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Snow_Fire
Since: Sep, 2014
#377: Aug 17th 2019 at 9:59:30 PM
I'm not sure where else this is discussed, but what's the procedure for removing a spin-off page for a specific work? e.g. if a specific page is made for a series/show/game whatever, but really only 1-2 entries should be there, so it might as well be merged back into the main list on the trope. It's not exactly the trope itself that needs "repair", just one specific nest of bad examples. (I guess any direct links to it could be removed and the content copy-pasted over, with an empty page remaining, but that leaves an empty stub page.)
Luppercus
¿Que pasó que pasó vamos 'ay?
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Since: Mar, 2015
Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
¿Que pasó que pasó vamos 'ay?
#378: Sep 2nd 2019 at 8:16:04 AM
Hi I just wanted to notify that I did a general clean-up among four pages that due to their similarities, tend to be mixed-up, these were:
I basically did not eliminate any example, just re-located them to what was their correct trope, at least to the best of my abilities and understanding of each trope. Basically the criteria was more or less:
- If the work presents a dream sequence, fantasy, hallucination, imagining, reading of book, diary, etc., i.e. it’s a narrative inside the narrative, is And You Were There.
- If presents a character or group of characters having visions of a previous incarnation, alternate reality, different continuity, etc. it’s Visions of Another Self.
- If presents purely self-contain works with no direct relation among other parts of the series but using the same cast of characters in different personas, is Universal-Adaptor Cast.
- If the same actor plays two or more different characters but there’s some meaning or symbolism for it is Significant Double Casting (note; this in particular was very often mixed with And You Were There).
It is possible that requires more work, as some examples I couldn’t decide due to lack of enough context and I never saw the work or because it was too ambiguous and might work for more than one thus I didn’t felt confident enough to change it, so if someone wants to take a look will be great.
Edited by Luppercus on Sep 2nd 2019 at 11:18:10 AM
Malady
(Not-So-Newbie)
#379: Sep 30th 2019 at 7:24:51 PM
The thread list says there's 101 threads, when I try to make a thread, it says there's 87 threads out of 100 possible... What's going on?
Are only open threads counted in the New Post Page?
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Glide08
...and the understander will understand
from not not unofficially official secret
Since: Jan, 2014
...and the understander will understand
#380: Oct 1st 2019 at 5:49:00 AM
2020 is almost nigh, and I think it's well past the time to turn The Twenties from a redirect to The Roaring '20s to a disambiguation page that has both it and The Double Twenties (or whatever it is we'll call the 2020s page). Where can I suggest this? Is it even TRS worthy?
Redmess
#381: Oct 1st 2019 at 7:54:12 AM
Yes, sounds like a good idea.
Optimism is a duty.
Glide08
...and the understander will understand
from not not unofficially official secret
Since: Jan, 2014
...and the understander will understand
#382: Oct 2nd 2019 at 9:54:26 AM
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Thanks Redmess!
Malady
(Not-So-Newbie)
#383: Oct 3rd 2019 at 8:54:19 AM
Can anyone find any other Fetish Fuel wicks to cut? Most are Archive and Redirects.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=Main/FetishFuel
Otherwise I'm removing it from Administrivia.TRS Wick Cleaning.
The IReadThatAs.N To S ones are being discussed in "Is this an example?"
Edited by Malady on Oct 3rd 2019 at 8:56:43 AM
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Brainulator9
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#384: Oct 3rd 2019 at 12:48:04 PM
I see that Inverted Trope has on-page examples... IMO, it shouldn't.
Malady
(Not-So-Newbie)
#385: Oct 3rd 2019 at 1:41:06 PM
- It's saying that Fetish Fuel and Fetish Retardant are inversions of each other...
Brainulator9
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#386: Oct 3rd 2019 at 4:13:59 PM
Audience Reactions can't be played with.
Malady
(Not-So-Newbie)
#387: Oct 4th 2019 at 3:54:17 AM
Well, if it were on a work page, I'd agree...
But, the connection between those tropes is clearly Inversion, no?
Wanna take it to "Is This An Example?"
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Fighteer
Lost in Space
from The Time Vortex
(Time Abyss)
Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#388: Oct 11th 2019 at 12:05:13 PM
You are referring to the "On this very wiki" section? It's fine; the rule about Playing with a Trope for audience reactions is to keep people from making PlayingWith subpages and adding word cruft to examples.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Lymantria
Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph
from Toronto
Since: Apr, 2015
Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph
#389: Oct 11th 2019 at 12:06:58 PM
What do you mean by that?
Edited by Lymantria on Oct 11th 2019 at 3:07:25 PM
Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!
Malady
(Not-So-Newbie)
#390: Oct 26th 2019 at 4:54:18 PM
What's the Reason I'd want if I'm advocating for splitting Lunacy into the concept named by The Power of the Moon, and some... Moon Triggered Magic trope like "Werewolves transforming during the full moon", but generalized.
Edited by Malady on Oct 26th 2019 at 4:54:34 AM
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shadowmanwkp
from The Netherlands
Since: Jul, 2012
Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
#391: Nov 22nd 2019 at 5:36:50 AM
It's been a while since I posted a topic for Takahashi couple. Is something wrong with my assertion, or did it fall through the cracks?
#392: Dec 14th 2019 at 6:52:07 AM
When a thread seems to have completed its purpose, should one holler a mod to check and possibly close it, or leave it to be discovered in the natural course of things?
My Games & Writing
Redmess
#393: Dec 14th 2019 at 6:56:37 AM
Yes if it is a specific project, no if it is a thread on a work, I would say.
Optimism is a duty.
#394: Dec 15th 2019 at 5:53:42 AM
I wasn't aware that we had work-specific pages in this sub-forum, I think! ^^;
But fair enough, and thank you for the answer. ^_^
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WikiWanderer
nothing to report
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Since: Sep, 2018
Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
nothing to report
#395: Dec 30th 2019 at 11:12:50 AM
Not sure where to post this, but The Antagonist page takes a sharp nosedive in quality after the No Antagonist line and I have no idea what some of this is even supposed to mean.
Edited by WikiWanderer on Dec 30th 2019 at 8:14:03 PM
PSA: a cat is not a dog
WarJay77
Bonnie's Artistic Cousin
from The Void
(Troper Knight)
Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Bonnie's Artistic Cousin
#396: Dec 30th 2019 at 11:17:00 AM
Hmm, this can probably be fixed here.
(she/her)
#397: Jan 11th 2020 at 5:46:38 PM
Not sure where this would go but I wanted to make a case for Comedic Underwear Exposure to get its example list back or at least get solid consensus on whether it should stay gone or not .The old example list really wasn't that bad, it wasn't any worse than Goofy Print Underwear and I could barely find any creepy examples on it. The reason the examples stayed gone was because there were no consensus to bring them back years ago.
Is this worthy of a TRS thread or is there somewhere else I bring up the issue?
EDIT: Here's the entire example list. Might make a sandbox later but I didn't find anything bad in it
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Anime and Manga
- This isn't always bad, as Doctor Slump shows. During a baseball game, Akane's pants fall down, causing the pitcher to balk.
- Mahou Sensei Negima! does this with its female cast, seeing as the series is essentially Fanservice incarnate, including one where the girls take their clothes off thinking that it'll lighten the load on the elevator. (...yeah.), as well as Negi's sneezing being capable of tearing clothes. There's also an instance where Asuna pulls Negi's pants down to get him out of bed.
- Sayo's very first appearance in the manga (besides the old photo in the class roster) is an upskirt. Nothing unusual in that - but of course she's wearing 1940s-vintage bloomers, and the effect isn't quite the same...
- Colorful is one of the few fanservice anime with a quantity of I See London greater than or equal to upskirt Pantyshots.
- In the second episode of Dokkoida, Edelweiss, a wannabe Enfant Terrible super villainess attempts a dramatic introduction only to discover that I Have The High Ground + Goofy Print Underwear leads to this trope.
- Perhaps in response to this trope when she was younger, Hinagiku of Hayate the Combat Butler wears spats under her uniform.
- Played with later when another character encounters her when she's up in a tree and she makes the claim that she saw Hinagiku's panties, the fact that she claims they were black, when another character told us that she likes being colorful, and her spats are black.
- Early in Slam Dunk, Sakuragi tries to stop Akagi from dunking over him by holding him down. He accidentally pulls down his pants in the process.
- Not really a straight example, as his underwear got pulled down too . . .
- Happens quite frequently to Gray from Fairy Tail.
- In Katekyō Hitman Reborn!, Tsuna's basic Dying Will mode in early chapters/episodes made his clothes tear away, reducing him to his boxers.
- In Dragon Half, Mig is first defeated when the heroes (accidentally) expose his Teddy Bear undies. Vina later uses a picture of Mig in said undies as blackmail material.
- Detective Conan - while trying to make his getaway, Kid the Phantom Thief shoots some belt-choppers towards Ran, intending to cause a distraction via this trope, but gets Kogoro instead.
- In Soul Eater, Lord Death picks up Rachel!Medusa by the back of her dress several times, exposing her pumpkin panties.
- Notably, while all of the Panty Shots from the Manga were removed in the Anime, this was left in.
- The Slam Dunk example above also takes place in Kodomo No Jikan, done by the bratty Kuro to teacher Aoki. Yes, underpants and all. With another student IN FRONT of him when it happens.
- Goku demonstrates this trope in his second fight with Tenshinhan by stealing the latter's belt. Though shocked at Goku's new speed, Ten tries to reassert control over the match by bragging about his new technique, which will make speed useless. The humiliation kicks in when Goku points out, yeah, but he should probably pull his pants up, and gives back the belt. Ten embarrassingly does so as the audience snickers.
Comic Books
- Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen starts a chapter with Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain descending a ladder. For some reason, Mina thought it was a good idea to let Quatermain go first, despite the fact she's wearing a dress. Considering that in Vol. 2, they confess they've lusted after one another for ages, and then shag each other's brains out, you could call it foreshadowing...
- Used in an issue of Excalibur in which the X-Babies end up in the main world. Lil'Wolvie says this to a nightshirt wearing Kitty Pryde.
- Strangers in Paradise: Katchoo has a dream in which she's hanging from a tree branch and an anthropomorphic alarm clock says this to her from the ground.
- Shortly after Wally West became The Flash, Alchemy disintegrated his costume (in public), saying he wasn't fit to wear it. Wally spent the rest of the fight in his boxers. (One little girl even starts saying the "I see London" rhyme.)
- In one Spy vs. Spy strip, Black Spy attaches a razor blade to White Spy's gun so why he draws it, the blade cuts through his belt and drops his pants. When White bends down to pull them back up, Black clobbers him.
Film
- Happens to Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors during Audrey II's Mean Green Mother number.
- Flushed Away. Lesson #1 - never hold onto your
girlfriend'sacquaintance's pants while on a zipline above the entire town. - The 2007 Transformers movie, in a bit obviously targeted at the younger demographic. Not that the other demographics wouldn't find it funny, mind you.
- Alarmingly, those were John Turturro's under-drawers. Anyone who has seen The Big Lebowski will know why that man should not expose himself when children are present.
- Unfortunately it gets worse in the sequel. Past Squick, straight into Nightmare Fuel.
- Alarmingly, those were John Turturro's under-drawers. Anyone who has seen The Big Lebowski will know why that man should not expose himself when children are present.
- It isn't a Disney movie without someone losing their pants.
- Definitely true of The Return Of Jafar, where Abis Mal chops his own trousers off trying to slash his sword in the air while talking about a swordfight he was in.
- Subverted in Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers, in which Mickey's musketeer uniform is cut away by an enemy swordsman, revealing his familiar red shorts beneath.
- Unless he's been running around in his boxers all this time and this is the first time it's been acknowledged.
- Alice In Wonderland, where the Cheshire Cat sabotages Alice's croquet game and bonhomie with the Queen of Hearts by flipping her over on her head and exposing her huge Goofy Print Underwear for all to see. She suffered a huge BSOD because of it.
- The scene may be more memorable for the mass Oh, Crap! moment experienced by the entire court when they realize that "someone's head will roll for this."
- Inspector Gadget gets pantsed by his robotic double during their big fight scene.
- Quoted by the Three Pigs in Shrek, while holding onto the Fairy Godmother's foot (while she's flying).
- One of the plots in High School USA is the ongoing quest of two geek girls to get a photo of resident Jerk Jock Beau Niddleton's butt. They eventually succeed when he is pantsed by a robot at the film's climax.
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno: "My name is Granny Panties, and nobody wants to fuck me!" "Nothing's whiter than my big, gay ass!"
- Cecil B. Demented: "Ooh, I see London, I see France, I see Honey's underpants!"
- The Big Lebowski: "Now, I ain't never seen London, and I ain't never seen France, and I ain't never seen no queen in her danged undies, as the feller says..."
- Rugrats in Paris had John Lithgow's character saying it after seeing Coco LaBouche getting the back of her bridal dress ripped off when Angelica deliberately steps on the train. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkN2WQ5m_QU
- A very similar scene occurred in the Olsen Twins movie It Takes Two- replace Coco La Bouche with Jane Sibbett's character and Angelica with either Mary-Kate or Ashley (forget which).
- In Extreme Ops, Kittie's pants rip when Will tries to pull her back up from hanging over the mountain, allowing him to see her panties. Some of her stomach shows as well.
- In the How to Train Your Dragon extra DVD short The Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon Gobber's pants fall down after he gives the dragon back his bone, which had been holding up his pants for years.
Literature
- Occured two times in Meet Molly, when the titular protagonist and her two friends were hosed down by Molly's brother, Ricky while going home wearing their hula costumes. The former pulled off an antic in revenge by dumping Ricky's underwear over his sister Jill and her best friend.
Live Action TV
- That '70s Show pulled this in an episode where Eric pantses Donna during a pick up basketball game, exposing some rather unflattering Sears Catalog bloomers and humiliating her. Eric apologizes at the end of the episode with the Family-Unfriendly Aesop, "I shouldn't have pulled your pants down in public, once you started letting me pull them down in private."
- A favorite joke on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, with the titular twins. It shows up a lot less in the spin-off, The Suite Life on Deck.
- In Peewee's Playhouse, Peewee is flying around the world and says "I see London... I see France... I see Moscow's underpants!"
- Kamen Rider OOO: As seen in this page's image, Eiji Hino suffers from this in his debut. Double points since it also serves as a Memetic Outfit.
- In Series/Community Ahbed and Troy both pantsed eachother to the amusement of the other study group members. Pierce decides he wants in on the fun and pantses Shirley. He then learns the valuable lesson that it is never ever okay for a guy to pants a woman.
- Said on an episode of Ricki Lake featuring out-of-control teenage girls. All of them were dressed pretty slutty in Dangerously Short Skirts, Ricki recited the chant from the top of the page when one of said girls was sitting with her legs uncrossed. It was onscreen, but if Ricki saw, the audience more than likely saw it too. Due to her size, they might've needed Brain Bleach.
- On Happy Days, when the boys had to go for their army physicals and had to strip, Potsie's underwear had little hearts on them and Ralph's had a big lobster.
- On the first episode of The Big Bang Theory, Leonard and Sheldon go to retrieve Penny's TV from her heavily-muscular ex-boyfriend. The scene cuts to them leaving minus their pants.
Music
- One of the traditions in AC/DC concerts is seeing Angus Young strip down to his underwear.
- The Decemberists "Los Angeles, I'm Yours" gives us this one, with Sophisticated as Hell:
Old ladies, pleasant and demure,Sallow-cheeked and sure,
Newspaper Comics
- Relatively common with Tubby and the other boys in Little Lulu
- In a Liberty Meadows strip, when Jen bends over to get her pocketbook, Dean recites the rhyme. Jen punches him. Dean complains: "I thought women liked poetry..."
- Pretty common in Garfield, with Jon Arbuckle the most likely victim. Subverted in a strip where Jon deliberately wore a tank top and Goofy Print Underwear as loungewear on a rainy day.
Professional Wrestling
- Embarrassing underwear is a common trope in pro wrestling.
- In 2001, Lance Storm was pantsed by Edge and Christian to reveal he was wearing Power Rangers underwear.
- Roberto Rodriguez was once revealed to be wearing underwear with a picture of Alberto Del Rio on them.
- Goldust was stripped of his attire at WrestleMania 12 by "Rowdy" Roddy Piper to reveal he was wearing women's underwear, but given the nature of the character, it was more creepy than funny.
- Ric Flair has on more than one occasion been stripped down to his underwear, usually pastel-colored briefs.
- One Saturday Night's Main Event back in the 80's, Jimmy Hart got pulled out of his pants, revealing that he was wearing bright red briefs.
- Billy Gunn, Chuck Palumbo and Rico got pantsed en masse by Al Snow, Maven and Torrie Wilson to reveal they were all wearing skimpy thongs, going with their Ambiguously Gay gimmick.
- For women in wrestling, this usually means granny panties, as in inversion of the many Fanservice girls in wrestling who proudly wear thongs and have no problem showing them off.
- In 2002, Molly Holly had a few instances (two on TV, plus house shows) where she was revealed as wearing granny panties, to go with the prude character she was playing at the time.
- Ivory got stripped down to her underwear while she was in Right To Censor, which included granny panties with little flowers on them.
- Vickie Guerrero was once revealed to be wearing granny panties with "EXCUSE ME!" written on them.
Theatre
- This is one of the points of Noises Off. Most of the characters lose their trousers (or skirts) at least once through the play.
Video Games
- When Crash Bandicoot gets hit by a scimitar in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, his pants are cut off, revealing his pink polka-dot boxers.
- In /Punch-Out!!, King Hippo's trunks fall when Little Mac punches him in the mouth.
- In ToeJam & Earl, Earl occasionally drops his pants and has to stop for a moment to pull them back up. (Funnily enough, his boxers are almost identical to his shorts.)
- In Ghosts 'n Goblins / Ghouls'n Ghosts, a series known for its difficulty, protagonist Sir Arthur loses his armor after the first hit and has to fight on in his heart/strawberry print boxers. Another hit reduces the life counter.
- Also applies to Maximo: Ghosts to Glory, Arthur's 3D counterpart, who loses his clothes when he only has one segment left on his Life Meter. Unlike Arthur, he can actually acquire a variety of different boxer shorts (though hearts are the default).
- Another Capcom arcade game called Midnight Wanderers (part of Three Wonders) also has the characters lose their clothes after taking a hit. However, their shorts are drab and utilitarian.
- In WarioWare: Smooth Moves, one minigame has two cowboys in a quick-draw contest. The winner shoots the opponent's pants down.
- In Rocket Knight Adventures and the SNES Sparkster, enemies are stripped to their underwear when defeated. This can also happen in the revival Rocket Knight, but only to the pigs and it depends on how they're defeated.
- In Parajump, some random students lose their pants.
- In The Simpsons Arcade game, the first boss' pants will drop as an Idle Animation, revealing sparkly pink briefs.
Web Animation
- In Homestar Runner, Strong Bad crashes a prom wielding a remote that will make everybody's pants poof away. Unfortunately, he winds up in his boxers because he was the only person at the prom that was wearing pants. He has lost his pants a few other times as well.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series:
Joey: I see London, I see France, I see Mai Valentine's underpants!Mai: Joey, stop gawking at my nethers and save my butt!
Web Comics
- Mr. Mighty from Everyday Heroes comes home with his uniform in tatters after his daily battle with evil. He smells dinner cooking, and bends over the stove to get a sniff just as the neighbor lady walks in. (Also shows off his Goofy Print Underwear, with his own superhero logo.)
- In Eerie Cuties, the Mirror Monster is supposed to be evil, but being based on Nina, it can only manage to Poke the Poodle . . . including pantsing Chloe.
Web Original
- The Nostalgia Critic had a rather infamous Panty Shot in Suburban Knights. He was cosplaying Link at the time in a tunic with no pants or leggings and The Nostalgia Chick and Obscurus Lupa were forced to bring to his attention the fact that they could see his balls. Everyone on the commentaries lampshaded the fanservice of the scene, and Critic himself called back to it in his review of DuckTales (1987), claiming fond memories.
Western Animation
- Various cartoons, including ones where animals seem to wear underwear under their fur.
- Kim Possible. Oh Ron, that thing never gets old. OK, well it does, but hey.
- It got to the point where even the toys released had "pants losing action".
- The first episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, in which all the pants got controlled by an intelligence-enhanced jeans, which prompted the above quote when the first one ran away, Hilarity ensued
untileveryone else's pants got off. - Family Guy: Lois Griffin seems to get her panties exposed an awful lot...
- Actually, considering she's what you might call a Fanservice Sue, they're quite restrained.
- "I see London, I see France, I see Stewie's hideously chapped ass..."
- Futurama: Happens to Fry in episode one (in the Applied Cryogenics building) and the later repeats of that scene in other episodes.
- Danny Phantom where the titular character is the main victim — the last episode alone goes through at least three different shots of him losing his clothes to reveal him wearing nothing but his boxers/underwear...in a row.
- Danny Phantom had it so bad that some fans have chronicled his development by looking at his underwear choices throughout the series. Seriously.
- Johnny Test does this, getting into Crossing the Line Twice territory.
- My Gym Partner's a Monkey did the same thing as early as the advert for the show. (Why animals wearing no clothes themselves find it funny is unknown).
- In an episode of The Jetsons, Rosie the robot angrily rips the dress off a snobbish socialite who had insulted the titular family. Both Jane and the woman had entered a party wearing identical dresses, which led to the whole conflict.
- Alvin of Alvin and the Chipmunks ends up in his boxers after gluing himself to the saddle of a bucking bull while competing in a rodeo.
- In The Adventures of T-Rex, the Transformation Sequence of the titular dinosaur superhero group involved each member having his clothes sucked off, revealing their boxers, which matched their costume colors.
- An episode of the more recent Pink Panther cartoons (You know, the one where he talked) had the Panther as a vigilante of sorts, defeating villains by reciting the rhyme, and then cutting their belts off, allowing him to defeat them in the confusion. This doesn't work on the big bad though, as he happened to be wearing TWO pairs of pants.
- Extremely common in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.
- The Wild Thornberrys, Eliza recites this rhyme in a (supposedly) awe-inspiring speech to a family of Jaguars.
- In "The Quartersize Quarterback" (episode of the animated Punky Brewster), Allen involuntarily drops trou in an attempt to catch a football. Margaux laughs at his polka dot boxers.
- In Sabrina: The Animated Series, Sabrina and her friend have their pants fall down in front of the cafeteria and Gen in the series splits her pants.
- Happens to Kabuto at the end of Tokyo Mater, as a result of Mater beating him in a drift race.
Kabuto: I'm stock!!! (his ninjas all laugh at him)
- "Arthur's Underwear"
- In the Woody Woodpecker featurette "Janie Get Your Gun", towards the end of it, when Woody is holding up Ms. Meany's (a.k.a. Calamity Jane's) train attached to her hat at the wedding reception, he falls into a hole and her wedding dress falls (or gets ripped) off, leaving her in her pink bloomers or pantalets, and mortified.
- In another Woody Woodpecker featurette, "Witch Crafty", after the witch rides the flying broom into a tree at one point, the broom is left stuck there as well as her purple mini dress which she falls out of and lands on her feet on the ground. Noticing the viewers see her in her pink corset (or bustier) and white bloomers (or pantalets), she modestly tries to cover up with some shrubbery and exits the scene.
- In Phineas and Ferb, Doofenshmirtz turns out to have Perry the Platypus-printed boxers. Since Perry is his nemesis, this is awkward, to say the least.
Doof: For your information, I had these way before I met you.
- Elmer Fudd had his undies revealed in a comedic manner a lot.
- In the Monster Farm episode "Tractor Terror", Cowapatra has her polka dot bloomers revealed when the berserk tractor snags off the bandages covering up her pelvis.
Edited by MacronNotes on Jan 11th 2020 at 9:00:40 AM
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Brainulator9
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#398: Jan 11th 2020 at 5:54:33 PM
I'd say it is, but it'd help to create a list of examples to prove your point.
This was brought up in Ask The Tropers here, by the way. My point still stands: it's safe for work.
SomeoneImSure
Since: Jun, 2015
#399: Jan 16th 2020 at 1:39:07 PM
I'm not sure if I should post a thing for Non Sequitur, but it's something I've noticed. It has a main trope page for the Trope and a comic strip page for the Webcomic.
Tabs
Since: Jan, 2001
#400: Jan 16th 2020 at 3:31:10 PM
And what's wrong with that?
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How often is it acceptable to holler a yet-to-be-opened trs?