History Main / GoofyPrintUnderwear

** Meanwhile, the art book reveals that [[TheHero Makoto]] (who, as the protagonist, can't receive a School Mode Ending) wears white undershorts with a pattern of yellow stars covering them.

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* Fruit of the Loom markets [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoos Underoos]], media themed underwear for children that has been popular since 1977. (And as of 2014, there ''is'' [[SexyWhateverOutfit a line of adult Underoos.]])

* Many stores carry "loungewear" with various patterns and designs licensed from cartoons, television, movies, or so on.
** However, finding boxer shorts with red hearts on them is surprisingly difficult, unless you're looking around Valentine's Day.

Presumably, the fact that they wear utterly tasteless undies adds to the character's discomfort at being de-pantsed, especially if they maintain a hard-man reputation.

[[ComedicUnderwearExposure Exposing a character's underwear]] is always good for a laugh. This goes double if they have underwear with a silly or embarrassing print on them. Boxer shorts with polka dots, or better yet hearts on them seem to be popular. In fact nearly everyone in cartoons seems to wear these. Well, that or [[EpilepticTrees these boxers cause trouser accidents]].

Presumably, the use of brightly patterned underwear is a visual shorthand, to show that this is their dirty laundry, and not, say, a pair of shorts, a distinction that can be hard to see. Plus the fact that they wear utterly tasteless kecks add to the character's discomfort at being de-pantalooned, especially if they maintain a hard-man reputation.

* School Mode in ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'' offers up one of the student's underwear as a prize for earning that character's ending. In here it's revealed that [[{{Otaku}} Hifumi]] wears a pair of colorful briefs modeled around a [[SuperRobotGenre Super Robot]] HumongousMecha from one of his favorite anime (which was a subject of Chapter 3 in the main story).

* There was a laundry detergent ad a while back that had a woman magically teleport the clothes off of a bunch of [[HotMenAtWork hunky construction worker types]], leaving them in their [[EstrogenBrigadeBait underwear]]. [[RuleOfFunny Naturally]], one guy had bunny rabbit print undies, leading to this memorable exchange at the end of the ad:

* At one point in the Wrestling/{{WWE}}, proud Canadian Lance Storm was pantsed, revealing that he wore PowerRangers underwear.

* TNA wrestler Eric Young stripped down to a pair of [=SpongeBob=] boxers during one PPV, and ''beat'' [[GagBoobs amazingly well-endowed]] valet Traci Brooks in a ''bikini contest''.

* In a recent Tuxedo Match, Santino Marella stripped Ricardo Rodriguez, AlbertoDelRio's manservant, down to a pair of white briefs [[MalevolentMugshot with a silhouetted image of Del Rio's face on the seat]], in a WWE moment that was [[SarcasmMode definitely not disturbing at all]].

* StacyKeibler wore a ridiculously frilly pair of pink panties when she, Jackie Gayda, {{Sable}}, and TorrieWilson competed in a Lingerie Match at ''[=WrestleMania=] XX''.
* Once, when she was a member of Right To Censor, {{Ivory}} was stripped down by several other Divas to her polka-dot panties. Especially embarrassing because she had a reputation as a loud-mouthed, tomboyish DarkActionGirl.

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On the other hand, a female character in this type of underwear can be pretty potent FetishFuel, especially if she looks much too mature to still be wearing them. If a woman is caught in nothing but, say, Snoopy panties, expect a male character to suddenly "remember" how much he's always admired the ''{{Peanuts}}'' gang (which, in fact, is precisely what happened to Chris Tucker in one of the ''RushHour'' films).

On the other hand, a female character in this type of underwear can be pretty potent FetishFuel, especially if she looks much too mature to still be wearing them. If a woman is caught in nothing but, say, Snoopy panties, expect a male character to suddenly "remember" how much he's always admired the ''{{Peanuts}}'' gang.

** However finding boxer shorts with red hearts on them is surprisingly difficult.
*** Try looking around Valentine's Day.

On the other hand, a female character in this type of underwear can be pretty potent FetishFuel, especially if [[{{Lolicon}} she looks much too mature to still be wearing them]]. If a woman is caught in nothing but, say, Snoopy panties, expect a male character to suddenly "remember" how much he's always admired the ''{{Peanuts}}'' gang.

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* In ''VisualNovel/{{Rewrite}}'', Kotarou gets a view of Chihaya's panties as he saves her from being stuck in a tree (It's a long story...). After that, "cherries" is not a good word for him to say around her.
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**** [[http://www.webundies.com/udp24b.htm?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cse&utm_term=UDP24B3X Look no further.]]

* See those [=SpongeBob=] boxers above? TNA wrestler Eric Young stripped down to a pair of those during one PPV, and ''beat'' [[GagBoobs amazingly well-endowed]] valet Traci Brooks in a ''bikini contest''.

* A recent ad for Carls, Jr., hamburgers shows [[ItMakesSenseInContext a Turkish beauty queen walking out onto a hotel pool area]]. She strips off her gown and sash, leaving herself in nothing but a bikini swimsuit illustrated with little cartoons of the burger she's advertising, which looks like childish underwear when viewed from a distance. One mother covers the eyes of her little son, but whether this is DeliberateValuesDissonance or because the bikini looks like silly underwear cannot be determined.
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-->-- ''{{Duckman}}'', after having [[MuggedForDisguise mugged two Germans for their clothes]]."

* In VisualNovel/{{Rewrite}}, Kotarou gets a view of Chihaya's panties as he saves her from being stuck in a tree (It's a long story...). After that, "cherries" is not a good word for him to say around her.