Everybody always presents laundromats in tv shows and movies as this sexy place where you meet horny singles who aren’t wearing underwear because it’s in the wash.
But in real life, that just isn’t true. The laundromat has angry people who don’t want to be there, and nobody EVER has sex, or takes their clothes off.
So why are laundromats always presented like that?
You must watch very different movies than I do. I immediately envision something dank and dark with flickering lights.
And a naked, bloody clown playing patty cake with his imaginary friend while his clothes wash.
How do you know they’re a clown if they’re naked?
They might just be a juggalo
That’s even worse!
Yes, very different movies.
And a frustrated Mr Bean trying to do laundry.
We’re back to sexy!
That one episode of Friends
Uh oh, the laundry’s done!
I see it mostly in anime.
Because some of those angry lonely people are writers, and they have a lot of time to think.
Correct answer.
The people there are mainly bored because they are waiting. And sometimes creativity arises out of boredom.
Daydream, “lots of time to ‘daydream’”
Let’s be honest half the stuff a guy writes is about how to win a girl over and the other half is having sex with said girl.
Because people who never needed to use an annoying thing like to imagine and romantize how they would use it. Completely ignoring reality.
I want to know what TV shows you are watching
Most of the stuff I watch have something bad happen in a laundromat, like getting chased by armed thugs
I feel like it’s kind of a meet-cute trope in older sitcoms
Well, off the top of my head:
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There was an episode of Dr. Who during…I think David Tennant’s career? It was one of those that didn’t actually have much of The Doctor in it, some guy had noticed The Doctor appearing throughout history and wanted to try and meet him, so he managed to run into Rose’s mother, at a laundromat. Who proceeded to flirt with him as she loaded her underwear into the wash by saying ‘and here I am flashing you me knickers.’
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There was a show from the 90’s that no one remembers called Relic Hunter. In one episode miss relic hunter, her assistant and I think the client of the week duck into a laundromat as a place they can look through a dossier, but the owner insists that they have to wash something to remain on the premises, because they needed an excuse to peel Tia Carrere to her skivvies.
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The episode of Futurama where…let’s see if I remember this right? Bender gets mangled and paralyzed, meets Beck, hires him as a washboard player(?) and then the rest of the cast follow him around on tour, there’s a scene where the crew is hanging around in their underwear while all their clothes wash, and it accidentally tie dyes them because of Amy’s pink track suit.
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Early in Friends, there’s an episode where Ross…again let’s see if I remember this correctly…Rachel was a rich girl and thus had no domestic skills, and Ross offered to teach her how to do laundry, kind of as an excuse to hang around with her to flirt. They also manage to accidentally dye her clothes pink by leaving something red in with them. IIRC Joey mocked him for his choice of Totally Not Snuggle, so he bought a detergent called Uberweisse or something. I think this was in their building’s laundry room rather than a laundromat but meh.
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I think there’s a scene in Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog where Dr. Horrible and whatever Felicia Day’s character was named where they flirt in a laundromat. My memory of that show has kind of faded to just the Bad Horse song.
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The laundromat has angry people who don’t want to be there,
I live in a college town. The laundromat nearest me has a bar.
Or maybe it’s a bar with a laundromat as lots of stains happen in bars.
I’ve seen one laundromat/bar like that, and instantly thought it was genius.
I miss Sit and Spin in downtown Seattle. Cafe in the front, bar and event venue in the back and laundry on the side.
aren’t wearing underwear because it’s in the wash
??? Do these people only have one paif of underwear??
Hey everyone! Take a look at mister “I have two pairs of underwear” over here!
Sometimes, just for a lark, I wear both pairs at the same time! Hahahahaha!
I have multiple pairs of underwear but I hate h going to a laundromat, so I used to wait until I was absolutely out of everything and the clothes I was wearing were oversoiled.
I have laundry facilities at home now, but when I’m double-plus depressed, I still will wait until I have absolutely nothing to wear.
I have zero paifs of underwear.
This was the norm far longer than not. Only nobles rich enough to have washer servants would wear undergarments. The rest of us enjoyed brisk breezes betwixt our nethers.
Same
The scientific reason is that the 350 watt drum connected to the dryer motor vibrates at 55 hertz which stimulates the female solar plexus. This creates a chain reaction and urges males to assert dominance and proceed with a mating ritual. When you combine this with the enticingly large sums of cash at a typical laundromat, you can see this is a devastating combination. The scantily clad hot body people is a side effect, not the cause.
That reads like something out of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Wow, what kind of lame laundromats have you been visiting?
My last three laundromat visits involved anal.
Nah, it just felt like it because it costs so much to start the machine.
Just put a few quarters in her
You’re supposed to remove your clothes from your anus before you go to the laundromat.
I won’t make that mistake again.
They did? Try cleaning out better before the anal so the bedding doesn’t get messy.
Yeah I’m tired of all this laundromat sexy-washing.
In my town, junkies hang out at the laundromat begging for money. The cops show up regularly and haul them off. I saw prostitutes outside of it once, too
Oh my pearls!! Are you ok
Bud, if you’ve ever encountered an angry meth zombie trapped in an enclosed space with you, you’d know the pain.
I’m a recovering meth addict. Eat shit.
Congrats on recovering. Doesn’t give you an excuse to be a bitch though.
Congrats on being privileged to never need to go through that hell, and talking down to those who did.
I don’t need to justify myself to you, but my response to the other poster was completely valid. If he’s using terms like “meth zombies” and denigrating public facilities that allow addicts to enter because of their presence then he deserves every ounce of contempt he gets.
I’ll accept a thank you for the explanation but any other response will result in a block.
Don’t believe everything you see on TV. There’s a reason it’s called “the idiot box”.
The idiot box, now there’s a term that’s a few generations old. TVs aren’t really boxes anymore, so… The idiot panel?
Everything Everywhere All At Once
When they announced that movie won at the Oscars, I swear I thought what they were trying to say was that all the movies won.
Hot dog fingers.
Sexy hot dog fingers.
Yeah, watched it with my wife and we both said roughly WTF was that after it ended
Sorta related, enjoy…
“Anything and everything all of the time”
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I have never seen a laundromat romanticized in a movie as far as I can recall.
🎵 Laundry day
See you there
Underthings
Tumbling🎶
Seattle used to have a combination laundromat/bar that was called Sit and Spin.
Never had a chance to go. I imagine it was a very horny place. Also at the time median age in Seattle was like 23.
Seems like a brilliant idea. There should be more laundromats with liquor licenses.
I lived downtown Seattle in the 90s, close enough we just walked to Sit and Spin with our laundry. Best way to do laundry ever.
Also they were reasonably priced since they made most of their money off the cafe (which had really good food).
I’ll have some of those memories for life.
I think it’s because they are a setting where people are there for a separate purpose to meeting a partner, which allows for romance to be portrayed as spontaneous. Also, clothes (particularly underwear, pyjamas and towels) come into contact with the body and imply intimacy.
