B&T Extra: Mr. Skin & the BEST nudes of 2025

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B&T Extra: Mr. Skin & the BEST Nudes of 2025

Date: January 5, 2026
Host: The BOB & TOM Show | Guest: Mr. Skin

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Episode Overview

This Bob & Tom Extra features the legendary Mr. Skin, the internet’s top expert and archivist of onscreen nudity, as he unveils his annual list: the Top 10 Celebrity Nude Scenes of 2025 (Female). Blending the show’s signature comic banter with Mr. Skin’s encyclopedic cinema knowledge, this episode offers an entertaining, behind-the-scenes look at the ongoing cultural fascination with nudity in movies and TV, along with fun personal anecdotes, silly puns, and a bit of industry history.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Mr. Skin’s Backstory and Pop Culture Legacy (04:04–06:55)

• How Mr. Skin Made It Into 'Knocked Up'

  • Mr. Skin shares how his website was immortalized in the 2007 film Knocked Up, explaining that director Judd Apatow heard him on the radio and thought “a guy doing a celebrity nudity website” would be comedic gold. Mr. Skin says agreeing to the reference was “the luckiest thing ever.” The film’s popularity skyrocketed his brand.
  • Quote:

    “The year before Knocked Up came out, I got a call from an attorney who said the guy that did 40 Year Old Virgin wants to have your website in his next movie… Knocked Up made $250 million... the fact that they mentioned MrSkin.com as much as they did was just such a lucky thing for me.”
    — Mr. Skin (04:36)

• How Mr. Skin Started His Business

  • He recounts working as a clerk at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, fielding downtime bets from colleagues about which actresses had nude scenes. With an encyclopedic recall and a sense of humor, he built the Mr. Skin website, turning a hobby into a massive business over nearly three decades.
  • Quote:

    “Here we are, you know, almost 27 years later. I have 40 skin-pl-‘ployees’, and more importantly, I'm on your show to talk about the 10 best nude scenes of the year. Like, what a horrible job I have.”
    — Mr. Skin (06:55)

2. Fun with Puns & Community (06:55–08:43)

• The hosts rib Mr. Skin about bad puns like “skin-ployee,” with Mr. Skin gamely rolling with it. He highlights that a key to his site’s success is blending “nude facts and fun”—not just being a cold encyclopedia.
• The hosts reminisce about Bob’s encyclopedic knowledge of movie nudity and a running gag on the show called "Skin Scan":
  • Quote:

    “If I'm just like ChatGPT and just list the stuff, it's not as fun. So I always tried to make it a combination of nude facts and fun.”
    — Mr. Skin (07:24)

  • Praising Bob's knowledge:

    “Nobody, nobody knew celebrity nudity like Bob.”
    — Mr. Skin (08:12)

3. All-Time Greatest Nude Scene? (08:43–09:44)

• As the conversation turns to “greatest nude scenes ever,” Phoebe Cates’ iconic scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High is voted top by all:
  • Quote:

    “From day one of launching Mr. Skin.com through… December 9th of 2025, I still contend that’s the greatest celebrity nude scene.”
    — Mr. Skin (09:32)

4. The Top 10 Celebrity Nude Scenes of 2025 (Female) (09:44–11:55)

• Mr. Skin unveils the headline list, live and unscripted, with a comic spin and audience banter.

#10: Orgy Scene in Peacemaker (TV, Season 2) (10:02–11:06)

• Description: James Gunn’s show opens its second season with a wild party scene featuring “about 12 completely nude” women and, humorously, some men. The hosts joke about the less glamorous aspects of full-frontal scenes.
• Quote:

  “Not only were all the females—about 12 of them—completely nude, but there were nude dudes in this. But it still was a really amazing scene from a very popular television show.”
  — Mr. Skin (10:28)

• Comment on casting:

  “You gotta have a really big foyer.”
  — Host, riffing on the impracticality of 80-foot Christmas trees and the party scene (02:04)

#9: Diane Kruger in The Shrouds (11:23–11:55)

• Description: Notable as Diane Kruger’s first fully nude scene in legendary director David Cronenberg’s (possibly final) film. One of the most-downloaded scenes of the year on MrSkin.com.
• Quote:

  “It’s her first fully nude role… and it also is… one of the most downloaded nude scenes at our website this year.”
  — Mr. Skin (11:23)

• Bonus: Mr. Skin notes that Cronenberg also directed The Fly and this could be his last feature.

(Preview) #8: Nicole Kidman

• The list cuts off as Nicole Kidman is mentioned for the next entry, but no details are provided, ending the segment.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On business strategy:

  “Just make it as easy as possible. Just say yes and hope it gets in a movie.”
  — Mr. Skin, on letting Knocked Up use his website (04:36)

• Reflecting on a unique career:

  “What a horrible job I have.”
  — Mr. Skin, tongue-in-cheek about his nude scene ranking work (06:55)

• On Bob’s legendary memory:

  “He'd know, like, how far into the movie and stuff… so impressed. He was my one radio guy that really knew celebrity nudity.”
  — Mr. Skin (08:28)

• Ranking the Greatest:

  “Except for Phoebe Cates in Fast Times at Ridgemont High… that’s the greatest celebrity nude scene.”
  — Mr. Skin (09:32)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 04:04 — Mr. Skin joins the show
• 04:36 — Story of Knocked Up and Mr. Skin’s big break
• 06:00–08:00 — Origin story: Mercantile Exchange puns and website launch
• 08:12 — Bob’s encyclopedic “Skin Scan” memory
• 09:23 — The all-time champion: Phoebe Cates
• 09:44 — Introduction of 2025’s Top 10 Nudes list
• 10:02 — #10: Peacemaker orgy scene
• 11:23 — #9: Diane Kruger in The Shrouds
• 12:00 — (Segment ends as Nicole Kidman is mentioned for #8)

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Tone & Language

This episode is playful, self-deprecating, and lighthearted—mixing serious behind-the-scenes content with Bob & Tom’s signature wisecracks and Mr. Skin’s relaxed, irreverent storytelling. The mix of nostalgia, industry anecdotes, and genuine audience engagement gives the episode broad appeal for longtime listeners and pop culture fans alike.

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In summary:
Mr. Skin reflects on his unlikely career, shares classic movie moments, and delivers his definitive list of the year’s top nude scenes—with humor, humility, and a wink at the odd census of pop culture history.

Listeners who missed the episode will get both a laugh and an education in how one man turned cinematic trivia into a living—and a pop-culture legend.

Transcript

[A]

Welcome back. It's another Bob and Tom extra. This is Christopher. Not only is the Bob and Tom show live every weekday morning, but every afternoon. We'll give you a little extra in case you missed anything. On today's big show, it's Mr. Skin and the best nudes of 2025 on the way in just a minute.

[B]

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[C]

Hey, Bob and Tom show.

[D]

Well, happy holidays. Ernie Fergler here.

[C]

Oh, hi, Ernie.

[D]

Farkler's hardware. How is everyone?

[A]

Great.

[D]

Good. We're having a wonderful Christmas season except for the Christmas tree situation that we have going right now.

[C]

We still have time to get a tree, right?

[D]

Yeah, it's. It's. Yeah, yeah. You know, first I got a load of 1500 Christmas tree air fresheners for cars and I sent those back and then they got to 500 tulip trees. So we just can't seem to get things right.

[A]

Do you have any Christmas trees?

[D]

No, that's the thing. We're two weeks out and what, no trees? Well, correction. We have 47 trees that are between 50 and 80ft tall. They aren't moving. They're not moving at all.

[C]

You gotta have a really big foyer.

[D]

Well, we're thinking of a bonfire, but we're afraid it'll just burn down the whole city. So anyway, the guys in screen doors came running up to me and said that they had put together because it is important how to take care of your trees when trees get dry and what have you, an instructional video from The Screen Door gang.

[C]

What a great idea.

[D]

I, I, I guess it's ready to go. We might as well hear it. I, I haven't looked at this, so let's hear it.

[E]

Screen Door Productions presents Christmas trees and you. Nothing says Merry Christmas more than a beautifully decorated Christmas tree displayed prominently in one's home. It is important to exercise proper Christmas tree maintenance safety procedures in order to maximize your holiday experience. A freshly cut Christmas tree is the towards uninterrupted holiday fun as it properly retains moisture best, unlike a tree that has been cut for some time, known as a dry needle. Here's Heather and Dick in their home ready to adorn their holiday tree. Dick was unable to buy a fresh tree this year and opted for a regular yet beautiful Christmas tree purchased cheaply from some parking lot stand.

[D]

Hey.

[E]

Oh. Heather can quickly see that this tree is a safety hazard as the needles are falling off the tree. As Dick carries it through the front door, Heather quickly admonishes him, you have a dry needle, Dick.

[C]

Oh.

[E]

Dick knows just what to do and replies, oh yeah? Well, this Christmas tree stand isn't for the tree. It's to tie to my ass so I don't fall.

[D]

What the hell?

[F]

Yeah, we know it's a repeat, but things are always better the second time around. This is Bob and Tom Extra.

[C]

We are joined in the satellite by that very handsome man. He is Mr. Skin with kind of a pompadour going early this morning.

[F]

Yeah, I just woke up. I'm sorry. So it's, I didn't have a chance. I was going to wear a hat, but you're good.

[C]

That looks great.

[F]

I figured it's radio who's gonna see me and then I'm on a zoom.

[B]

So.

[C]

Okay, well now Mr. Skin is the on nakedness in cinema. And you were immortalized, it goes a while back now you were immortalized in the movies. Can you tell that story?

[F]

Yeah, in Knocked up, which was a 2007 movie. And you know, my website was doing well and it started to become kind of popular. And all of a sudden, the year before Knocked up came out, I got a call from an attorney who said the guy that did 40 year old virgin wants to have your website in his next movie. And I think I mentioned this to you, but the thought from all my friends and business people were like, oh, you should charge him all this money to mention your website. And my thought was, you know what, just make it as easy as possible. Just say yes and hope it gets in a movie. And knocked up made $250 million. And, like, guys, our era, we. You know, we're Animal House, Blues Brothers, Caddyshack to the younger generation, like Knocked up, and all those movies is that's their Animal House. You know what I'm saying? So the fact that they mentioned Mr. Skin.com as much as they did in that movie was just such a lucky thing for me. It was great.

[C]

It's because the protagonist, if you will, was trying to create a website that would feature a guide to nudity in contemporary cinema, which you had already done.

[F]

Well, Tom, it's better than that, because Judd Apatow heard me somewhere on a radio. And when he was writing the script, he wanted his main character, Seth Rogen, to have a job so embarrassing and humiliating that it would be comedy gold. And he heard me. He thought, hey, how about a guy doing a celebrity nudity website? So, yeah, and I've been doing this. Yeah, I've been doing this now 27 years. It's, like, crazy. And when I. When I started this, I was working as a clerk at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. I was in my mid-30s. I was living, like, paycheck to paycheck. I wasn't making much money. And I started this website with the hope of maybe making a couple of dollars here and there in advertising and stuff. And here we are, you know, almost 27 years later. I have 40 skin ploys. And more importantly, this is, like, I'm on your show to talk about the 10 best nude scenes of the year. Like, what a horrible job I have.

[C]

You know, how many bad puns do you have? Like, skin ploy?

[F]

He's. Yeah, I know. It's like, you know, I'm sorry, if you could hit a buzzer if I say what I. It just. It's just so natural to me, because one of the things when I started this, too, at the. At the Merck, like, guys would. The whole way this started is there's a lot of downtime in the pits. You know, it's like, it's not always or was crazy, nutty, fast market stuff. And when things would get slow, the brokers in the pit heard about this guy that if you asked him, any actress he knew off the top of his head, if they'd ever been nude, and they would come out and have runners, you know, they'd write like, Helen Hunt. And I go, you know, And I'd write down, you know, oh, she's on Mad about yout with Paul Reiser. At the time. I'd write down, oh, yeah, she did a movie Called the Water Dance. It'll definitely give you a riser. You know, like, I, I, I tried to make it fun, and that was the thing. Like, if you, if I'm just like, chat GPT and just list the stuff, it's not as fun. So I always tried to make it a combination of nude facts and fun.

[C]

So, yeah, and the expert on that field was always Bob. On this show, whenever you call in, Bob would always. You'd give the category. Bob would fill in the blank.

[F]

And I know Christian chick. Have heard this many times, but of any radio person in the. And I've been in millions of radio shows in 27 years. Nobody, nobody knew celebrity nudity like Bob.

[B]

He was.

[C]

No. Have you.

[F]

I'd be saying stuff to you guys, and you'd be like, oh, really? Bob would, like, know like, how far into the movie and stuff? But I was, like, so impressed. And we had kind of a good connection because he was like, my, my one radio guy that really knew celebrity nudity.

[C]

And very early on in this show, Bob did a fake piece called Skin Scan. Yeah. Which was a, which was a remote control that would go right to the nudity when the, when a movie came on. Now, before we get to the current list, you'll be celebrating 30 years here in just a few years. Have you ever done a comprehensive top, whatever, 50 for the entire era of cinema?

[F]

I have different milestones. And you're right. At 30, I'm gonna have to revisit because, you know, every year there's new nude scenes. It's not like, you know, you could just say, this is the greatest. And it always will be. Except for Phoebe Cates and fast times of Ridge Von Hive.

[D]

I don't know.

[F]

And of course, you know, Bob would be all over that.

[C]

That gets the Thalberg Award. They'll name it after Phoebe Cates.

[F]

Yeah. And it's I always, from day one of launching Mr. Skin.com through, you know, December 9th of 2025, I still contend that's the greatest celebrity nude scene.

[C]

Okay, well, now this, this list you're gonna give to us right now is this. This is [e-mail].

[F]

Yeah, we just launched it. It's totally [e-mail] and what's the title.

[C]

Of this list, please?

[F]

The top 10 celebrity nude scenes of 2025 Female. Female.

[C]

So although I just was handed this. And number 10 is. It says various in peacemaker. And I'm looking at. There's a, it's a naked guy.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

A lady to his. To his right.

[F]

Yeah, right. Sometimes guys are naked and they get in these nude scenes and ruin them. But wait a minute.

[C]

So is this. Okay, this is number 10. What? What is. Is that the name?

[F]

Peace is a TV show from James Gunn. Yeah. He's the guy that did Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy and Superman. And in this second season, the very first episode, John Cena is on drugs and he wakes up at a party and it's like this huge crazy orgy. And it's just. It was wild how much nudity was in there. They're not necessarily celebrities, but the show's very popular. And not only were all the females about 12 of them completely nude, but there were nude dudes in this. But it still was a really amazing scene from a very popular television show.

[C]

I'm looking at it and not to reinforce any stereotypes, but the guy in the middle versus the guy to his left.

[F]

I know where you're going.

[C]

Oh, I'll just leave it to your imagination.

[F]

Yikes.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Okay, now we get to number nine. Who do we have here?

[F]

Diane Kruger in the Shrouds, which is a David Cronenberg movie and it's her first fully nude role. And it also is one of the most, believe it or not, one of the most downloaded. It wasn't number one, but it was one of the most downloaded nude scenes at our website this year. And you might know her from. I'm trying to think what you might know her from. She was in Troy in 2004. But David Cronenberg, you guys would know, he did the fly in 1986. This could be his last career movie. So it was kind of cool that there was an amazing nude scene that came in at number nine.

[C]

Okay, now we get to number eight. Oh, the famous Nicole Kidman.

[A]

That's it for another Bob and Tom show. Extra, catch us on itunes, Google play and stitcher. For Bob and Tom. Extra, this is Christopher. Take care, everybody.

[G]

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