History Main / NaughtyBirdwatching

* The video for Music/RodStewart's "Infatuation" shows him doing this.
* How the StalkerWithACrush first sees the title character of the Music/WeirdAlYankovic song [[Music/EvenWorse "Melanie"]].

* In ''[[VideoGame/TheSims The Sims 2]]'' sims using a telescope during the daytime will sometimes spy on a neighbourhood sim, who will get mad and come over and slap them.

* Marty's teenaged father in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' spies on his future mother as she undresses with her window open.

* In ''Riptide'', an [[TheEighties 80's]] thriller by Donald D. Cheatham, the protagonist has a telescope for viewing a nearby nudist beach. After checking out one lovely naked lass he realises [[YouNeedToGetLaid he needs to start dating again]] and impulsively rings up his FairCop superior and asks her out.

* ''Blitzfreeze'' by Creator/SvenHassel. The Old Un gets infuriated with the SkewedPriorities of his RagtagBunchOfMisfits when he catches them watching the nurses in a nearby barracks take showers, while they're on a commando mission behind enemy lines--in the middle of Moscow, no less.

* An NPC from ''VideoGame/{{Mother|1}}'' plays with this, as he's shown standing near a window. Talk to him, and he gets startled [[BlatantLies and claims he's doing research about baths.]]

* In ''LightNovel/SorcererStabberOrphen'' (at least the anime adaptation), Orphen is spying on Cleao when Rin catches him and asks what he's doing. Orphen claims to be birdwatching, with Rin assuming it's the naughty kind when he snatches the binoculars and looks for himself. Cleao also assumes this is what's going on. However, he's just trying to get an idea of her magical ability.

* How the StalkerWithACrush first sees the title character of the Music/WeirdAlYankovic song "Melanie".

** Played straight and taken UpToEleven when Raj and Howard use satellite footage to locate the mansion where ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'' is being taped.

* Taken UpToEleven in an episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', when a pair of Marines discover a murder while using a ''spy satellite'' to check out a female officer sunbathing nude on a naval base.

* ''Manga/{{Touch}}'': In several chapters [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tatsuya]] and his friends spy on the girls with binoculars as they are using the lockers room (a plot point during the early volumes was that Tatsuya had accidentally broke a friend's binoculars as spying and he had to find a mean to pay for them).

* In "Literature/TheSandman" by Creator/ETAHoffmann, excessively romantic student Nathanael purchased a telescope specifically to watch an enigmatic girl in the neighbour's window and quickly fell for her head over heels. To [[spoiler:buy it from the creepy merchant whom he suspected in being the evil alchemist who killed his father]] perhaps wasn't a good idea, though.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' uses a PG-rated version of this. One of the first major hints that giving Hal superpowers was a ''bad'' idea is that he uses his newfound abilities to peep on Roxanne while she's in her apartment. Since this is a kids' movie, he only sees her doing her chores (or at least, that's all ''we'' see him see), but the effect is the same, showing his complete lack of regard for Roxanne's privacy and inability to accept that she just isn't into him.

* Marty's father in ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

-->'''Loraine:''' Bird-watching?

* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. At the end of "Killer With A Long Arm" [[DaChief Cowley]] catches Bodie and Doyle sniggering over a long range sniper rifle they've captured. He takes a peek through the telescopic sight and sure enough finds it pointed at a scantily-dressed girl in an apartment a couple of miles away. Cowley chews out the shamefaced pair...then [[AllMenArePerverts corrects their estimation of the girl's dimensions]].

* In ''Film/DeathWalksOnHighHeels'', Captain Lenny is a retired naval officer who keeps a telescope at his cottage window for looking out to sea. When Nicole moves into the cottage next door, he starts using it to watch her when he discovers she doesn't draw the curtains and likes walking around the house naked. This turns him into a RearWindowwitness when she is murdered while he is spying on her.

* ''Film/RushHour2'', the hotel scene in Los Angeles.