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* In a ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1983/07/31 Sunday strip,]] Jon Arbuckle dresses for a date and frowns when Garfield laughs, not realizing that he's forgotten to put his pants on.

* In ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', when co-pilot Roger Murdoch, played by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, succumbs to food poisoning, as he's carried away, it's revealed that he's wearing his basketball shorts underneath his pilot uniform, implying that Kareem was set to hit the court as soon as his scene wrapped.
* In ''Film/AnimalHouse'', Donald Sutherland's character reaches to get something from a cabinet, raising his sweater and exposing his pants-less buttocks.
* Richard Lester's black post-nuclear war comedy ''Film/TheBedSittingRoom'' has a BBC announcer going door-to-door, reading the news while kneeling behind a gutted-out tv cabinet, wearing a tie and coat outfit that, beneath chest level, is tattered long underwear.
* In ''Film/{{Casino}}'', Robert De Niro's character emerges from behind a desk not wearing pants. He does so as to not crease the trousers of his suit by sitting down in them.
* In the opening scene of ''Film/CabinInTheWoods'' as Dana gets ready for the big trip she's going on with her friends, her along with the audience will quickly forget she's not wearing any pants as people come in and out of her room to talk with her, until this is pointed out to her at the end of the scene.

* In ''Film/HaroldAndKumarEscapeFromGuantanamoBay'' the titular pair find themselves at a bottomless party. The host at one point chastises one female guest for removing her top.
* In Charlie Chaplin's ''Film/TheIdleClass'', a presumably sober aristocrat (played by Chaplin) gets dressed up at a resort to meet his lovely wife at a train depot. When he walks out of his room, it is revealed that he forgot to put on pants and is walking to the depot in his underwear. He doesn't find out until he enters a phone booth and [[OhCrap looks down]]. He tries to hide this, but his wife eventually finds him and leaves him until he stops drinking.

* In ''Film/{{Ladder 49}}'', in the scene where Joaquin Phoenix meets John Travolta for the first time.
* ''Creator/MontyPython Live at the Hollywood Bowl'' opens with the troupe dressed as waiters singing the rousing number "Sit on My Face", then walking off, revealing themselves totally pantsless beneath their aprons.
* A rare PlayedForDrama example in ''Film/{{Network}}''. During one of Howard Beale's tirades, he is wearing a trenchcoat, shirt, and tie, which is fairly normal for a newscaster. Then, he rises out of his desk as his anger begins to swell, and the crew filming him and the audience see that he is wearing pajama bottoms and slippers on the bottom half. This becomes one of the first indicators of Beale's [[SanitySlippage descent into madness]] as the film goes on.
* In ''Film/RunFatBoyRun'', Dylan Moran's character is revealed to be completely naked from the waist down the whole time he's been talking over a balcony. Twice.

* In ''Film/ShortCuts'', Julianne Moore does an entire scene naked from the waist down. Neither the audience nor her husband, played by Matthew Modine, notice she isn't wearing underwear until she appears from behind the kitchen counter.
* Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Film/TakeTheMoneyAndRun'' has his character preparing for a date, grooming himself at the mirror, leaving his apartment...then coming right back in, with the camera panning back to reveal he forgot his pants.

* In the opening scene of ''Film/CabinintheWoods'' as Dana gets ready for the big trip she's going on with her friends, her along with the audience will quickly forget she's not wearing any pants as people come in and out of her room to talk with her, until this is pointed out to her at the end of the scene.