History Main / PantsFree

* A joke from [[UsefulNotes/ThePhilippines The Philippines]] is that newsreaders wear nothing but underwear below the desk and also that priests only wear briefs/boxers underneath their robes.

* Dishonored 2: A letter can found on the Dreadful Wale during Emily's campaign. It's addressed to her probable lover, stating that during an important council she kept a straight face all the while sitting behind her desk without any pants on.

* ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort'' in [[http://www.ansemretort.org/ansemretort/index.html?comic=96 this strip]]
* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'': [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/02/22/ Gabe, naturally.]]
** [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/06/04 And not just in games.]]
* Throwaway gag in [[http://jjrowland.com/wigu/20041201.html this]] ''Wigu'' strip

* [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=002.jpg This]] ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'' strip

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRX0AQKFtwU The Interview]]

* Some renditions of Angel in various ''ShinMegamiTensei'' games depict her as [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080812150046/megamitensei/images/4/40/AngelDS.jpg bottomless.]]

* ''Film/{{Hamlet 2}}'': The writer leaves his computer, revealing that he is not wearing pants

* ''Film/{{Schizopolis}}'': A man wearing a t-shirt with the film title runs from the camera, revealing that he is wearing nothing else.
* In ''Film/ShortCuts'', Julianne Moore does an entire scene naked from the waist down. Neither the audience nor her husband, played by Matthew Modine, notice she isn't wearing underwear until she appears from behind the kitchen counter.
* In ''Film/HaroldAndKumarEscapeFromGuantanamoBay'' the titular pair find themselves at a bottomless party. The host at one point chastises one female guest for removing her top.

* Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Film/TakeTheMoneyAndRun'' has his character preparing for a date, grooming himself at the mirror, leaving his apartment...then coming right back in, with the camera panning back to reveal he forgot his pants.
* In ''Film/{{Casino}}'', Robert De Niro's character emerges from behind a desk not wearing pants. He does so as to not crease the trousers of his suit by sitting down in them.
* In ''Film/AnimalHouse'', Donald Sutherland's character reaches to get something from a cabinet, raising his sweater and exposing his pants-less buttocks.
* Richard Lester's black post-nuclear war comedy ''The Bed Sitting Room'' has a BBC announcer going door-to-door, reading the news while kneeling behind a gutted-out tv cabinet, wearing a tie and coat outfit that, beneath chest level, is tattered long underwear.

* A rare PlayedForDrama example in ''Film/{{Network}}''. During one of Howard Beale's tirades, he is wearing a trenchcoat, shirt, and tie, which is fairly normal for a newscaster. Then, he rises out of his desk as his anger begins to swell, and the crew filming him and the audience see that he is wearing pajama bottoms and slippers on the bottom half. This becomes one of the first indicators of Beale's descent into madness as the film goes on.
* In ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', when co-pilot Roger Murdoch, played by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, succumbs to food poisoning, as he's carried away, it's revealed that he's wearing his basketball shorts underneath his pilot uniform, implying that Kareem was set to hit the court as soon as his scene wrapped.

* In ''Film/SpyKids 3'', Creator/GeorgeClooney plays the President of the United States, appearing [[http://content6.flixster.com/photo/11/08/25/11082596_gal.jpg only in video communications which show him from the shoulders up.]] All his scenes were filmed at his house in one afternoon. He was wearing pajama bottoms below his suit jacket, dress shirt, and tie.

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* Iliza Schlesinger hosts [[http://www.thestream.tv/series.php?s=16 the weakly news]] in her underpants, which typically only becomes apparent when she gets up from behind her desk for the OnceAnEpisode "dance party" segment.

** This also happens to Captain Holt in the episode "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS2E12BeachHouse Beach House]]"; he is forced to do this when he spills hot soup into his lap. Jake figures this out without leaving his desk, using his sharp detective skills. � And then it also happens to Jake. Cue Gina walking in on Jake and Holt both pantsless behind Captain Holt's desk.

--->'''Mayor Quimby:''' People of Springfield, because of the epidemic, [[BlatantLies I have cancelled my vacation to the Bahamas. I shall not leave the city]] '''Local Steel Drummer walks into the camera shot'''. . . hey, you, get that steel drum out of the, um, mayor�s office.�

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** This also happens to Captain Holt in the episode "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS2E12BeachHouse Beach House]]"; he is forced to do this when he spills hot soup into his lap. Jake figures this out without leaving his desk, using his sharp detective skills. … And then it also happens to Jake. Cue Gina walking in on Jake and Holt both pantsless behind Captain Holt's desk.

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--->'''Mayor Quimby:''' People of Springfield, because of the epidemic, [[BlatantLies I have cancelled my vacation to the Bahamas. I shall not leave the city]] '''Local Steel Drummer walks into the camera shot'''. . . hey, you, get that steel drum out of the, um, mayor’s office.”

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* Four examples from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':

* In ''Film/{{Casino}}'', Robert De Niro's character emerges from behind a desk not wearing pants.

* In ''Worlds of the Imperium'' by Creator/KeithLaumer, this is a plot point. The hero is sent to impersonate his alternate universe counterpart, the ruler of an evil empire. The people sending him copy the ruler's uniform from his TV broadcasts, but have to guess on the pants, since the ruler is only seen from the waist up. When the hero gets there, he discovers why: the ruler doesn't have legs. So much for impersonation.

* In ''Film/SpyKids 3'', Creator/GeorgeClooney plays the President of the United States, appearing [[http://content6.flixster.com/photo/11/08/25/11082596_gal.jpg only in video communications which show him from the shoulders up]]. All his scenes were filmed at his house in one afternoon. He was wearing pajama bottoms below his suit jacket, dress shirt, and tie.

* Some renditions of Angel in various ShinMegamiTensei games depict her as [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080812150046/megamitensei/images/4/40/AngelDS.jpg bottomless]].

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': Due to a recent change in her anti-anxiety medication, [[CloudCuckoolander Hannelore]] walks to the coffee shop before she realizes that [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=800 she forgot her pants at home]].

* In the WebVideo/{{Vlogbrothers}} episode aptly titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkKLANmUbF4 "Nerdfighter MARRIAGE PROPOSAL"]], John Green was asked by a fan to propose to the fan's girlfriend for him. He decided that an occasion like this necessitated nicer clothes than the t-shirt he started the episode in, then jump-cut to him adjusting himself in his seat, wearing a nice suit jacket and a dress shirt. When he called the girlfriend, did the proposal, and she said yes, John began cheering, and sprang out of his seat to reveal that he was still in his boxer shorts.

* In a ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} [[https://garfield.com/comic/1983-07-31 Sunday strip,]] Jon Arbuckle dresses for a date and frowns when Garfield laughs, not realizing that he's forgotten to put his pants on.

* Music/TheLonelyIsland song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqWHidMPsvo My Pants]]" (not to be confused with their more well-known "Jizz In My Pants") featured a man named Lance asking everyone to stop making fun of his pants, only to reveal at the end that he was naked from the waist down the entire time.

* In a ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} [[https://garfield.com/comic/1983-07-31 Sunday strip]], Jon Arbuckle dresses for a date and frowns when Garfield laughs, not realising that he's forgotten to put his pants on.

* In ''TheProblemSolverz'' episode "Fauxboro", Alfe's veterinarian is shown from the waist up at first, then when Roba asks him if he spilled medicine on his pants, the camera cuts to reveal him in his underwear.

* Reviewer Tekking101 wears a suit and tie in most of his videos. Near the end of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hTPugAn4wA review]] for ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' chapter 639, he revealed he was wearing shorts, justifying it by saying it was very hot.