Line #104 Main/PoolScene


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2	[[caption-width-right:330:Even being on the road allows this.[[note]][[FridgeLogic But why would you need a ladder out of there? It mustn't be more than two feet deep!]][[/note]]]]
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4	A pool area full of [[{{Fanservice}} bikini-clad women]] (mostly), either sunbathing or swimming.
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6	Some particularly common element is for one of the [[SexySurfacingShot female bikini-clad leads to get out of the pool in slo-mo, water glistening on her body]], someone to [[SlipperySwimsuit lose their swimsuit]] or for [[RuleOfPool someone to get pushed into the pool]].
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8	An "interesting" meeting point in SpyFiction (with the justification that it's [[NudityEqualsHonesty harder to conceal a bug]]) and younger cousin of the BeachEpisode. Not to be confused with BadGuysPlayPool. See TwoPersonPoolParty for a more explicit variation.
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16	* Nestea: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuWY7ltx2Wk A 1983 commercial]], "Clearly Nestea," shows people enjoying a hot summer day at a swimming pool, drinking – presumably – Nestea's line of iced tea products.
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20	* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': One of the {{Picture Drama}}s has the characters going to the pool. Cornelia in a bondage-inspired bikini, rawr. It also offers a more candid look at Guilford and Darlton.
21	* Episode 8 of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', appropriately entitled [[{{Fanservice}} "Increase Ratings Week"]].
22	* The manga of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' has one of these scenes in the seventh volume, involving Uo in a bikini, Hana in a low-cut one-piece, and Tohru in [[spoiler:a school swimsuit]].
23	* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'''s "Endless Eight". The sole purpose was to beat the number of swimsuit episodes in ''Manga/KOn'' (which had two). Which it did. By ''six''.
24	* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''. The [[BeachEpisode Beach Arc]] of the manga becomes a Pool Arc in the anime.
25	* The setting of the [[AllThereInTheManual very first Sound Stage]] of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. It featured [[KaraokeBox Karaoke]], nine-year-old girls in bathing suits, and a MonsterOfTheWeek made of water that tried to separate said nine-year-old girls from said bathing suits. Yes, the first season is quite blatant on its {{Fanservice}}.
26	* ''Manga/MariaHolic'' has Kanade expecting this. But when she gets to take part...
27	* ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade'' had an episode towards the end featuring a cruise ship with a pool at the beginning, as the main characters travel to Europe.
28	* ''Literature/ModernMagicMadeSimple'' episode four is a pool episode.
29	* The first episode of ''Anime/MyOtome0Sifr'' has a scene in a hotel pool. However, the main characters aren't actually swimming in it, but instead fall into it.
30	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' has an episode that mostly takes place around the olympic-sized pool at the Class Rep's BigFancyHouse.
31	* The second half of episode 8 of ''Literature/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', which Misaki throws as a spur-of-the-moment welcome party for Nanami.
32	* Plenty of manga chapters in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', due to Fûrinkan High's Phys. Ed. curriculum (and to show off Akane's SuperDrowningSkills). [[GenderBender For obvious reasons]], Ranma always ends up on the women's side. Mind that these take place at school, and therefore the swimsuits are the standard regulation type rather than the sexy bikini type.
33	* ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'' has a pool episode where most of the class gets to go to a water park. Cue bouncing at every turn, especially from Margery Daw and Yoshida.
34	* ''Manga/YuiKamioLetsLoose'': Chapter 27 shows the entire cast taking a break on Kiito's yacht.
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38	* ''ComicBook/{{Cavewoman}}: Pool Party'' is an excuse to have the main female characters both SkinnyDipping, and then cavorting in BarelyThereSwimwear when the guests arrive.
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42	* ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsMagicalGirls'' naturally has one of these in the episode aptly called "Pool". It features the mahoushoujo and Spike spending a day at Rarity's pool, getting some last-minute relaxation in before their showdown with [[ArcVillain Sunset Shimmer]].
43	* ''Ghosts of the Past'', the second book in the ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' series, has one in the first chapter, as part of Harry and his friends enjoying their summer vacation.
44	* In Chapter 29 of ''Fanfic/OriginStory'', a meeting between Alex Harris, Tony Stark, and Natasha Romanov takes place next to the Black Panther's private swimming pool. The fact that Stark never once snarks about the fact that the two women are sunbathing while ''topless'' without caring that he's there is a sign of how [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness serious Stark is taking the situation they are in]].
45	* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': During the Indigo League, Ash and his female companions take the day off battles after the preliminary rounds to lounge at public pool. Misty, who's wearing a rather skimpy black bikini, takes the chance to flirt with Ash for fun, and the two have a heart-to-heart talk about how to act on their growing feelings of attraction, until they're joined by a few others.
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48	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
49	* ''Film/AllCheerleadersDie'' has the cheerleaders' traditional annual pool party, with all of the cheerleaders in bikinis. It is here that Maddy plants the first seeds to break up Tracy and Terry.
50	* In ''Film/ArtOfTheDead'', Donna goes to a pool party hosted by the AlphaBitch of her school.
51	* The caddy invasion of the country club pool in ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}''; which results in at least one topless female character.
52	* Dana Delany and Stephanie Niznik swim nude in ''Literature/ExitToEden''.
53	* The [[BestKnownForTheFanservice iconic]] scene in ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'', wherein Brad masturbates while daydreaming about Linda [[SexySurfacingShot getting out of the pool]] and taking her top off.
54	* ''Film/IndiaSweetsAndSpices'': Alia likes to swim, and is seen a couple times doing so or sunbathing in her swimsuit while at her backdoor pool.
55	* ''Film/JamesBond'', specifically:
56	** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. After the opening credits, Bond is spending time by the pool of a Miami hotel, where he learns of his assignment involving the eponymous villain.
57	** ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', one villain is killed by the [[GirlOfTheWeek Bond Girl]] at his personal pool. The scene became notorious when one of the women in it later turned out to be trans.
58	%%** ''Film/TheLivingDaylights''
59	* In ''Film/LadyInCement'', Tony attempts to lose the pursuing cops by ducking through a luxury hotel. In doingso, he runs through the pool area and past a long line of bikini-clad extras sunbathing on lounges.
60	* Several of these occur in the ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'' franchise:
61	** The scene with Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) and Christie Brinkley, then Clark and Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo) in the hotel pool in the first ''Vacation'' movie.
62	** Clark Griswold's fantasy sequence in ''Christmas Vacation''.
63	* Gender-flipped in ''Film/PhatGirlz'' when a glistening, trunks-clad Jimmy Jean-Louis [[SexySurfacingShot emerges from the pool]] in SlowMotion (while Music/EttaJames' "At Last" plays).
64	* One of the interview scenes in ''Film/LakeMungo'' takes place poolside, with three of Alice's friends in bikinis.
65	* One of the many pointless scenes in ''Film/{{Laserblast}}'' involves teens in bikinis and board shorts enjoying the pool at some girl's birthday party. The main reason for the scene seems to be to pan across several dozen fairly ordinary-looking half-naked California teens, while the film takes a breather from its not-very-pulse-pounding plot.
66	%%* ''Film/ThePool''. It's all in the name.
67	* Same for ''Film/LaPiscine'' (which is French for "swimming pool", unsurprisingly).
68	* In ''Film/{{Priceless}}'' this trope is tweaked for drama. Gorgeous Irene (Creator/AudreyTautou), a veteran GoldDigger, goes out to a hotel pool in a bikini for some sun. However she is soon very unpleasantly surprised to discover that her MealTicket Gilles found out she was cheating on him, checked out of the hotel, and took absolutely everything in the room with him. A terrified Irene realizes that she is marooned there at the pool with no possessions whatsoever other than her bikini and wrap.
69	* ''Film/TheRuins'' opens with one. It's where they meet the guy who kicks off the whole plot.
70	* ''Film/SpecialFemaleForce'': The prologue has the first Special Female Force doing a stakeout in a pool area, since it's where their target is. This leads a lot of {{fanservice}} due to all the members being {{Head Turning Beaut\|y}}ies clad in bikinis to fit in, with one of them even being introduced with a SexySurfacingShot.
71	* ''Film/SomebodyIUsedToKnow'': Most of the cast members swim in a stream, which serves to show Cassidy and Ally in revealing swimsuits.
72	%%* The ''Film/StarskyAndHutch'' film has one of these.
73	* ''Film/{{Thelma}}'': Thelma meets Anya the first time at the swimming pool, and is quite smitten by seeing her in a swimsuit. This serves as the first sign that she's a lesbian.
74	* ''Film/TrapForCinderella'': Micky and Do are shown at length wearing bikinis on vacation as they swim, sunbathe or lounge around by the water. This includes Micky going topless too.
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78	* One of these appears in the ''Literature/AlexRider'' novel ''Skeleton Key'' by Creator/AnthonyHorowitz. Alex comments that they are unusual lifeguards.
79	* In 1946 novel ''Literature/BloodOnBiscayneBay'', private detective Michael Shayne first meets Estelle Morrison when she's lounging by her pool. This provides a chance for the narration to not just describe Estelle's sexiness, but also to describe her in a bikini, something that would have been unusual and titillating for 1946 readers, and was before the word "bikini" came to be used as the name of a two-piece swimsuit.
80	-->The woman wore a wisp of flowered cloth over her pointed breasts, and a triangular piece of the same material for a loincloth.
81	* The main characters of ''[[Literature/CHERUBSeries CHERUB]]'' all go swimming together at least once, and there are lots of scenes throughout the series of one or two of them in the pool at one time or another.
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85	%%* ''Series/{{Airwolf}}'', at least twice.
86	* ''Series/{{Alias}}'', several times, most notably after Sydney [[{{Fanservice}} strips to her underwear]] and [[SoftWater high-dives off a penthouse balcony]] into the hotel pool.
87	* The "Xander gets out of the pool dripping wet and wearing only a Speedo" [[MrFanservice scene]] in the second season of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
88	%%* ''Series/BurnNotice'' enjoys this trope. It really really enjoys it.
89	* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'': In "Swan Song", Columbo visits Tommy Brown to question him regarding the death of his wife. He finds him holding a party in his backyard with several bikini-clad young ladies lounging around the pool as he plays his guitar and sings.
90	* ''Series/CSIMiami'', very frequently, but the main characters never end up in bikinis.
91	* ''Series/GossipGirl2021'': The Season 1 finale has a long scene with the kids sitting or standing around the pool in their swimwear, showing off all their attractive bodies with the girls mostly wearing very revealing swimsuits.
92	* ''Series/KnightRider'' episode "The Scent of the Roses".
93	* ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'' has a few, including "Pool Party" (It's all in the name.), the episode where Lizzie and her friends are fighting enemy girls to take back the school and the school pool, the smoking episode, the camera stunt video episode, etc.
94	* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'': "Murder in Milan" features several gratuitous scenes set around the pool at the film festival, featuring a multitude of bikini-clad extras.
95	* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'':
96	** One of Ziva David's very first scenes occurs in a pool. Since it's plot-related, she's swimming laps in a one-piece.
97	** She does get bikini-time in season 5 -- and it carries over to season 6 in photos the boys seem to appreciate.
98	* Another male example: In the short-lived Fox series ''Series/NewAmsterdam2008'', the hero, 400-year-old hunk John Amsterdam, [[SkinnyDipping swims naked]] at the Y after hours. (He has a key, since he's one of the founding members.) His partner runs into him there and unexpectedly gets an eyeful when he climbs out.
99	* In the ''Series/OddSquad'' episode "Skip Day," Dr. O shows Otto a video of Olive swimming at the Odd Squad pool. Since Olive has the skips, she's still wearing her Odd Squad uniform.
100	-->'''Polly Graph:''' Looks like she skipped the step where she put on a bathing suit.
101	* ''Series/OneOfUsIsLying'': Several young people, including Addy, Vanessa, Cooper and Keely are shown in their swimwear while at the pool or beach.
102	* Music/SClub7 had quite a few of these in the ''Miami 7'' series. They were employed at a hotel so naturally, they used the pool from time to time.
103	* From ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': [[http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/679770 Schmitts Gay Beer.]]
104	* The ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' TV movie "Wedding In Vegas" featured a pool scene. It didn't seem to serve a purpose other than getting the five leads all wet and into swimsuits. Once Slater gets out of the pool, things get interesting. He sits in [[ChekhovsGunman Carla's]] deck chair and starts chatting her up...
105	%%* Used frequently in ''Series/{{Shark}}''.
106	* In a SoapOpera Pool Scene, a real pool isn't featured. Instead, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLRNU5Q1R4Q he or she will jump off-camera followed a splash on the soundtrack and a bucket of water's thrown on the set.]]
107	* ''Series/SpecialOpsLioness'': Cruz first meets Aaliyah's friends while they're lounging in a pool wearing swimsuits. They're all attractive young people.
108	* ''Series/TheSummerITurnedPretty'': Belly, Taylor, Steven and Jeremiah have fun while they play around in the pool, with them all naturally seen wearing swimsuits that are pretty revealing. Jeremiah works as a lifeguard at a pool, so he's in such scenes the most, with his brothers and friends coming often.
109	* One scene in ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' has Jessie sunbathing at a pool while Derek Reese shows up to question her. There's no particular reason why that scene needed to be at a pool, except that it involves Stephanie Jacobson in a bikini, which is reason ''enough''.
110	%%* ''Series/ThunderInParadise'' is pretty much built around this. Oh, and it has a CoolBoat in it.
111	* ''Series/TheUnit'':
112	** One episode played with this, involving a ''most'' {{fanservice}}y scene of Creator/SummerGlau in a bikini, on a floaty chair... in a kid's inflatable wading pool.
113	** Another episode does this straight, with Bridget getting out of the pool.
114	* Episode 3 of ''Series/Unreal2015''--or rather ''Everlasting'', the ShowWithinAShow that ''[=UnREAL=]'' is satirizing--features Adam, Adam's buddy Roger, and some of the ladies competing to win Adam's affections at a pool party. The other women competing for Adam show up, clothing is shed, alcohol is consumed, and things get out of hand. Maya may or may not have been raped by Roger.
115	* ''Series/TheWhiteLotus'': Most of the main characters have scenes while in or sitting near the pool, since they're at a Hawaii resort. The highlight of course being on younger female characters wearing bikinis or other swimwear.
116	* ''Series/WonderWoman1975'': Having some of these scenes is practically unavoidable when Creator/LyndaCarter is your star. For example, "I Do, I Do" had Diana Prince and her [[spoiler: fake]] husband discussing plans and Diana diving into the pool.
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120	* The video for "Stacy's Mom" by Music/FountainsOfWayne, which is also a shoutout to ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh''.
121	* The music video for "Jesus He Knows Me" by Music/{{Genesis\|Band}}.
122	* The video for "Hangin' In" by Music/TanyaTucker.
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126	* Creator/{{Bally}}'s ''[[Pinball/PlayboyBally Playboy]]'' pinball takes place at Hugh Hefner's infamous Grotto at the Playboy Mansion.
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130	* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': The Cruise Ship Palace features a massive pool deck, where one of the mini-bosses is found lounging in a sunbed. Being a lecherous old man, the Phantom Thieves get his attention by changing into swimsuits and letting [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl Ann in a bikini]] do the talking.
131	* ''VideoGame/RumbleRoses'' do have scenes of the girls stretching in bikinis near pools.
132	* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'':
133	** Anna Williams's ending in ''Tekken 3'' features her and sister Nina by a pool at a resort. There are two versions of this ending -- Anna is busy chatting with a group of guys and Nina gets jealous and [[ShamefulStrip pulls her sister's bikini top off]] and Anna having a NakedFreakOut. The US version was censored into Anna eventually walking off with all the boys while Nina looks on shocked.
134	** There is also a pool arena available as a fighting stage from ''Tekken 4'' onwards.
135	* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesII'' has a pool scene. They cranked up the {{fanservice}} considerably with -Ahem- warm-up exercises.
136	* Similarly the ''VideoGame/XMenMutantAcademy'' game has a pool arena and the characters all have a specific swimsuit costume to go with it.
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140	* The scene in ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'' with the protagonist looking at all the girls on the main deck of the yacht has this feel. The presence of a jacuzzi makes it complete.
141	* In ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'', the Elsior has an artificial beach used to house a Space Whale and other animals. The crew often uses it to chill out, and Tact gets to see the Angels in swimsuits.
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145	* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' in the episode "The Casket of Ancient Winters", where Hawkeye, Hulk and Wasp chill at the pool in the Avengers Mansion, which would seem to serve no other purpose than to give Hawkeye a ShirtlessScene and put Wasp in a bikini, showcasing her MostCommonSuperpower.
146	* ''WesternAnimation/BeverlyHillsTeens'' has plenty of scenes where the characters (especially the female characters) hang out beside a pool.
147	* May be incorrect, but ''WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}}'' has a couple. Examples include "The Coolest", "Up in Smoke", and "Second Thoughts".
148	* Happens in several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' ("Marabounta", "Déjà Vu", "The Secret", "Kadic Bombshell"...), mostly for Phys. Ed. classes. Since this is set in France and not Japan, though, the swimsuits aren't regulated. Most of the girls are wearing one-pieces, however, Aelita and Yumi included. Except Sissi.
149	* The Pool Episode in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' isn't exactly standard for this trope... since it involves fighting with a pair of antagonistic lifeguards and their HumongousMecha chair. Par for the course for the series, otherwise.
150	* On ''WesternAnimation/TheGaryColemanShow'', the segment "In the Swim" features Lydia hosting a pool party at her mansion, and Lydia is seen in a bikini in this episode. The arch-nemesis Hornswoggle plans to sabotage the event.
151	* ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'':
152	** Mr. Happy, Mr. Messy, Mr. Bounce (briefly), Mr. Persnickety, Mr. Rude, and Little Miss Sunshine have one in the episode "Hotel". As the characters are [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal Accessory-Wearing]] [[LivingPolyhedron Living Polyhedrons]], they wear their normal outfits.
153	** The episode "Getting Around" also had a brief one with Mr. Grumpy, Miss Chatterbox, Mr. Noisy, and Mr. Stubborn (who was the bus driver taking the first three to the pool).
154	** The final segment of the episode "Travel" takes place at a swimming pool.
155	* The 1980s ''WesternAnimation/RichieRich'' cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera did feature a handful of episodes with a pool scene. In "A Younger Irona", Richie and Gloria were seen swimming in a pool on the Rich estate, while in the beginning of "The Haunting of Castle Rich", Richie was seen swimming in a pool onboard his private self-driven double-decker bus in England, while Gloria was seen lounging on the deck.
156	* Not bad so much as morally ambiguous, but Mayor Quimby has one in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
157	* Spyke's first episode of ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' ends with one (the Xavier Institute has a pool) where Evan accidentally pops Kitty's lie-low with his powers.
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