its cast of attractive lifeguards into several sexually comedic situations.
* In the "Summer, Kind of Wonderful" episode of ''Series/GossipGirl2007'' an unnamed hot lifeguard (who has a Camaro, and ''not'' in the ironic way, apparently), asks Serena out. Blair acknowledges his fling/rebound potential:
-->'''Blair:''' A hot lifeguard is like Kleenex, use once and throw away!
* ''Series/MuppetsTonight'': PlayedForLaughs in the ''Baywatch'' parody "Bay of Pigs Watch"; Spamela Hamderson (whose puppet is designed to be noticeably [[BuxomBeautyStandard busty]]) is so attractive that David Hoggselhoff/Champ Schwimmer falls into GibberishOfLove when he first sees her in her bikini, and [[DistractedByTheSexy constantly ignores what's happening on the beach]] in favor of making out with her.
* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': In "Ocean Alert", the ShowWithinAShow of the same name is a parody of ''Baywatch'', with the show's star, Nikki Valentina, being stated as very attractive in-universe.
*''Series/SonOfTheBeach'' is basically a ''Baywatch'' parody starring a cast of babes who work as lifeguards on a beach. It cranks the fanservice through the roof but also focuses on world-renowned lifeguard Notch Johnson (played by Creator/TimothyStack). Notch is considered by several members of the female cast to be the hottest man on earth but is intentionally cast a very average-looking, pasty skinned and out of shape man.
* ''Series/StrangerThings'': In season 3, the fit and handsome Billy starts working as a lifeguard at the Hawkins pool. He gets an extended ShirtlessScene of him walking poolside in slow motion as the moms of Hawkins gawk over him.
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* ''VisualNovel/BeingADIK'': Heather shows up to the Halloween party in Vixens dressed in a red speedo as a lifeguard; hilariously, it's the same speedo Tremolo wore for the car wash in Episode 4 (she insists she has washed it multiple times). This trope is brought to the fore if [[spoiler:a DIK Tremolo accepts her advances towards him after she sees Tommy take Christine to bed.]]
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* ''Webcomic/{{Transmission}}'': In [[https://transmission.thecomicseries.com/comics/266/#content-start "The Otter Side of Reggie"]] a hunky surf instructor acts as Reg's bisexual ClosetKey.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS8E17Boywatch Boywatch]]" Tina signs up to be a junior lifeguard because she thinks she'll get to flirt with shirtless cute boys, only to find that she's in over her head.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Parodied. A trio of lifeguards, consisting of two attractive women and a muscular man, are featured as a RunningGag in "Beach Bummed!" Whenever Timmy needs their help, they are shown running towards the camera in slow motion, until they finally arrive at the end of the episode. Their reputation as useless eye candy is lampshaded and accepted in-universe.
--> '''Timmy:''' Man, they are slow... but they look good!
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "The Deep End", Dipper's crush Wendy Corduroy becomes a lifeguard at the local pool, making Dipper decide to try to become assistant lifeguard so he can spend more time with her. Downplayed, since, outside of Dipper's crush and a single line of dialogue from Mabel pointing out that Wendy could be in a bikini, the lifeguard job isn't particularly sexualized.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' has a ShowWithinAShow called ''Babewatch'', an obvious parody of ''Baywatch'', starring some hot lifeguards. Arnold meets a girl named Summer who wants to be on the show. In the end the potential for romantic shenanigans with lifeguards pops up when [[spoiler:Helga and Arnold get on ''Babewatch'' and Helga takes the chance to kiss Arnold when his character needs mouth-to-mouth.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowskiSuburbanDaredevil'': In "Pool Daze", Brad is so besotted with the pool's attractive lifeguard that he agrees to keep Kick and the others out of the pool for her (as she cares very little about the job and doesn't want to actually do any lifeguarding work).
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* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'': One of the purchasable items in the Krypt is a picture of Sonya in a red bikini, working as a lifeguard. The text warns against faking a drowning to get mouth-to-mouth resuscitation from her.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Mercy's summer skin has her as a lifeguard. If this skin is equipped and one of her highlight intros plays, the camera slowly pans up her body ''Series/{{Baywatch}}''-style.
* ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'': Cassie is an attractive female lifeguard at the Summerville Public Swimming Pool who swims there naked after closing time. She agrees to a FriendsWithBenefits arrangement with the MC when he stumbles upon her.
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Lifeguards in fiction are an easy source of {{fanservice}} for a number of obvious reasons:
* Their job requires them to hang around in [[WalkingSwimsuitScene swimsuits]] (if female) or [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless]] (if male);
* They're frequently [[WetAndWildTropes soaked, upping the attractiveness factor]];
* They are naturally required to be athletic and in shape;
* The prospect of being [[RescueRomance rescued]] by an attractive person, who may or may not need to give CPRCleanPrettyReliable or the KissOfLife, is romantic.
As a result, if characters [[BeachEpisode go to the pool or beach for an installment]], expect at least one scene ogling the sexy lifeguard. If the lifeguard actually has to save anybody, expect the characters to swoon over this (or even try to invoke it for themselves). This also has a tamer variation for for child/young teen characters, for whom the innocent activity of swimming in a public place will become more exciting when [[PrecociousCrush a hot older teenager is the lifeguard watching over them.]]
On the other hand, someone might want to be a lifeguard thinking that this trope is in play, and expect to score dates while on the job. If the lifeguard is male and knowingly using his good looks to get girls, he may be a MuscleBeachBum.
In the United States, the popularity of the long-running television show ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'', which put its cast of models and modelesque actors in soapy, sexy situations while lifeguarding, contributes to this trope. Any ''Baywatch'' parody/reference will emphasize the hotness of the lifeguards and the sexiness of their plots.
Compare InherentlyAttractiveProfession (with which it can overlap if everyone assumes lifeguards are attractive), as well as other jobs that are frequently sexualized like HotMenAtWork, FiremenAreHot, HospitalHottie, FairCop, and HelloAttorney.
Please note that this is not about any lifeguard [[HollywoodBeautyStandards who happens to be played by a good-looking actor]]. The work must portray them as attractive in part due to their job, or ''assume'' that lifeguarding is implicitly a sexy job.
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* A 90s UsefulNotes/TacoBell ad featured several boys on a beach gawking at a sexy female lifeguard (played by Debbe Dunning, better known as Heidi the Tool Time Girl on ''Series/HomeImprovement'') while she lunches on a quesadilla. One boy works up the nerve to talk to her, and ends up fainting... and when she muses about giving him mouth to mouth, his friends faint too.
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* ''Anime/MyHime'': Inverted. In episode 9, Mai serves as a lifeguard during her summer vacation. While Mai is the show's preeminent display of BuxomBeautyStandard, and she is clad in a flattering bikini during her lifeguard tenure, it is one of the few times her attractive physique is NOT played for fanservice, as she is clearly bored near to tears as she blandly calls through a megaphone for a raft that is out too far to come back in and says they can still have fun while playing by the rules.
* ''Anime/SquidGirl'': Goro Arashiyama, Tatsui Isozaki, and all the rest of the Lifesavers are tall, muscular men who [[WalkingShirtlessScene tend to go around in just their swimming trunks]], showing off their pecs and abs, and there's an audible gleam to their teeth when they smile. Their Fanservice is [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], though, as Goro has SingleTargetSexuality for Chizuru, and Isozaki usually strikes out with the ladies he tries to flirt with, particularly the ShrinkingViolet Ayumi, though that may have more to do with her social anxiety than anything against Isozaki in particular. The rest of the Lifesavers in the show are shown in the background and go unnamed.
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* ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKidDogDays'': Rodrick throws himself into a pool and pretends to be drowning so that the lifeguard, the attractive Heather Hills, will give him mouth-to-mouth. Unfortunately for him, Heather is pretty apathetic about lifeguarding and it's a man who comes to his "rescue" instead.
* ''Film/Baywatch2017'''s promotional materials emphasize the attractiveness of its young lifeguard cast, with Matt shown shirtless with a glistening chest and the women posing sexily.
* Invoked in ''Film/Piranha3DD'', where female stripper lifeguards are part of Chet's HotterAndSexier renovations at the water park.
-->'''Maddy''': Please tell me you didn't just fire our old lifeguards and replace them with strippers!
-->'''Chet''': ''Water-certified'' strippers.
* In ''Film/TheSandlot'', Wendy Peffercorn, a very attractive teenage girl, is the lifeguard at the pool the kids go to. Squints, the nerdy kid of the group, has it bad for her, prompting him to concoct a scheme where he pretends to drown so Wendy will save him and give him mouth to mouth.
* Parodied in ''Film/WrongfullyAccused'', in which the opening from ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' is re-enacted with a number of goofier details, such as adding a "boing, boing" sound to the takes of the female lifeguards running.
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* ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'': A younger, invoked example. Stacey immediately crushes on the local lifeguard Scott Foley, who works at the Sea City beach. Stacey starts neglecting her job as a mother's helper with Mary Anne to fetch him drinks and fawn over him, and since he knows he's good looking, he lets girls do it -- though he has a girlfriend.
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* ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'': From a mid-segment interview with a lifeguard in "Muffed Dive":
-->As a lifeguard, we tend to get hit on by single moms all the time. It's kind of nice. It's one of the perks. We tend to call them [=MILFs=], [=GILFs=], cougs - if you're looking for that type of thing, I'd check out your local pool. I mean, where the babies are swimming, there's gotta be a MILF around there.
* ''Series/TheBabySittersClub2020'': In "Boy-Crazy Stacey", Stacey goes to the beach with Mary Anne to help babysit Mallory's many siblings, but she gets distracted mooning over a cute older lifeguard, who teases her and calls her cute. A comment by his girlfriend at the end of the episode implies that he's accidentally led on many a tween girl.
* ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' became known for putting its cast of attractive lifeguards into several sexually comedic situations.
* In the "Summer, Kind of Wonderful" episode of ''Series/GossipGirl2007'' an unnamed hot lifeguard (who has a Camaro, and ''not'' in the ironic way, apparently), asks Serena out. Blair acknowledges his fling/rebound potential:
-->'''Blair:''' A hot lifeguard is like Kleenex, use once and throw away!
* ''Series/MuppetsTonight'': PlayedForLaughs in the ''Baywatch'' parody "Bay of Pigs Watch"; Spamela Hamderson (whose puppet is designed to be noticeably [[BuxomBeautyStandard busty]]) is so attractive that David Hoggselhoff/Champ Schwimmer falls into GibberishOfLove when he first sees her in her bikini, and [[DistractedByTheSexy constantly ignores what's happening on the beach]] in favor of making out with her.
* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': In "Ocean Alert", the ShowWithinAShow of the same name is a parody of ''Baywatch'', with the show's star, Nikki Valentina, being stated as very attractive in-universe.
*''Series/SonOfTheBeach'' is basically a ''Baywatch'' parody starring a cast of babes who work as lifeguards on a beach. It cranks the fanservice through the roof but also focuses on world-renowned lifeguard Notch Johnson (played by Creator/TimothyStack). Notch is considered by several members of the female cast to be the hottest man on earth but is intentionally cast a very average-looking, pasty skinned and out of shape man.
* ''Series/StrangerThings'': In season 3, the fit and handsome Billy starts working as a lifeguard at the Hawkins pool. He gets an extended ShirtlessScene of him walking poolside in slow motion as the moms of Hawkins gawk over him.
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* ''VisualNovel/BeingADIK'': Heather shows up to the Halloween party in Vixens dressed in a red speedo as a lifeguard; hilariously, it's the same speedo Tremolo wore for the car wash in Episode 4 (she insists she has washed it multiple times). This trope is brought to the fore if [[spoiler:a DIK Tremolo accepts her advances towards him after she sees Tommy take Christine to bed.]]
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* ''Webcomic/{{Transmission}}'': In [[https://transmission.thecomicseries.com/comics/266/#content-start "The Otter Side of Reggie"]] a hunky surf instructor acts as Reg's bisexual ClosetKey.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS8E17Boywatch Boywatch]]" Tina signs up to be a junior lifeguard because she thinks she'll get to flirt with shirtless cute boys, only to find that she's in over her head.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Parodied. A trio of lifeguards, consisting of two attractive women and a muscular man, are featured as a RunningGag in "Beach Bummed!" Whenever Timmy needs their help, they are shown running towards the camera in slow motion, until they finally arrive at the end of the episode. Their reputation as useless eye candy is lampshaded and accepted in-universe.
--> '''Timmy:''' Man, they are slow... but they look good!
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "The Deep End", Dipper's crush Wendy Corduroy becomes a lifeguard at the local pool, making Dipper decide to try to become assistant lifeguard so he can spend more time with her. Downplayed, since, outside of Dipper's crush and a single line of dialogue from Mabel pointing out that Wendy could be in a bikini, the lifeguard job isn't particularly sexualized.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' has a ShowWithinAShow called ''Babewatch'', an obvious parody of ''Baywatch'', starring some hot lifeguards. Arnold meets a girl named Summer who wants to be on the show. In the end the potential for romantic shenanigans with lifeguards pops up when [[spoiler:Helga and Arnold get on ''Babewatch'' and Helga takes the chance to kiss Arnold when his character needs mouth-to-mouth.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowskiSuburbanDaredevil'': In "Pool Daze", Brad is so besotted with the pool's attractive lifeguard that he agrees to keep Kick and the others out of the pool for her (as she cares very little about the job and doesn't want to actually do any lifeguarding work).
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* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance'': One of the purchasable items in the Krypt is a picture of Sonya in a red bikini, working as a lifeguard. The text warns against faking a drowning to get mouth-to-mouth resuscitation from her.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Mercy's summer skin has her as a lifeguard. If this skin is equipped and one of her highlight intros plays, the camera slowly pans up her body ''Series/{{Baywatch}}''-style.
* ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'': Cassie is an attractive female lifeguard at the Summerville Public Swimming Pool who swims there naked after closing time. She agrees to a FriendsWithBenefits arrangement with the MC when he stumbles upon her.
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