Finding A Bra In Your Car - Television Tropes & Idioms

Man #1: "Since when have you worn an earring?"

Man #2: "Ever since my wife found it in the car."

Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion

There are certain places one should expect to find a black, lacy Ann Summers bra. The glove compartment isn't one of those places. When someone does find it there, hilarity may well ensue, or a strange face at least.

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Comic Books

Lana Lang once left a pair of her panties in the Kents' bedroom in a fit of jealousy when Clark refused to listen to Lana's claims that Lois was a bad wife.

Film - Live Action

In the comedy Overboard, the haughty Rich Bitch with amnesia (Goldie Hawn) is convinced by her creditor carpenter that she's his wife in order to work off her debt. At one point, she finds her own underwear (embroidered with her real initials) stashed in his glovebox and accuses him of having an affair.
In Rat Race, Tracy finds a bra in her truck; it's from the other woman. She proceeds to cram it down her cheating boyfriend's throat.
In Guide for the Married Man, one episode involves Terry Thomas, who had a fling with a pretty girl in his bedroom in his own home. When it was time for her to go, she couldn't find her bra. ("Maybe your wife will think it's hers," she says. He replies, looking at her ample bosom, "You must be joking." During this scene Thomas is a young looking man. It is explained that he knows the bra is in the bedroom and that it's only a matter of time before his wife finds it. The episode concludes by introducing Terry Thomas at the gym. He looks about 95. "How long ago did this happen?" "Last week."
In a borderline-clever moment in John Tucker Must Die, the Granola Girl finds a bra in John Tucker's car and is outraged until the "100% hemp" tag tells her it's hers, apparently left behind when they were dating.

Live Action TV

Ducky finds one of Agent Lee's bras in the autopsy area in NCIS.
- In another episode, Abby finds a pair of lacy pink vibrating panties in Director Shepherd's car.
In Waterloo Road, Mr. Cleaver returns a bag to Ms. Koreshi. The bag falls on the floor, disgorging her undies from the previous night.
That 70s Show: Eric finds undergarments (and cheese or peanut butter...) in his car the morning after his middle-aged neighbors — the parents of his girlfriend — have sex in it.
In an episode of Two and a Half Men, Alan finds one of his mother's brassieres. However, he doesn't know whose it is until Charlie tells him.
Kings: The secretary's bra is planted into the backseat of Jack's car so that the media will not suspect that Jack is gay.
This frequently happens on any paternity/cheater/lie dectector test episode of Maury.
In an episode of Scrubs, JD notices that Dr. Kelso is sporting a rather flashy earring. In a flashback, we see that Enid has found the earring and accused him of adultery, and Kelso proves that the earring is his by giving himself a very bloody impromptu piercing with the earring.
In Freaks and Geeks, Neal finds a second, unfamiliar garage door opener in his dad's car; he and the other "geeks" spend the rest of the episode riding around town on their bikes trying it on every house they can get to.
On One Tree Hill, Brooke changes clothes in Lucas' car. She purposely leaves a leopard-print brassiere behind.
In an episode of Speeders a cop found a pair of black panties in a guy's car along with a box of condoms.
In an episode of Babylon 5, Garibaldi is searching Ambassador G'Kar's quarters and finds a pair of pink panties.
Garibaldi: Yours?
G'Kar: GET! OUT!
Garibaldi: Let me just say, from the bottom of my heart, pink is definitely your color.

Western Animation

In an episode of The Simpsons, Milhouse's parents get back together and he gets jealous because they aren't paying him any more attention. Bart suggests using this trope after seeing it on The O.C.; unfortunately, they use one of Marge's bras which has a name tag in it, which boomerangs back around and makes Homer think Marge is cheating on him and very nearly destroys the Simpson family.

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