History Main / PantsPullingPrank

* In ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', Sabrina's father psychically pulls Ash's pants down.
** The Akala Island Treasure Hunt in the ''Sun and Moon'' series has a goofy Stoutland guide try to pull off Ash's shorts before the Treasure Hunt begins.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Sabrina's father psychically pulls Ash's pants down.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'', Theodore, who had developed a meaner streak than usual as a result of [[spoiler:being bitten by the Wolfman]], pulls down Alvin and Simon pants on the opening night of their drama teacher's ''Jekyll and Hyde'' play, which results in the audience seeing Alvin and Simon in their underwear when the curtains open.

* In the sixth and final issue of ''Harley's Little Black Book'', ComicBook/HarleyQuinn overpowers an alien boxer by pulling his shorts down.

* At one point in ''Film/TheNannyDiaries'', Annie challenges Grayer to a race, only for him to pants her in order to get a head start.

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* During a Music/OneDirection concert in London in April 2013, Liam Payne pantsed Harry Styles in front of the entire crowd while the group was singing "What Makes You Beautiful," leaving Harry in his black boxer briefs. Though he was clearly startled by the prank, Harry still managed to go on with the song while pulling his pants back up.
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One of many PracticalJoke tropes, this one involves pulling someone's pants down to expose their underpants (also known as "pantsing"). Usually from ''behind.'' And it may or may not take the underwear down with it. The pantsed character usually has a NakedFreakOut once noticing and fumbles to either cover himself or to pull their pants back on.

Can double with ComedicUnderwearExposure, though this usually involves just the pants coming off. Can sometimes expose UncoolUndies. Compare with ShamefulStrip, StrippingSnag and {{Wedgie}}.

A [[DontTryThisAtHome little something for future reference]]: this is a prank that can lead to accusations of sexual harassment and/or indecent exposure, so as a rule of thumb, don't do it.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Community}}'', Abed pantses Troy, who pantses Abed back in retaliation, but Abed being constantly GenreSavvy, he demonstrates [[CrazyPrepared he was ready to turn this around]] by wearing GoofyPrintUnderwear. The atmosphere [[DudeNotFunny turns sour real fast]] when Pierce decides to pants Shirley (who was out of the room and didn't saw the prank) to show her what everyone was laughing about.

* On ''Series/{{MASH}}'', in the episode "Bottoms Up", Hawkeye pantsed Charles during an OR session. Unfortunately for Hawkeye, [[DudeNotFunny nobody thought it was funny]], and it became a OnceDoneNeverForgotten moment, being brought up in several subsequent episodes, including the series finale.

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* During a One Direction concert in London in April 2013, Liam Payne pantsed Harry Styles in front of the entire crowd while the group was singing "What Makes You Beautiful," leaving Harry in his black boxer briefs. Though he was clearly startled by the prank, Harry still managed to go on with the song while pulling his pants back up.
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* In the autobiographical graphic novel ''ComicBook/SmileRainaTelgemeier'' (Published September, 2014) by Creator/RainaTelgemeier, Raina breaks up with her group of "friends" when one of them pulls her skirt down in the school cafeteria.

* In the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''Literature/RevengeRUs'', Micah Brill tries to humiliate his sister Wade by wearing her underwear on his head... which he then escalates to pouncing on Wade and trying to rip off her pants to show her friends what underwear she's currently wearing. With the context that Micah is 17 and Wade is 12, this accidentally comes off as incredibly horrifying and borderline sexual abuse.

* During a One Direction concert in London in April 2013, Liam Payne pantsed Harry Styles in front of the entire crowd while the group was singing "What Makes You Beautiful," leaving Harry in his black boxer briefs. Though he was clearly startled by the prank, he still managed to go on with the song while pulling his pants back up.

Can double with ComedicUnderwearExposure, though this usually involves just the pants coming off. Can sometimes expose UncoolUndies. Compare with ShamefulStrip, StrippingSnag and {{Wedgie}}.

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* In the crossover between ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' and ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' Billy's dad pantses the Mandy Reaper so their attacks will work, showing off pink flower underwear similar to Mandy's normal dress.

** In "One of the Boys", Lincoln gets transported to a universe where all his sisters are male, their personalities change dramatically and they [[BigBrotherBully relentlessly bully him]]. The one whose personality is the same no matter their gender is Lynn; both Lynn and her male counterpart pants Lincoln in the episode.

** In "One of the Boys" Lincoln gets transported to a universe where all his sisters are male, their personalities change dramatically and they [[BigBrotherBully bully him]]. The one whose personality is the same no matter their gender is Lynn; both Lynn and her male counterpart pants Lincoln in the episode.

** In "Heavy Meddle", Lincoln gets pantsed by a bully (who is later revealed to be Ronnie Anne).

** In "City Slickers," one of Lincoln's concerns about visiting Ronnie Anne in her new home in the city is that she'll depants him on the Jumbotron in the city. It doesn't happen, Ronnie Anne merely settles for depantsing Lincoln in a less crowded place and leaving him with a photograph of it as a souvenir.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In the episode "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS5EP7TheBoysAreBackInTown The Boys are back in Town]]", the girls do this to Brick. And either he [[GoingCommando wasn't wearing any underpants]], or they pulled them down along with his pants, since the act exposes his bare butt.

** In the episode where Lincoln gets transported to a universe where all his sisters are male, their personalities change dramatically and they [[BigBrotherBully bully him]]. The one whose personality is the same no matter their gender is Lynn. Both Lynn and her male counterpart pants Lincoln.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In the episode "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS5EP7TheBoysAreBackInTown the Boys are back in Town]]", the girls do this to Brick. And either he [[GoingCommando wasn't wearing any underpants]], or they pulled them down along with his pants, since the act exposes his bare butt.

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