History Main / GoneSwimmingClothesStolen

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E19SimpleSimpson Simple Simpson]]", while the power plant employees were showering, Mr. Burns has sold their clothes [[noodle incident again]]. Needless to say, this earns Burns a PieInTheFace from Homer/Pie-Man!

-->'''Announcer (Creator/HarryShearer):''' Those Kanker girls have got a real mean streak in them. And speaking of streak, it's a long run home from that pond, boys! The Eds will be right back.

'''Other Wormers:''' Please?\\

* Happens to Wal in ''ComicStrip/FootrotFlats''. Wal goes SkinnyDipping at the beach and Hunk and Spit Murphy come along and steal his clothes. He has to be rescued (after a fashion) by Cousin Cathy.

* In ''Film/CarryOnUpTheJungle'' with the delicious Creator/JackiPiper. She goes swimming with Ug the Jungle Boy and a gorilla steals her clothes.

* In ''Film/TexasAcrossTheRiver'', Phoebe Ann (Rosemary Forsyth) goes skinny dipping and has her clothes stolen by an Indian. Sam Hollis (Dean Martin) dresses her in a horse blanket.

* This happens to Goku in a {{filler}} episode of ''Manga/DragonBall''. He chases the thief naked and manages to scare him into dropping Goku's clothes, but the thief escapes with the Dragon Radar.

* Creator/PatrickMcManus, in one of his books, tells a story involving an over-zealous Boy Scout leader who not only goes skinny dipping, but does so in extremely cold water. Predictably, the disgruntled scouts steal his clothes. He roars back into camp "wearing" only a bit shrubbery arranged around his privates, latches onto to who he thinks are the culprits and drags them away for a dunking. And of course, two of the troop's den mothers have shown up, and witness all of this.

* ''Manga/CeresCelestialLegend'' has this as the whole backstory - Goddess wants revenge because a guy stole her celestial clothes while she wasn't watching. Granted, her rage is understandable since she's stuck on Earth until she gets it back. [[spoiler: The actual truth is an aversion, though ultimately tragic for both the goddess and the guy]].

** When the girls went to an island in the middle of a lake, the boys (minus the one left in charge of guarding their clothes) swam there to play another prank. Unfortunately, the boy guarding the clothes found a row boat and decided to go there to give them the clothes. He got caught by the girls, who used the clothes as leverage.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Alice|Webcomic}}'', the title character and her friends Dot and Joanne go skinny-dipping, putting all their clothes in a plastic bag, which a dog then carries off in its mouth. They share a large cardboard box in order to get to their respective homes. Dot and Joanne, but not Alice, make it indoors undetected.

* ''Film/ILoveTrouble'' includes a bit in which Julia Roberts is exiting the lake when a group of boyscouts happen upon her and Nick Nolte. No clothes are stolen, but the only ModestyTowel she can get her hands on happens to be hiding behind Nolte. Still a little miffed from a previous argument the pair had had, Nolte proceeds to walk towards the boyscouts while ignoring Julia's surprised protests. Nick gets her to admit to secretly reading his novel, despite her professed uninterest in his writing, but Julia makes the mistake of mumbling how she'd expected more from the writing. As one might expect, the scene closes with an embarrassed Julia squeeling in alarm as the boyscout's camera's are going off.

* In ''Film/QueensLogic'', the guys in town for the wedding of one of their number go skinny dipping in a public pool. The clothes are stolen by the women. The guys streak through the parking lot, but fortunately one of the guys' suitcases is in the trunk of the car.

* The first-season episode of ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' "Deputy Dukes" starts the hijinks with this trope. Their "dates" steal their duds, so Bo and Luke end up trying to chase them in the General Lee ''au natural''. Naturally, they literally run into Sheriff Rosco (and his car), and he promptly arrests them on his usual variety of trumped-up charges. Then, he (very hesitantly) looks inside, sees their lack of attire, and (just as hesitantly) adds, "...in...decent...exposure."

* A common theme in folktales from several continents involves a hero witness a group of cranes, swans, seals, porpoises, or other animals "undress" from their skins and turn into beautiful women bathing in a pond. The hero will steal the skin of one of the women and only agree to give it back should she agree to follow/marry him. Occasionally, the bathers will be women from the start and the hero steals actual clothes rather than skin. ''Ayashi No Ceres'' is based on such a tale from Japan.

* In ''Film/CarryOnUpTheJungle'' with the delicious Jacki Piper. She goes swimming with the Ape Man and an ape steals her clothes.

''How'' distressing: Having taken a brief moment to unwind, TheHero, his friends, his girlfriend(s) or some combination thereof decided to go SkinnyDipping. And, wouldn't ya know it, someone took off with their threads!

Various NakedPeopleAreFunny antics ensue as they try to obtain new clothing before their nakedness is exposed to all the world. Usually results in NakedPeopleTrappedOutside.

* Birdalone, the heroine of ''The Water of the Wondrous Isles'' by Creator/WilliamMorris, has this happen to her near the beginning of the novel; she wanders the titular isles naked for about a third of the book afterwards.

-->'''Announcer (Tom Clark):''' Ed, Edd n' Eddy will return as soon as their clothes too. I told you boys the first rule of SkinnyDipping - ''Don't'' do it.

* This happened to Jack in a bizarre episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', appropriately named "Jack is Naked". HilarityEnsues as he keeps finding new ridiculous costumes to wear, but loses those as well.

-->'''Announcer:''' Those Kanker girls have got a real mean streak in them. And speaking of streak, it's a long run home from that pond, boys! The Eds will be right back.

* A 1922 news article: [[http://yesterdaysprint.tumblr.com/post/157640987709/the-seattle-star-washington-june-15-1922 FARMER ENDS 'BATH' PARTY AT MIDNIGHT: Likes Nature, But Prefers to Sleep; Clothing of 40 is Confiscated]].

* The mission to unlock Gorilla Girl in ''[[VideoGame/LegoAdaptationGame LEGO Marvel's Avengers]]'' has you retrieving her clothes after somebody decided to hide them as a joke. Being an E-rated game, we don't get to see any nudity as she remains in her gorilla form the whole time ([[GameplayAndStorySegregation which, oddly enough, is wearing clothes]]).

* In the 2007 ''Film/StTrinians'' movie, the girls band together to effect this trope on new girl Annabelle Fritton as she showers, filming the resulting [[NakedPeopleAreFunny nekkid antics]] on hidden cameras and broadcasting it on Website/YouTube.

''How'' distressing: Having taken a brief moment to unwind, TheHero, his friends, his girlfriend(s) or a combination thereof decide to go SkinnyDipping. And wouldn't ya know it, someone took off with their threads!

Various NakedPeopleAreFunny antics ensue as they try to get new clothing before their nakedness is exposed to all the world. Usually results in NakedPeopleTrappedOutside.

Can also be played from the opposite perspective, where the main characters set out to steal other people's clothes in this manner. But in any case, the thievery almost always works.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones''. One of the PokeThePoodle offenses confessed by Tyrion Lannister, when he was actually supposed to be confessing to murder.

* Birdalone, the heroine of ''The Water of the Wondrous Isles'' by Creator/WilliamMorris, has this happen to hear near the beginning of the novel; she wanders the titular isles naked for about a third of the book afterwards.