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6	->''"At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves."''
7	-->-- '''Jean Baudrillard'''
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9	Chippendales [[note]]founded by Somen "Steve" Banerjee, who died October 23, 1994[[/note]] is a club known for pretty much one thing: attractive, muscular men who strip, dance and perform stage shows for female-only audiences, not necessarily in that order. The club is more or less synonymous with 'male strippers', although its intention is to be more than just strippers, instead 'fulfilling women's fantasies' and flirting with the female patrons on the whole.[[note]]And yes, this fanservice is geared towards women and not queer men. Male strippers that perform for men are known as "go-go dancers" and they have totally different norms. The clubs they perform at are basically just {{gay bar}}s with live entertainment, and such venues are relatively tame compared to Chippendales-style clubs.[[/note]]
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11	Probably the most iconic thing to come from Chippendales would be the variety of {{fanservice}}-y outfits. Indeed, the most common reference to Chippendales is the dancers' costumes, the most classic version being a pair of trousers, a collar with a bowtie (sometimes cuffs, too), and [[WalkingShirtlessScene nothing between them]].
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13	Some might consider this to be the [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]] to the PlayboyBunny. [[note]]And it really is; one of the co-founders was Paul Snider, infamous murderer of Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten. It was he who suggested male dancers, and he may well have been inspired by the collar-and-cuffs outfits the Bunnies wore.[[/note]] Occasionally, this will be done literally by adding bunny ears to the costume, especially if they're accompanying a bunny-suited female.
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15	Not to be confused with the Disney characters WesternAnimation/{{Chip and Dale}}, nor with the English furniture maker Thomas Chippendale (or [[WesternAnimation/TheTick Chairface Chippendale]], for that matter). The Disney characters are named after the furniture maker, and long predate the dancers.
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17	!!Examples:
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21	[[folder:Advertising]]
22	* There is a commercial for Advertising/{{Orangina}} that has chameleons and cougars in a more revealing outfit of Chippendale Dancers.
23	* On their official Youtube page, one of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxG3HYkoQ-k promotional]] trailers for the ''Get To Work'' expansion pack for ''Videogame/TheSims4'' features the male doctors stripping down and dancing, with the trailer appropriately titled, "Malpractice". As one commenter put it:
24	-->'''[=PlumbobAddict=]''': EA girl... yall need jesus.
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27	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
28	* ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'': A SubvertedTrope as [[MrFanservice Legoshi]] only pretends to be a male stripper when he runs into the [[MrFanservice Shishigumi]], one of the four major criminal groups in the BlackMarket made up of male lions who he had just recently rescued Haru from before [[MrFanservice Chief Lion]] could devour her, with one of the lions suggesting this based on his good looks. Thankfully, this works from him being [[{{Pun}} exposed]] due to two factors: the first is due to his overcoat having been recently shaved off by [[MrFanservice Gohin]] making him look unrecognizable but not to the point where the aforementioned lion states that he looks familiar and the second being that their new leader [[MrFanservice Louis]] the red deer, who he had until recently went to Cherryton Academy with, purposefully ignoring him and not calling his bluff.
29	* ''Manga/CityHunter'': The 2019 anime film, ''Anime/CityHunterShinjukuPrivateEyes'', reveals that in addition to being a HitmanWithAHeart, [[MrFanservice Ryo Saeba]] is also an amazing [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold male stripper with a heart of gold]]. This fact is revealed when he takes a client by the name of Ai Shindo, who he is currently doing a case for in which he has to protect her, and tries to cheer her up by performing as the strip club’s as the main attraction. Once on stage he shows off his [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl shameless fanservice guy]] chops by first appearing on stage [[{{Stripperiffic}} wearing nothing but a big red bow tie around his neck with a silver tray in one hand and a jug of red juice in the other]] that he uses as a form of HandOrObjectUnderwear in his routine that has him quickly switch between the two objects so that the audience is mostly prevented from seeing his GagPenis. The emphasis on the “mostly” part as there is one time during his routine when he was taking a swig from the jug and accidentally dropped the tray giving the audience [[EatingTheEyeCandy a nice view]] but sadly the tv audience [[AvertedTrope is not]] given [[FemaleGaze the same view]] as a crow GagCensor is used to [[AvertedTrope prevent]] a MaleFrontalNudity scene.
30	* ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'': Kanji Tatsumi wore an outfit that was a mix of this trope, PlayboyBunny, and his [[BarelyThereSwimwear speedo]] when hosting a game show with [[IdolSinger Rise]]. The outfit consists of a black thong with a white bow tie or formal suit pattern, a black bunny ear headband, cuffs, a collar with a red bow tie, and [[{{Stripperiffic}} nothing else]].
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33	[[folder:Comic Books]]
34	* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
35	** ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'': Minor villain Pink Pearl, who was the main villain of a single story early in the first series, reappeared years later as the owner of a male strip club by the name of Cloisters. In issue 105, the ladies of Alpha Flight had a brief scuffle with her during a night on the town, but they didn't know she owned the place and ''they'' got arrested.
36	** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1963'' #298, shortly after he married Mary Jane, Peter was inspired by the cover of ''People'' magazine (which featured the club) to [[CasualKink dress like one to surprise MJ]]; unfortunately, MJ had invited her photographer home for coffee when he did it. (Cue horrific embarrassment scene.)
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39	[[folder:Fan Works]]
40	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'']]
41	* "I'm Too Sexy": Bruinhilda's Galaxy Rangers story has Doc trailing a suspect into one of these establishments and getting mistaken for the entertainment. He's set upon by the crazed female audience and next thing he knows, he's stripped, and looking up at the ceiling fan (which has underwear hanging from it).
42	[[AC:''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'']]
43	* ''FanFic/TheGenderbendingOfHaruhiSuzumiya'': Haruki and Mitsuuru pulling off this stunt while passing out flyers advertising the SOS Brigade.
44	[[AC:''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'']]
45	* ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}'': In chapter 17 the squad's female members throw a bachelorette party for Hikari and go to a male strip club called "The Green Dragon".
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48	[[folder:Film—Animated]]
49	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': Four [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]] [[MrFanservice muscular tigers]] appear in the “Try Everything” concert at the movie’s DancePartyEnding. While they are mostly seen acting as backup dancers and possibly [[BodyguardBabes bodyguards]], their stage outfits consists of glittery short shorts, with three tiger stripe openings on both sides [[VaporWear revealing]] [[GoingCommando nothing but fur]], a [[RealMenWearPink lot of glitter, eye shadow]], and nothing else. For an added bonus, they add either a collar, bow tie or a combination of the two to a New Year’s concert that they were apart of in the comic books.
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52	[[folder:Film—Live-Action]]
53	* ''Film/BachelorParty'': The film has the bride-to-be and friends visit a Chippendales-style revue, where hilarity and dick jokes ensue.
54	* ''Film/MagicMike'': The film is inspired by Channing Tatum's year working as a stripper.
55	* ''Film/SharknadoThe4thAwakens'': When the sharknado strikes Las Vegas, several Chippendales dancers who were performing fight back and beat up several sharks. Likely a ShoutOut to star Creator/IanZiering's stint as a Chippendales guest performer.
56	* The Mexican film ''Solo Para Damas'' (Ladies' Only) is about some well-to-do Mexican women going up to San Antonio for a "hen weekend", including a visit to someplace like that..
57	* ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': The supports of Khan were Chippendale dancers in real life, which explains why they look like that.
58	%%* ''Film/TheFullMonty''.
59	%%* ''Film/MrMom''.
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62	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
63	* In an episode of ''Series/TheWestWing'', Josh, Toby, Will, Charlie and Danny go to Donna's apartment in the midst of the inaugural balls to try to coax her out of the doghouse. Charlie is preoccupied by thoughts of Zoey, who he's just realized he's still in love with. Danny asks Charlie why he's not wearing a coat, since it's January and there's snow on the ground. Charlie says he took off his coat to show his love for Zoey. "I'd take off my shirt too, but it's inappropriate with a tuxedo." Danny: "Not if we were at Chippendale's."
64	* ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' has had many references, notably a game of Party Quirks in the UK version, where it was Tony Slattery's secret identity. He went so far as to unzip his fly.
65	** From which Paul Merton deduces: "You've come as Tony Slattery!"
66	** The US version has done this to Wayne specifically, once as a "singing strippogram" for Song Styles, and once in Weird Newscasters, leading to Colin saying "proof that football is just a game of ''inches''."
67	** In at least two games of Superheroes, Ryan Stiles dubbed a fellow performer "the Chippendale Kid": to Tony Slattery as mentioned above, and Chip Esten on the US version.
68	* A famous ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch, linked above, had Creator/ChrisFarley competing against Creator/PatrickSwayze for a position as a Chippendale's dancer.
69	* A male stripper is shown rehearsing his act in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyyuN_4Rcoo "Toni's Boys"]] episode of ''Series/CharliesAngels''.
70	* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': In the episode "Wedding Bell Blues", Harriet's mom has arranged her daughter's bachelorette party at a ladies-only club with Chippendale-style dancers.
71	* Season 21 of ''Series/TheAmazingRace'' featured a pair of Chippendales performers in Jaymes & James.
72	* Referenced in an episode of ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'' when, after George gives him bad advice on picking up girls, Max tries to force himself onto a female sex offender and gets caught walking into her house with his shirt off
73	-->'''George:''' Angie, I need to talk to Max.
74	-->'''Angie:''' The last time you talked to our son, he went all Chippendales down the street!
75	* On ''Series/MelrosePlace'' Dr. Michael Mancini is blackmailed with the threatened revelation that he worked his way through medical school as a Chippendales dancer.[[note]] Thomas Callabro, who played Mancini, did indeed work at Chippendales.[[/note]]
76	* ''Series/{{Quantum Leap}}'': In the episode "Private Dancer ", Sam leaps into Rod [=McCarty=] (a.k.a. "Rod the Bod"), a Chippendales dancer who must help a deaf woman find success as a professional dancer, before she goes down a road of prostitution and dies of AIDS several years later.
77	* ''The Chippendales Murder'' is a fictionalized account of the founding of Chippendales and the murder of founder Steve Banerjee.
78	* ''Ladykiller'' is a television movie about the murder of a male exotic dander.
79	* ''Series/{{Glee}}'': When Sam moved to Kentucky with his family, it's discovered that he has been secretly working as an exotic dancer to help with the bills, after telling his parents he worked at Dairy Queen.
80	* In Series/DropTheDeadDonkey , after Helen complains British men are too repressed, Dave and Henry respond by appearing as "The Choppendales" for Joy's birthday, lathered up in oil and wearing leather outfits and little else. Unfortunately, this coincides with a visit from the MoralGuardians.
81	* An episode of ''Series/FamilyMatters'' has Estelle taking Harriet and Rachel to a CaptainErsatz of one of these. She claims not to know the place very well, [[DirtyOldWoman only to be cheerfully greeted by several of the waiters and dancers]].
82	* ''Series/WelcomeToChippendales'' is a depiction of the founding of the original troupe and the power struggle between its founder and choreographer.
83	* In an episode of the ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' where the women are arguing about Theo wanting to get a stripper for Martin's belated bachelor party, they cite how degrading it is to women. Elvin asks about the reverse situation, which the women dismissively state as "different", but Elvin mentions that a medical school classmate of his worked as a stripper and that his experiences were often just as degrading as what female strippers endure.
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86	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
87	* The Pretty Boy Pitbull Kenny King's [[WrestlingDoesntPay second job]] is indeed with Chippendales.
88	* Wrestling/TheFabulousOnes (Stan Lane & Steve Keirn) tag team from the early-mid 1980's.
89	* The American Males ([[Wrestling/BuffBagwell Marcus Alexander Bagwell]] & Wrestling/ScottyRiggs) from WCW in 1995-1996.
90	* Wrestling/TomBrandi used "Chippendale" as his RedBaron as a member of The Heart Throb 4 in ICW/IWCCW New England.
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93	[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
94	* {{Discussed\|Trope}} in Creator/MargaretCho's stand-up special ''I'm the One That I Want'':
95	-->"My one girlfriend was like, 'We are gonna get fucked up and go to Chippendale's!' I was like 'Why? [[FagHag I can get gay men to dance in my living room for free]].' The Chippendale dancers are gay. They're ''gay!'' You have to suck cock to get abs like that. It doesn't work for women. I've '''tried'''."
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98	[[folder:Theatre]]
99	* Parodied by a dinner theatre in Colorado, which after its main show ("Billy the Kid"), had the cast doing a variety of short numbers. One had the two young male actors in Chippendale-type attire, stripping down to--chipmunk outfits, clearly meant to evoke Chip 'n' Dale.
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102	[[folder:Video Games]]
103	* ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'': Your Evil Genius automatically gets bodyguards at certain Notoriety level. Max and Shen Yu gets BodyguardBabes, while Alexis gets these.
104	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
105	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': An AvertedTrope. While the SpearCounterpart of PlayboyBunny appears in the form of the Honeygirls at the Honeybee Inn, no clothes exist for [[MrFanservice Zack Fair, Cloud Strife]] or any of the male [[PlayerCharacter player characters]] and no male FanserviceExtra exist in the form of this trope.
106	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': The player can [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope themselves thanks to the armor system, with the [[CatFolk Hrothgar race]] being the most popular and are officially named the “Furry Chippendales” or “Chip n Dale Dancer”.
107	* ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'': In the HD version, you have the option of replacing the [[DamselInDistress Damsels in Distress]] with buff, shirtless, bowtie-wearing men.
108	* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'':
109	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'': An AvertedTrope. While the SpearCounterpart of PlayboyBunny appears, in the form of the employees at Altamira’s casino with Raine also getting a costume in one version of the game, no such outfit of this trope is given to any male PlayerCharacter like [[MrFanservice Lloyd Irving]] or any male FanserviceExtra.
110	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] by the fact that this trope does appear as an outfit for one of the male [[PlayerCharacter playable characters]] along with a PlayboyBunny outfit for one of the girls. However, the outfit is given to Karol Capel, who is the youngest male PlayerCharacter in the game if not the entire series, in the form of “Black Tights” and a red neckerchief.
111	* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': While sadly no community created outfits depict any of the nine [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenaries]] in these outfits, there are plenty of fanart depicting all nine of them in such outfits which the fans collectively dub them “The Tuxxies” as can be seen [[https://astral-glass.tumblr.com/post/129889327173/lintufriikki-the-tuxxies-are-here here]].
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114	[[folder:Web Animation]]
115	* ''WebAnimation/BravestWarriors'': The unicorns from Beth’s setting on the hologram bathroom.
116	-->'''Locally grown'''.......'''''buuuuuutteeeeeeer lettuucccce.'''''
117	* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': The season one finale introduces the audience to the character, [[MrFanservice Jesse]], who is an [[OurImpsAreDifferent imp]] that works for Ozzie’s in the [[CirclesofHell lust ring]]. Interestingly, while he wears the typical ensemble of the iconic male stripper, he acts as more of an usher to those with a reservation and are a couple, like Moxxie and Millie, as well as a {{Bouncer}} to those who have neither, like Blitzø. However, it is typically {{Fanon}} that he does perform on stage for guy’s night as he is [[AmbiguouslyGay possibly gay]].
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120	[[folder:Web Videos]]
121	* Both WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick have expressed fondness for this type of {{fanservice}}. Critic sang "Spartan Warriors from ''Film/ThreeHundred''... oh please, Chippendale bars give you that!" when he was extolling the virtues of being a whore, and the title card for "The Top Ten Hottest Animated Men" had Hades, Nightcrawler, Beast and Megamind performing for the Chick.
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124	[[folder:Western Animation]]
125	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': [[CanonForeigner Calendar Girl]] has [[BodyguardBabes henchmen]] that [[MrFanservice dress like this trope]], (with them even being the page’s image above), in the thirteenth episode of ''The New Batman Adventures'' season, ''[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE13MeanSeasons Mean Seasons]]''.
126	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In the episode “The Love God”, a MrFanservice [[FanserviceExtra Extra]] appears in the background of a concert wearing a outfit based on this trope, with the added twist of having an Uncle Sam theme and wearing wooden stilts. His outfit consists of a white top hat with a single red stripe, purple star sunglasses, a blue bow tie, white cuffs, [[WalkingShirtlessScene no shirt]], and American flag themed pants long enough to have material for both a shirt and pants.
127	* This odd cartoon [[https://vimeo.com/80454864 ''HoneyBunny'']] features both female and [[spoiler: two]] male rabbit-ears dancers.
128	* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'': In a special "ladies' night" episode, it ends with a performance by "[[{{Parental Bonus}} the Chip-and-Dale Dancers]]", which was Chip and Dale in black bow ties dancing in front of a cat-calling female audience. Mortimer Mouse even crashes the event dressed in a red bow tie, white collar, white gloves, tight white pants, black business shoes, and maybe either a [[NudeColoredClothing black shirt]] or [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]], and dancing on a table before he is squashed by a female hippopotamus character.
129	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In an episode parodying weddings and bachelor parties, Kaeloo, Pretty and Eugly go to a bachelorette party where Chippendales Dancers are present. [[{{Refuge in Audacity}} They then rush onstage to grope them offscreen.]]
130	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie”, Mrs. Krabappel is expressing concern at Parents' Night with Bart's dismal performance in school, and tells Marge, "There's no telling how low he could go." Marge has an ImagineSpot, in which Bart grows up to be a (very unhappy, and very fat) stripper in a Chippendale outfit (with the twist of a cowboy hat and gun holster, and the stage name "Bang Bang Bart"), with girls boo-ing him.
131	-->'''Homer:''' Can't he be both[[note]]Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and a "sleazy male stripper"[[/note]] like the late Earl Warren?\
132	'''Marge:''' Earl Warren wasn't a stripper!\
133	'''Homer:''' Now who's being naive?
134	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Stripperella}}'': The show is a Creator/StanLee-created parody where the eponymous superheroine works as a stripper. At one point it's mentioned that Stripperella's brother is also a stripper-turned-superhero, called Chipperella.
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