History Main / GoneSwimmingClothesStolen

* During a UN session regarding the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict, the Israeli ambassador opens up with a story about the Prophet Abraham going for a swim only to come out and find his clothes stolen by Arabs. One of the Arab ambassadors protests that Arabs weren't around then to take Abraham's clothes. The Israeli ambassador agrees and starts the session with this point in mind.

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

* Happens to Fauna the Jungle Girl in the ''{{Cavewoman}} Color Special'' when she takes a WaterfallShower and flying creatures steal her uniform. Her attmpts to shoot down the creature with her uniform results in her accidentally vaporizing it.

* Happens to Creator/RobertEHoward's MoutntainMan character Breckenridge Elkins, leading to a situation where he gets [[MistakenForSpecialGuest mistaken for a prizefighter]].

* In ''CarryOn Up The Jungle'' with the delicious Jacki Piper. She goes swimming with the Ape Man and an ape steals her clothes.

* The ''WesternAnimated/SanjayAndCraig'' episode, ''Laked Nake''. Sanjay's swim suit gets stolen while he's in the lake.

->'''Scott''': "Give us our clothes back, damn it!"\\
'''Other Wormers''': "Please?"\\
'''Tina''': "Nice undies!"\\
---''Film/NowAndThen''

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* In ''InuYasha'', Kagome's clothes are stolen by a monkey while she bathes. Technically she isn't naked (she's wearing a swim suit), but [[FullyClothedNudity still acts as if she is]], going so far as to hide in a bush when confronting the owner of the monkey for her clothes back.
* In ''RanmaOneHalf'', Ranma, who is currently stuck as a girl, spies Herb bathing in an onsen. Feeling particularly vindictive (Herb DID humiliate her in battle and locked her as a female), Ranma steals her clothes and taunts her about it. Cue the [[BattleAura ki-bolt]] to the face.

* This happens to Goku in a {{filler}} episode of ''DragonBall''.

* The protagonists of ''NowAndThen'' do this as revenge on a group of boys who nailed them with Jello-filled water balloons earlier in the film.

* Happens once on ''ThreesCompany'', with Jack as the victim and Larry as the culprit.

* The first-season episode of ''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."

* ''MarriedWithChildren'': A girl offers to go skinny-dipping with Bud, and ends up running his underwear up the school's flagpole.

-->"When I was ten, I stole a robe from a serving girl, bathing in the river. She was forced to return naked and in tears. If I close my eyes [[DepravedDwarf I can still see her tits bouncing!]]

-->''Just like Pharaoh's daugher''

* Happened in ''[[NineChickweedLane 9 Chickweed Lane]]''.

* The player does this to some Mooks in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyX2'' to steal their uniforms.

* In a ''PennyAndAggie'' flashback, teenage Lynda takes two friends skinny-dipping in order to teach them to celebrate their bodies, free of the "[[StrawFeminist repressive male patriarchy]]." Her lesson backfires when Rob and Henry steal their clothes, whereupon one friend fears she'll "turn lesbo" after spending too much time naked with girls, while the other is turned on by the possibility that Rob was checking out her breasts.

* This happened to Jack in a bizzarre episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', appropriately named "Jack is Naked". HilarityEnsues as he keeps finding new ridiculous costumes to wear, but loses those as well.
* In ''TheRoadToEldorado'', the heroes go skinny dipping and their clothes are stolen by monkeys.

* An episode of ''CampLazlo'' has the Squirrel Scouts steal the Jelly Beans' scout uniforms while the latter were swimming, leaving the Beans in their swimsuits, and their scout uniforms in a tree.

* Likewise, ''The LittleLulu Show'' episode, "Five Little Babies", had the boys get their clothes stolen by Lulu and Annie while they were swimming, as revenge for a prank that they played on Lulu earlier.

* ''CowAndChicken'': In episode "P.E.", Chicken, Flem and Earl became Junior High students. While they were having a shower after P.E. classes, some bullies stole their clothes. To compound the problem, the only place in school where gym towels were offered was the ''cafeteria''.

* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' novel ''My Enemy My Ally'' by Creator/DianeDuane has Kirk motivate Sulu to do some very ''creative'' combat maneuvers by threatening to tell a certain female lieutenant who swiped her clothing from poolside the month before.

* In an ''OurGang'' episode, while the boys are swimming, their clothes aren't stolen, just soaked and then tied in knots by their rivals, rendering them unwearable.

* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' novel ''My Enemy My Ally'' by DianeDuane has Kirk motivate Sulu to do some very ''creative'' combat maneuvers by threatening to tell a certain female lieutenant who swiped her clothing from poolside the month before.

->''Scott'': "Give us our clothes back, damn it!"
->''Other Wormers'': "Please?"
->''Tina'': "Nice undies!"
-->--''NowAndThen''

* There is a popular (and likely apocryphal) story that America's first female reporter, Anne Royall, came across JohnQuincyAdams while he was skinny-dipping in the Potomac River and sat on his clothes until he agreed to an interview.

* Before GeorgeWashington was ever a president, a revolutionary, or even a lieutenant in the French and Indian War, there is a record of a court proceeding against a girl who stole his clothing (or at least his belongings) while he was swimming on a trip.

* There's a subversion from ''ElfQuest'', not actually involving swimming. Leetah and Nightfall enjoy an intimate nude dance, and while they're distracted Moonshade steals their clothes - so she can ''replace'' them with new ones. In any case, the elves probably wouldn't be very embarrassed by nudity anyway, at least among their friends.

* Thieves were a big problem at the Roman baths for exactly this reason. [[ValuesDissonance The Romans didn't have the same issues with nudity that we have,]] but clothes were a lot more expensive back then.
** Many baths offered to sell cheap robes at ridiculously steep prices to bathers whose clothes were stolen. Many of those baths also had thieves on their payroll.
* Before GeorgeWashington was ever a president, a revolutionary, or even a lieutenant in the French and Indian War, there is a record of a court proceeding against a girl who stole his clothing or at least his belongings while he was swimming on a trip.

''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 an opposite perspective: The main characters can steal other people's clothes in this manner. In any case, the thievery almost always works.

In kid-friendly works, the victim will usually be left in a swimsuit or underwear.

* Happens to Ivan Bezdomny in ''TheMasterAndMargarita'' when he chases Woland across Moscow. When he later shows up in his fellow writers' restaurant in underpants (and wielding an icon... long story), they are not amused.

** The Sengoku Era doesn't justify it, as pre-WWII Japanese simply took off their kimonos to swim or wash, and nakedness wasn't anything unusual or embarrassing. So this apparently just comical scene [[FridgeBrilliance is actually a way]] to emphasises [[DeliberateValuesDissonance the difference between Kagome's modern and Westernised world and the Sengoku Jidai.]] She probably comes off as pretty fussy to the locals.