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* Happens to UsefulNotes/DavidBeckham in [[https://youtu.be/0JMJPHypIqg?t=21 this]] Superbowl ad, when his underwear gets caught on something and torn clean off without him initially noticing. By the time he does, everyone (viewers included) are already EatingTheEyeCandy.

* In ''ComicBook/TheDarkness'', Jack is wounded during daylight and his Darklings can't help him so they bring him to one his acquaintances Dr. Kim Fang. She's [[InterruptedBath showering when they arrive]] and opens the door in a towel and ask them to put him in the bed while she gets dressed, but one of the Darklings tries to help Jack by using her towel as bandages while she's walking away, causing it to come off and leaving her naked in front of the cheering Darklings.

* ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077125/ Adventures of a Plumber's Mate]]'' opens with a leggy woman being given a lift on a motorcycle. She gets in an argument with the cyclist and gets off the bike. As she does so, her dress gets caught on the bike. As the bike rides away, her dress gets ripped off.

* ''Film/FuttocksEnd'': As the party are leaving for the station at the end of the film, [[MsFanservice Carol]]'s skirt gets caught in the car door and pulled off.

* In 1987 comedy movie ''Film/OffTheMark'', Creator/TerryFarrell character has her shirt ripped off when one of the competitor's trips and grabs it, leaving her topless.

* In the ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' episode "Curse of the Blitz", the gang is stricken by the curse of the Blitz, which basically means that while the cursed person is not present everyone else experiences awesome adventures. In the second half Barney has the curse, but at the end of the episode, he enters an elevator with an attractive woman in a long dress. When the elevator goes down her dress gets stuck in the door and you hear textiles ripping. At that moment you know that Barney is freed from the curse.

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* In ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'', this actually manages to save Dylan's life. When she discovers Knox is the BigBad after [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys she slept with him]], he shoots her, making her fall off his apartment window. Later is revealed the bullet didn't hit and she just threw herself backward and the ModestyBedsheet she was wearing got caught in one of the window shards, leaving her [[LiteralCliffhanger hanging outside his window]]. Eventually, the sheet does get ripped off causing Dylan to tumble down the hill naked and into [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside someone's backyard]] where she quickly finds some HandOrObjectUnderwear to cover herself.

* ''Series/Miranda2009'': Happens to ''Miranda Hart'' on a crowded street in London, leaving her racing after the car in her underwear trying to get her dress back. An arresting sight on a six-foot comedienne whose shtick relies a lot on the visual humor inherent in her height and build.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook2''. After Shanti orders Ranjan to go back to the Man Village (so that she can save Mowgli from Shere Khan), he tries to follow after her, only to get his diaper-like loincloth stuck on a nearby branch. His loincloth doesn't come off, but it does sling him away and into Baloo.

* Happens to [[MrFanservice David Beckham]] in [[https://youtu.be/0JMJPHypIqg?t=21 this]] Superbowl ad, when his underwear gets caught on something and torn clean off without him initially noticing. By the time he does, everyone (viewers included) are already EatingTheEyeCandy.

* ''Film/JohnTuckerMustDie'': Beth is sneaking out of the back of John's jeep when her skirt gets snag. Kate tries to keep John distracted while Beth struggles to get free. Beth is next seen getting into Carrie's car with her jacket wrapped around her waist and complaining "It's not even my date and he still gets me out of my skirt!" as John drives off with her skirt wrapped around his wheel.

* A downplayed version in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' episode "[[Recap/ArrestedDevelopmentS2E6AfternoonDelight Afternoon Delight]]". GOB rides up in a cab wearing a banana costume and on exit gets part of his outfit stuck in the cab door. With the help of Michael he is able to free himself before any clothing damage could ensue.

* In the {{Spanish|Media}} series ''Series/{{Bienvenidos al Lolita}}'' this is narrowly avoided when Violeta rushes after her dog that escaped in a towel. The door closes and locks behind her, catching her towel but she stops just in time for it to not be snagged off... but she still gets [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside stuck outside in a public street]] with a small ModestyTowel barely covering her. She stays like this until her LoveInterest passes by and decides to take pictures of her predicament, but she manages to snatch his phone and threatens to destroy it if he doesn't help her, which he does.

* In ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'', Izzy is sitting in the sauna enjoying the steam when Paul walks in and sits right beside her. He asks if it's hot enough in there for her. "I could go hotter," she breezily replies and as she gets up to turn the heat dial her towel catches under Paul's hand and is snagged off of her entirely.

* Playfully invoked by Mycroft in ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'''s episode "[[Recap/SherlockS02E01AScandalInBelgravia A Scandal in Belgravia]]" when he steps on the sheet Sherlock is wrapped in at Buckingham Palace which almost renders the latter naked.

* In {{Spanish|Media}} series ''Series/{{Bienvenidos al Lolita}}'' this is narrowly avoided when Violeta rushes after her dog that escaped in a towel. The door closes and locks behind her, catching her towel but she stops just in time for it to not be snagged off... but she still gets [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside stuck outside in a public street]] with a small ModestyTowel barely covering her. She stays like this until her LoveInterest passes by and decides to take pictures of her predicament, but she manages to snatch his phone and threatens to destroy it if he doesn't help her, which he does.

* In ''Series/DegrassiNextClass'', a rival school pranks the girls by stealing their clothes in the lockers and [[FalseFalseAlarm sounding the fire alarm]], forcing all the girls out of the school in her towels. Frankie's towel gets caught in the door as she's getting out, leaving her briefly naked outside the school as her friends quickly hurry to help her.
* In ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' episode "Pretty Little Picture", Susan follows Karl to his car where her towel gets stuck in his car door. He drives off and leaves Susan stripped naked. She [[NakedFreakOut panics]] and runs back to her house [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside but the door is locked]].

* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' episode "Curse of the Blitz", the gang is stricken by the curse of the Blitz, which basically means that while the cursed person is not present everyone else experiences awesome adventures. In the second half Barney has the curse, but at the end of the episode, he enters an elevator with an attractive woman in a long dress. When the elevator goes down her dress gets stuck in the door and you hear textiles ripping. At that moment you know that Barney is freed from the curse.
* In {{Brazilian|Media}} SoapOpera ''I Love Paraisópolis'' this occurs when Margot pisses off her ex-LoveInterest after one of her RelationshipSabotage plots is found out, he expels her out of his apartment while she's bathing, throwing her at the elevator in just a ModestyTowel. When she leaves, her towel gets stuck in the elevator, leaving [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside her naked in public]] and having to resort to HandOrObjectUnderwear to make her way home.

** In "My Funky Valentine" Claire and Phil meet up at a bar to celebrate Valentine's Day. Claire decides to take off her clothes and put on only her [[SexyCoatFlashing coat to seduce Phil]] but while leaving her coat gets stuck in the escalator and they run into a few acquaintances, including Gloria and Jay who all suggest her take off her coat, unaware of her predicament. Gloria eventually realizes and covers Claire with her own coat so she can take off the one that's stuck. Gloria comforts Claire by telling her "It has happened to me before."
** In "Las Vegas" Gloria dressed in a ModestyTowel, goes into Claire and Phil's room to borrow Claire's hair products but her towel gets stuck in the door between their rooms. While she struggling to get it free, Phil and the leader of the secret magician's society (Creator/PattonOswalt) walk into the room. She abandons her towel runs into the closet before they see her and Phil places a French Maid Dog Statue named Rebarka in the closet, not knowing Gloria is hiding in there. Phil then performs his magic trick, but Oswalt isn't impressed. That is until Phil accidentally causes smoke and Gloria pops out dressed in the FrenchMaidOutfit she took from the statue, making Oswalt believe that it was all part of the trick.

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* * In ''Literature/LifeOfPi'', Pi describes a number of badly-behaved guests at his father's zoo. One visitor waved the fringe of her sari at a lion, which grabbed it and began to pull on it. To get away, the woman had to spin around like a top until the entire sari came off.
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* At the 1985 ''Series/EurovisionSongContest'', hostess Lili Lindfors's skirt snagged on some scenery and tore off while she was walking out. After a brief display of panic, she revealed this was an InvokedTrope when she lowered part of her top, turning it into a dress.

* At the 1985 ''Series/EurovisionSongContest'', hostess Lili Lindfors's skirt tore off while she was walking out. After a brief display of panic, she revealed this was an InvokedTrope when she lowered part of her top, revealing that it was actually a dress.