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Muscle Beach Bum
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It's a lovely day at the beach. Sun, surf, and good times. You're probably out with your friends or your girl catching some rays, playing some volleyball, frisbee or suikawari, and/or simply enjoying the beach scenery. Then he shows up. He's big. He's strong. He's wearing only a speedo. He impresses the ladies by flexing, working out, and/or demonstrating his strength. He may belittle, bully or make jealous any non-muscly guy in his presence. He just might ruin your day. You have just met the Muscle Beach Bum. The Muscle Beach Bum is essentially a cross between a Hunk and a Jerk Jock found primarily in beach settings. On one hand, he can be as dumb as a bag of hammers, an antagonist who flaunts his muscles around, or both. On the other, he's just not antagonistic but is a major annoyance to those around him. If he has a job, he's most likely to be a lifeguard (whether or not he's actually competent or just to impress ladies is to be seen). The Trope Name comes from Muscle Beach, a location in Santa Monica (a Los Angeles suburb) known as the birthplace of the modern bodybuilding and fitness boom in the mid-1930s. In a Beach Episode, it's highly likely you'll find him and his type. May be related to/can also be a Surfer Dude. Examples |
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Usagi-chan de Cue!! has three of them, all with muscular frames, swim goggles, bathing caps, and speedos, calling themselves the "Sailors of Sinbad." They get lewd with Miku and make short work of Haru. | |
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The Simpsons: In "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show", the kids are part of a focus group for Itchy and Scratchy. Each of them is given a knob to turn right when they like what they see in the cartoon, and left when they don't. A muscleman in a speedo shows up on screen at the beach, and Nelson reaches over to Milhouse's knob and repeatedly turns it right. | |
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The Looney Tunes cartoon "Muscle Tussle" has Daffy Duck antagonized by a muscular duck who steals his girlfriend away. | |
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Red Ears: Parodied in a comic with a tall bodybuilder and a short guy walking up to a sunbathing woman on a beach, with the bodybuilder doing some impressive flexing while the other guy just waits patiently until he's finished. Then the short guy simply pulls down his pants, causing the woman to gasp in amazement and walk off with him instead of the muscle guy. Another has a muscular man flexing, with a woman suggesting they go to her room so he can show off his muscles. They do so... and the guy keeps showing off his muscles, to the woman's obvious disappointment. Yet another has the bodybuilder keep referring to his muscles as dynamite. The punchline comes after he strips naked in front of his hookup: |
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Garfield This early strip◊ shows Jon trying to woo the girl of a nearby man buried in the sand. Jon throws sand in the guy's face only for him to rise and reveal himself to be full of muscle. Cue a different kind of burial of sand. Years later, after Jon got in a relationship with Liz and the two went to the beach, a muscle-bound jock kicked sand in Jon's face and tried to flirt with her. Liz simply told him the guy to get lost. |
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EarthBound: The "Tough Guy" is an enemy you can find in Summers. He's literally a muscled blonde guy in a Hawaiian shirt. | |
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Aaron in Undertale is a seahorse whose main hobby is flexing his well-muscled (well-musseled?) torso, which has been known to intimidate some other monsters. | |
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Flex Mentallo is supposed to be a Silver Age super-hero with a Charles Atlas Superpower that allows him to do, well, anything by flexing his muscles while simultaneously being a parody of a Charles Atlas advertisement. The trope codifying Charles Atlas' advertisement is Flex's origin story. | |
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Don't Make Waves: Carlo lusts for gorgeous surfer Malibu (Sharon Tate), but before he can have sex with her he has to figure out how to deal with her gigantic bodybuilder boyfriend Harry. Luckily Harry is gentle, trusting, and pretty dumb, so Carlo arranges for a Phony Psychic to tell Harry that he has to break up with Malibu. | |
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Ren & Stimpy: "Ren's Pecs" inverts this with the fat guy with pecs at the beach who picks on Ren for being weak. Played straight with Charles Globe (a play on Charles Atlas), a muscled bodybuilder, who shows up and advises Ren on how to get his pecs. | |
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Played with in a commercial for The Sims Vacation. A Muscle Beach Bum and his girlfriend bully a scrawnier man and his girlfriend on the beach. The scrawny guy tries to impress his girlfriend by standing up to the bum only to get the shit beaten out of him. His girlfriend goes up to the jock, makes a fist, looks him straight in the eyes... and punches the bully's girlfriend and leaves the scrawny guy for the bully. | |
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The Pink Panther: In "Come On In! The Water's Pink", Pink squares off against one. By using a variety of inflatable objects, Pink is able to best his nemesis. The Muscle Beach Bum turns out to be an inflatable as well. | |
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Super Macho Man from Punch-Out!! is one of these as a boxer. He's full of muscle, has a tan, and tends to speak in surfer lingo. The first image of his pre-fight montage even shows him working out and impressing ladies at the beach. | |
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Sandy Beach, the closest thing to a recurring antagonist during Pro Wrestling ZERO1's Hawaii-Japan friendship series. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus. One of the animations was a parody of the Charles Atlas ads. A weakling has sand kicked in his face by a beach bully, who then steals his girlfriend. He exercises and develops a massive physique. When he returns to the beach, the bully shoots him in the head with a cannon and steals the girlfriend again. | |
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Pokémon Reset Bloodlines features a couple of examples: In the main story, when Ash and company stop by the Seafoam Islands, they go to the beach to relax. The girls attract the attention of several muscled guys who try to flirt with them, to no avail. In a sidestory, Brock and Pike Queen Lucy visit an indoor pool, and a muscled jerk tries to strongarm Lucy into hanging out with him. He gets thrown into the pool for his trouble. |
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Larry the Lobster from Spongebob Squarepants. He's a bodybuilder who's always wearing swim trunks, even when he's not lifeguarding at the Goo Lagoon. Larry is egotistic and a bit thick-headed, but not intentionally malicious, and has been shown to be good friends with Sandy Cheeks. | |
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