Sexy Surfacing Shot

[Brian jumps into the pool. He emerges in slow-motion, somehow transformed into a sultry-looking male model.]
Nick: [confused] What's... um... happening?
Brian: What do you mean? [picks up towel and starts to dry himself]
Nick: You're really, really good-looking.
Brian: [looks like himself again] Aw, thank you!
Nick: Oh. Well not anymore, but for a second you were like CW hot.
Brian: Yeah, I was coming out of the water. Everyone looks better that way. Try it!

— Britanick, "Sexy Pool Party"

A (usually female) character emerges from a body of water, revealing their previously concealed body now glistening and dripping wet, usually with closeups of their features. In-Universe, other characters may also be Eating the Eye Candy or Distracted by the Sexy. Oftentimes the scene is accompanied with Slow Motion and some Sexophone music — if they're referencing Fast Times at Ridgemont High, you could also toss in "Moving in Stereo". Sometimes the character may throw their hair back as they emerge from the water.

This trope includes a number of situations such as emerging from a pool, the sea, a waterfall, a lake, or a bath. Usually in the pool or at the beach the character will be wearing some kind of swimsuit. If they are nude, the scene usually shows only their bare back or is shot with Shoulders-Up Nudity or some kind of Scenery Censor.

Super-Trope to Mermaid Arc Emergence (in the cases when this is used for Fanservice) — a much more energetic way of having a character emerge from the water in a semi-sexualized manner.

Sister Trope of Sexy Soaked Shirt and Wet Sari Scene. See also Shirtless Scene and Skinny Dipping.

Contrast Subhuman Surfacing Shot.

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Examples:

Advertising

• This "BSN" Bodybuilding supplement ad has a woman rising out of the water doing a Mermaid Arc Emergence and then slowly walking out of the pool while everyone in the pool party stares at her.
• In this commercial for the Jewish social network Koolanoo, a young woman dives into a pool in front of several young men, causing her bikini top to immediately fall off. As they watch her climb back out in Slow Motion, one notices that she's wearing a Star of David necklace just like he is, and appears behind her just in time to protect her modesty with his hands.
• This "Set Wet" ad, has a shot of a woman climbing out of the pool, but when the man using the hair gel passes by her, his "Hot Aura" evaporates the water from her body.
• This ad for PETA has Alicia Silverstone emerging naked from a pool and talking about how being a vegetarian has changed her life.
• One GoDaddy commercial has a naked Danica Patrick getting a massage. Her massage therapist wants to be a GoDaddy girl and does a dance that results in her falling in a pool. She emerges a few seconds later with her wet GoDaddy t-shirt now clinging to her body.
• This trio of 1988 commercials promoting, oddly enough, Atlanta ABC affiliate WSB-TV 2's 11:00 newscasts includes a brief glimpse of someone partially emerging from a pool toward the end of each spot, with the first ad being a Rare Male Example.

Anime & Manga

• Happens in the Birdy the Mighty OVA series as Birdy can smell an enemy nearby and her reaction causes Tsutomu to slip into the bathroom while they switch places and her to emerge.
• Fairy Tail:
  • While Bathtub Bonding with Lucy, Cana suddenly stands up in her bath near about her possibly leaving the Fairy Tail guild.
  • In Chapter 341, Flare reveals that she's bathing with the rest of the Fairy Tail guild girls by standing in the bath, with her long red hair covering up her body.
• Free!: One particular scene has a scene with Haru slowly climbing out of the pool with a close up shot of his abs.
• Haruhi Suzumiya: Haruhi is seen climbing out of the pool in her bikini during one of the "Endless Eight" loops.
• Heaven's Lost Property: Episode 12 has a shot with Sohara getting out of the pool with her School Swimsuit with a lot of Gainaxing
• Inuyasha: In "Fateful Night in Togenkyo Part II", after being captured by Tokajin, Kagome wakes up naked in a sake bath with Ninmenka fruits. When Inuyasha bursts into the room, Kagome leaps out of the water, excited to see him. After an awkward pause, she suddenly realizes she is naked in front of him and squats back into the water shrieking.
• One Piece: In the "Glorious Island" special there is a close-up shot of Nami rising from the water in a bikini and sitting up in the border of the pool floating in the ocean.
• The Pet Girl of Sakurasou: During the Pool Scene in episode 8, Misaki emerges from the water in a bikini and then does a backflip.
• Sailor Moon Crystal: The first time we see Michiru she is swimming in her apartment and climbs out of the pool while throwing her head back.
• We Never Learn: The first episode ends with a shot of genius swimmer Uruka climbing out of the pool in her School Swimsuit.

Arts

• The Birth of Venus: Sandro Botticelli's painting is possibly the Trope Codifier, as it exquisitely depicts what the myths can only leave to the imagination. It's not strange to be born naked, but Venus, the most beautiful goddess, came to this world as an adult, very attractive woman.

Comic Books

• Gen¹³:
  • Issue #1 has Sarah emerging out of the water dramatically when Skinny Dipping in front of the boys and Anna.
  • In Issue #2, when the team is hanging around the pool in La Jolla and both Kat and Sarah have a panel with them climbing out of the pool. Rox actually finds out Sarah is into women when the latter starts checking out Kat. Hell, it's even the page image.
• Witchblade: In issue #93, there's a full-page shot of bikini-clad Sarah climbing out of the pool after a swim.
• X-Men:
  • In an early issue of Uncanny X-Men, had Storm Skinny Dipping at the mansion pool when the rest of team catches her as she's coming out of the pool, innocently asking why are they are all staring.
  • In X-Men (1991) vol. 2 #8, Cyclops accidentally catches sight of Psylocke rising out of the water in her leotard and started stuttering causing Jean Grey to get extremely jealous.
• Zatanna: In Zatanna: Everyday Magic, Zatanna is enjoying a relaxing bubble bath after dealing with Nimue, thinking about the day's events, when she has a "Eureka!" Moment and suddenly jumps out of the bath with Censor Suds preserving her modesty.

Fan Works

• In The First Time You See Her (from the Cadance of Cloudsdale series), as a teenager, Shining Armor once read an erotica novel his mom wrote, and he was particularly intrigued by the description of a female alicorn flying out of a lake, and how the water flowed sensually down her attractive body. Years later, Princess Cadance (herself an alicorn) dives into the ocean to get some seafood—and when she flies back out, she doesn't understand why Shining Armor is so flustered at the sight.
• Briefly happens at the beginning of the Mewtwo Strikes Back arc in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, when Ash and his female companions are enjoying a day off at the beach. When Misty comes out of the water after some diving, Ash looks at her bikini-clad body for a bit, with the narration even mentioning that he stares at a water droplet rolling down her cleavage and then her stomach, before he remembers that Anabel could read his thoughts.
• Fanfic writer CVGW James is fond of showing this thing in his stories, such as "Sky's Relaxing Beach Massage" and "The Melon and the Vanny".

Films — Animation

• Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman: Kathy Kane is introduced exiting a pool in a skimpy bikini.
• Beowulf (2007): Grendel's mother is introduced when she emerges her naked, gold-dripping body out from the water.
• Fire & Ice: While being transported by the subhumans, Princess Teegra dives into the middle of the lake where they are resting and emerge; the water cascading down her body, her already tiny bikini now almost transparent, and her nipple clearly visible through the cloth. she uses the distraction this causes among the subhumans to escape.
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: Moto Moto is introduced by rising out from the water and doing a Supermodel Strut to Gloria to flirt with her.

Films — Live-Action

• Les 1001 Nuits has a scene with Sheherazade emerging from the ocean wearing only a Seashell Bra.
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me parodies the iconic scene from James Bond's Dr. No, with Felicity gracefully emerging on the beach in a white bikini akin to the likes of Ursula Andress' Honey Rider, only for Austin to follow suit, in an identical bikini albeit filled out less beautifully, to both his and Felicity's confusion.
• Boat Trip: Nick meets Inga, one of the bikini-clad Swedish girls while she climbs out of the pool in Slow Motion.
• CHiPs has a scene with Karen coming out of the pool in a red swimsuit.
• Clash of the Titans (1981): In a scene before Princess Andromeda is led out to be sacrificed to the Kraken, she is shown getting out of a large bath while completely nude.
• In Date Movie, Julia meets Grant's ex Andy emerging from the pool in Slow Motion in a gold bikini while "Don't Cha" plays in the background and immediately feels self-conscious.
• Death Becomes Her: One scene has Lisle stepping out of the pool nude save for high heels and a long scarf.
• Disturbia: Kale spies on Girl Next Door Ashley getting out of the pool in a bikini.
• DOA: Dead or Alive: Tina is introduced surfacing from the ocean and climbing onto a boat with water sliding all over her body as she wears an American Flag Bikini.
• Doc Hollywood: Dr. Benjamin first meets Lou when he sees her emerging from a lake where she's been Skinny Dipping, unfazed by his presence.
• In a 2010 movie Every Day, Robin exits this the pool in a black bikini while being shot from behind.
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Brad is masturbating in the bathroom while daydreaming about Linda (Phoebe Cates) getting out of the pool, taking her top off and kissing him. Unfortunately, the real Linda opens the door on him.
• Furious 7: One scene has Ramsey walking out of the ocean in a black bikini with plenty of Male Gaze.
• How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: During a crowded party, Sophie can't seem to get around a pool to get to Eleanor and Lawrence... so she slips off her shoes and wades through the pool instead while wearing a clearly expensive low-cut dress. She emerges on the other side to a smattering of applause and stares.
• In Hunk, Bradley first sees O'Brien, the Hot as Hell agent of the devil, emerging from the sea in a very clinging one-piece swimsuit.
• James Bond
  • Dr. No has the scene with Honey Rider (Ursula Andress) rising from the ocean in a bikini and a hunting belt, which became very iconic.
  • Die Another Day: Jinx walks out of the ocean in a bikini, wearing a white belt and diving knife, just like Honey Rider.
  • Goldfinger has James Bond coming out of the ocean in a wetsuit. He takes off the wetsuit and has a tux on underneath! It doesn't get any cooler than that.
  • Casino Royale (2006):
    • Valenka has a classic Bond Girl intro, climbing out of the water onto Le Chiffre's boat and walking past the game he's playing in a very high-waisted swimsuit.
    • James Bond himself (Daniel Craig) has a Shirtless Scene in swim briefs with him climbing out of the ocean. ^note In reality the shot was a case of Throw It In!. The original shot supposed to be of Craig swimming to shore. However, he hit a sand bar, forcing him to stand up. The resulting shot was too good not to include and cemented Craig's status as a Mr. Fanservice.
• Jennifer's Body: After going Skinny Dipping in a lake to wash off the blood of her last victim, Jennifer is seen climbing out of the water naked from a distance.
• Jupiter Ascending: Kalique takes Jupiter to her bathing chamber to demonstrate her Fountain of Youth, submerging herself into a pool of RegeneX and then slowly emerging from it, now young and beautiful.
• Just Go with It has a scene with Palmer coming out of the sea in a bikini in Slow Motion with Daniel and Eddie Eating the Eye Candy.
• K-20: Legend of the Mask: Heikichi and Genji walk in on Yoko while she is bathing and she stands up from the water to scold them while stark naked. They both end up with a massive Nose Bleed.
• The Kissing Booth: Elle realizes she has a crush on Noah when she sees him running out of the ocean, wet and shirtless.
• Kit Forrester's (Raquel Welch) first appearance in Lady in Cement is her emerging from her pool in a skimpy bikini to find Tony Rome waiting for her on the side of the pool.
• La notte: To emphasize the Dead Sparks in their relationship, there is a scene with Giovanni showing no interest in the sight of his stunning naked wife Lidia getting out of the bathtub.
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life: A bikini-clad Lara Croft climbs into the boat from the sea after having splashed some of her men while riding her jetski.
  Lara: Hello, boys. You're all wet.
• Last Vegas: During the first scene when the guys are out at the pool, there is a beautiful girl in a red bikini coming out of the water.
• In the 1976 Italian film The Loves And Times Of Scaramouche, Ursula Andress recreates the scene of her coming out of the ocean in Dr. No, but this time she's wearing a Sexy Soaked Shirt.
• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation: Ilsa walks out from the pool in only her little black bikini. A little bit justified because she was in the pool practicing holding her breath underwater, and even her Supermodel Strut as she gets out is justified as more than mere fanservice, she's deliberately trying to make Ethan and Benji think with something other than their brains.
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day has a scene with Delysia getting out of her bubble bath while Miss Pettigrew holds a towel, which conveniently covers her as she stands.
• In National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, while fantasizing about his new pool Clark imagines Mary, the salesgirl he met earlier, stripping off her one-piece and coming out of the pool.
• Phat Girlz: We see Tunde (Jimmy Jean-Louis) getting out of the pool in Slow Motion as water drips down his muscular body and Etta James "At Last" plays. Mia and Jazmin both enjoy the view.
• Poison Ivy 3 has a shot of Violet rising out of the water topless.
• Polar opens with a retired hitman enjoying Hookers and Blow including Sindy who is introduced in a Slow Motion shot of her emerging from the swimming pool and doing a Supermodel Strut while dripping wet. However she is not just the usual Paid Harem Fanservice Extra but a Honey Trap setting him up to be killed.
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights: The first scene with Lady Marian has her getting out of the bath with only Godiva Hair and a chastity belt for modesty.
• Scoop: Sondra meets Peter in a pool but has to get out in this fashion when she starts getting leg cramps.
• The Scorpion King: After Mathayus crashes into Sorceress Cassandra's bathing chambers, she rises out the water dramatically clad in nothing but Godiva Hair and a knife ready for a fight. Later, when they both get drained out of her bath, they eventually end up in a Wishing Well in the middle of the city and Cassandra emerges naked out of the water in front of a public audience, much to her humiliation.
• In the 2015 Bollywood movie Singh Is Bliing, Sara is seen emerging from the ocean in a red swimsuit before she starts to jog to the beach in Slow Motion.
• Something Wicked has a scene with Christine climbing out of the pool in a tiny bikini.
• Street Kings: Grace gets out of the pool in this fashion during a party where she meets Ludlow's team.
• Summer Catch: While mowing the lawn, Ryan spots Tenley getting out of the pool in her very small bikini that shows off a great deal of skin as she walks in Slow Motion and thus he becomes distracted and ends up mowing over some flowers and then running into a bird feeder post.
• Unlawful Entry: Karen is swimming in her pool when she suddenly finds Dirty Cop Pete has invaded her home and was watching her swim. Played as Fan Disservice since, while Karen is attractive, she's very uncomfortable to get out of her pool in her swimwear in front of Pete whom she believes is stalking her.
• Vigilante Diaries: Marta does this emerging from the pool in a bikini. Parodied a few seconds later when pudgy, pasty white guy Barry does the same thing.
• Wanted: One scene has Fox coming out of the bath, showing her Toplessness from the Back covered in elaborate tattoos.
• Wild Things: The camera focuses on Kelly in a one-piece bathing suit as she comes out of a swimming pool in Slow Motion.

Literature

• Agent to the Stars: Tea Reader is a semi-popular singer, represented by Tom, and it's said that nearly half of the revenue from her albums comes from teenage boys buying them just for the cover picture of her coming out of the pool.
• In the Robert Louis Stevenson story "The Beach of Falsea", which is unusually "sexy" by Stevenson standards, the seedy European colonizer, John Wiltshire, first sees his Samoan love interest, Una, coming out of the water and not wearing that much clothing. He initially has a fake marriage certificate drawn up so he can sleep with her, but later falls in love with her and becomes a better person. In Barry Menikoff's introduction to his edition of Steven's complete stories, he compares the Male Gaze description of Una coming out of the water to Honey Rider's famous first appearance in Dr. No.
• Dr. No: The novel has the same iconic scene of Honey Rider coming out of the ocean... except she's only wearing the hunting belt.

Live-Action TV

• Alias:
  • In "Double Agent", Sydney (Jennifer Garner) is in a swimming pool in In Cayo Concha, trying to attract the attention of Markovic's security chief. She surfaces from the pool in Slow Motion in a blue bikini and both her target and the camera slowly pans up and down her body. Getting his attention, she makes her way into a cabana while taking off her bikini top and he follows her inside... where he finds Vaughn and Sydney who easily overpower him.
    • Almost twenty years later, Jennifer Garner would send up this scene on her Instagram by recreating the surfacing shot, albeit in a wetsuit.
  • In "A Missing Link", Sydney is undercover on a hotel as a maid for a job. When the police start banging on her room, she escapes by taking off her uniform and performing a High-Dive Escape from the balcony into the hotel pool and then slowly comes out of the pool in her underwear where a waiter helpfully hands her a towel, apparently completely missing her diving feat.
• Altered Carbon: In "Rage In Heaven", Kovacs is treating Ortega's injuries while she's in a copper bathtub. But then he discovers that Ortega is actually his sister Reileen wearing her as a sleeve. Reileen then makes a point of slowly rising from the water while checking out Ortega's body.
  Reileen: I can see what you like about the sleeve. It's... nice.
• Blood Drive: In "A Fistful Of Blood", Grace lures Arthur into the bathroom while she's bathing and seductively rises out of the tub in an attempt to seduce him. While he can't help but enjoy the view, he ultimately turns her down since he knows she's vulnerable and just wants Sex for Solace from him at that point and he's Above the Influence.
• Bones:
  • In "The Pain in the Heart", Booth is taking a relaxing soak in a bathtub after having his death faked when Brennan suddenly busts in on him and is upset because she didn't know he was faking his death. During the ensuing argument, he stands up, not noticing he's fully exposing himself to her, giving her an eyeful.
  • In "The Jewel In The Crown", when Aubrey goes to question a suspect only to find her swimming at a pool, and she exits by slowly climbing out of the water in a tiny bikini.
• Castle: In "To Love and Die in L.A.", has a scene with Kate exiting the pool in Slow Motion to get the attention of the Villain of the Week, though the undercover Castle also gets Distracted by the Sexy.
• Chuck: In "Chuck Versus the Pink Slip", we first see Sarah in season 3 when she's emerging from a swimming pool to answer her phone. When she sees it's Chuck she tosses the phone into the pool dismissively.
  • In "Chuck Versus the Under Cover Lover", Chuck and Casey are thrown into a pool next to the wedding of Casey's long-lost ex-girlfriend. Cue a shot of Casey climbing out of the pool in a wet tuxedo with music blaring dramatically. Ilsa, the ex-girlfriend in question, is obviously very impressed by the sight.
• Criminal Minds: In "Somebodys Watching", Spencer's Girl of the Week Lila Archer (A pre-fame Amber Heard) does this when she gets out of the pool after a makeout session in the water.
• Cult: In "The Prophecy of St. Clare", Roger watches Kirstie going for a swim at the pool and then climb out of the pool later in a bikini.
• Dark Angel: In the Pilot episode, Max gets shot in the back and falls into a pool. The shooter waits to see if she will emerge, but after some time he assumes her dead and drives away. Soon after she emerges out of the water in her red dress, having held her breath this entire time. The shot of her emerging from the pool was featured heavily in commercials.
• Fargo: In "The Law Of Vacant Places", Maurice interrupts Nikki and Ray in the bath at gunpoint. In an effort to distract him she rises out of the bathtub completely nude. It works on her part... but Ray's just too slow to the draw, and she has to prompt him to disarm Maurice of his gun.
• From Dusk Till Dawn: In "Let's Get Ramblin'", Richie watches Kate climb out of the pool in Slow Motion.
• Game of Thrones:
  • In "Kissed By Fire", while bathing at Harrenhal with Jamie, Brienne stands up in the bath furiously when he taunts her over her failure to protect Renly.
  • In "Second Sons", Daenerys rises from her bath in front of Daario when he slipped into her tent to pledge his loyalty to her.
• Grand Hotel: In the first episode, when Danny and Alicia are at the pool together at night, she noticeably gets Distracted by the Sexy when he sits up in the pool showing off his muscular physique. Later the camera focuses on her when she raises herself out of the pool in her underwear.
• The Halcyon: In the first episode, Lord Hamilton catches the hotel singer Betsey Day bathing in his room. After exchanging some Snark-to-Snark Combat Betsey provocatively stands up and asks him for a Modesty Towel, with the camera focusing on a shot of her bare behind.
• Hart of Dixie: "Kablang" has a scene with Zoe seductively emerging from the lake in a bikini and throwing her hair back, all done in Slow Motion while Wade openly gawks.
• Ice Fantasy: Episode 5 has the Fire Princess Yan Da rising out of her bath in an attempt to seduce Prince Shi, but he just tells her to Please Put Some Clothes On.
• Of Kings and Prophets: Merav takes a ceremonial bath to purify herself and submerges herself and later rises out of the water naked with a Toplessness from the Back shot.
• Klondike: In the first episode, Sabine gives the miners a show when she rises out of the bathtub in front of them.
• Legend of the Seeker: In "Marked", we get a shot of Cara emerging out of the water in her pool-sized bath. When Triana interrupts her bath and challenges her for command of the Mord-Sith Cara slowly steps out of her bath then backhands Triana, throws her into the bath and almost drowns her, all while completely naked (covered by filming from the shoulders up and back.
• Lost: In "Confidence Man", episode's teaser has a scene with Sawyer confidently walking out of the ocean naked in front of Kate. She's not impressed.
  Kate: [looking at his crotch] Must be cold without your trunks.
• Lucifer: The Teaser Trailer for season 4 features Lucifer emerging from a tranquil pool shirtless before sipping from a glass of whiskey.
• Malcolm in the Middle: In "Houseboat," Malcolm hallucinates Brooke Anne Smith's cheerleader character surfacing to Shoulders-Up Nudity from underwater.
• NCIS: In the episode Leave No Trace, the team is tracking a murderer's possible escape trail, which leads them to a lake. To everyone's surprise, Agent Jessica Knight's extremely hunky (and nude) ex-boyfriend emerges from the water. He explains that he was tracking their suspect in relation to a National Parks Service case, and while the team isn't particularly shocked by his "nature bath", they do wonder at his showing up so suddenly (Rule #39: There is no such thing as a coincidence).
• One Tree Hill:
  • In "You Can't Always Get What You Want", Brooke first meets Felix when she finds him swimming at her pool, and notices he was Skinny Dipping when he climbs out of the pool naked. At the end of the episode, he finds Brooke Skinny Dipping on his pool, and as she's climbing out of the pool naked she tells him her pool is much better.
  • In "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)", Nathan watches from his bedroom his attractive nanny Carrie Skinny Dipping in the pool at night. We get a shot of her climbing out of the pool naked and the camera focuses on her face as she smiles deviously to show she knows he's watching and is doing it deliberately.
  • In "I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight", Clay gets a fantasy of his dead wife Sara climbing out of the pool in a red bikini while "The Cars Moving The Stereo" plays, in a Fast Times at Ridgemont High reference.
• The Originals: In "Alive and Kicking", Elijah returns home to find a trail of dead witches leading to the bathroom where he finds Haley (Phoebe Tonkin) in a bathtub, seemingly washing off the blood after having massacred the witches. Angry, he tries to confront her over it, but Hayley isn't really in the mood for his judgment and stands up in the tub naked (With her bare back to the camera), taunting and challenging Elijah to look at her. Elijah, unamused, wordlessly reaches for a Modesty Towel and holds it to her, though he doesn't avert his eyes.
• Sheena (2000): Curtiss watches Sheena Skinny Dipping and emerging from the river, giving a Toplessness from the Back shot with a lot of Sideboob.
• Smallville:
  • In "Nicodemus", while under the effect of the Nicodemus flower, Lana Lang tries to seduce Clark by stripping down to her underwear and diving into the school's pool to lure him into a Two-Person Pool Party. When he's Above the Influence she seductively climbs out of the pool dripping wet in her underwear.
  • In "Heat", when Jonathan goes to the Luthor Mansion to talk to Desiree he finds her Skinny Dipping in the pool. Uncaring, she climbs out of the pool topless (With her back to the camera) to talk to him but he's immune to her charms and tells her to Please Put Some Clothes On.
  • In "Aqua", Lois comes out of Crater Lake in a bikini in Slow Motion, so the audience can drink in her curves. The shot made it into the opening credits to introduce Erica Durance as Lois Lane.
  • In "Persuasion" Tess is having a relaxing Candlelit Bath when Major Zod invites himself into the bathroom to catch her in a moment of weakness. She turns the tables on him by acting unperturbed and nonchalantly climbs out of the bath in front of him as a form of Defiant Strip.
• Stranger Things: In "Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy?", there's a scene with Karen Wheeler climbing out of the pool ladder in her swimsuit right before Billy shows up and they start flirting. For that matter, Inverted with Billy, who walks shirtlessly in slow motion from the locker room to his lifeguard post set to "Moving in Stereo".
• Tru Calling: In "Reunion", Candance gets pushed into a pool as a prank, but she can't swim, so Tru jumps into the water to rescue her. They both get shot of them getting out of the pool in wet clothes, with Tru having a Sexy Soaked Shirt.
• Tut: Grand Vizier Ay approaches queen Ankhesenamun while she's bathing to discuss the possibility of them marrying. At the end of the conversation, she makes a point of slowly emerging from the water in front of him before turning him down.
• Ugly Betty: In "The Bahamas Triangle", Wilhelmina is sulking and staring at the ocean in the beach when her though to be dead Love Interest Connor suddenly rises out of the ocean in Slow Motion while sexy music plays in the background.
• The Vampire Diaries:
  • In "The Birthday", after Andie refuses to get Damon champagne while he's taking a bath, he decides to do so himself and lifts himself out of the bath while Andie raises her eyebrows appreciatively.
  • In "Welcome to Paradise", Elena uses a swing rope to dive into a lake and then emerges out of the water in a bikini while everyone cheers or stares.
  • In "Hello, Brother", Sybil's first appearance is her naked climbing out of a pool of blood.
• Xena: Warrior Princess:
  • In "Altared States", Xena and Gabrielle are Skinny Dipping when some soldiers chasing a boy come across them. Xena slowly emerges from the water, distracting a soldier before punching his lights out.
  • In "Paradise Found", Gabrielle emerges out of the water when she's bathing with Xena. Xena herself leaps out of the water when Gar interrupts their bath and gives him a Fascinating Eyebrow when he calls her "sir" upon seeing her naked.
  • In "Chakram", an amnesiac Xena stands up in the bath while talking to Ares, giving him an eyeful.
• The X-Files: Mulder in "Duane Barry" exits a pool in his red speedo.

Music Videos

• In the video for Amaranthe's "Invincible", Elize Ryd emerges from a pool. Special shots are devoted to her breasts, buttocks, and legs.
• Arctic Monkeys: The music video for "Snap Out of It", begins with the main character (Stephanie Sigman) in a bikini hoisting herself out of the pool.
• Atomic Kitten: The "It's OK" music video has a very shot where all three girls walk out of the sea in bikinis, and sing from a very enclosed rock pool.
• The Calvin Harris & Disciples music video for "How Deep Is Your Love" has a scene with Gigi Hadid diving and then emerging out of a pool in a bikini.
• In the Fountains of Wayne music video for "Stacy's Mom", the titular Mom is seen climbing out of the pool in a bikini while the boy stares in homage to the Fast Times at Ridgemont High scene.
• Jennifer Lopez in "Waiting for Tonight"
• The music video for Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" features a shot of her rising from a swimming pool, dripping with water.
• Lana Del Rey emerges from a pool soaking wet with light shining behind her in the music video for her song "Shades of Cool".
• On the Lil' Kim music video "Nasty One" there are several shots of her crawling out of a pool.
• In Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds "The Death of You and Me" music video there is a shot of the cafe waitress climbing out of a pool in her drenched maid uniform.
• The Rihanna "Where Have You Been?" music video has her emerging from a lake in a barely-there scale bikini.
• The music video for Geri Halliwell's post-The Spice Girls solo cover of "It's Raining Men" concluded with a shot of Geri, nude but facing away from the camera, lifting herself up out of a pool, followed by a caption of "Geri's Back." This scene was edited out by MTV, but could be seen on MuchMusic.
• In the music video for her song "Honey", Mariah Carey jumps into a pool and emerges from it wearing a revealing swimsuit. At the time, it was considered a Wham Episode of sorts for Carey because this marked the first real time that she moved away from her then well-established conservative image.

Mythology

• The Older Than Feudalism Ur-Example (and possible Trope Codifier) was Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality, who was born from the sea foam, aphros (and/or the severed genitals of the primordial god Ouranos), emerging fully grown from the waves and stepping onto the shore of Cyprus. The scene (referred to as Aphrodite Anadyomene, "Aphrodite arising") was a favourite subject of paintings and sculptures in the classical era, though the most familiar depiction to modern audiences is Sandro Botticelli's 15th-century painting The Birth of Venus.

Print Media

• People magazine once did a cover like this with Judge Judy of all people. It made their anniversary issue's "All-Time Worst Covers" gallery.
• An issue of National Geographic had a picture of a belt with huge gemstone beads and a quote from its creator, stating that he "imagined a woman emerging from the ocean wearing this belt and nothing else".

Pro Wrestling

• One of the Easter Eggs on the WWE Divas South of the Border DVD is a Blooper Reel which includes a scene of Torrie Wilson walking out of the water in a bikini and her top sort of falling forward but her breasts were covered by a cross out circle.

Video Games

• Conception 2: Children Of The Seven Stars: During the Pool Scene one of the still images is of Feene climbing the pool ladder in her swimsuit.
• Suikoden III: Occurs offscreen during a Bathtub Bonding scene between Lilly Pendragon and Jeanne. Lilly confronts Jeane about having a True Rune somewhere in her body, and Jeane gets out of the water for her to inspect it, but Lilly doesn't find anything.
• Valkyria Chronicles II: The Pool Scene has an animated cutscene with Juliana climbing out of the pool in a black bikini.
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt:
  • One of the first cutscenes has Geralt getting out of a tub, showing his body is Covered with Scars.
  • When Geralt finds Keira Metz bathing in her private magical cave in Velen, there's a shot of her getting out of her bath before magically generating some clothes.
• This is commented on in Rune Factory 4. If the player character romances Arthur and goes with him to the bathhouse, he'll tell her that he finds the sight of a woman emerging from the bath very appealing.
• Ghost of Tsushima: Whenever Jin Sakai finishes bathing and reflecting on his thoughts in a hot spring, he will surface from the water and begin to turn around while raising his leg up in a way that barely conceals his crotch, which is when the camera will fade to black.

Visual Novels

• When the protagonist of Double Homework decides to go swimming one day after getting out of summer school early, he finds that Rachel had the same idea. The steamy scene that ensues features a sensual view of Rachel climbing out of the pool.
• Remy's first season in Queen of Thieves features an image of him emerging from the Seine with a Sexy Soaked Shirt as he climbs onto Parker's yacht.

Web Videos

• Britanick: Invoked and Exaggerated in "Sexy Pool Party." When Brian jumps into the pool he's somehow transformed into an extremely attractive male model. When he towels off, he's back to his old self, then explains "Everyone looks better that way. Try it!" Nick does, and emerges as an athletic-looking (and black) male model. Their dog Fifi becomes an attractive woman in a bikini. Finally Brian tells everyone to go at the same time, and they transform into something dangerously sexy: Nathan Fillion.
• Sports Illustrated has a video of a photo session featuring Kate Upton, and one scene has her in a swimming pool emerging from the water in a bikini.
• WorldStarHipHop has a Special Feature video starring Australian hurdler Michelle Jenneke, and one of the scenes shows her emerging from the water in a bikini in Slow Motion.

Western Animation

• American Dad!: During the Rapture and Second Coming, Francine hooked up with Jesus. Instead of surfacing from the edge of the pool, Jesus emerges from around the middle and walks to the edge with a musical riff and voiceover going "Jesus turned water into fine!".
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Hilariously inverted in The Winter Solstice, Part 1: The Spirit World. Iroh emerges nude from a self-created hot spring and Zuko cringes away out of disgust (while his arm strategically shields his uncle from the viewing audience.
• Code Lyoko: The first episode has carefully placed shots of Yumi getting out of the bathtub and wrapping herself in a Modesty Towel.
• Family Guy: Parodied in "The Kiss Seen Around the World", with Meg fantasizing about newsreader Tom Tucker coming out of a swimming pool in Slow Motion as Shout-Out to the to Fast Times at Ridgemont High scene.
• Justice League Unlimited: In "Destroyer", when the Watchtower sends out an "Omega-level alert" to the entire League and begins teleporting them, Fire is seen emerging from a pool in a bikini and throwing her long green hair in a backward arc.
• Steven Universe: In "Love Letters", Jamie meets Garnet when she stoically strolls out of the ocean covered in water. It's this in addition to how effortlessly she dries off that leaves Jamie smitten with her.

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