History Main / UncoolUndies

* In {{Roll Bounce}}, Junior is pantsed in the roller rink by Sweetness' two lackeys, revealing his purple underwear and getting him laughed at by a bunch of other skaters, onlookers and even his own friends.

* In Roll Bounce, Junior is pantsed in the roller rink by Sweetness' two lackeys, revealing his purple underwear and getting him laughed at by a bunch of other skaters, onlookers and even his own friends.

Like all fashion styles, this is also subject to the PopularityPolynomial, depending on what was in style when the work was released. For example, briefs made a small comeback in the TurnOfTheMillennium as the skinny fit jeans/pants rendered boxer shorts almost useless (and possibly helped by one [[Series/BreakingBad Walter White]]) and character-printed underwear has come back with the rise of nerd culture in TheNewTens. [[https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/larry-david-curb-your-enthusiasm-pretty-good-catchphrase-origin They even make underoos for adults now]], we kid you not.

Like all fashion styles, this is also subject to the PopularityPolynomial, depending on what was in style when the work was released. For example, briefs made a small comeback in the TurnOfTheMillennium as the skinny fit jeans/pants rendered boxer shorts almost useless (and possibly helped by one [[Series/BreakingBad Walter White]]) and character-printed underwear has come back with the rise of nerd culture in TheNewTens. They even make underoos for adults now, we kid you not.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Oh my God, Donna's wearing granny panties!"]]

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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* In the direct-to-video film ''Film/DealOfALifetime'', an agent of the Devil is trying to take revenge on a teenage boy named Henry Spooner by finding ways to humiliate Henry and make his life miserable. One of the ways he does this is by casting a spell that causes Henry to lose all of his clothes, except for his tighty-whities, in the middle of the school hallway. As dozens of students file into the hallway after class, Henry is at first oblivious as to why they are all staring at him and laughing, until he looks down and realizes that he is wearing nothing but his underwear, forcing him to run away in complete embarrassment. Oddly enough, Henry is seen in boxer shorts in other scenes of the film, but just so happened to make a "nerdy" underwear choice on the day that he would end up losing his clothes in front of his classmates.

* ''Film/RomeoMustDie'': While escaping Trish's apartment, Han pantses one of Maurice's men, revealing a rainbow thong.

* In ''Film/LeComiche2'' (an Italian movie from the 90s) a man is stripped to underwear revealing he is wearing a bra due to the fact he accidentally had a breast augmentation earlier in the movie. Since he is risking to fall from the plane, a flight attendant tries to help but in a few moments starts to grope his breasts. Unfortunately he will fall from the plane but will end up in a hospital, here he is mistaken for transgender because of his bra/breasts.
* In the American remake of ''Film/{{LOL}}'', a scene in the girls’ locker room reveals Emily is wearing a pair of light blue granny panties with multi-colored flowers on them. Her friend Janice notices and tries to pull Emily over by her underwear to get a better look as she teases her, mistaking the flowers for Care Bears.
-->"Shut up, ok? It’s all my mom will buy. What am I supposed to do about it?"

* ''Literature/TheOrderOfThePoisonOak'': Russel gets pantsed in front of his crush, revealing his white briefs. Russel alludes in this book and in ''Literature/GeographyClub'' that briefs are his preferred choice in underwear but feels somewhat self-conscious about it since the popular jocks wore boxers. Expanded upon in the ''Literature/SoulSuckingBrainZombiesDuology'' where during Min's section of the book trashes men who wear briefs and thinks boxers are manly, but that was part of a fake rant to appease her girlfriend in front of her straight friends. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Long story]].

* In the children's novel ''Who Ran My Underwear Up the Flagpole?'', Eddie is mocked by some bullies when they find out he wears Superman underwear, and a pair even become an UnderwearFlag, as the title says.

* Comedienne Creator/MirandaHart makes a career out of being a six-foot-tall woman with what she describes as an "inelegant" body shape. Her eponymous comedy show ''Series/Miranda2009'' revolves around situations where she is "Queen Kong" among petite friends, standing out a mile for her size and making herself even more conspicuous by being socially gauche and awkward. [[FanDisservice Her outer clothing is regularly torn off in bizarre and unlikely accidents revealing serviceable and unflattering underwear.]]
* ''Series/That70sShow'' sees Donna getting pantsed by Eric in a basketball game, exposing her granny panties, which Hyde delightfully makes fun of. The episode is even titled "Donna's Panties."
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In "Krytie TV", Kochanski goes on a date with an old boyfriend, to Lister's dismay. Kryten suggests that they sabotage the evening by planting in the former boyfriend's quarters (among other things) "tragically unfashionable underpants", showing off a pair for reference. Rimmer irritably points out that said underpants are ''his''.
* In the ''Series/Zoey101'' episode "Webcam," the boys sneak a webcam in the girls' common area in order to spy and learn their embarrassing secrets; one of which is that Nicole wears panties with a "[[Franchise/HelloKitty Hello Bunny]]" print on them. She angrily says that they were on sale.
** In "Miss PCA," Zoey and Lola walk in as Chase is folding his white briefs.

* In ''Series/BreakingBad'', Walter White's tighty whiteys, which are exposed more than you'd think due his stripping down to cook meth in an RV, add to the general sense of emasculation surrounding him at the start of the series. Jesse also finds them funny during their first cook, saying they make him look like "maybe only the world's second biggest homo."
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': During Chandler and Monica's SecretRelationship Joey covers for them by claiming the underwear Chandler left between Monica's couch cushions is actually his. Once he gets Chandler alone Joey yells at him for, among other things, his choice of underwear.
-->'''Joey:''' Oh, and tighty-whities? What, are you 8?
* In the ''Series/MyBabysittersAVampire'' episode "Friday Night Frights", Ethan is pantsed by the ghost of Coach Ed while wearing space-themed boxers. Sarah sees his underwear and laughs at him, mockingly saying she would've guessed he wore Spider-Man underwear.
* In the ''Series/AustinAndAlly'' episode "Filmmaking & Fear Breaking," Austin twice has his pants ripped off because of a mishap with an umbrella, once in a flashback when he is in 4th grade and once in the present day. Both times, he is seen wearing identical, childish boxer shorts with race cars on them. Later on in the episode, Dez reveals that he knows that Austin only ever wears race car-themed boxers.

[[folder:Web Videos]]
* In a video released in May 2022 by "Barstool Sports," the intern Billy Football has the back of his khaki pants ripped off by "Pardon My Take" co-host PFT. Billy is wearing white briefs with black polka dots on them. PFT laughingly and mockingly asks Billy "You're wearing tighty-whities?" to which Billy defensively replies "No, they're boxer briefs." Despite Billy's claim, it's clear that he is wearing briefs. Simultaneously, Billy begins sheepishly trying to pull the underwear down his leg in an attempt to make them appear longer and perhaps make them look more like boxer briefs, emphasizing his embarrassment at wearing regular briefs.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', Pinocchio [[ItMakesSenseInContext needs to come up with a lie to make his nose grow]]. Donkey suggests that he should say he's wearing ladies' underwear, but when Pinocchio says it, nothing happens. When they ask him whether he's actually wearing ladies' underwear, he vehemently denies it, which does make his nose grow.

* In "If You Can't Take The Heat..." from ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Island]]'', Duncan, Geoff, and DJ steal all of Harold's pairs of pants and underpants to teach him a lesson about leaving his dirty underwear everywhere. After DJ pours a bucket of water over his pants, he goes to the cabin to change himself and comes back to the challenge set in a skimpy thong and no pants, as it was the only thing he had left (other than his pajamas). When the others see him, Courtney and Chris are disgusted, while the other Killer Basses laugh at him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken", Milhouse is revealed to wear ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' underwear.

See also ComedicUnderwearExposure for general tropes about underwear being exposed, uncool or cool. Contrast BriefsBoasting for characters who wear the brief-cut proudly.

* Glenn Dolphman in ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob'' is shown to wear tighty whities when his pants fall down in the episode "My Big Flat Earth Wedding."

* Wrestling/MollyHolly, who then had a SourPrude gimmick, had her granny panties exposed by her then-rival Wrestling/TrishStratus in a PantsPullingPrank. For weeks afterward, Molly would be teased by the commentary as well as the fans in the arena would ''bring in signs'' mocking her underwear.them rips his pants off revealing Rainbow Monkey underwear. His teammates come in and rip off the Delightful Children's pants and skirts while Numbuh 5 takes a photo of them to negate Numbuh 1's butt photo as they run off covering themselves chased by their own robot crabs.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" Milhouse is revealed to wear ''Series/Teletubbies'' underwear.

* In the direct-to-video film ''Film/DealOfALifetime'', an agent of the Devil is trying to take revenge on a teenage boy named Henry Spooner by finding ways to humiliate Henry and make his life miserable. One of the ways he does this is by casting a spell that causes Henry to lose all of his clothes, except for his underwear, in the middle of the school hallway, on a day where Henry happens to be wearing tighty-whities. As dozens of students file into the hallway after class, Henry is at first oblivious as to why they are all staring at him and laughing, until he looks down and realizes that he is wearing nothing but his tighty-whities, forcing him to run away in complete embarrassment. Since Henry is seen in boxer shorts in other scenes of the film, it seems all the more embarrassing that he happened to make a nerdy underwear choice on the day that he would end up losing his clothes in front of his classmates.

* In the ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' episode "The Experimental Job", a frat initiation is held in which one of the hazing rituals calls for all pledges to strip down to their underwear. Most of the pledges are wearing boxer shorts, but one pledge strips to reveal that he is wearing Tighty-Whities. He is mocked and ridiculed for his underwear choice and is subsequently thrown out of the frat house and disqualified from pledging.

* In the "Have Time, Will Travel" episode of the ''WesternAnimation/WackyAdventuresOfRonaldMcDonald" video series, King Murray inadvertently has his clothes torn off in front of all of the other characters. Everyone laughs at him for wearing tighty-whities, and one of his knights orders everyone to turn away and stop laughing, commanding them to "peak not at his majesty's royal tighty-whities, as it were."

[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'': Hazel goes to an underwear party, [[https://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws-hair-of-the-dog-75 revealing underwear]] that Jaime says she hasn't seen since third grade. [[RetailTherapy She then takes Hazel bra shopping.]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' season 6 episode ''Brains, Brains and Automobiles'' had Steve, Barry, Snot, and Toshi ''immediately'' picked on by the other guys at summer camp, because they were wearing "whiteys of tight" which designated them as geeks. They go off to purchase boxer shorts, but then get tricked by a shady salesman selling bikini-type underwear called "culos." They then wear the culos and think they'll be the coolest kids at camp. It... doesn’t go as well as they expected.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Operation: B.U.T.T. has the Delightful Children use robot crabs to snap a photo of Numbuh 1's bare butt and use it to blackmail him. Later, they summon an army of robot crabs and one of them rips his pants off revealing Rainbow Monkey underwear. His teammates come in and rip off the Delightful Children's pants and skirts while Numbuh 5 takes a photo of them to negate Numbuh 1's butt photo as they run off covering themselves chased by their own robot crabs.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" Milhouse is revealed to wear ''Series/Teletubbies'' underwear.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* A soldier in Afghanistan [[https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna30887233 had to rush out to the defense of his outpost]], firing his rifle while wearing pink boxers with "I [Heart] NY" print. Showing the video, President Obama called him "[[RealMenWearPink the bravest man in Afghanistan]]".
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* In the direct-to-video film "DealOfALifetime", an agent of the Devil is trying to take revenge on a teenage boy named Henry Spooner by finding ways to humiliate Henry and make his life miserable. One of the ways he does this is by casting a spell that causes Henry to lose all of his clothes, except for his underwear, in the middle of the school hallway, on a day where Henry happens to be wearing tighty-whities. As dozens of students file into the hallway after class, Henry is at first oblivious as to why they are all staring at him and laughing, until he looks down and realizes that he is wearing nothing but his tighty-whities, forcing him to run away in complete embarrassment. Since Henry is seen in boxer shorts in other scenes of the film, it seems all the more embarrassing that he happened to make a nerdy underwear choice on the day that he would end up losing his clothes in front of his classmates.

* In the American remake of ''https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/LOL'', a scene in the girls’ locker room reveals Emily is wearing a pair of light blue granny panties with multi-colored flowers on them. Her friend Janice notices and tries to pull Emily over by her underwear to get a better look as she teases her, mistaking the flowers for Care Bears.