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Cartoons have a treasure trove of moments where you just need some Brain Bleach to wash away the vulgar displays you just saw. This is especially true in Grossout Shows.


  • In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the buxom Wasp suffers major Clothing Damage, with most of her costume torn up and leaving her near naked. Unfortunately, this happens as a result of her being exposed to gamma radiation and mutating into a giant humanoid wasp, making it anything but sexy.
  • In Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, there are many shirtless and scantily-clad shots of Robotnik. The epitome of this trope, however, is that bikini shot in "Hero of the Year" — which you can see on the main page. It's all Played for Laughs, however; with his character designer, Milton Knight, jokingly remarking in an interview that he wanted to make Robotnik into "television's sexiest fat man".
  • Adventure Time
    • In the episode "Gotcha!", Lumpy Space Princess, who can more or less be described as a sentient purple cloud, tries to seduce Finn to help with her tell-all romance advice book. The Episode Title Card shows her wearing a revealing dress while winking suggestively at the audience.
    • Not to mention any time the Ice King takes his robe off. Especially the episode where he's Jumping Out of a Cake for Finn's birthday dressed as a princess, with the camera at one point focusing on his hairy, old man legs.
    • An in-universe example when Finn and Jake retrieve a Translator Collar Jake threw into a lake a while back and use on Jake's girlfriend, Lady Rainicorn, who can only speak Korean. However, the only three settings are "Nightmare" (which is incomprehensible growling), "Nerdy Alien" (also incomprehensible), and "Old Man". They leave it on "Old Man", but Jake is really turned off by his girlfriend sounding like a crotchety grandpa.
      Jake:' Ugh, I remember why I drowned that translator now...
  • A Greek Tragedy: The caryatids (decorative statues of women holding up Greek temples) are actually Living Statues. They are drawn (sculpted?) in the form of three middle-aged, chubby women with drooping breasts. They are wearing nothing but translucent slips, and by the time the cartoon is over, they lose the slips.
  • The Amazing World of Gumball: In the episode "The Wand", we see Gaylord Robinson wearing a pink bikini, Richard is horrified by this asking the wand to take it off, only to leave Mr. Robinson naked, causing Richard to ask the wand to put the bikini back on.
  • Amphibia: The episode "The New Normal" shows Hop Pop wearing nothing but small, yellow overalls.
  • Archer; nude scenes involving Pam would fit into this category, until Season 5, where she lost a lot of weight. Unless you are into fat girls...
  • Hector in Castlevania (2017) is somewhat of a Pretty Boy with silver hair, Innocent Blue Eyes, and a lean, toned physique. Unfortunately, he is on the wrong side of things after being manipulated into betraying Dracula, and finds himself taken captive by a cold female vampire named Carmilla who sees him as a useful tool due to his ability to raise the dead. Hector is stripped of all his clothing and thrown into a cell, left exhausted, bruised, and broken. Later, there are full frontal shots of him. However, Hector's frontal nudity also happens to occur as he is being mercilessly beaten by a vampire named Lenore, whom he attempted to threaten in order to escape his cell. The cruelty Hector is treated with removes any possible titillation his nudity might otherwise bring. It is made quite clear his nakedness was imposed by the vampires to dehumanize him, as they consider humans little more than livestock.
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender:
    • To hit the beach! The ancient twin crone advisors whip off their over-robes to reveal swimsuits. Worse yet is when they're actually animated; they visibly drop several inches (To scale, anyway...).
    • Also when Lo and Li decide to imitate the pose in a portrait done in their younger days, Zuko nearly throws up.
    • In universe with Iroh standing up in the bath, which is extremely disturbing for poor Zuko.
  • Batman: The Animated Series:
    • The villain Baby-Doll is constantly flashing her lacy white panties — in her second appearance, they even fill the screen for a moment. This is a reference to older school of animation where flashing panties signified innocence, but the fact that she has the body of a 6-year-old girl and the mind and voice of a (seriously deranged) adult woman sends it into squick instead. Then there's her relationship with Killer Croc in that second episode, which even Batman says he doesn't want to think about.
    • The Joker pacing around his hideout in nothing but a tank top and Goofy Print Underwear in "Harley and Ivy", revealing way too much of his bone-white flesh to the world. Or the Joker getting his pants pulled off, baring his legs and aforementioned underwear to all of Gotham City in "Make 'Em Laugh". Or the Joker wearing a 1920s-style men's swimsuit in "Harlequinade", again baring his arms and legs. Any scene in which this disfigured clown doesn't keep all his clothes on.
    • Harley Quinn isn't much better. Her curvaceous jester suit is fine, but in "Mad Love", she is shown nearly naked (in a red negligee that leaves almost nothing to the imagination) while still wearing the wacky jester cap, eye-mask, and white makeup. The Imagine Spot that shows Harley in a hospital bed in nothing but a bra, having apparently painted her torso chalk-white to match the Joker's, giving birth to a set of twins the Joker has fathered, who are of course mutant clown-children is even worse.
  • Big City Greens: One episode has Grandma Alice seen naked.
  • The first episode of The Boondocks features Robert "Granddad" Freeman exercising naked to a Tae-bo video. It's blurred out in the broadcast version, but not in the DVD and HBO Max version.
  • Celebrity Deathmatch managed to have both this and Fanservice. Models Rebecca Romijn and Naomi Campbell have a match in their underwear...which ends with Naomi vomiting up her own stomach and spraying Rebecca with lethal stomach acid, causing her to melt down into a flesh-colored puddle of goop with only her bra and panties remaining.
  • Of all the characters on Chowder, Miss Endive appears in a bathing suit and skimpy outfits the most out of all the characters. Especially bad, since there's the occasional Gross-Up Close-Up and muffin top.
  • Code Lyoko: Anything that is supposed to be fanservice provided by Jim Moralès, like synchronized swimming. He would be better off not talking about it or SHOWING it off.
  • The opening to the Daria movie, "Is It Fall Yet?" starts with a shot of a butt in a set of red Speedos shaking for the camera. The camera pans up, and the Speedo wearer turns around, revealing to be Mr. O'Neill.
  • Dead Space: Downfall has a scene involving a rather curvy, leggy redhead who wears nothing but a bath towel. Before you get too excited, when she's on-screen, she's running for her life from the shambling, horribly mutilated alien-undead monstrosities that were once her colleagues, and they end up brutally killing her shortly after. Also, shortly before that, you get a good view of a fat middle-aged guy's penis.
  • Drawn Together does this a lot. Toot Braunstein in particular (formerly the page image, but was pulled due to going way too far), a former sex symbol who's fallen out of her prime, really shows off the "fallen out of her prime" part.
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy had a few, particularly the episode where all three Eds squeezed into teeny tiny speedos.
  • Family Guy:
    • "The Story on Page One" features Peter attempting to turn Luke Perry gay by dancing around in front of him in nothing but a thong. Perry is understandably disgusted.
    • Later episodes of Family Guy (particularly season 3 and all the seasons after the show came back from cancellation) seemed to show Peter naked a lot, particularly while he's drunk (as seen in "Screwed the Pooch" and "Jungle Love"), and in "From Method to Madness", Peter gets naked (along with Lois) because they felt bad about being prejudiced against Meg's nudist boyfriend. Nothing's explicitly shown (it is on network TV after all), but still, the fans are often subjected to Peter Griffin's fat, naked ass.
    • A Cutaway Gag in "Airport '07" shows Peter in place of Britney Spears in her infamous upskirt picture. On TV, the lower nudity was blurred out; on the uncut DVD, it was not.
    • Stewie recalls one time when Peter went through a phase where he was wearing Daisy Dukes, and at one point, bends down to pick up an object, for all the world to see.
      Brian: AAAAHHHH! It's like a walrus flossing!
    • And then we have the Family Guy/Simpsons Crossover, pictured above. Only Chief Wiggum enjoyed it.
  • F is for Family: One episode treats us to a sex scene between Frank and Sue. Particularly, we're treated to a view of Frank's hairy butt and slowly swinging scrotum. What makes it really disservice-y is that Bill is trapped under the bed and forced to remain quiet while his parents literally have sex on top of him.
  • Futurama:
    • It is mentioned that nudity is not as taboo in the future, but you can be sure that the characters that engage in said nudity will be the ones you least want to see naked.
    • The 150-year-old Professor Farnsworth is much too fond of taking off his clothes. Bonus Squick points when he's with the equally ancient Mom.
    • All of the characters switching bodies with one another. When Fry and Leela eventually end up in the bodies of Zoidberg and the Professor respectively they start going at it right in the middle of Elzar's dining room to prove that they don't love each other for their looks.
    • The episode after that had a nearly naked female Omicronian, the aliens that invade Earth, as a model for a magazine. Let's just say that one look would make you lose interest in that girl.
    • Done again in the Gender Bender episode "Neutopia". The whole episode is mostly a parody of Fanservice, but those images of Zoidberg and the Professor will require industrial strength Brain Bleach to wash away. Still, Leela points out that some people are into that sort of thing:
      Leela: Thankfully, most of our fans are huge perverts.
    • In the movie Futurama: Bender's Big Score, one of the nudist alien scammers goes back in time and has sex with himself. When we first see them, they start making out, but mercifully, one of them dies shortly afterwards.
    • The Earth military officers' uniforms are a parody of the infamous Star Trek: The Original Series female uniforms. It's the same miniskirted uniform — on the guys.
    • Dr. Zoidberg when he molts his shell is worth a mention. Fry almost vomits when he sees him on the Nude Beach Planet.
      Zoidberg: Ah, the fresh air feels good! [jiggles whole body]
      Professor Farnsworth: STOP DOING THAT.
    • Fry sleeping with Mildred in "Roswell That Ends Well"; they're both decent-looking, but Mildred is the past version of his grandmother, even if he rationalizes she's not related because his supposed grandfather just died. Even Bender is sickened at it and Fry is too when he realizes he became his own grandfather.
  • Gravity Falls: There have been a couple of times that Grunkle Stan has wore nothing but his underwear, which reveals just how fat and hairy he is. One time, a few kids accidentally walked in on him while he was showering, and when they saw him el natural, they ran away screaming.
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy:
    • In "Dumb Luck", Billy's clothing is unraveled, revealing his disgusting body. Actually, just about any time Billy is naked. Grim lampshades it best in "That's My Mummy".
      Grimm: The only people cursed around here are us, for having to be exposed to Billy's butt naked-tism.
    • In "Wishbones", Sperg (the fat bully who always picks on Billy) wishes to be a girl. The results are not pretty.
  • The Justice League: Gods and Monsters tie-in series, Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles, does this to Harley Quinn, not quite subjecting her to Adaptational Ugliness in terms of appearance as she still has a shapely body and stills wears a revealing outfit. But as a middle finger to stuff like her New 52 design, she is not only given a gonk-ish face but also depicted as homicidal as Mistah J and Victor Zsasz (and this includes implied cannibalism, something that the Joker's been shown to not to be above), and spends the majority of her appearance with a Slasher Smile.
  • Kaeloo: In-universe example. In one episode, Kaeloo goes on a parody of The Voice, and she tries to impress the judges by performing a sexually suggestive dance involving Shaking the Rump while wearing a revealing outfit. The judges are absolutely horrified and disgusted and they kick her off the show.
  • Kid vs. Kat In the "Bringin' the Heat" episode, we see Old Lady Munson (an creepily obese Cranky Neighbor lady) wears an leopard yellow bikini.
  • King of the Hill:
    • The worst offender is the very conservative, he-waited-until-marriage Hank walking in on his mother having sex with her new boyfriend on Hank's kitchen table in "The Unbearable Blindness of Laying." It manages to blind him for a few days due to being unable to cope.
    • Also the occasional shot of Hank's withered ass, such as one scene in "After the Mold Rush" where Hank was forced to wear a revealing hospital gown after being evacuated from his home mid-shower.
      Dale: Leave it to you to make a hospital gown look unsexy, Hank.
    • After the first time you see Hank's bare behind in season one's "Hank's Unmentionable Problem," Hank personally apologizes to the audience for it during the credits.
    • After having some sort of weird vision as a result of being depraved from food and sleep long enough in "Vision Quest," Dale thinks he is a Native American. One of the things he does is go to Joseph's school wearing almost nothing but what could best be described as a dead animal thong.
      Dooley: I can see your dad's junk.
    • After Peggy, Nancy and Minh rank their husbands and other men on the block from ugliest to sexiest in "Get Your Freak Off," it turns into a competition between them which culminates in a closeup of a red thong on Dale peeking up from his jeans as he mows. Nancy then gives Peggy a "sexy" look and swipes her hand through the air like a cat, making the scene even creepier.
  • Used several times in Love, Death & Robots:
    • In "The Witness", the unnamed woman performs a sexy show... and then panics when she realizes the man pursuing her with the intent to kill her is in the audience. The Deranged Animation doesn't help.
    • In "Beyond the Aquila Rift", Thom's sultry blonde Old Flame Greta walks around in a tight cocktail dress and then they disrobe and have passionate sex. Then it is revealed that "Greta" is in fact a revolting spider-like alien with a huge gaping red mouth...
    • In "Good Hunting", we see far too much of a British imperial governor who is a slobbering, terribly obese pig of a man. And while we do get to see Yan's beautiful body at one point, what happens to her immediately after is horrifying.
    • In "The Dump", there is an extended shot of an old man with his trousers down.
  • Metalocalypse :
    • Season 03 is uncensored on DVD. Sounds like a good thing, with all those naked groupies, right? Not when Toki's horrifying internet ladymate's nude scene is missing those censor bars, it's not.
    • The naked groupies aren't necessarily a good thing when one remembers that some of them are Skwisgaar's GMILFs.
  • Milo Murphy's Law has a teacher whose desk doubles as a Companion Cube. She tries to speak to the students about how they'll need to use weight distribution and inertia for their project only for it to devolve into how she used these principles to make her desk. Sultry saxophone music plays as she talks of three weeks of solitude with just her and the wood and as if that weren't squicky enough she lays on top of it and sighs pleasurably before realizing how weirded out the students are. In the same episode she informs Melissa that she also made the pencil she was holding. Melissa slowly backs away.
    • There's also a scene in which Cavendish mentions a certain year, much to Dakota's delight. This would be fine if they didn't suddenly cut to a scene of Dakota dancing in nothing but his briefs with words written in colored marker all over his hairy body and do they ever explain what that was or how the heck it relates to anything that was going on in the episode? Take a wild guess...
  • In The Oblongs, the squat, toad-like Helga is always flashing her underwear. She also appeared fully naked once. Her last name is "Phugly" for a reason.
  • Regular Show:
  • Rick and Morty:
    • In "Lawnmower Dog", which parodies the "dream inside a dream" plot of Inception, one of the dreams is a very squicky orgy. Made even creepier by Rick's jumping into it with both feet while wearing bondage gear. And then to top it off, a dream version of Summer, also dressed in bondage, starts hitting on the titular characters... who are her grandfather and her little brother, respectively. Naturally, both of them are very squicked out.
    • Rick has additional moments in the series where he's either in bondage again (like in "Auto Erotic Assimilation") or just completely naked (like "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" and "Rest and Ricklaxation") and has his dick pixelated out. Considering that Rick is an old man of around 70, this is definitely more gross than attractive (especially the latter episode, in which he's also covered in blood).
  • Robot Chicken: Literally the first sketch of season 7 is of Gargamel in a woman's two-piece swimsuit in a parody of Carl's Jr.'s Sex Sells ad campaign from that time.
  • Heffer in the Rocko's Modern Life episode "Seat to Stardom."
  • The Simpsons:
    • Patty and Selma, very intentionally so with Vocal Dissonance, including subverting the Victoria's Secret Compartment.
      "Double your pleasure, Springfield!"
    • One episode features them teaching a class on attracting men, complete with them wearing skimpy outfits. Another features them riding on horseback naked in honor of a wave of free-spiritedness in Springfield. Both instances lead in-universe audiences to react in horror.
    • In "The Last Temptation of Homer", Homer was in an elevator with an attractive female coworker, he invoked this trope by first imagining Patty and Selma shaving her legs, then the obese (even more than Homer) Barney Gumble dancing in a bikini (and singing the I Dream of Jeannie theme song) in order to prevent himself from being attracted to her.
    • In "Blame it on Lisa", Homer tries wearing a speedo, but it gets sucked into his butt cheeks. He tries putting on another one, but it gets sucked in too. Even the other beach goers are grossed out.
    • In "Gump Roast", Skinner's mother is on stage in a Navel-Deep Neckline dress. When Abe Simpson asks in surprise what's holding it up, Sideshow Mel responds on behalf of the audience (both In-Universe and out):
      "The collective will of every man in this room!"
    • In "Marge Simpson in: Screaming Yellow Honkers", at the Springfield Elementary Teachers' talent show, Miss Krabappel sings "Fever" while wearing a dress made of balloons which she periodically pops, horrifying the audience.
      Bart: Kill me...
    • In “Rosebud,” Smithers fantasizes about Mr. Burns Jumping Out of a Cake wearing nothing but a sash. Of course, since this is Smithers, he views this as Fanservice.
  • South Park:
    • Among others, Ms. Choksondik's enormous, sagging breasts and the sex scene between her and Mr. Mackey, as well as Ms. Garrison's "boob job".
    • The quintuplet episode features a sex scene between the quintuplets' elderly caretaker and Stan's grandfather. Not the most pleasant experience to watch.
    • In the episode "Weiners Out", some of the boys pull down their pants, exposing their penises to protest. Even some of the other witnesses are disturbed.
  • Steven Universe: In "Jailbreak", Lapis and Jasper's Fusion Dance. It's a short, pretty ballet-esque routine, but Jasper's Slasher Smile and Lapis's passivity throughout the whole ordeal make it very creepy.
  • Super Duper Sumos: They're sumo wrestlers that wears nothing but mawashi loincloth thongs and they uses their exposed butts as attacks. One episode has Booma with their underwear lowered down exposing his bare bottom.
  • Superjail! has its own share of this:
    • Alice tends to get hit with unsettling closeups or general shots that show her mucus, body hair, and rough features in graphic detail, when it's not the bulge in her skirt getting the viewers' attention.
    • The season 2 DVD was actually uncensored (save for one gag that was intended to be censored to start with Alice's penis). That means that viewers are treated to full-frontal nudity of the Warden, among other things deemed too sexually explicit or suggestive for TV (although most other examples aren't as "bad"), such as Paul and a male stripper grinding and Alice doing so to Jean.
    • The Doctor is shown completely naked in "Mayhem Donor", exposing his fat, pink hairy body to all. Luckily, said fat prevents the viewers from seeing anything more.
    • Invoked in-universe for Jacknife in "Ladies' Night", when he presses "yes" on a machine to see a picture of a nude woman... and winds up seeing the bloodied and splayed body of the old woman he brutalized for her clothing (in an attempt to sneak into the bar's ladies' night special).
    • The sex scene in "Stingstress" is treated as this in-universe and out-of-universe, with the inmates' reactions and the acid-trip imagery becoming nightmarish. One visual depicts the Mistress being fed a worm-filled taco.
    • "Nightshift" depicts the lunch ladies, already depicted as hideous and crude, sabotaging Alice's meals in various disgusting ways, culminating in one taking off her soiled underwear and mixing it up in a stew.
    • Between the unibrows and the four nipples, the Twins' shirtless scenes get received this way by some viewers. But when it comes to their brothers (The Triplets), viewers wind up treated to the even worse visual of an overweight, pink torso and four "moobs" spraying out red liquid.
  • SuperMansion:
    • In the first episode, we see a photo of Ranger's wife wearing a bikini in the 40's, then Ranger brings out another photo of her wearing that same bikini as an old woman in the present.
    • In "The Long Chaun", Rex is given nothing but a viking helmet and a loincloth to wear, leaving very little of his wrinkly body to the imagination. Everyone is understandably squicked out by this, especially his daughter Lex.
      Lex: There is literally nowhere from head to toe where I can comfortably rest my eyes.
  • Teen Titans (2003):
    • Raven's clothes-tearing scene with Slade in the episode "Birthmark" carried some seriously ugly overtones.
    • The scene in "Date With Destiny" where Fang and Kitten reconcile might have been romantic had she not been kissing a mutation with a spider for a head. Even Robin and Starfire were grossed out.
  • Tex Avery cartoons, naturally.
    • The most characteristic example is Grandma in Red Hot Riding Hood'', who Wolfie is unlucky enough to marry.
  • Total Drama
    • Here's a drinking game: watch and count how many times Owen appears naked or exposes his privates.
    • Also, anytime Chef crossdresses. One particularly egregious example was a skimpy bikini during the boxing challenge in "Million Dollar Babies". Duncan puts it best.
      Duncan: Ew, ew, ew.
  • The Venture Bros.:
    • Zig-Zagged by Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, a Ms. Fanservice who has a manly voice as a result of years of smoking. However, she's so attractive that both In-Universe and out, most pay it no mind. After a couple seasons, many fans don't even notice it anymore.
    • Memorably invokes this trope during the third season when the Pirate Captain accidentally walks in on Sally Impossible (his employer's girlfriend) while she's undressing. Both start screaming. Now, Sally Impossible is a very attractive woman, but she suffers from an unfortunate affliction: her skin becomes transparent when she's upset. The Pirate Captain staggers out of the room with an exclamation of, "That was messed up on a whole lot of levels."
    • Not to mention that pretty much all the nudity (full or partial) in the series is of middle-aged to old men. The extended nude scene with Colonel Gentlemen stands out especially.
    • A season 5 episode gives us the power suit of the SPHINX Countess, a tight Powered Armor with fan service-y curves, which the wearer of it poses in very provocative positions. The problem is that the person who winds up wearing the suit is Hank Venture.

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