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"I'm Not at the Beach, This Is a Bathtub", also known as "No Body of Water Is Safe Without a Lifeguard", is a memorable quote from a pornographic film clip in which a woman dressed as a lifeguard interrupts a man sitting in a bathtub, insisting that he is on a beach and that there is a shark in the water. Online, the scene has been widely parodied in a similar vein to the "Lemon Stealing Whores" clip.

Origin

The original scene comes from a pornographic parody of the show Baywatch starring adult film actress Lisa Ann. On March 27th, 2016, the scene was posted to Tumblr by user parlor-trick-pariah.^[2] On April 4th, YouTuber KneeSlapper^[1] uploaded a short clip titled "I'm not at the beach, this is a bathtub," gaining more than 296,000 views over the next several years. On May 23rd, YouTuber FuzzySniper uploaded an extended clip of the scene, which accumulated upwards of 1.1 million views and 1,100 comments within three years (shown below).

Spread

On December 24th, 2016, YouTuber FoxTail8000 uploaded a SourceFilmmaker remake of the scene featuring theTeam Fortress 2 character Scout and the Overwatch character Tracer (shown below).

On September 19th, 2017, YouTuber PewDiePie uploaded a video in which he reacts to the video clip (shown below, left). Within two years, the video gathered upwards of 8.2 million views and 16,000 comments. On October 15th, YouTuber Foxxy Loxxi uploaded an edit of the video featuring clips of PewDiePie (shown below, right).

On October 5th, 2018, a GIF of the scene was submitted to /r/NSFWFunny,^[4] where it gathered more than 4,700 points (95% upvoted) and 100 comments prior to being archived. On January 8th, 2019, YouTuber Hazard Cinema uploaded a Source Filmmaker video featuring characters from Five Nights at Freddy's games reenacting the scene (Shown below).

On TikTok

Audio from the scene has been used in a series of lip dub videos on TikTok. On September 20th, 2018, TikTok user @jaredszone posted a video using a short clip from the video (since deleted). In early February 2019, TikTok user @monet uploaded an extended clip titled "monet – no body of water is safe without a lifeguard" (since deleted). Over the next month, more than 7,600 videos were created using the sound clip.^[3]

On February 17th, TikTok user @dana_prenger uploaded a lip dub version that gained over 481,500 likes and 6,200 shares in eight months (shown below, left). On May 25th, @sarahgraysun also uploaded a popular lip dub which received over 665,500 likes and 10,400 shares in five months.

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