History Main / TackyTuxedo

* In ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'', Napoleon finds an incredibly tacky maroon 1970s tuxedo at a thrift store, and wears it to his senior prom.

A frilled shirt, a bowtie, a cummerbund, and a tuxedo in baby blue. [[FakeFabricFashionFauxPas All 100% polyester.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'': Kin Kujira

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', poor Ron Weasley gets stuck wearing an old-fashioned maroon dress robe to the [[HighSchoolDance Yule Ball]]. It clashes horribly with his date's hot pink dress.

A frilled shirt, a bowtie, a cummerbund, and a tuxedo in baby blue.

* In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdosf0puGeo Selsun Blue ad]], dandruff is personified as an [[EvilAlbino Evil (or at least obnoxious) Albino]] in an all-white tuxedo with a frilly shirt.

* Creator/TomHanks as Josh in ''Film/{{Big}}'' shows up to a black-tie cocktail party in a white sequined tuxedo. The party is so shocked by his appearance that he tries to surreptitiously check his fly.

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* In the backstory of ''Fanfic/SayItThrice'', Lydia sasses Film/{{Beetlejuice}} about the tacky tux he wore for their almost-wedding in the movie, saying that both that outfit and the dress he gave her were beyond ridiculous.
* 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.

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* Film/TheMask's banana yellow zoot suit, which became his IconicOutfit.

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* ''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...

* In ''{{Series/Fringe}}'', Walter has one of these.
--> '''Walter''': Purple never goes out of style!

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* Jon Arbuckle of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has also been known to wear [[RealMenWearPink pink]] and purple suits as well.
* ''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.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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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 TheOughts until the very early 2010s, although suits had more conventional schemes.

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

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer wore a blue version to his high school prom in "The Way We Was". [[JustifiedTrope He gets a pass, though,]] since it was legitimately the style at the time (1974).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer wore a blue version to his high school prom in "The Way We Was".

A frilled shirt, a bowtie, a cummerbund and a tuxedo in baby blue.

* When shopping for wedding attire in ''[[Fanfic/SkyholdAcademySeasons 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.

* Creator/TomHanks' character Josh in ''Film/{{Big}}'' shows up to a black-tie cocktail party in a white sequined tuxedo. The party is so shocked by his appearance that he tries to surreptitiously check his fly.

* 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, which he already knew that the judge disapproved of.

* Jon Arbuckle of ''{{Garfield}}'' has also been known to wear [[RealMenWearPink pink]] and purple suits as well.

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It's a disco-style tuxedo 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 TheOughts until the very early 2010s, although suits had more conventional schemes.

* [[MarxBrothers Harpo Marx]], during a vacation on the French Riviera, constantly wore a tuxedo made out of green felt. He later learned that he'd become widely known as "that American in the pool-table tuxedo".