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** This is partly TruthInTelevision, as some horses turn their hind ends toward other horses or humans to show disrespect. However, this act can be done for other reasons, such as [[InconvenientItch wanting their owners to scratch their butts]]

** This is partly TruthInTelevision, as some horses turn their hind ends toward other horses or humans to show disrespect. However, this act can be done for other reasons, such as [[watch wanting their owners to scratch their butts]].

** This is partly TruthInTelevision, as some horses turn their hind ends toward other horses or humans to show disrespect. However, this act can be done for other reasons, such as [[InconvenientItch wanting their owners to scratch their butts]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron'', the titular horse turns around to point his butt angrily at Little Creek after seeing him for the first time while he’s imprisoned. This is partly TruthInTelevision, as some horses turn their hind ends toward other horses or humans to show disrespect, though this act can be done for other reasons.

* In "WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994", one moment during the song "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" shows Simba and Nala walking past a herd of zebras who stand at attention as they pass, but when Zazu tries to follow them, the zebras turn about face and lift their tails to present their butts to him. When Zazu sees this, he promptly flinches and covers himself with his wings, [[ExcrementStatement just in case]].

* In "WesternAnimation/TheLionKing", one moment during the song "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" shows Simba and Nala walking past a herd of zebras who stand at attention as they pass, but when Zazu tries to follow them, the zebras turn about face and lift their tails to present their butts to him. When Zazu sees this, he promptly flinches and covers himself with his wings, [[ExcrementStatement just in case]].
* In "WesternturnAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron", the titular horse turns around to point his butt angrily at Little Creek after seeing him for the first time while he’s imprisoned. This is partly Truth in Television, as some horses turn their hind ends toward other horses or humans to show disrespect, though this act can be done for other reasons.

* In ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'', Dizzy moons Angel after he, Stretch, and Omar have been brainwashed by Mok.

* In Tobe Hooper's ''Crocodile'' Annabelle, played by Julie Mintz, pulls down her shorts to do a drive by mooning from the back of a jeep.

* Would you believe that this [[http://comiccoverage.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8345158e369e200e55439add68833-450wi once happened]] to Franchise/{{Batman}}? [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Guy Gardner]] may have a glass jaw, but he still has balls of steel. Although Batman takes it with commendable aplomb:
-->'''Batman:''' Tell Guy he needs a shave.

* VideoGame/CommanderKeen does this in ''Secret of the Oracle'' as an IdleAnimation in the Temple of the Moons when you leave yourself standing on a [[VisualPun moon symbol]].

* In ''ComicStrip/Moomin'', each extended arc begins with a close-up panel of Moomintroll's butt.

* In the newspaper comic strip version of ''Literature/TheMoomins'', each extended arc begins with a close-up panel of Moomintroll's butt.

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* In one ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'' comic, Yeagar decides on a gesture of defiance after proving unable to answer the RiddleOfTheSphinx. Fortunately, it turns out that the answer to the riddle is "Moon".

* There is a Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 commercial where two guys in a car stop next to the police. The passenger moons them and the two speed off.

* In ''Film/TheSmurfs2'', when Patrick Winslow says, "Is a Smurf's butt blue?", Grouchy is seen bending over and preparing to flash his own butt, saying "You tell me". And this is coming from the same Smurf who in [[Film/TheSmurfs the previous movie]] taunted Patrick Winslow with "[[ParentheticalSwearing kiss my smurf]]". There would have been a "[[IncrediblyLamePun blue moon]]" in this film as well if Grouchy was allowed to pull it off.

* In an episode of ''Series/DesigningWomen'' Julia Sugarbaker (off-camera) humiliates herself at a charity fashion show by walking the runway with the back of her dress tucked into her pantyhose, and later says she fears [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten she'll be forever known as "The Woman Who Mooned Atlanta."]]

* ''Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies'': The premiere episode "We're Gonna Rule the School" has two instances of this. First, the T-Birds and Cynthia moon the audience at a pep rally. Then Nancy, Jane, Olivia and Cynthia moon everyone during an assembly.

* In the ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' episode "Pinocchio's Mouth" Jake is kicked off his school bus (and Alan grounds him) for doing this.

* In one episode of ''Series/TheWonderYears'', Kevin goes out with his friends who moon an older couple in the next car at a stoplight, but Kevin himself ducks down upon realizing the couple is [[spoiler: his parents!]]

--+-> '''Azamuku:''' Your Highness, sometimes you'll meet gods who think they know how you should act, and tell you things you don't want to hear. So when things get too much and they won't stop no matter what you say, just turn around and show them your rear!

* In the ParodyFic ''Giggles Bags the Borg'', a [=WW1=] air ace drops his pants while flying over the Hun trenches. He's not trying to insult anyone though; the castor oil lubricant used in the airplane engine is giving him the runs.

'''Principal Lewis:''' Showing you my butt. ...What? You thought those were ding-dong prices?! ''(laughs)'' Na-ah, nah, nah.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "A Ward Show", after Principal Lewis steals a bag of oranges from a Mexican street salesman, a woman stops her car and asks how much. He says, "10 bucks to see it; 20 bucks to ride," with the woman clarifying that she meant how much for the oranges, with Principal Lewis saying they're not for sale. She pays the $10 to "see it", but doesn't realize until after she's paid him that Principal Lewis was talking about showing her his butt; not his "ding-dong".

** Bart moons the Australian government in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E16BartVsAustralia Bart vs. Australia]]", having written "Don't Tread On Me" on his cheeks, as they attempt to punish him with a booting.
--->'''Marge:''' I'm glad you're all right, honey, but I wish you'd chosen a more tasteful way to be patriotic.\\
'''Lisa:''' I'm impressed you were able to write so legibly on your own butt.

'''Lisa:''' [[OhNoNotAgain I'd like to believe that this time.]] I really would.
** Creator/MelGibson and Homer moon a group of studio executives in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E1BeyondBlunderdome Beyond Blunderdome]]", with disastrous results when Homer is hit by a car. Homer got the idea from ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', but mistakenly thought the mooning was how the heroes in the movie defeated their enemies.
** Another moment leads to Bart's accidental mooning of the US flag causing him and his family to be branded as traitors to the country in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E21BartMangledBanner Bart-Mangled Banner]]". When actually his shorts were eaten by a donkey and bends over to cover his privates and a photo was taken with a large flag behind him.
** After egging his house, hoodlums Jimbo Jones, Dolph and Kearny moon Principal Skinner and his mother in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E7LisasDateWithDensity Lisa's Date with Density]]".

** In probably one of the earliest examples in the series, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E12TheWayWeWas The Way We Was]]" features a flashback to when Homer was on the debate team (trying to get Marge interested in him) in high school. His idea of a rebuttal involved showing off his butt.

** "I Married Marge" showed that Bart attempted this for the first time ''[[FetusTerrible in utero]]'' when Marge had a sonogram.
--->'''Dr. Hibbert:''' If I didn't know better I'd swear he was trying to moon us.

** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E11FourthGrade Fourth Grade]]", the boys plan to do this to their new teacher, Ms Choksondik. However, on the first lesson she appears to be a DrillSergeantNasty, which scares all of them except Cartman out of doing it.

* In M. Night Shyamalan's ''Film/TheVisit'' (2015), Nana gets overly excited while playing hide and seek with her grandchildren in the eave under the house. Her long skirt gets disarrayed in the process, causing her to walk away toward the horizon with one ass cheek showing. Later in the movie, a security camera catches her sleepwalking nude. The most reliable reports indicate that these shots used stunt doubles rather than principal actress Deanna Dunagan, who was 75 at the time.

* ''Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies'': The premiere episode "We're Gonna Rule the School" has Nancy, Jane, Olivia and Cynthia mooning everyone during an assembly.