Pants-Positive Safety: Difference between revisions

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'''Sam:''' Now you're a sharpshooter?|''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]''}}

* ''[[Scary Movie]] 4'' has a character put the gun in his pants, and it fires ("RIGHT TESTICLE!"). It fires again ("LEFT TESTICLE!"), [[Overly Long Gag|and again and again and again]].

* Turkish points this out to Tommy in the movie ''[[Snatch]]'':

* Ditto for ''[[8 Mile]]''. This time, though, it's ''not'' funny.

* ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]'' used this trope in reverse. Charlie's spymaster-handler tells her his hideout gun is always stashed at his crotch in front, because its a place few bad guys search. The ploy doesn't do him any good, because he gets killed right away. However, it works for her because the body is tied up next to her, as she's being tortured, and she's able to retrieve the gun to use on an unsuspecting Mook.

* A variation in ''[[From Dusk till Dawn]]'', where one character reveals a revolver with two...oddly shaped and placed bullet cylinders. If it gives you a clue, he's called Sex Machine.

* ''[[Ronin (film)|Ronin]]''. When doing an exchange for the [[MacGuffin|mysterious suitcase]], the East German mercenary pats down his Russian contact, only to have the latter produce a gun anyway.

* ''City Heat''. In the final shootout [[Clint Eastwood]] and Burt Reynolds keep producing larger pistols in an attempt to both shoot the mooks and one-up each other. [[Dirty Harry|Clint naturally has the biggest gun]], an absurdly long-barreled revolver which he pulls [[Trouser Space|out of his trousers]].

* ''Let's Get Harry'' (1986). A group of construction workers, financed by a gung-ho businessman and advised by a mercenary, go down to Columbia to rescue a colleague. The mercenary, who's given them strict instructions not to try bringing guns into the country, walks into their hotel room, grabs the businessman by the crotch and says, "I want you to give me this." While the others are gaping at this apparent [[Ho Yay]], the businessman gives a shamefaced grin and produces a 9mm pistol from his underpants.

* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' gets yelled at by Mad-Eye Moody for storing his wand in the back pocket of his jeans.

'''Tonks:''' "Who do you know who's lost a buttock?" }}

* [[James Bond (novel)|James Bond]] comments on this in the John Gardner novel ''Icebreaker''. He remembers what his instructor told him: when it is necessary to do this, the barrel should be pointed down your leg and away from your body.

* In the second episode of ''[[Black Mirror (TV series)|Black Mirror]]'' one character hides a large shard of glass down his trousers, secured by the elastic waist-band, you can just see it poking out the rear. What's interesting is that he then does a very vigorous dance-routine and it stays perfectly in place.

* Crab Man of [[My Name Is Earl]] says he doesn't want guns in his house around his kids. One might suspect that he just doesn't want his wife to have them. She experiences an accidental discharge at the end of the episode while shoving a gun into her back pocket.

* In the ''[[Community]]'' episode "[[Community/Recap/S3 E04 Remedial Chaos Theory|Remedial Chaos Theory]]" the 'loose in a bag' variation turns up when it is revealed in one of the [[Alternate Universe|alternate timelines]] that Annie, who lives in a really bad neighbourhood, has taken to carrying a loaded concealed firearm in her purse for protection. It then goes unnoticed in several of the following timelines until one where Annie accidentally trips and drops her bag -- and the gun goes off, accidentally shooting Pierce in the leg. {{spoiler|Unusually, the expected comedy in this example is later completely subverted; the tag reveals that in this timeline Pierce died of his injury and Annie consequently went insane with guilt as a result.}}

* [[Myth Busters|Jamie Hyneman]] knows how to handle firearms, but during the [[Pinball Projectile]] test he's clearly seen on-camera with the test handgun shoved in the back of his waistband. Hopefully we can [[Executive Meddling|blame the director]] for that one.