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7	Suppose you're in a hurry, or just leisurely came out of the bathroom. However, you feel a breeze in the most ''unusual'' area, and you can't help but notice people snickering and/or looking down at your crotch. Either you see for yourself what's so funny, or worse, someone tells the predicament to your face. The end result is zipping your open pants fly up while your face flushes, and probably mumbling something.
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9	This trope will mostly happen in comedies to male characters (sometimes to females as well), or when serious moments need to be lightened up a bit.
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11	''Very'' TruthInTelevision. It can happen to anybody. Compare WardrobeMalfunction and ComedicUnderwearExposure.
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13	!!Examples:
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16	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
17	* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', when Rohan uses Heaven's Door on Hayato to find clues related to Kira, he comes across an entry stating a man will walk by with his zipper down as nearby pedestrians quietly laugh.
18	* One chapter in ''Manga/YandereKanojo'' is dedicated purely for this. Reina notices Tanaka's zipper is open, but she's too embarrassed to tell him directly. So she asks one of her friends to text him about it. Needless to say, that friend tells another friend to do it... and so on. The chapter ends with pretty much everyone knowing Tanaka's fly is open.
19	* In ''Anime/PsychicSchoolWars'', early on, Natsuki nicknames Kenji "Mr. Open Fly". It isn't the last time.
20	* In one episode of ''Anime/YokaiWatch'', this happens to Nate thanks to being inspirited by Pandle.
21	* ''Manga/AkameGaKill'': Tatsumi makes a speech towards the team, only to be pointed out by Su that his fly is down. Everyone minus the chief makes fun of him.
22	* ''Anime/JewelpetKiraDeco'': In a scene, this happens to a male office worker.
23	* ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'': In the Season 2 premiere, in the BadFuture where the Matsuno brothers are wealthy {{Fat Bastard}}s, Osomatsu, Choromatsu, and Todomatsu all have their flies open if you pay close attention.
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26	[[folder:Comic Books]]
27	* ''Comicbook/RedEars'': There's a comic that uses this gag when a man flirts with an attractive waitress who passes him several notes. It says that his "fondness" for her [[OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe was apparent because his fly was open]] and asks him to zip it up. The second note adds when her shift ends.
28	* ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'': Issue 23 of Creator/PeterMilligan's run has a bit where Lenny informs Shade that his fly is open. Strangely enough, the open fly is letting out stars, flowers and rings rather than Shade's member.
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31	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
32	* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' has a speaker addressing the giggling workers of a zipper factory, when another worker comes up to give him a note reading "Bob, your model AA-12 is open!"
33	* The [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2008/08/03 August 3, 2008]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip has Jon look down and see that his fly is down after repeatedly telling Garfield that he isn't so smart, much to Garfield's amusement.
34	* ''ComicStrip/{{Crabgrass}}'': This happens to Miles in [[https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass/2020/12/07 this comic]]. Kevin wasted no time to tell Miles' girlfriend about it.
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37	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
38	* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': ''After'' Hiro's presentation, his brother Tadashi informs him that his fly was down the whole time. Cue Hiro embarrassingly zipping it up.
39	* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie'', [=SpongeBob=] brings up that there's something he must say when he is finally given the job as manager of the Krusty Krab 2 that he wanted, but states that he doesn't know how to put it. After Squidward suggests that [=SpongeBob=] is trying to say that he's realized he didn't really want the job after all, [=SpongeBob=] denies Squidward's assumption and explains that he was actually trying to tell Squidward that his fly was down, which is odd considering that Squidward never wore pants in the first place.
40	* On the teaser trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', Nick is introduced naked, as a voiceover explains the concept of the movie. When the narrator talks about animals being fully clothed, clothes appear on Nick, who then turns around to zip up.
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43	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
44	* Early in ''Film/AmericanAdobo'', [[TheCasanova Raul]] (''Creator/PaoloMontalban'') shows up to a gathering with his zipper down - he had just left from a sexual encounter.
45	* In ''Film/TheFugitive'', A cop does this to [[Main/TheProtagonist Richard Kimble]] in an instance of ''Main/HeyWait'' Viewable [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=retwzL4j5Vs here]].
46	* In ''Film/JustTheWayYouAre'', Susan and Frank attend a party with Frank's boss Earl. When Susan notices that Earl's fly is open, neither of them wants to mention it, so Susan pretends to drop food in his lap and then zips his fly while picking it up.
47	* An extra in the bleachers of ''Film/TeenWolf'' is caught on camera completely unzipped, hastily covering the calumny with a knit sweater. At first, it was speculated that this was a guy over-appreciating the young men on court; however, it was later revealed to be a woman who'd squeezed herself into too-tight slacks so as not to seem fat on set. This shot is a staple of {{Blooper}} reviews.
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50	[[folder:Jokes]]
51	* There's an internet joke where a strict class teacher whose students were caught PassingNotesInClass will be forced to recite the note's contents aloud, and repeat it ten times at the top of their voice in front of the entire classroom. One girl caught by said teacher complies, and reads her note aloud:
52	--> "Check it out, our teacher's fly is open! Check it out, our teacher's fly is open! Check it out, our teacher's fly is open! Check it out..."
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55	[[folder:Literature]]
56	* There is a Hope Vestergaard ToiletTrainingPlot book ''Potty Animals: What to Know When You've Gotta Go'', in which some preschooler-aged FunnyAnimals named [[ThePigPen Wilbur]] the hedgehog, [[NosyNeighbor Wilma]] the pig, [[AcademicAthlete Arnold]] the crocodile, [[LovableCoward Freddie]] the rabbit, [[BookWorm Helga]] the duck, [[TheBigGuy Benji]] the lemur, [[TheLoad Roxanne]] the hippo, [[TakeAThirdOption Stanley]] the tiger, [[CloudCuckooLander Sukey]] the raccoon, [[ThePigPen Georgie]] the bear, [[ChildrenAreInnocent Farley]] the anteater, [[NiceMice Agnes]] the mouse, and [[NeatFreak Ziggy]] the fox each have their own lesson they need to learn in bathroom etiquette. Ziggy's [[AnAesop lesson]] is "check [his] zipper", which is this trope.
57	* In ''Literature/{{Snuff}}'', there's a scene at a dinner party where the narrator talks about how long-married couples tend to have code phrases to subtly warn each other about problems such as "exposed in the crotch department" or, in the case of Sam and Sybil Vimes, "You're getting on people's nerves again, Sam." The scene ends with one of the other ladies at the dinner turning to her husband and giving him the "exposed in the crotch department" code.
58	* ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': Subverted early in book 3. Nina gets back at Captain Bob (who's being his usual irritating self) by telling him his fly's open. Captain Bob promptly looks down and makes a face as he realizes she just tricked him -- he's wearing sweatpants and therefore doesn't ''have'' a fly.
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61	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
62	* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': "The One with All the Poker".
63	-->'''Ross:''' Your money's mine, Green.\
64	'''Rachel:''' Your fly's open, Geller.\
65	''[and later...]''\
66	'''Rachel:''' ''[chanting]'' I have got your money, and you'll never see it, and your fly's still open. ''[Ross looks]'' Ha! I made you look!
67	* In an episode of ''Series/EvenStevens'', Louis' friend Twitch comments on a photograph of the Stevens family on vacation, pointing out that Louis' zipper was open. Louis scoffs and denies it, but [[ShipTease Tawny]] points it out too. Luckily, Twitch changes the subject before Louis embarrassed himself even more.
68	* ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': At the end of the first episode, Sento assures Ryuuga that he can't be as dumb as [[HeroicSelfDeprecation he thinks he is]]. [[HypocriticalHumor Then he informs him that his fly has been open the entire time]] (which viewers might spot even before it's explicitly pointed out). [[spoiler:[[BookEnds The gag is repeated in the final episode.]]]]
69	* ''Series/TheAlmightyJohnsons'': In "A Bit Like Buses Really", Axl deduces that Anders got sidetracked during his mission due to his open fly.
70	-->'''Axl:''' "You got distracted, didn't you?"\
71	'''Anders:''' "I resent what you're insinuating Axl. There were complex negotiations to be negotiated and to achieve a happier result, for all concerned, well it takes time."\
72	'''Axl:''' "Ah, okay. Your flies undone."
73	* In ''Series/HomeImprovement'', a late episode has Tim make a BadassBoast, only to undermine it since he was unzipped.
74	** Referenced in another episode, when Randy worries that he's TheUnfavorite since Brad and Tim share interests in things like sports and tools. Tim assures him [[NotSoDifferentRemark they're not that different]] and have similar ''personalities'', with the example that if either one is caught with a fly down, they're not going to miss a chance to make a quip about it.
75	-->'''Randy:''' Well, you gotta make a fly joke.\
76	'''Tim:''' That's right, you gotta make a fly joke! "Hey, buddy, you know your fly's down?"\
77	'''Randy:''' "Cheaper than air conditioning!" "You know your fly's down?"\
78	'''Tim:''' "No, but if you hum a few bars..."
79	* ''Series/TheGoodies'': Bill Oddie dresses in {{blackface}} and starts channelling Music/LouisArmstrong.
80	-->'''Bill:''' Zip-a-dee-doo-dah!
81	-->'''Tim:''' Sorry, I didn't know it was undone...
82	* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' shows up for a job interview with his fly unzipped and his shirt sticking out. The interviewer tries to discreetly point it out but Frasier thinks the man is commenting on the belt he chose to wear. It isn't until he looks down that Frasier realises what the interviewer was actually referring to.
83	* ''Series/SuperStore'': In "Cereal Bar", after the video call with Kira Moon, Marcus notices his fly was down and hopes she wasn't able to notice it.
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86	[[folder:Music]]
87	* Music/MichaelJackson did this during the controversial "Panther Sequence" of his "Black Or White'' video. Right in the middle of a fierce dance routine, he suddenly zips his fly up.
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90	[[folder:Video Games]]
91	* In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'', if you don't take off your condom after sleeping with the hooker, [[HaveANiceDeath a policeman will arrest you because you left your fly open]] with said condom on.
92	* Algernon "Algie" Papadopoulos from ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' is considered one of the game's {{Butt Monkey}}s and perpetually walks around with his fly open.
93	* In ''VisualNovel/FamicomDetectiveClubTheGirlWhoStandsBehind'', Ayumi can't help but notice and laugh at the protagonist's unzipped pants while he's trying to make her laugh or declare that he'll protect her.
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96	[[folder:Web Comics]]
97	* ''[[http://sseanboy23.deviantart.com/art/Comic-3-Breezeful-day-108693075 Newstand Vally Girls]]'': It's revealed that ''this'' is the reason why Jen feels an unusual breeze, ahem, down ''there'' all day.
98	-->'''Kusuna:''' ''(ZING!)''
99	* In ''WebComic/SuicideForHire'', Hunter accidentally forgot to zip up after leaving the bathroom once... [[GoingCommando and he never wears underwear.]]
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102	[[folder:Western Animation]]
103	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', while setting up the class photo on the school's steps Mrs. Krabappel is going around correct various students' appearance issues and tells one student under her breath to "hoist his flag."
104	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', [[ExtraOreDinary metal manipulator]] Lin Beifong suddenly makes a flicking motion as a zipping sound is heard. She then tersely explains to Bolin that his fly was down.
105	* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'': In "Did You See a Bull Run by Here?", a matador walks up to Johnny. Johnny looks down and tells him his zipper is down. The man cries, zips it up, and runs away still crying.
106	* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': In one episode, Dale Gribble standing in his doorway catches the attention of two old ladies. He asks what they're staring at, and one of them points out that his fly's down, prompting him to say "It's my yard."
107	* ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'': At one point in "Onward and Upward", Ren and Stimpy's flies are open, and they zip each other's up.
108	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' had Jay make an obscure reference that has both Duke and Doris start laughing mildly, then Duke leans in:
109	-->'''Duke:''' "Do ''you'' know what he's talkin' about?"
110	-->'''Doris:''' "No, but his fly is open."
111	-->''<Duke glances down, then begins laughing harder>''
112	* In the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' episode "Doctor's Disorders", Jazz tells Tucker that his fly is open after he catches the jar containing her amorphous state.
113	* The ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' short "Kid from S.C.H.O.O.L." has Jake Slade distract Simon Cerebellum by telling him his fly is down.
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116	[[folder:Real Life]]
117	* The anecdote attributed to Sir UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill and the imperious Lady Astor:
118	-->'''Lady Astor:''' Winston, your trousers are gaping open!\
119	'''Churchill:''' ''[glances down briefly]'' So they are, madam. But the dead bird never falls out of the nest!\
120	''[or variably]'' No point in closing the stable door, madam, the horse has already bolted!
121	** Also told about the Yalta Conference of Allied leaders during World War Two, when Stalin catches Churchill passing the 'dead bird' note to Roosevelt and is convinced they are plotting against him, until Churchill shows him FDR's original note telling him that his flies are open.
122	* British comedian Alan Carr once did a whole nine-minute BBC-televised stand-up at the Hammersmith Apollo with an open fly. About seven-and-a-half minutes in, an audience member on the balcony called out to him, but in the embarrassment and audience cackles, Carr discovered that his zipper was broken. The routine he did about pairs of jeans about two minutes before the commotion had now become HilariousInHindsight (for the Hammersmith Apollo audience, but HarsherInHindsight for Carr).
123	* A common (albeit multiply-contradicting) story from the set of ''Film/BringingUpBaby'' is that Creator/CaryGrant's open fly was either broken or caught on someone's fabric, which led to the [[RealLifeWritesThePlot script being rewritten]] to include the gag of Creator/KatharineHepburn's WardrobeMalfunction and Cary Grant walking behind her to spare her embarrassment.
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