History Main / TackyTuxedo

* Wil in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' once went to a job interview in a suit better suited to the Regency. (Apparently the only other option involved a blazer that looked even weirder.) Fortunately for him, his interview was at the LocalHangout, which had a previously-established RunningGag about dressing up in old-timey outfits.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Facade}}'', the couple's wedding photo shows groom Trip dressed in a black jacket, gray pants and pink bowtie, with a teal "flower" (really just a circular blob) in his lapel.

* ''Film/{{Carrie}}'': The prom-shopping montage is made of this.

* When UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump visited the UK and attended a state dinner with UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen, much attention was drawn to his poorly-fitted suits, especially a tailcoat that drew comparisons to the opera singer from ''WesternAnimation/LongHairedHare''.

* When UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump visited the UK and attended a state dinner with UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen, much attention was drawn to his poorly-fitted suits, especially a dinner jacket that drew comparisons to the opera singer from ''WesternAnimation/LongHairedHare''.

* The one-off special ''Series/CannedLaughter'' had a stand-up comedian dressed a extreme parody of the styles of the time (it was made in ''1979'').

* In the ''Website/{{CollegeHumor}} sketch "Too Many Weddings," Zac is a guest at a wedding somewhere in the US every weekend that summer. He has a normal tux, but doesn't have time to patch it up or get it dry-cleaned in between each of the weddings he's attending, and it starts falling apart and being "patched up" with [[DuctTapeForEverything duct tape]]. He also wears a frilly, powder-blue tux from TheSeventies, when he is actually one of the groomsmen.

It's a disco-style tuxedo Creator/JohnTravolta could barely look good in, but the HollywoodNerd usually comes dressed up like this to a fancy event. Usually an over-the-top exaggeration of the schizoid styles used in the RealLife 70s, falling out of fashion as disco music died down[[note]]This in the West. You can easily see ruffled shirts in Asian and Arab countries[[/note]]. Frilly shirts and big ties in particular made a comeback during most of TheNineties and TheAughts until the very early 2010s, although suits had more conventional schemes.

Part of HollywoodDressCode:

* Ron Stoppable wears one of these in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', saying he borrowed it from his dad. Fortunately, for the homecoming dance he wears a [[SharpDressedMan much better suit]].

* Ron Stoppable wears one of these in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', saying he borrowed it from his dad.

* In ''Film/MyCousinVinny'', Vinny shows up to court wearing a particularly hideous old maroon tux he had obtained at the last minute from the thrift store. Not like he had much of a choice; the judge had ordered him to wear a suit, and the local dry cleaners were closed due to a flu outbreak, so it was either that or his leather jacket, of which he already knew the judge disapproved.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Steve's friend Snot
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'': Daggett

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'': In an attempt to persuade Sara to go to the prom with him, Jeremy borrows a tuxedo that used to belong to Hector's grandfather. Only when Hector gives it to him does he discover that Hector's grandfather had been in a mariachi band.

* When shopping for wedding attire in ''[[Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook Disorienuptials]]'', [[Franchise/DragonAge Varric]] trolls Dorian mercilessly by modeling a couple of these. Most notably, he emerges from the fitting room clad from head to toe in shocking pink... and points out that the outfit is also available in orange.

* Barry Fife (Bill Hunter) wears something very like this in ''Film/StrictlyBallroom''.
* In ''Film/MyCousinVinny'', Vinny shows up to court wearing a particularly hideous old maroon tux he had obtained at the last minute from the thrift store. Not like he had much of a choice; the judge had ordered him to wear a suit, and the local dry cleaners were closed due to a flu outbreak, so it was either that or his leather jacket, of which he already knew the judge disapproved.

* In ''Film/FatherOfTheBride1991'', Creator/SteveMartin's character pulls one of these out of mothballs in the attic, to the amusement of his wife and daughter. Then, for the actual wedding, he dons a knockoff Armani tux which (as he discovers when it's pointed out by other characters) is actually navy blue.
* In ''Film/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay'', a mix-up at the tuxedo rental place causes Anthony's tux to be given to someone else. The only tux they have left in his size is a hideous powder blue one with a frilly shirt and a huge bow tie. He doesn't really mind this however and ends up wearing this to the prom.
* ''Film/{{Carrie}}'': The prom-shopping montage is made of this.
* The title character in ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' wears what appears to be a maroon moth-eaten velvet tuxedo with a white ruffled shirt. The white platform shoes do not help matters.
* Cliff dresses in a standard tuxedo for his college fundraising banquet. When he must put in an appearance as ''Film/DoctorDetroit'' in the same hotel he turns it inside out to reveal purple silk linings in the trousers and a red lining in the jacket.
* In ''Film/BetYourLife'', Chuck is driving a prom couple to an after party when he has to detour to the casino to pick up Sonny. The boy is wearing a powder blue tuxedo with a ruffled shirt. The movie is set in 2004 and the girl is wearing a perfectly ordinary red spaghetti strap dress.

* Harry Dresden incorporates one of these into his vampire costume from ''Literature/GravePeril'', as he intends to thumb his nose at the ''actual'' vampires at a costume party by dressing as a cheesy version.
* One of Wendy's feuding zombie ex-boyfriends in ''[[Literature/DanShambleZombiePI Death Warmed Over]]'' is dressed in a powder blue tuxedo. Dan marvels that anyone would ''choose'' to be buried, or to lay their late relative to rest, in a prom tux.

* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': Al and Tim wear these.
* Bubbles on ''Series/TrailerParkBoys'' skipped the disco ensemble and wore something even tackier to a wedding: a T-shirt with a tuxedo design on the front. Then again, this is ''Trailer Park Boys''.
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'':
** Apparently, Burt Hummel wore a deeply regrettable-sounding powder-blue tux with ruffled shirt and floppy bow-tie to his prom. It's probably a good thing that this is only described, not shown on-screen. What's even more mind-blowing is how Burt can admit to this and then get up nerve enough to criticise [[TheFashionista his son]] [[CampGay Kurt]] for planning to wear a very elegant formal kilt to ''his'' junior prom...
** And apparently Artie takes fashion advice from Burt, because the cherry-red outfit he wore to the junior prom made him look like Film/AustinPowers.
* The one-off special ''Series/CannedLaughter'' had a stand-up comedian dressed a extreme parody of the styles of the time (it was made in ''1979'').

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': When Penny takes Sheldon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirEe8pGTJk suit-shopping]], one of his choices is a white tuxedo with tails.
* Harry is asked to accompany one of his patients to her middle school dance (he's a pediatrician) in an episode of ''Series/EmptyNest''. He pulls out his old powder blue tuxedo for the occasion. The girl then shows up to apologize, explaining that one of her classmates asked her to be his date instead... and, hilariously, the kid is wearing ''the exact same outfit.''
* Australian comedian and talk show host Andrew Denton made a documentary on the ''Just for Laughs'' comedy festival in Montreal called ''Montreal: The Funniest City in the World''. When interviewing comedians or conducting ''vox pops'' on the streets, he wore a tuxedo. However, for every segment he was wearing a different tux jacket. These ranged from the conventional (black, white, navy blue) to the fashion forward (scarlet) to the truly outré (a tuxedo jacket in the Australian Army "jellybean" camouflage colour). And he somehow made that last one look awesome.

* Wil in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' once went to a job interview in a suit better suited to the Regency. (Apparently the only other option involved a blazer that looked even weirder.) Fortunately for him, his interview was at the LocalHangout, which had a previously-established RunningGag about dressing up in old-timey outfits.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'': Kin Kujira wears one by default. Although due to the way he's drawn, it's hard to tell if it's a real tux or actually just a black t-shirt with a tuxedo pattern on it.

* Cliff dresses in a standard tuxedo for his college fundraising banquet. When he must put in an appearance as Film/DoctorDetroit in the same hotel he turns it inside out to reveal purple silk linings in the trousers and a red lining in the jacket.