History Main / ShowerOfAwkward

* A very widespread trope in the ''VisualNovel/DiabolikLovers'' [=VN=] series, to the point that it shows up in ''every'' route in the first two games. Occasionally the heroine will walk in while her love interest is bathing, but the other way around is much, much more common. The later [=VNs=] mainly reserve it for newly introduced characters.
* Subverted in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' when Shirou walks in on Saber in the bath. ''He'' feels really embarrassed for a bit but she tells him to get over it, she doesn't consider herself a girl anyway. Played straight later when Shirou does it ''again'', and Saber uses the moment to start wondering if [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon Shirou thinks she looks too muscular and unfeminine]] for mutual awkwardness.
* Sara walks in on her brother Suoh in the shower in ''VisualNovel/{{Sickness}}'' and gets a good glimpse at everything. She freaks, while Suoh isn't fazed at all.

* In ''Film/{{Elf}}'', Buddy hears Josie singing in the shower and enters the women’s changing room to sing along; since he's grown up solely alongside elves as opposed to humans, he doesn’t understand what changing rooms are. This leads to a rather awkward encounter.

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': Jerry's girlfriend walks in on George after he's been swimming, which horrifies George because he had just climbed out of a cold pool. ([[CatchPhrase "Shrinkage!"]]) George spends the rest of the episode contriving excuses to walk in on her naked to even the score.

* The ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' fic "[[http://bloomingviolets.usagi-carter.org/sitebuilder/Fanfiction/Power_Rangers/FTP/ Facing the Past]]" features a scene where Bridge is fixing the sink in Z and Syd's room and Z comes out after taking a shower, with the result that Bridge sees her naked before he can turn around or Z can grab a towel. While discussing the incident with Syd, Z learns that Syd has had similar moments with Sky (Syd musing that the bathrooms must be basically soundproof as nobody can hear anything going on in them from outside), although in that case Syd is less embarrassed as she and Sky are dating, allowing Syd to teasingly confirm that she's sure Bridge "enjoyed the view" of Z just as much as Sky enjoyed his own view of her.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': It's averted a lot in the manga. Ranma usually doesn't give a damn about who sees his girl side naked. For example, when Akane, or the rest of the Tendō family, runs into a naked [[GenderBender female Ranma]] in the bath, as the latter [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl couldn't care less]]. Played straight in other situations, however.

Often, but not always, the two characters have a history of [[WillTheyOrWontThey sexual tension]]. If so, the incident typically leads to either an UnprovokedPervertPayback or awkwardness and mutual avoidance, until they decide to pretend {{That Didnt Happen}}. If not, it's at least a source of {{Fanservice}}.

** ''[[VideoGame/FatalFrameIIITheTormented III]]'': Rei notices someone near the bathroom door while she showers, but the "someone" is ''a ghost'', not Miku (her roommate). Fortunately for her, said ghost doesn't harm or kill her, though the experience still leaves her feeling unnerved by it.
** ''[[VideoGame/FatalFrameVMaidenOfBlackWater V]]'': Yuri is bathing in her tub, but is dragged underwater, and then locked in a submerged box with a ghost. [[CatapultNightmare She then flings herself awake]], realizing it has been AllJustADream but feeling shaken by the incident all the same.
* Happens differently to normal in ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2'', as you might expect when the two people are a cop and an assassin.

* Downplayed as a RunningGag in the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' song "Oh, Where Is My Hairbrush", when Larry the Cucumber - having just gotten out of the shower - is singing about how he can't find his hairbrush. Pa Grape, Junior Asparagus and Bob the Tomato both pop in to offer their thoughts, and are "shocked and slightly embarrassed at the sight of Larry in a towel." [[RuleOfThree Finally]] the Peach enters to resolve the story, also wearing a towel, leaving both him and Larry "shocked and slightly embarrassed at the sight of... each other".

* Downplayed as a RunningGag in the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' song "Oh, Where Is My Hairbrush", when Larry the Cucumber - having just gotten out of the shower - is singing about how he can't find his hairbrush. Junior Asparagus and Bob the Tomato both pop in to offer their thoughts, and are "shocked and slightly embarrassed at the sight of Larry in a towel." [[RuleOfThree Finally]] the Peach enters to resolve the story, also wearing a towel, leaving both him and Larry "shocked and slightly embarrassed at the sight of... each other".

* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'': Used this trope in season 1 in order to build up sexual tension between Caleb and Hanna. He is secretly crashing at her place after his foster parents gave him the boot. While he is taking a shower she walks into the room in order to fix her make up. She is then forced to step into the shower, while naked Caleb is there, when ''her mother'' walks into the room. RomanceEnsues by the end of the episode, soon to b followed by [[CoitusEnsues more]].

* Czeslaw, being something of a {{troll}}, gets the idea to engineer one of these incidents between his two TwiceShy roommates in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}} 1935A - Deep Marble''

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Touma catches himself before entering the bathroom of Orsola Aquinas's house, as he hears the shower running ({{Lampshading}} how cliche it would be for him to fall victim to this trope in the process). However, he then tries the door across the hall... which turns out to ''also'' be a bathroom. Both Index and Orsola were showering, and he walks in on Orsola. He further {{Lampshades}} that he could have avoided all this if he had just thought to ''knock''.

* Subverted in ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', when Shinra tries to invoke this on his girlfriend [[spoiler:and instead gets the perfect view of his ''father's'' naked ass]]. [[BrainBleach He is not pleased]].

* This is how Ichika finds out [[spoiler: [[UnsettlingGenderReveal Charlotte's true gender]]]] in ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos''.

* [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]] in ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'': Ryuuji walks in on Ami in the shower while she's behind the curtain. When he tries to run away, she stops him and tells him to stay. As he gets flustered, she pulls the curtain aside... only to reveal that she's fully clothed and did it to mess with his head. Ryuuji flees the scene unable to speak due to embarrassment. Eventually, he gets Taiga to fight this battle for him, only Ami actually ''is'' showering by the time Taiga confronts her.

* In the ''LightNovel/DisgaeaNovels'' Laharl accidentally walks in on Flonne while she is in a hot spring. He blushes and quickly walks out.

** But played straight with Mulder and Scully themselves. There's a brief but spectacularly awkward scene when they have to [[DecontaminationChamber shower to remove possible contagion]]. Though there seems to be separate showers for each of them, the dividing wall is not particularly useful, privacy-wise, and they both look very uncomfortable with the situation (and try extremely hard not to check each other out).

** Averted in the episode 'Demons' in which Scully finds a naked Mulder trying to warm up in a steaming bathtub, in shock after being drugged and traumatized.

* Czeslaw, being something of a {{troll}}, gets the idea to engineer one of these incidents between his two [[InnocentCohabitation innocently cohabiting]] and TwiceShy roommates in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}} 1935A - Deep Marble''

* In ''Film/HellBaby,'' Jack finds out Marjorie has gotten to their house by bumping into her in the shower. He puts on a towel to finish the have a conversation, while [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl she doesn't]].
* The film version of ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' has this with Arthur and Trillian, as part of their [[PromotedToLoveInterest newly introduced love story]].

** Though Red's "What have we here?" line, screen fade to black, and the subsequent [[ArmorPiercingSlap red mark]] on his face suggest perhaps he ''stole'' Elh's towel the first time...

Any time someone [[InvokedTrope contrives to invoke this trope]], they're almost guaranteed to catch the wrong person and suffer for it somehow, often by exposure to FanDisservice.

* In ''Manga/TheWallflower'' Sunako seeing Kyouhei in the shower (while she is naked in preparation for ''her own'' shower) is the event which inspires her to plan to kill him.
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', with the OfficialCouple. It ''was'' an accident, really!
* In ''Manga/{{Kekkaishi}}'', Yoshimori gets an eyeful of Tokine taking a bath when he is skulking around her house looking for her because he has not seen her in three days. He feels really bad about it afterwards -- so much so that he began to avoid her, making her think that he was mad at her. They patch it up fairly quickly, but it prompts her to "rely" on him more. In other words, this is when she starts to go after him. So, boys and girls, [[BrokenAesop stalk and peek at girls you like]] -- it will help apparently.
* A gender-flipped version occurs in ''Manga/{{Otomen}}'' when Ryo (girl) walks in on a very naked Asuka (guy) in the bathroom. ''He'' freaks out, ''she'' doesn't even seem to notice.

* Subverted in ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', when Shinra tries to invoke this on his girlfriend [[spoiler:and instead gets the perfect view of his ''father's'' naked ass]]. [[BrainBleach He is not pleased]].
-->'''Celty:''' What's wrong?\\
'''Shinra:''' I have seen the face of hell.\\
'''Celty:''' Huh? The face of what?\\
'''Shinra:''' Don't make me talk about it! ''I just want to forget!!!''
* This is how Ichika finds out [[spoiler: [[UnsettlingGenderReveal Charlotte's true gender]]]] in ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos''.
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', it happens ''twice'' to Kallen ([[MsFanservice who is surprised?]]). First, with a Lelouch nice enough to try to look away. Second, a WaterfallShower spotted by Suzaku. Oh, Kallen, it will be quicker finding the shower tropes you ''didn't'' fulfill.
* Czeslaw, being something of a {{troll}}, gets the idea to engineer one of these incidents between his two [[InnocentCohabitation innocently cohabiting]] and TwiceShy roommates in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}} 1935A - Deep Marble''
-->'''Czes:''' Weeellll, for the next one, I’m thinking about hiding Firo's clothes the next time he takes a shower. Then, while he's looking all over for them, I'll have Ennis take them to him!
* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Touma catches himself before entering the bathroom of Orsola Aquinas's house, as he hears the shower running ({{Lampshading}} how cliche it would be for him to fall victim to this trope in the process). However, he then tries the door across the hall... which turns out to ''also'' be a bathroom. Both Index and Orsola were showering, and he walks in on Orsola. He further {{Lampshades}} that he could have avoided all this if he had just thought to ''knock''.
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': At the beginning of the ''Mazinger Z vs Great General of Darkness'' movie, [[TheHero Kouji]] went to the bathroom and he walked in on [[LoveInterest Sayaka]] right when she was taking a shower. She slapped him right away.
* ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'': Tomoki walks in on Yoshida showering at his house in chapter 168. Neither has any idea what the other is doing there.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** Happens a few times in ''Manga/DragonBall'', most famously with Yamcha seeing Bulma.
** Happens again in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' when Goku kept bugging Bulma to get him to train with Vegeta, the last time after she got out of the shower. Then when he accidentally teleported to her home when she got out of the shower.

* This is how [[SickeninglySweethearts Heathcliffe and Aki]] first met in ''Fanfic/OnePieceParallelWorks'', when Heathcliffe goes and takes a shower, but, catches Aki in the middle of her own shower. Thankfully, they get a proper introduction later.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In the 2008 comedy ''Film/WelcomeHomeRoscoeJenkins'', Reggie tries to sneak in on his cousin RJ's girlfriend in the shower but finds his cousin Betty there instead. The actors improvised their angry exchange.
* The film version of ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' has this with Arthur and Trillian, as part of their [[PromotedToLoveInterest newly introduced love story]].

* In ''Film/CaptainRon'', Martin and Katherine are fooling around in the shower when the door jams and the shower begins to flood. Captain Ron ends up coming to their rescue, much to their embarrassment, and afterward tells their son that his parents were "playing 'hide-the-salami' in the shower".

* In ''Film/TheProposal'', Margaret is at Andrew's parents' house (before their CitizenshipMarriage) and leaves the towel outside the bathroom when she showers. She tries to get it, but their dog stands outside the door and starts barking loudly. She manages to trap the dog in the bathroom, only to bump into a naked Andrew who was also about to take a shower.
* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''Film/DemolitionMan'' when John Spartan receives a wrong number [[VideoPhone Fiber Op]] call from [[FanserviceExtra a woman who had just stepped out of the shower.]]
* Steve Hardman's attempt at ShowerOfLove with his foreign language teacher Mona Lott turns into this in ''Film/LooseScrews'' when he misinterprets what she said in French -- to the effect of "I'm in the shower, I'll be out in a minute" -- as "I'm in the shower, won't you come join me?" and proceeds to strip down and enter into the shower with her, scaring her and sending him running to the door.
* In the prologue of ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'', Danny walks in on his pre-adolescent sister Kathleen, resulting in the latter screaming in a ModestyTowel.
* In ''Film/HellBaby,'' Jack finds out Marjorie has gotten to their house by bumping into her in the shower. He puts on a towel to finish the have a conversation, while [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl she doesn't]].
* ''Film/LastChristmas:'' In the first five minutes of the movie, the protagonist meets a guy at a bar, spends the night with him, and the next morning things seem great...until ''his wife'' gets home from her business trip a day early and does this.

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* ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'': Eugene tries to do this with his hot cousin Nora after being coached on the technique by his older brother, but it backfires on him when she accidentally walks in on him using the toilet.

* Referenced in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' when Peter and his neighbors win a trophy for a parade float commemorating the ''Who's the Boss?'' scene.
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' when Marge comes upon a decidedly ''un-''sexy Burns in the shower.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCrampTwins'', Miss Hissy is temporarily appointed Lucien and Wayne's mother while their real mother is way, and starts making romantic advances towards their dad. She intentionally barges in on Mr. Cramp while he is naked and showering, which terrifies him to the point that he refuses to bathe again until forced to by his boss. Mrs. Cramp comes home just as Miss Hissy is about to do this again.

* Seen in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''.
** In ''Neptune's Spatula'', the Roman God Neptune attempts to show [=Spongebob=] his reward for beating him at a cook off via a magical cloud, which accidentally opens up to Creator/TomKenny ([=SpongeBob=]'s real voice actor) showering. As you can guess, he panics when he realizes he's being looked upon.
** In ''New Digs'', Mr.Krabs enters his office to see that [=SpongeBob=] has hung floral print curtains in his office. Upset, he yanks them down to reveal [=SpongeBob's=] mother taking a shower only for her husband to walk in and get upset with him and as usual with the cartoon, [[HilarityEnsues all hell breaks loose]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Bobby walks in on his cousin Luanne. A jealous Joseph then keeps trying to do the same.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Marceline's Closet", Finn and Jake end up stuck hiding in Marceline's bedroom closet when Jake ignores her warning to stay out of her house when she's out, and she comes back at the wrong time. At one point Finn tries to sneak out and see what she's doing... which turns out to be taking a shower. He manages to avoid being detected, but it's heavily implied he accidentally saw Marceline {{naked| people are funny}}.

* ''Manga/SkipBeat'' has Kyouko and Ren spend the first night in their roles as the Heel siblings in a hotel room. Since Ren's taking a long time with his shower and bath, Kyouko assumes that 'her big brother' Ren has fallen asleep in the tub and storms in, pulling back the curtain to scold him. And Ren's still in the middle of showering.

* Happened in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. Tai and Izzy rush into a room to save Mimi who has just been carried off. Sora notices Mimi's dress on the floor and calls for them not to go in there. Naturally, they catch Mimi in the bath and get hit with various bath oil bottles.
* Occasionally in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'', Lucia will happen to walk in on Kaito in the shower. Partial subversion in that he doesn't get angry about it.
* In ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', [[HotBlooded Rosette]] chases [[DirtyOldMan the Elder]] out of the girl's showers... completely forgetting that she's naked. Chrono happens to be standing outside of the room at the time, which leads to the following exchange:
-->'''Rosette:''' ''[not noticing Chrono at first]'' Can't let my guard down for a second!\\
'''Chrono:''' ''[[DeadpanSnarker What]]'' [[DeadpanSnarker guard]]?\\
'''Rosette:''' You can't come in here, either!\\
'''Chrono:''' I was just waiting outside!\\
''[Rosette [[{{Tsundere}} punches Chrono]]]''

* After coming to the wrong conclusion that Yasuna bathed with Hazumu in ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'', Tomari ''drags'' Hazumu to her house, throws her in the bathtub and then enter the bathroom a few moments later, in only a towel, wishing to bathe with her. Obviously, after learning what happens, [[HilarityEnsues embarrassment ensues]].

** Phoebe walks in on Piper and Leo in the shower together. A flashback episode where Phoebe and Paige get sent back in time has the same scene reused only with present Phoebe walking in this time.

---> '''Phoebe:''' Hey, ''I was wearing slippers!''

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Chandler accidentally sees Rachel topless as she exits the shower. Rachel then tries to walk in on Chandler as payback but gets Joey instead. Joey then tries to get even by walking in on Rachel but gets Monica. Monica then tries to catch Joey, but instead sees Joey's dad, bringing the ZanySchemeChicken to a screeching halt. Notably, Joey's father is completely unfazed.