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* ''ComicStrip/{{Luann}}'': The fire station decides to do a "sexy firefighters" calendar to raise money. Toni is on the cover, but she's the only female firefighter to pose, leading to some straight men being disappointed that it's all dudes. [[PeripheryDemographic It proves popular with gay men, though.]]
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Luann}}'': The fire station decides to do a "sexy firefighters" calendar to raise money. Toni is on the cover, but she's the only female firefighter to pose, leading to some straight men being disappointed that it's all dudes. [[PeripheryDemographic It proves popular with gay men, though.]]
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In order to raise funds for whatever reason most people resort to what sells best: [[SexSells sex]]. This itself usually takes two forms, [[HoodOrnamentHottie [[FanserviceCarWash bikini car wash]] or, especially for older people, the sexy workplace calendar.
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* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', after Mr. Goodshow injured himself, several of the Gym Leaders and Elite Four members put a swimsuit calender together for him as a get better present. Only three copies were made, with Goodshow having one of them and Erika recieving the second as a bribe from Lorelei.
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* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', after Mr. Goodshow injured himself, several of the Gym Leaders and Elite Four members put a swimsuit calender together for him as a get better present. Only three copies were made, with Goodshow having one of them and Erika recieving receiving the second as a bribe from Lorelei.
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* In ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'', guild leader Heathcliff ends up the prisoner of the so-called King of Ashes, the sadistic tyrant who took over Floor 75. But Heathcliff is eventually able to negotiate both his freedom and passage through the Floor so they can fight its raid boss, by promising to send the King some pictures of Asuna. All of this takes place offscreen, and is related through [[FreezeFrameBonus brief shots of in-game newspapers and e-mails.]]
-->'''Heathcliff's Message:''' Apparently they're preparing some kind of charity calendar for cancer research once we get out of here or something. Look, they've promised me it's all going to be very tasteful. Minor {{sideboob}} at most. [...] P.S. What is your thong size? It's for the calendar.
-->'''Heathcliff's Message:''' Apparently they're preparing some kind of charity calendar for cancer research once we get out of here or something. Look, they've promised me it's all going to be very tasteful. Minor {{sideboob}} at most. [...] P.S. What is your thong size? It's for the calendar.
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* ''Fanfic/ThingsIAmNotAllowedToDoAtThePPC'':
--> 89. Creating a swimsuit calendar for the PPC by superimposing Mary Sues over [[PlantAliens the Flowers]] is not funny.
--> 89. Creating a swimsuit calendar for the PPC by superimposing Mary Sues over [[PlantAliens the Flowers]] is not funny.
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* ''ComicStrip/DogsOfCKennel'': An attempt to create a pin-up calendar called "The Hunks of C-Kennel" turns out to be a bad idea: Iggy is too camera shy, Kenny can't sit still long enough, and Will won't stop making obscene gestures when he's being photographed.
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* Referenced in ''Series/CriminalMinds''. In a flashback to when Garcia first met Morgan (she's actually under investigation for hacking at the time), she says "Hey, when they do a Men of the FBI calendar is it just 12 pages of you?"
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* WebVideo/RyanGeorge's "The First Guy to Ever Be a Firefighter" video ends with the victim of the fire telling the firefighter to take his shirt off before putting out the fire, saying, "You're gonna be a genre of calendar, I've decided," much to the new firefighter's total confusion.
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* WebVideo/RyanGeorge's "The First Guy to Ever Be a Firefighter" video ends with the victim of the fire telling the firefighter to take his shirt off before putting out the fire, saying, "You're gonna be a genre of calendar, I've decided," much to the new firefighter's total confusion.
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* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': One of Lindsay's charity efforts involved posing for a "Ladies for Literacy" calendar (read: she had a photo taken of her with nothing covering her save for a copy of ''Literature/OliverTwist''.) It got a lot of middle-school boys interested in "books", but it had the side effect of nobody in the family wanting to look at the calendar anymore.
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* Shows up in a ''ComicBook/DonaldDuck'' comic by Creator/DonRosa, of all things. Scrooge looks through the trash Donald is about to throw out after cleaning out the office, and picks up a calendar which gets him... ''excited''. Donald, surprised at his [[SingleTargetSexuality normally chaste]] uncle's reaction, asks to see, only to find that it depicts the most beautiful ''banks'' in the world.
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* Shows up in a ''ComicBook/DonaldDuck'' comic by Creator/DonRosa, of all things. Scrooge looks through the trash Donald is about to throw out after cleaning out the office, and picks up a calendar which gets him... ''excited''. Donald, surprised at his [[SingleTargetSexuality normally chaste]] uncle's reaction, asks to see, only to find that it depicts the most beautiful ''banks'' in the world.
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* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', after Mr. Goodshow injured himself, several of the Gym Leaders and Elite Four members put a swimsuit calender together for him as a get better present. Only three copies were made, with Goodshow having one of them and Erika recieving the second as a bribe from Lorelei.
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* One ''Advertising/{{Progressive}}'' ad had the [[StrawmanProduct rival insurance company]] show Flo the bonus ''they'' give customers: a calendar with insurance men in sexy posts.
-->'''Rival Insurance Man''': You should see November!\\
'''Flo''': ''[flirty]'' Oh yeah?
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* One ''Advertising/{{Progressive}}'' ad had the [[StrawmanProduct rival insurance company]] show Flo the bonus ''they'' give customers: a calendar with insurance men in sexy posts.
-->'''Rival Insurance Man''': You should see November!\\
'''Flo''': ''[flirty]'' Oh yeah?
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Whilst the idea is international, British works will likely only use it as an {{homage}} to [[BasedOnATrueStory the real life]] "Calendar Girls", and include the models standing around a piano with one sitting on the bench and/or sunflowers. The trope is not AlwaysFemale, and may actually be more commonly done with men. It may be either {{Fanservice}} or {{FanDisservice}}.
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6877318/1/Calendar-Boys Calendar Boys]]'', the Shinigami Women's Association agree to create a calendar full of the various men around the Soul Society to raise money.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E5TheDevilWearsNada The Devil Wears Nada]], some of the Springfield wives pose for a history themed "sexy" calendar. The end results is Marge being the one on all pages of the calendar thanks to the red wine the photographer gave her to help her loosen up to show more skin.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E5TheDevilWearsNada The Devil Wears Nada]], Nada]]", some of the Springfield wives pose for a history themed "sexy" calendar. The end results is Marge being the one on all pages of the calendar thanks to the red wine the photographer gave her to help her loosen up to show more skin.
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* The "original" calendar girls as mentioned. If not some of the first to use the idea, they were certainly the first to use natural poses while nude. This added to the novelty, of course, and the humour. The Women's Institute women (they were mostly middle-aged to older women) performed traditional WI activities, like cleaning, but naked.
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* Referenced in ''Series/CriminalMinds''. In a flashback to when Garcia first met Morgan (she's actually under investigation for hacking at the time), she says "Hey, when they do a Men of the FBI calendar is it just 12 pages of you?"
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Sometimes it is implied that this is going to happen, but a PG calendar is made instead to subvert expectations. Common people to feature in these calendars are the HotLibrarian, [[FiremenAreHot Smoking Fireman]], GoodLookingPrivates, HotMenAtWork, and [[NaughtyNurseOutfit Naughty Nurse]]. When the models are truly nude or nearly nude, there will be a lot of SceneryCensors.
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* In the ''Secret World Chronicle'' by Creator/MercedesLackey, Belladonna Blues is assumed to be a BrainlessBeauty by some villains because she once posed for a fundraising calendar featuring superpowered healers. She uses this to be beneath their notice while running a conspiracy against them.
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In order to raise funds for whatever reason most people resort to what sells best: sex. This itself usually takes two forms, [[HoodOrnamentHottie bikini car wash]] or, especially for older people, the sexy workplace calendar.
Sometimes it is implied that this is going to happen, but a PG calendar is made instead to subvert expectations. Common people to feature in these calendars are the HotLibrarian, [[FiremenAreHot Smoking Fireman]], GoodLookingPrivates, HotMenAtWork, and [[NaughtyNurseOutfit Naughty Nurse]]. When the models are truly nude or nearly nude, there will be a lot of SceneryCensors.
It's a costume strip show in calendar form, basically, produced to raise money for the business. Month themes are also common, and may replace the work theme the models have.
Whilst the idea is international, British works will likely only use it as an {{homage}} to [[BasedOnATrueStory the real life]] "Calendar Girls", and include the models standing around a piano with one sitting on the bench and/or sunflowers. The trope is not AlwaysFemale, and may actually be more commonly done with men.
Compare HeyLetsPutOnAShow.
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* The film ''Film/CalendarGirls'' was made about the true story of the so-called "calendar girls". They were members of the Women's Institute (groups providing opportunities for women and hosting fundraising) in Yorkshire who made the nude calendar for leukaemia research in TheNineties. It was also adapted into a stage play.
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* In ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', such a calendar is mentioned in passing when Oswald agrees to have Lewis' workplace, [=DrugCo=], give him breast implants. He says the pay is good, and he'd even get more if he poses for the [=DrugCo=] calendar. [[spoiler:He does]].
* In ''Series/BurnNotice'', Fiona once pitches herself to a demolitions foreman as a talent scout for a company that ''makes'' the calendars, saying she's doing one on "the men of demolition." Actually she's getting photos of his employees so Michael can ID the guy who tried to blow him up two episodes earlier.
* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':
** Detective Esposito claims to have been in the NYPD calendar at one point.
** In "The Third Man" Lanie sets Beckett up with a firefighter friend who was June on the FDNY calendar.
-->'''Beckett:''' They always put the really hot ones in the summer months.
* One episode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' has Zack shoot one of these to raise money for the school using the girls' swim team...without their consent. He ends up getting into trouble for that. On a side note, the swim team only has eleven members, so December is Jessie's body with Mr. Belding's head superimposed.
* One episode of ''Series/TheITCrowd'' sees Roy putting together a sexy calendar for charity (and to win a date with one of the calendar girls.) Over time, the calendar morphs from a regular sexy calendar to a calendar filled with old ladies, to a calendar filled with nerdy men.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', [[Recap/FuturamaS6E20Neutopia "Neutopia:"]] In order to keep Planet Express afloat the Professor decides to put out a "Girls of Planet Express' calendar to raise money. The female employees aren't interested and are offended, but after [[GenderBender an alien switches the Planet Express male and female sexes]] the now female (formerly male) Planet Express employees enthusiastically put together the calendar.
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* The "original" calendar girls as mentioned. If not some of the first to use the idea, they were certainly the first to use natural poses while nude. This added to the novelty, of course, and the humour. The Women's Institute women (they were mostly middle-aged to older women) performed traditional WI activities, like cleaning, but naked.
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In order to raise funds for whatever reason most people resort to what sells best: sex. This itself usually takes two forms, [[HoodOrnamentHottie bikini car wash]] or, especially for older people, the sexy workplace calendar.
Sometimes it is implied that this is going to happen, but a PG calendar is made instead to subvert expectations. Common people to feature in these calendars are the HotLibrarian, [[FiremenAreHot Smoking Fireman]], GoodLookingPrivates, HotMenAtWork, and [[NaughtyNurseOutfit Naughty Nurse]]. When the models are truly nude or nearly nude, there will be a lot of SceneryCensors.
It's a costume strip show in calendar form, basically, produced to raise money for the business. Month themes are also common, and may replace the work theme the models have.
Whilst the idea is international, British works will likely only use it as an {{homage}} to [[BasedOnATrueStory the real life]] "Calendar Girls", and include the models standing around a piano with one sitting on the bench and/or sunflowers. The trope is not AlwaysFemale, and may actually be more commonly done with men.
Compare HeyLetsPutOnAShow.
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* The film ''Film/CalendarGirls'' was made about the true story of the so-called "calendar girls". They were members of the Women's Institute (groups providing opportunities for women and hosting fundraising) in Yorkshire who made the nude calendar for leukaemia research in TheNineties. It was also adapted into a stage play.
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* In ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', such a calendar is mentioned in passing when Oswald agrees to have Lewis' workplace, [=DrugCo=], give him breast implants. He says the pay is good, and he'd even get more if he poses for the [=DrugCo=] calendar. [[spoiler:He does]].
* In ''Series/BurnNotice'', Fiona once pitches herself to a demolitions foreman as a talent scout for a company that ''makes'' the calendars, saying she's doing one on "the men of demolition." Actually she's getting photos of his employees so Michael can ID the guy who tried to blow him up two episodes earlier.
* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':
** Detective Esposito claims to have been in the NYPD calendar at one point.
** In "The Third Man" Lanie sets Beckett up with a firefighter friend who was June on the FDNY calendar.
-->'''Beckett:''' They always put the really hot ones in the summer months.
* One episode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' has Zack shoot one of these to raise money for the school using the girls' swim team...without their consent. He ends up getting into trouble for that. On a side note, the swim team only has eleven members, so December is Jessie's body with Mr. Belding's head superimposed.
* One episode of ''Series/TheITCrowd'' sees Roy putting together a sexy calendar for charity (and to win a date with one of the calendar girls.) Over time, the calendar morphs from a regular sexy calendar to a calendar filled with old ladies, to a calendar filled with nerdy men.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', [[Recap/FuturamaS6E20Neutopia "Neutopia:"]] In order to keep Planet Express afloat the Professor decides to put out a "Girls of Planet Express' calendar to raise money. The female employees aren't interested and are offended, but after [[GenderBender an alien switches the Planet Express male and female sexes]] the now female (formerly male) Planet Express employees enthusiastically put together the calendar.
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* The "original" calendar girls as mentioned. If not some of the first to use the idea, they were certainly the first to use natural poses while nude. This added to the novelty, of course, and the humour. The Women's Institute women (they were mostly middle-aged to older women) performed traditional WI activities, like cleaning, but naked.
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