History Main / ConstructionCatcalls

* ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania''': When we see the zombie construction workers that originally built the hotel, they stop working to admire a female zombie shambling passed them.

* ''Film/Barbie2023'': Barbie becomes a victim of this after approaching a real world construction site she presumed consists of women (since there's an all-women crew in [[ToyTime Barbieland]]). To her surprise, it's all men who catcall her when she comes over (though surprisingly they ''do'' let off after she claims [[BarbieDollAnatomy she and Ken don't have genitals]]).

* In ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'', some construction workers try to flirt with Miss Piggy while she's spying on Kermit. The flirting stops after Piggy has a tantrum [[BrawnHilda that involves bending steel bars]].

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* Subverted and parodied in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' in one of Dave Berg's "The Lighter Side of..." strips. Two women angrily look back at a construction site they passed and complain that when they walked by, they [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe did not hear one catcall or lewd comment]].

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* In a 2005 stand-up, comedian Creator/LeeEvans pointed out how ridiculous he found this trope (see page quote), and then added that that's how he thinks Creator/TomCruise manages to get women: by cat-calling them on top of a balcony in a sequence similar to ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
* Creator/EddieIzzard is perplexed as to why construction workers do this and considers what would happen if the woman actually approached them.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'': [[MsFanservice Monique]] decides that she [[AttentionWhore craves attention]], and so wanders by a construction site (marked "[[LampshadeHanging High Testosterone Area]]"). This being Sinfest, it's ''she'' who [[{{Troll}} makes the demeaning comments]], then gleefully runs from the resulting barrage of construction equipment.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "Sonic Rainboom" has a scene where some pegasus construction workers gawp at Rarity's magically-granted [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything butterfly wings]].

%%* In ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'', when [[CampGay Titus]] and [[StraightGay Mikey]] go to a club, Mikey tries to flirt with the bouncer to get in. His line, "Hey, are you a high chair? 'Cause I wanna put a baby in you", does not succeed.

* Parodied in Creator/MondoMedia's ''Miss. Andry''. In the titular heroine's [[DarkAndTroubledPast tragic superhero origin story]], two construction workers holler at a young Miss Andry's mother. They end up too DistractedByTheSexy and cause an accident at the nuclear power plant they're working at, killing the mother and one of the construction workers, the latter not even caring that he's dying since he's too busy ogling her breasts. The other construction worker gets radiation spilled on him in the same accident, becoming a mutant feline supervillain named [[PunnyName Cat Call]], who can no longer go two seconds without catcalling and [[TheHyena laughing at his own jokes]].

'''Carla:''' [[BaitAndSwitch Oh, yeah. I really outdid myself.]]

* In ''Series/HarryAndPaul'', Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield play the Posh Scaffolders, who alternate between leering Cockney perverts when women pass underneath and highly-cultured posh men in the absence of those women. Eventually, SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs when one woman calls them out for their crudeness and they're just as unhappy as she is, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality apparently thinking that being insulting to women from scaffolding is just their way of being friendly]].

A scene used countless times in media: some construction workers are on their lunch break when all of a sudden a sexy lady struts by the site. Cue the {{Wolf Whistle}}s and sexual comments, which will ''way'' more often result in disgust or annoyance rather than delight from the woman. Very often PlayedForLaughs since it's a quite easy way to incur some situational comedy.

* WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania: When we see the zombie construction workers that originally built the hotel, they stop working to admire a female zombie shambling passed them.

This behavior is TruthInTelevision (and in some jurisdictions is considered as a form of sexual harassment or even assault), but it's not nearly as common in RealLife nowadays as it is in fiction. It doesn't take much to identify the contractors involved on project and lodge a complaint with their office, so even if engaging in this conduct isn't illegal, it nevertheless ''is'' still a pretty quick and easy way for the offending worker to get fired and possibly blackballed from the industry. As such, straight depictions of the practice that show zero consequences are something of a DiscreditedTrope.

This behavior is TruthInTelevision (and in some jurisdictions is considered as a form of sexual harassment or even assault), but it's not nearly as common in RealLife nowadays as it is in fiction. It doesn't take much to identify the contractors involved on project and lodge a complaint with their office, so even if engaging in this conduct isn't illegal, it nevertheless ''is'' still a pretty quick and easy way for the offending worker to get fired and possibly blackballed from the industry. As such, straight depictions of the practice that show zero consequences are something of a DescreditedTrope.

This behavior is TruthInTelevision (and in some jurisdictions is considered as a form of sexual harassment or even assault), but it's not nearly as common in RealLife nowadays as it is in fiction. It doesn't take much to identify the contractors involved on project and lodge a complaint with their office, so even if engaging in this conduct isn't illegal, it nevertheless ''is'' still a pretty quick and easy way for the offending worker to get fired.

This behavior is sadly TruthInTelevision (and in some jurisdictions is considered as a form of sexual harassment or even assault). %%it's probably not as common in RealLife as it is in fiction.

* The [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ash-pedreiro-dat-ash Ash Pedreiro]] {{meme|ticMutation}} is named after the Portuguese word for "bricklayer", and he makes {{Anime/Pokemon}}-related {{Double Entendre}}s, such as, "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20120316200836/http://legacy-cdn.smosh.com/smosh-pit/062011/dat-ash-pikachu.png Ay gurl, take them clothes off so I can get a Pikachu]]". (this owes to how in Brazil, this trope happens in a way that led to the expression "[[TerriblePickUpLines bricklayer pick-up lines]]")

* The "Deconstruction" mission of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' has C.J.'s sister Kendl complaining about the people of a local construction site hassling her and calling her a hooker. C.J. takes this badly. [[DisproportionateRetribution Very badly]]. [[spoiler:Chase the foreman into a port-a-potty, dump the port-a-potty into a pit, and fill the pit with concrete]] badly.

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* Parodied in an Arby's commercial, where they say nothing after a couple of attractive ladies walk by, while a balding, overweight man holding a bag of Arby's food gets several catcalls such as "Can I get some fries with that shake?".