History PlayingWith / ImagineTheAudienceNaked

** Brian, who is powerful but mercurial, inspires more fear in the people watching and listening to his speech than vice versa, so they compensate by imagining him in the nude.

** The knowledge that he remained calm while speaking in front of people who were actually naked encourages Brian to imagine the next audience he has to speak to in the altogether.
** He switches to picturing his audience naked when the "funny clothes" approach doesn't work.

** The members of the audience know that Brian has a problem with giving speeches, so they decide to save him the trouble of imagining them naked by actually stripping naked before his speech begins.
** Brian imagines the audience members in a group ShowerScene, saying and doing all manner of hilarious things.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Brian is advised to imagine his audience naked. He is indecisive about whether to go through with it and some of the people in his audience are indeed without clothes.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Are you sure that's going to work? I mean, [[FanDisservice some of the people in the audience I don't]] ''[[FanDisservice wanna]]'' [[FanDisservice see naked]]."

* '''Played for Drama''': Brian's thoughtless decision of heeding Bob's advice prevents him from ever being able to make speeches and he's deeply traumatized by seeing people in the nude he'd rather not see in the nude.

'''Basic Trope''': A person nervous about talking in front of a large group of people is advised to overcome their anxiety by pretending that everyone in the audience has no clothes on. They follow this advice with hilarious results.

** Brian, as a powerful but mercurial figure, inspires more fear in the people watching and listening to his speech than vice versa, and they compensate by imagining him in the nude.

** Brian appears to use this tactic successfully, but it's revealed that the place he had been giving the speech was a nudist club.

** The knowledge that he remained calm while speaking in front of an audience that was actually naked encourages Brian to imagine the next audience he has to speak to in the altogether.

** A nudist nervous about speaking in front of people is advised to imagine his audience is clothed.

* '''Enforced''': Having a character imagine their audience in the nude is a common way of employing NakedPeopleAreFunny.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Are you sure that's going to work? I mean, some of the people in the audience I don't ''wanna'' see naked."

** Brian prepares for the NakedPeopleAreFunny reaction by actually seeing a live naked person so he knows exactly what it's like.

* '''Downplayed''': Brian only imagines a few people are naked or in their underwear.

* '''Exploited''': Alice, whom Brian has been dreaming about seeing naked for a long time, is in the audience. Getting the opportunity to see her naked gives him a jolt of adrenaline and confidence.

* '''Zig-Zagged''': Brian is advised to imagine his audience naked. He is indecisive about whether to go through with it and some of the people in his audience actually are without clothes.

* '''Exploited''': Alice, whom Brian has been dreaming about seeing naked for a long time, is in the audience. Getting the opportunity to see her naked gives him a jolt of adrenaline.

** Brian bursts out laughing in the middle of his speech.
* '''Reconstructed''': Brian knows that there are certain people he really doesn't need to see in the nude, especially not while giving a speech, so he only imagines his audience naked when he's certain it won't lead to becoming more nervous or being mentally scarred.

** Brian appears to successfully use this tactic, but it's revealed that the place he had been giving the speech was a nudist club.

** The audience knows that Brian has a problem with giving speeches, so they decide to save him the trouble of imagining them naked by actually stripping naked before his speech begins.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Brian is advised to imagine his audience naked. He is indecisive about whether or not to go through with it and some of the people in his audience actually are without clothes.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Brian says out loud that he's imagining the audience is naked. Cue a lot of awkward stares from the audience.
* '''Played For Drama''': Brian's thoughtless decision of heeding Bob's advice prevents him from ever being able to make speeches and he's deeply traumatized by seeing people in the nude he'd rather not see in the nude.

* '''Deconstructed''': Brian gets traumatized from picturing really unattractive people in the nude or suffers from even greater anxiety than before from imagining attractive people naked and never gets the nerve to give speeches ever again.

* '''Justified''': Bob has a tendency to give terrible advice.

* '''Exaggerated''': Brian imagines ''everyone'' he talks to in a state of undress, even when he's just partaking in casual conversation with people he's already comfortable talking with.

** Brian overcomes his fear of speaking in front of an audience by imagining ''himself'' in the nude.

* '''Inverted''': Brian overcomes his fear of speaking in front of an audience by imagining ''himself'' in the nude.

* '''Implied''': After his speech fails miserably, Brian chides Bob for his advice and remarks that because of how he imagined his audience, there are now [[BrainBleach things he wishes he could unsee]].

** The knowledge that he remained calm while speaking in front of an audience that was actually naked encourages Brian to imagine the next audience he has to speak to in their altogether.

'''Basic Trope''': A person nervous about talking in front of a large group of people is advised to overcome their anxiety by pretending that everyone in the audience has no clothes on. They follow this device with hilarious results.

* '''Parodied''': A nudist nervous about speaking in front of people is advised to imagine his audience is clothed.

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