History Main / Streaking

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': Jimmy invokes this trope while being hazed while attending college on episode 64.

** An ad for CC's Chips has Homer streaking through the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in order to get the aformentioned potato chips from Bart.

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** One shrine quest requires you to de-equip all of your armor and stand on a pedestal in your boxers during a Blood Moon to activate the shrine.

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* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': In an attempt to get fired from his job with the Yankees so he can take a better job with the Mets, George streaks at a Yankees game. Except he's too embarrassed to actually go naked, so he wears a flesh-coloured bodysuit instead. Instead of getting him fired, it makes him wildly popular with the fans as "Bodysuit Man".

* In the teen drama ''Triple Dog'', a female character is dared to streak. She does so while being [[ItMakesSenseInContext filmed by the girls that dared her to do so]].

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* Will Ferrell invokes this trope after [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy heavy drinking]] in ''Film/OldSchool''.
* In the teen drama ''Triple Dog'', a female character is dared to streak. She does so while being [[ItMakesSenseInContext filmed by the girls that dared her to do so]].

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-->'''David Niven:''' ''(recovering)'' Well, ladies and gentlemen that erm... That was almost bound to happen. But isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

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** [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie The movie]] has Bart doing a ''skateboarding'' streak near the beginning, at the end of a series of escalating dares between him and Homer.

* Bastion from ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' performs a streak across the school after having an epiphany.

* '''Type 1 Streaking''' involves complete nudity, although footwear is acceptable.
* '''Type 2 Streaking''' involves minimal coverage, for males this usually consists of nothing more than sparse undergarments while females may be allowed to have coverage for their breasts.

'''[[DontTryThisAtHome Don't try Type 1 in real life, particularly in public.]]''' The resulting charges can range from public indecency to second degree sexual assault, especially if children are nearby, and there's nothing like spending the rest of your natural life on a registered sex offender list.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E12TheWayWeWas The Way We Was]]" showed that Barney Gumble streaked through Homer and Marge's high school prom.

* The music video for "What's My Age Again" by Music/blink-182 features the members of the band running around Los Angeles in their birthday suits.

* In the teen drama ''Triple Dog'', a character is dared to streak. She does so while being [[ItMakesSenseInContext filmed by the girls that dared her to do so]].

* Happened quite famously at the 1974 UsefulNotes/{{AcademyAwards|Ceremonies}}, where actor David Niven's speech before delivering the award was interrupted by a man streaking behind him.

* In an episode of ''Series/Monk'', Captain Stottlemeyer and Lieutenant Disher are giving a public report of the case they are currently working on, when suddenly an unnamed man runs behind them wearing only a pair of sneakers.

* As a more serious example from Literature/TheBible, God had Isaiah go about his business three years without clothes as a sign against Egypt and Ethiopia, that the king of Assyria will lead them away into captivity bare-naked.

* This was done on an episode of ''Flash Forward''.

* In the pilot episode of ''Series/QuantumLeap'', Sam fills out the reason he was kicked out of his first college: Streaking. Since he is answering the question in the early 1950's, the doctors at NASA have no idea what that is.
* This was done on an episode of ''Flash Forward''.
* Happened quite famously at the 1974 UsefulNotes/{{AcademyAwards|Ceremonies}}, where actor David Niven's speech before delivering the award was interrupted by a man streaking behind him.
-->'''David Niven:''' ''(recovering)'' Well, ladies and gentlemen that erm... That was almost bound to happen. But isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

* Streaking is a diversion in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' and ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV''. In all three cases cases the player must strip down to the point where both censor bars would activate on a female character (by which no clothing should cover the torso area).

* "Streaking" is title of the third episode of the first season of ''Series/That70sShow'', in the episode the male members of the gang conspire to streak wearing Richard Nixon masks while at a press conference featuring President Gerald Ford. The plan goes south when the guys notice several security officers with several vicious looking guard dogs causing them to chicken out; however Eric notices his father having trouble while asking his question to President Ford prompting Eric to drop his cover and pull through with the act, prompting Red to comically question Ford as to how he could pardon Richard Nixon.

* Streaking is a diversion in both ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' and ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird''. In both cases the player must strip down to the point where both censor bars would activate on a female character (by which no clothing should cover the torso area).

Type 1 Streaking involves complete nudity, although footwear is acceptable.
Type 2 Streaking involves minimal coverage, for males this usually consists of nothing more than sparse undergarments while females may be allowed to have coverage for their breasts.

'''[[DontTryThisAtHome Don't try Type 1 in real life, particularly in public.]]''' The resulting charges can range from public indecency to second degree sexual assault, especially if children are nearby, and there's nothing like being on a registered sex offender list.