History Main / SlipperySwimsuit

* The November 24, 1992 strip of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has Jon Arbuckle lose his swimming trunks after jumping into the water at the beach. Other beach-goers from off-panel shriek at the sight of Jon sans swimming trunks, with Garfield remarking that he hates the beach, but it does have its moments.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'' The first half of episode 9 involves the whole cast enjoying themselves at the beach, including Asa getting her bikini top washed away by a large wave.

* Layla of ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' once [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20100531.html loses her top to a treacherous wave]]. Too bad (for onlookers) it's at night and too dark to see anything... [[spoiler:except for the resident werecat]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}'': Emma loses both halves of her bikini after a particularly spectacular wipe-out in "All We Are Saying is Give Reef a Chance," leaving her naked as other surfers look on.

** ''Happens to Lupin in ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro''. He dives underwater after one of the Count's aqua-suited goons. As he swims in pursuit through a tunnel, his boxers start to slip. At the end of the chase, he drags the unfortunate goon back into the tunnel... then reaches out to snatch his boxers before they can float away.

* In an ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' story, Veronica was upset that Archie was paying more attention to his fishing than her, so she grabbed a spare swim suit, hooked it to Archie's line, and told him he hooked her suit (the one she was wearing). Then ''[[{{Naked People are Funny}} she let him reel it in and told him he'd pulled it off of her.]]'' The rest of the story involved Archie trying to find something for her to cover up with.

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* A woman realizes it is not a smart idea to wear a strapless one piece while swimming in this [[https://youtu.be/m6O3kWM8NTM Special K commercial]].

* Franchise/LupinIII:
** Happens to Lupin in ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro''. He dives underwater after one of the Count's aqua-suited goons. As he swims in pursuit through a tunnel, his boxers start to slip. At the end of the chase, he drags the unfortunate goon back into the tunnel... then reaches out to snatch his boxers before they can float away.

* In the short ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13839190/1/What-Goes-Around What Goes Around]]'', Dib and Zim get into a fight while on a school field trip to a lake. Tossed into the lake, Dib instinctively lashes out to grab something that he can use for support, and unfortunately grabs Gaz's bikini top where she's standing next to where he landed. His weight causes it snap right off, [[NakedFreakOut causing Gaz to flee in embarrassment]].

* In ''VideoGame/RealBoutFatalFury'', Blue Mary may fall into water after she knocks her opponent out. When she comes back to the surface she frantically covers her chest, implying her top fell off.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' short ''Alona of the Sarong Seas'', this happens first to Olive, then to Popeye and Bluto.

* In a [[https://youtu.be/Bx-e9hl-O9I Cinsay ad]] a man dives into a pool and loses his trunks in front of a number of women. He eventually manages to get a new pair of trunks, but not before an older woman enjoys a peak.

* In [[http://transmission.thecomicseries.com/comics/763/#content-start this]] ''Webcomic/{{Transmission}}'' strip, Howard and Jeanette race each other to the bottom of a water slide, and learn why you ''don't'' go down head-first when they both finish before their suits do.

* In some ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' games, Blue Mary may fall into water after she knocks her opponent out. When she comes back to the surface she frantically covers her chest, implying her top fell off.

* Music/KatyPerry once went on a water-slide at Raging Waters park in California, and accidentally mooned everyone at the water park. The paparazzi were on hand, of course. Perry wrote on Twitter on August 13, 2012, "Let's be fair, I really think I deserve a season pass for that ass. Oh, and some flip flops." https://external-preview.redd.it/jM0_EMruyy6t0LZzEocUmbi5nboEd7hJh1x_IBu63cw.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0417456846559e1370ace1f1076719ad3327a1ed

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "From Method to Madness", Peter rescues a man from drowning after he was sucked out to sea by the riptide, and he gets pulled out no worse for wear sans being butt-naked. However, it's not until the man invites Peter and his family over for dinner that [[SubvertedTrope he didn't lose his bathing suit at all]]; [[NakedPeopleAreFunny he and his family are nudists]].

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy':
** One episode has Peter rescuing a nudist father from drowning, thinking that he must've lost his swim trunks.
** In another episode Peter loses his trunks in the surf at the beach.

* Happens to an unfortunate young swimmer in a [[http://www.tvspots.tv/video/24416/hitachi--the-tragedy Hitachi DVDCam commercial.]]

* Music/KatyPerry once went on a water-slide and accidentally mooned everyone at the water park. The paparazzi were on hand, of course.

* {{Invoked}} in the [[BeachEpisode Beach Issue]] of ''ComicBook/MazingMan''. Guido gets a bunch of girls in bikinis to go into the water with him and flap their arms, because at least one of their tops will come off. It happens all right -- to the ugly chick. Cue InUniverse {{Squick}}.

* In this episode of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4262w2bTbLs Pobre Rico]] a guy jumps into the pool and loses his trunks much to the humor of his attractive bikini wearing neighbor!

* Actress Creator/JayneMansfield orchestrated her discovery this way. She untied her bikini top as she was diving into the pool at the launch party for the Jane Russell film ''Underwater!'' She emerged topless and feigning embarassment, upstaging Jane Russell at her own event. As the pool was surrounded by reporters and photographers, [[{{Pun}} she made quite a splash]] and got a contract with a major studio within a week.

* On British reality TV show ''Coach Trip'', the contestants were taken to the Olympic pool in Barcelona to learn the basics of high-diving. Proceedings came to an embarrassed halt when a buxom young girl from Sunderland performed an impressive dive - losing her bikini bottoms on contact with the water. This was captured for posterity and screened to the nation at five in the evening, albeit with pixellation.

* In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13639506/2/Quantity-of-Quirks this]] ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfic, Miruko's one-piece swimsuit straps break during swim training with Izuku. It slips down to her waist giving him quite the eyeful.

** A chilling example happens in the series, where a woman dives into a pool ahead of Fujiko. Unfortunately for her, an assassin targeting the gang had filled the pool with acid; the floating bikini top serves as a DeadHatShot.

* A girl knows she is a ButtMonkey when she has SuperDrowningSkills and, during her first day of school, she ''still'' ends up thrown into a pool while wearing a one-piece SchoolSwimsuit... which somehow is slippery enough to [[InnocentFanserviceGirl leave her]] [[NakedPeopleAreFunny completely nude]]. Ryuubi from ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' discovers this the hard way.

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* In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13639506/2/Quantity-of-Quirks this]] Manga/MyHeroAcademia fanfic, Miruko's one piece swimsuit straps break during swim training with Izuku. It slips down to her waist giving him quite the eyeful.

* It happens to Brandy twice in ''Film/TheToDoList'' First she [[https://youtu.be/3KN4cetJfyk loses her bikini top]] at the public pool after coming down a water slide much to the excitment of the crowd. She loses it a second time after coming down another water slide while swimming with her crush.

* In the BeachEpisode of ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}'', Dustin loses his trunks. He's so embarrassed that he refuses to leave the water, and by the end of the day he's sick and miserable.

* Back in 1969, Gerard Cox sang ''Broekje in de Branding'', a Dutch song which translates as ''Bottoms in the Surf''. It's about some lost bikini bottoms, and that there must be some helpless woman in the water somewhere.

* In an ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' story, Veronica was upset that Archie was paying more attention to his fishing than her, so she grabbed a spare swim suit, hooked it to Archie's line, and told him he hooked her suit (the one she was wearing). Then ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar she let him reel it in and told him he'd pulled it off of her.]]'' The rest of the story involved Archie trying to find something for her to cover up with.

* In [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/25178320/chapters/65662069 this]] Manga/MyHeroAcademia fanfic, Miruko's one piece swimsuit straps break during swim training with Izuku. It slips down to her waist giving him quite the eyeful.

* In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY8nntJQxr4 Coke commercial,]] a tossed bottle of soda goes too far. Two people want it and dive into the water to race for it. Though the young man gets the bottle, the mischievous girl gets his trunks!!

* Yuno's bikini top gets washed away at a water park in ''Manga/FutureDiary'', and she ends up covering her front by clinging to the back of her love interest Yukiteru until the staff can retrieve it for her... but knowing [[ClingyJealousGirl Yuno]], she may have done it on purpose as part of her plan to make him fall in love with her.
* If you see Machiko-sensei (from ''Manga/MissMachiko'') in a bathing suit, it will inevitably slip off.
* In the first ''Manga/FairyTail'' {{OVA}}, [[DirtyOldMan Makarov]] loses his speedo, [[BrainBleach much to the horror of the boys spying on the pool]].
%%* This happens a lot in ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty''.
* During the BeachEpisode chapter of ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'', Seo steals the drawstrings of Nozaki, Mikoshiba, and Wakamatsu's swim trunks to "create more excitement", and the three boys [[NakedPeopleAreFunny promptly lose their shorts in the water]].

* [[http://www.renaud-bray.com/ImagesEditeurs/PG/1060/1060187-gf.jpg The cover]] for the ''Spirou'' compilation #309, with characters from the French-Canadian comic ''ComicBook/LesNombrils'', features such an incident, with Jenny's top staying afloat above her while she's at the bottom of the swimming pool.

* In an ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' story, Veronica was upset that Archie was paying more attention to his fishing than her, so she grabbed a spare swim suit, hooked it to Archie's line, and told him he hooked her suit (the one she was wearing). Then ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar she let him reel it in and told him he'd pulled it off of her.]]'' The rest of the story involved Archie trying to find something for her to cover up with.

* In [[https://youtu.be/L7Kz67AZwqM The Surfer King]] , this happens to a girl when two guys tell the guy operating a surf simulating ride to turn it up. It causes her bottoms to come off, but she fails to notice and walks away.
* Creator/BusterKeaton loses his oversized rental suit in a public pool in ''Film/TheCameraman''.
* Done in ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKidDogDays''. Greg loses his swimsuit on the diving board, and in order to spite him, a little girl throws it on a post close to the entrance. Greg is forced to stake out in the pool without anyone seeing him, including his swimsuit wearing crush and a girl with goggles. He eventually manages to get an extra suit... [[spoiler:a pair of pink short-shorts]].

* In the ''Series/MrBean'' episode "The Curse of Mr. Bean", the title character, after finally gaining enough courage to perform a high dive at a pool (or, rather, trying the patience of the boys waiting immediately behind him for long enough that they effectively force him over the edge), loses his swimsuit as he hits the water, and is unable to stop a young child from curiously scooping it out of the pool with a snorkel. Then the lifeguards blow the whistle to clear the pool; he is able to duck under the water (coming up for air every few seconds) until the lifeguards leave, and then makes his way to the changing room, only to discover the pool was being cleared for a female swim team's practice session...

* In the BeachEpisode of ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}'', Dustin loses his trunks. He's so embarrassed that he refuses to leave the water, and by the end of the day he's sick and miserable.

* A variant occurs in the ''Series/BigTimeRush'' episode "Big Time Reality", in which Kendall's swim trunks drop ''after'' he gets out of the pool. While he pulls them up before anyone can see him, he quickly realizes that one of the cameras installed at the pool due to the band's producer commissioning for them to become the subjects of a reality show was behind him at the time and he spends the rest of the episode trying to get the footage destroyed.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4 [[UpdatedRerelease Golden]]'', during a trip to the beach, Teddie tries to cause this to happen to one of the girls. However, the actual slippery swimsuit ends up being Kanji's.

* In ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-544-bikini-awol/ Sydney makes Harem lose her bikini top in the pool]] after pranking her with Halo's recently discovered air-generating orb.

* Numbuh One loses his trunks in the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation: B.U.T.T.", resulting in an avalanche of jokes about how big his butt is.
* In the WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} short ''Alona of the Sarong Seas'', this happens first to Olive, then to Popeye and Bluto.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
** On the episode "Haute Camp-Ture" of ''Total Drama Island'', Izzy emerges from the pool having found a bikini bottom. Katie then points out that it's her own bikini bottom. She quickly dives back under the water, exposing her lower half in the process.
** Owen loses his trunks during the first ever challenge on ''Total Drama Island'', and during the opening animation of ''Total Drama World Tour''.
* Occurs in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'' but not to a member of the main cast. An important business client recalls the story of his biggest shame, jumping into a lake when he was a kid, losing his trunks and being forced to walk out of the lake completely nude while all of his friends and family were watching, earning him the nickname "acorn" which haunts him for the rest of his life. Acorn just coincidentally happens to be the name of the new business idea they created for him, however.

* Mentioned in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CliffordsPuppyDays'', where Nina says her swimsuit fell off during a dive because it was too big.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': In the episode "Swimming Fool", HilarityEnsues when Bill's trunks get sucked into the jets of a jacuzzi pool, leaving him naked and unable to leave in fear of getting spotted.
* A variation in the ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' episode "The Gift of Good Intentions" happens Rudy gives his dad a pair of Bermuda swim trunks from Chalkzone for his birthday, and then has to rush to the public pool to stop this from happening to his dad since his swim shorts are made of chalk and will dissolve in the water.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScaredySquirrel'' episode "Mr. Perfect Balsa", Paddy's swim briefs slide off in the pool after Scaredy pulls a prank on him.
* Discussed in the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Four-Wave Intersection:" There was an urban legend of a kid who lost his swim trunks in the water park's giant slide. Or rather, according to the rumor, a kid went down, and the ''only'' part of him that anybody saw after was his swim suit.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy':
** One episode has Peter rescuing a nudist father from drowning, thinking that he must've lost his swim trunks.
** In another episode Peter loses his trunks in the surf at the beach.

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* A [[https://youtu.be/9Fe1lZnCQOs Hope cigarette]] commercial features a pool scene, which starts off with one bikini-clad girl diving into the pool. Seconds later, her top is shown floating on the water, and at the end of the commercial, same girl is shown, in the pool, covering her bare chest with her arms, with a dismayed look on her face, and then ducking into the water. Humorously played in the same commercial with a guy, who also dives into the pool, and his DodgyToupee comes off.
* There was an old [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A_vhSyBcU0 Snickers commercial]] where this happened to a surfer.
* Happens to Smilin' Bob in [[https://youtu.be/ghrWz7cVXv8 one Enzyte commercial]] . Because of what Enzyte claimed to be ([[AllNaturalSnakeOil "natural male enhancement"]]), Bob was [[StepfordSmiler only too happy]] to put on a show.
* In [[https://youtu.be/T0056srkkao this commercial]] for the Jewish social network Koolanoo, a young woman dives into a pool in front of several young men, causing her bikini top to immediately fall off. As they watch her [[SexySurfacingShot climb back out in slow motion]], one notices that she's [[InformedJudaism wearing a Star of David necklace]] just like he is, and [[OffscreenTeleportation appears behind her]] just in time to [[HandOrObjectUnderwear protect her modesty with his hands]].

* Happens to an unfortunate young swimmer in a [[http://www.tvspots.tv/video/24416/hitachi--the-tragedy Hitachi DVDCam commercial.]]
* Happens to a young boy in a [[https://www.deviantart.com/pinknettles300/art/Waterpark-from-bad-to-worst-gif-795468369 Camelback Lodge and Indoor Waterpark commercial.]] His trunks come off and the embarrassed lad has to endure his little sister laughing at him while his surprised mother holds up his wayward trunks.
* An ad for the [[https://www.deviantart.com/pinknettles300/art/Be-Prepared-gif-809037773 Boy Scouts]] shows this happening to a kid, with the premise being that if he had joined the Boy Scouts, he would have learned how to tie knots properly and prevent this from happening.
* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvwKMr3VLc8&index=4&list=PLaEqhLTpoMj-lnsZpvbw4G_3Rx2h1qCAd Team Loush]] commercial involving an unfortunate young lad losing his trunks.
* In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY8nntJQxr4 Coke commercial,]] a tossed bottle of soda goes too far. Two people want it and dive into the water to race for it. Though the young man gets the bottle, the mischievous girl gets his trunks!!

* In this [[https://www.clipland.com/v/5162 Sprite]] ad, a young man finds it's not very smart to go down a waterslide head first!

* Happens to a woman's bikini in this [[https://youtu.be/nuMEYDt2REw Fruttare ad]].

* A woman realizes it is not a smart idea to wear a strapless one piece while swimming in this [[https://youtu.be/m6O3kWM8NTM Special K commercial]].
* In a [[https://youtu.be/Bx-e9hl-O9I Cinsay ad]] a man dives into a pool and loses his trunks in front of a number of women. He eventually manages to get a new pair of trunks, but not before an older woman enjoys a peak.
* A variation of this happens in an [[https://youtu.be/REyMFqd7SZY Iru Bru commercial]]. A diver tries to impress two girls at a pool by going off the diving board. However, his speedo snags on the diving board and he falls into and climbs out of the pool in the nude!
* Waves are a bikini top's worst nightmare in this [[https://youtu.be/a7kykGt2XO0 Elma Chips commercial]].

* This happens once to Princess Allura in ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' (a.k.a. Princess Fala of ''Anime/GoLion''). A high dive while wearing a bikini leads to her top surfacing before she did.

* Happens in ''Manga/SchoolRumble''. Nara thought that it had happened to Tenma and went to retrieve it for her... [[spoiler:but it was actually Harima's.]]
* In Arad Senki Slapup Party, Ryunmei's top ends up coming off while she's playing a game of volleyball. Humorously, the same thing later happens to Baron and Cabensis when they lose their swim trunks to a sea monster.

* A girl knows she is a ButtMonkey when she has SuperDrowningSkills and, during her first day of school, she ''still'' ends up thrown into a pool while wearing a one-piece SchoolSwimsuit... which somehow is slippery enough to [[InnocentFanserviceGirl leave her]] [[NakedPeopleAreFunny completely nude]]. Ryuubi from ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' discovers this the hard way.
* Tsuda fantasizes that this might happen to Aria in the BeachEpisode of ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo''. [[BrainBleach What actually happens exceeds his expectations]].
* ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'' The first half of episode 9 involves the whole cast enjoying themselves at the beach, including Asa getting her bikini top washed away by a large wave.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Emotion Commotion", the embarrassment of losing his swimsuit in front of his crush causes Timmy to wish he had no emotions.

* If you see Machiko-sensei (from ''Manga/MaicchinguMachikoSensei'') in a bathing suit, it will inevitably slip off.

* In this episode of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4262w2bTbLs Pobre Rico]] a guy jumps into the pool and loses his trunks much to the enjoyment of his attractive bikini wearing neighbor!

** In another episode Peter loses his trunks beach.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has Peter rescuing a nudist father from drowning, thinking that he must've lost his swim trunks.