Basic Trope: A character is naked and walks into a surprise party for them.
- Straight: Carol loses her clothes, and makes it back home... only for all her friends to jump out from behind furniture to wish her a happy birthday!
- Exaggerated:
- The entire school was waiting to surprise Carol to wish her happy birthday when she stumbles into the auditorium naked.
- Carol's birthday party is being streamed online and the footage goes viral.
- Every time a surprise party is thrown, the character it's for always winds up naked.
- Not only the character being celebrated, but all the guests too, are naked.
- Carol is fully clothed, but inexplicably turns naked right before or in the middle of the party.
- Despite her embarrassment, Carol remains naked for the entire duration of the party, even while posing for birthday photos.
- Carol ends up naked at birthday parties that aren’t even hers.
- Whenever Carol is at a celebration of any kind, she ends up naked.
- Carol ends up stripped naked on every birthday she has, no matter how young or old she is.
- After the party, Carol spends the rest of the series naked.
- Carol also had her hands handcuffed around her back.
- Alice, Bob, Carol, David and Emma, who share a birthday, all show up to their shared celebration nude.
- Carol wets herself out of shock of the surprise.
- Carol breaks into an Involuntary Dance.
- Downplayed:
- Carol is in her underwear or in a bathrobe.
- Only Carol's husband Alex comes out to surprise her. They have a good laugh over it together.
- After the party, Carol ends up stripped.
- It’s not Carol’s birthday, she just walked into the wrong house.
- Justified:
- Carol forgot it was her birthday, and never realized her friends never threw her a party.
- Carol is a nudist who is usually naked around her close friends and family.
- Inverted:
- Everyone but Carol is naked.
- Carol's cadaver is naked during her funeral service.
- Carol is usually naked, but shows up to her birthday celebration clothed.
- Subverted: Carol is in only a towel when everyone jumps out...
- Double Subverted: But it gets caught in the door, leaving her in the buff.
- Parodied:
- Half of the guests expect Carol to arrive naked. "This always happens!"
- This had happened so many times that Carol and her friends are completely unfazed by her nudity.
- Carol runs away in embarrassment, only to accidentally run naked into a little girl’s birthday. She runs from that and ends up at another person’s birthday party and again and again…
- Zig-Zagged: Carol keeps finding and losing various things to cover herself with at the beginning of the party.
- Averted:
- Carol is not naked.
- There is no party.
- Enforced: Carol is Ms. Fanservice.
- Lampshaded:
- "Well, it's a birthday party! Glad I'm already in my birthday suit."
- "Happy birth—! Shit. Everyone turn away. Carol, Please Put Some Clothes On."
- "Happy birthday, Carol! I kinda expected you to be naked, but whatever."
- Invoked: Carol knows about the party and gets herself stripped beforehand so that she has a funny story to tell people.
- Exploited:
- Brittany zaps Carol with The Nudifier right before the party to embarrass her.
- Irritated with the surprise birthday parties, Carol strips naked before coming back home.
- Defied:
- Carol puts on clothes, knowing she might walk into one of these.
- Alice hears Carol Singing in the Shower at the moment she was going to surprise her with the party and waits for her to get dressed.
- Discussed: "That could happen, surprise parties are a surprise after all."
- Conversed: "Wow, that's such a predictable ending to an episode where someone winds up running home naked."
- Deconstructed: Carol is humiliated and angry and forces her friends out.
- Reconstructed:
- While embarrassed and annoyed, Carol is touched by the surprise due to her family never remembering her birthday and resumes the celebrations as soon as she gets clothed.
- Carol's friends strip in solidarity with her.
- Played for Laughs:
- Carol is a Gonk.
- While Carol's friends are extremely embarrassed, Carol is completely nonchalant.
- Neither Carol nor her friends notice that she's naked until the end of the party.
- Played for Drama:
- The cast sees Carol's traumatic scars that she hides under her clothes, which leads to her explaining a traumatic incident.
- Carol had recently been raped and the surprise further traumatises her.
- Humiliated, Carol cuts ties with all her friends.
- Carol's friends humiliate or assault her.
- Played for Horror:
- Bob the Serial Killer ambushes Carol in the shower and chases her into one of these that he set up in her living room. Carol's vulnerability is played for horror.
- Bob murders Carol and displays her naked corpse to her friends.
- Bob fatally stabs Carol, who limps into the surprise party naked and mortally wounded.
- Humiliated, Carol decides to murder all her friends at the party.
- Carol's friends discover that she is a Humanoid Abomination.
- After her friends ditch and mock her, Carol becomes a Serial Killer who targets other people on their birthdays.
- The cast sees Carol's tattoos that she hides under her clothes, which turn out to be Nightmare Fuel.
- Implied:
- Carol arrives at the party with only Shoulders-Up Nudity apparent.
- Carol is a Birthday Hater and Reluctant Fanservice Girl.
- Carol's friend Diana starts to reminisce on her birthday party, but Carol threatens her into shutting up.
- The party is offscreen and only the dialogue is heard. After her friends shout surprise, Carol screams and things become uncomfortably quiet.
- At the party, sometime after the surprise, Carol is seen wearing a towel or bathrobe, glaring at her friends as they awkwardly apologise to her.
- A photo is seen of Carol naked and surprised in a background that looks like a party.
- In a group photo at a party with her friends, Carol is seen naked and embarrassed.
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