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== [[Advertising]] ==
* [http://images.nextnewnetworks.com/839.jpg Bentley: Chairman]{{Dead link}} ad. Nuff said.{{context}}<!-- MOD: Nuff needs to say more. -->
* In an ad for Wild Turkey Kentucky Bourbon, a group of guys are contemplating whether the woman at the end of the bar likes one of them, when suddenly she flips them off. Apparently not, right? Turns out, in this bar, the finger means "order that person a Wild Turkey on the rocks." As reflected in the tagline, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"Give 'em the bird."]]
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'''Ayumu:''' I don't understand.
'''Orito:''' (Gives the finger) Say your prayers! }}
== [[Comedy]] ==▼
* [[Russell Peters|"Ryan, go clean your room!"]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5jlrxcpkI "FUCK YOU BITCH!"]▼
* [[Stage Magician|The Amazing]] [[Subverted Trope|Johnathan]] during one skit covered his hand with a kerchief and asked if a lady in the front row like birds. When she answered yes, he whipped away and flipped her the bird. He did then proceed to recover his hand and make a bird appear... [[Crosses the Line Twice|which he then promptly pummeled into a fistful of feathers]].▼
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcaR-GjlJs Dane Cook discusses the finger.] (From about 1:10 on - [[Cluster F-Bomb|audio NSFW]])▼
* One [[Peter Kay]] routine discussed the art of stealthily flipping someone off by pretending to scratch your face.▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* One of the earliest examples of this in a mainstream film would be ''The Miracle Woman'', a Barbara Stanwyck drama made in 1931 (in other words,
** An even earlier example comes in [[Harold Lloyd]]'s silent 1928 comedy ''Speedy'', which has a scene where Lloyd [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4w77jd1KEQ does this to his
* In a deleted scene in ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', Max Patel cheerfully flips the bird at Parker Selfridge, just before {{spoiler|ripping through the command center's windows with a titanic slash cutter, letting in the rogue avatar team.}}
* In ''[[Highlander II the Quickening]]'', a random bar patron flips Connor off right before bashing him over the head with a bottle.
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* In the movie ''My Science Project'', one guy flips off an asshat honking at him from behind... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZbqj6mdiQ with a light-up one!]
* In ''Problem Child 2'', Junior Healey is driving his dad home, and an unseen driver cuts him off. The kid knows how to make use of "the highway salute".
* In ''[[Ace Ventura]]: Pet Detective'', Ace has a football player
* In ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien S]]'':
{{quote|'''Hudson:''' Man, this floor is freezing!
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* Films 2 and 3 of the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' trilogy had examples of this, both of which involved Mini-Me.
* One of the aliens in ''[[Bad Taste]]'' does this on the ''movie poster''. ([[Peter Jackson]], you mad genius you.)
* ''[[Blade Trinity]]'' shows a few suit-clad vampires going into a tomb in the desert. Before going in, one of them flips the bird at the sun. 'Cause, [[Our Vampires Are Different|y' know, it's not able to kill him for a change]].
* The first ''[[Bring It On]]'' film had two examples of this. The first one was when a Toros cheerleader flipped off her ex-boyfriend after they lost a game. The second had the main character's little brother doing it after being taunted for sneaking into the girl's locker room.
** Missy does a one after a Toros cheerleader mockingly points out that tattoos aren't allowed. She rubs off the "tattoo" with her middle finger.
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{{quote|'''Rebecca:''' There is a great, big, humongous honking booger in your left nostril... I suggest you use ''this finger'' to get it out!}}
* The younger sister of the heroine in ''[[Final Destination]] 3'' flashes the double-deuce when her big sister takes her picture at the amusement park.
* In ''[[Groundhog Day]]'', in at least one loop, Phil does a countdown to filming on his fingers, the middle finger
* One character does this in ''[[Liar Liar]]''.
{{quote|'''Fletcher''': (desperate to keep his secretary around) I'll give you the raise!
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* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' features Agent J ([[Will Smith]]) doing a similar obfuscated-flip, as Agent K ([[Tommy Lee Jones]]) responds to the younger agent's questions about advanced [[The Men in Black|Men in Black]] privileges with "When you grow up." J replies with "Oh...okay", while scratching his head with his middle finger.
* The film adaptation of ''[[Mr. Bean]]'', the biker gave the bird to Bean while taking a picture of him and giving him a thumbs up from the car. Unaware of the gesture, Mr. Bean gives everyone the bird he passes by.
* The first movie of ''[[The Naked Gun]]'' series has a memorable scene where a driver instructor (played by [[Classically-Trained Extra|John Houseman]]) deadpan instructs his meek girl student, "All right, Stephanie, gently extend your arm. Extend your middle finger. Very good. Well done" in response to <s>an obvious jackass</s> a fellow driver angry at her for driving the wrong way on a one-way street. The girl feels truly empowered after this.
* In one of the ''[[Police Academy]]'' movies, a snarky guy flips off a mounted police officer twice, once vertically and again horizontally (i.e. for the officer and the horse he rode in on).
* ''[[Road Trip]]'' had a blind girl giving Seann William Scott's character the bird after he feeds her seeing-eye dog a Slim Jim.
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* In ''[[Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome]]'' Ironbar flashes one of these as he dies under the wreckage of his crashed car.
* The movie adaptation of ''[[Dragnet]]'' had an interrogated suspect flip off Friday and his partner, Pep Streebeck. Streebeck leaves to get coffee, Friday then teaches the thug a lesson in manners.
* [[Hot Fuzz|Nicholas Angel]] does the British variation, accompanied by
* In ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]'', the punk on the bus gives Kirk the finger after Kirk asks him to turn down the music on his boombox... and gets a Vulcan Nerve Pinch for it!
* Bialystock and Bloom in the latest ''[[The Producers]]'' respond this way while taking the Siegfried Oath (while Franz isn't looking, of course).
* In ''[[Inception]]'', Yusuf does this to a projection when he drives off the bridge to set off the kick in Fischer's first dream layer.
* The South Korean [[King Kong]] rip-off, ''A.P.E.'' features a giant monkey giving the finger to an exploding helicopter. Seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-fNG9GH5E here].
** And speaking of apes, in the movie ''[[Cannonball Run]] II'', an orangutan chauffeur gives an old lady one when she waves to him!
* Unintentionally in ''[[Rat Race]]'', when Randy burns his finger in the cigarette lighter of Hitler's car and holds it up while next to a biker. His wife [[Stop Helping Me!|tries to explain while wagging hers]]. He next tries explaining the situation to [[World War II]] veterans.[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLy8BuGsTg4\]
* The poster for ''[[Trainspotting]]'' includes Begbie giving the V-sign to the viewer.
* In ''[[Ali G Indahouse]]'', Ali G thinks he's being rebellious by giving the V-sign to a cop car just below the rim of his car window, so it's completely hidden.
* In ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension]]'', John Bigbooté flips off Dr
* The 1980 comedy ''Used Cars'' has a scene where a student driver is instructed to do this by her teacher (played by the distinguished John Houseman, of ''The Paper Chase'') when another driver cuts them off.
* The garden gnome in ''[[Project X]]'' has its middle finger raised.
* In ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy]]'', Peter Quill gives this to a couple of Nova Corps members. Despite Disney having the rights to the film, it went uncensored in the films, even as the OBSCENE GESTURE DETECTED alert goes off.
**
* ''[[Alien vs. Ninja]]'': Mika had a message for
* During the chase in ''[[6 Underground]]'', Six, who was driving, almost collides with a group of nuns during a car chase. Six hopes they would forgive him for doing that. One of the nuns had this as a response.
* ''[[Deadpool (film)|Deadpool]]'', the titular character cuts off his
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In ''[[Halo (series)|Halo]]: Ghosts Of Onyx'' Kelly flips off a Sentinel drone to distract it while her team sets up an attack.
* The V-sign is obliquely referred to in ''[[Harry Potter]]'', where it is always referred to as an "obscene hand gesture" so as not to give the children any ideas.
** The most direct reference to it being the V-sign is in ''[[
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Arya lists a number of things she's learned in Braavos, including obscene gestures such as "the fig."
* In ''[[Stephanie Plum|Plum Spooky]]'', Stephanie comments "getting and giving the finger is a way of life in Jersey". She does, however, find it a bit odd to be getting this gesture from a pet monkey she's babysitting.
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* In ''The Boy Who Lost His Face'' by Louis Sachar, David, in the middle of helping a group of friends pull a prank on an elderly woman reputed to be a witch, flips her the bird. This results in the woman pronouncing a "curse" on David.
* In [[Ken Kesey]]'s ''Sometimes a Great Notion'', the protagonist displays his late father's amputated arm from a pole atop his house, with all the fingers save the middle one tied down, as a gesture of defiance against the union loggers with whom he's feuding.
* In ''[[
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* The notorious [http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/mad/166-3.jpg finger cover] of ''[[Mad]]'', which many news stands refused to display.▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Referenced in ''[[MythBusters]]''. While testing the bouncing bullet myth (about a bullet that ricocheted in such a way that it killed the shooter), Adam and Jamie used a cardboard cutout of Jamie to represent the gunman/victim. One of the bullets they fired struck cutout!Jamie, in the words of the narrator, on the finger he "occasionally uses to advise fellow motorists".
* There were several occasions on ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' where characters clearly gave someone else the finger, thanks to the fact that the show was aired on Showtime.
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{{quote|'''Charlie:''' Aww... you wanna flip me the bird, but the the poor little fellow can't fly.}}
* In [[Stargate SG-1]] Jack O'Neill told someone that his name was "spelled with two Ls!" while holding up three fingers.
* The "body parts" episode of ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]'' had a ''lot'' of jokes about "giving the finger". Fortunately, that is something they [[Ironic Echo| really ''couldn't'' do on television.]]
* On ''[[Wednesday]]'', Thing has done this more than once to folks he doesn't like - being a living, disembondied hand, it's pretty much the only way he ''can'' insult someone.
▲* The notorious [http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/mad/166-3.jpg finger cover] of ''[[Mad]]'', which many news stands refused to display.
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* If you really look had enough, there's an actually footage from following the jailhouse match with Big Boss Man and The Mountie. The latter does this after being demanded for fingerprints, by saying "You can't do this to me! You want the finger? There's the finger!". To top it off, this was in 1991.
* [[Steve Austin]]'s "Stone Cold Salute" in the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]].
* [[Ric Flair]] flipped off [[Triple H]] at ''Survivor Series 2005''.
* [[Kevin Nash|Diesel]] after costing [[The Undertaker]] the title at [[Royal Rumble]] 1996, which was notably before the [[Attitude Era]].
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** After being defeated by [[Shawn Michaels]] at ''[[Wrestlemania]] 22'', Vince was loaded onto a stretcher and wheeled away. Vince defiantly flipped Shawn off right before he disappeared.
* This is pretty much what [[Randy Orton]] opted to toward Seth Rollins in the episode March 9, 2015, much to the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvzXr22rSpQ delight of fans].
▲== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
▲* [[Russell Peters|"Ryan, go clean your room!"]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5jlrxcpkI "FUCK YOU BITCH!"]
▲* [[Stage Magician|The Amazing]] [[Subverted Trope|Johnathan]] during one skit covered his hand with a kerchief and asked if a lady in the front row like birds. When she answered yes, he whipped away and flipped her the bird. He did then proceed to recover his hand and make a bird appear... [[Crosses the Line Twice|which he then promptly pummeled into a fistful of feathers]].
▲* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcaR-GjlJs Dane Cook discusses the finger.] (From about 1:10 on - [[Cluster F-Bomb|audio NSFW]])
▲* One [[Peter Kay]] routine discussed the art of stealthily flipping someone off by pretending to scratch your face.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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** And it gets [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-08-02 implied later!]
* [http://www.gocomics.com/basicinstructions/2009/11/26/ This] ''[[Basic Instructions]]'' strip.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070817175509/http://www.kenzerco.com/images/periodicals/TTC/phpslideshow.php?directory=.¤tPic=0 This] ''[[Fuzzy Knights]]'' strip (click to page through it), which was posted as a response to the 2005 terrorist bombings on the London Underground and made rather appropriate reference to the origin myth.
* In ''[[Blip]]'', as K is considering what picture to use for her MySpace profile, she realizes that every digital photo she has involves her flipping off the camera. Even the picture where she's nearly unconscious. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111228172219/http://www.blipcomic.com/23
* Implied in ''[[Freefall]]'' to be [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff500/fv00475.htm what everyone does] when they "interact" with Sam. That, and [[Genre Savvy|hiding their wallets]].
* Emily is quick to flip off Ash when they first meet in ''[[Misfile]]''.
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* [[The Bugle]] has a regular feature where listeners' Great Bird-Flipping Stories are read out.
* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160319105357/http://www.fuh2.com/ Fuck You And Your H2] is a site dedicated entirely to pictures of people flipping off Hummer H2 drivers.
* In ''Planet Dolan'''s, Dolan Stories: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4EEBL8rnVM OUR PETS ARE WEIRD], Hellbent gives this to a dog after he saw her jumping on his bed to pee.
** In ''Super Planet Dolan'' Dolan Life Mysteries: [https://youtu.be/ChsgAaTO-gU Does Space Have A "Colour"?], Hellbent once again was about to do this before Pringle [[Scenery Censor| blocks him]].
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** Although it means the number 2 in American Sign Language, in many other English speaking countries like England, the “V” sign that has the palm facing the user is the equivalent of Flipping the Bird.
* On WABC-TV in New York, anchor [[Deadpan Snarker|Roger Grimsby]] introduced a live broadcast from reporter Mara Wolinsky. Mara had been getting trouble from the cameraman and flipped him off just as the live broadcast started. The camera quickly cut back to Grimsby, who said, "Apparently, Mara knows who's number one in New York."
* There was a minor scandal during the last{{when}} election in Sweden, when the chairman of the Left Party flipped off a leading Conservative during a debate. Luckily, it was not televised. Unluckily, someone had a cellphone camera.
* The most epic bird-flippery so far happened when [https://web.archive.org/web/20121031180854/http://www.metro.co.uk/news/802617-starlings-give-twitchers-the-bird a flock of birds flipped the bird]... 'en masse' [[Synchronized Swarming|as a flock]].
* Actress Pauley Perrette, best known for her role as Abby Sciuto on ''[[NCIS]]'', subverts this by having a [["Have a Nice Day" Smile]] tattoo [https://web.archive.org/web/20110102204432/http://peekabootattoos.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Pauley-Perrette-Tattoos-2.jpg on the middle finger of her right hand].
* During the final week of testimony in the Casey Anthony murder trial, a 28-year-old spectator [[What an Idiot!|decided to ignore the strict court orders against overt gestures or expressions]], and flipped off prosecutor Jeff Ashton. Judge Belvin Perry found him in contempt and sentenced him to six days in county jail and a total fine of just over six hundred dollars.
* Davao City, Philippines vice mayor Rodrigo Duterte flashed the finger and cussed at critics of his daughter Sara (who was the mayor) following her widely-publicized punching of a trial court sheriff. Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/07/04/11/duterte-flashes-dirty-finger-sara<!-- E280%99s-critics -->{{dead link}}
* One Utah homeowner was run through hell by his neighbors for building 18" above the maximum roof height. In response, he put some "abstract art" of "cacti" on the side of his house, in their direction. [http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/ventcover.asp You be the judge.]
* Comedian Jackie Mason nearly saw his career destroyed after being accused of having done this during a 1964 appearance on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]''. [[Ed Sullivan|Sullivan]] banned him from appearing on the show again for nearly two years, and only relented after Mason (who vociferously denied having made the gesture, or even being aware of its meaning) initiated a libel suit.
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* [https://youtu.be/e_6UgdS-NEs In this video], Jimmy Kimmel states [[Chris Benoit]] would make a better parent, considering that Benoit had killed his family. A group of women can be seen giving the middle finger... and who can blame them.
* [[Blatant Lies|This never happens]] in [[Canadian Politics]]. The [http://www.parli.ca/salmon-arm-salute/ "Salmon Arm Salute"], however...
* Greek cynic [[w:Diogenes|Diogenes]] was known to do this towards his detractors.
=== Sports ===
* Cyclist [[wikipedia:Mark Cavendish|Mark Cavendish]] gave us this post-win [https://web.archive.org/web/20121112043832/http://cdn3.media.cyclingnews.futurecdn.net/2010/04/29/2/par3206415_600.jpg British variant].
* A 1972 [[Monday Night Football]] game between the Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers had a incident in which [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] cameras caught several Oilers fans leaving (the putrid Oilers were losing badly to then-AFC powerhouse Oakland). One guy that stayed happened to be caught on camera and, [[Medium Awareness|seemingly aware of it]], raised the middle digit. This incident also provided commentator Don Meredith's "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|We're number 1 in the nation]]" quip.
** Similar to this incident, the late newscast for [[San Francisco]] [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] station KGO following [[Super Bowl]] XIX (won by the hometown 49ers) shows a clip of some Miami Dolphins fans in a hotel to support the defeated Dolphins and one fan on an escalator flips the bird briefly ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TanoA3QTp8Q around the 1:51 mark]).
* Has cropped up a couple of times in [[NASCAR]]. One was in Dale Earnhardt's last race, done rather like an irate driver in traffic (which, in a way, he was), on Kurt Busch. Mike Joy interpreted it as Earnhardt telling Busch, "Kurt, you're number one."
** Then, in the 7 November 2010 race at Texas, Kyle Busch did this to a NASCAR official who was enforcing a penalty on him. One (lap penalty) plus one (finger raised) equalled three (lap penalty).
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