History Main / NakedPeopleAreFunny

* A running gag in AndyGriffithsJustSeries involves Andy ending up naked in front of his dad's boss Mr. Bainbridge and his wife.

* A running gag in the ''Literature/{{Just}}'' books involves Andy ending up naked in front of his dad's boss Mr. Bainbridge and his wife.

* A sort of running joke in the ''Literature/{{Just}}'' books:
** In "Mud Men", Andy and his dad end up trapped naked outside and covered in mud.
** In one story, Andy and his family end up in a naturist camp by mistake.
** In another story, Andy ends up flying through the air naked and says that it "actually feels nice because [he feels] the wind on places you don't normally get to feel the wind on."

* ''What The--?!'' featured a nudity-based joke in the 24th issue in the segment "Misprints in the Comics", which had Marvel characters put in humorous situations because of a single word in their title being changed to a similar-sounding one. The panel for ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' was entitled ''The'' '''Nude''' ''Warriors'' and depicted Speedball, Nova, Namorita, Firestar, Night Thrasher, and Marvel Boy forced to go home naked after a visit to Las Vegas, their shame only covered by [[SpeechBubbleCensoring a speech bubble]], [[HandOrObjectUnderwear some hands]], and [[SceneryCensor a conveniently located street sign and car door]].

* The video for Music/{{Blink 182}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7l5ZeVVoCA "What's my age again?"]] should be renamed as "Naked People Are Funny: the Video". The band [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prvp53uUJEU later did a]] DistaffCounterpart InternalHomage.

** The fourth issue of ''Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds'' has the villain Skarg left naked when the Secret Spandex is separated from his body, with [[SpeechBubbleCensoring his crotch obscured by his own speech bubble]] and his humiliation at everyone seeing his privates played for comedy.

* In the prologue of ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}, King Peppy is forced to strip down to his underwear to save his people - before seemingly pulling off a HeroicSacrifice to save them. Moments later he proudly announces to the surprise of everyone that he's NotQuiteDead - but to their shock, he's quite ''naked'' now. The audience only sees him from behind.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheAntBully'' Lucas reverts to his normal size, ''but naked''.

* ''Barebum Billy'' is an Australian children's book about a boy named Billy Bottom who enjoys running around with no clothes on. In adulthood, he ends up marrying a woman named Millie, who adapts easily to her husband's nudist lifestyle and goes naked as well.

* During the second year of ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndThePrinceOfSlytherin'', someone steals the Slytherin Quidditch team's clothes while they're showering after practice, and they have to run through the castle in nothing but skimpy wet towels while the rest of the student body laughs. Subverted in that [[spoiler: the supposed prank was actually an assassination attempt against Harry engineered by Tom Riddle. The Slytherins were meant to be trapped outside the school, naked and wet, during a blizzard, and Harry's WBWL brother intended to be the scapegoat when "a Gryffindor prank gone wrong" resulted in Harry's death.]]

* ''Fanfic/AManOfIron'': When she ends up gaining [[spoiler: [[IntangibleMan intangibility]] powers]] in the last third of ''A Crack of Thunder'', Arya is very excited about trying them out... until her [[PowerIncontinence poor control]] ends up making her lose all her clothes right in front of Gendry. They're both utterly mortified, though [[spoiler: Mystique and Magneto]] find the whole thing amusing.

** In the second entry, Gaz and the Hi Skool popular girls decide to humiliate Viera by jumping her as she's changing in the locker room after a shower, stealing her ModestyTowel, and throwing her out into the hallway. She then has to streak and hide around the building to avoid being seen, at one point [[BullyHunter causing Torque]] to lose his swim trunks in the skool pool so that while everyone's laughing at ''him'' they won't notice ''her'' sneaking out of the room. [[spoiler: When she gets her clothes back, she gets revenge by casting a spell that [[LaserGuidedKarma causes Gaz and the others to lose their clothes]] in front of a full cafeteria, humiliating them.]]
** In the third entry, Gaz pranks Dib by tricking him into running out of the shower and straight out of the house, [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside which she then locks him out of]], and [[KickTheDog calling the police on him for streaking]]. In the process of hiding from the cops (and an angry dog), Dib loses his ModestyTowel, gets lost in the woods, and accidentally finds his way to a hippie nudist commune, where he bumps into Tak (who is investigating the place), leaving him [[DistractedByTheSexy quite flustered]]. [[spoiler: Meanwhile, circumstances back at the house eventually result in Gaz getting stripped and tossed out of the house by her father's lab's security systems, leading to her [[HoistByHisOwnPetard arrested by the police she called on Dib]].]]
** In the fourth entry, a bad luck curse cast by Gaz leads to Dib and Viera [[SlipperySwimsuit losing their swimsuits]] while fleeing the Slaughtering Rat People, and Steve to accidentally peep on a bathing [[OurNymphsAreDifferent Kleodora]], who then strips him as payback. [[spoiler: And when she learns Gaz was responsible for the curse, Kleodora [[LaserGuidedKarma strips her and dumps her in the woods to be chased by the Rat People as well]].]]
** The fifth entry has this happening all over the place regarding the jungle-themed Hi Skool dance: Gaz steals Viera's leopard skin bikini off of her, leaving her [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside stranded naked outside]], Kleodora dissolves Steve's loincloth into concealing smoke and threatens to disperse it if he doesn't dance with her, and Zim obsessively tries to steal Dib's loincloth [[EvilIsPetty to humiliate him in public]]. [[spoiler: In the end, Zim succeeds but accidentally also strips Tak and Tenn in the process, [[LaserGuidedKarma who take revenge by stealing his loincloth and tossing him in front of the entire crowded gym, Viera does the same to Gaz after taking back the bikini]], and Kleodora pulls the same smoke trick on Dib and Viera to make them dance together.]]

** In ''Film/TheMedallion'' he is naked after being [[spoiler: revived]]. This doesn't happen to anyone else and is even lampshaded in-universe when [[spoiler: his ActionGirl sidekick played by the gorgeous Claire Forlani is resurrected, with Chan wondering why is she clothed?]].

* Every film in the ''Series/Jackass'' franchise has utilized this, from the Muscle Stimulator on the “gooch” in the first film, Wee-Man randomly walking in naked during a meeting in “Number Two”, Chris Pontius successfully hitting a baseball by using his penis as a bat in “3D”, and too many cases in “Jackass Forever”, but notable ones are Chris dressing up his genitalia as a giant kaiju monster, and Steve-O having a whole hive of bees sting his. Keep in mind, these are only A FEW of the times they’ve used this trope in the entire franchise.

* The penultimate scene in ''Film/RedRocket'' has Simon Rex’s character running [[MaleFrontalNudity stark naked]] through his neighborhood in the wee hours of the morning, [[spoiler: to the tune of [=NSYNC=]’s “Bye, Bye, Bye”, no less]].

* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': Konami Code + This Trope = [[spoiler: Douglas wearing only boxers 'neath his trenchcoat]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5jRhJZen4E Kuroki]] caught his neighbor [[spoiler: Hiiragi, who was trying to steal his underwear after coming out from his bathroom, prompting an awkward conversation when the police come with Hiiragi still being naked.]]

* Every film in the ''Series/JackAss'' franchise has utilized this, from the Muscle Stimulator on the “gooch” in the first film, Wee-Man randomly walking in naked during a meeting in “Number Two”, Chris Pontius successfully hitting a baseball by using his penis as a bat in “3D”, and too many cases in “Jackass Forever”, but notable ones are Chris dressing up his genitalia as a giant kaiju monster, and Steve-O having a whole hive of bees sting his. Keep in mind, these are only A FEW of the times they’ve used this trope in the entire franchise.

* Manny, the printer and handyman of ''Literature/TheStrangerTimes'' newspaper, is usually too [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} spaced-out]] to notice if he's walking around naked. He doesn't understand why other folks are scandalized when half the population has similar... equipment... and a good portion of the other half have seen the like before. His nudity and the various reactions to it are played for comedy.

* ''Franchise/TheAvengers'' series ''Avengers Assemble'' #9-11 involves a bet between Tony Stark and Bruce Banner as to who can be the first to successfully rescue a missing scientist. The loser has to walk naked from Avengers Tower to the Baxter Building and back (in downtown Manhattan). [[spoiler:In the end, they BOTH lose and end up taking the walk of shame together, Banner in his Hulk form, no less. Even better, Tony's effort to jam all electronics to prevent anyone taking pictures is defeated when Spider-Man shows up to take a picture with an old-fashioned flash camera that ends up on the front page of the Daily Bugle under the headline "Naked Justice".]]
* In ''ComicBook/CatwomanWhenInRome'', DC anti-heroine Selina Kyle is forced to jump out the window completely naked when her hotel room is bombed and survives by landing in the pool in broad daylight, with the Riddler and Italian hitman known as the Blonde landing in the pool with her. The naked and very wet Selina manages to stay in control despite her sexual humiliation being played for laughs.
* The third issue of ''ComicBook/TheDesertPeach'' (about [[UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel Erwin "the Desert Fox" Rommel's]] homosexual younger brother) was about going surfing . . . in the NUDE!

* Marvel's Susan Storm-Richards, AKA: The Invisible Woman of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', has sometimes been a victim of unwanted public nudity, usually just narrowly avoiding complete and utter humiliation by turning invisible.
* For an example of a hero taking a ShamefulStrip to extremes to save innocent people from a crazy terrorist, DC's Firestorm did this to the villainess Plastique in which he used his power to deatomize her clothes so he could get the bombs that were attached to her and dispose of them safely somewhere else -- leaving the beautiful red-haired villainess completely naked and sexually humiliated in public, causing men and women alike to laugh at her. While undeniably cruel, it should also be pointed out that otherwise, she would have blown up a lot of innocent people. See ShamefulStrip and NakedPeopleTrappedOutside.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': During Creator/PeterDavid's run, the Leader shoots the Hulk with a BFG, seriously injuring him and incinerating his clothes. The Hulk regenerates almost immediately, but his clothes don't. The Leader requests, (more or less) "Dr. Banner, please! There are ladies present... And you're making some of us men feel inadequate."
* ''ComicBook/SheHulk'': She-Hulk always seems to end up naked one way or another. Like the time her Skrull partner tries teleporting her to their ship, but only teleporting her clothes, leaving She-Hulk naked in the middle of a crowd.
* In one ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'' story arc, a soldier realizes that the rules say that the uniform must be kept in perfect order but [[ExactWords say nothing about]] actually ''wearing'' it. He goes around naked, and the captain and the sergeant tries to find a way to make him wear the uniform and the other soldiers start ''imitating'' him. This arc is used in TheMovie; here, however, the captain wins when he declares he'll pick one of the naked soldiers to be the attendant of the DepravedHomosexual general, prompting all the soldiers to get back in their uniforms -- except the poor schmuck who wasn't listening.
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': The 16th issue of Creator/GeoffJohns' run has Superboy's X-ray vision activate while he's on a date with Cassie Sandsmark, startling him when he ends up seeing her and everyone else in the restaurant naked.
* Sung "Girl One" Li in ''ComicBook/TopTen'' is an ArtificialHuman [[WaifFu martial artist]] that can change the color of her skin at will -- her [[{{Stripperiffic}} "uniform"]] is to create a shifting pattern of lines and colors (mostly purple) on her skin that makes it hard to look at her. [[StrangelyEffectiveDisguise It works surprisingly well]] -- she later confesses to her partner at work that she's not wearing some form of jumpsuit. Note that the purple is her basic skin tone, "that of a waterlogged corpse", according to TPB extras.The justification behind this is that she was created by a couple of perverted video game fanboys who programmed her with compulsive nudism, of a sort -- she's not immodest per se, nor "really" a nudist, rather, she has a [[HypnoFool genetic compulsion that keeps her from feeling comfortable in clothing]] (but otherwise retains normal human modesty). The humour comes into play when she discovered one of her coworkers is color blind, and the [[AccidentalPervert whole "shifting patterns" thing doesn't really work...]]
* [[Characters/TheThing Ben Grimm]] suffers this in the first issue of ''The Thing : Freakshow''. His clothes are stolen by a pair of kids while washing himself on a lake, [[HandOrObjectUnderwear he covers his naughty bits with a piece of wood and a "swim at your own risk" billboard]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'', the Fox recounts to Wesley that the first supervillains (at least, in the sense that they were criminals with a gimmick) were a gang of robbers who committed their crimes naked so that the people they robbed would be too distracted by their nudity to identify them. Superheroes were also too afraid to do anything about them due to how inherently uncomfortable it is to fight a bunch of naked men. When Wesley asks how the crooks were eventually thwarted, the Fox simply answers "closed-circuit television", to which Wesley quips explains everything.
* In the German comic ''ComicBook/{{Werner}}'': Meister Röhrich, after the one or other explosion %% This entry was added automatically by FELH2. In case the wording doesn't make sense, rewrite it as you like, remove this comment and tell this troper.

* In ''ComicBook/MrAndMrsX'', Kitty Pride has to call Rogue and Gambit via video phone while they're [[InsatiableNewlyweds on their honeymoon]]. The first time Gambit deliberately drops his ModestyBedsheet to make a point about being sent on a mission right now. The second time Kitty calls, an alien woman is [[ItMakesSenseInContext running around the ship naked after shapeshifting to look like Rogue]].

* In ''Film/DoctorAtLarge'', Dr. Benskin walks in on the Maharajah of Branda sitting on a couch stark naked beside his turban, much to his embarrassment.

* The titular character in ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' makes an accidental naked appearance in front of a crowd that thinks he's the Messiah.
** They continued to do so with their post-Python work as well, including John Cleese's nude scene in ''Film/AFishCalledWanda''. Terry Jones also (allegedly) wrote the {{Novelization}} of Douglas Adams' ''Literature/StarshipTitanic'' in the nude, and only agreed to write it if he could do so; he also apparently played the organ while nude in ''Creator/MontyPython's Complete Waste Of Time'' to taunt players for breaking the rules.

* When shooting the co-ed shower scene in ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', Creator/PaulVerhoeven couldn't get the actors to do the scene as he wanted it since they were all too busy trying to hide their naughty bits from the camera and each other. So Verhoeven went "fucking Americans!" and stripped to the buff. The sight of a 60-year-old naked Dutchman directing the scene without a care in the world was enough to completely kill any drama from the situation, and the scene could be shot as seen in the film.