Follow TV Tropes

Following

History ShirtlessScene / LiveActionTV

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Added example(s)

Added DiffLines:

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS22E3 Happy Families]]", Winter's clothes get wet so he has to wear borrowed pajama bottoms and no shirt. Winter also showcases he is not wearing underwear under the pajama bottoms.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Added example(s)

Added DiffLines:

* Briefly lampshaded by Jane in Series/MrAndMrsSmith2024 when John doesn't put on a shirt before coming to say goodnight to her.
-->'''Jane:''' You lost your shirt?
** Lampshaded again shortly afterwards by John as he tries to give her different reasons to justify why he wasn't wearing a shirt: it's warmer downstairs, it's colder in her room, etc.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': In the [[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS1E01StrangeNewWorlds series premiere]], Spock is shirtless when he's about to make love to T'Pring.

to:

* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': In the [[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS1E01StrangeNewWorlds series premiere]], Spock is shirtless when he's about to make love to T'Pring.with T'Pring. CoitusInterruptus ensues.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* ''Series/QueerAsFolk'': Brian Kinney adores the living hell out of this trope. He goes shirtless and pours a whole bottle of water on himself ''in slow motion'' twenty minutes into the pilot episode. In fact, there doesn't seem to be a single character on the show who hasn't gone shirtless, or even full frontal, at some point - including Emmett's 70-something-year-old boyfriend.

to:

* ''Series/QueerAsFolk'': ''Series/QueerAsFolkUS'': Brian Kinney adores the living hell out of this trope. He goes shirtless and pours a whole bottle of water on himself ''in slow motion'' twenty minutes into the pilot episode. In fact, there doesn't seem to be a single character on the show who hasn't gone shirtless, or even full frontal, at some point - including Emmett's 70-something-year-old boyfriend.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


** Jonah Macon is shirtless when he performs oral sex on Louis at the bayou.

to:

** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E3IsMyVeryNatureThatOfADevil Is My Very Nature That of a Devil]]": Jonah Macon is shirtless when he performs oral sex on Louis at the bayou.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

** Then there's the episode "Shockwave," which is rather (in)famous for when Hoshi [[StrippingSnag loses her shirt]] in a RareFemaleExample and covers her chest with her [[HandOrObjectUnderwear hands]] until she gets a shirt.

Changed: 77

Removed: 1577

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:


!!General Examples:



* Many home improvement shows where the carpenter works without his shirt on.
* On the local news during a heat wave, young lean and muscular shirtless men with smooth, hairless chests are sometimes among those asked how they deal with being outside during a heatwave.[[note]]Case in point: during a heatwave in the summer of 1992 during the 5:00 broadcast, Washington D.C. general news reporter Wendy Rieger did a VoxPops interview with a shirtless, twentysomething male who was playing soccer on the National Mall. He told her that the black shorts and T-shirt combo he was wearing matched perfectly but that the shirt was soaked with sweat and became unwearable, so it had to come off. Rieger then slid a suggestive finger along one of his [[http://www.onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/disco-tits disco tits]] and told the strapping young man she thought that his black shorts-and-sweaty bare chest combination was a good style for him by saying that "It looks like you're well matched here."[[/note]]
* In many a SoapOpera, male characters are required to [[http://www.metacafe.com/watch/hl-60219537/one_life_to_live_danis_bench_press_fantasy_season_1 work out]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaHHGmNR0rA#t=4m22s play]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtlTMafbs_8 sports]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yjTmFiNJXY shirtless]].
* Many physical-competition shows, such as ''Series/AmericanNinjaWarrior'', have some or many of the men topless as they run the courses or dodge the obstacles. Since being physically fit is the top requirement, they're all very well built and sculpted.

----
!!Specific Examples:

to:

* Many home improvement shows where the carpenter works without his shirt on.
* On the local news during a heat wave, young lean and muscular shirtless men with smooth, hairless chests are sometimes among those asked how they deal with being outside during a heatwave.[[note]]Case in point: during a heatwave in the summer of 1992 during the 5:00 broadcast, Washington D.C. general news reporter Wendy Rieger did a VoxPops interview with a shirtless, twentysomething male who was playing soccer on the National Mall. He told her that the black shorts and T-shirt combo he was wearing matched perfectly but that the shirt was soaked with sweat and became unwearable, so it had to come off. Rieger then slid a suggestive finger along one of his [[http://www.onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/disco-tits disco tits]] and told the strapping young man she thought that his black shorts-and-sweaty bare chest combination was a good style for him by saying that "It looks like you're well matched here."[[/note]]
* In many a SoapOpera, male characters are required to [[http://www.metacafe.com/watch/hl-60219537/one_life_to_live_danis_bench_press_fantasy_season_1 work out]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaHHGmNR0rA#t=4m22s play]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtlTMafbs_8 sports]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yjTmFiNJXY shirtless]].
* Many physical-competition shows, such as ''Series/AmericanNinjaWarrior'', have some or many of the men topless as they run the courses or dodge the obstacles. Since being physically fit is the top requirement, they're all very well built and sculpted.

----
!!Specific Examples:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
** Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac are bare-chested whenever they undress, either for sex or while they're getting ready for bed (well, [[VampiresSleepInCoffins coffin]]) and they choose not to wear an undershirt or a pyjama top underneath their robe.
** Jonah Macon is shirtless when he performs oral sex on Louis at the bayou.

Top