 The episode was filmed at the Warner Bros. Television studios in Burbank , California on October 15 , 1997 . The set was closed to the usual taping audience when Carey , Bader , Ferguson , Gomez and Stiles performed their striptease to The Edgar Winter Group 's " Free Ride " . The Full Monty cast members came to the set to offer advice and watch the taping . The remainder of the episode was filmed before an audience later that same night . Gomez quipped that having two guys paint his body in make @-@ up was " more embarrassing " than filming the routine , while Stiles joked that the episode was the first time he had been " totally naked " since he was cast in the show . Carey admitted that he was grateful that stripping during prime @-@ time had to be PG and apologized that viewers had to see his naked buttocks . He also clarified that the cast wore pouches to protect their modesty . 
