Pants-Free: a sight gag where a character is first seen from the waist up and then revealed to be pantsless.
Not Wearing Pants: the thing where you're dreaming and naked or in your underwear.
Which is to say, they're not at all the same trope, but they probably could both use a rename to clarify this.
edited 29th Nov '10 8:57:28 AM by Micah
132 is the rudest number.Including the word Dream or Dreaming in the new title of Not Wearing Pants would probably clear up the confusion and misuse.
Pantsless Dream? Pantless Dream Realization?
edited 29th Nov '10 8:59:45 AM by ccoa
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.Ok, well, there are examples that are in both, and no examples belong in both.
The child is father to the man —OedipusThere are no examples where they're first shown from the waist up and are then shown to be pantsless and dreaming? I find that hard to believe. One is a camera work gag. The other is a common dream staple.
edited 29th Nov '10 9:55:08 AM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickAm I wrong? The Homer Simpson example stood out, but I haven't seen the episode for a while, does it qualify under both tropes?
Fair enough.
edited 29th Nov '10 1:23:07 PM by HersheleOstropoler
The child is father to the man —Oedipus

Pants-Free and Not Wearing Pants are the same. Unless Not Wearing Pants is the dream-specific version, in which case it's misleadingly named and some Pants-Free examples don't belong.
The child is father to the man —Oedipus