History Main / EmbarrassingHospitalGown

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'': In the episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E14GrowingPains Growing Pains]]", Steven visits Dr. Priyanka Maheswaran in the hospital due to him glowing pink and random parts of his body swelling and shrinking rapidly. When instructed to put on a hospital gown, he asks the following:

* Literature/WhateleyUniverse: During her enforced stay for psychological treatment in ARC Red, Circuit Breaker complains bitterly about having to wear a hospital gown for weeks on end, and jokingly refers to her doctors/captors as 'fucking perverts' for this (sometimes accompanied with FlippingTheBird at the surveillance camera in her cell). For their part, the doctors are aware that if given regular clothes, Merry would try to escape custody.

* ''WesternAnimation/NeoYokio'': After her NearDeathExperience, Helena swears off her {{Fashionista}} ways while still at the hospital, and as a protest, decides to never change out of the flimsy hospital gown she's wearing. She even attends a fancy party while wearing only that, which scandalizes Neo Yokio's fashion-fixated society and embarrasses her friends and family. It also backfires somewhat since some of her die-hard fans decide [[YouAreTheNewTrend hospital gowns are a new trend]] are start wearing those instead of their school uniforms, to the annoyance of the staff. By the time the Christmas special rolls around Bergdorf Goodman is selling couture hospital gowns and diamond-encrusted bandages to the trendy youths of Neo Yokio.

Literature/WhateleyUniverse: During her enforced stay for psychological treatment in ARC Red, Circuit Breaker complains bitterly about having to wear a hospital gown for weeks on end, and jokingly refers to her doctors/captors as 'fucking perverts' for this (sometimes accompanied with FlippingTheBird at the surveillance camera in her cell). For their part, the doctors are aware that if given regular clothes, Merry would try to escape custody.

-->--'''Dale''', ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''

* Creator/JoeHill's short story ''Literature/{{Thumbprint}}'' features a rare case where this trope is PlayedForDrama: during her time in Iraq, protagonist Mel was once involved in the interrogation of an Iraqi they nicknamed The Professor because he was a teacher. The man had been brought in with a broken tibia which had to be put in a cast first and is still wearing only a hospital gown when the soldiers take him away for questioning. While escorting him to the interrogation room, the soldiers humiliate The Professor by deliberately kicking away his crutches, causing him to fall and his bare ass to be exposed. They add more fuel to the fire by then intentionally pulling the string of the gown, causing it to drop and expose even more of the Professor's bare skin.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', the intro scene sees Venom Snake escape from a hospital together with the mysterious agent only known as "Ishmael", who is undercover as a patient and therefore dressed in a gown and precious little else. As Venom Snake is severely physically weakened due to recently have spend years in a coma, he can only crawl along the floor while Ishmael sneaks ahead in front of him. The resulting camera angle results in Ishmael's butt being on full display at several points, adding quite a bit of {{Bathos}} to an otherwise pretty tense scene.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E20ThrowGrampaFromTheDane hrow Grampa from the Dane]]": after his visit to Dr. Nick, Grandpa returns to his family while still dressed in only his hospital gown, exposing his bare butt.

* ''Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl'': Take a society with no nudity taboo, and an injured centaur who very much does, as well as two doctors whose skills at stitching wounds ''really'' don't translate to fabric well. Cerea's first attempt at moving in the improvised contraption results in it basically falling apart around her. Guess the genera really does follow her everywhere.

* ''Film/SomethingsGottaGive'': Erica, Marin, and Zoe are waiting in the hospital hall after Harry's heart attack when he suddenly wanders into the hallway wearing only a backless hospital gown and acting loopy due to all the drugs in his system. He ends up walking in circles and [[FanDisservice flashing his bare butt to the women and the audience many times]], much to their annoyance.

* ''Series/ChicagoFire'': [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "Who Lives and Who Dies". When Severine visits Anna in the hospital, she teases him about how he was hoping to find her in a backless hospital gown and catch an eyeful, but she's actually wearing a very modest robe.

'''Severine:''' You figured it out.\\

SubTrope of NakedPeopleAreFunny. See ModestyBedsheet for when a sheet or blanket is used to cover someone's body after they had medical care. See {{Mooning}} when a character deliberately shows his butt as a form of taunt. See UndressingTheUnconscious for when the source of the embarrassment is that the character was changed into the gown while they were unconscious. See also HatesWearingDresses, EmbarrassingPyjamas, EmbarrassinglyDresslikeOutfit, GoofySuit, GoofyPrintUnderwear, UncoolUndies, BadJobWorseUniform, or ForcedIntoTheirSundayBest for other tropes about clothes people hate.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'', the intro scene sees Venom Snake escape from a hospital together with the mysterious agent only known as "Ishmael", who is undercover as a patient and therefore dressed in a gown and precious little else. As Venom Snake is severely physically weakened due to recently have spend years in a coma, he can only crawl along the floor while Ishmael sneaks ahead in front of him. The resulting camera angle results in Ishmael's butt being on full display at several points, adding quite a bit of {{Bathos}} to an otherwise pretty tense scene.

-->'''Anna:''' I know what you're up to. You heard that I was up and about, and you figured I'd be wearing my hospital gown, open in the back, and get a little peep show.
-->'''Severine:''' You figured it out.
-->'''Anna:''' Yeah, well, too bad for you, this robe's from Grandma Turner, and it stays firmly in place.

* Creator/JoeHill's short story ''Literature/{{Tumbprint}}'' features a rare case where this trope is PlayedForDrama: during her time in Iraq, protagonist Mel was once involved in the interrogation of an Iraqi they nicknamed The Professor because he was a teacher. The man had been brought in with a broken tibia which had to be put in a cast first and is still wearing only a hospital gown when the soldiers take him away for questioning. While escorting him to the interrogation room, the soldiers humiliate The Professor by deliberately kicking away his crutches, causing him to fall and his bare ass to be exposed. They add more fuel to the fire by then intentionally pulling the string of the gown, causing it to drop and expose even more of the Professor's bare skin.

* Creator/JoeHill's short story ''Literature/{{Tumbprint}}'' features a rare case where this trope is PlayedForDrama: during her time in Iraq, protagonist Mel was once involved in the interrogation of an Iraqi they nicknamed The Professor because he was a teacher. The man had been brought in with a broken tibia which had to be put in a cast first and is still wearing only a hospital gown when the soldiers take him away for questioning. While escorting him to the interrogation room, the soldiers humiliate The Professor by deliberately kicking away his crutches, causing him to fall and his bare ass to be exposed. They add more fuel to the fire by then intentionally pulling the string of the gown, causing it to drop an expose even more of the Professor's bare skin.

* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': Played for drama in "[[Recap/FringeS03E01Olivia Olivia]]", as Olivia is only dressed in a skimpy hospital gown when she escapes the government facility she was being experimented on, and due to a HighDiveEscape in the water, she's drenched while wearing it too. Her first priority is to get herself some real clothes so she won't stand so much, leading her to sneak into Henry's taxi at demanding he get her clothes at gunpoint. She [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl doesn't exactly care about changing out of them]] in the backseat of Henry's taxi, though he's clearly not comfortable with it.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': In the aftermath of the "Freighter" version of the Merryweather Heist, [[GeniusCripple Lester]] arrives at the docks in a backless surgical gown - [[ThePatientHasLeftTheBuilding having left scheduled treatment for his wasting disease in a hurry]] to stop Trevor from doing something very stupid. [[spoiler: Turns out that the object that Trevor just stole was a nuclear device that will make him and everyone else on the team the subject of an international manhunt if he doesn't put it back immediately.]] Throughout this scene, Lester's ass is on full display.

-->'''Steven''': Is that one of those blue things that doesn't cover your butt?
-->'''Dr. Maheswaran''': ''[throws the gown next to Steven]'' Yes. Now let's get started.

* [[Creator/JoeHill Joe Hill's]] short story ''Literature/{{Tumbprint}}'' features a rare case where this trope is PlayedForDrama: during her time in Iraq, protagonist Mel was once involved in the interrogation of an Iraqi they nicknamed The Professor because he was a teacher. The man had been brought in with a broken tibia which had to be put in a cast first, and is still wearing only a hospital gown when the soldiers take him away for questioning. While escorting him to the interrogation room, the soldiers humiliate The Professor by deliberately kicking away his crutches, causing him to fall and his bare ass to be exposed. They add more fuel to the fire by then intentionally pulling the string of the gown, causing it to drop an expose even more of the Professor's bare skin.

* ''Series/CountArthurStrong'': In "Doctor Two", Michael is in a hospital, wearing a gown, and about to be anesthetized so the doctors can find out whether he got rabies from having his [[{{Fingore}} hand bitten]] by a dog earlier that day. Initially, he starts to relax under the anesthetic, only to have an OhCrap reaction upon seeing that one of his doctors is actually [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Arthur]] wearing a white labcoat, having somehow [[BavarianFireDrill tricked the hospital staff into thinking he's one of them]] (despite Michael earlier stating that Arthur's such a bad actor, he'd never be able to do this). Michael, who has become increasingly paranoid that Arthur is a HarbingerOfImpendingDoom, starts screaming unintelligibly that the man in glasses is not a doctor, and stagger-lurches off his bed and tries wrestling Arthur out of the room, at which point Arthur becomes just as horrified when his hands end up behind Michael and he realizes "[[LargeHam HELP ME! HE'S NOT WEARING ANY UNDERPANTS!]]" By the end of the episode, Arthur mutters that [[BrainBleach he can't stop thinking about Michael's bottom now]] (just like he [[BrickJoke also couldn't stop thinking]] about [[BareBottomedMonkey monkeys' bottoms]] earlier throughout the episode).

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