Flipping the Bird: Difference between revisions

* [[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure|Jolyne Kujo]] can do this [http://www.mangarush.com/files/mangas/jojo39s-bizarre-adventure-stone-ocean/67/6.jpg in several] [http://www.mangarush.com/files/mangas/jojo39s-bizarre-adventure-stone-ocean/67/7.jpg different languages.]

* Rock does [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY4lxe2gMqE this] quite memorably in the second episode of ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', flipping off the Extra Order mercs as he pulls his first [[Black Lagoon/Awesome|Crowning Moment of Awesome]] by having the title ship launched off a ramp and the torpedoes launched to wipe out an attack chopper that was after them.

** Amen, hallelujah and peanut butter.

* In ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', Haru does this to Kyo during their fight as he's saying "Go to hell!"

** And man, Ranma flips off people a lot in the manga.

** A truly epic one happens in the [[Martial Arts and Crafts|Martial Arts Dining]] arc when Ranma is stuck in an iron corset and accidentally turns [[Gender Bender|into his boy side.]]

'''Ranma:''' *while flipping Soun off* So yells my "dad," the little French maid! }}

* In ''[[One Piece]]'', when Eustass Kid and Trafalgar Law (two of the "11 Supernovas", rookies with huge bounties, including Luffy and Zoro) meet, Kid insults Law, who casually flips him the bird in response. This gesture was omitted in the anime version, but Kid's reaction to it is retained.

* Sanosuke from ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' is another repeating offender.

* In ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'' Vegeta does this in one of the Frieza saga episodes.

** And at the end of the series, a ''very'' rude boy did this to 4 year old Pan when she accidentally bumped into him.

** Almost every character in DBZ flips the bird at least once. Exceptions are Goku and Buu, who both prefer more childish rude gestures like sticking their tongue out.

* In the Lucky Channel portion of ''[[Lucky Star]]'', Akira does this (though it's sort of [[Pixellation|hidden]]) when saying "It's ''irritating''!" in a cheery voice about something Minoru had said.

* In episode 3 of ''[[Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?|Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka]]'', Orito flips off Ayumu while challenging him to a round of bowling to see if he can start living in his house along with Yuu, Seraphim, and Haruna.

'''Orito:''' (Gives the finger) Say your prayers! }}

* In ''[[Ace Ventura]]: Pet Detective'', Ace has a football player give him the finger so he can get a good look at his championship ring.

* In ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien S]]'':

'''Apone:''' Look into my eye. }}

** He is smoking at the time, which makes it hard to spot.

* A variation in ''[[Another Cinderella Story]]'':

'''Tami''': (''shows her fist'') Oh yeah!? Here's my invisible finger! }}

* Films 2 and 3 of the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' trilogy had examples of this, both of which involved Mini-Me.

* Ash in ''[[Evil Dead 2]]'' gets this from his own demon-possessed severed hand.

* In ''[[Tank Girl (film)|Tank Girl]]'', the titular heroine (played by Lori Petty) says this to the Head of Water and Power ([[Malcolm McDowell]]):

* 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 being used for "one".

* One character does this in ''[[Liar Liar]]''.

'''Gretta''': Here's your raise! (flips it to him) }}

* ''[[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.

* ''[[Top Gun]]'' had Maverick and Goose tell the story of when they "flipped the bird" at a Soviet pilot (at the beginning of the film). Maverick originally decides to refer to it euphemistically- "improving international relations," until Goose both explains and demonstrates the gesture by flipping off the officers holding the briefing.

* ''[[Tremors]]''. The protagonists have decided to make a run for the bulldozer so they can make their escape, but they need something to distract the man-eating Graboids away from them. Melvin (an annoying minor character) is nearby.

'''Melvin:''' Aww, eat it! ''[gives him The Finger]'' }}

* ''[[Undercover Brother]]''. The title character and Sistah Girl are being chased by two security guards in golf carts. The guards try to warn some senior citizens (also in golf carts) to clear out of the way, and one elderly woman gives them The Finger.

** Kim flips off Gideon before the Sex Bob-Omb plays, and does it by using her middle finger to rub under her eye.

** Earlier before the Matthew Patel fight, the drummer flips Wallace off.

'''Crash:''' Yes. (Drummer immediately flips the bird!) }}

* In ''[[The Hangover]]'', a little girl flips off Alan on the highway while the gang is on their way to Las Vegas.

* Performed by a ''cleaning robot'' in ''The California Voodoo Game'', in which the machine has been disguised as a cyborg octopus (long story) and sent to hinder S.J. Waters' crawl through a ventilation duct. The machine has no voice synthesizer, so the Game Master uses this robot's hologram-illusion tentacles to express its defiance after S.J. cripples it in hand-to-pincer combat.

* It's subtle, but a fantastic version appears in [[Matt Stover|Matthew Stover's]] ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Shatterpoint]]'':

Mace nipped up a thumb. "You think being armed and ruthless means you can do whatever you want." He folded his thumb and flipped up his forefinger. "You think nobody will stand up to you when they're naked." He folded that one again and flipped up the next. "And you think you're going to look inside my bag." }}

* In ''[[Halo (series)|Halo]]: Ghosts Of Onyx'' Kelly flips off a Sentinel drone to distract it while her team sets up an attack.

* The [[Snick]] show ''[[Roundhouse]]'' pulled one off in its episode about discrimination with the "Race Krispies" sketch. Self-censored (with a cardboard sign), of course: "Hey four-eyes, how many fingers am I holding up?"

* There's an episode of ''[[Roseanne]]'' in which Leon starts making changes to the restaurant when Roseanne isn't there by persuading Nancy and Jackie agree on said changes. Nancy and Jackie inform Roseanne that they all voted in favor of uniforms and breakfast in her absence. Then...

'''Roseanne:''' Would you like to see the bird I voted for? ''(she makes a gesture behind her hand that implies flipping the middle finger)'' }}

** The episode, '''''Bird Is The Word''''', evolves around this.

* In ''[[Porridge]]'' Fletcher is reading off a list of the things he's learned from his time inside, counting them on fingers as he goes. He forgets to add the third finger until Mackay notices it.

* One imprisoned criminal on the short-lived series ''Hooperman'' goes the extra mile with this. He not only gives the title police detective the finger, he ''cuts it off and mails it to him''.

* Lister and Rimmer give the V-sign a few times on ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', and at one point a Skutter (cleaning robot) gives it to Rimmer, which is quite an accomplishment considering their claw only has three digits.

* The opening credits of ''[[Blackadder]] Back & Forth'' show a member of the Blackadder clan as a [[WW 2]] soldier flipping the bird to [[Winston Churchill]].

* In a flashback episode of ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' where Earl is competing against his cousin Blake for Joy's affection.

* [[David Letterman]] got away with it on his show; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbovi0XHadU&feature=related a guy wrote him a letter saying that he's hanging upside down, so Dave flipped him the bird upside-down.]

* In ''[[The Wire]]'', McNulty's superior officer Rawls is introduced by giving him an extended "Fuck you" speech while holding up a double deuce.

* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' had a "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood" sketch where Mr. Robinson put on [http://www.hulu.com/watch/4189/saturday-night-live-mr-robinsons-neighborhood a puppet show], with finger puppets of poor black people imploring President Reagan to improve the economy. In one of the last scenes of this show, the puppet on Mr. Robinson's middle finger stood alone, and exclaimed, "Mr. President, I think I speak for all black people!"

* In [[Two and A Half Men]], after coming home from the hospital, Alan tries to flip off Charlie after he makes a "[[I Told You So]]" comment, but can't since his hand in a cast.

* In [[Stargate SG-1]] Jack O'Neill told someone that his name was "spelled with two Ls!" while holding up three fingers.

** He does it himself in the video for "Amish Paradise" (and, like in "White & Nerdy," is also blurred out for censorship reasons).

* Kevin Rudolf's "Let It Rock":

to the world, to the world, to the world. }}

* "American Recordings and [[Johnny Cash]] would like to [[media:Johnny_Cash_Billboard_Ad.jpg|acknowledge]] the Nashville music establishment and country radio [[Sarcasm Mode|for your support]]."

* In "Born To Lose", the Great Luke Ski recommends that the Charlie Browns of the world do this to Lucy when she pulls the football away.

* [[Eminem]], "The Way I Am."

With the bullshit they pull, cause they full of shit too... }}

** And again, more blatantly, in "The Real Slim Shady"...

and put one of those fingers on each hand up... }}

* "Ve Heil! Heil! Right in "Der Fuehrer's Face" (the palm was facing outwards in the footage of Spike Jones playing that song, but the gesture was just as rude)

* "The One in the Middle" by [[Country Music]] singer Sarah Johns:

So I can say it even stronger'' }}

* [[Kid Rock]]'s trope page includes a photo of him doing this.

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* As [[Dilbert]] author Scott Adams has noted, you can [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|get away with a lot of things in comics]] if you do them off-camera, such as [http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-02-11/ Alice's none-too-subtle pun] concerning how many digits she expected her bonus to be as opposed to what she actually got:

'''Alice:''' I used one on each hand. }}

* From ''[[FoxTrot]]'', Peter's pitching in a baseball game and looking at the catcher's signals:

* ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'': Pig tries doing Rat's variation on the peace sign, but Rat doesn't want Pig copying him and limits him to one finger. [http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2006-11-26/ Pig chooses the wrong one.]

* ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'' did it once, though it is not shown:

'''Garfield''': (offscreen) You, in the car, when you drive. }}

** In another strip, when Jon and Garfield go to a vacation on the Guano-Guano island:

'''Garfield:''' No, I think that's pretty universal. }}

{{quote|'''Ennesby:''' I learned [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-07-31 this one] from a documentary about twentieth-century traffic signals.|'''(A CENSORED sign is seen over the hand.)'''}}

** Kevyn responds, thusly...

** And it gets [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-08-02 implied later!]

* [http://www.gocomics.com/basicinstructions/2009/11/26/ This] ''[[Basic Instructions]]'' strip.

** [http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/165187/canadas-strike-song Canadians on strike from Vancouver to St. John's, raise their middle fingers for you all to sit upon!]

* Ignignokt of the Mooninites in ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' likes to flip the bird to anyone he doesn't like. His middle finger even extends for use when he's really displeased with someone.

** Err likes to smoke as he shoots the bird.

* In one of [[Looney Tunes|Tweety's]] first appearances, he is being chased by a pair of [[Abbott and Costello]]-like cats. During the cartoon, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiywOTiRPkE the following exchange occurs]:

'''Catsello''': If da [[Hays Code|Hays Office]] would only let me... I'd give him 'da boid' all right! }}

** Being ''[[Looney Tunes]]''' [[Spiritual Successor]], ''[[Animaniacs]]'' did a similar gag.

'''Yakko:''' We'd love to, really, but the Fox censors won't allow it. }}

* In ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' Hawkgirl [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|gets crap past the radar]] when being held by Icthulhu.

'''Hawkgirl:''' [[Defiant to the End|Nothing to say! I have a gesture for you, but my hands are tied.]] }}

* In ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'', Homer flips off the [[Angry Mob]] with both hands as he escapes down a sinkhole. Then he gets stuck and tries to use the fingers to dig himself out.

* [[Fritz the Cat]] does this in ''[[The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat]]'', to a ''telephone'' after the operator hangs up on him. Much like Homer Simpson, he only has four fingers.

* Done ever so epically by the animated [[Adam Sandler]] to his caretaker as a hidden insult in the movie ''[[Eight Crazy Nights]].''

'''Whitey:''' [''Oblivious''] That's good, but don't forget your hammies. }}

* In the movie-game tie in ''[[Dead Space: Downfall]]'' Alissa gives an interesting salute to the Captain after ordering to not help the colonists.