Basic Trope: Nudity is Played for Laughs.
- Straight: Alice goes about her business unclothed.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice is naked at church, but no one seems to notice or care.
- Alice and Bob are having sex in public, and everyone notices but nobody cares.
- There is more than one naked character.
- Some sort of weird disaster leads to the whole town being naked and finding goofy ways to cover up.
- Alice is unwillingly naked, but everyone blocks her from getting clothes and out of sight and force her to remain naked in public.
- Downplayed: Alice is walking around town in her underwear, and does get the occasional odd stare, but most people act as if she were fully clothed.
- Justified:
- Alice is a naturist.
- Alice is a streaker.
- Troperville has an Official Public Nudity Day when everyone in town goes naked.
- Alice got her clothes torn off by wild animals.
- Alice went Skinny Dipping, but then someone stole her clothes.
- Alice is a shapeshifter, and in her case Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing.
- Alice just doesn't wear clothing, due to being of a culture that wears little to nothing or another sort of Innocent Fanservice Girl.
- Inverted:
- Alice is the only clothed person at a nude beach.
- Alice is wearing winter clothes in summer weather.
- Nudity is played for Serious Business rather than humor.
- Subverted:
- Alice is naked, but censored by an object.
- Alice is naked and it seems like it's going to be a comedic scene, but then it turns into a sex scene.
- Alice seems to be naked due to placement of some form of conveniently-placed censoring, but it soon reveals that she's still wearing enough clothing so as to not be considered naked.
- Double Subverted:
- The object only draws more attention to her nudity.
- The object mysteriously vanishes or is destroyed.
- The sex scene is played for adult humour rather than fanservice.
- While Alice isn't entirely naked, she's still wearing little enough for the scene to be played for comedy anyway.
- Alice gets entirely naked later in the scene and it's played for laughs.
- Parodied:
- Alice is walking around with a Censor Box, a Digital Bikini, or some other means of censoring. Bonus points if she had Barbie Doll Anatomy to begin with.
- Alice is naked in a place (like, say, a conservative Baptist church in the Deep South during Sunday service) where it normally wouldn't be acceptable. Everyone reacts as if Alice just crossed the Moral Event Horizon.
- An Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal ends up losing the only article of clothing they ever wear and either freaks out at being naked in public or starts receiving complaints about their nudity out of the blue.
- Zig Zagged:
- Alice mysteriously switches from naked to fully dressed several times during a scene.
- Alice is naked, but it keeps switching from being a joke to being serious.
- Averted:
- Everyone remains fully clothed throughout the series or movie.
- The characters are all non-human and do not normally wear clothes.
- There is nudity, but it is not played for laughs.
- Enforced:
- The writer wants to create an awkward situation in a Sitcom, or wants to add in a bit of comedic Fanservice.
- "We need our jokes to be surreal and unusual, and I think nothing would be more off the wall than a random person being naked in public with nobody noticing or caring".
- Lampshaded: "Bob, there's a naked woman sitting on your porch swing!"
- Invoked: Alice is visiting a town with a reputation for being so laid-back as not to begrudge public nudity. She doesn't pack any clothes and proceeds to strut her stuff.
- Exploited: Bob throws Alice a Birthday Suit Surprise Party.
- Defied:
- Alice is on a nude beach and is unwilling to take her clothes off.
- The public prevents Alice from letting it all hang out by passing a law ensuring that public nudity is met with a severe penalty.
- Discussed: "What is it about nudity that people find so hilarious?"
- Conversed: "Ever wonder why all these new comedies keep featuring naked people?"
- Implied: Bob asks Charles, "Did you see Alice when you went downtown?" and then bursts out laughing. Charles says, "Yes, I sure did. In fact, I couldn't stop staring at her."
- Deconstructed:
- Because Naked People Are Funny, whenever Alice tries to undress to have sex with her boyfriend, Bob, he bursts out laughing, rendering them incapable of having intimate relations, causing Alice and Bob to suffer much angst indeed.
- Alice has a severe, public Wardrobe Malfunction which becomes even more humiliating as everyone around stares and laughs at her misfortune, the humiliation and lack of sympathy she gets turns the situation into a traumatizing experience that undermines both her confidence and her ability to trust people.
- Reconstructed:
- However, Alice uses this to treat Bob when he suffers from depression. Intimate Healing, indeed.
- Bob only finds nudity funny when it's in a nonsexual situation.
- The public stop poking fun at Alice once they realise that she is traumatised and apologise, doing all they can to help her recover.
- Played for Laughs: Alice has her clothes completely burned or torn off by an accident. She decides to walk home and get dressed, only for a Birthday Suit Surprise Party to happen. She screams, "Don't look at me!"
- Played for Drama:
- Alice is arrested for indecency, and Bob murders the police officer who arrested Alice because everyone else in Troperville found Alice's nudity hilarious. Later, we see Alice and Bob sharing a prison cell, and now they're both naked.
- Anyone who sees Alice naked will laugh themselves to death.
- Played for Horror:
- Alice is stripped naked by George, who wants to rape her, and obviously he finds her discomfort hilarious.
- Alice is a Serial Killer who commits murder naked so she can wash blood off herself easily.
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