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Much like Censor Steam, this trope is when a character is taking a bubble bath and seems to have the suds from the bath conveniently covering the private parts of her body when she gets out, and also while inside of the bath. In real life this does happen, but not nearly so selectively as this trope might lead you to believe. On top of that, the suds in real life will slide off one's body and it would take a lot (as in, the tub would have to look like a root beer float or a beer that's mostly head) to cover.
Examples
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Anime & Manga
- Pictured above: In episode 49 of Dragon Ball Z, Bulma stands up in her bubble bath and bends over, conveniently covered by soap suds.
- In Soul Eater, Blair, Tsubaki, and others are conveniently (barely) covered in soap suds.
- In the second episode of 009-1, Mylene Hoffman has bubbles conveniently covering her breasts as she gets out of her bubble bath.
- In InuYasha, there is a rare male example. Inu-Yasha has convenient bubbles/houseplant/etc upon him bursting out of the bath.
- Played with in Sailor Moon: Fish-Eye at one point takes a shower, and we see suds covering his chest. Apparently, he got a little too into the part (and before anyone asks, yes, they were there originally).
- Happens to Mafuyu in the third episode of Seikon No Qwaser when she exits the tub after her Bathtub Bonding scene with Tomo. Although Tomo doesn't have this as she is shown in her full glory in this scene (unless you are watching the edited version, then you can't see a thing).
- Done to Rushuna in the 11th episode of Grenadier when she knocks a guard out with a scrub brush.
- Training with Hinako vol. 3 makes ample use of suds, seeing as Hinako and Hiyoko are naked for pretty much the whole OVA.
- Sometimes used in the Ranma ½ manga on the (few) non-Gender Bender female characters that Takahashi is reluctant to draw naked, such as Akane.
- Played for Laughs in one instance of the black-and-white manga. Akane seems to be naked in the bath when Ranma, in a ploy by the family to get him to peep on her, barges in. The suds on her chest and hips make it SEEM like she's still naked when she pulls his head around to force him to look at her... but she's actually wearing a one-piece swimsuit. The suds were only disguising the edges.
- At the end of the ice palace episode of Sonic X, Rouge the Bat is seen taking a bath, holding a fake Chaos Emerald in her hand. Bubbles cover everything. Oddly, she's wearing her White Gloves in the bath.
- Subverted in Girl Friends: Mari deliberately applies this to herself when she and Akko are exchanging bath photos with their cell phones. Akko... not so much.
Films
- Gozer the Gozerian seems to be permanently covered in these in Ghostbusters.
- In the movie Howard the Duck, though a lady duck was bathing bare in the original version, there was a mountain of suds to cover her bare bosom in the televised version!
- Happens in Barb Wire. Kind of pointless, since Barb was shown stripping in the first scene anyway.
Literature
- Harry Potter in Goblet of Fire takes a bath filled with various types of suds and bubbles, which proves useful when Myrtle crashes the party. This is done in the film version as well. Myrtle also remarks that when Cedric was there, he remained long enough for the bubbles to vanish.
Live-Action TV
- This was done in the 1983 NBC Pilot Movie The Invisible Woman. Because Alexa Hamilton's character was invisible, only her pubis had any soap suds on it when she rose to leave the bathtub.
- Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye had Sue take a bath in a tub completely piled with soapsuds. The only skin showing was her neck, head, and arms. For some reason, a snippet of this scene made it into the Opening Theme sequence.
- Wings does this with Helen in one episode, and for a good cause since her 'husband' Antonio showed up.
- Duncan's bathtub scene in Highlander: The Series episode "Chivalry".
- Cole's bathtub scene in Tracker. Amusingly enough, Cole is played by the same guy as Duncan from the Highlander example above!
Video Games
- In the old CD-ROM game Babyz, censor suds will act as an inpromptu diaper after you take the baby out of the bath, and will go away only with the application of a fresh diaper.
Webcomics
Web Original
Western Animation
- At about 1:07 during this series
 of syndicated local-TV-movie openings.
- In the Sponge Bob Square Pants episode "Squid's Day Off", Squidward runs out of his bubble bath still naked, covered by bubbles, as they slowly pop one by one.
- In Caillou, one episode shows Caillou's parents bathing him with suds covering his privates.
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