History Main / SexyCoatFlashing

* A downplayed example in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has Amy Farrah Fowler removing her coat to reveal a "Catholic schoolgirl" outfit. Needless to say, as usual, [[{{Asexuality}} it doesn't work on Sheldon.]]

* Music/{{Kiss}} evoked this trope with their 1988 single "Let's Put the 'X' in 'Sex'."
* The Music/DixieChicks were known to do this to several of their fellow country music acts during (the other stars') live concerts, most notably Music/KennyChesney.

* ''Not Now Darling'', a {{farce}} by Ray Cooney and John Chapman involving shenanigans at an exclusive London fur store. A RunningGag involves a [[NakedInMink model in a fur coat]] who [[GoingCommando claims she's got nothing underneath]]. Whenever someone displays skepticism over this, she opens her coat so they can have an eyeful ([[SexyDiscretionShot she's always facing away from the audience of course]]).

* ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'':
** Male drow Wolf is shown to assure a female of his, hum, ''best intentions'' and ''relevant adequacy'', in this way. He gets yet another promotion.
** Lewie the Lich gets a mind-controlled drow queen to perform this for him because he always wanted to... too bad he can't remember ''why'' by now (being undead, his sex drive is nowhere what it was in life...).
* [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/300 This]] is how Seraphim takes out Asmodeus in ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}''.

* In the first chapter of ''{{Webcomic/Sunstone}}'', Lisa visits Allison's place for her second night with her wearing nothing but heels, stockings and a garter belt under her coat, something she didn't really have the guts to do on the first night.

* ''Webcomic/MenageA3'': Peggy finds herself accidentally flashing others of the cast when she has been so distracted by the need to prepare for an orgy that she forgot to dress properly. Weirdly enough, she and others treat turning up to an orgy under-dressed as an error.

* Nora Gracen attempting to seduce Jim Profit in ''Series/{{Profit}}''. She comes into his office in a trenchcoat, she drops it to the floor, and when she's about to kiss Profit, her husband appears in the outer office. [[BattleButler Gail]] has to stall him so she can get her coat back on.
* In ''Series/GossipGirl'', Blair shows up at Chuck's office like this, wanting to have sex after [[SarcasmMode the unbearable dry patch of five days]]. He doesn't oblige.
* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': Joy's trying to get pregnant in order to keep from going to prison. She comes over to Earl's motel room dressed only in an overcoat, but Earl doesn't fall for it.

* Played with in an episode of ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', where Sally goes to work as a secretary for a boss majorly guilty of sexual harassment. Her boss at one point comments that he can't help wondering what she's wearing underneath her blouse. She opens it to show him an embroidered bra, smiling and oblivious.
* One episode of ''Series/MythBusters'' involved viral videos, one of which was fainting goats. Kari, TheChick on the team, has the idea that flashing them would make them faint. It doesn't work - on the goats. Tory, on the other hand...
-->'''Tory''': Wasn't ready for that one, Kari...
* Claire tries it on ''Series/ModernFamily'' while doing fantasy role-playing with Phil in a hotel. Then the coat gets caught on the escalator.

* In ''Series/{{Coupling}}'', Jane decides to do this on a dinner-at-his-house date with a new guy. Unfortunately, she wasn't told that [[OhCrap that the dinner was for her and a big group of his friends]]. After she eventually [[HilarityEnsues loses her coat to a little girl next door]], she just walks out of his apartment naked.
* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' Season 2 episode "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", a [[LovePotion love spell]]-affected Buffy comes at Xander wearing a trenchcoat and (it's implied) nothing else (except high heels). [[spoiler:She doesn't get the chance to do any actual flashing before Amy [[BalefulPolymorph turns her into a rat]].]]
* The pilot for ''Series/NewGirl'' has the title character doing this...and discovering, at the worst possible time and in the worst possible manner, that her boyfriend is cheating on her.
* In the ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' episode "The Egg and I", Marcy does this twice to her ex-husband, Steve, just to show him what he'll never have again. Al sees it both times and needs BrainBleach. This happens again with Jessica Hawn as a shoe groupie.
* Grand theft Sexy happens in ''Series/DeadLikeMe'' using this trope when Daisy Adair acquires a particular hot and silver convertible from a man.
* Drew does it to surprise Kate when the two are dating on ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow''. Unfortunately, Kate has organised a surprise dinner with her grandparents.
* Hawkes' girlfriend Camille does it at the end of ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' episode "Food for Thought."

* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' episode "Bears Will Be Bears," Gilda seduces her boyfriend by suggestively opening a fur coat she's wearing to reveal her lingerie-clad body.
* The Canadian sitcom ''Series/PackageDeal'' has a character's girlfriend [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFpb3CqpxoA doing this at his apartment door]], only to realize that his male roommates are also there.
* A downplayed example in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has Amy Farrah Fowler removing her coat to reveal a "Catholic schoolgirl" outfit. Needless to say, as usual, [[{{Asexuality}} it doesn't work on Sheldon.]]
* In the ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'', in the "Blood and Circuses" episode, Phryne reveals her circus costume to Inspector Robinson in this way.
* ''Series/TheMentalist'': At the end of "Red Listed," Van Pelt shows up to collect Rigsby and opens her coat to real she is wearing nothing but black lingerie and high heels, before dragging him off to a hotel for their delayed honeymoon.
* ''Series/{{Selfie}}'': Eliza tries the "not wearing ''anything'' underneath" variation out on Henry, under the guise of giving back the coat he’d let her borrow her earlier in the episode. Henry is clearly tempted and says as much, but then resorts to an INeedToGoIronMyDog type excuse to get out of there.
* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': in "Murder, He Wrote," Castle and Beckett are going to enjoy a nightly bath in his Hamptons' pool when she takes off her robe, revealing that she "forgot" her bathing suit.
* ''Series/{{Banacek}}'': Banacek's GirlOfTheWeek does this in "Fly Me--If You Can Find Me," wearing a raincoat with nothing on underneath it.
* Subverted in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', where a DirtyOldMan, his back to the camera, opens his macintosh to passing women who react with horror. Then he turns and opens it to the camera, revealing he's fully-dressed and wearing a sign that reads "Boo!".
* ''Series/MadAboutYou'' once had Jamie doing this when wearing a ModestyTowel to convince a man to borrow his cellphone.

* ''Film/{{Mannequin}}'' has a scene during a montage where Emy does this.
* ''Film/MenInBlackII'': the villain Serleena (a {{Shapeshifter}} who's assumed the form of an underwear model) does this just before taking over MIB headquarters.

* Creator/AnneHathaway's character in ''Film/LoveAndOtherDrugs'' tries to do this to Jake Gyllenhaal, but his brother happens to be sleeping on the couch.
* Sam's [[TheMistress mistress]] in ''Film/RuthlessPeople'' shows up to his office in nothing but a teddy and dark mink coat.
* The title character in ''Film/{{Silkwood}}''.

* In ''Film/VictorVictoria'', after King has Squash put Norma on a train out of town in order to get her to leave them alone, she does this in anger to him, declaring "You ain't seen the last of me yet!" She's got panties and no bra under her coat.
* Hinted at but averted at the beginning of ''Film/StirCrazy''. Creator/GeneWilder's character, a house detective at a department store, accosts an attractive female customer (who also happens to be a prominent actress), telling her he knows that (a.) she's a shoplifter and (b.) she's got nothing on under her overcoat, both of which she angrily denies. One scene later we discover he's been fired, but we never do find out whether he was right.

* Early in ''Film/ScaryMovie3'', when Cindy is complaining to the news editor about how people want the facts instead of gratuitous boobage, she suddenly opens her blouse to show her bra-endowed boobs. Everyone in the newsroom stops what they're doing to watch her. [[HypocriticalHumor And she keeps ranting without changing the subject]].
* In ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains'', a prostitute reveals she has nothing but panties on under her coat.

* Robin Givens' character does this for Eddie Murphy's in ''Film/{{Boomerang|1992}}''.
* Used for FanDisservice at the end of ''Film/{{Lolita}}'' (1997) where middle-aged pervert Clare Quilty is wearing a bathrobe with nothing underneath.
* The 1932 Thelma Todd/[=ZaSu=] Pitts comedy short ''Film/ShowBusiness'' has an unusual variation: Through various complications, Todd's character winds up at a railroad station wearing only an overcoat over a skimpy black slip. Then another woman at the station mistakenly accuses Todd of having stolen ''her'' coat and summons a policeman who subsequently forces Todd to remove the coat in public.

* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': While prowling the streets, Rorschach encounters a prostitute, who flashes him trying to seduce him for pay. He passes her by, and she hurls obscenities at him in anger.
* In ''Film/BankShot'', Ballentine is sitting a steam cabinet when El comes in to show him several coats she's bought him. She starts with a trench coat which she takes off to show him a plaid coat underneath. She then takes off the plaid coat to show she is wearing nothing under it.
* When Jill the Ripper has Nicole tied up in ''Film/TheButchers'', she throws off her opera cape to reveal some decidedly non-period lingerie.
* ''Film/DontOpenTillChristmas'': When outdoors with Cliff, Sharon opens her Santa coat to reveal she is wearing nothing but thigh boots and a leather thong under it.

* In ''Film/KillerWorkout'', Debbie leaves Chuck in the yard and goes inside to change out of her workout outfit. She comes back out wearing a long coat and, when Chuck says he has to get back to the cub, she persuades him to stay by shrugging off the coat to reveal a bikini.

* In ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'', Gretchen almost does this with a bathrobe to Jeff Higgins but decides to stop at the last moment. ([[DistractedByTheSexy It works anyway.]])

* Inverted in the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' episode ''A Scandal in Belgravia''. Irene Adler [[NakedFirstImpression waltzes in to talk to the heroes completely naked]] and remains so until eventually a [[{{Squick}} squicked]] Sherlock and an uncomfortable John [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn decide to give her Sherlock's coat to cover up]]. She then spends the rest of the scene wearing only the coat, [[SceneryCensor making camera shots easier]]. Ostensibly, she did this to remain mysterious by making the SherlockScan that much more difficult — and also to throw the boys off balance, giving her an advantage in the battle of wits. It worked.
* ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'': Subverted in a notorious 2008 episode featuring a cameo by Jack Wagner, who – in an episode-long running gag to promote ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless'' – showed up several times during the show, claiming he was annoyed at the goings-on of the show. During a Showcase Showdown, the trope kicks into effect where Wagner, clad in a robe, "flashes" Carey. Wagner likely was dressed in shorts and a shirt, but the way the gag played out drew negative criticism for what was implied to have taken place.

* The pictures come from the MadeForTVMovie ''WidowOnTheHill''.

* Hawkes' girlfriend Camille does it at the end of ''Series/CSINewYork'' episode "Food for Thought".

* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' episode "Bears Will Be Bears", Gilda seduces her boyfriend by suggestively opening a fur coat she's wearing to reveal her lingerie-clad body.

* ''Series/TheMentalist'': At the end of "Red Listed", Van Pelt shows up to collect Rigsby and opens her coat to real she is wearing nothing but black lingerie and high heels, before dragging him off to a hotel for their delayed honeymoon.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': in "Murder, He Wrote", Castle and Beckett are going to enjoy a nightly bath in his Hamptons' pool when she takes off her robe, revealing that she "forgot" her bathing suit.
* ''Series/{{Banacek}}'': Banacek's GirlOfTheWeek does this in "Fly Me--If You Can Find Me"; wearing a raincoat with nothing on underneath it.

* Music/{{Aerosmith}} makes use of this trope in the song "Crazy"

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* ''Not Now Darling'', a {{farce}} by Ray Cooney and John Chapman involving shenanigans at an exclusive London fur store. A RunningGag involves a [[NakedInMink model in a fur coat]] who [[GoingCommando claims she's got nothing underneath]]. Whenever someone displays skepticism over this, she opens her coat so they can have an eyeful ([[SexyDiscretionShot she's always facing away from the audience of course]]).

* Dr Chase Meridian in ''Film/BatmanForever''.
* [[Creator/AnneHathaway Anne Hathaway's]] character in ''Film/LoveAndOtherDrugs'' tries to do this to Jake Gyllenhaal, but his brother happens to be sleeping on the couch.

* Hinted at, but averted, at the beginning of ''Film/StirCrazy''. Creator/GeneWilder's character, a house detective at a department store, accosts an attractive female customer (who also happens to be a prominent actress), telling her he knows that (a.) she's a shoplifter and (b.) she's got nothing on under her overcoat, both of which she angrily denies. One scene later we discover he's been fired, but we never do find out whether he was right.

* Early in ''Film/ScaryMovie3'', when Cindy is complaining to the news editor about how people want the facts instead of gratuitous boobage, she suddenly opens her blouse to show her bra-endowed boobs. Everyone in the news room stops what they're doing to watch her. [[HypocriticalHumor And she keeps ranting without changing the subject]].

* The 1932 Thelma Todd/[=ZaSu=] Pitts comedy short ''Film/ShowBusiness'' has an unusual variation: Through various complications, Todd's character winds up at a railroad station wearing only an overcoat over a skimpy black slip. Then another woman at the station mistakenly accuses Todd of having stolen ''her'' coat, and summons a policeman who subsequently forces Todd to remove the coat in public.

* In ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'', Gretchen almost does this with a bathrobe to Jeff Higgins, but decides to stop at the last moment. ([[DistractedByTheSexy It works anyway.]])

* Inverted in the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' episode ''A Scandal in Belgravia''. Irene Aldler [[NakedFirstImpression waltzes in to talk to the heroes completely naked]] and remains so until eventually a [[{{Squick}} squicked]] Sherlock and an uncomfortable John [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn decide to give her Sherlock's coat to cover up]]. She then spends the rest of the scene wearing only the coat, [[SceneryCensor making camera shots easier]]. Ostensibly, she did this to remain mysterious by making the SherlockScan that much more difficult — and also to throw the boys off balance, giving her an advantage in the battle of wits. It worked.

* One episode of ''Series/MythBusters'' involved viral videos, one of which was fainting goats. Kari, TheChick on the team, has the idea that flashing them would make them faint. It doesn't work - on the goats. Her male co-star Tory, on the other hand...
-->'''Tory''': Wasn't ready for that one, Kari . . .
* Claire tries it on ''Series/ModernFamily'' while doing fantasy role play with Phil in a hotel. Then the coat gets caught on the escalator.
* Backfires in spectacular fashion on ''Series/StillStanding''. Judy tries the nothing underneath variant to surprise Bill at work. And gets stopped by a security guard. Naturally he thinks she's stealing, but she can't show what's under the coat. He takes her to a security room and goes to find Bill. Bill arrives and she shows him. ''Then'' he reveals that the mirror is one-way.

* The pilot for ''{{Series/New Girl}}'' has the title character doing this...and discovering, at the worst possible time and in the worst possible manner, that her boyfriend is cheating on her.

* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' episode "Bears Will be Bears", Gilda seduces her boyfriend by suggestively opening a fur coat she's wearing to reveal her lingerie-clad body.

* ''{{Series/Selfie}}'': Eliza tries the "not wearing ''anything'' underneath" variation out on Henry, under the guise of giving back the coat he’d let her borrow her earlier in the episode. Henry is clearly tempted and says as much, but then resorts to an INeedToGoIronMyDog type excuse to get out of there.

* Subverted in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', where a DirtyOldMan, his back to the camera, opens his macintosh to passing women who react with horror. Then he turns and opens it to the camera, revealing he's fully-dressed and wearing a sign that reads "Boo".

-->But, I know you ain't wearin' nothin' underneath that over coat. And it's all a show.

** Lewie the Lich gets a mind-controlled drow queen to perform this for him, because he always wanted to... too bad he can't remember ''why'' by now (being undead, his sex drive is nowhere what it was in life...).

* In the first chapter of ''{{Webcomic/Sunstone}}'', Lisa visits Allison's place for her second night with her wearing nothing but heels, stockings and a garterbelt under her coat, something she didn't really have the guts to do on the first night.

* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'' has an unsual accidental case in the form of PunchClockVillain Jabberwokky, whose coat falls open in the middle of a fight to reveal she's only wearing fishnet under it. Fortunately for Jabberwokky, her current opponent is the DirtyOldMan Math, who gets so DistractedByTheSexy that she is able to knock him out immediately. Unfortunately for Jabberwokky, her ''next'' opponent is Dabbler, [[HornyDevils the one opponent who can automatically outdo her in winning via sexiness]].

* A warped version on ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'': The Animated Series episode "Flight as a Feather." When Cookie [=BaBoom=] ([[spoiler:Mayor Tilton's ex-girlfriend -- a strip -- er "exotic dancer"]]) gets stopped from rushing the City Hall stairs by Mayor Tilton's assistant, Smedley, Cookie flashes Smedley by opening her trenchcoat. One would expect Smedley to be distracted by her naked body. [[spoiler:Turns out she's not naked -- or rather, she wouldn't be naked until later -- what she had hidden under the trenchcoat was two megatons worth of explosions strapped across her hips and breasts like a makeshift bikini. And then the Mask gives her a ShamefulStrip, leaving her naked and a failure]].

[[quoteright:274:[[Film/WidowOnTheHill https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/woth_mink_coat_and_lingerie.jpg]]]]

* In the Creator/TexAvery MGM cartoon, ''Who Killed Who?'', the cop looks into a room with a flashlight. As a series of paintings seen from a left-to-right pan shot, a painting of a redhead lady in a coat is seen, holding it open to reveal a sexy yellow one-piece swimsuit. But when the flashlight goes back to it, [[CreepyChangingPainting the lady has her coat closed]]!

* Inverted in the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' episode ''A Scandal in Belgravia''. Irene Aldler [[NakedFirstImpression waltzes in to talk to the heroes completely naked]] and remains so until eventually a [[{{Squick}} squicked]] Sherlock and an uncomfortable John [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn decide to give her Sherlock's coat to cover up]]. She then spends the rest of the scene wearing only the coat, [[SceneryCensor making camera shots easier]]. Ostensibly, she did this to remain mysterious by making the SherlockScan that much more difficult.
** Also to throw the boys off balance, giving her an advantage in the battle of wits. It worked.

* In the ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' episode "The Egg and I", Marcy does this twice to her ex-husband, Steve, just to show him what he'll never have again. Al sees it both times and needs BrainBleach.
** This happened again with Jessica Hawn, as a shoe groupie.

* In ''Webcomic/TheCummoner'', Vilga does this to seduce (or at least distract) one of her guards. It works...[[GoneHorriblyRight little too well]].

->''"But before I go, I want to show you my new blouse. (opens coat) Oops, I'm not wearing a blouse."''

* ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'': Subverted in a notorious 2008 episode featuring a cameo by Jack Wagner, who – in an episode-long running gag to promote ''TheYoungAndTheRestless'' – showed up several times during the show, claiming he was annoyed at the goings-on of the show. During a Showcase Showdown, the trope kicks into effect where Wagner, clad in a robe, "flashes" Carey. Wagner likely was dressed in shorts and a shirt, but the way the gag played out drew negative criticism for what was implied to have taken place.

* Robin Givens' character does this for Eddie Murphy's in ''Film/{{Boomerang}}''.

* ''Not Now Darling'', a {{farce}} by Ray Cooney and John Chapman involving shenanigans at an exclusive London fur store. A RunningGag involves a model in a fur coat who [[GoingCommando claims she's got nothing underneath]]. Whenever someone displays skepticism over this, she opens her coat so they can have an eyeful ([[SexyDiscretionShot she's always facing away from the audience of course]]).

* A warped version on ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'': The Animated Series episode "Flight as a Feather." When Cookie [=BaBoom=] ([[spoiler:Mayor Tilton's ex-girlfriend -- a strip -- er "exotic dancer"]]) gets stopped from rushing the City Hall stairs by Mayor Tilton's assistant, Smedley, Cookie flashes Smedley by opening her trenchcoat. One would expect Smedley to be distracted by her naked body. [[spoiler:Turns out she's not naked -- or rather, she wouldn't be naked until later -- what she had hidden under the trenchcoat was two megatons worth of explosions strapped across her hips and breasts like a makeshift bikini]]. And then the Mask gives her a ShamefulStrip, leaving her naked and a failure]].

* Hinted at, but averted, at the beginning of ''Film/StirCrazy''. GeneWilder's character, a house detective at a department store, accosts an attractive female customer (who also happens to be a prominent actress), telling her he knows that (a.) she's a shoplifter and (b.) she's got nothing on under her overcoat, both of which she angrily denies. One scene later we discover he's been fired, but we never do find out whether he was right.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': in "Murder, He Wrote", Castle and Beckett are going to enjoy a nightly bath in his Hamptons' pool when she takes off her robe, revealing that she "forgot" her bathsuit.

* The Music/DixieChicks were known to do this to several of their fellow country music acts during (the other stars') live concerts, most notably KennyChesney.

* A downplayed example in ''TheBigBangTheory'' has Amy Farrah Fowler removing her coat to reveal a "Catholic schoolgirl" outfit. Needless to say, as usual, [[{{Asexuality}} it doesn't work on Sheldon.]]