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7	[[caption-width-right:350:You call me a cheeky monkey.]]
8	->'''Woman:''' What are you doing?!\
9	'''Principal Lewis:''' Showing you my butt. ...What? You thought those were ding-dong prices?! ''[laughs]'' Na-ah, nah, nah.
10	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', "[[Recap/AmericanDadS8E3AWardShow A Ward Show]]"
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12	Ah, yes, the time-honored tradition of pulling down one's pants and displaying one's buttocks. While the term "mooning" has been in the English language for [[OlderThanTheyThink over 400 years]], it wasn't until the late [[TheSixties 1960s]] that it gained its modern slang usage.
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14	Mooning is typically done for sheer, [[DefiantToTheEnd pointless defiance]], to [[IShallTauntYou taunt an enemy]], or simply [[RuleOfFunny for laughs]]. The general idea is to do it within full view of people who don't expect or want to see a pair of bare buttocks. CheekCopy is a cousin of this trope that's less direct and can have the perpetrator be a safe distance from the victim with the same net result.
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16	While this is often a male-oriented behavior, it's not unheard of for a woman to do the same. Of course, [[DoubleStandard when a woman does this]], it's often more for titillation than shock or offense.
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18	Performing the act from the window of a moving car is perhaps the most common form in modern America. This solves the problem of a quick getaway while one's pants are undone. A popular variant is the "pressed ham", wherein the mooner shoves his bare cheeks up against the glass of a closed window.
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20	In more unfortunate situations, the act of mooning may be followed by an AssShove.
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22	While in fiction this is usually portrayed as harmless with no serious consequences (probably except for embarrassment), in RealLife, many jurisdictions will consider this actually illegal if done in public, with charges of public indecency or even second degree sexual assault. Please, DontTryThisAtHome.
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24	!!Examples:
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28	[[folder:Advertising]]
29	* A commercial for Creator/DisneyPlus featuring ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has Bart, dressed as WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, mooning the photographer as he and the rest of the Simpson family have their picture taken. As he does this, the Disney+ logo censors his butt.
30	* An ill-advised [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL8Nr3ET-lQ prank]] advertising the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
31	* There is a ''Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2'' commercial where two guys in a car stop next to the police. The passenger moons them and the two speed off.
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34	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
35	* A favorite move of the titular character from ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'', which he calls the "ass dance" (by pulling his pants down, bending over, and running left and right diagonally).
36	** Even ''toys'' of the character [[https://grapee.jp/en/138241 depicts him in this manner]]!
37	* In the ''Manga/CityHunter'' Movie "Death of the vicious criminal Ryo Saeba", after getting drunk one night, the titular character Ryo sees a helicopter filming him from his hotel room and [[https://youtu.be/pwB0KydrIo4?t=2196 he decides to flash his bare bum at it from his window.]]
38	* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
39	** Mr. Satan threatens to do this to Cell in the manga, but it is never shown. In the anime, he smacks his butt at Cell.
40	** [[http://imgur.com/3vJtMe8 Kid Trunks to Broly]] in two of the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' movies.
41	** It was also done by Kid Goku to Lord Luud in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', and [[https://i.imgur.com/fnN5ukS.png his descendant Goku Jr. also did this]] in his movie.
42	** Goku also managed to do it ''completely by accident'' in ''Dragon Ball'' when asked if his tail was real: he pulled down his pants and mooned the audience to show that yes, it was real.
43	* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'', after barely escaping from the Dark Knight Bruford, [[http://imgur.com/UO3Yiae Poco lowers his trousers and smacks his ass]] to mock the undead monster.
44	* In ''Manga/KemonoJihen'', Inugami shows off his tail to Kabane like this, proving that he's a Kemono like Kabane is before explaining what a Kemono is.
45	* The manga ''Kono S wo Miyo'' has a few examples. The protagonist gets a stigma on his buttocks that, if seen by a grown female, will fall deeply in love with him. It is mostly accidental, but he does use this method a few times.
46	* Mirio Togata in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' moons Shigaraki to distract him long enough for Midoriya to get into the fight. Mirio has always been a jokester and was desperate for a distraction since he didn’t have a power that could actually hit Shigaraki. It’s complete with a “full moon rising” quip.
47	* The ''Anime/PanpakaPants'' movie ''Panpaka Pants The Movie: Treasure of the Bananan Kngdom'' has Terry, the Monkey, Orson the Crane and Wanpoko the Dog bare their butts sometimes, much to Panpaka's dismay.
48	* In the original Japanese version of ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'', the Rowdyruff Boys bare their backsides to the girls as a way to taunt and annoy them in the 20th episode. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Az-YXlLHI Shown here.]]
49	* The fourth episode of ''Manga/TentomushiNoUta'' has Hiyoko bare her behind in contempt at her brother Kintaro.
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52	[[folder:Comedy]]
53	* Creator/JeffFoxworthy claims he was an "all-state" mooner his senior year of high school.
54	--> "Wasn't mooning a great sport? Nobody ever got hurt, you didn't have to be in shape to play. Hell, the fatter you were the more you brought to the window!"
55	* A variant by Creator/RodneyDangerfield:
56	--> [[SelfDeprecation "I'm so ugly I once looked out a window and was arrested for mooning."]]
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59	[[folder:Comic Books]]
60	* ''ComicBook/BartSimpson'' featured a few instances of characters baring their behinds.
61	** "The Time Bandit!", a story from the 14th issue, has Bart go back in time to when Homer and Marge were children. At one point, Bart gets a laugh out of Homer's class (the teacher included) by mooning them.
62	** "Ponce Upon a Time" from issue 42 has Bart discover to his horror that he'll look like Homer as he grows older after comparing a childhood photo of himself mooning when he was a baby to a childhood photo of Homer doing the same.
63	** "The Mystery of the Pesky Desk", a story from the 53rd issue, has Lisa investigate the mystery of a desk believed to be cursed, when in truth [[spoiler:there's moonshine fumes causing whoever sits at the desk to become reckless and stripped of inhibitions]]. One of the things Lisa ends up doing after sitting at the desk is mooning her classmates.
64	* ''ComicBook/TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers'' have a '50s nostalgia party, but Franklin doesn't dress up, declaring the decade "a drag". Fat Freddy incredulously cries "Whadd'ya ''mean?'' Remember ''cruisin'?'' Chopped Deuce coupes? Submarine races? '''Moonin'?'''" (his emphasis) Fat Freddy does eventually come round to Franklin's point of view when it's pointed out that it wasn't half as easy to get stoned back then.
65	* The first issue of ''[[ComicBook/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps: Recharge]]'' had Guy Gardner moon [[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Batman]].
66	-->'''Batman:''' Tell Guy he needs a shave.
67	* In ''ComicBook/HackSlash vs. ComicBook/ArmyOfDarkness'', Ash convinces Cassie to take part in a great American tradition: [[http://imgur.com/a/EZHwC Mooning passing motorists.]]
68	* ''Marvel What the...'' throws two occasions in just for the pun, involving the Black Pantser and the Moon Knight. Lampshading strictly optional: [[ThinkOfTheCensors "We can't do this in a comic!"]]
69	* ''ComicBook/PattyCake'':
70	** At the end of "Scorned", a story in the fourth issue of the first volume of ''Patty Cake & Friends'', Patty gets back at her rival Susie [=McBee=] by calling her on the phone and telling her to look out her window just so she can moon her off-panel.
71	** In the eleventh issue of the second volume of ''Patty Cake & Friends'', the story "Girls at the Beach" has Patty's older sister get in trouble for mooning out the car window while the Bakerman family are driving to the beach.
72	* We don't see it, but in ''ComicBook/PS238'', minor character Ajax once mooned two of his teachers [[HypnoFool while under the effects of]] another student's MindControl.
73	* ''ComicBook/TankGirl'':
74	** A strip published in 1989 had Tank Girl moon the reader on the last panel, the words "Up Yours" written on her bare ass.
75	** In the fifth issue of ''King Tank Girl'', the story "Commando" ends with Tank Girl, Sub Girl and Jet Girl exposing their behinds to prove that they were on the third day of their underwear routine (which was [[GoingCommando not wearing underweat at all]] after one day of wearing underwear normally and one day of wearing them inside-out).
76	-->'''Booga:''' Now ''that's'' an ending I can really get behind!
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80	* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' Calvin mentions he had no choice but to do this to the class when he accidentally ripped the seat of his pants and Miss Wormwood, not knowing what had happened, made him go up to do a math problem on the board (he was too embarrassed to tell her why he didn't want to go up). He then comments to Hobbes that he ended up getting to go home early from school because several teachers and the principal couldn't restore order afterwards.
81	* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'':
82	** One cartoon shows a castle guard with [[ShotInTheAss arrows in his butt]] being carried on a stretcher. One of his fellow soldiers talks about how he had suggested that somebody should try mooning the Saxons sieging their castle.
83	** There is another one featuring sheep having a night on the town.
84	** Another cartoon depicts a beetle couple at home, with the wife looking at the neighbours' house, which is entirely dark except for two large glowing spots from the window. She tells her husband that the fireflies across the street are mooning them.
85	** Yet another comic parodied the Ty-D-bol commercials by having a miniscule family of three living in the toilet looking upward. The father remarks "Looks like another full moon", [[ToiletHumor implying that someone is about to sit on the toilet to take a dump]].
86	* A cartoon in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' had a group of teenagers mooning a passerby who turned out to be a werewolf and who is transformed by his exposure to a '[[LiteralMetaphor full moon]]'.
87	* In ''ComicStrip/{{Moomin}}'', each extended arc begins with a close-up panel of Moomintroll's butt.
88	* Works by cartoonist Mordillo:
89	** One cartoon featured a clash of two pirate ships. #1 opens all hatches and shows their cannons. The reaction of #2 obviously is opening all hatches and [[ImNotAfraidOfYou showing their butts.]]
90	** [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dwSjOK7HgK4/TuZ5wZ4W_YI/AAAAAAAAFAw/Fr_4jaXD7Cs/s1600/Flasher.jpg Another cartoon]] depicted a woman mooning to retaliate against a male flasher.
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93	[[folder:Fan Works]]
94	* ''Fanfic/CodexEquus'':
95	** Azamuku, the [[HalfHumanHybrid Alicorn-Kitsune hybrid]] god of Deceit, Rebellion, and Moral Goodness, has taken to mooning people as a way of humiliating them for [[{{Hypocrite}} claiming to be "honorable" yet being rotten at heart]].
96	*** While fighting members of the Interregnum during their final showdown, he would moon them in retaliation for driving his Kitsune mother to [[FakingTheDead fake her death]] in order to protect herself and her hybrid son from persecution.
97	*** He also does this to arrogant, traditionalist deities who try molding him into a 'proper' deity. Whenever they tried to convince him to wear divine regalia or barding instead of going around naked, his response was to moon them. He would moon a deity who tried making a visiting Prince Caerulus Melodia drop his southern accent, and would suggest using this method to deal with those who try making him act 'proper', something Caerulus would [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/853196348/4871344148 take to heart]] once he went back to Equestria.
98	----> '''Azamuku:''' Your Highness, sometimes you'll meet gods who think they know how you should act, and tell you things you don't want to hear. So when things get too much and they won't stop no matter what you say, just turn around and show them your rear!
99	** Prince Caerulus Melodia himself mooned someone in one incident; he grew annoyed with a traditionalist deity who tried making him drop his southern Ponyland accent so he could speak in a proper and refined way befitting of a divine sovereign. When said deity wouldn't stop bothering him, Caerulus proceeded to retaliate by mooning them, something Azamuku taught him after befriending the divine Alicorn-Kitsune hybrid in Neighpon. This caused his twin brother Bossa Nova/Prince Rubeus and other friends who were nearby when it happened to [[LaughThemselvesSick collapse into laughter]].
100	* In ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' fic ''[[https://www.wattpad.com/story/173566505-final-stand-of-death Final Stand of Death]]'', during their VR training session [[Music/SpiceGirls Emma and Melanie]] gets moon by a random Scotsman. [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho]] remarks on [[Music/MelanieC Melanie]] getting a [[ShotInTheAss bulleye]] in response.
101	* In the ParodyFic ''Giggles Bags the Borg'', a [=WW1=] air ace drops his pants while flying over the Hun trenches. He's not trying to insult anyone though--the castor oil lubricant used in the airplane engine is giving him the runs. Unfortunately, this means the dastardly Hun literally catches him with his pants down.
102	-->"Well now's not the time to take a [[OhCrap SHIT!]]" yelled Belsworth, as a blue Fokker D.VII swooped out of the sun like a deadly hawk.
103	* ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''. Our introduction to our bold space hero [[Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton Captain Proton]] has him admiring the radiant surface of the moon, which turns out to be a SexBot giving him a {{panty shot}}.
104	* During chapter 6 of ''Fanfic/SugarRushRivalRacing'', Petty Capop-Rock moons Swizzle and Minty as a distraction when they race against him and his brother. This prompts all the female racers to cringe in disgust, while the male racers all laugh (with the exception of Gloyd and Rancis, who ''wanted'' to laugh but were well aware that their friends were losing the race).
105	* During the 82nd Hunger Games of ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheHungerGames'', Linnet and her district partner moons the entire crowd during the tribute parade.
106	-->'''Linnet''': "Ladies and gentlemen, you've seen us as suns...but have you seen us...moon?"
107	* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfic ''[[http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=27771 Why You Should Never Moon a Ninja]]'' has [[ManInAKilt Jamie]] doing this, and suffering the consequences.
108	* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' ParodyFic ''Man of Wood'', Chakotay knows he's having a lucid dream because he can see the moon...which turns out to be Seven of Nine bending over in front of them.
109	-->"Seven, what ''are'' you doing?" asked the Doctor.\
110	"Providing another light source," said the tight-buttocked Borg. "Lieutenant Torres has stated on numerous occasions that the sun shines out of my ass."
111	* Used for the telegraphed punchline of a ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' / ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' crossover fic, [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/854464/1/Sailor-Mooned Sailor Mooned]] by Moonlight Shadow:
112	--> Before Donatello could open the car door to refill the tank, a van passed by them. The really strange thing about the van was that it was driven by a man wearing a black tuxedo with a cape wearing a top hat and white face mask with five women in the back. The three mutant ninja turtles could hear the crappy music being played.\
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114	"Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight..."\
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116	Rapheal shuddered at the man's lack of taste for music. However, what was to follow would forever imprint itself in their minds. One of the girls, which they noticed were all wearing sailor suits with REALLY short skirts, stood up and bent over. Not only were the looking up her skirt, she also wasn't wearing ANYTHING under there. After a few seconds she pressed her butt againest the window and the van drove out of sight. After a few shocked minutes, one of them dared to speak.\
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118	"My God, we'd just been Sailor Mooned!"
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121	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
122	* In ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'', Dizzy moons Angel after he, Stretch, and Omar have been brainwashed by Mok.
123	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', one moment during the song "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" shows Simba and Nala walking past a herd of zebras who stand at attention as they pass, but when Zazu tries to follow them, the zebras turn about face and lift their tails to present their butts to him. When Zazu sees this, he promptly flinches and covers himself with his wings, [[ExcrementStatement just in case]].
124	* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron'', the titular horse turns around to point his butt angrily at Little Creek after seeing him for the first time while he’s imprisoned.
125	** This is partly TruthInTelevision, as some horses turn their hind ends toward other horses or humans to show disrespect. However, this act can be done for other reasons, such as [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y-pvL56c9_s&pp=ygUVT3NjYXIgbG92ZXMgYSBzY3JhdGNo wanting their owners to scratch their butts]]
126	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', when Lord Dingwall's son hit the bull's-eye in the archery competition, Lord Dingwall does a victory dance that ends with him mooning the other lords. Made easier by the fact that he's [[ManInAKilt wearing a kilt]].
127	-->'''Lord Dingwall:''' ''Feast yer eyes!''
128	* One scene in ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'' has the Pirate Captain's crew briefly showing off tattoos of their captain, with the Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate revealing her tattoo by baring her ass. Surprisingly, it is one of the few scenes unedited in the overseas release known as ''[[MarketBasedTitle The Pirates! Band of Misfits]]''.
129	* ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'':
130	** Used in ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'': Victor's pants get caught when stuck on the weathervane, and the vicar cries out, "[[Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon Beware the moon!]]"
131	** And then in ''WesternAnimation/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath'', Gromit's improvised BombDisposal technique causes Wallace to accidentally moon a couple of passing nuns. ItMakesSenseInContext.
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134	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
135	* In ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'', Jeffrey Goines (Creator/BradPitt) does this to the security staff at a mental institution while acting up.
136	* In ''Film/EightMile'', while battling Lyckety Splyt in a rap battle, B-Rabbit (portrayed by Eminem) finishes his verse with the last lines: "So I'm gonna turn around with a great smile/and walk my white ass back across 8 mile", while showing his full moon to his opponent while doing so.
137	* In ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'', an unnamed character played by Ken Martinez flashes his backside at nerd character Toad. While the mooner remains silent, the character's girlfriend is driving the car and catcalls to Toad, causing many to incorrectly remember this as a female example.
138	* In ''Literature/AngelasAshes'', Malachy Jr. moons Oliver and Eugene in one scene to try to make them laugh.
139	* In ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'', this is Mini-Me's statement to the World Councillors sentencing him and Dr. Evil (who is quite amused by the display.)
140	* ''Film/BillyElliot''. A thief moons a pursuing police car. This would qualify as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, were it not for this random moment enabling Billy to steal the crucial library book which teaches him to dance.
141	* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' has this with [[ExaggeratedTrope the entire Scottish army.]] The English army responds with a volley of longbow fire, and at least one of them [[ShotInTheAss scores a bullseye.]]
142	* In ''Film/TheBurning'', Dave, Fish, and Woodstock moon at Glazer as he angrily yells at them for shooting him in the ass with an air pistol.
143	* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', the good Captain gets mooned on stage by a soldier who was unimpressed with his USO performance.
144	* ''[[Film/CaptainSabertooth Captain Sabertooth and the Lama Rama Treasure]]'' has one of the antagonistic pirate mooning the protagonists from the other ship. Incidentally, this scene made it into the first trailer.
145	* In Tobe Hooper's ''Crocodile'' Sunny, played by Sommer Knight, pulls down her shorts to do a drive by mooning from the back of a jeep.
146	* ''Film/TheCourtJester''. The Rightful Heir (still an infant) has a BirthmarkOfDestiny on his butt. There are a couple of scenes of Hawkins holding the infant in his arms, lowering the swaddling clothes just far enough to reveal the birthmark, causing those who see it to KneelBeforeZod.
147	* In ''Film/{{Deadpool\|2016}}'', Wade spells out Francis' name with the dead bodies of his mooks... and the "I" had his pants down, rear end exposed.
148	* ''Film/{{Death on the Nile\|1978}}'': A well-to-do woman (played by Creator/BetteDavis) is relaxing and drinking tea while riding a steamship down the titular river Nile. A group of young native boys run alongside the steamship, shouting and waving to get her attention in a seemingly friendly manner. She smiles at the "charming little urchins" until they suddenly all turn their backs to her and drop their pants...
149	* In ''Film/DirtyWork'' Mitch gets Sam to do [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZsEMl2je6M this]] to a waiting line-up at a movie theater. He then parked there, [[LampshadeHanging which Sam notes kinda misses the point]].
150	* In ''Film/EasyVirtue'' Philip makes a joke about his performing the can-can naked to Larita and she responded that she would do anything for him. After hearing this her sister-in-law Hilda decided to perform the dance without panties, and the result was her reputedly mooning the audience during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR8xe7txMuQ the dance]]
151	* ''Film/{{Fear Street}}'': Part One. While returning home on the school bus with the band after the game, Ryan moons the jocks in hot pursuit in their convertible with a pressed ham from the back window.
152	* ''Film/ForrestGump''. The title character, at one point, gets ShotInTheAss. Later, UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson [[IWasJustJoking jokingly expresses interest]] in seeing the wound. Forrest, of course, takes the request literally and ''moons the President of the United States''. Fortunately, the Big Chief [[ActuallyPrettyFunny was more amused than anything else]] (LBJ was a bit on the crass side when it came to manners).
153	-->'''UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson:''' ''[chuckling]'' Goddamn, son!
154	* ''Film/FreddyVsJason'': While creating a distraction so he can steal Kinsey Park's keys, Mark Davis presses his bare ass against the window of Kinsey's office.
155	* ''Film/TheGamersDorknessRising'': How do you worship a Moon God?
156	* In the film version of ''Film/{{Grease}}'', the Headmistress announces that the FBI had experts examining images of the young men who did this on live television. During Blue Moon, no less.
157	* There's a "we have to change our clothes while the car is in motion" sequence in ''Film/JohnnyDangerously'' that results in a mooning.
158	* After ''Film/K19TheWidowmaker'' is forced to surface near a US Navy vessel to make repairs, the crew does a spontaneous mass mooning of a passing helicopter.
159	* The first dare Sydney is shown performing in ''Film/{{Nerve}}'' is mooning the crowd at a pep rally: bending over and flipping up her cheerleader skirt to reveal she is not wearing underwear.
160	* In ''Film/OnlyTheBrave'', on the way to a fire, the guys fool around on the bus, and at one point one of them moons everyone.
161	* In ''Film/{{Our Brand Is Crisis}}'', while overtaking the bus of her rival on a precarious Bolivian mountain road, Sandra Bullock's character sticks her bare butt out a window to taunt them while her staff watches in amusement and shock. In interviews Bullock, seemingly embarrassed, admitted she did not use a stunt double for the mooning.
162	* In ''Film/PhantomOfTheMallEricsRevenge'', Buzz tricks a guard away from the video surveillance booth by mooning the camera, so he and Susie can search for Melody.
163	* ''Film/{{The Phantom of the Opera\|2004}}'': A man on a balcony moons Carlotta just before she begins singing "Prima Donna", to the great amusement of the nearby spectators. Apparently no one likes her much.
164	* ''Film/{{Point Break\|1991}}''. As the Ex-Presidents flee the bank they're robbing, the robber wearing the NixonMask yanks down his pants to show the words Thank You written on his behind. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Ironically this provides the initial clue]] that the robbers are surfers, because this exposes his tan line to the CCTV cameras.
165	* In the final scene of the '80s movie ''Film/PrivateSchool'', the graduating class of the titular all-girl school do this.
166	* In ''Film/ProblemChild'', Ben Healy's father Big Ben moons his audience without realizing [[IsThisThingOn that the camera is on]].
167	* ''Prom Night'' movies:
168	** Vicki (Pita Oliver) moons the creepy school janitor in ''Film/PromNight1980'', and gets scolded for it.
169	** Jeff in [[Film/PromNightIVDeliverUsFromEvil the fourth film]] moons the prom attendees as he and the other characters are on their way to their own party.
170	* The Alpha Beta fraternity in ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'' does this to the Tri-Lambs. Yes, the whole fraternity shows their hairy buttocks, among other things. [[ItMakesSenseInContext While singing "Old [=MacDonald=]"]].
171	* In the Australian film ''Film/RomperStomper'', one of the skinheads does this while they're fleeing from the pursing Vietnamese.
172	* In ''Film/{{Slapshot}}'' the entire team and their followers do this out the windows of a bus in one town.
173	* In ''Film/TheSmurfs2'', when Patrick Winslow says, "Is a Smurf's butt blue?", Grouchy is seen bending over and preparing to flash his own butt, saying "You tell me". And this is coming from the same Smurf who in [[Film/TheSmurfs the previous movie]] taunted Patrick Winslow with "[[ParentheticalSwearing kiss my smurf]]". There would have been a "[[{{Pun}} blue moon]]" in this film as well if Grouchy was allowed to pull it off.
174	* In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', one of Rico's fellow recruits is talked into mooning Rico's camera when he's composing a message for Carmen.
175	* In M. Night Shyamalan's ''Film/TheVisit'' (2015), Nana gets overly excited while playing hide and seek with her grandchildren in the eave under the house. Her long skirt gets disarrayed in the process, causing her to walk away toward the horizon with one ass cheek showing. Later in the movie, a security camera catches her sleepwalking nude. The most reliable reports indicate that these shots used stunt doubles rather than principal actress Creator/DeannaDunagan, who was 75 at the time.
176	* In ''Film/WishYouWereHere1987'' when Lynda was repeatedly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EmWyw0KLJk yelling "up ya bum"]] her neighbor asked what she was doing. She replied that she was just looking for a cat. The girl then bent down and lifted her nightshirt giving the grouchy woman an eyeful.
177	* In the Adam Sandler vehicle ''Film/YouDontMessWithTheZohan'' (2008), when Michael (Nick Swardson) arrives home from work, his first sight is the beefy bare backside of his mother, whose skirt is in disarray while she makes out with Sandler's titular lodger. The lady appears to be played in this scene by a double, and not principal actress Lainie Kazan.
178	* In ''Film/Zapped1982'', a group of guys from the rival high school do this to Scott Baio's character after he hit a home run to win the baseball game. They would regret it.
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181	[[folder:Literature]]
182	%%* Mulch does this in the ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' series.
183	* In the ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'', the Axumites do this to mock Venandakatra during the celebration of Shakuntala's wedding. They rotate through the platform facing Venandakatra three times, because the crowd loves the sight of four hundred bare black asses hanging over the battlements to taunt Malwa.
184	* ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'': Alison moons her unsuccessful suitor Absolon through a window in the dark in "The Miller's Tale"... while leading him to believe she's sticking her face out the window for a kiss. He "kist her naked ers", and {{Squick}} ensues. He then comes back with a red-hot iron, asks for another kiss, and shoves the iron "amidde the ers" of Alison's lover.
185	* In Graham Oakley's children's book ''The Church Mice and the Moon'' a small camera-carrying rocket to the moon goes astray and ends up in the church instead. At the press conference a politician announces pompously, "Ladies and Gentleman, the moon!" not realising the rocket's camera is actually showing a member of the church choir bending over while taking off their robe.
186	* An odd example occurs in L. Frank Baum's ''Wizard of Oz'' books, although this is not the fault of author Baum, but of illustrator John R. Neill. This artist had an apparent fetish for including [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment bizarre non sequiturial images]] in the drawings he made to accompany Baum's stories. In ''The Scarecrow of Oz'', whose first act follows a boat trip gone wrong a la ''Gilligan's Island'', Neill chose to pepper the adventure with gratuitous scenes of an attractive, well-built, not-quite-human lady in the water, with fins on her arms (a la Aquaman) and on the sides of her head (like Flash wings or Catwoman ears). No such character is ever mentioned in Baum's text. In the full-page illustration preceding chapter one, this mermaid/nereid/selkie/whatever-she-is is riding a whitewater wave which strategically covers her lower body, except for a "window" which gives us an unobstructed view of her bare buttocks.
187	* ''Creator/DaveBarry's Guide to Guys'':
188	** According to him, one of the immature activities which constitute the "business meetings" of the Arcola Broom Corn Festival involves
189	--->a man climbing up a ladder and, using props, presenting a dramatic rendition of a song while the Rangers attempt to guess the title, which is not difficult because the song always involves the word "moon"
190	** In the same book, he also states that mooning is one of the two things invented by guys, the other being Pez.
191	* According to the ''Literature/{{Discworld}} Fools' Guild Diary'', the battle clowns of Uberwald used to wear armour everywhere except their backside. The practice of displaying their scars was [[NamesakeGag named after]] the town they were based in: Müning.
192	* In the ''National Lampoon's High School Yearbook Parody'', there is a picture with the caption "Thanks to parents for lending their cars to transport prom balloons." Except it's not balloons we see pressed against the window of the car.
193	** The cover of the same book has three cheerleaders performing a synchronized routine, with their skirts flipping up in motion. While two of the girls are wearing modest bathing suits/leotards, the third lady is commando. While we have a view of her butt, the characters on the audience benches react in open mouth shock to the implied sight of her reproductive region. Whether the woman is exposing herself deliberately or merely forgot to put on her undies that morning is open to interpretation, as this standalone image does not illustrate any of the stories inside. (Some reprint editions strategically place a title bar over the lady's butt on the cover, yet provide the unobstructed view within the book's interior.)
194	* Bobby is forced to do this as part of his [[TraumaCongaLine hazing]] by Rumson and his gang in ''Literature/OneFatSummer''. Needless to say, Bobby doesn't find it fun at all.
195	-->"Lookit that can!"\
196	"There's two moons tonight!"
197	[[/folder]]
198
199	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
200	* Judging from [[FemaleGaze her body language]] and [[ReactionShot facial expression]], the reporter thinks that the guy who's mooning her has a nice butt in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqAIsmBZbOU#t=0m28s this live report.]]
201	* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode "The Pants Alternative", Sheldon gets drunk before his award acceptance speech and ends up mooning the audience and [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube being put on YouTube]]:
202	-->'''Sheldon:''' Now, for the astronomers in the audience, get ready to see the dark side of the moon. [[UranusIsShowing And here's Uranus!]]
203	* On ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'', Bob's old college pal, nicknamed "The Peeper", reveals that Bob's nickname was "The Mooner." Bob hastily claims it was because he liked the "Moon Mullins" comic strip, but then smiles as he remembers an old Studebaker they used to drive...
204	* Played with in ''The Days'' when Yoshida, the manager of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, requests permission to evacuate the non-essential personnel in the face of an impending meltdown. Even though he and the long-term company employees will stay to the end, the Prime Minister of Japan turns up at the power company's emergency centre in Tokyo and forbids an evacuation while all but accusing them of cowardice and incompetence. Yoshida is watching all this on video conference and wordlessly shows his contempt by standing up, dropping his pants to the camera (though he's still wearing underwear) and scratching his behind. Fortunately the PM doesn't see this, though everyone else does.
205	* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': The Season 3 finale, "[[Recap/CSIS3E23InsideTheBox Inside the Box]]," ends with Catherine visiting Grissom in the hospital while he's awaiting surgery to fix his hearing problem. He's already dressed in his hospital gown and nonchalantly leaves his room, walking away from her, with it gaping open (below the camera's view). Catherine laughs in shock.
206	* In an episode of ''Series/DesigningWomen'', Julia Sugarbaker (off-camera) humiliates herself at a charity fashion show by walking the runway with the back of her dress tucked into her pantyhose, and later says she fears [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten she'll be forever known as "The Woman Who Mooned Atlanta."]]
207	* In 1990s TV series ''Drexell's Class'', when the title character expects he is getting a better job, resigns his teaching position, and, as a final TakeThat to his boss, moons her. This comes back to bite him when his new job goes bust and he has to beg for his old one back.
208	* In the "Take Me to the Ball Game" episode of ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'', Uncle Mel moons the baseball players and is shown on the Jumbo screen. Of course, Teddy and Ivy cover him up with foam fingers, but don't forget this is a Creator/DisneyChannel show! Later:
209	-->'''Teddy:''' Then the police officer told us to please leave, then Uncle Mel told him to kiss something that was on the jumbo screen.
210	* ''Series/GreaseRiseOfThePinkLadies'': The premiere episode "We're Gonna Rule the School" has two instances of this. First, the T-Birds and Cynthia moon the audience at a pep rally. Then Nancy, Jane, Olivia and Cynthia moon everyone during an assembly.
211	* On ''Series/TheJeffFoxworthyShow'' Jeff is the king of mooning in his hometown since at a major ball game his mooning attempt got caught on the jumbo-tron. Later that episode he and his son moon a car with three women in it. It turns out the women were his wife, sister-in-law, and brother's girlfriend.
212	* In a home video contest in the Chilean CultClassic show ''Maldita sea!'', one of the videos featured a guy hallucinating [[ItmakesSenseInContext after sniffing on]] [[GRatedDrug his smelly tennis shoes]]. One of his hallucinations features him facing a warrior who warns him about his "body power" and then moons him as an attack. [[spoiler: Then he kills him, but as said above it was AllJustADream.]]
213	* On ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'', Ned moons Cookie in "Vampires, Werewolves, Ghouls and Ghosts" to transform him into a werewolf.
214	* ''Series/NightCourt'' had a rare female version where Billie pulled her skirt up and mooned out the window of Harry's chamber. The episode ended with quite a few people in the building across from Harry's office mooning back.
215	-->'''Bull:''' There are eight million stories in ''Film/TheNakedCity''. ''[[LamePunReaction (the others glare at him)]]'' Somebody had to say it!
216	* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'':
217	** In episode 2.12 "Christmas Scandal", Leslie gets involved in a scandal involving her being falsely claimed to have had sex with a married city councilman, she ends it on live TV when he claims he has a mole on her butt cheek, she pulls down her pants, mooning the hostess, to prove this is untrue. (Her butt is not shown to us.)
218	** In episode 2.22 "Telethon", to prevent Mark from proposing to Ann and being shot down on live television, Leslie pulls down her pants, mooning the camera. (Her butt is not shown to us.) The hostess from the earlier episode comments that it is getting to be a habit.
219	* ''Series/{{Rome}}'': When the forces of Julius Caesar steal a march on Rome, Pompey Magnus and his senatorial supporters have to flee because he hasn't raised enough soldiers to defend the city. The populace are shown jeering their [[TacticalWithdrawal apparent cowardice]], including one man who bares his buttocks in contempt.
220	* On an episode of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'', Arnie laments that the only thing he and Nancy used to fight about was "who drives and who moons."
221	* The first instance of visible mooning on network U.S. TV was on ''Series/StElsewhere'' where Dr. Westphall, who had quit in disgust, was offered a new job by his replacement. His response was to bare his backside and say "You can kiss my ass, pal." The action and the line were very risque for 1987.
222	* Penny Marshall had a cameo in the ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' episode "Louie Moves Uptown", where she tries to get a nice apartment. However the application board rejected her because she was an actress, and she responded by hiking up her skirt and sticking her tongue out at them. (She was wearing decent underwear.)
223	* ''Series/{{Temps de chien\|2023}}'': In the seventh episode, realizing that he's in charge full-time of the clinic after learning that Armand retired, Antoine is upset and says:
224	-->'''Antoine:''' I can't leave the islands without any vet. Everyone would be mad at me.\
225	'''Stéphane:''' It's certain that there'll be a couple [of people] that'll come to moon you through your windows.
226	** Later in that same episode, Antoine mentions to Kim the idea of the local inhabitants mooning them through their windows as one of the things that would happen if he quits, thus preventing them from admiring the nearby cliffs or the sunset over the sea.
227	* ''Series/That70sShow'':
228	** Eric invents the "Moon & Trench" which involves him "trenching" his teacher's lawn with the Vista Cruiser after mooning him at the door.
229	** Donna mooned a pep rally photo that made it into the yearbook. She was proud of it, but Eric was all dickish and possessive about it until he dropped trou to prove he was okay with Donna showing her butt, unintentionally mooning his and Donna's parents in the process.
230	* In the ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' episode "Pinocchio's Mouth," Jake is kicked off his school bus (and Alan grounds him) for mooning someone while in transit.
231	* On ''Series/WhosTheBoss'', Angela relates how, as a teenager, she mooned a guy who stood her up.
232	* In one episode of ''Series/TheWonderYears'', Kevin goes out with his friends who moon an older couple in the next car at a stoplight, but Kevin himself ducks down upon realizing the couple is [[spoiler: his parents]]!
233	* One clip on ''Series/WorldsDumbest'' has a group of people who get together to moon a train.
234	[[/folder]]
235
236	[[folder:Music]]
237	* A popular children's song is the [[GoldFever Gold Rush]] era folk-song "Sweet Betsy From Pike," which tells the story of the a woman and her boyfriend/husband Ike traveling to California. They survive numerous hardships, almost starve, fend off hostile Indians, and successfully arrive to dig for their fortune. Oh, yes, and along the way: "Out on the prairie one bright starry night/They broke the whiskey and Betsy got tight./She sang and she shouted and danced o'er the plain/And showed her bare arse to the whole wagon train." How this affected Betsy's relations with her wagon train neighbors, whom she would presumably have to see every day, knowing that all of them had witnessed her public partial nudity when she was in a drunken foolish state, and whether she ever lived it down, are anyone's guess. The song never mentions the incident again, and the verse [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment can be excised without changing anything else]]. One famous version, recorded by Burl Ives, changes the final line to the nebulous "and made a great show for the whole wagon train."
238	* Long before Eminem, Music/{{ACDC}} guitarist Angus Young would moon the audience at the end of stripping down to just his schoolboy shorts. Nowadays, he wears boxers printed with the flag of the country they're performing in.
239	* Perhaps not too surprisingly, Music/{{Eminem}} is known to have done this at some of his concerts.
240	* The cover of Music/IronMaiden's "The Best of 'B' Sides" shows [[{{Mascot}} Eddie The Head]] mooning the viewer from behind a windshield of a bus.
241	* Keith Moon's solo album, "Two Sides Of The Moon" had a picture of Keith and a lady sitting in a limo on the cover photo, but inside there was an alternate picture of Keith mooning out the window of the limo.
242	* The Toy Dolls song and album, "Bare Faced Cheek", the cover of which is shown above.
243	* The title of Music/FrankZappa's instrumental composition "A Pound For A Brown On The Bus" from ''Music/UncleMeat'' was inspired by two of his band members who placed a bet for a pound on the tour bus that one of them wouldn't dare to show his behind on the bus. Before his words were cold one of them was already pulling down his pants and showed his behind, thus winning the bet.
244	* When Paul [=McCartney=] was recording "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" for Music/TheBeatles album ''Abbey Road,'' he chuckles in the line "Writing fifty times". This was because John Lennon, in the engineer's booth, mooned him (expressing discontent he, Ringo and George had over the time spent on the song).
245	[[/folder]]
246
247	[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
248	* In Literature/TheBible of all places: [[Literature/BookOfExodus Exodus 33:23]] implies ''God'' moons Moses (the exact words are "And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts") Some translations just say He shows Moses His bare back though.
249	* The Japanese monster known as the Shirime exposes its rear to passersby it encounters on the street... in order to show its anus is [[EyesDoNotBelongThere a giant eye]].
250	[[/folder]]
251
252	[[folder:Pinballs]]
253	* Used in the MatchSequence for ''[[Pinball/{{ACDC}} AC/DC]],'' with Angus Young dropping trou towards the player.
254	* Done by the rowdy soccer crowd in Creator/CapcomPinball's ''Pinball/FlipperFootball''.
255	[[/folder]]
256
257	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
258	* [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} Mr. Ass]] Wrestling/BillyGunn was well known for mooning the crowd as well as his opponents.
259	* Ricky Fugi was force to moon the crowd in Wrestling/{{FMW}} after [[PowerStable Team No Respect]] took over and pulled down his pants.
260	* [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Mr. McMahon]] had done this on several occasions for his Kiss My Ass Club. Once followed by an AssShove by Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, shoving [[Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon Shane [=McMahon=]]]'s face up his father's ass.
261	* In one 2002 match, Wrestling/TrishStratus dropped trou and spanked herself.
262	[[/folder]]
263
264	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
265	* In the ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' two-part episode "Nuts to War", a television report of the war between bipedal and quadrupedal dinosaurs has Howard Handupme inform the audience that footage of the war is too intense to show at dinnertime. Fran Sinclair's mother Ethyl Phillips remarks that it's probably because one of the soldiers mooned the camera.
266	[[/folder]]
267
268	[[folder:Radio]]
269	* In a 90s episode of ''Radio/TheNewsQuiz'', Jeremy Hardy mocked a rugby player who appeared in a Quorn ad trying to look like a sensitive New Man who did the cooking, claiming that you could tell he was thinking "Isn't there a coach window I could bare my arse out of?"
270	[[/folder]]
271
272	[[folder:Theatre]]
273	* There's a character in the stage play ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'' who is known for this. The song "Mooning" is a DoubleEntendre.
274	* The King's wives in ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'', who at one point wear {{Gorgeous Period Dress}}es that did not come with undergarments, accidentally did this to some visitors from England. One of the visitors unintentionally scares them with his monocle, causing them to lift up their skirts and run away.
275	* In ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'', during the lines "We raise our glass/You bet your ass" in "La Vie Boheme," Maureen gets up on the table and [[https://youtu.be/OXE0XKFoUUo?t=2m16s moons Benny and his associates.]]
276	[[/folder]]
277
278	[[folder:Video Games]]
279	* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'': One of Lance's cool dance moves in the final confrontation. Except that his hairy butt is just... {{squick}}y.
280	* ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'': The fourth EpisodicGame (''Secrets of the Oracle'') has Billy perform a mooning gesture as an IdleAnimation in the Temple of the Moons when you leave him standing on a [[VisualPun moon symbol]].
281	* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'': Conker gets mooned by cavemen twice: first by the muggers on the hoverboards, and then by the soldiers in the arena (though the second one was removed from the Xbox version).
282	* ''Videogame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Sera is quite fond of both the in-person version, which she does frequently to [[BlackMagicianGirl Vivienne]] (who doesn't care) but also the indirect version by defacing Inquisition documents with drawings of butts.
283	* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'': In the spin-off game ''VideoGame/DukeNukem: Time to Kill'', Duke wears a [[ManInAKilt kilt]] in the Medieval levels. An EasterEgg has him imitating ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' by mooning the camera.
284	* ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' and ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': Joe Higashi's TauntButton animation. So infamous that it became ''his winning portrait'' in KOF 2001, and the AlternateUniverse manga ''KOF: G'' showed him performing it in public too.
285	* ''VideoGame/FreeSpace'': A rather easy-to-miss example. If you look closely at the rear of the Ra-class Vasudan Escape Pod, you'll see a Vasudan's rear end in the window.
286	* ''VideoGame/HarmfulPark'': A background character can be seen mooning during the final boss fight.
287	* ''VideoGame/{{Inkulinati}}'' has this as a viable combat tactic. The Rabbits and Hares' special attack, "Here Comes the Butt", has them flash their buttocks in order to disorient an enemy beast and give it a headache, limiting its ability to act during its next turn.
288	* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': In one camp interaction, Reverend Orville Swanson calls [[TheHeart Uncle]] lazy and a lone wolf who howls at the moon. Uncle responds by giving him some... moon... to howl at. While still in his union suit/pajamas!
289	* ''VideoGame/TheSpellcastingSeries'': In the second entry, Ernie Eaglebeak has to moon the Queen of Peloria as a fraternity initiation prank. HilarityEnsues.
290	* ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'':
291	** ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998'': There are Gnorcs in the second hub who do this to you. Charge your big, pointy horns right at their big yellow posteriors!
292	** ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'': The Rhynocs with hot coals in Frozen Altars can do this to you.
293	* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': When placing a Garden Gnome, one of the possible poses it could be in is one where it is mooning the screen.
294	* ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'': Angela does this at various points during the story, and even during her level up animation.
295	[[/folder]]
296
297	[[folder:Web Animation]]
298	* ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded'': "How Lord of the Rings Should Have Ended" has Boromir mooning Sauron.
299	* The army of [[BrattyHalfPint Bratty Half Pints]] in ''WebAnimation/KingsOfPowerFourBillionPercent'' are very fond of this. There's also a blink and you miss it one during the God Rush.
300	* ''WebAnimation/LoboWebseries'': At the end of "Lobo for President", Lobo moons at the camera with his hairy and infested buttocks showing.
301	[[/folder]]
302
303	[[folder:Webcomics]]
304	* In a contemporary arc strip of ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'', when Arthur and Guinevere go to the Kentucky Derby, Arthur notes that many female spectators are flashing their breasts, and suggests that maybe this is part of participating fully in the event. Guinevere replies that if he feels that way, maybe ''he'' should act on it. So...
305	* ''Webcomic/DeanNalaVinny'': Nala and Vinny are hosting a virtual live Q & A. A reader offends Nala by pointing out her bandaged foot looks funny[[note]]Like her real life counterpart Nala had a growth removed from her toe pad and did wear a ConeOfShame for a bit[[/note]]. The indignant feline responds by turning around and shoving her backside into the laptop's webcam ("How about '''''THIS''''' up close... Is ''that'' funny?!")
306	* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', during his recounting of the previous council gathering, Phani'nath [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=5568 depicts this happening]] in an ImagineSpot. The actual mooning probably didn't occur, but Quain'tana's response is still very much in character.
307	* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'': Not shown onscreen, but [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1600/fc01521.htm Helix exclaims]] "Sam! You just mooned the mayor!" How an alien squid in an environment suit has a recognizable bottom to moon people with is not explained.
308	* An old ''Webcomic/GoblinHollow'' arc involved Ben and the gang mooning people from the back of his van. Sheldon, the turtle, refused, and was accused of being jealous "'cos you ain't got no butt". It ended with Ben explaining the never-seen resulting DisasterDominoes to Lily:
309	--> "So then it was my turn. I gave Sheldon the wheel, dropped my britches, and slapped my butt against the window. Naturally my belt got caught in the door handle just as we got stuck in traffic. Then that squad car pulled up... You know, this confession would be a lot easier if you'd stop laughing."\
310	"Tell her the bit about the bus full of Japanese tourists!"
311	* ''Webcomic/MobPsycho100'': At one point, Mob remembers that when he was younger, one of his friends mooned everyone on the playground and everyone, save for him, laughed. It's a rare PlayedForDrama moment; the moment is used to highlight how Mob is forced to control his emotions because of his PsychicPowers and how it isolated him from other kids, especially his crush, Tsubomi.
312	* In one ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'' comic, Yeagar decides on a gesture of defiance after proving unable to answer a RiddlingSphinx. Fortunately, it turns out that the answer to the riddle is "Moon".
313	* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Sette moons Jivi rather than greet him more kindly when she finds him in Litriya Shrine on the 58th page of Chapter 15.
314	[[/folder]]
315
316	[[folder:Web Videos]]
317	* ''LetsPlay/{{raocow}}'': "Hello, there, [[{{Pun}} moon.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKilA8BgANA&t=3m09s I shall respond in turn."]]
318	* ''WebVideo/TheTourettesGuy'': "Does this look like the ass of someone who knows if Jiffy Lube is open on Sundays?"
319	[[/folder]]
320
321	[[folder:Western Animation]]
322	* Done literally on ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' when the Sun gets mooned by... the Moon. With 3D butt cheeks.
323	** In a much more innocent example of this trope than most,when Gumball tried out for the cheerleading team he briefly flashed his ass to his mom to demonstrate that his skirt didn't hide his butt.
324	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "[[Recap/AmericanDadS8E3AWardShow A Ward Show]]", after Principal Lewis steals a bag of oranges from a Mexican street salesman, a woman stops her car and asks how much. He says, "10 bucks to see it; 20 bucks to ride," with the woman clarifying that she meant how much for the oranges, with Principal Lewis saying they're not for sale. She pays the $10 to "see it", but doesn't realize until after she's paid him that Principal Lewis was talking about showing her his butt; not his "ding-dong".
325	* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'': In the back of a school field trip bus, they moon the cars behind them while slowly going up a mountain road.
326	* ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'':
327	** A British fan angrily moons [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Charles]] during his match with [[Music/{{Prince}} the Artist Formerly Known as Prince]].
328	** Also, in a HalloweenEpisode, the Wolfman is supposed to fight FrankensteinsMonster, but due to Daylight Savings Time, the full moon hasn't risen yet and he's still human. The problem is solved when a fan moons him. (Maybe the writers of the episode were fans of ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'')
329	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'', Craig, while exploring the city with his cousin, is shown the house of a boy named Lucas, who his cousin describes as "wild". Lucas shows at the window and proceeds to moon them, [[DiscretionShot though the audience doesn't see it]] and later shows up a couple scenes later and does the same, though the scene ends before we see anything.
330	* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'':
331	** Another quite literal example: Dexter accidentally pulls the moon out of orbit, which causes it to fall on his house and crush his lab, burning his clothes in the process. Deedee comes in a few seconds later and sees her brother's backside, and tells her mother that Dexter is mooning her. All the while the moon itself is still clearly visible in the background.
332	** Dexter is depicted mooning in the title card for the infamous "Rude Removal" episode.
333	* The John Dilworth short ''WesternAnimation/TheDirdyBirdy'' featured a bird named Purdy repeatedly mooning a cat named Fergurina, only for the cat to retaliate with comedic violence every time.
334	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Downtown}}'' episode "Train Pain" has Chaka and Mecca agree to race Fruity and Matt to Coney Island by taking trains. When Chaka and Mecca have difficulty getting to one of the trains on time, the man at the door rudely refuses to hold the door for them. On another train, Chaka and Mecca spot the man in the window of the train next to them and they retaliate against his earlier action by mooning him, which subsequently gets them kicked off the train by the operator.
335	* Eddy from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' does this to Kevin in "A Case of Ed" while Ed gives this gem of a line:
336	-->'''Ed:''' Whoa! I am turning into a werewolf, Eddy!
337	* The end credits extension of the ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' episode "Gridlocked And Loaded" where the team was in a traffic jam had Billy in a car next to them irritating General Skarr. Billy moons Skarr in one segment, after which Skarr turns his cannon on the car and blows it to kingdom come.
338	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' had a hilarious example in "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E21FutureStock Future Stock]]" where Fry moons Mom. Mom (after correctly identifying it as a pressed ham) orders her sons to hit one of the Retaliate buttons, causing a billboard of Mom to fire lasers at Fry.
339	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "[[HalloweenEpisode Billy and Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween]]", Billy moons Jack in order to distract him from Mandy's planned assault on Jack and his pumpkin soldiers.
340	* In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Sid, Stinky and Harold moon their principal. This leads to drama when Arnold, who knows they did it, refuses to rat them out and instead does 30 days of hard time in detention.
341	* In the ''WesternAnimation/JeanLucAndDondoozat'' episode "Autoroute", Jean-Luc took to mooning people on the highway, causing them to crash due to the distraction. The third car he tried it on, though, was being driven by Dondoozat, who chased and spanked him.
342	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Stumpy does this to Kaeloo in one episode so she will get angry. It works.
343	* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'':
344	** Occurred when Bill, Dale, and Boomhauer tricked Hank into mooning the lobby from the hotel glass elevator (by saying they were all going to do it). Worse when former governor Ann Richards was in the lobby. Bill took the blame and apologized in front of her which leads to the plot of the episode. The same episode ends with Bill mooning Lenore out a limo window.
345	** Dale moons out the window of a moving truck, but quickly regrets it when he sideswipes a bunch of shrubbery.
346	** Variant: Hank, Bill, and Boomhauer steal Dale's new lawnmower as part of a revenge prank for Dale's previous jerk behavior (especially when borrowing Hank's mower), and escalate it by sending him photographs that they know will drive him nuts. One of the photos is a close-up of Bill's ass on the mower with his pants partly pulled down. It's confirmed to be Bill later when Hank thinks about ending the prank, and Bill comments that it's easy for him to say since it's not his butt in the picture.
347	* From an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'':
348	-->'''Roger:''' Hey girls, want to see something cool?\
349	'''Jodi:''' Please don't moon us again Roger.
350	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MaryShelleysFrankenhole'' episode "Death", Victor Frankenstein moons Death while he's outside the bedroom window of Victor's sons Heinrich and Gustav, hoping that this will provoke Death into claiming his sons sooner. Instead, Death decides to spite Victor by letting his sons live, knowing that the immortal Victor would actually be happy to see his sons die and that refusing to let them die would be the best way to get back at Victor. Death moons Victor back when he first finds out about his sons remaining alive for the foreseeable future.
351	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'' episode "Bring Me The Head of Mighty Max", it is mentioned by Bea that Max got two hours detention for mooning the teachers' lounge.
352	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyDadTheRockStar'' episode "King Of The Desert" Rock is about to do this while chaperoning Willy's school trip, but a kid stops him saying he's not allowed to participate in any strenuous activity or mooning.
353	* In season 2 finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Twilight Sparkle meets her old foalsitter Cadence and tries to greet her with a childhood SecretHandshake that ended with both participants shaking their rumps together. Since Cadence doesn't join her, however, Twilight ends up [[EpicFail waving her backside right in Cadence's face]].
354	* In the ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' episode "You're In Control", Boxman Jr. at one point taunts T.K.O. by mooning him.
355	* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' {{elseworld}} episode "Doof Dynasty", during the song "The Way of the Platypus" Bufford moons the audience to show he has no beaver tail. Fortunately for the viewer, Perry the Platypus quickly covers it with a a fan.
356	* The ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Sugar Frosted Frights" had a scene where Rocko, Heffer Wolfe, the Hopping Hessian, and Gordon were looking at photos and laughing. One of the slides shows Heffer baring his butt in front of the camera.
357	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has an affinity for this trope:
358	** In probably one of the earliest examples in the series, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E12TheWayWeWas The Way We Was]]" features a flashback to when Homer was on the debate team (trying to get Marge interested in him) in high school. His idea of a rebuttal involved showing off his butt.
359	** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E12IMarriedMarge I Married Marge]]" shows that Bart attempted this for the first time ''[[FetusTerrible in utero]]'' when Marge had a sonogram.
360	--->'''Dr. Hibbert:''' If I didn't know better, I'd swear he was trying to moon us.
361	** Homer does this in an ill-considered comedy performance for Mr Burns' birthday in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E4Rosebud Rosebud]]", where he drops his pants to reveal a frowny face painted on his butt and does a mocking impression of Mr. Burns. It doesn't go down well.
362	--->'''Homer:''' I'll never wiggle my bare butt in public again.\
363	'''Lisa:''' [[OhNoNotAgain I'd like to believe that this time]]. I really would.
364	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E14BartsComet Bart's Comet]]", Bart manages to rig a weather balloon to make it look like a mooning Principal Skinner.
365	** Bart moons the Australian government in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E16BartVsAustralia Bart vs. Australia]]", having written "Don't Tread On Me" on his cheeks, as they attempt to punish him with a booting.
366	--->'''Marge:''' I'm glad you're all right, honey, but I wish you'd chosen a more tasteful way to be patriotic.\
367	'''Lisa:''' I'm impressed you were able to write so legibly on your own butt.
368	** After egging his house, hoodlums Jimbo Jones, Dolph and Kearny moon Principal Skinner and his mother in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E7LisasDateWithDensity Lisa's Date with Density]]".
369	** Creator/MelGibson and Homer moon a group of studio executives in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E1BeyondBlunderdome Beyond Blunderdome]]", with disastrous results when Homer is hit by a car. Homer got the idea from ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', but mistakenly thought the mooning was how the heroes in the movie defeated their enemies.
370	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E19KillTheAlligatorAndRun Kill the Alligator and Run]]", Homer dismisses Florida as "America's wang" and is told "They prefer the Sunshine State." It's a double meaning- a "sunshine" is a "moon" from the other side of the body.
371	** Another moment leads to Bart's accidental mooning of the US flag causing him and his family to be branded as traitors to the country in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E21BartMangledBanner Bart-Mangled Banner]]". When actually his shorts were eaten by a donkey and bends over to cover his privates and a photo was taken with a large flag behind him.
372	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E20ToSurveilWithLove To Surveil with Love]]", Bart moons the closed-circuit TV surveillance that Ned Flanders is operating, and thus discovers the Simpsons' backyard contains a blind spot none of the cameras can see. He keeps mooning Flanders until he has marked all the borders of the blind spot.
373	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E15ILoveLisa I Love Lisa]]" Bart sticks glasses and a large UsefulNotes/RichardNixon nose to his lower back and moons a bunch of girls at the President's Day pageant.
374	--->'''Bart:''' Hey girls, check out this president. (''pulls down pants'') "I am not a butt."
375	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
376	** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E11FourthGrade Fourth Grade]]", the boys plan to do this to their new teacher, Ms. Choksondik. However, during the first lesson, she appears to be a DrillSergeantNasty, which scares all of them except Cartman out of doing it.
377	** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E8StarvinMarvin Starvin' Marvin]]", to keep with ''the Film/{{Braveheart}}'' parody in the scene, Kyle proceeds to moon the turkey army.
378	** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E6Death Death]]", when the parents visit the network headquarters to protest the ToiletHumor in ''Terrance and Phillip'', the network executive delivers a brief, defiant statement followed by a mooning.
379	* Colonel Rimfire is shown reading a hieroglyph that reads "Look behind you" in ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' episode "Curse of De Nile". The word "behind" is represented by an image of a mouse grinning while exposing his butt.
380	* The ''WesternAnimation/TakAndThePowerOfJuju2007'' episode "Little Chief" begins with the Chief of the Pupununu try to hang out with his daughter Jeera and Tak to feel young again. One of the activities the Chief suggests to Tak and Jeera is that they knock on Jibolba's door and bare their bottoms at him.
381	* ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'' :
382	** The episode "The Sugar Bowl" has Bertie's boyfriend Speckle moon Bertie while talking about the advantage of being able to walk around with his butt out. Bertie replies by implying that Tuca once mooned her.
383	** "The Deli Guy" has an example where Bertie and Speckle are making love and Speckle decides to press Bertie's bare ass to the window so everyone can see it.
384	* The ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'' episode "Mark Loves Dick" has Randall give a glass-bottom boat tour of Atlantis and encourage everyone aboard to give a "New York hello" to the sunken city, prompting Randall and the tourists to moon Atlantis.
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388	* In Music/TheBeatles song ''Maxwell's Silver Hammer'', Music/PaulMcCartney laughs for no reason during a lyric. Rumour has it that Music/JohnLennon was mooning him from the studio.
389	* There's a similar story about Music/BobDylan, who laughs for no reason at the start of "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" allegedly due to Allen Ginsberg mooning him from the studio. Officially the laughter was because Dylan started playing before the rest of the band, but it's become a piece of song lore.
390	* A very common technique used in [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Photo Bombing]].
391	* During the week leading up to Super Bowl XX, Bears quarterback Jim [=McMahon=] got tired of being asked about his rear end which had been injured earlier in the season and decided to literally show one reporter that it was okay.
392	* In 2003, the Minnesota Vikings' receiver Randy Moss fake-mooned Green Bay fans after scoring a touchdown against the Packers. Moss claimed it was in retaliation for a group of Packers fans who mooned the Vikings team bus the last time they came to Green Bay; the announcer disagreed, calling it a "disgusting act".
393	* During the Vietnam War, when U.S. troops were forbidden to fire upon Vietcong soldiers until being shot at first, a Marine Lieutenant named Gordon Evans tried to provoke an attack (so he could take out a group of soldiers he saw) by flying his plane extremely low to the ground, making a good target. The Vietcong response? They dropped their pants and mooned him as he flew by.
394	* When ''Music/GunsNRoses'' went to Chile in TheNineties, Slash "greeted" the fans who came to the band's hotel via jokingly mooning them from his hotel room's window.
395	* For whatever reason in Laguna Niguel, California, mooning Amtrak passenger trains has been a tradition every year on the second Saturday of July since 1979.
396	* Music/KatyPerry once went on a water-slide at Raging Waters park in California, and accidentally mooned everyone at the water park. The paparazzi were on hand, of course. Perry wrote on Twitter on August 13, 2012, "Let's be fair, I really think I deserve a season pass for that ass. Oh, and some flip flops."
397	* Rapper Princess Nokia has been known to moon fans at her concerts numerous times.
398	* In [[UsefulNotes/NewZealand Maori]] culture, baring the buttocks with intent to offend is called ''Whakapohane''.
399	* On the set of ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' this was a common prank that actor Von Flores would play on the other cast members, attempting to get them {{Corpsing}}.
400	* Ducks have been known to feed underwater from time to time, which from the perspective of a human on land looks like the duck is mooning them.
401	* The first recorded incident of mooning happened in Jerusalem shortly before the [[UsefulNotes/JewishRevolts First Roman–Jewish War]], when a Roman soldier mooned Jewish pilgrims at the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem who had gathered for Passover. This sparked a riot and then a stampede when the pilgrims panicked after the Romans called in reinforcements, ending in the death of ten thousand Jews.
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