Basic Trope: A bathtub is placed out in the open.
- Straight: Alice's bathtub is in her living room.
- Exaggerated: Alice's bathtub is on her front lawn.
- Downplayed: Alice's bathtub sits smack in the middle of her bathroom, away from all the walls; and anyone can look in through the window and see the tub.
- Justified:
- Alice doesn't have running water; instead, she heats buckets of water and fills a washtub as needed.
- Alice is a Cloud Cuckoolander with unusual decorating practices.
- Alice only has one room in her house or apartment.
- Alice is eager or blasé about being nude around other people.
- The bathroom floor collapsed.
- Inverted:
- The Couch is an integral part of the bathroom.
- Alice's place is a Trash of the Titans-level mess, but the bathtub is (thankfully) the only thing she can reach conveniently.
- Subverted:
- Alice's bathtub is in an en suite bathroom.
- It's just a showroom model Alice is presenting.
- Double Subverted:
- ...one of whose walls is a large window overlooking the beach.
- Due to her lack of running water, Alice must bathe in a lake, hot spring, river, etc.
- Parodied:
- Alice walks around wearing her bathtub.
- Alice has a serviceable bathtub and effective plumbing, but whenever she needs a bath she goes out in public. She even arranges to get a public nudity exemption for the purpose.
- There is a working bathtub in the middle of Alice's classroom, in which she regularly bathes, to the annoyance of her classmates and teacher.
- Alice has lived her entire life from her bathtub. She does everything there, from eating to working to giving birth to defending her PhD — and, yes, all in the nude. Her own mother, Betty, did the same before her, as did Betty's mother, Carol.
- Zig-Zagged: Things in Alice's bathroom break down periodically, requiring her to bathe in public. While there are no problems, she can bathe in her own bathroom.
- Averted:
- Alice's bathtub is in her bathroom.
- Alice doesn't bathe.
- Enforced: We need some Fanservice.
- Lampshaded:
- "Rub-a-dub-dub, watching TV, in my tub!"
- "EEEK! Do people never deign to knock?!" "Before coming into the kitchen? Not usually, no..."
- Invoked: Alice moves into a house or apartment that has no room for her beloved claw-foot bathtub.
- Exploited: Alice's enemies attack her while she's in her highly visible bathtub.
- Defied: Alice decides she'll make do with the shower in her bathroom and sells the tub.
- Discussed: "Why does Alice seem to enjoy being naked and wet around just about everyone?"
- Conversed: "She really should have considered the possibility of arrest for indecent exposure."
- Implied: Alice mentions that she likes to multitask while soaking in the bath.
- Deconstructed: May lead to a Please Put Some Clothes On situation.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice keeps a set of clean clothes handy so she can talk to other people who come into the house without embarrassing them.
- Alice is positive or neutral about being seen nude, and everybody else agrees with her (or learns to live with her nudity).
- Played for Laughs: Naked First Impression, or more generally, Naked People Are Funny.
- Played for Drama: Alice is killed in her bath.
- Played for Horror: Alice moved her tub from her bathroom because a demon has taken up residence there and will not leave.
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