History Main / NaughtyBirdwatching

* Odd variation on ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine'', where an adulterer uses birdwatching as an excuse to meet up with his lover in the privacy of a hut, but is so determined to ensure his that knowledge of ornithology is good enough to withstand his wife's inspection that he spends most of the time ''actually birdwatching'', much to her disgust.

* In ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'', there's a mounted telescope in the Main Character's bedroom. Unsurprisingly, he mostly uses this to spy on his neighbors, such as Mrs. Johnson getting dressed and Mia masturbating with a stuffed animal.

* Odd variation on ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine'', where an adulterer uses birdwatching as an excuse to meet up with his lover in the privacy of a hut, but is so determined to ensure his knowledge of ornithology is good enough to withstand inspection that he spends half the time actually birdwatching, much to her disgust.

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* ''Film/BodyDouble''. The protagonist uses a telescope to watch a beautiful woman in another building who likes to do an erotic dance while scantily clad. This sets off the plot when he notices another man watching her, who he suspects has different intentions.
* ''Film/{{Stripes}}''. A U.S. Army officer uses a telescope to watch female troops in a shower. He drops it out the window when a superior officer walks in on him.
* Larry Talbot in ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'' uses a high-powered astronomical telescope to ogle Gwen Conliffe.
* ''Film/RushHour2'', the hotel scene in Los Angeles.

* Jeff in ''Film/RearWindow'' spies on his neighbors out of boredom while he's laid up, including a shapely dancer he calls "Miss Torso". Then things get serious when he suspects one of them has murdered his wife.

* In ''My Bodyguard'', Clifford and his father use a telescope to spy on people in other buildings from the balcony of their hotel suite.

* Disney's ''Film/MidnightMadness'': when the Yellow Team arrives at the telescope for the next clue, the telescope is currently being used by a little boy viewing "Venus", [[spoiler:a woman undressing.]]
* Derek claims to be bird watching (at night) when teenage Jane catches him spying on her with binoculars in ''WesternAnimation/Tarzan2013''.
* ''Film/MisterRoberts''. As in the Theatre version, the sailors (who are sexually frustrated because their tyrannical captain has repeatedly denied them shore leave) use their binoculars to spy on a hospital without curtains on the nurses shower. When the nurses visit the ship, Ensign Pulver very helpfully offers them binoculars so they can look at their hospital while the men frantically try to stop him. The nurses quickly spot that their showers are easily visible and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero leave immediately to put up some curtains]].
* ''Film/TheMalibuBikiniShop''. The changing rooms in the shop are equipped with one-way mirrors so people can watch the women getting dressed/undressed.
* ''Film/{{Sliver}}''. This is the central theme of the entire movie, as everybody spies on everybody.
* In ''Film/RelativeFear'', Earl uses the telescope his daughter gave him for his birthday to spy on female joggers.

* In ''Literature/ThenAgainMaybeIWont'', a 1971 young adult novel written by Creator/JudyBlume, a boy discovers the girl next door likes to undress in front of the window. So he asks for some binoculars for Christmas for "bird watching" from his parents.

* Creator/RobertWestall's ''Literature/FuturetrackFive'' has the Ests who spy on the Fens population via listening devices and binoculars whilst pretending to be birdwatchers.
* ''Literature/OneEightHundredWhereRYou'': Both of Jess's brothers have a tendency to spy on their neighbor Claire Lipman, who spends much of her time sunbathing, through binoculars.

* A series of sketches on ''Series/AlasSmithAndJones'', with the capper being the reveal (as it were) that, while Mel and Grif are obsessing over seeing glimpses of women in their nightwear, there are two naked, and increasingly bored and bewildered, women in the flat with them.

* In early seasons of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' Clark uses a telescope in his "fortress of solitude" (aka the loft in the barn) to admire his love interest/neighbor Lana Lang from afar.
* In one episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', the Krelboyne are over at Malcolm's house and one asks if Malcolm plans to watch a meteor shower. Another suggests that after watching the meteor shower, they can watch Mrs. Feldman shower.
* ''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]].
* ''Series/TheWhitestKidsUKnow'' did this once. 6 people died.
* The PilotEpisode of ''Series/FamilyMatters'' showed Eddie doing this before Carl came up to the attic for a father-son chat. Carl took the binoculars before leaving.
* 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.
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** Subverted. Raj is watching ''Series/TheGoodWife'' through a telescope while the guys are doing a moon experiment.
** Played straight and taken UpToEleven when Raj and Howard use satellite footage to locate the mansion where ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'' is being taped.
* ''Series/HowToBeIndie'': In "How to Get on Carlos Martinelli's Capital 'L' List, and Live", Indie thinks AJ is doing this when she walks in on him using his telescope, but he is actually just trying to observe an eclipse of the moon. However, when his friend Chuck learns that AJ has a view of their HotTeacher's house (and that AJ has seen her in a towel), Chuck plays it straight (and gets busted by the teacher).
* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'':
** In "Child's Play", Murdoch is demonstrating his new invention 'the circumscope' (a periscope) to Crabtree and commenting on how useful it will be for surveillance. Crabtree agrees as he uses it to ogle a woman in corset who is leaning out of a window to beat a rug.
** The VictimOfTheWeek in "Big Murderer on Campus" is shot while using a telescope to spy on a coed undressing.
* ''Series/NaturallySadie'': A variant (as there are no binoculars involved) occurs in "Forest for the Trees". Sadie is sitting in her favourite tree spying on her crush Owen Anthony. Owen spots her and thinks she is sitting there as a protest to the tree being cut down. Rather than admit what she was actually doing, Sadie goes along with this, leading to a ProtestByObstruction.

* In the ''Series/BroadCity'' episode "Friendiversary," Abbi and Ilana use the binoculars on the Empire State Building to watch people in the surrounding buildings have sex and masturbate.
* ''Series/ColonelMarchOfScotlandYard'': In "The New Invisible Man", Major Rodman is a DirtyOldMan who surveys the neighbourhood with his old field glasses, and in particular the house opposite where a pretty young bride lives, on the pretext of checking the weather. All of the street knows of his proclivities. However, while doing so he inadvertently becomes a RearWindowWitness.

* An old ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId'' cartoon had an astronomer using his telescope for closer examination of a "heavenly body".

* 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.
* In ''VideoGame/SilentScope'', one of the ways to recover health is to use your rifle's scope to spy on sunbathing females.

* In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', one of the ''all-bird'' high school's extracurricular activities is a ''birdwatching club''. Canon leaves it an [[NoodleIncident amusing unknown]], but fanon naturally holds that it's a [[CovertPervert voyeurism club]].

* ''Series/ColonelMarchOfScotlandYard'': In "The New Invisible Man", Major Rodman is a DirtyOldMan who surveys the neighbourhood with his old field glasses, and in particular the house opposite where a pretty young bride lives. All of the street knows of his proclivities. However, while doing so he inadvertently becomes a RearWindowWitness.

-->'''Marty:''' ''(disgusted)'' He's a PeepingTom!

* 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.

* ''Film/BodyDouble''. A man uses a telescope to watch a beautiful woman in another building who likes to do an erotic dance while scantily clad.
* ''Film/{{Stripes}}''. A U.S. Army officer uses a telescope to watch female troops in a shower.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' features a telescope, obtained in an [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Fernswarthy%27s_Basement optional dungeon]], which can be used to either look at the stars for a stat boost or look at the [[BigBad Naughty Sorceress's]] tower to see what set of randomized challenges await you.
** In addition, at one time players could use the [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/The_LAAAAME_Observatory observatory]] (before it was [[{{Irony}} destroyed by a comet]]) to look into the Sorceress's chamber itself. She would then retaliate with a magical flash of light, causing temporary blindness, and a nearby astronomer would express disapproval of "base voyeurism" [[HypocriticalHumor while adjusting his polarized sunglasses]].

* Young Pink gets caught using binoculars to watch a woman undress while smoking in his room by his mother in ''Film/TheWall''. He was about 10 at the time.

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* A series of sketches on ''Series/AlasSmithAndJones''.

* In ''Lierature/ThenAgainMaybeIWont'', a 1971 young adult novel written by Creator/JudyBlume, a boy discovers the girl next door likes to undress in front of the window. So he asks for some binoculars for Christmas for "bird watching" from his parents.

* In ''Lierature/ThenAgainMaybeIWon
t'', a 1971 young adult novel written by Creator/JudyBlume, a boy discovers the girl next door likes to undress in front of the window. So he asks for some binoculars for Christmas for "bird watching" from his parents.

* In ''Lierature/ThenAgainMaybeIWon't'', a 1971 young adult novel written by Creator/JudyBlume, a boy discovers the girl next door likes to undress in front of the window. So he asks for some binoculars for Christmas for "bird watching" from his parents.