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Homer Simpson: Okay, don't panic. Remember what the instructor said.

[flashback of the ski instructor]

Ski instructor: If you ever get into trouble, all you need to do is...

[flashback changes suddenly to Ned Flanders in a form-fitting latex ski suit]

Ned Flanders: [wiggling butt] Feels like I'm wearing nothin' at all! [close up of Ned's butt] Nothin' at all! [closer close up of Ned's butt] Nothin' at all!

Homer: [screams, cringes] Stupid sexy Flanders! The Simpsons, "Little Big Mom" Okay, don't panic. Remember what the instructor said.[flashback of the ski instructor]If you ever get into trouble, all you need to do is...[flashback changes suddenly to Ned Flanders in a form-fitting latex ski suit][wiggling butt] Feels like I'm wearing nothin' at all! [close up of Ned's butt] Nothin' at all! [closer close up of Ned's butt] Nothin' at all![screams, cringes] Stupid sexy Flanders!

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You are completely heterosexual, you are very much attracted to individuals of the opposite sex and you certainly aren't gay. But, you know, there are some examples of the same sex whom you can't help but admire. You can appreciate good looks and a sexy body regardless of gender. If taken far enough you just might say something that sounds wrong even in context. Indignation usually follows.

This often doesn't mean anything significant regarding your overall sexual orientation, though often you are just as caught off guard as the people around you. When applied to specific individuals who tend to provoke this response to people in general, see Even the Guys Want Him and Even the Girls Want Her.

If done enough times as a Running Gag, writers actually planning to out a character later can use this as foreshadowing. In some of these cases, this may be caused by a Closet Key. If it's taken seriously but isn't a set up for a reveal about the character's sexuality, it can sometimes lead to If It's You, It's Okay.

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Nearly all Wholesome Crossdressers, and many Bifauxnen are subject to this gag at least once.note The "It's a Trap" internet meme is often used to refer to characters who cause this in audience members. Occasionally, the "victim" is given peace of mind by discovering their totally platonic (really!) crush is really Sweet Polly Oliver.

This is Truth in Television, with women being much more open about it. Quite frankly, if a guy were to say something like that to another, more often than not, the response would be, "What are you, gay?" Contrariwise, gay men are generally more likely than lesbians to joke about who they would switch teams for. When straight men do profess attraction to other men, it often takes the form of Gay Bravadothe concept being that they're not really attracted to guys, they're just so straight they're not scared to pretend they are (or alternatively, so comfortable with their mostly-straightness that they aren't afraid to admit to occasional "lapses").

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Trope Namer comes from one of Homer Simpson's quotes from The Simpsons. While he's attempting to recall his skiing lessons, his mind shifts to a skin-tight ski-suit-wearing Ned Flanders moments prior, who waggles his buttocks while exclaiming the suit makes it feel like he's "wearing nothing at all". Cue Squick from Homer and the trope invoked.

The term "GAR" (always in capitals) is memetically used to describe a male character who induces this through sheer badassery and Hot-Blooded-ness. This term originated on 4chan's /a/, originally describing the character Archer from Fate/stay night.

Compare Dude Looks Like a Lady, Gay Moment, Even the Guys Want Him, Even the Girls Want Her, Ho Yay, Inconvenient Attraction.

Examples:

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Anime & Manga

Comedy

Louis C.K. has a routine about having this reaction to Ewan McGregor in his special "Shameless".

about having this reaction to Ewan McGregor in his special "Shameless". Jamie Foxx has an extended routine exploring this happening when he met Prince. While ice skating.

Ron White has a routine about pointing this tendency out to a homophobic cousin. Ron: Look, we're all gay. It's just different degrees.

Ray: No way, man! I'm not gay.

Ron: Okay, do you like watching porn?

Ray: You know I love porn.

Ron: Do you only watch the kind that's two women?

Ray: No way, man! I like watching a man and a woman makin' love.

Ron: Okay, do you like it best if the man is tiny and flaccid?

Ray: No way, man! I like big, hard, throbbing... Huh. I did not know that about myself.

Jimmy Dore realized he was gay for Jude Law when he saw The Talented Mr. Ripley. Jimmy: Remember that other guy in it, Jude Law? Well, ever since I saw that movie...I think...I could be queer for him. And have never had a homosexual feeling ever in my life (that I ever acknowledged). I mean, he was beautiful, he was prettier than the girls in that movie! And it caught me surprise; I'm watching the movie and I find myself going, "I wonder what he's gonna wear in the next scene. I hope it's linen. Ooooh, it's a pancake hat on a scooter! FRICKIN' HOT , THIS GUY!"

This an a lot more of male insecurities are the central theme in ¿Quien Pidio Pollo?, a stand up comedy by the colombian actor Antonio Sanint.

Bobcat Goldthwait admits this about actor Rob Lowe in his standup routine, and provided the page quote for the A Pretty Boy Index page.

Comic Books

Blacksad has gotten interpretation (and reaction) from many male fans, which it may owe its gay fanbase to.

Daken was this to Venom and Bullseye in Dark Avengers. Add to that the fact that Daken is Bi and also emits pheromones which can make him influence people of the opposite gender. Making his Stupid Sexy Flanders a superpower.

Spider-Man: One issue has the title hero go headfirst through the windshield of a car where one male police officer is commenting about Spider-Man's form-fitting costume to his male partner. After a beat panel, the first officer points out Spider-Man's toned butt. Norman gets subtext with Peter/Spidey and during the "Return of the Green Goblin" arc of Ultimate Spider-Man, we get to look at things through Norman's eyes during a conversation with Spider-Man. The voices in his head tell him things like "kill him" "skin him" "burn him" and "kiss him".

Willow engenders this reaction in Buffy's roommate Anaheed in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 #1: Anaheed: That's what ragers are for! Your friends are sweet, and wild, and Willow has made me bi-curious but don't tell her that.

X-Men: Mystique is mostly attracted to women (which makes her relationship with Rogue questionable to say the least); her longest, indeed her only real relationship, was with her lover Destiny; but she will have sex with men if she feels there is something to be gained (money, from B. Byron Biggs; security, from Sabretooth; power, from Senator Brickman) and she will completely lose her head over a totally unsuitable man who will usually end up abusing her in some shape or form, which will lead her to leave him, and then come back to enact a HORRIBLE revenge (e.g., Senator Brickman, whom she strangled during sex, after which she screamed at him, "How was that? Was it GOOD FOR YOU?").

Deadpool has a fanboy moment with Thor and remarks that he finds him to be very attractive before becoming embarrassed that he said it out loud. Another time, he was overjoyed when, due to limited space in the car they needed to take, Captain America had to sit on his lap. Really, Deadpool does this often enough with enough different characters that he moves into Ambiguously Bi territory.

Fan Works

Films — Live-Action

Victor/Victoria, a musical about a woman who poses as a female impersonator, features a gangster who knows full well she's a woman, but has to convince everyone else that this trope isn't at play.

Played for laughs in Orgazmo: Dave the Lighting Guy: Dude, I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin', but I think you got a hot ass!



Dave the Lighting Guy: I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin', but I think unicorns kick ass!



Dave the Lighting Guy: I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin', but I'd kinda like to make love to you!

From True Romance: Elvis looked good. I mean, I ain't no fag, but Elvis was prettier than most women, you know? [...] You know, I always said if I had to fuck a guy [...] if my life depended on it, I'd fuck Elvis."

Norm MacDonald's character in Dirty Work "understands why women find Sean Connery sexy," and steals a From Russia with Love poster from the site of one of his schemes.

Borat: Borat: You telling me the man who try to put a rubber fist in my anus was a homosexual?

Hamlet 2's musical-within-a-movie has a song about how Jesus is this: Immaculate conception really makes my day

But the dude's got lats that make me feel gay!

In Hair a long haired hippie named Woof is asked by a shrink whether he was gay. He replies with "Well, I wouldn't kick Mick Jagger out of my bed, but uh, I'm not a homosexual, no."

Beca in Pitch Perfect 2 tries to insult the German team leader but all she can come out with is stuff like "You're physically flawless" and "Your sweat smells like cinnamon". She mentions to her that "Just because you're making me very sexually confused does not mean I find you intimdating!"

Death Note: The live-action movie gives us the Spaceland bus driver describing Light as "quite a good-looking guy — not that I'm into guys..."

Literature

Live-Action TV

Music

Myths & Religion

Classical Mythology: Zeus, despite being prone to produce an offspring with any pretty woman he lays his eyes on, does this with young Ganymede. He finds him so beautiful that he kidnaps him to Olympus, names him his personal cupbearer (replacing his own daughter Hebe) and grants him immortality so he can stay beautiful forever.

Roleplay

This happens in Darwin's Soldiers, to which Aimee mentions how she can see how Hailey thought that Subject 19 was cute.

Video Games

Visual Novels

In CLANNAD, Tomoya initially goes through this with Hiiragi Kappei in his arc in the visual novel due to Kappei's androgynous appearance.

Web Animation

In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, Dominique, Inquisitor Karamazov's literal right-hand man, is sexually confused by Stripperiffic Fabulous Custodes. Dominique: Hey, Fyodor, we're surrounded again. But this time by a bunch of half-naked men. Its like a ruddy ocean of bare nipples and bulging muscles. It's making me moist.

Homestar Runner does an annual review/mocking of photos of fan-made HSR costumes. In the 2005 edition, Strong Bad was baffled by a hot woman dressed in a Homestar costume. ("Hot Homestar?! My brain is splitting in half!") He screams and runs away when the real Homestar walks in, offers him a back rub, and calls him "sweetie".

During his review of Ninja Gaiden 2, Yahtzee reminds us all that Cliff Blezinsky is an extremely sexy man.

Web Comics

Web Original

Cracked.com's columnists (male and female) seem to have a giant crush on fellow columnist Soren Bowie, sometimes seemingly using any excuse to include photos of him in an article.

This trope is often the case with the "Ridiculously Photogenic Guy" meme

Web Videos

Western Animation

Real Life