History Main / MuscleBeachBum

* ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'': The "Tough Guy" is an enemy you can find in Summers. He's literally a muscled blonde guy in a Hawaiian shirt.

* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Muscle Tussle" has WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck antagonized by a muscular duck who steals his girlfriend away.

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Then he shows up. He's big. He's strong. He's wearing only [[BriefsBoasting a speedo]]. He impresses [[EstrogenBrigade the ladies]] by flexing and demonstrating his strength. He may belittle, bully or make jealous any non-muscly guy in his presence. He just might ruin your day. You have just met the Muscle Beach Bum.

It's a lovely day at the beach. Sun, surf and good times. You're probably out with your friends or your girl catching some rays, playing some volleyball, frisbee or ''[[SmashingWatermelons suikawari]]'', and/or simply enjoying the beach scenery.

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* Played with in a commercial for ''[[VideoGame/TheSims1 The Sims Vacation]]''. A Muscle Beach Bum and his girlfriend bully a scrawnier man and his girlfriend on the beach. The scrawny guy tries to impress his girlfriend by standing up to the bum only to get the shit beaten out of him. His girlfriend goes up to the jock, makes a fist, looks him straight in the eyes... [[BaitAndSwitch And punches the bully's girlfriend and leaves the scrawny guy for the bully]].

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* ''Anime/UsagichanDeCue'' has three of them, all with muscular frames, swim goggles, bathing caps and speedos, calling themselves the "Sailors of Sinbad." They get lewd with Miku, and make short work of Haru.

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* ''ComicBook/FlexMentallo'' is supposed to be a Silver Age super-hero with a CharlesAtlasSuperpower that allows him to do, well, anything by flexing his muscles while simultaneously being a parody of a Charles Atlas advertisement. The trope codifying Charles Atlas advertisement is Flex' origin story.

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* Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures and its "beach party" genre of movies in the mid-1960's. In fact one such movie was ''Muscle Beach Party'' which naturally had plenty of these.

* In ''Marilyn: A Biography'', Creator/NormanMailer tells how Creator/MarilynMonroe often went to the muscle beach in Santa Monica to [[EatingTheEyeCandy watch]] these guys [[WorkoutFanservice lift weights]] [[BriefsBoasting in speedos]] on "oppressively hot days" and [[FemaleGaze look at their smooth, hairless bodies, muscles and sweat]].

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** Years later, after Jon got in a relationship with Liz and the two went to the beach [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2010/07/27 a muscle bound jock]] kicked sand in Jon's face and tried to flirt with her. Liz simply told him the guy to get lost.

* Sandy Beach, the closest thing to a recurring antagonist during Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1's Hawaii-Japan friendship series.[[/folder]]

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* Super Macho Man from ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' is one of these as a boxer. He's full of muscle, has a tan and tends to speak in surfer lingo. His first image of his pre-fight montage even shows him working out and impressing ladies at the beach.
* ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'': The "Tough Guy" is an enemy you can find in Summers. He's literally a muscled blonde guy in a Hawaiian shirt.
* Aaron in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' is a seahorse whose main hobby is flexing his well-muscled ([[{{Pun}} well-musseled?]]) torso, which has been known to intimidate some other monsters.

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* Larry the Lobster from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''. He's a bodybuilder who's always wearing swim trunks, even when he's not lifeguarding at the Goo Lagoon. Larry is egotistic and a bit thick headed, but not intentionally malicious, and has been shown to be good friends with Sandy Cheeks.

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** Another has a muscular man flexing, with a woman suggesting they go to her room so he can show off his muscles. They do so... and the hguy ''keeps showing off'' his muscles, to the woman's obvious disappointment.

* In ''Marilyn: A Biography'', Creator/NormanMailer tells how Creator/MarilynMonroe often went to the muscle beach in Santa Monica to [[EatingTheEyeCandy watch]] these guys [[WorkoutFanservice lift weights]] [[BriefsBoasting in speedos]] on "oppressively hot days" and [[FemaleGaze look at their sweaty muscles]].

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[[caption-width-right:196:So much for fun under the sun.]]

->''"Jim and [[Creator/MarilynMonroe I]] were [[SexlessMarriage friends than mates]]\\
[[EvenTheGuysWantHim We'd]] go to Muscle Beach in Santa Monica\\
and [[WorkoutFanservice watch the bodybuilders flexing]] and flipping"''

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!Examples

* In ''Marilyn: A Biography'', Creator/NormanMailer tells how Creator/MarilynMonroe often went to the muscle beach in Santa Monica to [[EatingTheEyeCandy watch]] the [[BriefsBoasting speedo-clad muscle boys]] [[WorkoutFanservice lift weights]] on "oppressively hot days" when they would be really sweaty.

* ''ComicBook/RedEars'' parodies this in a comic with a tall bodybuilder and a short guy walking up to a sunbathing woman on a beach, with the bodybuilder doing some impressive flexing while the other guy just waits patiently until he's finished. Then the short guy simply pulls down his pants, [[BiggerIsBetterInBed causing the woman to gasp in amazement]] and walk off with him instead of the muscle guy.

* ''Film/DontMakeWaves'': Carlo lusts for gorgeous surfer Malibu (Creator/SharonTate), but before he can have sex with her he has to figure out how to deal with her gigantic bodybuilder boyfriend Harry. Luckily Harry is gentle, trusting, and pretty dumb, so Carlo arranges for a PhonyPsychic to tell Harry htat he has to break up with Malibu.

* In ''Marilyn: A Biography'', Creator/NormanMailer writes that Creator/MarilynMonroe often went to the muscle beach in Santa Monica to [[EatingTheEyeCandy watch]] the [[BriefsBoasting speedo-clad muscle boys]] [[WorkoutFanservice lift weights]] on "oppressively hot days" when they would be really sweaty.

Then he shows up. He's big. He's strong. He's [[WalkingShirtlessScene most likely without a shirt]] and wearing [[BriefsBoasting a speedo]]. He may try to impress the ladies by flexing and demonstrating his strength. He may belittle, bully or make jealous any non-muscly guy in his presence. He just might ruin your day. You have just met the Muscle Beach Bum.