Modesty Bedsheet - TV Tropes

"Now we see breasts only in serious films, for expressing reasons. There's been such a comeback for the strategically positioned bed sheet, you'd think we were back in the 1950s."

• A 2011 Super Bowl ad for the mattress company "Sealy" feature many couples collapsing into bed after sex, each with their own Modesty Bedsheet wrapped around them.

• 009-1: Mylene Hoffman/Agent 009-1 is shown using Modesty Bedsheets (combined with Toplessness from the Back) on several occasions. In fact, she was wearing nothing but a bedsheet in her very first appearance in the very first episode. They usually end up being torn to shreds due to her Torpedo Tits.
• Berserk:
  • Subverted. The anime version briefly used a cape during Guts and Casca's love scene. But a few seconds later...
  • Zig-Zagged when Griffith and Charlotte sleep together, we get various explicit shots of the act, but the scene ends with a tame shot of Charlotte sleeping with the sheet covering her nudity, albeit with Toplessness from the Back.
• Blood+: When an unconscious Saya is rescued by Solomon, he takes her to his apartment and undresses her to treat her wounds. She wakes up naked under some bedsheets, which she wraps around herself before walking around the place searching for her clothes. He soon shows up and offers her a fancy Pimped-Out Dress which she dislikes only slightly less than just the bedsheet.
• All versions of Bubblegum Crisis show Sylia Stingray Sleeps in the Nude but covered with a modesty sheet. The original version is more blatant showing her bare legs and shoulders despite the bedsheet, whereas the remake only opts for Shoulders-Up Nudity.
• Code Geass: When Villetta first wakes up after being shot and losing her memory, she finds herself naked in Ohgi's bed, since he took off her clothes to patch up her wounds. The bedsheet slide down when she sits up, and when she notices it, she has a Naked Freak-Out and picks the sheet back up to cover herself.
• Dancougar Nova: Aoi is shown to sleep in "her original" in episode 2 when she wakes up in a Catapult Nightmare, with a Modesty Bedsheet covering all important bits. Riruri calls in her Video Phone moments later, and Aoi wraps herself up in the sheets and walks around her house like that while conversing with Riruri.
• Used by Kiyomi Takada in Death Note. After Mello kidnaps and strips her, but she still manages to kill him since she hid a piece of the Death Note in her bra, she wraps herself in a bedsheet and tries to contact Light... who makes her burn herself to death.
• Dragonaut: The Resonance: In the second episode, Jin is knocked unconscious by Sieglinde's Battle Butler and wakes up in a bed in bunker room with all of his clothes gone save for a bedsheet. He wraps the bedsheet around his waist and starts looking around, until Sieglinde enters the room and startles him, causing his sheet to slip down the floor and giving her a Naked First Impression. She promptly nicknames him "Little man".
• Fairy Tail
  • Lucy ends up having to cover herself this way after having to do some Intimate Healing on Natsu while he's in a coma.
  • During the "Tartaros Arc", Kyôka says she's going to "take care" of Seilah for a job well done. The next time we see Seilah, she's in bed wearing nothing but a sated smile while under a bedsheet
• Fate/stay night
  • Fate/Grand Order: The anime opening of Cosmos in the Lostbelt shows Mash Kyrielight sleeping naked in her bed with a bedsheet preserving her modesty. Ironically she doesn't purposely keep the bedsheet covering herself with her hands when she sits, but the sheet is unintentionally brought up as an effect of her breasts being large enough that the blanket gets caught on them as she rises, without her having to even do anything to keep it there.
  • Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: In one of the specials, Erika goes to Angelica's room at night to talk to her and finds her sleeping in the buff under the bedsheets. But Angelica averts the "drag the sheet with her" part of the trope, having no qualms about getting up and standing in her full, glory to talk to Erika, with her nudity being instead concealed via Lens Flare Censor.
• In episode 6 of the Flame of Recca anime, Yanagi wakes up to find herself in a huge bedroom after being kidnapped by Kurei's men. She's also had all of her clothes removed while she was unconscious and is naked save for a bedsheet, which she wraps herself around in while walking around the room until Koganei suddenly appears behind her with clothes neatly folded for her.
• Fruits Basket: When the Horse Rin turns back into her human form, she has no clothes on so Tohru gives Rin a bedsheet to cover her nude body.
• Fullmetal Alchemist (2003): Subverted, Hawkeye is under a sheet in bed making strangely sexual giggling noises but it turns out she's getting her feet licked by her dog Black Hayate and is alone and fully dressed.
• Goblin Slayer: After suffering gruesome injuries that left Goblin Slayer at death's door, he was healed with Resurrection, a miracle that requires the target to sleep naked in the same bed with a Maiden and the bedsheets keep him, the Priestess, and the Sword Maiden covered during the ritual.
• Highschool of the Dead: After Rei injures her back, she spends an entire episode stuck in bed clad in Modesty Bedsheet due to getting massage therapy. It deeply embarrasses her when the entire group decides to hold a reunion in the room when she's stuck there half-naked.
• Higurashi: When They Cry: In episode 21 of "Kai", Miyo gets a Harassing Phone Call from Okonogi in the middle of the night and we see she Sleeps in the Nude when she sits up to answer, causing the sheets to slide down, showing her bare back.
• I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job: In episode 7 Raul wakes up to find Fino sleeping naked right next to him. Startled, he jumps out of the bed which causes the sheet that was covering her to fall down to her waist, although her breasts are still covered by a strategically placed foreground object.
• Itazura Na Kiss: Since this is Shōjo Demographic, no explicit sex is shown but it's still alluded with the use of this trope:
  • In the anime Kotoko is shown sleeping with a modesty bedsheet when Naoki puts a ring on her, implying they have been intimate
  • In the manga a Sexy Discretion Shot occurs when Kotoko discusses with Naoki how she was Mistaken for Pregnant. Naoki suggests he'd like to have one right now, and they kiss. After that they're shown with a Modesty Bedsheet.
• Justified in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: The morning after Their First Time, Kaguya pulls the covers all the way up to her nose out of embarrassment as she and Shirogane had decided that they weren't ready to have sex yet only to get caught up in the heat of the moment when they were giving each other a kiss good night.
• Kamigami no Asobi: The Gods are depicted this way in the show's ending animation', which is about a Crossover Cosmology harem.
• Nanoka from Koi Kaze can be seen covering herself with a bedsheet in the penultimate episode of the anime. This can probably be chalked up to her young age and the awkwardness of just having had sex with her own brother.
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes:
  • In Episode 58, Elfriede is sleeping in the nude in her room when Reuenthal rudely barges in and wakes her up, and she holds the sheet to her chest while speaking to him.
  • Episode 65 has a brief still of Reuenthal in bed with Elfriede post-sex. A Modesty Bedsheet covers them below the waist, and Elfriede is pressing herself against Reuenthal's bare chest.
• Linebarrels of Iron:
  • In the anime, Kouichi loses consciousness due to Linebarrel going out of control and is taken into custody by JUDA. When he next comes to, he's in a medical bed wearing only a sheet with Yui looking down on him. Startled he jumps out of bed, losing the sheet but doesn't realize he's accidentally exposing himself until she points it out and he has a Naked Freak-Out.
  • In the manga, we see Corporate head Eiji Kiriyama and his Number Two Yuriannu Faithful under the sheets in his bedroom as he takes a call, revealing their relationship is more than professional. We later learn she's actually a Honey Trap of the Katou Organization, with the objective to monitor and manipulate him.
• Lupin III:
  • Lupin III: The Secret of Twilight Gemini: Lupin and Fujiko are starting to have sex when Sadachiyo and his men bursts into the room. Lupin's quick to bail in his underwear, leaving Fujiko to defend herself in nothing but a bedsheet.
  • Farewell to Nostradamus: When Lupin almost drowns he's undressed and left in a bed with a sheet up to his waist. Subverted when Fujiko strips down to join him for some Intimate Healing, she's shown fully naked before climbing under the covers.
• In chapter five of the manga, Mitsu No Tsumatta Joushi, the protagonist Riku gets out of bed naked underneath a loosely wrapped bed sheet. He goes outside and dances with his lover wearing nothing but the sheet.
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED:
  • Flay seduces Kira and they both have Sex for Solace. The next episode shows him getting dressed and leaving for a mission while Flay is still under the bedsheets and she soon starts both crying and Laughing Mad over her conflicted feelings towards him.
  • After her "time out" with Chairman Dullindall, we see Talia Gladys from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny wear one of these too.
• Met My Sister On A Dating Site: In the original version of the first chapter. Ayumu and Sayo end up in a Sexy Discretion Shot shortly after they meet up, with the scene cutting to them post-coital at a Love Hotel complete with Modesty Bedsheet.
• Modern Magic Made Simple: Episode 9 begins showing Yumiko Sleeps in the Nude in her bed covered by a white bedsheet. When she gets out of bed she twirls with extreme speed to wrap the sheet around her, right before the viewer expects to see more.
• Murder Princess: Falis Sleeps in the Nude during her first night in the palace after her "Freaky Friday" Flip with princess Alita, so this trope is in effect until it accidentally falls off.
• No Game No Life: Princess Stephanie ends up losing all her clothes in a Humiliating Wager against Chlammy and her version of a Bankruptcy Barrel is wrapping herself in a bedsheet and she shows up onto Sora and Shiro's lodging wearing only that. She makes a makeshift dress out of it and is forced to wear it until Sora wins back her clothes.
• Ouran High School Host Club has a scene◊ where Tamaki rises from his bed suddenly and the sheet seems to just follow him up, wrapping him much like a Greek god. This is partially a parody, as the scene takes place in Tamaki's imagination.
• Overlord (2012):
  • While Ainz is away from Nazarick, his Single-Target Sexuality mistress Albedo takes the opportunity to sleep naked in his bed. Demiurge catches her in the act, and is shocked by the fact there's seemingly another figure with her under the bedsheets, only for her to reveal it's actually just an Ainz body pillow that she made.
  • After Shalltear is resurrected, she is Naked on Revival. She is covered by Scenery Censor until Ainz throws a bedsheet over her body.
• Nobunaga the Fool: Midway through Episode 21, a dead Machiavelli is seen in bed with blood from her mouth, under a Modesty Bedsheet, while her husband Cesare Borgia receives a report in his dressing gown next to her, implying that he strangled her to death during sex.
• Phantom Quest Corp.:
  • Used to preserve Ayaka's modesty, since she habitually Sleeps in the Nude though you'll still see her legs and the swell of her breasts (with an occasional nipple slip).
  • Also seen in the third Incident File, when Mr. Nagasuka and his secretary are in bed together, at his condominium.
• Parodied in Puni Puni☆Poemi, with what looks like a sex scene entirely covered by bedsheets, with legs randomly sticking out at the sides. When the sheets are pulled back, both participants are shown to be fully clothed and holding mannequin legs on sticks.
• Episode 10 of Rave Master has Elie passing out in the middle of the rain due to her Fear of Thunder. When she next wakes up, she finds herself under a modesty bedsheet as she was stripped out of her wet clothes which are being dried up.
• Rosario + Vampire: The second ED animation shows Inner Moka sleeping naked in bed with a red blanket covering her up to her chest.
• Queen's Blade: Both Leina and her younger sister, Elina, also have a habit of sleeping in the nude, with only their bedsheets to cover themselves.
• The Quintessential Quintuplets: Whenever Ichika is in her room, chances are that this is the only thing she's wearing. This leads to an Accidental Pervert moment for Fuutarou the first time he goes to her room and tries pulling off the sheet to get her to wake up.
• Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove it: In Episode 3, Kosuke brags to Ayame about how he sleeps every night with his girlfriend in his arms, leading Ayame to become jealous and to have an Imagine Spot of her and Shinya cuddling in bed under a modesty bedsheet.
• Shimoneta: Ayame exploits this, using a bedsheet as part of her 'Blue Snow' cover identity, in which, she runs around naked in public, because she knows the Morals Decency Squad can't touch her, without risk of exposing her body which allows her to run right by them without fear of being caught. The sheet she wears is fashioned into a cloak with two buttons near 'the collar', to keep it in place (SFW link).
• Sky Wizards Academy:
  • Proud Beauty Rico Flamel habitually Sleeps in the Nude, but covered up with a bedsheet or one of her plushies.
  • After Yuri is curb-stomped by a hooded Real, Kanata takes her injured and unconscious body to the room where the E601 members are staying. Later, Yuri is sleeping in bed under a bedsheet, while the girls are asking Kanata for details, when Yuri suddenly awakens and bolts up, startling the girls who rush to cover Kanata's eyes, which causes Yuri to notice all her clothes have been removed and that the Modesty Bedsheet that was covering her fell off when she sat up. Cue Naked Freak-Out as she hurries to pick the sheet pack up.
• So, I Can't Play H!: In episode 7, two of Lisara's maids (Hild and Ulus) try to heal Ryosuke by having sex with him. Hild straddles him and the glow beneath the covers only allows you to see her Sexy Silhouette on top of him, along with the accompanying hip motion.
• Sword Art Online:
  • After Asuna and Kirito get a Relationship Upgrade and decide to spend the night together. Next scene, Asuna is seemingly nude under the blanket, and having a conversation with a fully-clothed Kirito sitting on the bed, implying that they have been intimate.
  • In the "Alicization: War of Underworld" OP, Fanatio is shown waking up naked and alone in bed while clutching a bedsheet to her chest and seemingly searching the room for someone. Bercouli's sword is above the bed, which implies that it's his room, with the implication being that the two slept together but Bercouli left her alone the morning after. This is also Foreshadowing for her giving birth to Bercouli's child.
• Subverted by Kaoru in ...Virgin Love, who sometimes covers his torso with a bedsheet but is buck naked from the waist down. It's not clear what the bedsheet is doing, but it's not protecting his modesty by any means.
• Wicked City: As soon as Makie and Renzaburou have sex and she gets pregnant, Makie's powers go past the ceiling. So much that she is the one who delivers the fatal blow to the Big Bad, while elegantly and badassedly wrapped in a Modesty Bedsheet.
• In Wild Rose, Kiri uses one when he wakes up after transforming without any clothes on and wants to leave the manor. He does it again when Bernt enters his room without warning the morning after he sleeps with Mikhail.
• Witch Hunter Robin: Robin Sleeps in the Nude and covered with these, which is surprising considering she was raised in a convent. She holds a bedsheet high whenever anyone is near enough to see.
• World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman: In Episode 2, Shizuno Sleeps in the Nude with a bedsheet barely covering her when Satsuki calls her in the morning.
• X/1999: Kanoe is shown asleep naked under the covers while her boy toy Yuuto is usually beside her in bed, who's completely dressed in pajamas by comparison, making it unclear if she simply Sleeps in the Nude or if they just had sex and he put on his pajamas after. The sheet also is incredibly low on her waist for maximum Fanservice, showing Toplessness from the Back and Sideboob as she sleeps in her stomach.
• YⱯIBA: Empress Kaguya frequently Sleeps in the Nude, but has any actual nudity concealed by either a bedsheet or only showing her Sexy Silhouette behind the curtains in her bed.

• Psyche and Cupid (Bouguereau): In "The Rapture of Psyche", there's a purple shroud that covers Cupid and Psyche's respective genitalia.

• Alex + Ada: Used when Alex and Ada have sex for the first time in issue #10. Between the layout of the panels and the sheets, you can't see anything between their legs and shoulders.
• All-New Wolverine:
  • A couple Logan and Gabby interrupt while doing the deed during their escape from Cap and S.H.I.E.L.D. hastily cover themselves with the bedsheets when the pair smash through their apartment.
  • Laura gets one herself in #20 while submitting herself to examination by Monica Rappaccini while the latter is trying to find a cure for The Plague.
• Astonishing X-Men: In issue #14, Colossus and Kitty Pryde finally consummate their relationship it turns out he's such a talented lover he causes Kitty Intangibility powers to kick in at her climax, causing her to phase through the floor and fall into the TV lounge stark naked while students are still around. Mortified, she quickly grabs the quilt in the sofa and uses it as a modesty bedsheet as she makes a dash back to her room.
• Catwoman: In Catwoman: When in Rome, Selina Sleeps in the Nude in a hotel, with a bedsheet just barely covering her waist, but since she sleeps on her stomach she's only showing her bare back and some Sideboob. When the Blonde comes into her room, she attacks him on instinct with the flying sheet still managing to provide her Scenery Censor during the struggle. She picks it back up once she realizes he's not there to harm her. Soon after, Eddie comes running into the room because the hotel is catching fire and they're all forced to jump out of her window into the pool below, with Selina still clutching to the sheet. It comes off her during the jump, leaving her stuck naked and furious on the hotel pool that's filling with curious guests. She promises pain to her nearby male companions if they peek and orders them to get her a Modesty Towel so she can leave.
• Damage Control: In the third miniseries, a movie is made about the main characters. It includes what is, to judge by the characters' reaction, a fairly explicit sex scene. Afterwards we see the actress sitting up in bed and clutching a sheet to her breasts; one of the characters wonders why she's bothering to hide them now.
• Daredevil: In Daredevil (Charles Soule) #609, Matt comes back to his house to find Elektra waiting for him in his bed and wearing solely a bedsheet. The morning after, Matt is now the only one under the sheet, as Elektra is Not Staying for Breakfast.
• Generation X: In issue #7, Sean Cassidy (Banshee) confronts Emma Frost at night when she keeps showing up in his dreams. She answers the door nude, holding a bedsheet to her chest, and angrily explains (she's a Telepath and already knew what he was going to ask) that being forced to sleep in cramped quarters is causing them to share dreams. Emma then intentionally drops the sheet before shutting the door, seemingly just to frustrate him.
• The Golden Age: When Joan Dale interrupts a moment of intimacy between Lance Gallant and Paula Brooks around Christmas to show them Tex Thompson's Secret Diary, Paula wraps herself up in a bedsheet while Lance ends up wearing a bathrobe to cover himself.
• House of M: Used twice in the Civil War: House of M miniseries
  • A Talking in Bed scene between Erik and Susanna uses a combination of modesty bedsheet and Censor Shadow to conceal their bodies.
  • When Frank Simpson (Nuke) attempts to assassinate Scarlet Witch in her sleep, he finds her in bed wearing naught but a sheet, since Wanda Sleeps in the Nude. When she wakes up, she uses one hand to clutch the sheet to her chest while using the other to casually disassemble him.
• Irredeemable: Paradoxically used. Cutter gets a Modesty Bedsheet after sleeping with the Plutonian... even though she's an alien with Barbie Doll Anatomy who's always been nude in previous scenes
• The Mighty Thor: In Journey into Mystery (Immonen) #651 the warriors three visit Thor's room to warn of a potential invasion and find Thor and Lady Sif in bed under a bedsheet. Sif puts on a nightgown before venturing out but Thor simply goes to fight wearing nothing but a bedsheet around his waist, which seems to be glued to his waist as it never comes off during battle.
• Justice Machine: One issue has Demon sneaking into Diviner bedroom as she sleeps, and since she Sleeps in the Nude she only had a bedsheet to preserve her modesty.
• Legion of Super-Heroes: In vol 6, when Shadow-Lass and Earth-Man are caught bed, they both sit up covering themselves with the bedsheet.
• Manhunter: The fact that Todd and Damon did this came in handy for them when Todd's father walks in on them.
• New Avengers: Issue #14 has a flashback scene with Nick Fury giving Jessica Drew a sudden phone call at night, and Jessica is shown she Sleeps in the Nude as she answers, with a bedsheet wrapped around her for the whole scene, despite being alone in her bedroom.
• The Outsiders: In Outsiders (2003) #28, Starfire and Nightwing are laying post-coital in bed, and the bedsheet covering seems to be strategically placed as to cover their naughty bits but still showing as much bare skin as the artist could get away with.
• Preacher: In one issue, Jesse and Tulip are in bed, with the Modesty Bedsheet partially avoided: it covers them both below the waist, and we get to see Tulip topless. At the same time, the comic shies away from showing actual genitalia.
• The Punisher: Subverted in The Punisher MAX #23. When Kathryn and Frank sleep together we get a shot of both of them after the act under an L-shaped bedsheet that keeps them covered, but when Kathryn shifts she ends up exposing her breast anyway. Even odder later, when Theresa ambushes them while they're sleeping, Frank is still completely covered by the sheet
• Runaways: In one issue, Nico and Victor are found in bed together after what is pretty clearly implied to have been a sexual encounter. However, both are fully clothed.
• Scarlet Spider: In issue #24, Kaine finds his girlfriend Annabelle waiting for him in his bedroom naked under the bedsheets and the scene soon cuts way... to the real Annabelle who is on her way to visit him. Turns out the Annabelle he slept with is actually the villainess Shathra who took the form of Annabelle to seduce Kaine.
• Sex Criminals: When Suzie realizes that the guy she just slept with was unaffected by the time-freeze, she leaps out of bed, grabbing the sheet to cover herself, which ironically completely exposes him.
• Spider-Man: In The Amazing Spider-Man (J. Michael Straczynski), when Peter and Mary Jane make love for the first time after reconciling, they're show lying in bed post-coital under a bedsheet up to their waist, with MJ lying on her stomach with Toplessness from the Back.
• Spider-Man 2099: In issue #37, a flashback shows Xina having an Home-Early Surprise when she comes back from her trip to find Dana coming out of the bedroom wearing only a bedsheet, and realizes that Miguel has cheated on her.
• Squadron Supreme: Arcanna Sleeps in the Nude in the squadron's co-ed dormitories, where she is shown draped in only a bedsheet quite a few times.
• Star Wars: Doctor Aphra: At the end of the Remastered arc, Aphra and Tolva start making out, and the scene cuts to a "the morning after" scene of Aphra waking up Tolvan, who appears to be naked with only a blanket covering her before she goes to work.
• Star Wars: Shattered Empire: Shara has Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex with her husband in a Sexy Discretion Shot in the night after celebrating the Rebels victory in Battle of Endor. In the morning afterwards, she's still covered with only a Modesty Bedsheet while her husband already got dressed.
• Superman:
  • In at least one issue of Superman, Lois Lane and her husband reunite passionately. Afterward, Lois makes use of a Modesty Cape. This even went on to become a staple for the actresses who play Lois in Real Life, with the pose usually being used in promotional material. Margot Kidder originated the pose, followed by Teri Hatcher and Erica Durance. The Modesty Cape is reused in an utterly (albeit intentionally) ridiculous scene in The Dark Knight Strikes Again where Superman and Wonder Woman copulate whilst flying around the world (and at one point through a volcano) somehow without removing their costumes, but Supes' cape still hides the dirty deed all the same.
  • Superman: Earth One at the end of issue #2, we see Alexandra and Lex Luthor laying in bed post-sex in an L-shaped bedsheet. Alexandra doesn't hold on to the sheet when she gets out of bed (convenient camera angles are used to cover her nudity), with Lex being the one to wrap the sheet around his waist.
• Teen Titans: In the very first issue of The New Teen Titans Volume 2 (1984), Dick Grayson and Starfire are shown waking up together in bed with both barely covered by bedsheets. This scene became controversial both as the first display of a young couple post-coitus in a comic and as the first overt display of Dick Grayson's sex life who would go on to have a reputation to Really Gets Around.
• In Top Cow Productions Tomb Raider #10, Lara falls into a whirlpool and almost drowns, losing consciousness. When she next wakes up, she finds that herself naked on a luxurious bedroom beneath a bedsheet with all her clothes, equipment and weapons nearby, since her rescuer undressed her while she was out.
• Ultimate Comics: Wolverine: In issue #3, the sex scene between Magda and Logan has a bedsheet covering their waists.
• Wonder Woman:
  • Wonder Woman (1942): In the Huntress backup feature, Helena wraps herself in the bedsheet when she wakes up in Gary Minelli's bed and discovers he undressed her while she was unconscious, although due to her Secret Identity she's more concerned about him seeing her face than her body.
  • Wonder Woman (2006): When Ares creepily wakes up Diana as she's sleeping naked in her bed, her modesty is initially preserved via her sheet, but as she then gets up the scene relies on Godiva Hair and Sexy Silhouette to keep her covered up for the reader. She doesn't see any need to cover up while confronting Ares, and he doesn't comment on it.
  • Wonder Woman (2011): When Zola accidentally wakes Diana (who Sleeps in the Nude), Diana's bedsheet manages to keep her covered from her breasts to her upper thighs. She takes the sheet with her when she walks up to her closet to get dressed, then drops it giving the viewer a Toplessness from the Back shot.
• Xanadu: Used in the "Across Diamond Seas" story arc. Alicia modestly covers herself with a bedsheet when she comes to in the presence of the kirin who "rescued" her (long story there). She later uses the sheet as a make-shift dress until the kirin offers her more suitable clothing. Oddly enough, Alicia didn't seem that concerned with modesty in the "Thief of Hearts" story arch.
• X-Factor (2006):
  • When Madrox and the team visit the morgue to investigate the body related to a case, she gets possessed by Bloodbath and attacks them, with a Modesty Bedsheet being glued to her body for most of the fight.
  • One issue had Layla texts Madrox that she wanted to chat about something in his room, but he gets distracted and lets her wait, figuring it's not important. Cut to Madrox’s bedroom filled with lit candles and roses, where a bored and naked Layla lies in the bed, seductively covered only by a Modesty Bedsheet. When a fight breaks out downstairs she comes down with the sheet now wrapped around her.
• Zatanna: Everyday Magic:
  • After they sleep together, Zatanna and Hal are seen under a single bedsheet that goes up to their shoulders. When Zatanna gets up after realizing she's late for her show, the sheet seems glued to her as if by magic (which might be in her case).
  • When Arnie calls Zatanna while he's in bed with his boyfriend, he has a bedsheet wrapped around his waist.

• In one Beetle Bailey strip, we find out that Miss Buxley Sleeps in the Nude when she's shown lying in her bed naked under the sheets.

• A Demon Among Devils: When Minato awakens after spending the last four days in a coma, he's on an infirmary cot with Rias and Sirzechs watching. He suddenly notices with distress that he's not wearing anything save for a hospital bedsheet, and has a delayed Naked Freak-Out once he realizes someone must have undressed him. Cue Rias letting out a perverted chuckle.
• A Different Lesson: Occurs after Tai Lung and Tigress's second sex scene; amusingly, the sheet isn't even mentioned during the act itself (although this does suggest the realistic point that those in the middle of sex aren't likely to notice or remark upon the bedding, and also keeps it from being intrusive). Luckily for them, they must have pulled the sheet up Just in Time, since it happens to cover his waist and her chest right when Shifu appears in the doorway.
• In Heart of Ashes, Kathryn covers herself with a bedsheet when her and Smaug's bedchamber is assaulted by guards in Chapter 14.
• In The Wizard in the Shadows, Harry is brooding about the oncoming army of Mordor when Ginny comes up behind him, wearing only a Modesty Bedsheet and decides the best way to distract is to lure him back to bed by dropping said bedsheet.

  Harry: [blinks] Wow. Consider me distracted.

• Batman: Gotham by Gaslight:
  • Invoked when two guards find Selina and Bruce under the sheets in a carriage, as they covered themself in the sheet to make it seem like they were having sex to get rid of the guards.
  • Shortly after, Selina and Bruce do sleep together, and we see a nude Selina sleeping covered by a bedsheet in her bed while a shirtless Bruce is gazing out the window. When Selina climbs out of bed, she drags the sheet along briefly for seemingly no reason other than modesty, as she discards it a moment later, out of view from the viewer, but still within Bruce's view.
• Batman vs. Robin: Used by Talon and Samantha Vanaver when we see them post-sex at her penthouse. When they both climb out of bed, they don't bring their sheets with them, their nudity is concealed by shadows instead.
• Justice League Dark: Apokolips War: The movie begins with Zatanna and John Constantine Talking in Bed at their Watchtower bedroom, while they're under a Modesty Bedsheet to imply they've been intimate. Downplayed as it is quickly shown that Zatanna is wearing his shirt and John is still wearing his boxers.

• 68 Kill: Violet has the covers up over her breasts when in bed with Chip right before the two have sex.
• Aaron Loves Angela: After Aaron and Angela have Their First Time, they lie on the mattress with a blanket wrapped around his waist and her shoulders.
• In Above Suspicion, when Nick (Edward Kerr) and Gail (Kim Cattrall) are having sex under the covers that fall to their waists when they're interrupted by the sound of his pager going off, Gail then starts reading a book topless before they resume their lovemaking. Nick then gets completely under the blankets and pulls them up to Gail's neck.
• Akunin: A textbook example of the L-shaped sheet variety after Shimizu and Mitsuyo have sex for the first time.
• Probably lampshaded in Amazon Women on the Moon when the buxom Corinne Wahl's breasts fill the screen for several minutes prior to a moderately explicit sex scene... when the sketch abruptly becomes a caught-cheating drama, they are never again seen, hidden behind the obligatory bedsheet.
• America's Sweethearts: The two lead characters end up sleeping together and in the next morning not only is there the bedsheet, but both characters are partly dressed.
• Am I OK?: Lucy wakes up naked in bed with Brittany the next morning after they had sex, covering herself this way with the sheet.
• Anna: After they have sex in the hotel, Anna holds up the sheet around her chest while talking with Leonard, then holds it there when getting up.
• Another Me: After having sex with Drew, Fay and he lie with the cover up over their chests.
• The Assignment (1997). The women are shown fully naked in bed while Carlos or Annibal are the ones whose groin is always hidden by the sheet.
• Atomic Blonde: Lorraine and Delphine are shown in bed together after having sex with the covers around their chests. It's downplayed however as both are seen topless earlier.
• A.W.O.L.: Joey wakes up with the sheets around her chest in Rayna's bed the morning after the two have sex the first night.
• Chase Meridian is sleeping naked under a silk bedsheet in Batman Forever when she gets a surprise visit by Batman in the middle of the night. She wraps herself in the sheet when she gets up to greet him.
• Besties: After they have Their First Time Zina and Nedjma lie under a blanket together which is drawn up to their chests.
• Beyond the Lights: Noni and Kaz are cuddling post-sex in bed while watching TV in their motel room in Mexico when there's a knock at the door. Thinking it's just the maid, Noni jumps up, grabs the sheet to cover herself and goes to answer it. To her horror, she ends up opening the door to her mother and a gaggle of paparazzi.
• The Big Easy (1987): The morning after Remy and Anne sleep together, we see her sitting up in bed naked with her back to the camera before she gathers the sheet around her and walks to the kitchen.
• Justified in Bird Box. While looking for survival supplies, Melanie finds a silk nightie and takes it back to their hideout. On seeing the nightie Tom starts making out with her, then we cut to him in bed with his groin covered by a sheet, while Melanie is now wearing the nightie.
• Breaking the Girls: Every female character keeps a sheet up to their breasts after sex.
• Lampshaded in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, when Bridget is getting out of bed trying to cover herself with the bedsheet, and her bedmate points out that it's a silly thing to do because "I happen to have a very high regard for your wobbly bits." She promptly decides to drop the sheet.
• In Bruce Almighty, after a night of amazing pleasure with his girlfriend, Bruce wakes up to find the bed in a shambles, but the duvet is still pulled up just enough to cover Bruce up to his waist. This gets even more obvious when he sits up, with his legs being exposed, and only his waist and groin covered.
• The Burning Sea: The first time that we see protagonist Sofia, she is sitting up in bed and wearing one of these. She spends the rest of the film fully dressed.
• In Cabin Fever, an impulsive affair is shown with a bedsheet covering the rudest bits. Despite the woman's vigorous gyrations, the bedsheet amazingly stays in the exact same position. Reportedly, the actress doing all the thrusting, Cerina Vincent, struck a deal with the director to limit her nudity in the film, and did the scene with bedsheets literally duct-taped to her posterior, to prevent them falling off.
• Caddyshack: Danny and Lacey make love under bedsheets that fall to their waists.
• Used in The Candy Snatchers when Avery has sex with his mistress. It almost looks like they're using separate bedsheets.
• In Candy Stripe Nurses, Sandy is shown lying naked in a hospital bed after having sex with a guy.
• Charlie's Angels (2000): Dylan is introduced post-coital in bed under a sheet, being wakened by her lover's terrible singing. Much later she's also seen in one after sleeping with Knox, just as she gets a call from the other Angel's that reveals he's Evil All Along. She confronts him still wrapped in a bedsheet, which actually ends up saving her life since she's thrown out his window, but the sheet ends up snagging into a piece of glass and it ends up serving as a Bedsheet Ladder, breaking her fall as it unravels from her body, though she does end up rolling down a hill and into a family's backyard while completely naked and has to resort to Hand-or-Object Underwear until she asks the startled residents for clothing.
• Inverted in Dagon, where the male character has the sheet most of the way up his chest, but the other half of the sheet is somewhere around the female character's hips or (depending on the point in the scene) knees.
• The Dark Knight Rises: Bruce and Miranda are securely wrapped in a blanket post-sex while laying on the floor in front of a fireplace.
• Dating Amber: Amber and Sarah lie under the covers after Amber's gone down on her. Then once Sarah starts going down on Amber, it's under the covers too.
• D.E.B.S.: Both Lucy and Amy have these on getting interrupted by Amy's teammates.
• In Deliver Us from Eva, Gabrielle Union & LL Cool J's characters Eva & Ray are so eager to get it on, they can't make it to the bed... but, despite all logic, find themselves, immediately after coitus, wrapped in sheets & blankets on the floor. They can't get IN the bed, but they can completely strip it? Eva is also wearing panties.
• DOA: Dead or Alive:
  • Bass assumes Christie is using one when he walks on her and Tina sleeping in the same bed, since Christie acts like she's nude under it and he assumes they're a couple now and leaves. Soon after Tina kicks Christie out the bed and it's revealed she was wearing nightwear the whole time.
  • Played Straight later when Christie and Max have a bedsheet up to their chest after sleeping together.
• Dragged Across Concrete has an odd example, since the very first thing on-screen is Henry and Lana having sex, completely naked. When they are done, she covers herself up to shoulder level, while Henry only gets his groin covered. Then he proceeds to play with her boobs anyway, all on-screen, making the short moment with a bedsheet completely moot.
• Drive-Away Dolls: After she's had sex with Marian, Jamie's shown with the bedsheet covering herself. On the next morning she's got it wrapped around her body too.
• In Entrapment, Gin has her luggage stolen and is forced to sleep naked in her hotel room with only the bedsheets to cover her. During the night, Gentleman Thief Mac sneaks into her room and she sits up startled making the sheet pool at her waist, giving him an eyeful while giving the audience a Toplessness from the Back shot. Later in Kuala Lumpur, she's sleeping naked again in the room they share, this time uncovered. Mac covers her with the bedsheets, probably to avoid being Distracted by the Sexy.
• The Exception: Mieke has a blanket around her chest post-coitus with Brandt once. It's downplayed however as in other scenes she does show extensive nudity before and after having sex with him.
• Feast of Love: Chloe covers herself with the bedsheet after having sex with Oscar. This does not mean however that she isn't topless otherwise.
• The Fly (1986): When Veronica returns to the loft after her confrontation with Stathis and wakes up Seth, as he gets out of the bed he wraps the sheet around his waist, suggesting that he went straight to bed upon emerging from the teleporter (he had been heavily drinking after all).
• The Football Factory: Tom's failed one-night stand (in which he and Rod picked up two women, escorted them home, and then fell asleep on their beds before they can do anything) ends as this. He wakes up to see a man waving a knife in his face, who is then knocked out by Rod with a cricket bat. The two men run out with pillows and bedsheets wrapped around them (possibly because they either didn't have time to put their clothes on, or couldn't find them), leaving Tom to arrive at the garden center late, wrapped in a purple sheet. Despite trying to hide behind shelves, Billy is not impressed.
• Friends with Benefits: A bedsheet is used extensively during the Sex Montage where Jamie and Dylan actually become Friends with Benefits, keeping all of the action hidden from the viewer. When they're finished, they also collapse in bed with the bedsheet now in an L-shaped position.
• Future World (2018): After they have sex offscreen, Ash lies against Lei with a blanket around her chest. When they get caught by the Drug Lord, she's careful to keep the blanket in place.
• Laetitia Casta playing Brigitte Bardot does a phenomenally sexy dance with a modesty bedsheet in the French film Gainsbourg.
• Gifted: Bonnie and Frank got drunk and slept together and later Mary spots Bonnie walking around the house dressed in just a sheet and gives her a sing-song "Good Morning" in an Ironic Echo to a previous interaction.
• Girls Like Magic: Jamie has the sheet around her chest after she had slept with her ex-girlfriend Casey. It stays put throughout their subsequent fight, despite Casey clearly having already seen her naked.
• God's Own Country: After Johhny and Gheorghe have sex in Johnny's house, they are seen with Johnny's private parts covered in this, even though the film has no problem showing them after their second sex in the mountain.
• Played straight in Goodbye Lenin. Alex and Lara fall on Lara's bed laughing. The next scene is the morning after and Alex gets out of bed still wearing his shorts, somewhat strange in a film that does feature full-frontal male nudity.
• Alan in The Hangover makes a sort of improvised bedsheet skirt when he can't find his pants.
• Harold and Maude: In the scene where they're in bed together, Harold is shown naked from the waist up, while Maude is covered up to her shoulders as she sleeps.
• Head in the Clouds: Gilda covers herself and Guy too with a blanket when they first have sex. It stays on when they wake up together the next morning.
• Heatwave (2022): Claire and Eve both stay under the covers while they have sex in one scene.
• Heneral Luna: Ysabel sports them after having sex with Luna but averted by the prostitute that a Janolino is screwing earlier in the film.
• In Hot Tub Time Machine, when Adam, Nick, and Jacob walk in on Lou and Kelly having sex, the bedsheet is positioned to prevent any kind of nudity from being seen.
• The Incredible Jessica James: During Boone and Jessica's second time having sex, both are covered by his duvet.
• The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love: Evie and Randy hastily cover themselves using the bedsheet after being caught in bed by Evie's mother.
• Used in the beginning of Iron Man, where Tony Stark's one-night stand Christine Everhart wakes up and — possibly out of confusion and not knowing just who's going to walk in — grabs a sheet when JARVIS wakes her up. It's partially justified in that Pepper had taken her clothes to be dry-cleaned, so she doesn't have a choice for a cover up in a room with such a huge window. After that, however, she wears one of Tony's shirts (and nothing else).
• Jagged Mind: Billie and her partners are always covered by the bedcovers around their chests after having had sex.
• Shows up often in the James Bond series, since Bond Really Gets Around:
  • From Russia with Love: Tatiana's seduction of Bond has her entering his hotel room and getting into his bed, wearing only a black ribbon around her neck and a pair of black stockings, with her modesty only preserved by her being under the covers.
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Bond finds Ruby sleeping naked in her room under the bedsheets. Soon after they do end up sleeping together, in an L-shaped sheet.
  • Diamonds Are Forever: Tiffany Case and Bond are under a sheet after they sleep together, with Tiffany also sporting a cigarette.
  • Live and Let Die: Bond and Miss Caruso are post-coital under the bedsheets when M drops by unexpectedly and she takes refuge in Bond's closet with only the sheet wrapped around her.
  • The Spy Who Loved Me: Both Bond and Anya are introduced in post-coital scenes with their respective lovers. Anya and her lover have the standard L-shaped sheet after he collapses beside her in bed while Bond and his lover are on the floor in a log cabin both under a bear rug. Anya and Bond are also under a bedsheet when they make love in their submarine at the end of the film, and end up getting caught by their superiors.
  • Moonraker:
    • Corinne is seen with a bedsheet up to her chest after sleeping with Bond.
    • Holly Goodhead is seen under a bedsheet after sleeping with Bond. In the ending, both of them are draped in bedsheets while having sex while on board the Moonraker shuttle as it's coming back to Earth, which comes in handy when Mission Control gets a video feed of them.
  • For Your Eyes Only: Bibi attempts to seduce Bond by getting into his bed and in a Modesty Towel and then taking off the towel while she's under the covers. Bond turns her down, asks her to Please Put Some Clothes On and offers to buy her an ice cream cone.
  • Octopussy: Magda and Bond are both under the sheets in bed after sleeping together, with both having the sheet up to their chest. At one point Bond lowers her sheet to he can look at her "Octopussy" tattoo.
  • Licence to Kill
    • In the opening, Sanchez finds his girlfriend Lupe in bed with another man, both under the bedsheets. The man is revealed to be wearing briefs when Sanchez's men drag him off to be killed, but Lupe is clearly nude under hers, which she holds to her chest as she sits up in bed before he makes her lie on her stomach so he can whip her as punishment for her infidelity.
    • Later, Lupe Sleeps in the Nude under the sheets while on the Wavekrest when Bond sneaks into her room and forces her to cover for him (at knifepoint) which she does while holding the bedsheet to her chest, showing her Toplessness from the Back as well as the scars she received from Sanchez's earlier whipping. She slips on a robe to cover up after answering the door.
  • Played straight in GoldenEye, with the sheets being extremely low on Bond's waist, but they're practically up to Natalya Simonova's chin.
  • Tomorrow Never Dies: Bond is introduced while in bed with Inga Bergstrom with both wrapped up in a bedsheet that covers their nudity.
  • Zigzagged with Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough. She averts it post-coitus with Bond, where he's lying on his side, cuddled up next to Elektra, while she's lying on her stomach (resulting in Toplessness from the Back), with the sheet pushed down to BOTH of their waists. She turns over at one point and we get a brief glimpse of her breasts before it cuts to a headshot. It's played straight later on post-coitus between Elektra and Renard, where he's fully dressed while she's nude under the sheet complete with Elektra strutting around the room with the bedsheet wrapped around her.
  • Die Another Day: Miranda's Dress Hits Floor as she prepares to sleep with Bond, leading to a brief shot of Toplessness from the Back before she gets into the before, under the blanket where she's quickly followed by Bond. After the Sexy Discretion Shot, Bond has just finished getting dressed while she's still laying in bed nude under the sheets.
  • Casino Royale (2006): Bond and Vesper are beneath one while having sex. She doesn't take it with her when she gets out of bed, but by the time the camera shifts to her she's already put her dress back on.
  • Quantum of Solace: Agent Fields is seen sitting up in bed holding a sheet to her chest after sleeping with Bond. He starts kissing her bare back before pulling her back to bed for another round.
• Jennifer's Body: After Needy breaks off having sex with Chip, she covers herself with the sheet.
• Just One of the Guys: Buddy and Sandy are covered by sheets while having sex.
• In Just the Way You Are, Susan and Peter use a his 'n' hers bedsheet after they have sex.
• In Keep Off My Grass!, Jerry and Suze are naked in bed together when two rednecks walk in on them, causing them to sit up. Suze clutches the blanket to her chest, while Jerry lets it drape around his waist.
• Liar Liar: After Miranda seduces Fletcher into having office sex with her, the two of them are seen Post-Sex lying on the floor together under a blanket that was for her office's couch.
• Living in Oblivion: Partially averted with Nicole: after making love to Chad she's sitting on the bed with her back to the camera and the sheet around her waist. Then when he's gone, she flops onto her back without covering herself, because she's alone.
• Love & Other Drugs: Averted. Jamie and Maggie have a ton of sex but don’t bother to cover up. When, in a moment of brief shyness, she pulls her sheet up to her collarbone, Jamie gets off the bed and it uncovers her boob and she doesn’t bother to cover it up again.
• Make Up (2019): Ruth has the covers around her chest the first time after having sex with her boyfriend Tom while she's lying in bed with him. She is in bed later with Jade this way too after their relationship has begun.
• Inverted in Malibu High. At the start of the movie, Kim Bently wakes up, sits on the side of the bed naked, lights a cigarette and then brushes her hair in the nude.
• Manhunter: Graham's wife keeps the bedsheet wrapped around herself as she walks over to Graham, staring out the hotel room's window.
• Margarita:
  • Gail has the covers around her chest after she had slept with her partner Ben. However, it slips briefly to show one breast.
  • Margarita and Jane have the covers up after having sex, although they had shown their breasts during, so it's more probably just due to being cold.
• Subverted by Rob Lowe and Kim Cattrall in Masquerade. They don't cover up after their romp in the sack.
• Midnight (1939) Eve Peabody sports this when she first wakes up in the hotel since her only outfit, an evening gown, isn't very comfortable to sleep in.
• Missing in Action. Chuck Norris walks in on his Friend in the Black Market in bed with a couple of Thai hookers. He's played by M. Emmet Walsh, so he's the one covered by the sheet while the girls are completely naked (though carefully positioned so you don't see too much).
• In Mississippi Masala, when it shows Meena and Demetrius in bed after they have sex, they are both covered up by the sheet. Then, when Meena's father's friends knock on their hotel door, Demetrius gets up and pulls some pants on, but you can tell he's not wearing underwear. Then they barge in and Meena gets up and covers herself with a sheet, and it is obvious that she is naked under the sheet.
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day: Miss Pettigrew goes up to the bedroom to wake up "young Phil" (whom she believes is a boy from based on what Delysia said) and pulls back the sheets, revealing they were actually serving as modesty bedsheets as Phil is very nude and defiantly not a young boy, much to Miss Pettigrew's horror, especially since he's very much "up".
• Model Shop: Gloria's bedsheet is securely fastened under her armpits during an early scene, whereas George lounges shirtless.
• One-Trick Pony: After Jonah and Marion have post-divorce sex, they lie in bed with the sheet wrapped around her chest, while his chest is exposed.
• Open Water: Averted, probably because it's an indie film. Early on Susan and Daniel are shown in bed together, and they're as comfortably nude around each other as you'd expect a married couple to be.
• Utilized in the PBS filmed version of the musical Passion for the opening scene. While Clara and Georgio are shown having sex with her on top as the curtain rises, her back is to the audience, and the sheets are conveniently arranged so you never see Marin Mazzie's breasts. Averted in the actual play.
• Ophelia: Ophelia wakes up alone under one after spending the night with Hamlet.
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Zigzagged. Most of the time, Héloïse covers herself while in bed naked with Marianne. She's shown topless once however.
• The Pretty One: Laurel is shown sitting up in bed next to Basel the morning after having sex with him, the bedsheet carefully wrapped around her chest.
• A less-common male example in Ravenous (1999) — albeit with no sex involved — in which Colqhoun is completely naked and holds the blanket bunched over his naughty bits. Cuts to something like Toplessness from the Back, except that it's not toplessness so much as everything-but-the-socks-lessness.
• The Rebound: A hungover Sandy is found passed out naked with the bedsheets barely covering her by Aram and the kids. When Aram awakes her first assumption is that they slept together, which he's quick to correct.
• Riot on Sunset Strip: After her rape, Andy lies in bed with a bedsheet pulled up to her shoulders, although her sides are still visible.
• Robin Hood (2010): Eleanor of Aquitaine comes into her son Prince John's room to speak to him only to find him fooling around in bed with Princess Isabella of France, but they both remain "decent" by being under the covers. Unperturbed, Eleanor decides it's best to talk to them both, but dismissively pulls the covers over Isabella's face because "I will not have you in my presence."
• Rock Star: After the party, Emily doesn't bother getting dressed, just wraps a sheet around her for her "walk of shame" back to the hotel room.
• Occurs in the The Rocky Horror Picture Show after Frank catches Janet and Rocky having sex. But warranted, as the entire cast comes to gawk at them.
• Running Scared (1986): Danny lets himself in in his partner's Ray loft one morning, and finds Ray and Maryann in bed under a blanket, clearly after a night of passion. Both wake up startled by the intrusion, holding the blanket to their chests and after they trade some barks, Maryann wraps herself in the blanket and goes to the bathroom. Downplayed since the blanket only covers her front, and both men stare at her bare backside as she leaves.
• Inverted in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. As Scott and Ramona lay in bed together, the sheet is pulled up over Scott's chest but down past Ramona's. She is wearing a bra, however.
• Double Subverted in The Seduction. Jamie Douglas Sleeps in the Nude and she's shown taking off her robe and going to bed. We see her naked. But she immediately gets into bed and under the covers.
• This was already enough of a Discredited Trope in 1962 to be parodied in Shoot the Piano Player. Charlie is lying in bed, his chest uncovered, waiting for a prostitute. She crawls into his bed topless... and he thrusts the sheet into an L-shape over her breasts, saying "this is how you do it in the movies."
• Signature Move (2017): Zaynab wakes up beside Alma after they have sex with the covers around her chest. She walks away with them still around her trying to sneak out.
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: After Sky Captain, Polly and Kaji Out Run The Fireball of the explosion in the uranium mine, they are knocked unconscious. When they wake up in a room in an unknown location, they find that they have been undressed and are all in bed together under the same bedsheet.'
• Star Trek Into Darkness. Captain Kirk is shown waking up in bed with a Cat Girl, who is still wearing a pink bra and panties (with a hole for her tail, one imagines), and pan across the bed showing a pink bra lying on the sheets. Then a second Cat Girl sits up in bed beside them, clasping the sheet to her chest, explaining who the bra belongs to.
• The Student Nurses: Phred is shown naked in bed in three sex scenes.
• In Thunder Alley (1967) has Tommy and Annie using a his 'n' hers sheet after they have sex.
• Played straight in Titanic (1997) with Jack and Rose in the back of a car. Not only is it uncertain where they got the blanket, but it took place not ten minutes after the famous nude painting scene. Allegedly, this was because of James Cameron's tiptoeing around the censors, to still allow the movie to be PG-13. Nudity while posing for a painting probably counted as "tasteful", while nudity during coitus probably did not.
• InToomorrow, Benny is first introduced sitting up in bed with his latest conquest, who holds the blanket around her chest.
• In the Stephen Chow vehicle Tricky Brains, his character at one point wears a tan body-suit to a business meeting in a restaurant on which is written the characters for "I am naked."
• What's Your Number?: Ally catches Colin picking up his newspaper with just a Modesty Bedsheet on.
• William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: After Their First Time 21-year-old Romeo and 16-year-old Juliet are shown lying on the bed with the bedsheets around their waists (but Juliet had her bare back to the camera, effectively covering her breasts). Romeo then sits up and proceeds to put on his boxers, all the while hiding his hips under a conveniently placed bedsheet. Juliet later employs it when the nurse walks in the room.
• Averted (possibly accidentally) in The Woman in Red where Kelly LeBrock gets out of bed and pulls up the sheet to cover herself. Unfortunately — or perhaps not — the sheet briefly snags on something and while she is able to conceal her breasts, her pubic hair is visible.
• A Year and Change: Vera is sporting one towards the end of the movie when she is in bed with Owen after sex.
• You and I: Lana has the covers around her chest on the next morning after having sex with Janie as she gets up. Janie is later shown this way in bed after having sex with her dealer too.
• Your Monster: Laura is shown with a sheet around herself up to her chest after she and Monster had sex.
• In Zachariah, Belle Starr and Zachariah use a his 'n' hers bedsheet after they have sex.

• The Change Room: Eliza covers herself with the bedsheet after telling Andrew she's been having an affair post-coitus, explicitly comparing it to how women on TV shows act. In this case though it's due to her shame over the adultery.
• Played With in the YA werewolf series by Steve Feasey, that we call Wereling (2009). The first book begins with Trey, who lives in a group home, waking up to find his bedroom trashed for some reason. He gets into a fight with a bullying caregiver about it and only belatedly remembers that he's naked. He quickly covers himself with a quilt and pulls his shorts on under it.
• The Kingkiller Chronicle: In The Name of the Wind, Kvothe discovers Fela Sleeps in the Nude when he calls upon her in her dorm room late one night, only for her to drowsily answer the door clad only in a bedsheet that is barely covering her. He struggles with the urge to gawk openly.

  "She was unmistakably naked, with a bedsheet half-wrapped around herself. I will admit that the sight of gorgeous, full-breasted Fela half-naked in front of me was one of the most startlingly erotic moments in my young life.
  "Kvothe?" she said, maintaining a remarkable degree of composure. She tried to cover herself more fully and met with mixed success, pulling the sheet up to her neck in exchange for exposing a scandalous amount of long, shapely leg.

• Legends of Ithyria:
  • Bria is described as putting the sheets around her naked body after having sex with her boyfriend Kumire as he leaves the bed to dress.
  • After having sex with Talon, Shasta quickly covers up using the sheet the next morning as Erinda comes in.
• Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn: Near the end of "To Green Angel Tower", when Miriamele and Simon finally have sex, and Josua barges in and wakes them up in the middle of the night, Miriamele keeps the bedsheet pulled up to her neck so she can hug him without compromising her modesty. Simon is left rather exposed by this, though.
• The Millennium Trilogy: In "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo", Lisbeth wears these twice; first when Mikael shows up at her apartment while she Sleeps in the Nude, and again when she decides to sleep with him.
• Jenna Black's Morgan Kingsley series: Whenever Morgan wakes up in Lugh's Dream Land she finds herself in his bed with all of her clothes gone but still covered by a silk bed sheet. One time she deliberately doesn't sit up as she thinks the bedsheets are too slippery to keep her covered.

  "Besides, silk sheets are kind of slippery, and it might be hard to keep this one over my naughty bits if I sat up."

• In the Relativity story "Secret Recipe", a hooker named Babs agrees to help the police by luring a bad guy into a sting. When the cops bust into the room where she's "entertaining" him, she quickly covers herself with the bedsheet. Which is actually kind of strange, because the man was a foot-fetishist and she had all her clothes on other than her shoes and stockings.
• Under the Pendulum Sun: The morning after having sex, Cathy wakes up, sits up in bed, realizes she's naked, and gets embarrassed. Her lover points out this is silly—and she agrees—but she covers up anyways. To be fair, they are Victorians.

  Laon: I have seen you naked already. I’ve even dressed you.
  Cathy: That’s not the point.
  Laon: And I do intend to see you naked again.
  Cathy: I intend to let you, but it’s still hardly proper.

• The narrator of We Can't Rewind is both horrified by the circumstances in which he observes this trope being put into practice and a bit mollified by it: "Jackie and Jaymee did still have the covers pulled up over themselves; for that I am grateful."

• 10 Things I Hate About You: Kat and Patric are under one in the season finale after they have Their First Time together. Which is lucky for them, since Kat's Boyfriend-Blocking Dad Walter barges in on them.
• The 100:
  • "Twilight's Last Gleaming" opens with Clarke and Finn both sharing one, as part of their post-coital pillow talk.
  • In "Day Trip", Raven and Finn snuggle under some fur blankets after sleeping together.
  • In "Red Sky at Morning", Harper seduces Monty and they have a Pre-Climax Climax since they're both scared of dying the next day. The next time we see them, they're both panting and sweaty under an L-shaped sheet.
• In 24, Renee, having just had sex with Jack gets shot wearing one of these. It seems to cling on by sheer magic all the way to the hospital, which can turn what should be an emotional death scene into sheer narm.
• The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.: In the pilot, Dixie seduces Brisco and the two fall in bed. The next time we see them, Dixie is under a bedsheet in bed while a fully dressed Brisco is sneaking out.
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.:
  • "Yes Men": Lorelei uses her Living Aphrodisiac powers to enthrall Ward, making him Brainwashed and Crazy and later sleeps with him. After the Sexy Discretion Shot, we see Lorelei staring out the window wrapped up in a bedsheet while Ward is simply shirtless and with some boxer shorts on.
  • "Who You Really Are": We get a Post-Coital Collapse of Bobbi collapsing into bed after having sex with Lance, both sweating and panting for breath and each of them covered by their own, different-colored sheets! Lance's is very low on his waist while Bobbi has hers up to her neck.
  • "Farewell, Cruel World!": Robot Girl Aida is naked under the bedsheets in a hospital bed while getting ready for the process to scan her deteriorating body and make a new one. The sheet is removed when the process begins, but she's only seen with Shoulders-Up Nudity from them on.
• Alias: Used a lot whenever Sydney sleeps with her Love Interests. It usually averts the L-shaped sheets by having Sydney sleeping on her stomach and thus only showing her Toplessness from the Back.
• Andor: In "Announcement" the woman Cassian's with on Niamos sits up in bed with the covers around her up to her chest, indicating she's nude with them having had sex recently.
• Arrow:
  • "The Odyssey": In a flashback, Oliver Queen and Laurel Lance are Talking in Bed under the sheets presumably after sex.
  • "Nanda Parbat": Ray Palmer and Felicity Smoak are under the covers after they have sex. She's practically completely covered, while Ray gets a Shirtless Scene.
  • "Public Enemy": Roy Harper and Thea Queen are seen Talking in Bed covered by bedsheets after doing their thing, though at least we're gifted with a panning shot of Willa Holland's great legs.
  • "Underneath": When Oliver and Felicity sleep together at the bunker, we see them snuggling on the floor covered by individual blankets.
• Babylon 5 had several examples.
  • "Born To The Purple" shows Adira and Londo using this the morning after she spent a romantic evening in his quarters.
  • Sinclair and Catherine Sakai after getting back together again.
  • Seen at the end of the fourth season as Sheridan and Delenn are spending their first night as a married couple.
• Averted in Band of Brothers where an American soldier (played by a young Tom Hardy) is having sex with a German girl — although there's a bedsheet over the 'action' both characters are naked and you can see the girl's breasts. Then his commanding officer bursts into the room and it's played straight when the embarrassed girl covers herself up.
• Battlestar Galactica (2003): "Hero" has D'anna waking up under one after her tryst with both Baltar and Caprica-Six.
• Beastmaster:
  • The Sorceress and Sharak are wearing one after sleeping together in "Rescue", when a displeased Ancient One barges in on them.
  • In "Orpheo", when Arina and Orpheo make love in the middle of the forest, they're shown later post-coitus both covered by a convenient sheet.
  • In "Choice", it's used once again when Sharak and The Sorceress sleep together. She wraps herself in one when trying to convince him to Come Back to Bed, Honey.
• Being Human (US): After having sex, women invariably cover their chests using the covers.
• Beverly Hills, 90210 (2008 series): Naomi and Max do this after having sex. It is made doubly amusing by the fact that Max gets up a minute later and it is shown he was wearing underwear anyway.
• Bodyguard (UK 2018) gets round this by showing, at the start of episode 3, Julia Montague and David Budd snugging under the bedsheet, so we just get a tight shot on their faces as they have a post-coital conversation and a shot at the end of the sheet draped over their entire bodies so nothing is visible.
• The Borgias:
  • Of the L-shaped variety for Cesare and Ursula in "The French King".
  • Giulia wears one in this◊ promotional poster.
• Broadchurch: Claire does the "lying on her stomach" variety after sleeping with Lee.
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine: The first time Jake and Amy sleep together, they skip the L-shaped sheet for one that goes up to both of their armpits.
• Buffyverse:
  • Angel:
    • In "Epiphany", Darla and Angel make use of one after sleeping together. Darla gets up after Angel, who has pulled on a shirt and sweat pants, and walks across the room wearing the bed sheet, practically like an evening gown.
    • In "Tomorrow", has Wesley and Lilah under one after they sleep together. She leaves the bed with Toplessness from the Back shot before she puts on his shirt.
    • When Connor and Cordelia their Pre-Climax Climax in "Apocalypse Nowish" they are both under a bedsheet to hide all the action, which is lucky considering a grim-faced and extremely jealous Angel is watching them from afar. When we next see them in the morning after scene in "Habeas Corpses" they're still in bed, with the sheets up to their necks.
    • At the end of "Destiny", Eve enters a bedroom and starts to undressing while gloating about manipulating Angel and Spike. Once fully undressed, she crawls under the bedsheets into bed, next to an equally undressed Lindsey, revealing that Eve is in bed in both senses of the world.
    • In "Harms Way", Harmony wakes up in her bedroom to find herself nude under the sheets. And next to her also under the sheets is the corpse of the man she met in a bar the night before with two bloody fang marks in his neck.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
    • When Buffy and Angel have Their First Time in "Surprise" they're seen cuddling under the sheets post-sex. When Angel wakes up due to his curse activating, he still has time to put all his clothes on before he leaves the room. In the next episode, we see Buffy waking up in bed alone and wondering where he is, while still having the bedsheet up to her neck.
    • In "The Zeppo", Faith gets aroused after the adrenaline rush from a fight, and pounces on Xander for some Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex, taking his virginity with the promise to "Steer [him] around the curves". Cue romantic music as they start to making love, with Faith on top of Xander but with a bedsheet over both so the scene wouldn't be explicit. Cut to a post-coital scene of them snuggling under the bedsheets in a seemingly romantic moment... then a the music abruptly stops and we Smash Cut to Faith booting Xander out the door with the bedsheet still wrapped around her, while he's already fully clothed, but very confused.
    • Buffy and Parker make use of one when they have sex in "The Harsh Light Of The Day". When Buffy wakes up the morning after, she still has to sheet on, and clutches it to her body while searching the floor for her clothes.
    • In "Hush", we see Giles and Olivia under the covers in the dark bedroom, and when she slides out from under the covers and puts on a robe that was conveniently lying on the bed.
    • "The 'I' In The Team" has Buffy and Riley with a sheet on their waist during their sex scene (his body on top of hers blocks anything else). They both have the sheet up to their shoulders in the morning after, and the camera stays above Riley's waist when he gets out of bed.
    • In "Where the Wild Things Are", Buffy and Riley are influenced by ghosts into staying in bed having sex for most of the episode. Most of the action is hidden due to both being under the bedsheets, although the sheet is low on Riley's waist to show off his abs while high on Buffy's legs to expose her legs.
    • In "Primeval" Anya enters Xander's basement and finds him still lying in bed, sleeping naked under the covers. She actually lifts and peeks under the covers to check if that he's really naked.
    • "Out of My Mind": Both couples (Spike & Harmony, Buffy & Riley) are seen under the bedsheets after having sex, both men are shirtless while the girls have the sheets up to their shoulders.
    • In "Into The Woods", Buffy is covered by a bedsheet shortly after having sex with Riley. When Spike sneaks into the room to talk to her, he actually gets distracted by the idea of her being naked under the sheets.
    • Xander and Anya have sheets up to their shoulders in a scene where they're Talking in Bed post-sex in "Triangle".
    • In "Intervetion", Spike and the Buffybot both lay on the floor under some blankets after having sex.
    • Spike has one in "Gone" when Xander walks in on him and an Invisible Buffy having sex. Xander of course, has no idea what is actually happening and Spike tries to pass it as him doing naked pushups in his bed, which he then demonstrates—punctuated by Buffy gasping. When Xander does leave, Spike throws the sheet on the bed, which envelops the invisible Buffy on the bed.
    • A specific example is in "Wrecked", when Spike and Buffy wake up in a now-destroyed house from a night of rapturous Destructo-Nookie. Buffy is already using their largest available article of clothing — his Badass Longcoat — as a Modesty Bedsheet, so a conveniently-placed pole was used to hide his groin from the camera. Later in the episode Buffy also finds Spike sleeping naked under an actual sheet. When he simply stands up she turns away and tells him to Please Put Some Clothes On and he proceeds to mock her for being a prude after what they did together.
    • In "Dead Things", they end up lying post-coital on the floor in a wrecked building with an oriental rug covering Spike's naughty bits and covering Buffy almost up to the neck.
    • Justified when Riley bursts in on Spike and Buffy while they're in bed in "As You Were". Buffy is mortified at Riley seeing her in bed with Spike so she cowers behind the sheets, while a smug Spike openly taunts Riley by flaunting their relationship and his manly abs.
    • Done with Willow and Tara in "Seeing Red", where they're both tightly wrapped in bedsheets. And then Tara exits the room wearing her bedsheet.
• Burn Notice:
  • In "Broken Rules", Michael and Fiona are shown under one after sleeping together. Michael's sheets covers most of him and he's revealed to be wearing shorts underneath while Fi is clearly nude with the sheet barely covering her and exposing a great deal of skin. Their afterglow is also interrupted by some suspicious noise and they both quickly grab the pistols they left under their pillows with Fiona first making sure her breasts are covered by the sheet first.
  • In "Friendly Fire", after a Sexy Discretion Shot between Michael and Fiona, he's seen in a bathrobe at the balcony talking business with someone until a sheet-clad Fiona arrives to drag him back to bed.
  • In "Company Man", Fiona is aggressively pouncing on Michael after they've been apart for a while, with things breaking all around them. When we finally cut to them post-sex, they're just snuggling on the couch under an L-shaped sheet.
• Charmed (1998): In "The Bare Witch Project", Lady Godiva gets summoned when she was about to do her naked ride to the present, where she immediately gets surrounded by a bunch of horny boys. Mortified, she wraps herself in a nearby flag until Paige saves her by shooing the boys away and covering her with a jacket.
• Chicago Med: Dr. Rhodes and Dr. Zanetti share one during their bedroom scene in "Intervention".
• Chuck: "Chuck Versus the Three Words" ends with The Reveal that Sarah's super spy friend Carina and Chuck's geeky friend Morgan hit it off, with a shot showing them both in bed post-sex under a goofy Star Wars bedsheet. This gets a Call-Back in "Chuck Versus the Cat Squad" when Morgan wakes up in his room to find Carina sleeping right beside him while clearly nude and wrapped up in the same goofy bedsheets. This time he has a Freak Out! (since he's dating someone else) and demands she leave, which she coyly complies by standing up and flinging the bedsheet away, flaunting her body and causing him to bolt out of the room in a panic.
• In Cold Feet, Fay Ripley's character is making love to her husband in the woman-on-top position. Fay said afterward that the only reason it was shot from the back was not so much for greater erotic effect as to conceal the fact her not-inconsiderably-large breasts had to be seriously taped down, or they'd have been flying all over the place and quite possibly delivering a knockout blow to the poor chap. Or to Fay herself. This also precluded any chance of her going topless in front of the camera.
• Condor: Joubert puts the covers to her chest after she and Joe had sex.
• Conversations with Friends: Frances and later Bobbi both sometimes have the sheets around their chests while in bed nude. Here it's definitely simply for warmth, since they are both shown topless as well.
• In an episode of Covert Affairs, Auggie is on vacation and romances a woman. The next morning, she holds a bedsheet uncomfortably over herself while having a conversation with him. This is especially amusing because Auggie is blind, so she has no in-character justification at all.
• CSI: The spin-offs have bodies being examined in the morgue which are always covered with a modesty sheet, even during the forensic examination, which doesn't make sense. Sometimes they go to ridiculous extents to show injuries or bruises while keeping the sheet to avoid revealing too much of the body.
• Cursed:
  • Lenore is shown with a blanket covering her chest after she had slept with Merlin.
  • Arthur and Nimue both have the bed covers up over their chests on waking up the next morning.
• Dates:
  • Kate has the bedsheet over her when she wakes up beside Erica after they had sex. Erica later uses it to cover herself as well.
  • Jenny covers herself this way after having sex with Christian.
• Deadly Class: Gabrielle covers herself with the sheet after she sleeps with Willie. He lampshades this by noting he's seen everything, though she replies that it's different after the sex ended.
• In the Australian crime drama series Deep Water, the detectives at a murder scene are inspecting a dead body on a bed. The victim is naked but no nudity is shown as it is partially covered by a sheet.
• Desperate Housewives: In "Being Alive", Kat and Orson's conversation is interrupted when they hear Bree's orgasmic screech that could be heard throughout most of the neighborhood. Cut to Bree collapsing in bed next to Karl, both sweaty and each wrapped up in their own modesty bedsheet.
• Dickinson: After they have sex in "You cannot put a Fire out" both Emily and Sue are lying alongside each other with towels around them up to their chests.
• Domino Day: After they get back together and have sex, Domino lies beside Silas with the covers around her chest in their bed.
• Due South: In "Chicago Holiday Part 2", Fraser passes out from exhaustion at the hotel after chasing Christina around all night, he wakes up in her hotel room wearing only a blanket. Christina quickly explains away any concerns: She had the hotel's excellent staff move him into the room and had his uniform removed and dry cleaned for him.
• Dystopia 2021: After she finishes up having sex with Paolo in "Live and Let Live" Jennifer puts a blanket up over her breasts while lying beside him.
• Earth Abides: Emma has the covers around her chest following her having sex with Ish for their first time.
• The Enemy at the Door episode "The Jerrybag" has several scenes with the young lovers in bed together, always with at least their lower halves covered by the bedsheet. His naked torso gets plenty of exposure, hers none at all.
• Averted in Farscape with Chiana by having the alien nymphomaniac always have sex in a reverse cowgirl position, so she's just showing her Toplessness from the Back. In one amusing scene Crichton barges in on her having sex with D'Argo and starts ranting. Chiana storms off naked while D'Argo then wraps the blanket around himself with a long-suffering expression as he listens to Crichton's problems.
• Father Brown: In "The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau", when Lisandra and Flambeau are in bed together in Italy, Lisandra covers her with a bedsheet to preserve her modesty. Flambeau, on the other hand, seems to have gone Right Through His Pants.
• Firefly:
  • Inara is usually shown under the sheets when she sleeps with her clients. In "Serenity" we see Inara and her client having sex, with him on top and the bedsheets up to his waist to hide the actual act. In "Out of Gas", a magistrate hires Inara to sleep with his son to turn him into a man, with the scene cutting to the son and Inara cuddling in bed under the sheets.
  • Wash and Zoe also use one when they're in bed together (during "Shindig" and "Objects in Space") — in "Shindig" the sheet just happens to be laying over Zoe's body in such a way that it covers anything potentially inappropriate but leaves the length of her legs exposed.
  • In "Our Mrs. Reynolds", Mal finds his "wife" Saffron waiting for him naked under his blanket for their wedding night. It takes a lot of him to Ignore the Fanservice

  Saffron: But aren't we to become one flesh?
  Mal: No, we're still two fleshes, and I think your flesh should sleepover in the... [Saffron drops the blanket that was covering her nakedness] Whoa! Hey! Flesh!

  • In the episode "Heart of Gold", Mal and the ex-Companion Nandi have sex in the female dominant position with a sheet covering most of the action, but exposing Nandi's naked back. In the next shot, they're both shown sleeping each wrapped in their own bedsheet.
  • The opening to "Objects in Space" shows River sleeping naked, but she has a bedsheet covering her.
• The "His n Hers Bedsheet" was used in FlashForward after Demetri and Zoey have sex. She covers her breasts, but Demetri is kind enough to let the sheet fall to his waist.
• Forbrydelsen: Subverted with Lund in Season 3; after sleeping with Borch, she wakes up with the sheet pulled up to her chest, then leaves it behind in her hurry to get up.
• A French Village: After their failed attempt to have sex, Suzanne is shown with the sheet around her breasts, but Antoine is lying bare-chested beside her.
• One particular episode of Friday the 13th: The Series featured an "artist" who made her statues by petrifying the models who posed for her. When this occurs on-screen, the model is wearing a bedsheet, which magically disappears once she becomes a nude statue.
• Friends: Played for laughs the first time Chandler and Monica hook up. The next morning they both have the bedcovers pulled up over their chests as they awkwardly discuss what happened the night before.

  Monica: (starts to get out of bed) Could you not look?
  Chandler: I don't want to look!

• From Dusk Till Dawn: Richie and Santanico are shown under one while making love in "Opening Night".
• Grand Hotel:
  • Played With in the pilot. When playboy Casanova Javi is introduced, he's in bed with a random guest he spent the night with, both shown under a bedsheet. When he gets out of bed, it's revealed he's wearing shorts all along, but what the sheet was really hiding from the audience was that he's missing one of his legs.
  • Alicia and Danny's Sex Montage after they become a couple has bedsheets hiding anything explicit.
• On an episode of Heroes,'' Claire is "killed" and wakes up naked on the autopsy table. They have no problem showing her opened ribcage with all her internal organs on display, but as soon as she puts herself back together, cue the camera cutaway until she puts on the Modesty Bedsheet.
• Justified in How I Met Your Mother both times Robin sleeps with The Casanova Barney when they aren't actually dating. She feels bad because she slept with her ex-boyfriend's friend and she usually mocks the type of chicks Barney sleeps with. The second time she was cheating on Kevin and Barney was with Nora.
• Game of Thrones:
  • "Lord Snow": Thanks to the strategic placement of body and bearskin blanket, Daenerys is revealing much more than Drogo while they're naked in bed together.
  • Played With in "The Wars To Come". Loras Tyrell quickly throws a blanket on top of his lower half when his sister Margaery interrupts his little tryst. His lover Olyvar, on the other hand, has zero shame about his nudity and even walks out of the chamber bare ass-naked, which Margaery appreciates.
  • Done awkwardly in two Season 5 episodes, when Daenerys keeps herself covered by the sheets. Due to the fact that her paramour Daario is walking about shamelessly nude and the fact that one of their establishing moments was her complete lack of modesty around him, Dany's modesty stands out.
  • Also in Season 5, there are several scenes in a mortuary where dead bodies are being washed to prepare them for burial. In every instance, a modesty sheet is used, even when Arya and the other worker are actively trying to wash the body. Since there is a sheet in the way, they can only wash the arms and head of the body, which the actors compensate for by washing extremely slowly.
  • In "High Sparrow", Tommen and Margaery are covered by the blankets after their wedding night, though the audience (and Tommen) do get a look at her Toplessness from the Back as she climbs out of bed before she puts on a robe.
• Gilligan's Island: Throughout the first season, at night when the characters rush out of their tents in their sleepwear, Ginger often emerges wrapped in a sheet.
• Glee: After Quinn and Santana have sex, they lie in the bed covering themselves with the sheet before deciding to do it again.
• Good Omens (2019): After she has sex with Newt, Anathema carefully covers herself with the sheet this way.
• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys:
  • After Hercules and Nemesis sleep together in a barn in "The Enforcer", we see them both cuddling under a bedsheet in the morning after, still at the barn.
  • In "Long Live the King", King Orestes and princess Niobe have an L-shaped bedsheet covering them after they sleep together, with one of her bare legs peeking out seemingly just to show them off. The sheets do come in handy when guards break into the room to arrest Orestes.
  • In "Stranger and Stranger", Ares II (an Alternate Self of Ares that is a god of love instead of war) uses his aphrodisiac powers on Ares and Nebula to get them to have sex to buy time for Hercules. They go at for hours but we only see movement from under the sheets as they both shout and giggle. After the effect wears out, a furious Nebula rolls out of bed with the bedsheet wrapped around her to yell at Ares II.
  • In "We'll Always Have Cyprus", after Hercules and Morrigan sleep together, we see her walking to the window clutching a bedsheet to her chest. A shirtless Hercules joins shortly thereafter.
• I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021): In "If Only Dogs Could Talk" after having sex with Dylan, Allison covers herself with the bedsheet, although her breasts are briefly shown earlier.
• Imposters: After having sex with Patrick on the second time, Maddie has the bedsheet wrapped around her chest while she lies on the floor beside him.
• Impulse (2018): After being seen briefly topless from the back while getting on top of Josh, Henry covers herself with the bed covers while they're having sex and when they lie together afterward.
• Interview with the Vampire (2022): In "Like Angels Put in Hell by God", a naked Antoinette hastily covers herself with the bedsheets when Louis bursts inside her bedroom when she's in bed with Lestat.
• In the Dark: After Murphy's threeway with Felix and another woman, all three have the bedsheet covering their chests.
• Iron Fist (2017): After Danny Rand and Colleen Wing first have sex in "Felling Tree With Roots", Colleen is shown waking up wrapped in her bedsheet. It's done again in "Black Tiger Steals Heart" when they wake up in bed at Bakuto's compound after Danny passes out from using the Iron Fist to suck the poison out of Colleen's veins.
• JAG: Seen several times in Season 9 with Mac and Romantic False Lead Clayton Webb.
• Jane by Design:
  • In "The Birkin", a scene begins with India rolling off Jeremy post-sex, each of them wrapped in their own Modesty Bedsheet. Averted when India climbs out of bed, she doesn't carry the bedsheet with her, her nudity is instead covered via Shoulders-Up Nudity.
  • In "The Sleepover", India and Eli are shown under one after sleeping together.
• Jane the Virgin: Couples are always seen under one in post-sex scenes, usually in the L-shaped variant.
  • Rose and Luisa being both women avert the "L-shaped" scenario, instead each has their own sheets wrapped around them for post-coital scenes.
  • Jane wears one when she finally loses her virginity in "Chapter Forty-Seven", with both her and Michael under an L-shaped sheet.
  • Notably "Chapter Fifty-Nine" shows why not taking the sheet with you can be a bad idea, as a naked Petra has to rush to hide in Mateo's closet when Jane comes into the apartment while Petra was walking around in the buff after getting out of bed.
• Jessica Jones (2015) has several sweaty sex scenes, but sheets and/or bras keep anything from being exposed.
  • Used the second and third times Luke and Jessica have sex.
  • Used whenever Trish has sex, whether with Simpson in Season 1, or Griffin and Malcolm during Season 2.
  • Jessica in Season 2 gets a case of this when she first sleeps with Oscar. She wakes up in Oscar's bed and is a bit embarrassed by the fact that Oscar has been painting her sleeping form. He gives her the completed painting by the end of the episode.
• Jupiter's Legacy:
  • On the morning after Chloe hooked up with Nick, she has a sheet around her chest.
  • Grace too covers herself with a sheet when Sheldon stops having sex with her.
• Killjoys: D'avin and Sabine's sex scene has her pulling up a sheet over her breasts as she falls back while hemorrhaging green plasma, whereas previously the camera was simply panned below to conceal them.
• Krypton: The pilot has a scene where Seg and Lyta-Zod make love, albeit with both under Modesty Bedsheets.
• Law & Order: Mostly played straight whenever police raid a home and, unfortunately, find the suspect intimately, erm, you know the rest. It's played for laughs in an earlier episode, when the police are handcuffing a mostly-naked perp; Det. Logan approaches his girlfriend to tell her to dress up, but she promptly drops her bedsheet in a case of Toplessness from the Back. He actually isn't amused.
• A League of Their Own (2022): Carson and Greta have the sheets around them after they have sex.
• The American version of Life On Mars had a particularly baffling instance of the magic bra. A Hooker with a Heart of Gold seduces the protagonist by taking her bra off in front of him (with her back to the camera) and jumping into his bed. In the following sex scene, she's enthusiastically bouncing away on top of him... with her bra put back on to keep things US-TV-safe.
  • This is a nearly shot-for-shot remake of a sequence from the original British series, but in that version she remains topless for the sex scene (as is permitted by post-watershed UK broadcast standards.)
• Lost
  • Subverted with James and Juliette: when they wake up in the morning and he gets up to pick up the phone, he has a shirt on, and she, while having nothing top-region on, keeps lying with her back up (while half-asleep, so this even looks genuine). Played straight later when she gets up and pulls the sheets up along with her.
  • Played all too straight in "The Economist", when Sayid is lying naked in bed with a woman whose navel is exposed, and yet has a sheet strategically placed across her bosoms.
• The L Word: Alone of the main cast, Bette covers her breasts with a sheet post coitus, as a result of Jennifer Beals' apparent refusal to show hers (Bette's never seen topless in the show or Generation Q, the Sequel Series).
• Mad Men:
  • A Sexposition scene presents Suzanne beneath a bed sheet in "The Color Blue".
  • In "The Grown Ups", Peggy is under one of these when she and Duck are watching the television news about Kennedy.
  • During Megan's stay in Hawaii in "The Doorway", she's gotten into the habit of sleeping nude, but still has a bed sheet covering her. When she gets out of bed, she does shrugs off the sheet, but still has her bare back to the camera.
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel:
  • In the Season 1 finale, after being startled awake beside Joel, Midge gets up and starts stumbling around the room wrapped in her bedsheet, while Joel has put on underwear at some point in the night. She slips into a bathrobe off-screen.
  • In Season 3, when Joel and Midge have a one-night stand while drunk in Las Vegas, the same thing happens again. Joel tosses Midge a bathrobe as she crawls out from under the covers.
  • When Midge and Lenny have sex in the Season 4 finale, they’re covered with a sheet below their waists during the actual love scene. She chooses a Sexy Shirt Switch when she gets up later, rather than the bedsheet wrap.
• In UK mini-series Mister Eleven, the protagonist and Hot Teacher Saz has dreams where she's lecturing her class, explaining to them the logic about her decisions in her love life, all while clad in only a sheet that keeps threatening to drop as she talks. The L-shaped sheet is also used when Saz does sleep with her Love Interest.
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: May in the fourth episode's flashbacks has the bedsheet covering her chest when she's lying in bed with Kentaro after sex.
• Motherland: Fort Salem: Multiple times Raelle and Scylla are shown in bed together after having sex offscreen with the covers around one or both of their chests.
• The Nanny had an interesting Did They or Didn't They? plot nearly completely ruined by this. Fran wanders into Maxwell's bedroom one night and when they're discovered the next morning, everybody is speculating whether or not they had done the deed since neither could remember the night before (she was drunk, he was heavily sedated by cold medicine.) While the episode finally concludes they didn't (with a quick Ship Tease at the end implying they did,) the super-modest way the scene was staged left most fans wondering how any of the characters thought they could have in the first place, since they were on opposite sides of a very large, perfectly made bed, both fully dressed (Max in pajamas, Fran in her underdress,) and as mentioned above, with neither in any state to get dressed again afterward.
• NCIS: In the Season 3 episode The Voyeur's Web, Tony and Ziva must fake having sex in order to pass for the married assassins they are impersonating. They alternate between the "completely covered by bedsheet" missionary position and Ziva on top, shot from behind. Five seasons later, it's implied that they weren't faking after all.
• Never Have I Ever: After having sex with Ben and later Ethan, Devi is shown lying in bed afterward with the covers around her chest.
• New Girl: Cece and Schmidt frequently make use of these when they sleep together.
  • In "Fancyman Part 2", Winston ends up borrowing Schmidt's SUV car for an emergency drive to Mexico, not realizing Cece and Schmidt were having sex at the back of the car. He's stopped the border, and the border agent and Wiston find both at the back of the car, both covering themselves with a road map as if it were a bedsheet.
  • One memorable case when Cece wrapped up in Schmidt's blankets before walking out into a living room full of his roommates. Of course, why she didn't just put on her own clothes, or even his, before wandering around in front of his friends is another question.
  • In yet another case of this trope defeating its own purpose on this show, Schmidt wraps a small sheet around himself and comes into the kitchen to complain to the others about how he'd been unsuccessful in "getting something going with myself." With his bedroom door open.
• Nos4a 2: After having sex with Carmody, Vic's got the covers around her chest.
• Noughts & Crosses: Sephy has the covers up over her breasts in bed beside Callum after they have sex.
• On Once Upon a Time (2011), Emma Swan and her son Henry walk in on Snow and Charming in bed clearly post-coital, and luckily under a Modesty Bedsheet. Henry is only eleven and is oblivious, asking why they're sleeping in the afternoon but Emma is scarred for life because while they are about the same age because of a magic curse, they're still her parents.
• Discussed on One Day at a Time (2017), when Elena is getting ready to have sex with her girlfriend Syd for Their First Time.

  Elena: I just feel like in the movies they just skip to, like, the end of this.
  Syd: Yeah, boom, one of us has the sheet here, the other has it down here.

• One Tree Hill:
  • Used constantly throughout the series with Nathan and Haley. They are often seen Talking in Bed post-sex covered with a bedsheet. It came in handy at least once when Dan walked in on Hayley wearing only this, which made her very uncomfortable.
  • Brooke and Julian are also often seen wearing only in post-sex scenes where they're Talking in Bed, although often Julian is just shirtless and still wearing pants.
  • In "Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking", Both Jake and Peyton are shown wearing this while having sex.
  • In "Almost Everything I Wish I'd Said The Last Time I Saw You...", Quinn and Clay are in bed after sex, with both of them covered by a bedsheet. Quinn is sleeping on her stomach so Clay starts pulling the sheet down so he can admire her bare back.
• The Order (2019): Once after waking up naked post-werewolf transformation in a room with Randall, Jack and Hamish, Lilith (who's initially behind a couch) covers herself quickly with a blanket. This is odd as before the werewolves showed no nudity taboo.
• The Orville: Whenever Keyali and LaMarr sleep together, her inhuman strength during Destructo-Nookie causes him to break one or more of his bones and go to sickbay. This scene starts with a closeup on Keyali, then moves back to reveal LaMarr with his face covered in bruises, both under an L sheet.
• Pandora: Jax greets Xander while in his bed with the sheet around her chest. Since they have been an intimate couple for a while he obviously saw her naked before and they're in private; this is clearly done for the actress's sake.
• Party of Five (2020): Natalia has a sheet covering her breasts the morning after she sleeps with Emilio.
• Pasión de gavilanes: As a classic Telenovela, sheets are frequently used to conceal nudity whenever couples are shown in bed post-sex. The Remake A Passion for Revenge also plays this straight, but tends to show more skin with the men showing more of their bare chests while the girls show their bare backs.
• Pivoting: After having sex with Brian Sarah is shown lying beside him as a blanket covers her up to chest level.
• Pretty Little Liars:
  • Used by various couples during sex scenes throughout the show, although many times the characters are still in their underwear. Notably, Spencer is almost always wearing her lover's shirt.
  • In "Game On, Charles", The Liars fail to escape A's dollhouse and get hit with a Knockout Gas. They wake up later in a morgue-like room, and notice that they've been undressed and only have a bedsheet draped over their naked bodies. Spencer theorizes A took photos of them like that to send to their families so that they assume they were dead and would stop looking for them.
• Princess Agents: Yuwen Yue walks into his room to find a naked woman in his bed. She holds the sheet around her chest at first. When she drops it the camera only shows her from the shoulders up (or from behind).
• The Professionals. In "A Hiding To Nothing", Doyle and his Girl of the Week are woken by burglars after they've had sex. Doyle puts on jeans and the woman has the blanket wrapped around her, but we're given a few glimpses of skin to show that they're naked underneath. The trope is played straight with another couple later on; the Latin Lover showing his hairy chest but his middle-aged female lover has the sheet cover her breasts.
• The Punisher (2017). Averted in "Gunner" by having Dinah Madani refuse to take off the bandage wrapping her midsection (from her near death in a car crash) before having rather frantic sex with Russo. Played straight post-coitus in the following episode, because she's taken the bandage off then.
• In Quantico, Alex has a bedsheet over her breasts when answering the phone after she has just had sex with Ryan, so we the audience won't see anything.
• Although it was rare for things to get that far, Quantum Leap used this on occasion:
  • "The Play's The Thing" saw Sam leap in just as a couple are awakening after a night together; the woman's grownup son makes an impromptu entrance, and she clutches the bedclothes higher around her. Sam feels very much at a disadvantage but it's nothing to how exposed he'll be later in the episode.
  • "Temptation Eyes" has Al paying a visit as Sam is still in bed with his sleeping girlfriend: he's covered to the waist, she's tucked in. Sam then gets up to reveal he's wearing boxers with little hearts on, for which Al promptly teases him.
  • "Trilogy: Part II" plays this straightest, as Sam leaps in mid-sex-scene in a sticky Louisiana night. Sam's body mostly obscures his partner's, both have the sheets partially wrapped around them, and they become increasingly tangled as the girl's disapproving guardian bursts in on them and tells Sam he has five minutes to get out of there.
  • There are a few instances of female toplessness in the show, but not in bed.
• The Republic of Sarah: Corinne wraps the bedcovers around her torso after she had slept with Danny.
• Revolution:
  • The "The Longest Day", shows Nora and Miles in bed under a sheet in the morning after they slept together in the last episode. Notably, the sheet is very low on her legs and the scene starts with giving them a panning shot as it travels up her body. Miles simply has his up to his waist and the camera doesn't linger on him.
  • In "Happy Endings", Charlie seduces Connor in Vegas and we later cut to a shot of her collapsing into a pile of hay after they're done, with her clutching a blanket to her chest while Conner is shirtless.
• The Rookie (2018): Chen and Nolan each have their own when they're seen post-sex in "Time of Death".
• Roswell, New Mexico: Isobel in "Kiss From A Rose" has a sheet wrapped around her chest after she had slept with Kyle, who's bare-chested.
• Parodied on a Saturday Night Live sketch with Alec Baldwin showing various Soap Opera clips where both men and women walk away from the bed with a sheet already attached and covering their body without them holding it!
• Schitt's Creek: "Honeymoon" opens with David and Stevie in bed with the red satin motel sheets pulled up to their necks after their unexpected tryst. This works In-Universe because the pair is mortified and don't want to be showing their bodies to each other or in David's case, to himself. They also later mention that the presence of a mirrored ceiling is freaking them both out.
• Second Chance (2016): In "Palimpsest", we see Mary gasping softly before rolling off her Friends with Benefits billionaire lover, with both of them mostly covered by the bedsheets, save for some Toplessness from the Back. Their ensuing business talk also happens while both of them are under the blankets.
• The Secret Circle:
  • Friends with Benefits Melissa and Nick are always shown under the bedsheets after they sleep together, when they climb out of bed, Nick puts on his pants and remains shirtless while Melissa puts on her lingerie and remain like that for the rest of the scene.
  • After Faye And Jake sleep together with a Sexy Discretion Shot and the next morning we see both of them sleeping under a modesty blanket. When they get out of bed, they're also both show to still be wearing underwear although Faye is still topless.
  • When Adam and Cassie sleep together they're both shown with the bedsheet up to their chests.
• Sex and the City: Sarah Jessica Parker was criticized for relying on these techniques to avoid topless scenes, which all three of her co-stars performed.
• Shadowhunters: Utilized whenever a couple is shown in bed post-sex. Special mention goes in the finale with the Seelie Queen and her lover under a sheet made out of grass.
• Sherlock: Invoked in "A Scandal In Belgravia" by the title character, of all people. In the middle of Buckingham Palace. He Sleeps in the Nude and was simply too lazy to put his clothes on before Mycroft's people hauled him off for a meeting. He's quick to grab the sheet when it starts to slide off (because his brother Mycroft stepped on it to keep him from walking away). He is, however, willing to use the threat of abandoning the sheet as leverage against Mycroft, who is already ticked off about his state of undress and calls his bluff.

  Mycroft: We are in Buckingham Palace, the very heart of the British nation. Sherlock Holmes, put your trousers on!

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World:
  • In "Cave of Fear", Professor Challenger and Cassandra are under a fur blanket after sleeping together, although he still noticeably has his shirt on
  • In "The Visitor", Veronica is sleeping naked at the tree-house when she hears Danu sneaking out of the house. She quickly wraps the sheets around herself like a dress and grabs the dagger under her pillow before rushing to investigate.
• Skins: When Jal and Cassie find Chris passed naked on the sofa, they cover him with a bedsheet. Cassie also takes pity on his Teeny Weenie and rearranges his Modesty Bedsheet to create a big tent shape.
• Smallville:
  • "Crusade" has two Fanservice-heavy examples with both Clark and Lana.
    • Lois finds Clark naked and brainwashed on a cornfield and decides to take him to a hospital, but first gives Clark a red blanket for him to cover himself with. Not really understanding modesty in this state of mind he drops the sheet soon after they get to the hospital, to the annoyance of an orderly and the joy of a nurse.
    • After touching Countess Isobel's tomb, Lana ends up losing consciousness and the next time she awakens she's nude back in her bed with a sheet draped over, seemingly strategically placed to show as most skin as possible but still keeping the essential bits covered. When Jason starts knocking on the door she wraps the sheet around herself before getting up to answer the door.
  • "Bound" begins with Lex seducing a woman during an event. They end up in bed soon after, but all the action is hidden by the bedsheet. When he wakes up the morning after, he finds her dead body next to him both of them still covered by a bloodied bedsheet.
  • Clark and Lana both share a modesty duvet the morning after they had Their First Time in "Hidden". We see Clark was wearing boxer shorts when he gets out of bed.
  • In "Bizarro", when Chloe comes Back from the Dead thanks to her healing powers she wakes up at a morgue with a bedsheet covering her.
  • "Persona"'s intro has Lana and Bizarro (who's pretending to be Clark to be with Lana).
  • In "Committed", Oliver is seen with a sheet up to his waist in bed after his night with Tess, who's already dressed up in a robe.
  • In "Requiem", Clark and Lana's super-powered lovemaking breaks the bed but they're still both covered by the bedsheet. When Lana gets out of bed, she uses her new Super-Speed powers to get dressed in an instant.
  • In "Injustice", Tess finds Oliver in her bedroom waiting for her naked under the bedsheets. But she rejects him and tells him to put his pants back on and leave.
  • During Season 9 Lois starts Dreaming of Things to Come of a Bad Future, which includes scenes of her and Clark having sex, but still covered with bedsheets even in her dream. When they do end up sleeping together, we see Lois getting up and dragging the sheet along with her as she walks to the balcony. Clark hugs her from behind soon, wearing pants put still shirtless as they watch the sunset together.
  • In "Escape", Tess and Zod sexually charged "partnership" finally ends with them in bed, where we see them after the act under a red satin bedsheet.
  • When Tess is Back from the Dead in "Lazarus", she awakens at Cadmus Labs with nothing but a hospital sheet covering, which she quickly replaces with a lab coat.
  • In "Luthor", when Clark Kent wakes up in another reality in the body of his Earth-2 counterpart he finds himself in a Bed Full of Women with everyone covered up by a bedsheet.
  • Oliver and Chloe are under a blanket after they have sex in "Beacon".
• Smash:
  • In the "Pilot" episode, Karen and her boyfriend Dev are seen post-coital under an L-shaped sheet. "The Bells and Whistles" also shown them both in bed but this time the sheet is on their waist, with Karen sleeping on her stomach showing Toplessness from the Back.
  • Both Ivy and Derek are seen under a bedsheet during the many times we see them having sex. In "Let's Be Bad" Ivy wraps the sheet around herself before going downstairs to find Derek.
  • The In-Universe Broadway musical based on Marilyn Monroe has the character wearing a bedsheet in several scenes. In the episode "The Coup", Karen's performance as Marilyn for the song "Touch Me" also has her wearing only a sheet wrapped around her while dancers playing paparazzi swirl around her.
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Played With in "The Red Serpent". After sleeping together, we see Sura and Spartacus cuddling under a bedsheet that carefully covers their bodies, but then the Romans arrive and take Sura away, exposing her breasts in the process as well as most of Spartacus's body. In a bit of Continuity Snarl when this scene is flashbacked in future seasons, she's donning a Modesty Bedsheet differently depending on the season.
• The Spencer Sisters: Darby quickly wraps herself in her bedsheet after waking up the next morning beside Des following them sleeping together, with her afraid of him being caught there by her mom.
• Star Trek:
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine:
    • In "Change of Heart", we see Worf and Jadzia getting ready for bed. As soon as Worf is finished praying Jadzia's nightgown hits him in the head and he turns to see a naked Jadzia waiting for him under the fur covers and he's quick to join her as the scene fades away and we cut to a scene of them snuggling still under the covers, although Worf is still wearing his full-body pajamas while Jadzia is clearly nude. When Kira calls them for an emergency, Jadzia just groans and burrows beneath the covers and Worf has to yank them off to get her to wake up (we only see her bare legs and as she complains).
    • "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River" opens with Odo giving Kira a back massage in her quarters while she's using a bedsheet to cover her lower half. She also hugs the sheet around her chest when she sits up to talk to him.
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation:
    • In "Ménage à Troi", after kidnapping them, Daimon Tog orders Deanna and Lwaxana Troi beamed out of their clothes so he can ogle them. Annoyed, the Trois wrap themselves in some nearby sheets. Tog complains, but accepts it when Lwaxana points out the room is cold.
    • In "Tapestry", Picard, while reliving his youth, has sex with his Best Friend. The next morning, Picard rolls over in bed to see Q laying next to him, on top of the covers. Startled, Picard pulls the sheet up (for some reason, over his chest) while talking to Q, until he realizes exactly what he has done, and relaxes his hand a little.
  • Star Trek: Voyager: In "The Disease", Tal wakes up naked but wrapped in a bedsheet, to see Harry standing dressed in his underclothes and brooding over how he's breaking Starfleet regulations with their Secret Relationship. Tal of course urges him to Come Back to Bed, Honey.
• Stranger Things: In "The Sauna Test", Hopper wakes up naked under a Modesty Bedsheet on his couch after being beaten into unconsciousness by Grigori in the previous episode. He is nursed by Joyce who apparently brought him home and undressed him. Hopper only realizes that fact when he gets up and feels himself without clothes. An embarrassed Joyce turns her head and nods at the direction of his clothes.
• Supernatural:
  • In "Heart", when Madison wakes up as a human after a night spent as a werewolf, she is naked under the bedsheets. She wraps the sheet around herself when she gets out of bed and asks Sam what is going on. They also both make use of it later when Sam and Madison are cuddling under the sheets after having sex. The sheet is only up to their waist, displaying Sam's bare chest and Madison's bare back.
  • In "What Is And What Should Never Be", Dean Adventures in Comaland start by him waking up in bed next to the Girl of My Dreams white both are tucked under the bedsheets.
  • The TV-friendly missionary position version is used in the interrupted sex scene in the episode "The Monster at the End of This Book". This would work a lot better if one of the participants were not Lilith.
  • Later in Season 8, we're given "after" scene between Sam and Amelia, where the camera slowly pans across a trail of clothes littered across the floor to the bed... where Sam is wearing a t-shirt, presumably some type of bottoms, and has a sheet pulled up to mid-torso. Amelia has bare arms and has a modesty sheet tucked around her chest and it seems to be implying from their harsh breathing and heavy sighing that they're engaging in post-coital cuddling.
  • In "LOTUS", Lucifer, posing as Rooney, sleeps with Rooney's lover Kelly. In the aftermath, we see them both in bed wearing modesty bedsheets while Kelly conveniently reminisces about their Secret Relationship, giving exposition to both Lucifer and the audience.
• Swamp Thing (1990): The episode "The Living Image" has a scene where Dr. Anton Arcane is in bed with the woman he's hired to manipulate Swamp Thing by impersonating Alec Holland's deceased wife Linda Holland, the woman's chest obscured by the bedsheet so things are kept appropriate for network television.
• S.W.A.T. (2017):
  • After having sex with Hondo, Nichelle has a sheet wrapped around her chest.
  • Chris has this later, covering herself after waking up alone in a motel room post sex with a guy.
• Take Two:
  • In "About Last Night", Eddie and Sam wake up together in bed, both naked under the bedsheets with no idea how they ended up there. When she leaves the bed to search for their clothes she takes the sheet with her as cover, leaving Eddie to resort to using a pillow to cover himself.
  • In the finale,both Sam and Eddie make use of it again when they actually sleep together.
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: In Season 2, Derek and his New Old Flame Jesse are seen under the bedsheets whenever they sleep together.
• This Way Up: Lampshaded by Áine when she's in bed with Richard:

  Áine: I love when, you know, when you see two characters in a scene who've clearly just had sex and obviously seen each other naked. But clearly an actor isn't comfortable, they got something in their contracts so they're like, "Okay, well, I'm just gonna slip to the bathroom" and then they're like-" [starts to yank the entire duvet off the bed as she gets out of it]

• True Blood:
  • Used rather blatantly after Sookie and Eric have sex. Borders on Fridge Logic since Sookie was on full display moments ago.
  • Deborah Ann Woll has had a "no-nudity" clause in her contract since the start of True Blood. The measures the show takes to keep Jessica Hamby's nipples hidden in sex scenes while showing almost every other square inch of her body are heroic. Also possibly mandated by HBO since Jessica is supposed to be permanently underaged.
• Twenties: Hattie and Ida have the sheets around their chests after they have sex.
• The Umbrella Academy (2019):
  • In "The Swedish Job" after they have sex Lila is shown lying beside Diego with the covers carefully wrapped around her chest, which she even holds in place before getting up.
  • In "Valhalla" Vanya and Sissy are both seen with the covers around their chests after waking up together after they had sex on the night before.
• The Undeclared War: Saara is shown with the bedsheets around her breasts this way twice, once while she's in bed with James, then later Kathy.
• The Vampire Diaries:
  • In "Children of The Damned", Elena and Stefan cover themselves with a sheet when Damon suddenly wakes up. They're both in nightwear, but Elena is still embarrassed by the intrusion.
  • After Damon seduces and sleeps with Rebekah in Season 3 we see both under the bedsheets, with her almost fully covered while Damon is exposing most of his chest.
  • In the Season 5 opener with Elena narrating what the rest of the cast is doing, she mentions Rebekah and Matt being in Europe and we see both in a fancy bedroom with a sheet-wrapped Rebekah bringing champagne to Matt who is also under a bedsheet in bed. And then a Fanservice Extra also pops out from under the sheets.
  • In "Fifty Shades of Grayson", we see Katherine and Stefan under the bedsheets after sleeping together in the last episode. She wakes up and begins to cuddle him when she notices grey hair on the sheets, a sign of her Rapid Aging after being cured of vampirism. She panics and leaps out of bed while completely draping herself in the sheet while ordering Stefan not to turn around as she doesn't want him to see her in that state.
  • "Rescue Me" opens with Elena and Damon under the sheets after a case of Sex with the Ex. The sheets are positioned in such a way as to expose Damon's bare chest as well as Elena's legs.
  • In "I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime", when Elena and Damon have sex at a barn both their waist are covered by a blanket, while Elena still has her bra on.
• Veronica Mars:
  • "Mars, Bars": When we find Mac in bed with her boyfriend, the sheet covers him at the waist, though she has the sheet cinched tight clear up to her neck.
  • In "The Rapes of Graff", Keith getting a phone call from Cliff and then finding him in an apartment, Chained to a Bed naked except for a blanket covering his private parts and having had his briefcase stolen by the woman who he seduced and tied him. When Keith asks Cliff how he made the phone call, he responds, "Acrobatically".
• The Walking Dead (2010): At the end of "Walk With Me", The Governor sits in his apartment and sips brandy while Rowan sleeps face down in his bed, with only a bedsheet up to her waist preserving her modesty.
• War of the Worlds (2019): After having sex, Kariem and Emily have a blanket over them both up to chest level.
• The Wheel of Time (2021): After she's had sex with Rand offscreen, Egwene is shown sitting with a blanket around her.
• White Collar: Utilized in almost every post-sex scene with Neal's Love Interests.
  • In "Forging Bonds", both Alex and Kate wrap themselves in a sheet after having sex with Neal. Kate and Neal actually fight over the sheet when getting out of bed, with him walking naked in the apartment after she wins.
  • In "Scott Free", Sara wakes up wearing one the morning after she sleeps with Neal.
  • In "Wanted", Maya and Neal and seen wearing the "L shaped" one after sleeping together.
  • "No Good Deed" opens with a post-coital Neal and Rebecca Talking in Bed while both each has their own separate sheet.
• Why Women Kill: When shown in bed after having sex, female characters have the sheets carefully covering their breasts each time.
• The Wilds: In one flashback of Fatin after having sex with a guy, she's got the bedclothes around her chest.
• Witches of East End:
  • The pilot episode shows Dash rolling off Freya in bed after they have their "goodbye sex" before he leaves the country for a while, both carefully wrapped under a bedsheet.
  • The Sex Montage of all three couples (Jenna & Killian, Ingrid & Dash, Wendy & Tommy) I'm "Sex, Lies and Birthday Cake" ends with all three couples cuddling under conveniently placed blankets or bedsheets.
• Xena: Warrior Princess:
  • In "Adventures in the Sin Trade Part 1", we hear Xena and Borias shout and grunt as they frolic beneath a wolf pelt while having sex. Once they're finished, they both wrap themselves in pelts as they get up.
  • "Succession" opens with Mavican and Ares going at it under the bedsheets. When they both emerge, they keep both keep the sheet up to their shoulders, but neither of them brings the bedsheet along when they climb out of bed as Ares dresses extremely quickly and Mavican is only seen from the shoulders up.
• You Me Her: After they have sex the female characters will have something covering their chests while their male partners are barechested.
• Y: The Last Man (2021): After having a tryst with Mike, Hero lies with a blanket around her chest on the gurney.

• Highlander: Amanda has an Immortal-specific card called Distract, which is a dodge that covers the whole grid with no penalty, and the 2nd edition illustration had her dressed solely in a bedsheet.

• The Normal Heart: When Felix and Ned are tangled together in bed after making love for the first time, a bedsheet covers the relevant bits.
• Sheri in Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World covers herself with the bedsheet when Gamila walks in on her.

• The L-shaped bedsheet version occurs in 7 Grand Steps when a waist-up depiction of a couple in bed is shown.
• All of the Agarest Senki games have this with one of three of the Love Interest of the protagonist of the generation, provided you have reached the maximum heart rating for the said Love Interest.
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood: Ezio and Caterina Sforza are under red bedsheets after sleeping together, and ready for another round before they're interrupted by the Papal's forces invading Monteriggioni.
• Catherine:
  • All the times that Vincent wakes up and finds Catherine asleep next to him in bed, they're both covered by a bedsheet. Vincent is still wearing Goofy Print Underwear while Catherine is nude but keeps hidden via Shoulders-Up Nudity.
  • In Full Body, a new animated flashback with Vincent and Katherine in bed post-sex and snuggling under the sheets.
• Criminal Case: Pacific Bay: Karen Knight wears one when the player and Amy walk in on her and she slept with Frank.
• In the opening cutscene of Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Vollyball, Helena Sleeps in the Nude in bed with a bedsheet covering most of her body.
• Used for both Trish and Lady in Devil May Cry 5. When saved from being used as Living Battery for Artemis and Cavalier Angelo they are both are left nude in the aftermath and the characters give them a Modesty Bedsheet for cover. Badass Abnormal Trish just makes her outfit again with magic once she's better, but Badass Normal Lady is stuck with just the sheet for some time. Lady actually allows her's to slip off her body giving Nico, who just recently admitted while Lady was still unconscious that she has a smoking hot body, a good long look and the player an equally generous shot from her backside. Barring just a tiny bit of Lens Flare Censor on her butt to preserve an equally tiny bit of modesty.
• Game of Thrones (Telltale): If Rodrik manages to maintain his engagement with Elaena Glenmore and chooses to comfort her after the death of her brother, they end up sleeping together. When next we see them, Elaena is still in bed under the bedsheets while Rodrik is already up but still shirtless. Soon after Talia comes in his room to talk to Rodrik and Elaena awkwardly quickly covers herself with the covers, then exits the room with them still wrapped around her so Rodrik can speak with his sister.
• Gravity Rush: One cutscene shows Kat Sleeps in the Nude in her sewer "home", and the only thing preserving her modesty is a bedsheet draped over her, which she also holds to her chest as she sits up.
• Haunting Ground's opening has Fiona awaken to find herself in a cage at the cellar of Belli Castle, with all of her clothes removed and left with only a bedsheet to cover herself with. She wraps it around her like a dress and stays with it for a while until she finds a change of clothes.
• Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon: Chapter 3 begins with a cutscene showing that Aluche Sleeps in the Nude, with her bedsheet covering her important areas, but still showing a lot of her legs and cleavage.
• Room Break: Juliet wears one (and a pillow across her chest) constantly, except during the intro and ending of Episode 1.
• Sakura Wars (1996): In an animated cutscene in chapter 3, Maria has a Catapult Nightmare about her experiences in the Russian Revolution and it's shown she Sleeps in the Nude covered by a modesty bedsheet.
• Trauma Center: Patients have bedsheets on their waists to conceal their nudity during operations. Female patients get a second sheet placed just on their breasts.
• The American version of The Witcher used this to censor some sex cards, and both versions use it on the first card for Triss.
• Xenogears
  • Early on we see the villainous couple Ramsus and Miang under one in bed, implying their relationship is more than just commander and subordinate. Ramsus is revealed to be wearing briefs when he gets up for a walk, while Miang is shown to be nude when she sits up, showing her Toplessness from the Back to the camera.
  • Near the end of the game Fei and Elly have their Pre-Climax Climax via a Sexy Discretion Shot. After the Fade to Black scene, it cuts to Fei having just finished getting dressed with Elly is still in bed under a bedsheet and soon does the whole "sitting up in bed with the sheet pulled up over her breasts" schtick.

• Animamundi Dark Alchemist: In one of the endings, Georik breaks into Mikhail's room who is sleeping in the nude in a bed filled with roses (show in a CG image) with the sheet hiding anything below his waist. Notably, when the scene changes back to sprites he's back to being fully clothed in his usual outfit.
• Golden Time ~Vivid Memories~: One of the final CG images has Kouko in a Modesty Bedsheet after having slept with Banri.
• One Night Stand: The game begins with a Bedmate Reveal shot of Robin asleep next to you naked, but only her bare back is visible as the blanket obscures her bottom.

• Despite being fully-clothed, Dubious Company's Elly pulls the bedsheet over his chest during Raque's attempt at seduction.
• Girl Genius:
• In one issue of the Heroes webcomic, Company agent Penny Logan is holding up a sheet over her chest as she bolts upright after waking up in a motel bed with her sleeping colleague Eric Thompson Jr., with this censorship and abrupt modesty fitting in well with her guilt and humiliation over having a drunken one-night stand she didn’t mean to have at the beginning of the night after having shapeshifted into another body and not telling Thompson who she was.
• Both varieties are used in How I Became Yours, both in chapter 4. L-shaped sheets are used in a scene between Zuko and Katara, and Toph covers herself with her bedsheets just before the Taang love scene.
• When the creators of Ménage à 3 decided that they had to eliminate their previously extensive depiction of female nipples in order to avoid the loss of advertising revenue, the use of bedsheets became more frequently visible in the comic during sex scenes, and more often clutched by female characters. In some cases, the geometry of the sheet in question seemed to be quite strange, possibly because the artist was unused to making these things plausible.
• Multiplex: Devi and Jason are both under an L-shaped bedsheet after they sleep together. This was actually Invoked by movie-buff Jason who requested this of her for their Talking in Bed scene.
• The Order of the Stick When Belkar comes back from ordering sandwiches, the woman he wooed during his rampage greets him clutching a bedsheet to her body and trying to convince him to come back to bed.
• In Out There, characters (mostly the females) are sometimes shown bathing, undressing, or lounging in bed. Usually they are seen from the shoulders up, or from the rear; otherwise, a bedsheet provides cover. Interestingly, Rebecca and Wally, the only married couple in the strip, are also the only people ever portrayed under the sheets ''together;'' non-married couples are usually seen fully clothed, laying on ''top'' of the sheets.
• Rhapsodies:
• Sandra on the Rocks: To prove that she doesn't have body modesty problems, Sandra tells Tatiana and her other trainers that she'll have to cross the street to Pierre's bakery naked save for bedsheet. But when she finally gets to the bakery the sheet gets caught on a door, leaving her naked in front of her crush Pierre.
• Skin Horse: Tip is trying to distract Dr. Lee by seducing her. She notices it and dares him to "hit her with his best shot". Smash Cut to both of them post-sex in bed, with disheveled Dr. Lee clutching the bedsheet to her chest in awe of what just happened.
• In The Wretched Ones, Yayne has been seen nude in bed on more than one occasion, with only her blankets keeping the comic from being marked 'mature'.
• Yumi's Cells has plenty of Sexy Discretion Shots, but the most explicit one is of Yumi and Babi embracing under a bedsheet, naked from the shoulders up, while Yumi's cells are hungover from a "party".

• The tradition mocked in this Deviation.
• The L-shaped sheet is skewered in this Cracked article, this CollegeHumor article, and this Cracked video. The Cracked video also skewers over clichés like the Gilligan Cut, sitcoms returning from commercial breaks with the last line of dialogue that was said beforehand, forced exposition, TV broadcasts coming on that conveniently have information for the character, Wake Up Make Up, and more:

  "You're in bed with an amazing woman with whom you've just had tremendous, beautiful-people-sex. All is going well until you realize that, post-coitus, you'll still have to share a bed in your combined nudity. It's too warm to go completely under the covers, but that doesn't mean you should have to stare at her disgusting, perfectly sculpted breasts while you're trying to sleep, right? His n' Hers has the answer."

• Dead Fantasy: In a preview for the canceled episode VI shows an unfinished scene of Tifa Lockhart waking up in bed naked under a bedsheet, implied to be a case of Undressing the Unconscious after her fight with Hayate. Notably when she sits up the sheet stays glued to her chest up even without anything holding it up.
• Russell Brand used this trope. In a video in which he talked about his pornography addiction, he covered himself with bedsheets while leaving his torso almost exposed.
• Kontrola: Natalia and Majka are generally shown with the bedsheets around their chests after having sex with someone.

• Futurama:
  • Parodied in "The Prisoner of Benda". Leela still has the "female" version of this despite the fact that she's in the Professor's body.
  • Also happens with Morgan Proctor. She gets caught having sex with Fry in Bender's closet; she then runs out to catch a taxi with the bedsheet covering her when Bender figures out the truth about her. When Bender first walks in, she gasps and pulls the bedsheet up over her chest... and then Fry does the same thing.
• Gargoyles: In "Heritage", Elisa Maza and the Gargoyles are attacked by sea monsters and Eliza ends up falling into the water and washes up unconscious in Queen Florence Island. She's rescued by the villagers but gets hypothermia and the locals undress her to get rid of her wet clothes and tuck her in a bed and she stays nude under a bedsheet for a while until she's recovered.
• Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids: "The Princess's Clothes" has the episode's ill-behaved child who gets taught a lesson being a spoiled girl named Felicity who is obsessed with fancy clothes. A witch named Miss Shears punishes her by giving her a pair of enchanted scissors, which the girl uses to snip the plain clothes her mother bought for her to pieces. The scissors end up destroying Felicity's fancy clothes as well. With nothing else to wear, Felicity has no choice but to go to school wrapped in a bedsheet.
• Harley Quinn (2019):
  • In "A High Bar", Ivy finds Kite-Man naked under the bedsheets in her bed, Ready for Lovemaking after their "date". She's quick to tell him to Please Put Some Clothes On.
  • "Bachelorette" shows Harley and Ivy both covered by a bedsheet when they wake up together after having sex.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Played for Laughs in the teaser of "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000", where Rainbow Dash wakes up Fluttershy, who Sleeps in the Nude. Despite clothing being a formal thing only in Equestria — they're ponies, after all — Fluttershy has a Naked Freak-Out and pulls the bedsheet up upon being awakened and when Rainbow removes it, she blushes and cups her hooves where her breasts aren't.
• Moonbeam City: In "Cop Con", Dazzle and Pizzaz first love scene together has Pizzaz's skirt used as a Modesty Bedsheet for both her and Dazzle, whereas in their second, her right arm and the shredded window curtain barely cover the absolute minimum on her body. Dazzle is still wearing boxer briefs for some inexplicable reason.
• The Simpsons:
  • Parodied in one episode, with Homer's chest covered by the L-shaped sheet and Marge relying on strategically placed arms.
  • Edna Krabbapel in one scene in which she is covered in a Spider-Man t-shirt (that's so large it might as well be a bedsheet) after having sex with Comic Book Guy in her apartment.
• Steven Universe: Future: In "I Am My Monster", after his Kaiju transformation destroyed his clothing Steven wakes up wearing only a blanket that someone presumably wrapped him in.
• South Park:
  • In the episodes "Go God Go'' & ''Go God Go XII", when Richard Dawkins and Mr/s Garrison have sex, a bedsheet covers where all the "action" is.
  • In Season 4, when Cartman's house is destroyed, a beam covers where Liane and "Bill Cosby" are having traditional sex.