History Main / GoneSwimmingClothesStolen

Related to OutdoorBathPeeping and SlipperySwimsuit. Can either be [[NakedPeopleAreFunny used for comedy]] or, most often is the character is female, for some FanService.

Related to OutdoorBathPeeping. Can either be [[NakedPeopleAreFunny used for comedy]] or, most often is the character is female, for some FanService.

* 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. ''AyashiNoCeres'' is based on such a tale from Japan.

* ''AyashiNoCeres'' 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.

Related to OutdoorBathPeeping.

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

* In ''BarryLyndon'', this is how the title character acquires the officer's clothing he uses to try and get out of fighting the war. Two gay officers have gone skinny-dipping and are too busy wrapped up in their own subplot to notice the thievery. We don't find out what happens to them.

* A few filler villains in {{Naruto}} have their clothes stolen by the main cast to use in a scheme to see what was under Kakashi's mask, apparently because the villains never actually publicly showed up at the bath and the main cast assumed someone forgot them. Fortunately for the villains, they had extras.

* Semi-example in ''Anime/{{Mai-HiME}}'', where the students go swimming, and someone steals the girls' underwear. [[spoiler:Actually, monsters did it.]]

* A variation happens in ''MaicchinguMachikoSensei'' in a number of episodes. The title character goes swimming or skinny dipping and gets her suit and/or clothes stolen by her students... sometimes while she is still wearing them.
* In ''LoveHina'' the girls of Hinata House get their clothes stolen by a group of monkeys while in a hot spring.

* 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 and dancers were pleased that she did. In any case, the elves probably wouldn't be very embarrassed by nudity anyway, at least among their friends.
* One [[{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] cover involves the titular Captain [[BankruptcyBarrel dressed in a rain barrel]] yelling and shaking his fist at a punk who's stolen his outfit. See page image.

* In 2002, Wrestling/ChrisJericho and Wrestling/{{Christian}} got their gym bags (containing their clothes) stolen by the Wrestling/DudleyBoyz. Jericho and Christian spend most of the night wearing only towels and trying to find something to wear. Later, the Dudleys come out to the ring with the bags and toss their clothes into the crowd. If that wasn't enough, Spike Dudley then ripped their towels off.

* In ''Film/TheParentTrap'', (the 90s one) one of the twins does this to the other.

* Happens to Fauna the Jungle Girl in the ''ComicBook/{{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.

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* In the animated movie ''Film/TheLegendOfTheNorthWind'', while Peiot takes a bath in a water barrel to cure his sea sickness, his sister Ane (who stowed away on board of the ship) steals his clothes so she sneak into the ships kitchen and get some food unnoticed. She returns them afterwards though.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'', the heroes go skinny dipping and their clothes are stolen by monkeys.

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

* The Creator/JohnCleese film ''Romance With a Double Bass'' is based on this trope.

* 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. ''AyashinoCeres'' is based on such a tale from Japan.

* [[http://blogdosquadrinhos.blog.uol.com.br/images/biducinquentafacsimile.jpg The cover]] of the first comic of Brazilian character Bidu/Blu (which received [[http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyrz49gFzZ1qbnzf6o1_250.jpg a makeover]] for his 50th anniversary).

* Little Spike Dudley once played this trope against Wrestling/ChrisJericho and Wrestling/{{Christian}}, with hilarious results.

* ''Series/{{MASH}} has several of them where someone gets their clothes stolen from the shower tent.

* During an [[EscalatingWar escalating prank war]] between Margaret and Hawkeye and B.J. on ''Series/{{Mash}}'', Margaret steals the boys clothes while they are showering. Hawkeye and B.J. are forced to walk naked through the camp back to their tent, only to find it full of nurses waiting for them.

* ''PlanetOfTheApes'' (1968). While the astronauts are skinny dipping in a lake, the primitive humans steal their clothes.

* In ''TheParentTrap'', (the 90s one) one of the twins does this to the other.

* ''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 the 2007 ''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.

* In ''FuttocksEnd'', [[DirtyOldMan Hawk the butler]] firstly steals [[MsFanservice Carol's]] swimming costume, so she has to swim naked, and then follows her and steals her clothes while she's in the water.
* In ''ClubParadise'', the natives of the island steal the guests' clothes while they are swimming naked at Devil's Hole. They end up trekking through the jungle to a hotel wearing towels, vines, and fruit.
* At the end of ''CampNowhere'', Betty cons Walter into giving up his swimming trunks out of revenge for his spending the entire movie trying to get her to go skinny dipping.
* In ''{{Hair}}'', Claude and Donna's clothes vanish after a swim in the lake. Cue the taxi screeching to a halt to let her in.

* In the animated movie ''TheLegendOfTheNorthWind'', while Peiot takes a bath in a water barrel to cure his sea sickness, his sister Ane (who stowed away on board of the ship) steals his clothes so she sneak into the ships kitchen and get some food unnoticed. She returns them afterwards though.

* The protagonist of ''[[Film/TolableDavid Tol'able David]]'' loses his pants when his ''dog'' runs off with them.

* ''{{Community}}'' - Chang walks in shirtless to teach a class, explaining it had been stolen while he was in the pool. At show's end, ''all'' of his clothes have been stolen, and he has to ride his scooter home in a helmet and Speedo.