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Best Known For The Fanservice aka: Everybody Remembers The Stripper
"Roger Ebert felt Elvira's appearance was worth mentioning in his review, but I suspect he had a minimum word count to meet before his review went to press, and if you’re going to break out the shovel to up the word count, you might as well talk about the chick with the great rack."
It could have had great humor, brilliant action sequences and diabolical villains. What everyone remembers, however, is the female lead's You Can Leave Your Hat On in the Sweeps one year. Or, in an even more extreme case, a penis when it pops up on screen. This trope refers to the actions of characters rather than characterization.
This is the common tendency for fanservice to overshadow everything else about a work, regardless of the amount that actually occurs in it (sometimes the most remembered bit of fanservice actually comes from promotional materials, which don't accurately depict what actually happens in the show). At the extreme end, it becomes All There Is To Know About The Crying Game... with boobs. This can be so powerful and effective in Hollywood that the Hollywood Hype Machine will go into overdrive and make an actress who bared all (or most) of herself an instant, overnight household name. Don't laugh—Shannon Elizabeth and Denise Richards got years of movie roles because of this trope.
Of course, one person's fanservice is another's Fan Disservice. This is particularly prominent ("for some reason") any time there's a dude on display in a work with any meaningful proportion of straight men in the audience. But hey, remembered positively or negatively, it's all the same in the end— hype is hype. Such inversions go below all the same.
For the more romantic equivalent, see Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls. See also Freud Was Right. When viewers watch a show specifically for fanservice, they're Just Here for Godzilla. See also Fanservice Extra and Dancing Bear. One-Scene Wonder is a similar phenomenon, but mostly unrelated.
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Anime & Manga
Despite Divergence Eve delivering a serious plot, it's only remembered for the female characters' impressive chest.
Elfen Lied is probably best known as that manga with huge amounts of nudity and gore. Most of the nudity is in the context of Mind Rape and abuse, but that small detail easily falls to the side.
Nisemonogatari, the sequel to Bakemonogatari, has several interesting characters with very witty fast cut dialogue, amazing visuals and Akiyuki Shinbo's unique directing style, not to mention the subtext of the meaning of original and imitation regarding everyday life. But you will all fondly recall the moment where you nearly died of laughter or shame when Koyomi brushed his sister Karen's teeth and it was supposed to remind you of something.
Fairy Tail has lots of well endowed female characters who wear skimpy clothes and have several scenes where they are naked. The male characters also get some of this. Hiro Mashima's previous series Rave Master was also like this but in the second half.
Mention Mahou Sensei Negima! and most people will inevitably think of Fanservice or Clothing Damage. Yes, the manga has a lot of fanservice, but it also has a ton of Character Development, an epic plot, and a ton of awesome fights. Still doesn't keep the fanservice from overshadowing just about everything else in the popular perception of the series.
As with the previous example, it doesn't help that the early volumes were more fanservice-heavy than later ones. To make matters worse, a lot of people's only exposure is the first anime, which is severely lacking in a lot of the more combat oriented storylines. Ironically, the second anime lacks any fanservice what-so-ever.
In-universe, Takane D. Goodman is remembered by others for getting naked a lot (although never by her own choice) and little else, except for her co-workers, who try to console her about that.
In fact, Takane is so used to it that, when she challenges Negi (and loses) in chapter 345, when she ISN'T stripped of her clothes (which is how Negi usually and accidentally wins against her a lot), she's insulted, and DEMANDS that he undress her.
Eden of the East is an Ontological Mystery story that revolves around a man who wakes up with eight-billion yen and no memory as he seeks to find out who he is, why he erased his own memory, and just what the secret organization that gave him all that money expects him to do with it. You would probably not know this from talking to its fans, however, because they're all too busy giggling over this◊.
There's a scene in Darker than Black where November 11 lounges around Amber's headquarters buck-naked. Naturally, fan tributes kind of fixate on it.
Queen's Blade has a fairly good story behind it, most people probably never saw it. Everyone either just hears about the "acid boobs" in the first episode and turns away, or conversely got hooked on the series BECAUSE of the acid boobs.
Or they came for the acid boobs and stayed for the story.
With Simoun, everyone remembers the underaged lesbian powered airplanes.
Cannon God Exaxxion is a near-Eva-level deconstruction of Super Robot stories, particularly of the "aliens invade, teenager's scientist grandfather gives him a robot to fight them with" variety and has a lot to say about the nature of heroism and the truth. Ask people about it on the Internet, though, and all you'll hear is talk, often derisive, about certain scenes with Lolicon undertones (and, uh, one with possible overtones, but still).
Spice and Wolf prominently features the female lead stark naked in the first episode. She's not human, but that can lead people to the wrong conclusions easily enough, and many who have not watched the show assume that she goes around naked frequently, when in fact she prefers to wear clothes in her human form because she gets cold without her fur.
Blatantly exploited in Seikon No Qwaser: even once the quality of animation, illustration and story begins to decline in later episodes, loyal viewers keep watching just for that breast-feeding scene.
Witchblade is the story of a woman trying to make a life for herself and her 6 year-old daughter after a massive disaster takes away everything from her, including her memories; all while dodging Child Protective Services and getting caught up in a corporate power struggle. It's also the story of said woman turning into superpowered warrior with a ridiculously Stripperific outfit and getting into fights that are the very definition of Orgasmic Combat. Guess which part people remember more (hell, guess which part is used to market the show?)
Sky Girls, the spiritual predecessor to Strike Witches and Vividred Operation was about somewhat cute girls in suggestive skin tight suits piloting flying Mini Mecha and battling aliens aiming to destroy humanity. It had decent characters and an engaging plot with many twists, but... well, just look at the trope name again.
Strike Witches is ostensibly about an elite flying unit battling an alien invasion with magic, but apparently the only people possessing the right kind of magical powers are pre-teen and teenage girls willing to fight aerial battles in their underwear. Countless panty shots ensue. In fact, it's easier to count the scenes without panty shots.
Vividred Operation, by the same director, is a pseudo-Magical Girl series about cybernetically enhanced girls fighting giant evil robots. But more importantly: they don't wear pants, and there are lots of ass-shots.
Parodied in Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei in an episode about how people will easily get distracted by something and completely ignore the more important issue. A straight example is when Chiri battled aliens but nobody remembers her deed as the sole witness was completely fixated on her bizarre underwear. Another straight example that lampshades the entire episode was when Nozomu was lamenting over how the viewer survey answered that they were more interested in the fanservice segment where Komori was flirting with Majiru over the alien invasion plot.
Even the aliens were more interested in that segment than the invasion itself. Which is why they were so easy to defeat.
The anime adaptation of Rosario + Vampire contains much more fanservice than the manga, with breast and panty shots galore, which has caused some backlash from certain parts of the fandom, but usually not to the point that it ruins the series for them.
The seventh One Piece movie The Giant Mechanical Soldier Of Karakuri Castle is an adventure involving a golden crown, giant robots, a giant turtle, and a (non-canon) explanation for how Luffy got the name for his Gear power-ups. All of that is brushed aside for Nami and Robin's breast enhancements, constant bouncing, and fetishistic outfits.
Sekirei has a strong, character-driven plot and excellent fight scenes. But what most people know about it is the World of Buxom and fanservice bordering on softcore at times. Many are surprised to learn the author is a woman.
Averted in Koi Kaze, a series built around the Westermarck effect which could have made it a hentai fest... but they indeed went for the moral high ground and never once showed a sex scene between the two protagonists. A kiss is all you will get.
Comic Books
Psylocke of the X-Men. Even leaving aside her years in Marvel UK (pilot, secret agent, dead fiance, killed her brother's Evil Twin when he tried to rape her...), remember those years she spent as the team's primary telepath? How about those two times she took on Sabretooth with nothing but her psychic powers and won? ... Nothing? Okay, how about that time she got turned into a generic Asian babe and spent years doing nothing but pose in a thong?
In-Universe, Jade lampshaded this in Green Lantern when she laments that everyone saw her spread in Bikini Magazine. (Of course, it's kinda hard to forget a green-skinned babe in a bikini, but that's besides the point.)
"Of course Empowered is a good series! It's got a truly courageous female character who highlights the inherent sexism in superhero comics. It does surprising things with its main cast's character development. It's really funny. It's got more bondage and Clothing Damage than you'd think possible to fit in a comic... hey, where are you going?"
"You'll like it now. I mean, the later volumes are far more serious and respectful. Ninjette, Thugboy and Sistah Spooky are all fleshed out, Emp barely gets tied up at all, and even uses her status as a stripping-magnet tactical- No?"
Battle Chasers is remembered for three things, and two of them were on Red Monika's chest. (The other, even more unfortunately, was the book's chronic lateness.)
Novas Aventuras De Megaman had rampant nakedness. However, that only started with issue 12 of 16. The comic is now mostly known for this.
Gen 13 Everyone remembers Fairchild super legs, and Rainmaker who kissed Fairchild.
Valkyries, a 2000 AD strip was this in spades. In fact, fans complained that it was nothing but Fanservice. Droid Life parodied this with Valkyries: From The Neck Up.
Watchmen has a naked blue superhero, and something about a dead comedian.
Film A-M
10. Bo Derek runs in slow motion on the beach.
1 Million Years BC is mostly remembered for the poster showing Raquel Welch in a Fur Bikini.
Sigourney Weaver's earlier thriller movie, Half Moon Street (about an academic who takes to escort work to pay for her PhD) is generally remembered for the fact she spends a great deal of it in the nude. One scene of a topless Sigourney on an exercise bike, tends to lodge in the mind.
Angel Heart was a twisted horror-noir movie staring Robert De Niro, Mickey Rourke, and directed by the guy who did Pink Floyd's The Wall. Not ringing any bells? How about the sex scene involving the daughter from The Cosby Show? Ok, now you remember.
Australia: Hugh Jackman slowly and shirtlessly pours a bucket of water over himself... in Australia.
Basic Instinct: Interrogation scene. Sharon Stone's leg moves. Basically that brief flash of flesh is the only thing most people remember from this film. There's a reason it's described as the film that ruined a million VCRs.
The Betsy has a wonderful scene where Kathleen Beller slips off her clothes and takes a nude swim. There was a car in the movie too, but who cares?
The film prints of Big Bad Mama lost most of Angie Dickinson's nude scene. The reason? Projectionists kept stealing frames of it.
Black Swan: If the early hype was to be believed, it was about Mila Kunis having lesbian sex with Natalie Portmannote Or making out with Portman and going down on her body double... and something about ballet?
Blame it on Rio is remembered for Demi Moore and Michelle Johnson's scenes.
Blood On Satan's Claw is an extremely well-made and chilling British horror film from 1971. It is mostly remembered for two scenes, featuring future and past Doctor Who actors respectively.
The first is where Linda Hayden (as Angel Blake) tempts Anthony Ainley (as Reverend Fallowfield) with her naked body right in the church. Because he is (for once) one of the good characters, he turns her down.
Blown Away is an obscure thriller from 1992 only two groups of people will remember: Fans of "The Two Coreys" and fans of NicoleEggert (who is naked for at least 20% of the movie).
The Blue Lagoon—though far less actual naughty bits were shown than people remember, thanks to judicious use of camera angles and Godiva Hair.
Bound, from the way some people talk about it, you'd think it was an hour and forty minutes of lesbian sex.
Caligula. It's about the life of a Roman emperor...and a whole LOTTA sex going on...also, Helen Mirren's breasts, in case anyone's interested.
Catwoman is remembered for being terrible and having Halle Berry in a really sexy leather costume. In that order.
Closer; Natalie Portman works in a strip club. That's pretty much all most people can remember.
Coraline was apparently 100 minutes of a fat woman's breasts. Can you people just get over it already?
Cool World: The only thing anyone remembers in the whole movie is Holli Would.
It's difficult to think that ANYONE would have heard of Cruel Intentions 2 had it not been for the shower scene... but even that is pushing it, as those few people are very few and far between. The original Cruel Intentions is remembered for the lesbian kiss scene between Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair... which, interestingly enough, was in the novel the movie was based on. A novel written in the Eighteenth Century.
Jacqueline Bisset. The Deep. Wet T-shirt. That scene made "wet T-shirt" a household phrase, even among people who never saw the movie.
It's hard to remember anything in Detroit Rock City other than the scene where the guys play a prank that involves knocking down all the stalls in a women's restroom - revealing a teenage girl literally caught with her pants down on a toilet.
Downplayed in Don't Look Now, Its unusually long sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie is memorable for being one of the most definitive in a mainstream movie. Even then, it doesn't quite match the impact of the conclusion.
During the VHS era, many video rental stores reported tracking issues during Phoebe Cates' topless scene because people would rewind it and watch it over and over again.
Fanboys: KristenBell in the Leia costume. To save you ten minutes of searching right now; she wears it at the END of the movie while they're standing in line at the cinema.
Femme Fatale is mostly about Rebecca Romijn-Stamos lezzing it out with Rie Rasmussen. And something about a very successful Manipulative Bitch. Maybe.
Although the sequels are known for a high degree of chainsaws and ass-kicking, the original The Evil Dead is best known for the bit where Ash's sister gets raped by a tree. Including director Sam Raimi, who still regrets leaving that scene in the final cut.
Fight Club. Known by diehard fans as a funny, compelling and provocative dramedy about psychology, technology and consumerism. Remembered by most viewers for the fight scenes: male viewers for the thrill of guys beating the crap out of each other, female viewers for the sight of a shirtless, sweating Brad Pitt.
Goldstein: We're gonna watch The Gift on HBO. Supposedly Katie Holmes shows her titties in this movie!
Grim Prairie Tales. Nobody remembers anything about it at all except for the unbirthing.
Goths and hippies may love Gypsy 83 for its story and characters, but most everyone else just remembers Sara Rue's giant rack.
Hours after the film of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released, all anyone talked about was the ghost images of Harry and Hermione getting naked and making out.
Havoc is often remembered for Anne Hathaway's boobies. (This predated by a few years with a similar scene (also with Hathaway) in Brokeback Mountain above, but well ... you know.)
The Hidden with Claudia Christian as a stripper. Who somehow screws a guy to death.
The 2000 British crime movie Honest was only notable even at the time of its release because the Appleton sisters from the girl group All Saints showed their breasts in it.
Howard the Duck: Three things people remeber about the movie (other than "It sucked")
"Duck Tits" {Whoo-ooo!) - A gratuitous shot of a female duck's Non-Mammal Mammaries when Howard is being pulled through the portal.
Beverly (Lea Thompson), clad only in a t-shirt and panties, crawling around on her bed, shot lovingly from behind.
Later in that same scene: the Almost Kiss between Howard and Beverly. More people remember the near-kiss than WHY it was a near-kiss. (A possessed Dr. Jennings busting through the wall to nab Howard.)
In Howling II, Sybil Danning rips her bodice open to expose her breasts, and this shot is shown repeatedly in the end credits montage. Roger Ebert's review nominated the repetitions of the shot as the movie's second and third interesting moments, though other viewers have counted more (repetitions, that is).
Irreversible likewise consists solely of a face being smashed in with a fire hydrant and a ten minute rape scene.
Even among those who haven't seen it, the horror film Jack Frost (1997) is known for the scene where the evil snowman rapes Shannon Elizabeth with his carrot-nose.
Goldfinger, naked woman covered in gold Body Paint. This scene, as well as the interviews / directors cuts / pictures of the actress getting painted / etc etc single-handedly spawned an entire genre of porn.
And every credit sequence in the entire series. Hmm, what's that you say? The Supervising Art Director for GoldenEye was — HOLY CRAP A TWO-HEADED WOMAN WITH A GUN COMING OUT OF HER MOUTH! BOOBS AND EXPLOSIONS — oops, credit's gone. Darn.
Labyrinth? That's the movie about David Bowie's crotch, right? Or as The Nostalgia Chick says, it taught pre-teen girls some very interesting differences between males and females.
Lost Highway: If you can't get past the labyrinthine plot, you'll probably only remember Patricia Arquette's controversial forced-striptease scene at Mr. Eddy's house.
Lost in Translation is a powerful, introspective drama about ennui in Japan, featuring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson giving acclaimed performances and winning Sofia Coppola an Oscar. It also begins with the sight of Scarlett's ass in see-through panties, for many the highpoint. And a random scene in a strip club that bears no relevance to the plot, although it does put Peaches' "Fuck the Pain Away" to good use while it lasts. And Scarlett has another underwear scene.
The thriller Malicious is only remembered for Molly Ringwald going topless (she did it to get rid of her "sweet teenage girl" image).
Mr. and Mrs. Smith is remembered for two things- breaking up Brad and Jennifer's marriage and Angelina Jolie in a dominatrix outfit.
The scene in Mischief where Kelly Preston goes full frontal to the strains of The Platters' "My Prayer". We dare anyone to come up with anything else about this movie (without Googling).
Mulholland Drive apparently consists entirely of random weird stuff surrounding a hot lesbian make-out between Naomi Watts and Laura Harring. Except that really is all that happened.
Film N-Z
The Name Of The Rose: James Bond is a crime-solving monk, and all everyone remembers is the hot peasant girl and the novice getting it on (it is, admittedly, a well-done sex scene). Fun fact: Christian Slater was only 15 when he did that scene.
Not Another Teen Movie? Isn't that the movie where some dude comes out wearing only whipped cream, two cherries and a banana? No that's the one with the constantly naked foreign exchange student whose actress happened to be the same who played a Yellow Power Ranger.
Original Sin had a steamy sex scene between Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas near the beginning of the movie. Nobody really cares about what happened after that.
1982's Paradise was a forgettably shameless ripoff of The Blue Lagoon. There are only two reasons anyone remembers it today: For the minority - it's Phoebe Cates' film debut (predating Fast Times at Ridgemont High by 4 months and filmed when she was 17). For the vast majority - Phoebe Cates is naked at damn near every opportunity. Film buffs might recall it as part of WillieAmes' filmography.
Perdita Durango is a barely-remembered 1997 film about a criminal couple who kidnap two people in an attempt to sacrifice them before they go on a mission. The only thing memorable about the film is a sequence where female supporting character Estelle (Aimee Graham) is tied up and raped by Romeo (Javier Bardem), and whether or not she enjoyed the experience.
When Piranha 3D was released in 2010 the underwater nude ballet scene quickly became the most famous thing about the movie, with the only competition from Jerry O'Connell's character getting his penis bitten off.
Powder Blue featured Jessica Biel's first nude scenes. And, well, other stuff.
And for more evidence that the I Am Sam has grown up, watch The Runaways, which is basically about Fanning making out with Kristen Stewart.
Return of the Jedi was about Princess Leia in a metal bikini...and something about some teddy bears and there being a trap.
Revenge of the Sith had some stuff in it about a war and a dude becoming evil, I guess? But during a five-second shot of a guy running through the crowd at an opera, there was a hawt alien chick wearing an Absolute Cleavage dress and sporting an incredible rack, positioned rather prominently in the foreground.
Sherrybaby: Maggie Gyllenhaal spends a good portion of the movie naked (as opposed to Secretary, where she's only naked at the end), including one scene where she's just out of the shower. Anyone remember the plot to this thing?
Shock Corridor: Constance Towers's extended striptease isn't the only thing that sticks in your head, but it certainly is unforgettable.
Sirens. Full frontal nudity from many famous ladies (Elle MacPherson and Portia de Rossi, to name two). The dream scene in the lake is the one most folks remember.
S.O.B.: This satire on the nature of Hollywood should be remembered as William Holden's final movie. Instead most people remember it as the movie in which Julie Andrews and Rosanna Arquette appeared topless.
Species was a pretty forgettable sci-fi horror film. The only reason anybody still remembers it is because the hot blonde in it spent a lot of time walking around naked.
Anybody remember anything about Splash (a PG-rated movie, no less!) that didn't involve Daryl Hannah naked?
Swordfish is the movie where Halle Berry showed her breasts for the first time. There was also something about a hacker...
To the point that a good deal of marketing focused on how much extra (reputedly $500,000) she was paid specifically for agreeing to flash her breasts for no particularly good reason in a single scene.
Her film Monsters Ball is largely remembered the same way because of her steamy sex scene, but it was good enough on its own merits to win her an Oscar.
Terminator Salvation homages this with Moon Bloodgood showing her boobs. Scene was cut from the theatrical release to qualify for a PG-13 rating, but was re-inserted into the special extended Blu-Ray edition. Watch the movie with this scene included, and Sam Worthington, Christian Bale, Anton Yelchin and everybody else being all angsty doesn't matter anymore.
Titanic has a number of scenes and lines that endure in the popular memory, but none more so than Kate Winslet's taking off her clothes for a nude portrait (which, mind you, is very impressive). Equaled by the (literally) steamy in-car sex between Jack and Rose. Impressive, considering all you really see is a hand pressed against a window.
The Tourist showcases a rather odd case of this happening to a movie before it even began filming! The press went kind of like this: Spy thriller set in Italy directed by Alfonso Cuaron and starring Sam Worthington and Charlize Theron? Not exciting enough. Cuaron replaced with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and the stars replaced with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp? A little more interesting. A script leak revealing a steamy shower sex scene between Jolie and Depp? OH MY GOD GET THE PHOTOGRAPHERS TO ITALY ASAP!!!
And then the shower scene was cut during filming, allegedly upon request of Johnny Depp's girlfriend. Serves us all right.
Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. Screw the Harrier chases, the many, many explosions or Arnie at his Large Ham best. Everyone remembers Curtis' shadowy striptease first and foremost. The backseat catfight between Curtis and Tia Carrere comes second.
Before that there was Trading Places which is the film where Curtis flashes the audience onscreen. Oh yeah and something about Eddie Murphy getting rich. We can thank Scream 1996 for this.
Never mind Tim Roth doing a Money, Dear Boy role, Virgin Territory is all about Hayden Christensen making whoopee with naughty nuns.
Walkabout had a barely-legal Jenny Agutter going full-frontal in a lake. Also something about Australia. We think.
From what is said on the message boards on the IMDB you'd think that Watchmen consisted of 160 minutes of a blue penis.
Whiteout had a scene where Kate Beckinsale was taking off her clothes before taking a shower even though such "Hollywood Showers" are not allowed at the South Pole due to water restrictions.. What's the plot of the movie? Nobody seems to remember.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? might as well have been named Jessica Rabbit Makes It Okay To Think An Animated Character Is Hot. She's not bad. She's just drawn that way.
The Whole Nine Yards. There was the toplessness of Amanda Peet, and something about money...
The laughably terrible "remake", on the other hand, has no fanservice whatsoever, but does stand out for Nicolas Cage punching out a woman while wearing a bear costume. And bees (my God).
Wild Orchid is only remembered for the love scene near the end between Mickey Rourke and Carre Otis that, in the unrated version at least, was so realistic that close to a quarter century later people are still debating over whether they did the nasty for real (for the record, both actors deny it).
Wild Things is actually a pretty good "whodunit?" that has twists and turns... and Denise Richards' champagne-covered breast implants. Mention Wild Things to a male and ask them to name a scene from it; it'll either be that or the part where she makes out with Neve Campbellnote 's body double. Ask a female, and it'll be Kevin Bacon's junk.
The Wings Of The Dove, a lengthy involved plot about some people in olde timey days trying to get rich, and then right at the end several glorious minutes of Helena Bonham-Carter speechifying in the buff.
Withnail And I: A complex and tragic Black Comedy about the end of a friendship and a metaphor for the end of The Sixties? Maybe, but it's also that movie where Paul McGann is almost naked a lot.
Women In Love. The 1969 adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel included Glenda Jackson's Academy Award winning performance, but today, the film is largely remembered for the sweaty naked wrestling scene with Alan Bates and Oliver Reed, and having one of the first depictions of male frontal nudity in a major studio film.
Literature
There's a very graphic and deeply disturbing female-on-male rape scene early in the first book of Orcs. It seems that a lot of people stopped reading there.
D.H. Lawrence is widely known for Lady Chatterley's Lover, and that book is remembered for one specific scene. It could even be argued that the entire book is this trope; it's hardly the author's best work, but it's still the most recognized Lawrence title. Why? The entire book is about sex. In the UK, it's arguably for the fact that it being about sex resulted in an obscenity trial. The jury found the experience to be rather stimulating.
How Not To Write A Novel offers three examples for the 'list of ingredients' method of descriptions gone wrong: the living room, the zoo, and the porn studio. Which one does everyone remember? The porn studio.
Stephen King's It Yeah, that one scene in the sewer, which wasn't in the TV miniseries for obvious reasons.
And that other similar scene which also wasn't included in the TV miniseries for even more obvious reasons.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels tend to avoid or skirt over sex or erotica. However, Thud! has a scene which smacks of genuine contrivance, maybe as a Take That to fanfic writers who insist on pairing off the most unlikely characters in contrived scenes where they inevitably get off with each other. Sally and Angua end up knee-deep in mud, naked, and squaring off for what could either end up as a cat-fight or something else; Sally subverts either result with a joke about how people might so much want to see this that they'd pay good money for it.
In the Sword of Truth, there are a few examples that stand out above all the others, though there's enough material that most of them don't even stand out.
The "spirit house" becomes a running gag between Richard and Kahlan.
Kahlan, leading the D'Harans against the Order, wearing only bodypaint.
Nicci, riding out against an army with her dress pulled down so nobody would notice her face.
Nicci, abusing the Maternity spell she cast on Kahlan.
Oz: That's the show where Christopher Meloni and his co-mates get naked and show off their penises before raping other naked guys in the shower, right? Was there also great dialogue, realistic characters, great acting, and amazing storylines, or was that just a rumor?
City of Death has sparkling Douglas Adams wit, a man aging to death and the villain being defeated by a punch. Main popular memory - Lalla Ward in a Sexy Schoolwoman outfit.
Terminus has a leprosy-like disease, a man going back in time and creating the universe, and Turlough with the Black Guardian. What does everyone remember? Nyssa taking off her skirt.
The Caves of Androzani features the regeneration from Fifth to Sixth and actually has the Fifth Doctor being badass. The memory? Peri's cleavage while she's holding the regenerating Doctor.
The Curse of Fenric completes the epic storyline of the struggle against the dark gods and cosmic forces the Doctor has been playing The Chessmaster against. The memory? Half a second of Sophie Aldred's knickers.
Pretty much the entirety of Louise Jameson's (Leela) time as companion to the 4th Doctor. Tight leather mini-dresses split to the hip, prominent cleavage, and plenty of poses emphasizing both.
"Bad Wolf", where everybody is fighting for their lives in game shows that try to kill you, and what does everyone remember? Jack Harkness, naked in front of millions of viewers. Their viewing figures just went up.
Planet of Fire has two examples of this trope, one for the boys and one for the girls. What do the boys remember? Peri in a Bikini. What do the the girls remember? Turlough taking off his tight short shorts.
The End of Time, part 1 features the return of the Master and Donna's father Wilf and the Doctor coming to terms with his impending regeneration, as well as the return of the Time Lords themselves while the Master turns almost every human into clones of himself. What do people remember? The Master a) emerging naked from a swirl of blue energy b) tied up to a chair with several straps, with his legs spread c) the Master wearing a red leather collar with a leash d) the Master in a straitjacket and finally, e) the Master in a pink dress.
In Eleven's very first episode, we have a gambit involving a computer virus that draws the authorities to the Monster of the Week, as well as an undertone of abandonment as Amy Pond waits for 14 years for her Doctor. What do people recall? The Doctor of stripping down in front of his companion Amy and her friend Rory. Naturally, Rory looks away, but Amy doesn't—and neither do the fangirls. Of course, what any guy who watched the episode will remember is Amy in the police uniform.
Jon Pertwee's tenure as the 3rd Doctor is infamous for the number of times companion Jo Grant (played by Katy Manning) inadvertently(?) flashed her knickers on camera, thanks in large part to the character's entire wardrobe seeming to consist of nothing but the shortest miniskirts the costume department could get away with putting her in on the air.
Remember the episode where Mork And Mindy first kissed? No? Remember the one where Mork befriended a caterpillar and then thought it died when really it was just becoming a butterfly? No? Remember the one where Mork was captured by the sexy Nectrotons, whose leader was played by Raquel Welch?
Chuck. Yvonne Strahovski regularly strapping weaponry on whilst wearing underwear. Also, the constant presence of the Cat Fight.
The Dukes of Hazzard is primarily remembered for a pair of short shorts. They are even commonly called "Daisy Dukes" after the character that wears them.
The promo for the shocking, heartbreaking, Emmy-winning House episode "House's Head" featured its scene of Cuddy doing a strip tease for House. (The episode itself did, too, for a wonder.)
I'm still thinking of the episode "War Stories", where Inara takes a female client to bed.....I'll be in my bunk.....
It is also the series where one of the main characters is a prostitute. Oh, sorry, "Companion".
Brookside, the soap opera set in Liverpool where Anna Friel kissed another girl. One of the first acknowledgements on British TV that lesbians existed, and avaunt-garde for its time.
Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show caused a shitstorm of controversy which is still occasionally joked about, and the NFL has only brought in "safe" classic rock bands (like Prince, apparently) ever since. Now do you remember who was actually playing in the championship game that year? Which is sad, because it was one of the most exciting Super Bowls ever.
Even more so because most people do not actually remember the scene as it happened, since it was over far too quickly to notice unless you were paying complete attention. That, or you thought it was All Part of the Show when it happened. Most people know the event only from its media coverage.
This was also subverted in the same Super Bowl. Everybody remembers Janet Jackson. Decidedly fewer remember the guy dancing in the end zone with a football over his wedding tackle.
Successfully done in Xena and Hercules, less so in Sheena and The Beastmaster, each for the guys and girls respectively. Then came the to a lesser extent for both Andromeda.
Some people only remember Xena because someone discovered a new transneptunian object bigger than Pluto, causing a major stir in the astronomy community, and temporarily named it "Xena." Its tiny moon was dubbed "Gabrielle" upon being discovered.
"The late Susan Oliver. She's a talented actress, author, director, a pioneer of women's aviation... and if you go to her Wikipedia page, this is the image of her they put up: her dancing as the green woman!" *
The image on Wikipedia has since been changed, possibly in response to this review
In response to low ratings, Jeri Ryan was injected into the latter half of Star Trek: Voyager. Even today, most fans speak fondly of Seven of Nine's stupidly-tight catsuits, choosing to overlook such a cold-blooded ratings ploy. The show benefited greatly from Ryan's acting chops and respect for her character, elevating what could have been a fluff role. So, as ratings ploys go, this was an inspired one, even if the rest of Voyager remains fuzzy.
Lois Lane is Superman's future wife and star journalist of the Daily Planet. In the opening credits, her background scene is still her stepping out of the water in a bikini.
Top Gear, Series 13 — few people remember where the presenters went to do a classic rally (Majorca), but everyone remembers James May's co-driver: buxom glamor model Madison Welch.
And has lots of sex with her vampire boyfriend who has a weird way of pronouncing her name.
And a tall, blonde vampire having sex at warp speed with a hot Estonian dancer... who also has sex with Pam.
The makers of Californication know that everyone remembers the stripper, and consequently there are a lot of babes getting naked throughout the course of the show.
Audiences can't seem to agree what they like more about Dexter: the sex, the violence or the creepy intro.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is mostly about Summer Glau in her underwear and various other abbreviated outfits. The marketing people played this up with the famous promotional image of Summer Glau's partially-disassembled robot character, wearing nothing but Godiva Hair. The show is notable in that two groups of people will remember it for different things: the first for Summer Glau, and the second for Lena Headey.
The Daily Show had a bit of fun when George Takei got married and out of all the Star Trek stills available, the news put up a picture of Sulu fencing shirtless. "Oh my" indeed.
Arrested Development keeps it off camera, but has an amusing in universe example in the season one episode "Missing Kitty".
Cop: Well, we have a restaurant full of people saying that you threatened Kitty the last time she was seen. Michael: How does anybody even remember this? Cop: She showed her knobs in a Steakhouse, sir.
It appears the Discovery Channel website attempted to invoke this one on those who browsed the Mythbustersphoto galleries, inviting us to see the "Bathtub Test" album by saying "See production stills — including pictures of a half-naked Adam — from episode 19".
For some reason, Game of Thrones has the rather bad habit of laying down important exposition while sex is happening in the scene. Episode 7 had Petyr Baelish delivering a rather important, character-defining monologue in the midst of making two whores "play" with each other.
Television Without Pity Recap: I really can't emphasize enough how distracting it is that he's delivering this monologue while two naked ladies are theatrically pleasuring each other.
"The action and/or beheadings are slowing down too much in this scene! Bring out the giant retard walking around with his dick hanging out for no reason!"
Podrick Payne has received almost none of his characterization from the books *
(in which he's a shy and awkward yet stubbornly loyal 10-year-old orphan)
, which may have had the producers concerned that viewers didn't know who he was. Cue a prolonged sequence in which Tyrion arranges for Podrick to be serviced by three prostitutes, who subsequently refuse payment for it, followed by TWO scenes of other characters discussing why they did such a thing. If that doesn't get people to remember him, nothing will.
Stargate SG-1 has the episode where everyone is infected with an anti-Goa'uld device, but that's sort of secondary to Dr. Fraiser opening up her shirt (and revealing her bra) because she's infected and hot.
The pilot episode "Children of the Gods", had full-frontal nudity in its original airing on Showtime. It was edited out in later airings on regular cable (replaced by a couple long closeups of Teal'c's face), but is retained in the DVD release.
It's actually surprisingly hard to find clips that don't contain Cara or Kahlan, though mostly Cara. Why does this count as this trope? Tight red leather. Low neckline. Tabrett Bethell. On second thought, this might not be such a bad thing.
Bath house scene.
Everyone remembers that Richard's first scene was shirtless.
Say Torchwood, and the the reaction is most likely to be "gay sex". While it's true that the show mentioned gay sex at least once an episode, and the straight main character was briefly turned gay in only the second episode, and there was at least one episode mostly focused on a character having gay sex with an alien, it barely ever actually showed the sex.
That Kamen Rider series where the main character is constantly seen in nothing but his boxers.
Francois Arnaud of The Borgias mentioned in an interview that everyone wants to talk about his character's leather pants and extremelyclose relationship with his sister. Admittedly, the incest thing is kind of a big part of the Borgia legend.
The L Word is a softcore lesbian porn show with boring dialogues in-between that nobody that matters cares about.
House: You may as well turn the sound off until the interesting parts show up.
Star Trek: Enterprise became infamous for Jolene Blalock showing the top half of her bum in one episode, wearing a hand bra in another, and getting oily in the decontamination room in many other episodes.
Heroes is that show where a whole load of stuff about eclipses, helices, and conspiracies to take over the world keeps getting in the way of Hayden Panettiere being all bouncy, cheerleadery*
even though by the final season her character was no longer a cheerleader
Before the mini-series Labyrinth had even aired, it was being anticipated as the show in which Katie McGrath would get naked. The very first clips uploaded onto YouTube? Her nude scenes, of course.
All anyone remembers about house music producer and DJ L'il Louis? That track with the woman having a 'Lady Chatterley crisis' over it.
Nine Inch Nails? They're the 'fuck you like an animal' guys, right? And the guys where Bob Flanagan gets nude and gets tortured and killed by a machine whilst he basks in masochistic pleasure?
Shakira's most famous lyric is surely the one about having "small and humble" breasts. Oh yeah, and her hips don't lie either.
Neo-Soul singer D'angelo, got this hard after his "Untitled" music video....
Benny Benassi's videos. "Satisfaction", for example, was a mocked-up commercial video of women in bikinis using power tools.
The Dandy Warhols gained a lot of notoriety for keyboardist Zia McCabe playing topless. The number of guys showing up just for that caused her to pretty much stop. And their most famous song? "Bohemian Like You," due to the video with a few seconds each of full frontal nudity from a Wrench Wench and a waiter.
MTV Brazil has stated that in their country, before Dave Grohl recorded an album with Queens Of The Stone Age, they were just the band of that guy who played naked during Rock in Rio.
Inverted in Lady Gaga's "Telephone". The video is so full of fanservice and Fetish Fuel that Everybody Remembers the Sandwich. For poorly explained reasons, Gaga and Beyonce go into roadside cafe, make poisoned sandwiches that kill everyone, and seem pretty pleased with their work.
Not quite fanservice, but the video clip for Latin band Miranda's song "Ritmo & Decepción" is only remembered by some due to the brief Restart cameo.
Rapper Petey Pablo had a video called freek-a-leek. But the only thing people remember from it is the model Esther Baxter aka "Ms. freek-a-leek".
Christina Millian had quite a few music video's early in her career. But the only video people seem to remember is "Dip It Low".
R&B group H-Town is mostly known for being that trio who danced like raunchy shirtless male strippers and sung Knockin The Boots.
Everybody remembers the music video for "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake because it features 1980s hottie Tawny Kitaen writhing around sensuously on the hood of a car. The video became even more famous when viewers discovered that there's a nipple slip that the censors missed (the video was quickly edited to remove the split-second of nudity).
David Lee Roth once did a cover of the Beach Boys classic "California Girls". The only reason anybody still remembers Roth's version is because the music video featured more girls in bikinis than Cancun during Spring Break.
Some of the more positive YouTube/Failblog comments regarding the music video for "Dying Naked" by Skelteria were about the Reaper Girl.
Donna Summer had a decades-long career, yet is best remembered for faking a bunch of orgasms on "Love To Love You Baby."
All most Warhammer 40000 fans seem to remember about the Sisters of Battle is that they're an Amazon Brigade in a very male-dominated setting, and that one of their troop options literally wear nothing but three scraps of paper (and a Chainsaw Sword). Also, apparently the Dark Eldar do nothing but rape everything to death. As do Slaaneesh worshipers.
Salome: Richard Strauss's opera in particular is best known for the "Dance of the Seven Veils" (as in, the title character takes them off).
Video Games
The Dead Or Alive series. Full stop. Even though it's easily one of the best 3D fighting game franchises in the market on its own merits, the vast majority of people only remember the anatomically impossible female fighters and their Jiggle Physics, for better or for worse.
Skullgirls has a rather cool art style, a good story for a fighter, some interesting characters with personalities that shows they actually have more depth to them then just their looks, some even having a tragic past but still been an up beat inspiration and good role model, and is an overall fun and solid tournament fighter but most people who haven't played the game for more then 10 minutes or at all often get stuck on its admittedly not so hidden fan service. Keep in mind said fan service is played for laughs and is only focused on for a few moments to deliver a punchline or two once in a while and then the game moves on and usually stays focused on the story for the most part.
Dantes Inferno is about Lucifer's enormous schlong. Or it's about a more action-y take on one of the best known depictions of hell, and quite possibly being the first mass marketed media about the subject for a while.
In Final Fantasy XIII, the 33cm shoe is on the other foot. Good luck explaining to a fangirl that Snow Villiers isn't the game's main character. Why is that? The length of time spent developing his personality doesn't seem to be a big part of it.
And for the women, Balthier. Nothing particularly Fanservice-y happens to him, but he is still very nice to look at.
And take it all the way to 1988 and Final Fantasy II. Firion gets seduced by a lamia queen disguised as the princess. Prior to Dissidia, if you remembered just one thing about II, it was that. Considering that Square Enix themselves play it up, though, you can't really be blamed for it.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 has a rather memorable scene of Lightning getting magically stripped nude of her regular outfit and then having it replaced by her new, more fanservicey armor.
Why should you play Snatcher? You get to flirt with all the women! It even caters to all the ephebophiles out there! And there's nudity! And something about Communist robots taking over the world with Replicant Snatching, probably.
Might as well play Policenauts for the same reason. You can flirt with every girl in the game; you can even grope them!
Tomb Raider: Lara Croft has huge guns - oh, and pistols, too. A lot of people play the game through on all difficulty levels and get all the trophies-just to unlock the bikini costumes, and to angle the camera to get the best view of Lara's ass.
Dragon Quest IV was the first Dragon Quest game to have multiple party members with distinctive personalities, rather than use a predetermined party or a team of Player Mooks. Of all the characters, Ms. FanserviceMaya's artwork is leaps and bounds more voluminous than any other character in the series.
Jessica of Dragon Quest VIII, appearing as the only one who can change outfits on maps and puff-puff the enemies into various states of confusion with her sex appeal abilities.
In FEAR 2, Alma rapes you. That's right, YOU! Oh yeah and some other stuff happens.
The King Of Fighters is that fighting game featuring Mai's Gainaxing boobs and ... oh, the rest of the fighters. It's about fighting.
In Silent Hill 2, Pyramid Head rapes things. Some say that other things happen. Though it's arguably a Fan Disservice.
Leaf actually has the same size chest as May, but she's often ignored because she has yet to have a canon appearance within the games and has no anime appearances.
And of course there's Cynthia, who hangs out in a resort along with Skyla and Elesa.
Summon Night is most well-known in the west for its Gay Option's and its other fanservices, mostly in the Swordscraft Story series though. It doesn't help that the box of one of the games displays a screen of Pratty saying she kisses girls all the time.
Vanillaware's latest title Dragon's Crown seems to be heading this way. Fans are less concerned about the quality of the title (which, granted, is nothing to worry about since Vanillaware's releases are consistently good) and more concerned about how much Fetish Fuel the Sorceress and Amazon provide.
Jade Empire is that game where you can have a threesome. Oh, and something about a big guy with two axes.
Dragon Age: Origins is that game where you can have a foursome. Oh, and something about licking a lamppost in winter.
Touhou is about a world of (seemingly-underaged) super-powered magical action girls. Who have interesting relationships with each others. Which gives way to tons of cute fanarts and awesome music. "Shoot em ups"? What's a "shoot em ups"? note Unlike other examples on this page, the creator does lament that it's not best known as a shoot em up. Bummer.
Any and all discussion of TERA will be dominated by and centered around the rights of the female playable characters to wear Chainmail Bikinis, and whether or not people who play as Elins are pedophiles because they wear the same stuff that all the other females are wearing
Muchi Muchi Pork is known less for the bells and whistles of a Shinobu Yagawa shmup like rank and crazy scoring mechanics, and more for its pandering to plus-size fetishists.
Web Comics
The eighth issue of Sonichu, the most sexually explicit one, is also the most infamous.
Web Original
A YouTube video on a channel known as Vlogvetica featured a naked guy walking in the background, for maybe one second, and was never pointed out in the actual video. Guess what every single comment was about.
"But You Screw One Goat", the former name of Bestiality Is Depraved, is the punchline of a joke that owes its humor as much if not more to the trope under discussion here than the one that actually bore its name.
Troper: I saw an Israeli war movie (forget the name, sorry) that began and ended with a scene showing the protagonist and his girlfriend rubbing paint all over each other while making love. Not sure what this had to do with the rest of the movie.
Other troper: Who cares?
Any sex scene in Survival of the Fittest quite often eclipses the character. Case in point, there's a reason that She Bop (girl on girl rape) is the most infamous thread of V3. So far as characters go, Rosa Fiametta of V4 often gets this treatment, to the point where her characterisation is simplified to just being a sex maniac due to the frequency with which she gets it on.
The Game Heroes ad where The Nostalgia Critic gets kidnapped. Fangirls completely failed to notice what they were selling, being distracted by the pretty boy getting manhandled and a gun being put to his head.
The Surf Ninjas review is a Dying Dream episode, with lots of clever Sarcasm Mode, a nice scene where The Other Guy and friends are looking after Critic, and Optimus Prime bringing him back to life by dying for his sins. And what do people remember? "GEEEEEEENIUS!"
Transformers 3 and Jungle 2 Jungle reviews...? Oh! They're the ones where Doug just shows off the epic job his wife did on messing up his neck, right?
From the way TGWTG fandom tells it, you'd think the whole eighteen minutes of the Sonic movie was just Doug Walker getting abused and then made to kneel.
The Spaceballs animated series was largely disliked except for all the women with oversized breasts.
Western Animation
It's possible the only scene most guys remember from the "girly" Disney film The Little Mermaid is when Ariel is first transformed into a human, and is naked for the next 6 minutes of the movie. The rest of us remember either Vanessa or the musical at the beginning. So many half-naked beauties in sea shell bikinis...
Time Squad: Today's fans enjoy talking for hours on end on how fabulously gay Larry 3000 was and the blatant homosexual innuendo that revolved around the series entirely.
The existence of short series Fish Police is only remembered because it had lots of quite un-cartoonish passionate kissing as well as other content that was considered too risque for children's TV. It was also remembered as one of the early competitors of The Simpsons (along with Family Dog and Capitol Critters—a Simpsons Halloween special even had a sight gag that showed those three shows on tombstones) that got canceled due to all three shows being critical and ratings disasters (though gaining cult followings years after being taken off the air).
The film El Arca is mostly remembered for Panthy's dance scene. Wasn't it also based on Noah's Ark?
Sym-Bionic Titan's memorable characters, great animation, and plethora of catchy music are sadly far out-shined for most by Kimmie's infamous ass dance in episode 10. Say it with us now: SHAKE IT, BAKE IT, BOOTY QUAKE IT!
Futurama has had a remarkable amount of nudity, animated and within the rules of TV - no nipples, vaginas or guys' junk, but still.
The only CatDog episode most people distinctly remember is the muscle growth episode.
Real Life
Katrina Darrell was in the auditions of Season 8 of American Idol. This is the infamous "Bikini Girl".
That American's Greatest Inventor show? The one with the Naughty Knot Lingerie.
And practically every girl/girl group act who was talentless but hawt on shows like America's Got Talent and the like, where their looks swayed the male judges but not the female one(s).
Bill Clinton was the President of the United States for eight years (1993-2001). The only thing that many people remember about him was his many sex scandals (Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, and, most infamous of all, Monica Lewinsky).
When Brandi Chastain ripped off her soccer jersey and displayed her (not particularly immodest) sports bra.
Now name the event, year, and opponent. Winning the 1999 Women's World Cup against the Chinese team.
Thanks to a combination of this and Small Reference Pools, quite a few people don't remember it was Chastain that actually did this and instead attribute this to Mia Hamm, since she's the only female soccer player a lot of people can name. They don't even remember the person, just the bra.
Pointed out by MAD in their "50 Worst Things About Sports" issue, listing this and "Anna Kournikova panty shots" as the only things that will ever be remembered about female athletes.
And now we can add the Venus and Serena Williams in tennis; they're either known as those two Hot Amazon tennis sisters, or the ones that mainstreamed loud, aggressive, yet unexpectedly passionate sounding grunts and shouts to the sport. Nevermind that for the better part of a decade they were indisputably the #1 and #2 tennis players in the world, only trading the spot back and forth between each other, and almost unbeatable as a doubles team.
Any famous nude statue or painting. If someone mentions Michelangelo's David, the first thing that comes to mind for many people is not the fact that it portrays him before the battle with Goliath.
Michelangelo broke from the norm with David depicting him about to fight Goliath, instead of after his victory. Thus David is missing the artifacts that would normally give it away to the uninformed viewer, such as the head of Goliath or an empty sling. This is probably what happens when you show generations of people a statue of a nude man with the only explanation "This is David, he's a beautiful work of art." The statue itself is supposed to be meaningful both in its grasp of human determination to fight oppression and in its portrayal of human anatomy, but all anybody remembers is "naked".
His relative lack of... um... endowment is also often brought up, as well as the fact that he is not circumcised, as would have been the Jewish practice.
Any and all "sex tapes" scandals. Whether or not the person is at all notable is irrelevant, as is the fact that it is indistinguishable from amateur porn, famous people having sex is clearly interesting. Most notably, Paris Hilton basically built an entire career using this trope.
Kim Kardashian, whilst she built the majority of her career on a sex tape with singer Ray J, is basically the epitome of Ms. Fanservice. Does anyone actually have any idea what she does? More to the point, does anyone care?
More than a few studies have found that while sexual content makes an ad memorable it only helps them remember they saw a sexy ad, they're often no better at remembering what it was trying to sell.
The Los Angeles debuts of Four Weddings and a Funeral was going to be Hugh Grant's big debut in America. However, his girlfriend, unknown actress Elizabeth Hurley, showed up wearing a Stripperiffic Versace dress held together with giant safety pins.◊ Hurley was on the cover of every fashion and celebrity publication, which both launched her career and made Versace a household name.
Channing Tatum seems to be heading down this road. While a good actor in his own right, once news leaked that he worked as a male stripper for a year before finding success as an actor, it's all anyone wants to talk about, and although he's capitalizing on it with the movie Magic Mike, it tends to bleed over into his promotion of other movies, like The Vow. Not even the episode of Saturday Night Live he hosted was immune to exploiting this: he admitted it in the monologue, was shirtless in a couple of sketches, and even played a male stripper in the final sketch of the night.
Joe Manganiello has been hit with this so hard there's cultural commentary about it (article contains some potentially-NSFW Magic Mike screenshots.) Between his Walking Shirtless Scenes on True Blood and his run as "Big Dick Richie" in Magic Mike, some female bloggers have noticed that almost every appearance he does is less about asking about him or his movie roles and more about the female presenters pawing at him, getting him to take off his shirt, and asking questions like what kind of underwear he wears. They've started to notice (some amused, some a little more worried) that women have been objectifying him the same way they complain about men objectifying women. For what it's worth, Manganiello himself seemed to get a little frustrated with it after a while, but seems to be a good sport about it, apparently saying at one point he's done all the serious classical theater already and is just having fun at this point.
Montagnard Politician Marat was a major actor in French Revolution, teaming up with Danton and Robespierre to overthrow the Girondin and being at least as responsible, if not more than Robespierre, for the violent measures taken by Robespierre later. Yet, the only thing that is remembered by everyone about him is that he got assassinated in his bathroom by a woman
In spite of the number of channels it runs, the variety of movies it shows, and its attempts both past and present to make more mainstream original programming, Cinemax is still mainly remembered for soft core porn and plenty of it - to the point where it's still frequently referred to as "Skinemax".
Waldorf: You know, it's funny, but I don't remember any fanservice in this show. Statler: At our age, we can barely remember the show at all! Waldorf: Well thank goodness for that! Both: Dohohohohohohoh!
