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10	A character gets wet for whatever reason, like by falling into a river or stream. Upon climbing out and finding themselves lost in the woods, they do the first, most logical thing. They [[TakeOffYourClothes take off their clothes]] and hang them on a branch or over a fire to dry them off. This can lead to an awkward situation, as all the people are now either in their underwear or naked.
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12	Depending on the people involved, it could be an awkward situation never to be spoken of again or a chance for the relationship between characters to develop. Sometimes, you can expect the characters to spend a night sitting back to back (to [[IntimateHealing share body heat]]) and have an intimate, heartfelt conversation. When their clothes are finally dry, they will probably thank them for taking such good care of them...or [[{{Tsundere}} threaten to kill them]] if they ever mention it again. [[TakeAThirdOption Or even both.]]
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14	Compare GoneSwimmingClothesStolen and NakedPeopleTrappedOutside.
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17	!!Examples:
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21	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
22	* When a young Lucy and Kouta get in a water fight with one another in a shallow stream in ''Manga/ElfenLied'', the next scene has them sitting back-to-back nude while their clothes dry out nearby.
23	* Happens in ''Manga/KyouNoGoNoNi'' when Ryota accidentally squirts milk on Megumi and spills soup on Yuki, Megumi's tank top and Yuki's skirt are then seen drying on the windowsill in the Nurse's office where Megumi and Yuki are covering up with a sheet.
24	* Happened to Cagalli in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed'' when she was on the deserted island with Athrun.
25	* Happens to Shinn and Stella of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny'' after the latter [[ManChild dances off the edge of a cliff]]. Also constitutes a [[NakedFirstImpression Naked Second Impression]], as it's the first time the two actually ''meet''. (Their first interaction was a ThanksForTheMammary CrashIntoHello, but there's no indication that either of them actually recognize each other from the incident.)
26	* ''Manga/NagasareteAirantou'': This happened to Yukino and Ikuto in chapter 9, Machi in chapter 34, and Ayane and Suzu in chapter 59.
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30	* One fanservice-y ''[[ComicBook/ArchieComics Betty and Veronica]]'' comic ("Clothes Encounter", originally published in issue 81 of the 1987 ''Betty and Veronica'' series) had the girls fall out of their boat while on a fishing trip, forcing them to [[SceneryCensor hide in the bushes]] wearing nothing but their bras for a few hours while their clothes dried in the sun. HilarityEnsues when a passing Boy Scout troop nearly makes camp on the trail right between them and their clothes.
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34	* A downplayed version is in ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'': Prince Phillip is riding and gets thrown off into a mud puddle. He takes off his hat, cape, and boots. Forest animals take these and pretend to be a man for Princess Aurora to dance with.
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37	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
38	* ''Film/Alpha2018'': After he falls into an icy river, Keda has to take off his clothes and dry them overnight by the fire. The body-heat-sharing also happens, but it's with his wolf-friend, Alpha.
39	* Happens in ''Film/BringingUpBaby''. Susan accidentally drops one of David's socks into the fire while trying to dry it, and then tosses the other one in to match.
40	* Happens to the protagonist and his guardian angel in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. Then we discover that the angel's underwear is outdated by two centuries.
41	* In ''Film/TheManFromKangaroo'', John Harland dives into the river fully clothed to save a drowning boy. He takes his clothes off and hangs them out to dry on a branch. The local boys persuade him to give them swimming lessons while his clothes dry. While he is doing so, his girlfriend comes along, finds his clothes, and ties them into knots as a practical joke.
42	* In ''Film/MansfieldPark'', Mary Crawford is very keen to help unlace Fanny's wet things after Fanny gets caught in the rain. (The subtext was quite intentional on the director's part.)
43	* ''Film/ThatManFromRio'': Adrian and Agnes are driving from Rio to Brasilia in an open roadster. At night they're caught in a drenching storm unable to put the top up. Next morning they're on the road in their underwear, clothes drying on a makeshift line. By this point, Adrian has had enough of this adventure he's been dragged into and stops at a police station to turn himself in.
44	* In Creator/LaurelAndHardy film ''Film/WayOutWest'', Ollie Hardy is huddled miserably in a blanket while his clothes dry on a line after he walks into a deep hole in a shallow stream twice. He does it again a ''third'' time at the very end of the movie.
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48	* ''Survivors,'' the second book of Barbara and Scott Siegel's ''Fire Brats'' series about a pair of teenagers surviving World War III, has this occur when Matt and Dani travel by raft. They get dunked and soaked, and Dani passes out, seeming feverish, so Matt [[UndressingTheUnconscious strips her to her underwear]] to prevent serious illness or hypothermia and then covers her in dry leaves. Being a gentleman, he tries to avoid looking - [[ThePeepingTom mostly]] - before stripping himself naked and creating his own leaf pile. There's still an awkward moment the next morning when she sees her clothes hanging on a limb, though she's grateful he didn't remove everything.
49	* ''Literature/TheSoundOfWaves'': This happens with Shinji and Hatsue. They're up a mountain together at night for some reason when their clothes get wet, so they dry them by the fire. They're in love but they just embrace chastely because they are virtuous, honorable country folk, unlike those debauched city-educated types.
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53	* ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'': The mermaid trio find Lewis injured and soaking wet the morning after a full moon where they tried to kill him while under [[{{Lunacy}} the moonspell]]. Lewis is forced to strip and hang up his clothes on a tree to avoid hypothermia while the gang discusses what happened the night before. Normally, Rikki would use her powers to dry him off, but the full moon gave her an upgrade that she can't control yet-- her attempt just sets his pants on fire.
54	* In one episode of ''Series/McHalesNavy'', Captain Binghamton and Ensign Parker must take a survival test together on a deserted island. They get soaked on their way to shore so when they get a fire going Parker tries to dry their clothes. Unfortunately, since he is such a klutz, he burns the clothes completely.
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58	* Music/TomLehrer's "L-Y" song from ''Series/{{The Electric Company\|1971}}'':
59	-->''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2Ff8H7oVo#t=1m01s On the lake your boat upset]]\
60	And your clothes got soaking wet\
61	How do you stand and wait for them to dry?\
62	P-p-p-p-p-p-patiently\
63	P-p-p-p-p-p-patiently\
64	P-p-p-p-p-p-patient, L-Y.''
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68	* Happens in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', [[spoiler:leading to the reveal that [[SamusIsAGirl Faris Is a Girl]]]].
69	* In ''VideoGame/Mother3'', when Flint reunites with Lucas and Claus in Chapter 1, they're huddled in blankets with their clothes hanging by a fire.
70	* In ''VideoGame/ProjectRub'', the hero and the girl get washed up on the shore of a desert island. A scene like this follows a minigame in which the hero nervously [[ZipMeUp helps the girl undress.]]
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74	* In ''VisualNovel/{{Nightshade}}'', Hanzo and Enju do this at one point after getting soaked by a rainstorm.
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78	* ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub'': When Frederick and Jamie take a tumble into some water when they and their siblings go to an amusement park, Frederick's usual clothes are later seen hanging next to a fire at the Pastel Palace while he is shown wearing a replacement outfit (implied to be one of Jamie's given the [[RealMenWearPink pink]] jacket). [[FaceOfAThug Gwendolyn]] also makes Frederick some soup to warm him up, which [[ThroughHisStomach is one of the first things that gets Frederick to start feeling he might actually like her after all]].
79	* In an ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' non-canon side story [[AffectionateParody parody]] of Franchise/{{Pokemon}} (referred to as Grace-a-Monsters, where all pokemons are [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/gam-01 inexplicably replaced]] by variations of the main cast's shapeshifter, Grace), Nanase and Justin get soaked wet by "Shell-Grace" and need "Grace-Mander" to [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/gam-17 dry their clothes.]]
80	--> '''Nanase''': I mentioned we're both ''[[IncompatibleOrientation super gay]]'' right?
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84	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'': Popeye and Bluto do this in "Alona of the Sarong Seas".
85	* ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' does this in "Is My Palm Read" by hanging her wet [[StockingFiller stockings]] and LittleBlackDress on a rock, only for the rock to [[ThatsNoMoon turn out to be a huge turtle]] that walks off with them; so Betty makes a grass skirt for some modesty.
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