History Main / UnderwearFlag

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "Get That Bigfoot Outta My Face", Buford says his plans for camp are to "find a nerd, take his underpants, and run them up the flagpole". When Phineas tells him there's no flagpole, he settles for just taking the underpants.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "Get That Bigfoot Outta My Face", Buford says his plans for camp are to "find a nerd, take his underpants, and run em up the flagpole". When Phineas tells him there's no flagpole, he settles for just taking the underpants.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Buford does this to Baljeet in one episode when the group was camping in the woods. Phineas was also pretty sure that there was no flagpole, so Buford said he would be willing to settle for just stealing Baljeet's underpants. It's also implied Buford stole them off his body.

* The novel ''Who Ran My Underwear Up the Flagpole?'', as the title suggests, has this as a major occurrence.

** Another one appears in the 2018 reboot obstacle One Nation Underwear in which a contestant must pull a pair of underwear up a flagpole to bring down the flag that they need to pass to their partner.

* ''Series/DoubleDare1986'': Invoked in the 2018 reboot obstacle One Nation Underwear in which a contestant must pull a pair of underwear up a flagpole to bring down the flag that they need to pass to their partner.

* ''Series/DoubleDare'': Invoked in the 2018 reboot obstacle One Nation Underwear in which a contestant must pull a pair of underwear up a flagpole to bring down the flag that they need to pass to their partner.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Arthur Goes to Camp"; the girls pull this prank on the boys.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': Part of the Blues and Reds' backstory involves the Blues misplacing their flag and losing the map showing where it was hidden, with Loco making a replacement flag out of a wooden pole and a pair of underpants. Carolina is not pleased by the situation when she arrives at Desert Gulch for a sparring match with Tex. [[spoiler: Said underwear flag accidentally becomes Biff's [[AccidentalMurder murder weapon]] after Carolina deflects it towards him and [[ImpaledWithExtremePredjudice impales him]] to the wall when Tex throws it at her, with Tex violently pulling it out of his abdomen and causing Biff to bleed out and die]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode, "Arthur Goes to Camp"; the girls pull this prank on the boys.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' gets his first camp out as a Bluff Scout, Roger offers to take care of him, but just spends the time finding ways to torment him, including flying his briefs from the flagpole.

* A variation on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' where in the episode where Timmy wishes for no sound, Timmy raises Francis the Bully on a flagpole by stringing his underpants and having a hungry dog help raise him. The silent screams causes him to lose all his clothes.

* Used by the Arabian army in ''Film/FollowThatCamel'' to mock the FrenchForeignLegion's morning march, when a pair of bloomers are attached to the flagpole; the Arabian soldiers and their leader don't even attempt to hide themselves, and conspicuously shriek with laughter on the nearby balcony as the Legion's staff threaten to punish their soldiers.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': Part of the [[EvilCounterpart Blues]] [[PsychoRangers and]] [[ShadowArchetype Reds]]' backstory involves the Blues misplacing their flag and losing the map showing where it was hidden, with Loco making a replacement flag out of a wooden pole and a pair of underpants. Carolina is not pleased by the situation when she arrives at Desert Gulch for a sparring match with Tex. [[spoiler: Said underwear flag accidentally becomes Biff's [[AccidentalMurder murder weapon]] after Carolina deflects it towards him and [[ImpaledWithExtremePredjudice impales him]] to the wall when Tex throws it at her, with Tex violently pulling it out of his abdomen and causing Biff to bleed out and die]].

* ''Webcomic/IslaAukate'': Reference is made to a boot camp hazing incident where one of Fox's minions stole all of the Darnathi ship's uniform pants, they hung [[LargeAndInCharge Titan's]] on one of the [[https://overlordcomic.com/archive/default/pages/1836 banner poles.]]

* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'': The Big Chapter Book ''At Camp Crush'' has someone pulling a lot of pranks at Camp Grizzmeyer, the last of which is a variant on this -- instead of underwear flying at the top of the flagpole, it's Mr. Grizzmeyer's striped pajama bottoms. It turns out to have been done by the Too-Tall Gang, who were bored at home since most of their classmates were off at the camp for the summer.
* The novel ''Who Ran My Underwear Up the Flagpole?'', as the title suggests, has this as a major occurrence

* The novel ''Who Ran My Underwear Up the Flagpole?'', as the title suggests, has this as a major occurrence

* ''Film/RocketMan1997'': While on their historic mission on Mars, [[IdiotHero Fred Randell]] loses the American flag in one of his many blunders throughout the film. He valiantly offers a replacement with "... a better flag, A high-flying flag!". Cue ''national live broadcast'' of Fred hanging his American flag boxer shorts onto the pole. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck The American president was not amused.]] [[spoiler:In TheStinger, a Martian is shown walking off wearing said underwear-flag.]]

* ''Film/DisneysRocketMan'': While on their historic mission on Mars, [[IdiotHero Fred Randell]] loses the American flag in one of his many blunders throughout the film. He valiantly offers a replacement with "... a better flag, A high-flying flag!". Cue ''national live broadcast'' of Fred hanging his American flag boxer shorts onto the pole. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck The American president was not amused.]] [[spoiler:In TheStinger, a Martian is shown walking off wearing said underwear-flag.]]

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