History Main / FamilyFriendlyStripper

* ''Series/{{Charmed 1998}}'' has an episode with a demonic strip club, but the dancers just wear skimpy costumes. In fact, said outfits are more modest than what the Halliwells wear in some episodes (such as when Phoebe gets possessed by an Egyptian demon and dons a BellyDancer costume). In the sixth season finale, the evil universe counterpart to Piper's nightclub turns out to be a strip club of this variety.

** At the time of the episode "Homer's Night Out" aired on Creator/{{FOX}}, the animators couldn't get away with showing an actual stripper. So, they made "Princess Kashmir" a BellyDancer instead.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series, strip clubs can be visited. They do not remove their clothes and characters refer to such places as 'bikini bars' which makes a lot more sense.

* In ''Film/{{Gilda}}'', securely within UsefulNotes/HaysCode years, Creator/RitaHayworth performs an amazingly sexy strip-tease ... in which she takes off her gloves and her necklace. In story she would have gone further, but gets stopped by her jealous lover.

* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Susan inherits a half share in one from her estranged husband Carl who leaves it to her as a parting joke. Carl's business partner eventually buys her out but not before she does a striptease dressed as a handy-woman stripper for her plumber husband Mike to convince him he shouldn't come there any more. She later virtually adopts one of the strippers, Robin (Julie Benz), Mike commenting "I'm okay with it, I just can't help but think it's some kind of trap?".

* ''Film/FlashDance'' Artistic dancing and the above-mentioned nipple-free wet T-shirts.

Despite what the name entails, this trope need not appear exclusively in family-friendly works. Case in point, Creator/JessicaAlba in ''Film/SinCity''.

* Lucifer's bar, Lux, in ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'' is never actually stated to be a strip club, but it regularly has large numbers of attractive women in maching outfits that reveal about as much as the average swimsuit who dance provocatively on stages or the club floor.

* ''Series/{{Charmed 1998}}'' has an episode with a demonic strip club, but the dancers just wear skimpy costumes. In fact, said outfits are more modest than what the Halliwells wear in some episodes (such as when Phoebe gets possessed by an Egyptian demon and dons a BellyDancer costume).

An exotic dancer whose outfit is revealing enough to be sexy, but modest enough to not offend censors because the show isn't rated for nudity. The show is ostensibly family-friendly, but the characters visit a strip club for plot-related reasons. Her dance moves, while alluring, are no more risque than what you'd see in the average music video, especially compared to what ''real'' strippers will do to pay for nursing school. Any "stripping" will involve a jacket, dress, or some other outer layer of clothing, and her remaining outfit, while sparkly, is essentially lingerie with all naughty bits covered.

An exotic dancer whose outfit is revealing enough to be sexy, but modest enough to not offend censors because the show isn't rated for nudity. The show is ostensibly family-friendly, but the characters visit a strip club for plot-related reasons. Her dance moves, while alluring, are no more risque than what you'd see in the average music video, especially compared to what real strippers will do to pay for nursing school. Any "stripping" will involve a jacket, dress, or some other outer layer of clothing, and her remaining outfit, while sparkly, is essentially lingerie with all naughty bits covered.

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* ''VideoGame/ScarletBlade'' has the Delilah Nightclub, which has plenty of girls dancing in very little clothing, from BarelyThereSwimwear, to super revealing lingerie. Plus the players character can also dance in club with little clothing, and all but one of the playable classes are female.
* The 'strip club' you visit in the Undercover section of ''VideoGame/CrimePatrol''. A 'stripper' writhes on a platform, but never even looks like she is about to remove an item of clothing.

* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series tended to feature this prior to ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', which had the dancers actually take their tops off.

* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' has Whale World, a bizarre Sea World/strip club hybrid for the FunnyAnimal world of the setting. The place features (anthropomorphic) scantily-clad female orcas dancing provocatively, but is actively marketed to families.

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* Justified in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. Miss Kitty's song-and-dance number is period-accurate for Victorian-era England, with her just showing some leg in a leotard.

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* Appears in, of all things, the film adaptation of Frank Miller's ''Film/SinCity'': the comic featured nudity (both male and female); the movie kept most of the female nudity, axed all of the male nudity, and most notably took out the nudity in the ''strip club''. The reason for this was Creator/JessicaAlba's career-long refusal to do nude scenes. Robert Rodriguez agreed, feeling the nudity didn't serve the plot in any way.
* None other than Theatre/{{Gypsy}} Rose Lee herself performs an extremely family-friendly strip in ''Stage Door Canteen'' (1943). Mostly, she removes various undergarments, such as a petticoat and garter belt, from under a voluminous skirt and then holds them up.
* Just because Creator/LindsayLohan played a stripper in ''Film/IKnowWhoKilledMe'' doesn't mean she has to take her clothes off or anything.
* In ''Film/IndependenceDay'' Jasmine works as an exotic dancer, but leaves her bra and panties on during her dance scene. Hey, the film ''was'' a PG-13 summer blockbuster, after all, and the film does deserve credit for making her no less sympathetic as a leading lady. Also, justified in that she was just starting her routine, and then stopped dancing and left after noticing that no one was watching because the few patrons in the club were glued to the tv watching news reports about the alien invasion.
* In ''Film/Armageddon1998'' Rockhound decides to spend the night before the mission getting lap dances at a strip club. Seeing that this film is also a PG-13 summer blockbuster the dancers leave their underwear on.
* ''Film/CharliesAngelsFullThrottle''- The Angels go undercover at a sleazy strip club filled with criminals. Instead of strippers, we get the Music/PussycatDolls and zero nudity.

* In ''Film/{{Gilda}}'', securely within UsefulNotes/HaysCode years, Creator/RitaHayworth performs an amazingly sexy strip-tease ... in which she takes off her gloves and her necklace. In story she would have gone further, but gets stopped by her jealous lover.

* Enforced in ''Film/ShishOBesh'', where Panis poses as a very fully-clothed hooker and SexySecretary for various cons. Iranian films are subject to fairly strict censorship, and genuine {{Fanservice}} is limited to showing the face and a little hair. The rest must be implied.
* ''Film/LadyOfBurlesque'' a movie about a burlesque theatre, shows only skimpy costumes and emphasises the comedy performance. As this was during the days of the Hays Code, no stripping is shown at all. They still do at least have a murder being done with a G-string.
* ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenArm'' (1955) was another movie made during the Hays Code era; the girls at the local strip club never go past a bra-and-girdle ensemble.
* ''Film/SuckerPunch'' features a brothel (or a fantasy of one) where the girls only perform in sexy costumes. There is no stripping or nudity shown.
* In ''Film/IronMan1'', the stewardesses on Tony's jet start dancing around a pole that comes down from the ceiling, but don't even remove the outer layers of their uniforms.
* ''Film/TheBlackDahlia'''s porno film in-universe just shows the girls in sexy outfits playing with a dildo - though the police turn it off in disgust, so presumably it would get more explicit.

* ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' features Salma Hayek performing as an exotic dancer who just wears BlackBraAndPanties with a snake draped around her shoulders. Of course since [[spoiler: the dance is just a way to distract the lecherous customers before the vampires murder them all]], she'd have no reason to go further if she didn't want to.
* ''Film/PlanetTerror'' has a memorable opening sequence of Creator/RoseMcGowan dancing around a stripper pole. She doesn't remove any clothes so she refuses to refer to herself as a stripper (preferring 'go-go dancer').
* ''Film/DeathProof'' - Arlene (nicknamed Butterfly) is persuaded to perform a lap dance for Stuntman Mike. She does so while keeping all her clothes on. Of course she's not actually a stripper, but keeping the clothes on is used to show her as more prudish than the second set of girls (who are far more open about their sexuality).
* ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'' (which was R-rated but featured no nudity) has a scene where Paris Hilton performs a striptease for her boyfriend. She goes down to her underwear and that's it (they're interrupted by the killer shortly after). She was planning to tell him she might be pregnant right after this.

* ''Film/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay'': Australian cowboy-themed male strippers show up, but they don't do anything but perform a few tricks for the titular character's birthday party. This is actually enforced by Alex's parents; knowing that the kid loves Australia, they hired the strippers based on the "Australian cowboy" part and missed the "male stripper" part, but managed to catch their mistake in time to tell them to keep it PG.
* ''Film/TheHarveyGirls'' is a movie made in 1946, featuring saloon dancers in the seedy place in town. They just dance in leotards with FluffyFashionFeathers.
* ''Film/ImitationOfLife1959'' has a sequence where Annie discovers that Sarah Jane is working in a "dive", and is horrified. Sarah Jane performs a song and dance in a tight corset, and that's about it. The implication appears to be that she's working as some kind of stripper.
* ''Film/JohnnyBeGood'': When Johnny and some other prospective students visit a strip club, all the strippers wear sexy cowgirl outfits, but never take off anything.
* In ''Film/{{Zola}}'' this is a DiscussedTrope, as Zola is used to performing in full-nude strip clubs, but Stefani tells her that the club they're going to perform at doesn't allow full nudity. We do see characters in pasties, however.

* Troll exotic dancers in Literature/{{Discworld}} are Family Friendly by default, as trolls normally wear very little and consider ''putting on'' clothing to be risque.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Lois goes undercover at a "Gentlemen's Club" and dances on a pole in a bikini, but never takes off her top.

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' (yep, the one in ''Las Vegas'') features an episode involving a strip club. Not a single top is removed in the club and the only person who ends up completely naked in that episode (bar the corpses) is Warrick Brown. ''A man''. Hell, there's an entire sub-plot about a ''BDSM brothel'' that pops up every few episodes and ''no one'' is depicted naked, just a few comedic scenes of guys getting spanked on the butt.

* ''Series/TheBill'', being (on the whole) a pre-{{Watershed}} show, sometimes features this. There was one episode where Cathy Bradford went undercover at a gentleman's club and had to take her top off in front of Nick Klein (another police officer) to maintain her cover since she was on camera, but we didn't see any nipples.
* Amusingly enough, ''Series/FamilyMatters'' featured a ''male'' equivalent, given the hilarious name of "Club Buff." Needless to say, none of the studs go anywhere near the full Monty.
* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. In "Dance by the Light of the Moon", the VillainOfTheWeek is a FemmeFatale stripper. When Nick visits her workplace, the strippers are all dancing in lingerie, or bras and hot pants. Later however there's a ToplessnessFromTheBack shot of the villainess, who then turns to face Nick [[SceneryCensor just as he's raising his police badge to obscure her chest area from the audience]]. Unsurprisingly this shot is included in the TitleSequence.

* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E17Heart "Heart" (S02, Ep17)]], Dean visits a strip club while tracking a suspect and only the legs of the stripper are shown.
* While Fish Mooney's place on ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' is theoretically a high class {{burlesque}} bar/restaurant, the dancers onstage never show any sign of taking off their admittedly skimpy costumes.
* The title character of ''Series/Cleopatra2525'' is an exotic dancer by trade, but the few times her talents are called upon, usually in a seedy bar setting of some sort, she never goes down to anything beyond a relatively modest bikini. In one episode, to create a diversion, she even takes over for a dancer who is wearing far less (but still in a skimpy bikini) and ends up enthralling the crowd with her PG-rated striptease.

* One episode of ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' has Deeks explicitly stating that a given bar they need to check out is a bikini bar rather than a strip club due to either UsefulNotes/LosAngeles city law or California state law prohibiting a bar from offering both alcohol and nudity.
* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': "Undertow" opens in a bikini bar (referred to as a 'strip club') that a drug dealer is using as his base of operations. Angie and Oscar later visit it during the course of their investigation.
* In 2018, Creator/{{ITV}} produced a pair of documentaries in aid of cancer awareness, called ''The Real [[Film/TheFullMonty Full Monty]]''. The "Ladies' Night" edition was a classic example of this trope: seven female celebrities trained to perform a group stripper dance, but careful editing of a performance to an invited audience showed only ShouldersUpNudity, or ToplessnessFromTheBack, to TV viewers. [[note]]The only female celebrity who bared her breasts and nipples to the camera during the show was, in fact, [[FanDisservice over seventy]].[[/note]] The programme focused not so much on the idea of [[InformedAttribute celebrities stripping naked]], but became a more serious discussion on the effects and the implications of breast cancer.
* Averted at least a couple of times on ''Series/MadMen'' (shown late at night on AMC and set in TheSixties) especially in the pilot where a Creator/MarilynMonroe esque stripper is first shown stripping off her gloves, then her gown, and later her bra to reveal the pasties on her breasts.
** Season Two "Maidenform" had several dancers in very skimpy dress, showing off their pasty-covered breasts, and making very provocative dance moves.
* Oddly, considering the show has had no trouble depicting both male and female nudity, ''Series/AmericanGods2017'''s flashback to Mr. Wednesday's burlesque days has this. Its opening number goes on about how it has "ten terrific girls... but only nine costumes'', but the tenth girl is simply wearing a skin-tone colored bodysuit with glitter and sequins over the naughty bits. Later on, in Columbia's dance number, she strips down to her panties and some pasties, but is never nude. Then it swings the other way, showing a girl doing a fan-dance, completely nude, but we only see her from behind.
* The ''Series/{{Mash}}'' season ten opener "That's Showbiz" featured the character of Brandy Doyle, a stripper who performed a nudity-free routine. Justified considering she was no longer of the age typical of a stripper - and it was made clear that in her youth her act was not so family-friendly.
* Lucifer's bar, Lux, in ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'' is never actually stated to be a strip club, but it regularly has large numbers of attractive women in maching outfits that reveal about as much as the average swimsuit who dance provocatively on stages or the club floor.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': The girls take Chandler to a strip club to help him get over a recent breakup. The dancers at the club wear skimpy costumes that still keep them covered enough to air in primetime. After leaving the club the girls discuss how cute the dancers were and mention the different themed costumes they were wearing.
* ''Series/{{Charmed 1998}}'' has an episode with a demonic strip club, but the dancers just wear skimpy costumes. In fact, said outfits are more modest than what the Halliwells wear in some episodes (such as when Phoebe gets possessed by an Egyptian demon and dons a BellyDancer costume).

* ''Film/TheThirstyDead'' opens in a 'strip club' in Manila where Ann is performing, but she never actually takes anything off.

* ''Film/PlanetTerror'' (by the same director no less) has a memorable opening sequence of Creator/RoseMcGowan dancing around a stripper pole. She doesn't remove any clothes so she refuses to refer to herself as a stripper (preferring 'go-go dancer').

* Justified in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. Miss Kitty's song-and-dance number is period-accurate for Victorian-era England, with her just [[ShesGotLegs showing some leg]] in a leotard.

* In ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' Rockhound decides to spend the night before the mission getting lap dances at a strip club. Seeing that this film is also a PG-13 summer blockbuster the dancers leave their underwear on.

* In ''Film/{{Gilda}}'', securely within UsefulNotes/HaysCode years, Creator/RitaHayworth performs an amazingly sexy strip-tease ... in which she takes off a single glove. In story she would have gone further, but gets stopped by her jealous lover.

An exotic dancer whose outfit is revealing enough to be sexy, but modest enough to not offend censors because the show isn't rated for nudity. The show is ostensibly family-friendly, but the characters visit a strip club for plot-related reasons. The girls' dance moves, while alluring, are no more risque than what you'd see in the average music video, especially compared to what real strippers will do to pay for nursing school. Any "stripping" will involve a jacket, dress, or some other outer layer of clothing, and her remaining outfit, while sparkly, is essentially lingerie with all naughty bits covered.

* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. In "Dance by the Light of the Moon", the VillainOfTheWeek is a FemmeFatale stripper. When Nick visits her workplace, the strippers are all dancing in lingerie or bras and tight skirts. Later however there's a ToplessnessFromTheBack shot of the villainess, who then turns to face Nick [[SceneryCensor just as he's raising his police badge to obscure her chest area from the audience]]. Unsurprisingly this shot is included in the TitleSequence.

* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. In "Dance by the Light of the Moon", the VillainOfTheWeek is a FemmeFatale stripper. When Nick visits her workplace, the strippers are all dancing in bras and tight skirts, or lingerie. Later however there's a ToplessnessFromTheBack shot of the murderer, who then turns to face Nick [[SceneryCensor just as he's raising his police badge to obscure her chest area]]--a shot that is included in the TitleSequence.