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'''Candace''': *screams* [[Trope Namer|There's squirrels in my pants!]]
▲{{quote|'''Rapper''': Now somebody, anybody, everybody, scream!<br />
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A sequence where a character somehow ends up with one or more small live animals in their clothing. Naturally they're going to go crazy over it, twisting, squirming, and grabbing to get whatever's in their clothes out. This trope often appears as ants in one's pants.
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[[Oop North]], people do this [[wikipedia:Ferret legging|on purpose]].
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== Advertising ==
* "[[Nine Out of Ten Doctors Agree|Four out of five dentists surveyed recommend Trident for their patients who chew gum]]," one commercial says. The voiceover continues, "But what about the fifth dentist?", showing five dentists being asked about the recommendation. Four of them say yes, as a squirrel runs under the table and up the fifth dentist's pants leg. Suddenly, there's an audible <nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Groin Attack|CHOMP]]<nowiki>*</nowiki>, and the fifth dentist lets out a [[Big No]].
* Watanuki from ''[[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[
▲* Watanuki from ''[[Xxx Holic (Manga)|Xxx Holic]]'' has had the pipe fox hide in his shirt on a few occasions.
* In ''[[
▲* ''[[A Little Snow Fairy Sugar (Anime)|A Little Snow Fairy Sugar]]'' has the Season Fairy Elder fall and land inside Greta's shirt after she repeatedly bangs on the object he's standing on. [[Hilarity Ensues|During the middle of a play she's acting in, at that.]]
* In ''[[
▲* In ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga)|Ai Yori Aoshi]]'', Aoi and the neighbors are chasing around a ferret that gets loose in the house, and it eventually falls inside Aoi's kimono and starts to get... a little ticklish.
▲* In ''[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure (Anime)|Heartcatch Pretty Cure]]'', when Tsubomi first meets her two [[Mentor Mascot|Mentor Mascots]], they end up hiding from the villains by diving into her shirt, making it look like she has... [[Gag Boobs|huge tracts of land.]]
== Comic Books ==
* During Adam Warren's run on ''[[Gen 13]]'', a telepathic C-List supervillain induces [[Let's You and Him Fight]] between the team and a similar [[Secret Project Refugee Family]], the "Mongolian Barbecue Horde". After much property damage, Grunge and his counterpart [[Boisterous Bruiser]] decide to settle the matter by "Ferret-legging": sticking live ferrets into their pants and closing the legs and
* Part of how [[Squirrel Girl]] defeated Dr. Doom in her first appearance. Well, that and being [[Crazy Awesome]]...
* [[Kaiju|Fin Fang Foom]] tried to invoke this in ''[[Nextwave]]'' by putting Tabitha Smith in his pants.
* The ''[[Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip)|Calvin and Hobbes]]'' strip quoted below has a subversion in which Calvin simply has a hole in his pocket, causing some of his pennies to drop down his leg.▼
{{quote| '''Calvin:''' You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet might be running loose in your pants.<br />▼
'''Hobbes:''' Another reason [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal|not to wear 'em.]] }}▼
== Fan Works ==
* In ''Remember How to Smile'', one of the stories from the ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130720021547/http://www.aragorn-legolas.5u.com/ Mellon Chronicles]'' series of ''Lord of the Rings'' fanfiction, something like this happens. Legolas's pet ketrals get loose in King Thranduil's throne room and make an unholy mess. Thranduil catches Aragorn and Legolas trying to round them up again, and one of the ketrals, in mortal fear of him, hides in Aragorn's pants. Obviously, uncomfortable squirming and embarrassment ensues.
== Films -- Animation ==
* ''[[
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* The roach does this to robots in ''[[WALL-E]]''. Apparently, it tickles.
* Used early on in ''[[Ratatouille]]'', earning the victim some very funny looks. Though to be fair to the rodent in question, the victim ''did'' put him there on purpose.
* Max from ''[[A Goofy Movie]]'', to his eventual embarrassment, gets a possum in his pants. By the time he gets it out, the dance is already in full [[A Worldwide Punomenon|swing]].
* Happens during the musical number "I'll make a man out of you" from ''[[
* Happens in ''[[The Princess and
* The exterminator from ''[[The Ant Bully]]'' is subjected to this trope when some flying insects slip up his pant leg during their defense of the anthill.
* Happens to Chuckie in ''[[The Rugrats Movie]]'' when a fish swims up his shorts
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* In the ''[[Get Smart (
* Near the beginning of ''[[The Nutty Professor]]'' (the one with [[Eddie Murphy]]), a ''lot'' of hamsters escape their laboratory custody, wreaking havoc on a university campus. For a short scene, perviness ensues when... well, let's just say that [[Biggus Dickus|what it looks like]] is played for laughs.
* All right, the puppets in ''[[
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* No one was dancing, but in the movie of ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (
* Several ''[[
** One of the earliest being "Ants in the Pantry" with a mouse down the back of somebody's shirt, usually leading the Stooges to start doing [[That Russian Squat Dance]] to the rhythm of the victim's hopping.
** One instance was in ''Hoi Polloi'' when a dancer tries to teach the stooges how to dance proper, until a bee flies down the back of her dress, leading to hilarity
** Happens in the 2012 film of the same name, with a lobster
* In the silent film ''[[
* Occured in the movie ''How to Eat Fried Worms'', when Billy and Joe both had to put worms in their pants. Joe for losing a bet against Billy, and Billy for messing up on one worm that Joe did not know about.
* Happens to the Principal in ''Max Keeble's Big Move''.
* Happens in ''Grind'' with a lizard when the group was left alone in the desert
* ''[[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' — the opening sequence showed that young Indy developing [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]] came from, among a rapid set of other unpleasant snake encounters, getting several small ones inside his shirt.
== Literature ==
* ''[[
** It is frequently mentioned that a popular rural entertainment is a man with weasels (or ferrets) down his trousers. In the novel ''[[
** Also happens in ''[[
* Ferret legging is popular in the [[Balkanize Me|People's Republic of West Yorkshire]] in [[Charles Stross]]'s ''Singularity Sky''. Owing to a [[Future Imperfect|certain amount of confusion]] as to which traditions belong to which parts of North Britain, they have to seal up their kilts with duct-tape first.
* In ''[[Dragaera|Taltos]]'', Vlad carries baby Loiosh around everywhere with him, tucked into his shirt where it's warm. Luckily, Loiosh is sentient and has the sense to subvert the "uncomfortable squirming" part of this trope.
* One book in the ''[[Casca the Eternal Mercenary]]'' series showed a practical joke pulled on a particularly nasty sergeant during Casca's [[Legion of Lost Souls|French Foreign Legion]] service in Vietnam: a couple of non-venomous snakes under the blankets at the foot of the sergeant's bed — and then slithering their way up along his body, until one "popped its head out from under the covers and stuck its tongue out at him."
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?
** We give you one of the Greatest Hits from the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuZhOWMsqSg Songs of the Safari]" collection, the Jamaican Rap "Ants, Ants, Ants In My Pants".
{{quote|
Now everytime I want get down and dance,
Because everytime I start moving like this,
What that mean, got ants in me pants.'' }}
** In one game of Crazy Newscasters, Ryan was the weather man who had rats in his pants. At first he howls in pain and fright, but then [[Fetish Fuel|his vocalizations start to change...]]
* One of the times [[
* An episode of ''[[The Red Green Show]]'' had as the entire plot: "Old Man Sedgewick Gets a Badger Caught in His Pants". It's [[Exactly What It Says
* The ant variety (red ants, to be specific) happened to Mike Rowe on ''[[
* In ''[[
* Although he doesn't notice it, Zack from ''[[The Suite Life On Deck]]'' had a snake crawl up his pants and bite him, knocking him unconscious.
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* In one of the early episodes of ''[[
* In ''[[
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* Also occurs in the spin-off ''[[Cory in The House]]'', when Lionel is shipped to the White House and Sophie lets him escape, leading to Lionel climbing up the president's pant leg during an important press conference. [[Hilarity Ensues]]
* Although not an animal, this trope was invoked in ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' when a trophyman was charmed with the Murrieta Animata spell uses this trope to escape from Max
* ''[[El Chavo
* ''[[Dad's
== Music ==
* Music example: The song "Mississippi Squirrel Revival" by [[
{{quote|
''In the First Self-Righteous Church
''In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula ''(Pascagoula!)''
''It was a fight for survival
''That broke out in revival
''They were jumpin' pews and shoutin' Hallelujah!'' }}
* The Chenille Sisters, a contemporary folk band with no actual familial relations, has the "Ants-in-Your-Pants Dance", which is [[Ear Worm|much more annoying]] once you outgrow it.
* On his album "Late Last Night", which is full of songs designed for children to dance along to, Joe Scruggs has a song called "Ants In My Pants" about various dances brought on by difficult or dangerous situations (such as the "I-Can't-Move Boogaloo" and the "Up-To-Your-Chin Save-Yourself-Swim"), including, of course, the "I Got Ants in My Pants Dance".
* [["Weird Al"
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''With a rabid wolverine in my underwear'' }}
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* The ''[[
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▲'''Hobbes:''' Another reason [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal|not to wear 'em.]] }}
== Puppet Shows ==
* In ''[[Muppet Treasure Island]]'', Gonzo observes at one point that his pants are filled with starfish. This later becomes helpful when he whips out the starfish during a fight scene and uses them as ''shuriken'', but at the time of the comment, it only serves to weird out Rizzo.
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== Radio ==
* In the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFldBVWFgWo Last Will and Testament] sketch, the lawyer gets a rabid Tasmanian devil in his trousers instead of a boot to the head.
== Tabletop Games ==
* There exists a [[Game Breaker]] ''[[Dungeons
== Theater ==▼
* Sylvester McCoy got his stage name from a character he played who stuffed ferrets down his trousers; before becoming [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]], his performing this act was his major claim to fame.▼
▲* [[Sylvester McCoy]] got his stage name from a character he played who stuffed ferrets down his trousers; before becoming [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]], his performing this act was his major claim to fame.
== Video Games ==
* When Larry in ''[[
* In ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* This came up during Noel's [http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20060320 speed dating] in ''[[
* Atlantes of ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[Freefall]]'': Sam Starfall hid a lot of crickets inside his containment suit ... and '''then''' he discovered that crickets are omnivorous. And Sam is very aware that most species find his kind '''tasty'''.
== Web Original ==
* In the origin story of Fey in the ''[[
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
** Named from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnhtTXJOJxE scene] in the episode "Comet Kermillain" where Candace gets... [[Trope Namer|What do you]] ''[[Exactly What It Says
** In the episode "Fast and the Phineas" Perry slings a piece of cheese down the back of Doofenshmirtz's pants causing a mouse to run up his pants leg.
* ''[[
** In an early episode, Tommy attempt to bring a lizard to a costumed performer of [[Show Within a Show|Reptar]] at an ice show ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]). When he hides it in his diaper, it doesn't quite make him ''dance,'' but it does make him make weird facial expressions. The same happens to Chuckie later on but the parents think they're "antsy," of course.
** Chuckie also had an experience with some sand, which surely gains half a mark because people ''did'' think he was dancing.
** Angelica suffers a consequence reminiscent of this trope when a flying bucket of ice lands on her head, sending it you know where.
** In the later seasons once Dil is introduced, he hides a duckling in his diaper. But his ''dancing'' is more like fidgeting since the duck is tickling him from inside it.
* ''[[The Simpsons (
* Despite that [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal|he doesn't wear pants]], this happened to [[Donald Duck]] in 1942's ''Donald Gets Drafted'', in which he's standing over an ant hill, and the ants start climbing all over him. Despite his commanding officer, [[Big Bad|Pete]], telling him not to move, he naturally squirms uncontrollably.
* In the short "Baby Puss" from ''[[
* In the episode "Enter the Chipmunk" of ''[[
* Happens to Cruella with a jar of ants in ''[[
* On ''[[Jimmy Two
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[
* In an episode of the original ''[[
* Jake Long from ''[[American Dragon
* In the ''[[
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n'
** Once in Flea Bitten Ed when Rolfs bunny's jump into Ed's jacket
** Lastly in Urban Ed when Ed tells Eddy to hold a worm, then puts it down his shirt
** There is an unofficial example in which after Rolf [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb stomps]] Eddy in a fight {{spoiler|the former after which insulted and disgraced one of Rolf's heritage's celebrations}}, Rolf decides to celebrate with the Eds by dumping Eels in their pants as a form of good will, the eds however don't find this comfortable at all...
* In the ''[[
* In ''[[Kid
* Happens to Carl in ''[[As Told
* Happens sometimes in ''[[
** In "Crush", this was invoked because Ron couldn't find Rufus until Rufus appeared in his clothes.
** In "Mind Games", where it was useful because it unlocked an elevator door hidden behind a furnace.
* [[The Pink Panther]] (in the series where he doesn't remain mute) became a baseball star because of a flea.
== Real Life ==
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''We just got served!'' }}
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