What I've seen on T.V..

[Steve Dallas]

Over my lifetime I've seen episodes of a lot of different t.v. shows. One plot line that is used a lot is characters going to nudist clubs. (The Golden Girls, Simon and Simon, etc.) Usually they have a scene where the characters walk into the dining room and are embarrassed to see that everyone gets dressed for meals.

I need some help here. Are there clubs where people get dressed for meals? Was there ever?

[Steve Dallas]

Over my lifetime I've seen episodes of a lot of different t.v. shows. One plot line that is used a lot is characters going to nudist clubs. (The Golden Girls, Simon and Simon, etc.) Usually they have a scene where the characters walk into the dining room and are embarrassed to see that everyone gets dressed for meals.

I need some help here. Are there clubs where people get dressed for meals? Was there ever?

[Nudony]

At the upscale resorts, I believe it is common practice to get dressed for dinner. I have never witnessed it, since I go to nude resorts where everyone stays nude for dinner.

[nakednudists]

We've been to three resorts in Florida. Caliente and Paradise Lakes-we ate while nude in the dining area. We asked the hostess if dress was recommended or required and she replied..."your already dressed!" That was all she had to say. For the third resort, well for their sake, lets just say that we packed our lunch.

[NakedGary]

At California's largest clothesfree Resort http://www.lagunadelsol.com nude dinning in the restaurant or at cocktail bar is common place at anytime.

The office, library, clubhouse, bar, cocktail lounge and dance floor are all nude commonplace and friendly. Even same sex nude dancing is not that unusual or rare late in the evenings on weekends on occasion.

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[Kenv]

We've been to Caliente a couple of times and find that people dress more for dinner than not. They also dress in the nightclub. Odd becuase they promote themselves as a "nudist club, not a clothing optional club"!?

[realar1]

Has there ever been a sitcom about a nudist that was cancelled? Curiosity stirs me.

[Naturist Mark]

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Originally posted by realar1:
Has there ever been a sitcom about a nudist that was cancelled? Curiosity stirs me.

Has there ever been a sitcom about a nudist?

Niles' penchant for nude beaches was a long running throwaway gag line on Frasier, but it was never really a plotline on the show. Frasier is now "retired", meaning they went off the air voluntarily, not actually cancelled.

On Will & Grace, Will is often nude when home alone, it is played for laughs but I've never seen it played as sexual - which is unusual for a show that is all about sexual innuendo. As far as I know W&G will be back next season.

-Mark

[naked buff]

I remember a 1970´s series, "On Our Own" with Bess Armstrong, that did not last very long, but featured three characters who work together, including Miss Armstrong, winding up at a nudist resort on a business trip. Two ambitious secretaries and a nerdy, overweight young junior exec at an ad agency overhear their boss turning down some kind of free weekend being offered by a client in her office who is a resort owner. One of the secretaries interrupts and says she and her friend would represent the firm there, and as soon as the man is gone, their boss springs it on them that they just insisted on a free visit to a "nudist colony." The premise is that if they back out, their jobs would be jeopardized for offending a client. The two girls go, and wind up spending a long time in their room (hotel style accommodations), very reticent about going out and terrified of going nude. But they try to talk themselves into it to save their jobs. In the end, they half-way "buy into" nudist philosophy, it's only natural, etc., and show up at a banquet in the club house. The camera opens on that scene with the two women and young man seated at a booth before anyone else arrives, the man barechested above the tabletop, the two women wearing bibs but otherwise naked. One girl says: "I hope no one sings the National Anthem." The nudist residents all arrive fully dressed and rather formal, ties, dresses, etc., and the meal is a buffet. Laugh tracks, closeups of the agonized looks on their faces, no explanation as far as I know as to whether the nudists come dressed up to make them feel more comfortable, or whether it is just their custom, as with French nudists, of not being nude all day if not doing something in the sunshine or to get wet. It's pretty much the same situation as what Jon Marc describes in some other TV shows.

[usuallylurk]

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Originally posted by Steve Dallas:

I need some help here. Are there clubs where people get dressed for meals? Was there ever?

It's a tired old, oft-recycled gag used in sitcoms. It was in "On our own", "Good Morning World", "Golden Girls", and probably several other shows.

To answer your question - I have been in places where nude dancing is not permitted. However, I have never - ever - ever - been in a place where you must be dressed to EAT.

Based on those lousy sitcom gags, people actually think that we do dress up for meals.

Nudism is almost always depicted as a joke in sitcoms.

The most realistic presentation of a nudist park that I've seen in any major media took place around three years ago, in the "Gasoline Alley" comic strip.

Two of the strip's central characters are 50ish Slim Skinner and his wife, Clovia (Wallet) Skinner. Clovia is the owner-manager of the Gasoline Alley garage. She has no charm, a lousy disposition on everything, and isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. Slim is his, shall we say, whipped husband, who has a good personality but is one-half step behind his wife on the intellectual scale. He works at the garage.

Slim and Clovia took a holiday and found themselves unknowingly booked into a nudist park. Clovia and Slim accidentally lock themselves out of their cabin while taking a hot tub on the porch, and Slim, clad in a towel, goes for help and on that journey finds out where he is. He returns to the cabin on the back of a golf cart, with two young ladies in the front seat, who help them with the lock AND invite them to a breakfast buffet.

Clovia, who has always been depicted as a, well, I would use the vulgar term for a female dog, had a hissy-fit and demanded to leave - IMMEDIATELY.

Slim pleads that they were there already, why not stay? Have an open mind -- try it out. But to no avail, he fell prey to his domineering, verbally abusive wife's wishes.

The strip is authored by Jim Scancarelli, who related that he had discussed the storyline with nudists. And, he hit the nail squarely on the head.

[missouriboy]

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I would use the vulgar term for a female dog

Vulgar? It's no more vulgar than dam (horse) or vixen (fox).

But if you use it here, it comes back with a "5-star" substitute!

Hey, I recall that Gasoline Alley vignette very well, but weren't those two more like 30ish at the time? That strip has now been discontinued in the paper I read.