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{{quote|'''Mannion''': She's sure taking a long time in that shower!
'''Wiley''': Yeah, honey, come on over here by the window!
'''Insignia''': Don't you do it, honey! You take your own sweet time!
'''Stefanowski''': There's another one over by the washbasin--taking a shampoo.
'''Insignia''': Yeah. But why the hell don't she take her bathrobe off! That's a stupid damn way to take a shampoo!|''[[Mister Roberts]]''}}
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A favorite activity of [[The Peeping Tom]]. See also [[Binocular Shot]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[
* ''[[Stripes]]''. A U.S. Army officer uses a telescope to watch female troops in a shower.
* Larry Talbot in ''[[The
* ''[[Rush Hour]] 2'', the hotel scene in Los Angeles.
* In the film ''[[Almost Heroes]]'', there is a scene where Leslie is admiring a woman bathing in a pond through his telescope. When Bartholomew asks him what he is looking at, Leslie lets him look, but the woman had moved and a man had taken her place. Hilarious misunderstanding ensues... but is quickly cut short when Leslie looks through again in response to Bartholomew's shock and moves the telescope to aim in the direction of the woman while chiding the man for taking her place.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''Then Again, Maybe I Won't'', a 1971 young adult novel written by [[Judy Blume]], a boy discovers the girl next door likes to undress in front of the window. So he asks for some binoculars for Christmas for "bird watching" from his parents.
* Subverted in ''[[
* In "The Sandman" by [[
* [[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[Frasier]] and Niles use a telescope to spy into other apartments in Seattle. Their father despairs:
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'''Niles:''' ''(impatient)'' Well, don't be greedy! Your turn was over forty seconds ago!
'''Frasier:''' All right, all right, Niles, all right. [steps away] It's the penthouse unit, fourth from the left.
'''Niles:''' ''(swooning)'' Oh, mama!
'''Martin:''' You two know that what you're doing isn't right, don't you?
'''Frasier:''' We're simply admiring a very rare Brancusi armchair, not a naked woman.
'''Martin:''' ''(sighing)'' That's what I'm talking about. }}
* George Jackson in the ''[[Inspector Morse]]'' episode "The Dead of Jericho".
* A series of sketches on ''Alas Smith And Jones''.
* Odd variation on ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'', where an adulterer uses birdwatching as an excuse to meet up with his lover in the privacy of a hut, but is so determined to ensure his knowledge of ornithology is good enough to withstand inspection that he spends half the time actually birdwatching, much to her disgust.
* Jack O'Neill in ''[[Stargate SG
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'''Jack O'Neill:''' "Actually, it's called the Accretion Disk."
'''Daniel Jackson:''' "Well, I guess it's easy to understand why the local population would be afraid of something like that... ''[[[Beat]]]'' ''what'' did you just say?"
'''Jack O'Neill:''' "It's just an astronomical term."
'''Sam Carter:''' "You didn't think the Colonel had a telescope on his roof just to look at the neighbors, did you?"
'''Jack O'Neill:''' "Not ''initially''." }}
* In early seasons of ''[[Smallville]]'' Clark uses a telescope in his "fortress of solitude" (aka the loft in the barn) to admire his love interest/neighbor Lana Lang from afar.
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== [[Music]] ==
* How the [[Stalker
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* [[Larry the Cable Guy]] uses this in a joke:
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' supplement ''The Asylum and Other Tales'', adventure "The Auction". An astronomer has a telescope in his apartment which he uses for his secret hobby, voyeurism.
== [[Theatre]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[The Sims|The Sims 2]]'' sims using a telescope during the daytime will sometimes spy on a neighbourhood sim, who will get mad and come over and slap them.
* One of the ways to recover health in ''[[Silent Scope]]'' is to use your rifle's scope to spy on sunbathing females.
* ''[[
** In addition, at one time players could use the [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/The_LAAAAME_Observatory observatory] (before it was [[Irony|destroyed by a comet]]) to look into the Sorceress's chamber itself. She would then retaliate with a magical flash of light, causing temporary blindness, and a nearby astronomer would express disapproval of "base voyeurism" [[Hypocritical Humor|while adjusting his polarized sunglasses]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' had fun with it. [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071107 Oggie looked in all the wrong directions] so much that his first "something is wrong" clue was a war''bear'' running away.
* Jason Love cartoons presents a [https://web.archive.org/web/20150501110141/http://www.jasonlove.com/cartoons/00090-daily-cartoons-lifeguard.gif lifeguard with binoculars].
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