History Main / SittingSexyOnAPiano

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Harley Quinn does this in "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE7Harlequinade Harlequinade]]". She then manages to fall off the piano, causing Batman to HeadDesk.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobin'': Harley Quinn does this in "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE7Harlequinade Harlequinade]]". She then manages to fall off the piano, causing Batman to HeadDesk.

* ''Series/TheChamberQuintette'' has a skit parodying this, with [[TheChick Keren Mor]] singing ''Bab el-Wad'', a memorial song for dead soldiers, as a sexy cabaret girl.

* Creator/LaurenBacall struck a relatively innocent version of this pose in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lauren_Bacall_with_Vice_President_Truman.jpg a famous photo]] with then-Vice President UsefulNotes/HarryTruman at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in February 1945.

%%* ''Series/AmericanIdol'': Haley Reinhart. B-B-B-Benny. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBbSvcJdGO4 And the Jetsssss....]]. Also doubles as ShesGotLegs. And hoooooooooooooow. Outright stated to be a shoutout to ''Film/TheFabulousBakerBoys''.%%Word cruft, word cruft, and no context

* Creator/LaurenBacall struck a relatively innocent version of this pose in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lauren_Bacall_with_Vice_President_Truman.jpg a famous photo]] with then-Vice President UsefulNotes/HarryTruman at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in 1945.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Dot Warner occasionally does this.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Laverne the old lady gargoyle puts on a feather boa and poses on a piano during their DisneyAcidSequence.

* Invoked by Creator/ConnieChung, of all people, in the bizarre gown-and-sequins TorchSong finale to her short-lived talk show ''Weekends with [[Series/{{Maury}} Maury]] and Connie.''

* ''Series/ShortRibbs'': In the first episode, Creator/PattyMaloney does it during her song.

[[quoteright:331:[[Film/TheFabulousBakerBoys https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Piano_lean_2644.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:330:[[DistractedByTheSexy I bet none of you noticed the pianist upon first glance.]]]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Brandish}}'': [[http://www.rpgfan.com/soundtracks/brandish-piano/cover_l.jpg The cover art]] for the Piano Collection shows Dela lying prone on a piano, while facing the viewer and showing a considerable amount of cleavage.

%%* ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'': Used to disturbing effect with John Malkovich.

* Saloon singers in ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' albums tend to do this.

* Edda and several other female characters in ''ComicStrip/NineChickweedLane'' can ''play'' the piano like this.

* The FairyGodmother does this in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'' when she's singing "Holding Out For A Hero".
* Parodied/exaggerated in ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'', when the sickeningly sweet child actress Darla Dimple does this on a piano sized for her enormous butler Max. You get the impression she could roll around for several hours and never be in danger of falling off.
* Laverne the old lady gargoyle in ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', puts on a feather boa and poses on a piano during their DisneyAcidSequence.

* The film of ''Film/{{Chicago}}'': Roxie Hart during her imaginary first performance ("My Funny Honey") rides this pony for all it's worth.

* Parodied in ''Film/HotShots'', where the singer lies at a physically impossible angle on the open lid of a grand piano and (in the process of wiggling seductively) manages to shimmy right off.
* Used to disturbing effect with John Malkovich in ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich''. [[PlanetOfSteves Malkovich Malkovich.]]
* Ralph Bakshi's ''Film/CoolWorld'' has this with the FemmeFatale villainess.
* ''Film/JohnnyDangerously''. Johnny's girlfriend Lil Sheridan does this while singing in a nightclub.
* A rare gender-flipped example from ''Film/LemonadeJoe'': Doug Badman half-lies on the piano in his saloon when he tries to persuade TheChanteuse Tornado Lou to leave with him for Europe.

* In Creator/ShirleyTemple vehicle ''Film/LittleMissMarker'', Bangles the sexy nightclub singer does this as part of her act. So it comes off as a little weird later in the film, when six-year-old Marthy (Temple) decides to imitate Bangles by hopping on a piano and singing a song.
* Creator/JoanCrawford did this for the only time she ever sang onscreen, in the all-star revue ''Film/TheHollywoodRevueOf1929''.
* Barbara Novack does this during the song that plays over the closing credits in ''Film/DownWithLove''.
* In the 2000 version of Music/JesusChristSuperstar, Herod does it during Herod's Song.

* ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'': Jan does this for her scene in Michael's movie, "Threat Level Midnight".
* In an ImagineSpot in ''Series/ParkerLewisCantLose'', Miss Musso is seen doing this.

* Haley Reinhart on ''Series/AmericanIdol''. B-B-B-Benny. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBbSvcJdGO4 And the Jetsssss....]]. Also doubles as ShesGotLegs. And hoooooooooooooow.
** Outright stated to be a shoutout to ''Film/TheFabulousBakerBoys''.
* ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'': Parodied by Kevin [=McDonald=] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ygnGE2gIlQ this sketch]].
* On an episode of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', Wayne Brady does this during a playing of Greatest Hits while singing in the style of Eartha Kitt. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAXEbmTf8ZQ&t=1m28s Here's the clip.]]
* Israeli skit show ''Series/TheChamberQuintette'' has a skit parodying this, with [[TheChick Keren Mor]] singing ''Bab el-Wad'', a memorial song for dead soldiers, as a sexy cabaret girl.
* In one episode of ''Series/WillAndGrace'', Karen makes Will do this while singing a torch song in order to persuade her to become a client of his firm. He gets about halfway through the song [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere before quitting out of sheer embarrassment]].
* In the first episode of the sketch show ''Series/ShortRibbs'', Creator/PattyMaloney does it during her song.
* Parodied on ''Series/BlackBooks'', where Fran tries to use this to seduce someone, but accidentally hits a handful of keys as she sits down.
* In ''Series/{{Victorious}}'', Tori does this during the song "Tell Me That You Love Me".

* Blanche from ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' does this in the episode "Journey to the Center Of Attention," complete with a [[Creator/MichellePfeiffer red dress]]. Of course, [[EpicFail it fails horribly]]; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZDQn93ngK8 watch to see just how.]] Rue [=McClanahan=] named this as her favorite musical scene.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''. In "The Lie of the Land", Missy does this while discussing with the Doctor how to defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek. Which doesn't seem sexy in itself, but given the preference by Time Lords for platonic rather than sexual relationships, the scene has a definite FoeRomanceSubtext.

* The cover art for the ''VideoGame/{{Brandish}}'' Piano Collection [[http://www.rpgfan.com/soundtracks/brandish-piano/cover_l.jpg here]].
* A promotional picture for the rock band "Edge of Paradise", where the lead singer lies on top of a white grand piano [[http://www.edgeofparadiseband.com/resources/EOP_KE_B_009.JPG.opt795x528o0%2C0s795x528.JPG here]].

* The script for ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'' calls for Roxie to do this during "Funny Honey", citing Helen Morgan as the example to follow.
* Referenced in "Torch Song" from the 1932 Broadway musical ''Face the Music'':

* While making friends with Undyne in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', she tells you about the time Alphys' friend (implicitly Mettaton) came over to lie on her piano while [[GrapesOfLuxury feeding himself grapes]]. Made funnier since [[spoiler:he was still in his normal [[TinCanRobot rectangular]] form, with no mouth.]]
* The splash art for ''Videogame/LeagueOfLegends'''s [[TheChanteuse Secret Agent]] Miss Fortune shows her doing this -- surrounded by slaughtered clubgoers.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Bug|Martini}}'' claims that a downside to owning a piano is that one is always having to shoo sultry lounge singers off it before their sequins scratch the varnish.

* Dot Warner occasionally does this on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''.
* Lois of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' did this after Peter remodeled their basement into a club.
* June does this in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam''.
* Clarice, a chipmunk lounge singer, does this in the WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale short ''Two Chips and a Miss''.
* Ling-Ling does this for his musical number on the ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' musical series finale.

* Bridgette in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama World Tour'' does this in the beginning of her musical number, "I'm Sorry".
* Harley Quinn does this in the ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobin'' episode [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE7Harlequinade "Harlequinade".]] She then manages to fall off the piano, causing Batman to HeadDesk.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'': Patti Mayonnaise in one of Doug Funnie's fantasy sequences.

[[caption-width-right:330:[[DistractedByTheSexy I bet none of you noticed the Pianist upon first glance.]]]]

* Harley Quinn does this in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Harlequinade". She then manages to fall off the piano, causing Batman to HeadDesk.