Accidental Pervert

...lock the door before taking your clothes off?

Scott Pilgrim: Don't you just wish this moment could last forever?
Ramona: This moment with your hand on my boob?

— Scott Pilgrim

He isn't a pervert. No, really! His hands just happened to slip and find themselves on her breasts. He just happened to trip on that rug over there and land (probably head-first) on top of her ample chest. Maybe he needed to use the bathroom and ran into her taking a bath or a shower. And he just happened to be there when the only wind of the day blew up her skirt and his only sin was instinctive goggling. He can't help it if his honest-to-goodness accidental moves make him come off as a lech that can't even muster the... "slickness"... of the Casanova Wannabe.

A characterization trap here is that they sometimes come across as really being lecherous, but are too incompetent and cowardly to be open about it. They really are leering at female body parts; but are terrified of getting hit or yelled at — or more charitably, they're tempted despite realizing that it would be wrong; in either case, the gropings are a type of Freudian slip. Of course, the girls will never believe him, and almost always believe the least charitable interpretation (even at times where it's clearly not his fault), usually launching them straight into Pervert Revenge Mode. Cue Bitch Slap, shrill cries, and desperate attempts at redemption. In comic works, the slap is often replaced with the Hyperspace Mallet or Paper Fan of Doom, and God help you if you have this character trait within striking range of a Tsundere. Of course, Forgiving the Accidental Pervert is also an option.

In some cases, the girl may not mind the attention, or, as a means of payback, throw out a teasing Playful "Perv" Accusation.

For all practical purposes, his life is a Fanservice-laden version of Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere.

Note the possible This Loser Is You implications.

Super-Trope of Jailbait Mistake. See also Naked First Impression, Thanks for the Mammary, Suggestive Collision, and Sorry to Interrupt. Overlaps with Not What It Looks Like, except that Accidental Pervert refers to a character type to which this kind of thing happens all the time, rather than just a few times. He's usually also the Unlucky Everydude to emphasize his sheer bad luck in scoring with girls. This can also happen to the Chaste Hero or Celibate Hero, for the obvious comic value. When played straight, the Accidental Pervert has at least some elements of the Chivalrous Pervert, which he may become outright if he gains enough confidence to come to terms with his libido. They can often be mistaken for The Peeping Tom. They fall into this if they Crash Through the Harem. If the misunderstanding involves the man being assumed to be a creep towards underage individuals, then he's Mistaken for Pedophile.

A lot of the times, this trope occurs in very unlikely circumstances. Sometimes, it isn't so much bad luck as it is characters grabbing the Idiot Ball. The girl may not always be very cautious (like changing clothes in her bedroom without covering the windows or locking the door). This could lead into a Double Standard as the boy is treated as the pervert, even though it's just an accident. Men are not exempt from this however, as they often walk into situations that you just know are going to end up like this (like barging into a girl's bedroom without even knocking). If it looks as though he's being extremely inappropriate, this overlaps with Grossout Fakeout.

May find himself facing Post-Violence Warning.

Compare and contrast Copping a Feel when the perversion isn't accidental, but the end results tend to be the same.

Sharply contrast Unprovoked Pervert Payback for when the guy didn't even get to see anything and the attack just comes out of nowhere.

Sister Trope to Oblivious Pervert, the key difference being that an accidental pervert doesn't do perverted things on purpose and understands how their actions are perverted. By contrast, an oblivious pervert intentionally does perverted things without understanding that what they're doing is perverted.

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Advertising

There's an ad where a woman on a plane attempts to climb over the sleeping man sitting next to her to get to the aisle. Through a series of mishaps, she ends up with her sleeves snagged (pinning her arms behind her back) and her blouse popping open. The man wakes up with the woman's breasts (covered by her bra) in his face.
This ad for Rejoice^note shampoo starts with a romantic atmosphere as the man caresses his girlfriend's hair, but it's so smooth he ends up accidentally putting his hands on her breasts and gets knocked down by an Indignant Slap from her as a result.
Narrator: [to the girlfriend] He didn't mean it! How could he have known that your hair was so smooth?
An Australian ad for copy paper featuring a pre-Chuck Yvonne Strahovski ends with Yvonne climbing on top of the bed tray of an office scanner to retrieve a package of paper from a shelf, and accidentally kicking the "scan" button. She's wearing a miniskirt. Cue hapless office drone who comes by and unwittingly picks up one of the scans just as Yvonne turns around... The ad can be seen here. Which is nearly a 100% ripoff of a Japanese commercial where an office lady climbs on top of a copier to get some pocky(?) or different kind of chocolate snack. Who keeps that in the office supply cupboard is anybody's guess though.
In a 1999 ad for Polo mints, the mints are chased by three muscular men at the beach intending to eat them. To get rid of them, the mints stick themselves onto the side of a beach hut, thus acting as windows. Inside the hut, three women are changing into their swim gear, and they angrily chase the men away, leaving the mints alone.
There's a Speedstick deodorant commercial that's about a man who's been waiting for a dryer to become available for a very long time, so he decides to unload it himself. He drops a piece of clothing and politely picks it up, not realizing that it was a pair of panties until the beautiful girl who they belonged to showed up. He even lampshades it.
And now I look like a total pervert.
Two Walmart ads for How to Train Your Dragon (2010) merch show Hookfang sneaking around a Walmart and into an aisle that a young woman is walking through. As he sneaks behind her, his tongue flicks in and out like a snake and touches her butt. She looks annoyed and turns around, likely expecting a creepy dude, only to find a giant fire-breathing dragon, causing her to (depending on the ad) Faint in shock or run away screaming.

Asian Animation

Happy Friends: In Season 6 episode 21, Big M. seemingly gives a whistle towards a woman walking near him and Little M., and the woman takes it as him flirting with her and slaps him on the face. When told by Little M. that they should be focused on other things at the moment, Big M. has to explain that his whistle was meant to be a signal to the monsters to come out and fight the Supermen.
Lamput: In "Bus Stop", Specs Doc thinks Lamput is on Ms. Lipstick's clothes and searches for him with a magnifying glass. Mr. Moustache, who is Ms. Lipstick's significant other, misinterprets what Specs is doing and beats him up.

Comedy

On one of his Australian tours, Ross Noble (who is a motorcycle fan) told a story about going to Philip Island to see the Superbike World Championship (often abbreviated to 'WSBK'. He texted his friend in the UK "Going to Philip Island for WSBK", only to get back a confusing message. When he reread his original text, he discovered that autocorrect had converted 'WSBK' to 'WANKS', presumably leading his friend to assume he a bizarre sexual interest in penguins.
And to make it worse, it was plural!

Comic Books

In Legends, Blue Beetle becomes one when he stands outside an apartment window and sees a woman wearing only a towel, coming out of a shower and looking out. Comically, though, he does say that she has a nice tush.
Red Robin: When Tim Drake goes to confront "Promise" and learn her motives he discovers that she's taking a shower, then before he's able to back off and come back later, she notices him and starts to try and fight him in the buff.
New Avengers Echo ends up accidentally walking into Hawkeye while he's taking a shower. We only see him from the waist up but it's obvious that Echo saw more, and stared for a bit. The incident is what kicks off their Unresolved Sexual Tension.
X-Factor (2006): In issue #3 as pictured above, Monet is in the privacy of her room, shrugging off her robe and dancing naked to the tune of "I'm Too Sexy" while wearing earbuds. Naturally, she doesn't hear Rictor knocking at her door and he enters the room just in time to get a full-frontal view (the viewer sees her Toplessness from the Back). Cue Naked Freak-Out while she tosses Rictor out of the room with her Super-Strength.

Comic Strips

In Retail, Cooper and Craig stand behind a female customer talking about how 'that' is something every man wants and who wouldn't want to take 'that' home with them. Outraged, she turns around to confront them...only to realize they were talking about the 80' flatscreen tv she was standing in front of.
Cooper: I'd be the envy of every guy I know.
Craig: Sorry, did you say something, ma'am?
Customer: Oh, um...no. Never mind.

Fan Works

Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità: Let's just say Germany and Japan did not know what touching Italy's curl meant. Worse, they tugged and yanked it repeatedly.
Advice and Trust: In chapter 6 Rei tells Asuka how Shinji accidentally saw her when she was walking out of the shower naked, fell on top of her and touched her breast... Asuka was NOT happy about it, but since it was an accident, she let it go.
In Co-op Mode, in the middle of massaging Taylor, James accidentally touches Taylor's bottom, but surprisingly, Pervert Revenge Mode is averted - and without needing even explanation on James' part, as Taylor correctly concludes that it was all just an accident. Whether this is out of the fact that Taylor has low self-esteem or that she just trusts James, or even both, is not totally clear.
Cursed Meets Cursed: This trope might as well be Akane's other curse along with the curse from the Spring of Drowned Boys. Akane has the bad luck of walking into Ranma while the latter is undressed in their female form, made worse as both teens believe the other's cursed form is their birth form.
Erika the Radical: The titular character has on many unfortunate occasions, confessed to the heir of the Nishizumi school on live broadcast, forced to walk around school for an afternoon without her unmentionables, and groped several women involuntarily. By 'Season 2', everyone who has heard of Erika readily assumes any of her actions to be perversions borne from her new "Radical" persona. Combined with having subordinates like Karen and Elena, Erika is understandably miffed about all of this.
Evangelion 303: In chapter 4 Shinji goes in the bathroom and walks on Asuka right when she is leaving the shower. Much screaming, shouting and yelling followed.
HERZ: In chapter 4 Shinji enters the men's locker room, hears someone showering in one of the stalls. He thinks it must be Asuka so that he strips his outfit and walks in the shower stall… and on Kurumi. Subverted because it was a trap.
Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: Asuka saw Shinji half-naked when her X-ray vision activated accidentally while he was changing clothes. Cue her blushing brightly and looking away.
In Shattered Fate, Mineta hooked himself to Momo's shirt during the obstacle course and refused to let go. Ranma rushed to assist Kyoka in pulling him off; however, she became terrified when she saw a hand coming towards them and fell back, bringing Momo with her, causing Ranma to mistakenly grab her breast. Ranma didn't fight back much when Sakura accused him of doing it on purpose, thanks to a mix of Stunned Silence and Conditioned to Accept Horror. Fortunately, Kyoka jumped to his defense before she delivered an Unprovoked Pervert Payback.
- Ranma had done the same thing to Toru previously, moving his arm to block her from running into him. Toru, unlike Sakura, played Unprovoked Pervert Payback straight, but seeing Ranma just No-Sell it allowed her to calm down and reluctantly accept his apologies..
The Tale of Solaron: The titular Snake Person Solaron is this all the time. He continuously spouts innuendo and seductive subtext whenever he tries to come across as charming. And he has no idea he's doing it.
Tamers Forever Series:
- There's Running Gag of Takato accidentally groping Rika on multiple occasions.
- This is later mirrored by D.C and Eclipse.
Ami from Dungeon Keeper Ami terrifies everyone, partially because of her fearsome reputation (up to this point, she's beaten a Horned Reaper, what is possibly the oldest dragon in the world and the Avatar, all in single combat). But the only thing that everyone seems to recall is her reputation for being the biggest, most depraved rapist ever.
In the Yaoi Fangirl's corner of the Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- fandom, it's become something of a running gag to have Syaoran walk in on Kurogane and Fai while they're in the midst of sex. Most of this is pure Rule of Funny, since Syaoran is so straight-laced and noble (at least when it comes to sex and Sakura) most of the time. Another twist the fandom uses sometimes is to have Sakura catch them and either not know what's going on or like it.
Ben has one instance where he accidentally grabs Ren's breast after crashing into her in the Ben 10 Fan Fic Hero High, however due to her not being familiar with earthling sexuality, she doesn't even notice.
Omoito: Marisa rips a drawer out of out of Alice's shelves to protect herself from Hourai, but it turns out to have been her underwear drawer and Alice arrives to find Marisa covered in discarded underwear. Since Alice won't believe that Hourai is alive, Marisa has to say that she just likes Alice's underwear.
In A Pony Out of Place, Twilight gives Flare Blitz a massage, taking instruction from a book that she doesn't realize is intended for couples. Hilarity ensues.
An incident along these lines is detailed in Love Hina: Like It Could Have Been: An elderly gentleman was jostled on the bus. Unfortunately for everyone involved, as he tried to regain his balance, he grasped Naru's shoulder. She nearly broke his jaw.
A very, ah, steamy incident in "the Black Latios." Pikachu gives Ash "The Talk", who, the innocent boy he is, runs out of his room screaming. Unluckily for him and his good friend Latias, she just got out of the shower, is in her human form, and is only in a towel. One thing after another, and both their faces are as red as Latias's feathers and a cherry.
The Stalking Zuko Series, Suki accidentally walks into the bathroom while Zuko is bathing. Katara wishes she was one but it is either obviously deliberate or fail to materialize
Hyrule Warriors: Heroes Through Time: At the end of chapter 3, Wizzro, while going to give Cia his mission report, ends up walking in on her taking a bath. While Wizzro initially flips out and apologizes, Cia calmly brushes it off, deadpanning, "I highly doubt seeing me in a bathtub will scar you for life."
Thousand Shinji: When Shinji and Asuka set to fighting Gaghiel, Asuka unthinkingly sat in Shinji's lap, and Shinji's body reacted accordingly.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide: When Asuka shoves Shinji playfully — while she's wearing nothing but a towel — he stumbles, accidentally grabs part of her towel, and rips it off, exposing her body and getting her a bit angry.
Once More with Feeling: In episode 9, Misato, Kaji, Shinji, Asuka, Touji and Kensuke were all cramped together in a narrow elevator. This led to Kaji and Touji's accidentally putting their hands where they didn't belong.
"I should have anticipated this" Misato growled, closing her eyes for a second, then snapping them wide open again.
"HEY! DON'T TOUCH ME!" Misato shouted as Asuka also let loose a shout of protest and horror.
"I CAN'T HELP IT!" Kaji and Toji protested right back.
When Paul, the main character of the Self-Insert Fic With This Ring and possessor of the Orange Lantern Ring was possessed and looking for the League of Shadows, his eyes being everywhere accidentally caught Beatriz da Costa in the shower. He didn't originally remember, but Ophidian did and "helpfully" reminded him.
Hinata gets this in Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox during her second meeting with Yugito; she shows up at the government agent's hotel suite, goes outside to the terrace in searching for Yugito, and then sees the older woman bathing in an artificial waterfall...and aside from the initial surprise of such a sight, Hinata then spends the next minute or two checking out Yugito's assets and comparing them to her own. Much later, though, it's revealed that Yugito, being a Shameless Fanservice Girl, deliberately set this up to try and shock Hinata's sense of genteelness (helped by the fact that, prior to Hinata coming up to the suite, the front desk had called Yugito to let her know she'd be having a visitor).
Shattered Reflection: This ends up happening to Chrom, much like in the original game, with him walking on Rose naked in the bath. Unlike the original game, Rose takes full advantage of it to get some petty revenge and teases him mercilessly when she catches him Eating the Eye Candy.
Comes a Crossover: Sunset saves Flash from being beheaded by teleporting him away from a Carnage-possed demon, but he lands on top of Octavia and accidentally feels and squeezes her breast. When she pushes him off her he accidentally sees up her skirt, due to her being dressed like Tifa, and gets a bloody nose from the sight.
Caboose's Guide to Making Friends With Monster Girls is one of the biggest examples. In it, he's accidentally spilled water on a shirt which happens to turn see-through, then ripped it off, escorted Miia into a lingerie shop, not actually knowing what it was... His naivety is the running gag.
In the Doctor Who/Teen Titans (2003) crossover "Equilibrium", Rose Tyler starts cuddling Beast Boy when he turns into a kitten and only realises that she's holding a teenage boy against her after the fact, but Beast Boy is genuinely clueless about why Rose is angry at him and the other Titans advise her not to clarify the situation.
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe fic "14,000,606", when Peter gets stabbed on his first patrol after the battle against Thanos (which here cost him his left arm when he triggered the Snap), he initally goes to MJ's house to get medical supplies as he doesn't want to panic Tony and May, but this results in an embarrassing moment when he knocks on her window to wake her up and activates his suit's night vision in time to realise that she Sleeps in the Nude, even if he only sees her from the back.
In The Wolf Lord James accidentally gropes Katie's breasts after a stray hex hits him, then when they both fall to the floor he lands with his head between her legs.
In the crossover between The Science of Discworld and The Big Bang Theory, The Many Worlds Interpretation, by A.A. Pessimal, Leonard Hofstadter makes sure to catch Bernadette when she has to leap a gap between two windows, quite a long way above ground level. Bernadette thanks him for the courtesy, but asks if he could grab her around the waist next time. Penny collapses in helpless laughter at the expression on Leonard's face. Elsewhere in Pessimal's work, witches taking pillion passengers on broomsticks or Pegasi find it necessary, from long experience, to advise passengers that shoulders or waists are acceptable places to hold on. In case of misunderstanding.
In Fox Rain, Ladybug notices that Vorpika's costume has an actual fluffy tail and can't help but stare at it, as she really wanted a pet fox as a child... But Vorpika thinks she was checking her ass.
A Possible Encounter for a Phantom: While trapped in a box by the Guys in White, Danny finds himself stuck with his current crush, Kim. While he takes a breath to calm down, he ends up sniffing her hair. Then, while Kim tries to move, she feels something poking her thigh from Danny, much to their embarrassment.
In Bayonetta 2: Heaven & Hell, a crossover between Bayonetta and Kid Icarus: Uprising, Pit and Bayonetta are both Swallowed Whole by Insidious, landing inside its stomach. When Pit wakes up, he finds himself on top of Bayonetta with his hands on her breasts. Pit being Pit, he's horrified and ashamed. Bayonetta being Bayo netta, she isn't, and actually compliments him for being the first angel to ever touch her breasts. It helps that Pit is a much nicer type of angel than the ones Bayonetta has to deal with on a day-to-day basis.
The Flash Sentry Chronicles:
- While Springer is experiencing a Hedgehog Day Loop where Ponyville is destroyed at the end of each hour he tries investigating everyone in town to see if they did anything to accidentally cause it. While he is spying on Rainbow Dash, he sees her let Soarin into her home and decides to get a closer look at what the two of them are doing. While he is looking inside he suddenly gains a shocked expression at what he sees and declares they are both innocent. It is never explicitly said what he saw, but his dry remarks afterwards, and the reveal that Rainbow and Soarin were in a Secret Relationship, imply that he accidentally saw the two of them having sex together.
- Played for Drama in "Spike's Heartbreak". The chapter begins with Spike hoping to spend some time with Rarity, but when he gets to her boutique, he accidentally walks in on Rarity and Lightning Blitz 'expressing themselves'. Spike at first thinks that Lightning is forcing himself on Rarity, and attacks him, only for Rarity to pull Spike off of Lightning and explains that she and Lightning are in a relationship.
- Happens again with Springer in the first chapter of Jakhowls Rising. While looking for Flash around the castle to remind him he promised to take over patrol, he eventually finds him and Twilight having shower sex together, though the two of them claim they are just showering together to "conserve water". They eventually shoo Springer away so they can finish, but Springer purposely flushes the toilet on his way out and runs out of the castle as the two scream in pain.
Fate/Black Dawn: Shirou walks in on Morgan naked, then immediately blushes and leaves. She finds this exasperating, since (in addition to trying to seduce him) she actually does need to talk to him. She is amused at how quickly he jumps to apologies and trying to appease her, and notes that this sort of thing has probably happened to him before.
Morgan: What are you doing?! Get back in here!
Shirou: BUT MY LADY—
Morgan: COME IN HERE RIGHT NOW!
In Chapter 47 of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, a sleepy Ash heads for the bathroom to take a shower to wake himself up. He ends up not needing it since, upon opening the door, he sees a naked Iris drying herself with a towel, which snaps him awake immediately. Iris of course isn't bothered in the least, and acknowledges it was just a "lucky" accident.
One of the side effects of Izuku's new class as "Harem Protagonist" in Level Up (MHA) is that it raises the potential for pervy accidents by 200%, even warping reality to make these events happen. In one instant, Izuku's Quirk teleports him into Momo's bed where he inadvertently grabs her breast.
In one of the short stories of The AFR Universe, Ryuji Sakamoto accuses Ann of pigging out on pancakes for breakfast the day they were supposed to be running together. He pokes a syrup stain on her shirt to prove his claim, unintentionally poking one of her boobs in doing so. Ann responds by punching him hard enough to knock him into the nearby pond.
Danny Phantom becomes this in Lady Luck's Favor, thanks to Desiree granting his wish to always be lucky with girls. For example, he happens to accidentally see Paulina's and Star's bras when they get hit with a water balloon which makes their shirts see-through, and he also sees Sam's panties when her skirt is blown off during a ghost attack. However, it goes the other way too, as shown when Star accidentally sees him using the bathroom while hiding from a stalker at a party.
Ranma's Sudden Wedding:
- Kasumi lands on top of Ranma after getting her body back from a cursed doll (It Makes Sense in Context) and her yukata falls open enough for him to accidentally touch her breast.
- In Chapter 5, Ranma accidentally sees Akane's breasts when a perverted phoenix (again, It Makes Sense in Context) pulls up her shirt.
Invoked in When Reason Fails. While Izuku is unable to see her due to a Mirrorgeist's illusions, Himiko positions herself so Izuku would accidentally grab her breasts.
SPY×FAMILY: There's a two part fan comic discussing "the Plushy Body Condition," a curse that afflicts the Desmond family, which causes the sufferer to turn into plush doll for a few hours one day a month. In part 1, after Anya finds Damian as a plush doll she takes him home with her, and he manages to escape without her knowing, however she finds out about his secret when she reads his mind the next day. In part 2, they are in the high school level, and when a girl goes over to confess to Damian, he turns into a plush doll. When Anya, who has kept his secret for years without outright telling him she knows, tells the girl she lost her Damian plush doll, which she made because she likes him, and takes him back. After Anya, mentally, states she knows what he's going through because she too is different, Becky yells out to Anya that she's late for swimming class. Anya tosses the Damian plush into her bag, rushes to the locker room, and changes into her swimsuit, while Damian tries to warn her or at least avert his eyes, but can't because he can't move or talk (though he can still hear and see). After school, he apologizes to Anya while avoiding eye contact, and she then turns bright red when she realizes that he saw her undress, and they have a hard time looking at one another after that.
Shadows over Meridian:
- After falling down into the abandoned light crystal mines to escape the Frostbiter, Amelia lands on top of her Vitriolic Best Bud Alan. When she realizes she's sitting on his face, she calls him a pervert and kicks his side.
- While the Shadowkhan are neutralizing escaped prisoners in Chapter 31, a Ninja Khan literally kicks one of them from the behind, causing him to try to regain his balance and touch the behinds of the two women walking in front of him. Failing to notice the ninja that slinks away, the women proceed to slap and groin the man before more ninjas subdue them.
The renegade hero!!!....Invader Zim?: After Zim wakes up in the Pelekai house following a crash-landing and starts attacking everyone in panic, Betty tackles him to try and snap him out of it, only to end up with them on the floor and her crotch in his face. Which is made more embarrassing for her due to having been changed out of her uniform and into just a shirt and panties.
Total Loud Island: Lincoln faces this twice:
- In "The A-Maze-Ing Race", a blindfolded Lincoln gropes Dawn's chest by mistake when they wind up in the same section of the maze, much to his embarrassment. To her credit, Dawn forgives him quickly due to their circumstances (though her secretly liking it probably helped as well).
- When Lincoln saves Bridgette during the disaster movie challenge, she falls on top of him, driving his face between her breasts.
To You of the Future - I give you every song...: When the main character returns home in December 27th, he unknowingly walks into Miku whom is only in underwear since she's about to change clothes.

Films — Animation

Coco: Miguel walks in on a lady skeleton without any clothes on while she posed for an artist. Miguel freezes for a moment as he processes what he just saw before scurrying off with a "Sorry".
Fantasia 2000: During the lead-in to the "Pomp and Circumstance" number, Mickey Mouse is searching for Donald Duck backstage before the music starts. At one point, we hear a door opening and a lady screaming, followed by Mickey saying "Sorry, Daisy!"
A Goofy Movie: When looking for Max at the concert, Goofy accidentally stumbles upon the backup singer's dressing room (when she's in her underwear), at which point she screams and punches him out of the room.
Flushed Away: Roddy accidentally pulls down Rita's pants while they're escaping The Toad.
Roddy: There are things I want to do, sights I want to see! [Rita's belt breaks and her pants slip] That wasn't on the list.
Rita: Ahh! Hey!
Ice Age: The Meltdown: Although mildly intentional, Manny suggests he and Ellie "save their species". Ellie is obviously angered at this notion and storms off, stating "You won't be saving the species tonight or any other night". It's more blatant when she demands Manny and his friends to travel at night, with Eddie looking back at Manny and loudly calling him a "pervert".
The Rescuers Down Under: When Bernard drops the ring in the restaurant, it rolls under a table and becomes wedged on the toe of the large matronly mouse dining there. Bernard crawls under the table and wiggles it off her foot. The matronly mouse gets a shocked look on her face, and then slaps her scrawny, elderly dining companion, assuming he's playing footsie with her.

Films — Live-Action

In the unrated version of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin", Andy, distracted because Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere, accidentally puts his hands on a random woman's breasts.
In The Amazing Spider-Man 1, Peter accidentally rips off a woman's blouse with his newly acquired and not yet understood clinging and Super-Strength.
At Midnight (2023): When Alejandro is doing a final inspection of Sophie's hotel suite, he notices the bathroom has no towels and rushes to get them. But during the time it took for him to pick up the towels and come back, Sophie had already gone inside the room and had stripped down in the bathroom to take a shower, so he ended up accidentally walking on her naked in the bathroom.
In Billy Madison, Billy purposefully initiates such an experience with his teacher Veronica, blaming the accident on a bumpy bus ride. Of course, he's just being a regular pervert.
Danny Noonan ends up as this in Caddyshack after walking in on his younger sister getting out of the shower.
Not really accidental, but in The Cannonball Run, J.J. takes revenge on Blake and Fenderbaum by telling a cop that they are a pair of flashers dressed as a priest because they think it's kinkier dressed as priests. This leads to Blake and Fenderbaum getting arrested.
Happens too many times to count in Carry On series of movies, often occurring multiple times in a single film. A particular elaborate example happens to Dr Kilmore (Jim Dale) in Carry On Doctor, leading to his dismissal from the hospital.
"Now I know why they call you Dirty Harry."
Dr. Jekyll & Ms. Hyde:
- Helen's transformations back into Richard often leave the latter in some rather embarrassing situations — from accidentally flashing Mintz's neighbors in women's lingerie (while trying to climb down the outside of his apartment building), to being stranded at a high society party in drag.
- Later, in an attempt to convince everyone that he and Helen are the same person, Richard handcuffs himself in his office naked, in front of a video camera (assuming that he'll transform). Said transformation fails to occur, leaving him to be discovered in what looks like a very compromising position.
Dr. Strangelove - Col. "Bat" Guano, heading an Army division that fought its way into an Air Force base, takes British military attaché Group Captain Mandrake to be "some kind of deviated prevert" who killed the commanding general for "finding out about his preversion and organizing a mutiny of preverts" - most likely on the evidence of his odd accent and uniform.
In Enchanted, Robert walks into the bathroom just as birds are wrapping Giselle in a Modesty Towel after her shower.
In A Few Best Men, Graham wakes up after the Stag Party completely naked and with his head locked into a gimp mask. Before he can find the key to unlock the mask, Barbara enters the room to see if the boys need extra towels. Graham's attempt to act as if the situation is completely normal, combined with his No Social Skills, just makes everything worse.
A Few Less Men: Luke's corpse develops a Raging Stiffie after death that persists all the way to the funeral. The boys attempts to deal with it just result in them being caught in various embarrassing situations.
In Fierce Creatures Rollo Lee is constantly being caught by Willa in embarrassing and seemingly lurid situations (such as being caught in a shower with half-dressed and nubile young lady zookeepers, a sheep wandering out of his bedroom, etc). They all have perfectly innocent but very convoluted and unlikely explanations.
Zoo Patron: I can see why they keep him in a cage.
In the film version of Get Smart, Max is thrown across a roof during a fight, landing on top of Agent 99 with his hands on her chest.
Agent 99: Max...
Max: [rolling off of her] Yep, still fighting!
Andrew in The Gods Must Be Crazy repeatedly tries to save Kate from animals that attack her, but the animals run off before she notices them and all she sees is Andrew grabbing her while she's undressing.
In Horrible Bosses, Dale is labeled a sex offender because, late one night, drunk, he unwisely chose a playground close to a bar in which to stop and urinate.
In How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), the title character at one point winds up flying face-first into the bosom of his childhood crush. Without removing his head from her chest, he quickly greets her with the words, "Hello, Martha."
In The Italian Job (2003), Charlie Croker walks into Stella Bridger's hotel room after he knocks and she doesn't answer. He ends up seeing her in her bra and taking her by surprise. Stella then tells Charlie to not look as she quickly puts a top on.
Does Jackie Chan do the famed: "Double Hand Accidental Breast Grab" maneuver once per movie, or does it just seem like it?
Implied in the French film "Le Grand Chemin." Martine (who shows her panties frequently in the film as she's wearing a dress) and her pal Louis are crouched down on the ground, when Martine sees Louis looking at her.
Martine: Dirty boy. Why do you keep looking at my pants?
Louis: I'm not. You keep showing them.
In The Little Rascals, Spanky and Alfalfa are looking to hide from Butch and Woim while waiting for Darla outside her dance recital and hilarity ensues as Spanky and Alfalfa both accidentally look in two different rooms and surprise the girls while saying "Whoops" both times. It continues as Butch and Woim then do the exact same thing in pursuit of them
In Lockout, Snow and Emilie fall out of an air vent onto the floor below, her landing on top of him with her head about even with his crotch. She looks up, he looks over at her, and says, "Oh, that isn't necessary, a simple thank you will do."
Mallrats has Silent Bob turning into one of these: each time a Zany Scheme backfires, he ends up in a women's dressing room, where he sees a girl in the process of trying on clothes. And it's always the same girl. The girl in question, Gwen, is later seen changing in semi-public while talking to Brodie and TS, claiming that it saves him the effort.
The Reverend Aimo Niemi in the Finnish romantic comedy Mies joka ei osannut sanoa ei ("The Man Who Couldn't Say No") ends up with a reputation as the biggest womaniser in town through a series of coincidences, even though he's really a virgin. On one occasion, his glasses get so fogged over that he can't see and enters the women's sauna instead of men's. After he cleans his glasses and notices where he is, he hurriedly huffs on the glasses to make sure they fog over again and he can't see, before rushing out.
The Naked Gun:
- In The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, Frank Drebin escapes a burning room through the window, climbing along a row of anatomically-correct male and female statues. Between two statues is an open window, and a woman in her underwear just happens to be standing there. Drebin accidentally... well, guess. He then falls off the building, just saving himself by grabbing a statue's stone penis. In trying to save himself he manages to break the penis off the statue and fall into the woman's room through the window, where he proceeds to walk towards her as he groans in exhaustion while brandishing it at her.
  Mayor: Entering without a search warrant, destroying property, arson, sexual assault with a concrete dildo?
- In the second sequel, Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult, Drebin is at the store squeezing grapefruits to test for ripeness while looking the other way. A woman in a low cut dress walks by, and Drebin mistakes her breast for a grapefruit and squeezes it. He gets slapped. In a clever Call-Back, it's actually the same woman.
In the Disney Channel movie No Dessert Dad Till You Mow The Lawn Tyler unintentionally sees his little sister bathing while confronting about giving him a strawberry milkshake which gives him an allergic reaction.
In On the Buses, Stan accidentally takes a housewife's laundry bag from the laundrette, only for it to be confiscated by Blakey as evidence Stan has been shirking his responsibilities at work. Unfortunately for Blakey, the housewife sees him with the bag, and he is assumed to be a knicker-snatcher.
The Parole Officer has socially-inept Simon Garden accidentally seeing his proto-girlfriend naked after her pet cat shoves the bedroom mirror to the correct position.
The Pink Panther Strikes Again opens with Dreyfuss on the grounds of a mental hospital, cured and anticipating his release - then he's clocked in the head with a croquet ball and propelled into a lake - he staggers out and passes out on the grass. Clouseau (who of course launched the ball) rushes to administer resuscitation. He straddles Dreyfuss and thrusts repeatedly with his hands as he cries "OUT with the bad air, IN with the good! OUT...IN..." A passing patient witnessing this looking thrilled; her appalled guardian swats Clouseau crying "Pervert!"
In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Elizabeth Swann's new corset is laced so tightly that she cannot breathe deeply. As a result, she passes out in a moment of excitement and falls into the sea. Jack dives in to rescue her, and slices the corset open so she can breathe — an action which is misinterpreted by those around him as Jack having perverse intentions toward the unconscious Elizabeth.
Pretty Cool Too: Walter didn't mean to take a photo of Brittany's cleavage. Honest.
Variation occurs in The Proposal. Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock accidentally wind up naked and on top of each other. She was making a nude run for the wardrobe and he was... good at timing (who takes off their clothes, while listening to music, while standing up OUTSIDE?). They're both not looking and walk into each other at a fast pace with the response "Oh my god, why are you naked?" "Why are you wet?!"
Royal Rendezvous: One scene has Cat taking a bath in her room, with Rory knocking on her door because he needs her help. She wraps herself in a Modesty Towel and goes to answer the door saying she is "Coming" but he mishears "Come In" and goes inside, startling her and making her drop the towel.
In Run Fatboy Run, when he first starts working out, Dennis gets a nasty, itchy rash on his crotch that he absolutely has to scratch... as he is at work as a security guard in a lingerie shop. One can guess what this looks like.
In Star Trek (2009) , Kirk gets knocked onto Uhura during a fight, and accidentally puts his hands on her breasts to steady himself. He smirks; she pushes him off.
In Star Trek Into Darkness, Kirk is told by Carol to "Turn around" as she addresses him about the missiles, not indicating that it's to change out of her uniform and into the protective suit. Kirk then looks back at Carol before she tells him to resulting in him seeing her fully exposed as wearing nothing but her bra and underwear.
In Superbad, Evan accidentally punches his crush's breast when someone in the hall bumps into his arm.
There's Something About Mary: While Ted is in the bathroom waiting for Mary to finish dressing up, he stares at a bird through a window. The bird then flies away, which reveals the half naked Mary through a window on the other side...
Thirst (2015): Near the beginning of the movie, after the campers have shown up, Roth ends up entering the tent Courtney is changing in. Not the best first impression he could've made.
"The Thrill of It All": After Gerald gets worried waiting up late for his wife, he goes into the nanny's bedroom and wakes her up to see if she knows his wife's whereabouts. The 60-year-old nanny, who sleeps with a baseball bat in her bed, assumes he's coming after her virtue.
The Korean romantic comedy, Too Beautiful To Life, had a memorable scene that also served to move the entire plot into motion. Yeong-ju, a deceptive fraud who managed to get parole, is sleeping on her train trip back to her sister's wedding. Across from her is Hui-cheol, an innocent village pharmacist preparing to propose to his girlfriend with his deceased mother's ring. A bout of turbulence releases the ring he was holding from his grasp and lands underneath Yeong-ju's feet. Trying to unsuccessfully get the ring under her seat, more turbulence wakes up Yeong-ju in time to notice Hui-cheol rummaging under her skirt. Cue the screaming and angry hitting.
In the first chapter of Undersea Kingdom, about 17:30 in, Crash Corrigan (as Crash Corrigan) rejoins the group and, apparently trying to place his hand on the shoulder of Lois Wilde (as Diana Compton), instead places it squarely on her (clothed) right breast. She reacts with perfect aplomb and removes the hand from her breast with a motion worthy of a Wing Chun master. They all get on with the boring exciting action, and the editor either was asleep or left work that day whistling over a little victory he (likely) thought no one else would ever notice.
Up the Front: While looking for Lurk, Colonel von Gutz accidentally walks in on the Buttercup Girls getting changed.

Literature

A Lullaby Sinister has Yunosuke Kawabata. Subverted sometimes but more often than not, Yunosuke gets into more trouble when he's actually not trying to be perverted and frequently involves Sadako Kojima. One instance takes place at the beach where Kaito Inoue declares a contest to see who could find the coolest object from the ocean floor. Upon surfacing and declaring that his sea cucumber was definitely the winner, Sadako knocks Yunosuke unconscious with a conch shell fearing he was about to flash himself.
In the The Outlaw Chronicles, this happens in King's Man to the narrator and his principal love interest. Cue Bitch Slap. This is just the beginning of the Trauma Conga Line that he goes through during the book.
This has happened to Harry Dresden of The Dresden Files more than once, e.g. Death Masks. However, the girl used this to pickpocket him.
- He has a particularly bad instance in the short story "Day Off." His girlfriend walks in to find smoking pouring out of his apartment, his pets losing their collective minds, two naked werewolves (in human form) getting it on in the corner, and his apprentice passed out topless with Harry giving her mouth to mouth. Harry assures her that its Not What It Looks Like, but she responds that she has no idea what it does look like.
In Nerve by Dick Francis, the jockey protagonist is tied and hung up by the wrists in a barn and left there on a cold night. Later, a doctor tending to his injuries is short-tempered with him, thinking he'd been in 'some sort of disgusting orgy'.
Pan Tadeusz has the title character return home after years of absence, walk straight into his old room, and Meet Cute its current inhabitant, Zosia. In her nightie. To his credit, it's early morning and she's literally the first person he sees. And they do hook up afterwards.
It happens to the main protagonist of Zero Sight a few times, thanks to a love interest who is a Shameless Fanservice Girl. On one occasion he wakes up naked in a warehouse bathroom and looks around to find the girl showering next to him, after having giving him a bath while he fainted.
In the first book of the Xanth series, Bink is riding on a buxom female centaur's back. When she jumps over a crevasse he nearly falls off and accidentally grabs her breasts trying not to. Fortunately for him, she felt him slipping and knew it was just an accident. She makes it clear that if he had done it on purpose, she would've dropped him in.
Cradle Series: When Lindon is stuck undergoing unnecessary medical treatment, he finally realizes that for the first time in his life, he has a high ranking and can just do as he likes. He leaves his tent, goes to find his friend Yerin, and ignores her doctor when she tries to stop him from going into her tent. He walks in on her topless, blushes, leaves, and apologizes to the doctor for ignoring her.
In Shadow of the Conqueror, Cueseg—due to his confusion with Hamahran social cues—ends up saying and doing a lot of things that Hamahrans view as inappropriate at best and sexual harassment at worst. And of course, for his first assignment as an Archknight in Hamahra, his superiors have him work with Lyrah.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- In Rodrick Rules, Greg gets labeled as a "peeping tom" by some elderly women at Leisure Towers when he accidentally goes into the women's restroom.
- In The Getaway, Greg accidentally steps onto a nude beach with a camera. He ends up paying for it.
Full Metal Panic!. Sousuke falls afoul of this trope a few times, at one point causing Kaname to come at him with a baseball bat. In one episode he pulls a Diving Save to get Kaname out of the path of a truck, and ends up with a hand on her breasts. Unusually, she actually seems to enjoy it for a few seconds before returning to normal and smacking him. However in the anime spinoff Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu she's become smart enough to know that when Sousuke says it's Not What It Looks Like, it really isn't.
Haruhi Suzumiya:
- Kyon is constantly walking in on Mikuru changing in the clubroom. Though Mikuru does not think he is a pervert because of it. Fascinatingly, she's not even embarrassed after the incident, happily pouring tea into his cup afterwards.
  Kyon: That sweet, innocent girl... can't seem to figure out how to lock a door.
- At the end of The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya, when Kyon is bouncing around in time, he ends up in Haruhi's room. At night. In her bed. On top of her. Oh, and Haruhi is the one who unconsciously sent him there in the first place. She's actually surprisingly relaxed about the situation, only insisting he cover his face with the blankets while she changes into normal clothes.
Rebuild World: While there's no Running Gag of this, there are a couple moments.
- After Akira gifts Sheryl Lost Technology underwear, a lieutenant in her gang Erio runs in to tell her something and sees her in it, ignoring her prior warnings to knock. Sheryl warns Erio in a normal voice there'll be no mercy next time, which leaves him fearful, but she's forgiven him.
- Due to how the three delegate battle roles while Togami is giving Elena and Sara a ride on Akira's Cool Bike, Togami ends up squeezed between the two, earning him a few glares.
In Shakugan no Shana the protagonist Sakai Yuji invoked this trope in the beginning when he fell out of the closet when Shana was changing. And again in the next morning when he almost grabbed Shana who was sleeping with only her underwear beside him.. However, the other times he received the end of Shana's beating is when he pointed her Clothing Damage out or just being there in that unfortunate moment, in which Shana realized her exposed body and proceeds to beat him up for looking at the wrong direction. Rather than accidental, they just realize it after the battle is over.
Happens to Bell in S1E11 of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? since he's unable to keep himself balanced from his injuries, immediately plunging himself into Aiz's Marshmallow Hell. And in S1E12, Hermes purposely lures him to a spot where they could view the women bathing, then knocks him into said bath. Surprisingly, they're all OK (well, Lefiya wasn't) with this and only blame Hermes.
In The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish, Li Yu manages to accidentally get himself into several embarrassing situations with Mu Tianchi, including seeing him undress, kissing him on the lips, and biting his nipple while trying to get a pearl out of his sleeve. The fact that he's in fish form during these situations means that Mu Tianchi doesn't think he's being a pervert because he thinks at this time that Li Yu is just an ordinary pet fish, but it doesn't make these situations any less humiliating for Li Yu, especially when the accidental nipple-biting is immediately followed up by Wang Xi walking in on them and assuming that Mu Tianchi is trying to have sex with his pet fish.
I Hate That We're Childhood Friends!:
- Kazuma heads down to the Underground Library to have some actual peace and quiet from Rua and her sycophants. When he opens the door, he sees Minato Amane changing.
- Happens again when Kazuma heads to the Student Council's room to discuss with President Kochou about the badge system. When he opens the door, Kazuma sees the beautiful president in the middle of changing.

Live-Action TV

Love and Redemption: Xuan Ji accidentally teleports into Si Feng's bathtub, then implicitly gropes him while looking for her teleportation device. He reacts by literally throwing her out.
Never Have I Ever: Once the principal accuses Ben of wanting to watch his girlfriend's field hockey game just to see boobs bouncing around, Devi runs with it. She later taunts him by accusing him of having a foot fetish, which has no basis in reality.
In the Smallville episode "Escape", Clark ended up with Chloe in his arms and both of them are covered with nothing but a Modesty Towel. Silver Banshee possessed her and she tried to seduce Clark in the shower, only to be transferred away to Lois, resulting in Chloe having no memory of how she got there.
Father Ted: The Trauma Conga Line experienced by Ted and Dougal while on holiday in "Hell" features a series of run-ins with a couple staying at the same camping site, when the couple are in a state of undress or similarly compromising situation. It happens so frequently that the husband eventually loses it with hilarious results.
Fawlty Towers:
- Basil Fawlty became this in "The Psychiatrist", in which his efforts to prove that one of his guests broke the rules by sneaking his girlfriend into a room lead him into one Not What It Looks Like after another.
- Then there's "The Wedding Party", in which Basil is caught once with a female guest and twice with Manuel; Manuel was drunk the first time and had accidentally knocked him over, and Basil mistakes him for a burglar the second time. Meanwhile, Basil accidentally walks in on two of the wedding guests embracing (they're related) and discovers Polly hurrying out of the lovers' room after hearing some weird noises (Polly was trying on one of the girl's dresses; the girl was giving her boyfriend a massage).
In one episode of Las Vegas, Delinda offers to allow a blind man to feel her face so he'll know what she looks like. The blind man in question reaches out at eye level and takes hold of her breast. The man comments "Apparently you're very tall" but makes no effort to remove his hand.
In Degrassi: The Next Generation, JT is caught by surprise by the size of Craig's penis (JT himself being the opposite), and is caught staring at it like it's some sort of monster. It doesn't go unnoticed by Craig.
There's an episode of Stargate Universe where Chloe is using the Ancient equivalent of a shower when the power goes out. She calls out for Eli, he comes running... and just happens to shine his flashlight on her, getting a full frontal before realization hits and he stutters an apology while looking away. Too bad the camera's positioned behind her.
In French sitcom Les Filles d'à côté, during an electricity blackout, Marc, apparently accidentally, grabs Fanny in the dark, making prolonged hand contact with her right breast. As he is groping for a light switch, it could be explained as Accidental Pervert: but his hand remains in contact for a suspiciously long time which implies this may have begun accidentally but spills over onto a case of Copping a Feel.
In Mahou Sentai Magiranger, Kai is helping a Yuka Yamazaki, the girl he has a crush on, carry groceries home. Houka, his meddling big sister, turns into a table fan and blows cold wind at them so Kai can offer his coat to her. Unfortunately, she instead causes him to fall down, and her skirt to billow upwards.
Girl: Did you see?
Kai: (dreamy look on face) Yes! (beat, look of horrified realization) I... I mean no!
Mr. Bean: Mr. Bean is trying to get back to the changing room after losing his swimming trunks and inadvertently flashes a group of female swimmers as a result.
In Silicon Valley, Richard is so weird and awkward on a date that the woman believes he's stalking her. When he learns that she believes he's obsessed with her, he tracks down her social media accounts to prove to his friends that he isn't and then accidentally hooks his computer up to a big screen at a tech expo, making it look like he has a huge picture of her as his wallpaper.
Doctor Who:
- In the episode "The Beast Below" the Doctor is holding Amy out of the TARDIS by her ankle, looks up her nightdress and laughs. Cue Amy giving him a look.
- Also in "A Christmas Carol" the Doctor acts a bit like a pedo with Kid Kazran. Old Kazran is believed to be this by Rory.
- In "Closing Time", the Doctor and Craig are checking fitting rooms for anything to do with Cybermen. One of the rooms the Doctor checks has someone changing. Both are rightfully embarrassed... Then the Doctor tells the woman she should try her dress in red.
The Big Bang Theory:
- In one episode, Penny slips in the shower, dislocating her shoulder, and Sheldon has to help her put some clothes on. She insists he do it without looking, which leads to:
  Penny: You gotta help me get my arm into the sleeve.
  Sheldon: Okay.
  (He feels along her body with his hand, eyes closed, looking for her arm, and suddenly her eyebrows fly upward.)
  Penny: Is that my arm?
  Sheldon: It doesn't feel like an arm....
  Penny: Then maybe you should let it go.
- In another, Leonard attempts to pin a corsage on Amy, despite that he has no idea where to put it.
  Amy: When you're done copping a feel, the corsage goes on my wrist.
In EastEnders Billy Mitchell was hazed on the day before his wedding and found himself wearing nothing but his boxers. He tries to ask a woman for some spare clothes, but then her dog tears off his boxers and she calls the police (even though she could clearly see the dog did it).
How I Met Your Mother:
- In "Say Cheese", a flashback involving a picture with Slash reveals that Marshall had been grabbing Barney's ass instead of Lily's all along.
- In the penultimate episode, Robin meets Tracy, the Mother, when they accidentally crash into each other and fall onto each other. Tracy remarks, "Well, we did just kind of get to second base with each other there—and we'll always have that—but I don't know you..."
In French sitcom Les Filles d'à côté, a power cut means everyone in the apartment block is stumbling around in the semi-dark. It is left ambiguous, when Marc gropes out and grabs the busty Fanny, as to whether this is accidental or if he knew what he was doing and took a chance to grope. Hilarity ensues.
Man Stroke Woman: A man is talking to a woman at a bar and it is going very well. He asks if she would like to go to a party at his house and she says yes. He draws her directions to his home. When he lifts it up it is a picture of a penis, and she leaves disgusted. He looks extremely confused as his friend tells him that he needs to find a better way to his house.
Red Dwarf: "Polymorph". When you're writhing on the floor, begging an android with a large tube attached to its crotch to pull off your underwear, it's kind of easy for people to get the wrong idea. This is directly lifted from a similar sketch in radio precursor Son of Cliché.
In a silent spot on The Red Skelton Show, Red is wooing a tall woman with a large, and pushed up, bust. Her father, a short, bald man objects. At one point her father arrives and the young woman runs away. Red does not see this because he is bashfully looking the other way. He reaches over and his hand comes to rest on the guy's bald head. Red panics and pulls his hand away.
In Supernatural, Sam's surveillance of Meg causes him to appear like The Peeping Tom when she changes in front of the window in "Shadow", which is lampshaded by Dean and a woman passing by on the street.
In an episode of Naturally, Sadie, Rain has dental work that turns his speech into an unintelligible mumble. Every time he tries to talk to a girl, his mumbling gets interpreted as something filthy. He ends up getting sent to the principal's office, where he runs into exactly the same problem.
This trope is used to setup one of The Benny Hill Show's signature closing chase scenes. Hill's character, in a daze, comes upon the door to the Ladies' room and, his vision crossed, misreads the sign as Laddies. He thinks it's the Lads' room, goes in, and hilarity ensues.
The first episode of Peep Show shows Mark accidentally getting his hand trapped under Sophie's bottom on the bus in an excruciatingly awkward scene.
Person of Interest:
- In "Blunt", John Reese is tailing this weeks' Number to a college dormitory when two college girls returning from the showers pointedly eyeball him. The subsequent camera angle hilariously shows how creepy this middle-aged man with a trenchcoat and a camera phone looks slinking around the dorm rooms, voyeuristically peeking around corners.
- In the pilot episode when Harold Finch first tries to recruit Reese to protect the irrelevant number, an attractive female attorney, Reese states flatly that either she's Finch's ex-wife or he's a Stalker with a Crush.
Columbo has to collect a porn tape for evidence, and sure enough is mistaken for a fellow customer by another middle-aged man in a shabby raincoat.
Inversion in Bruiser, in a recurring series of sketches Martin Freeman plays a character terrified of appearing to be a pervert/pedophile/stalker, he always ends up in situations that are slightly suspect and after trying and failing to work out how to look innocent he throws his arms into the air and shouts "I am not a pervert!", usually to the terror of those around him.
Star Trek: Voyager
- The Emergency Medical Hologram has established comm links with various parts of Voyager in order to get information that he should (as senior medical officer) be routinely be informed of. Janeway raises a Fascinating Eyebrow and demands to know just how many conversations the Doctor has been listening in on. The Doctor indignantly replies that he's a doctor, not a voyeur.
- In another episode the EMH calls B'Elanna Torres on the Video Phone while she's still in the sonic shower (this time he's a doctor not a Peeping Tom). Mind you if Starfleet engineers are installing videophones in showers, maybe B'Elanna has reason to think that All Men Are Perverts.
While Law & Order: SVU has its share of intentional perverts, every so often a suspect turns out to be one of these instead. In one episode, they show a Peeping Tom picture of a woman undressing taken by the suspect, which he "claims" was for the architecture. Once he's basically exonerated anyway, they show the whole picture. It's a panoramic shot of a bridge the woman's apartment was next to, and he has dozens more pictures of bridges and no more women. Casey declares "It looks like she just happened to be there." This got him registered as a sex offender.
The Equalizer: Thanks to his vaguely worded We Help the Helpless ad, Robert McCall is shown erasing a series of crank calls on his answering machine, including one woman who seems to be under the impression he'd like to partake in BDSM.
McCall: No thanks, I've been equalized enough already.
Tobias Funke from Arrested Development almost literally can not open his mouth without a double entendre (generally one that implies that he's gay) slipping out. For example, he got a personalized license plate to celebrate his intention to make a new start. However, since there wasn't room to fit it spelled correctly with spaces, he settled for ANUSTART/. Most people seeing it take it exactly the way you (but not the way he) would expect. In a similar mishap, he perceives a niche somewhere in between psycho-analyst and therapist; in itself an excellent idea and one for which he is in fact qualified, but his attempts to ply this new trade fail when he baptises it analrapist/.
The Strange Calls: Toby has a tendency to trip and fall into people. In episode 4 he bursts into a clearing in hot pursuit of a suspect, but trips and falls onto a teenage boy who was sitting there, who calls Toby a pervert.
iCarly: In the episode "iLost My Mind", Spencer runs out into the hall, pantsless, calling after Carly to bring back some more olive oil. There he is met with an old lady, a child, and a nun. The old lady pepper sprays him.
CSI: NY: In "Right Next Door," Stella's young neighbor boy makes a hole thru the adjoining walls to their apartments and, knowing he could see her changing clothes, she mistakenly believes him to be a budding peeping Tom. He's actually a kidnap victim passing notes with pleas for help that fall behind the dresser in her bedroom.
Young Sheldon: In "Ruthless, Toothless, and a Week of Bed Rest", George Sr. is put in charge of the laundromat, but when he asks a customer if she needs help, she immediately assumes he wants her panties.
One of Us is Lying: Vanessa sneaks aboard Nate's yacht to investigate the Murder Club. As she's there, he comes back with Bronwyn, so she has to hide in a closet. Vanessa is mortified to see them make out and prepare for sex while she's hiding inside, trying to not look. However, they soon catch her when her phone vibrates before they've done anything further.
In The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "Time Enough At Last", Henry Beemis has a pathological desire to read. He had been accused of ogling a woman because he can't help reading the campaign button on her lapel.
Intimate: When Emil needs a place to stay, Nyla, a teenage girl, takes pity on him and invites him to stay over. Naturally, her father is alarmed, but Emil and Nyla manage to convince him nothing will happen. Unfortunately, Emil's habit of sleepwalking and urinating against the wall creeps up again. Nyla wakes up and screams in terror, and Emil is thrown out.

Manhua

Ah-Xuan, Liu Li and Wang He from School Shock had a situation where in the former to were lying on top of each other (with her knee in his crotch and her gun on his chest while the other was lying naked on the floor tied to the chair in a school's storage room. Then a large group of people walks in. With photographic cellphones. It becomes a scandal. And it really wasn't what it looked like.

Myths & Religion

According to one version of the story, the Blind Seer Tiresias received his powers this way. While out for a walk one day he saw Athena bathing in a lake, and she reacted by blinding him. When she realized that he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and not trying to peep after all, she gave him the power of foresight as an apology.
Surprisingly, a form of this happens in the biblical Book of Esther. When queen Esther informs the king that Haman is plotting to kill all the Jews in the land (which includes her), the king is so enraged that he steps out into the garden to cool his head. Haman, realizing that he's utterly boned now that the King Xerxes I, ruler of the Persian Empire is angry at him, he stays behind to beg the queen to get the king to spare his life. The king returns just in time to find him falling onto the couch that the queen is reclining on and mistakenly thinks that he's trying to molest the queen while the king is still in the same house. He is...less than pleased with this and has Haman hanged on the gallows that Haman had built to kill his most hated enemy, Esther's uncle, Mordecai. As experts place the authorship of the Book of Esther somewhere in the third or fourth century BCE, it makes this, of all tropes, older than Feudalism.

Video Games

In Adventures with Anxiety, Beebee's worries about Hong doing anything romantic stems from the former believing that the latter even just innocently interacting with their crush such as saying hi to them might make them come off as a creep.
Blue Archive: Happens frequently to Sensei as they're always getting in situations that make them look bad to others.
- Hanako loves to inflict this upon Sensei, such as asking them to get her out of a locked storage room and surprising them by being in her swimsuit, and making it seem like they were up to something to a passing security guard, or offering to gift her used socks to Sensei while shopping.
- The relationship stories for Toki's Bunny Suit variant have this, since Toki sees nothing wrong with wearing a bunny suit like a normal outfit, and of course a student hanging around Sensei wearing such an outfit does spread rumors.
- The second episode of the Gourment Research Society's substory has the gang sharing a cell with Sensei, who is being held on suspicion of skinny-dipping. Hina later comes on by the let them out when they find the actual culprit, unfortunately Sensei used that moment to take up Akari's offer to sniff her spare panties for the scent of truffles they had.
In Leifang's Dead or Alive 4 ending, she is on a train, which suddenly screeches to a halt because a deer ran onto the tracks. An elderly man is sent flying into her and accidentally grabs her boobs to keep balance. Thus, she kicks him off the train and into a river below, and is given a standing ovation by the rest of the passengers. The scene is redone in the next game, only this time Jann Lee is able to stop the man right before he can "get lucky".
Demon Hunter: The Return of the Wings: When Gun and Perna fall into the Cave of Darkness, with Gun still being unconscious, Perna takes an opportunity to take a bath. Shortly Gun discovers her in a Modesty Towel, and she remains bitter for the entire chapter, especially since he notices her hiding her injuries.
A female example from Devil Survivor 2, in which Makoto repeatedly finds herself walking in on the protagonist while he's supposedly naked, or at least mostly undressed, in the morning. You can call her a pervert for that, even when she finally knocks before entering his room. In an inversion, she's the one who gets flustered by it, while he seems to find it rather funny.
Fire Emblem: Awakening has Chrom walking in on a female Avatar naked during their B support, with predictable yet hilarious reactions. This is later gender-inverted when she does the same to him during their A support... and beats *him* up for it (though she does apologize for it). The Avatar finds themself as this in their C support with Gaius, as they walk in on him when he's bathing. (They're more interested in Gaius's prison brand, however.) Similarly, a Female Avatar's C support with Say'ri will have her stepping in her tent when she's getting dressed and catching view of her chest binding.
In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, after Byleth fuses with Sothis, Hanneman asks them to strip... but only because he wants to see if this has caused them any significant physical changes. If Byleth is female, Hanneman will awkwardly add that Manuela should examine her instead.
If you're a boy in Growing Up, Vivica will come out of the girl's bathroom and call you out for being a pervert, even if you were just wandering outside. Turns out you could smell her smoking weed and were just wondering where it came from.
One of the early rooms in Ib has a painting covered by a curtain. Sure enough, if you remove the curtain, the painting is a nude lady, who slaps you. If Garry's in the party, she slaps him instead (Ib's only nine, after all).
Hiro of Lunar: Eternal Blue ends up as this a lot throughout the game... and it's almost always bathing scenes.
Mega Man Legends:
- Mega Man walks in on Roll getting dressed; although Roll doesn't have a different outfit as such. He also walks in on her in the bathroom in the sequel.
- Also in the sequel, when Mega Man destroys the robot Tron is piloting, which also causes her clothes to be destroyed.
- And again in the sequel, when Mega Man releases Sera from her seal on Forbidden Island, and she is completely naked.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel: During an enemy attack that took place when Asuka was taking a shower, she ran towards the balcony without bothering with a towel, and also not realizing that Shinji was home. When she does notice Shinji staring at her, she hastily covers her breasts, but Shinji decides to snark that she's leaving her bottom exposed, leading her to kick him in the face.
Persona:
- Happened twice in Persona 3:
  - During the Full Moon Operation in July in the male route, the Protagonist and Yukari are caught in a Shadow's spell and Yukari is forced to take a shower. When she snaps out of it, she is only wearing a towel and slaps the Protagonist before returning to the bathroom to change her clothes. Afterwards, she makes the Protagonist promise to never tell anyone about the incident.
  - Downplayed during the school trip to Kyoto; while the boys are still in the hot spring after it changes over from men-only to women-only, it's strongly implied that Junpei and Ryoji deliberately went in at the wrong time just to peep on the girls while dragging an unsuspecting Akihiko and the Protagonist along for the ride and make it look like a misunderstanding. If they are caught, Mitsuru will not take any excuses and had them "executed". Otherwise, if they avoid getting detected, Junpei and Ryoji will pass out from the hot springs, as karma for their antics, with Akihiko half sympathetically remarking that they deserved it.
- Persona 4
  - The boys suffer a similar, yet different situation during their own trip to the hot spring at the Amagi inn. This time however, the girls accidentally occupy the hot springs when it was supposed to be the boys' turn due to Yukiko accidentally mixing up the timings and she realizes her mistake only after they kicked the boys out. However, instead of apologizing to the boys for the mistake, the girls decide to keep it to themselves and never talk about it again.
  - Played with during the ski trip hot spring scene in Golden. Yosuke and Teddie purposely peep on the girls and end up getting caught thanks to the fence breaking with Yu and Kanji getting caught in the crossfire.
- Persona 5 Strikers
  - When the Phantom Thieves make a stop in Kyoto to relax in a hot spring, the time automatically switches from men to women, something that the boys realized right after they went it. Despite the boys trying to escape undetected, they are caught by the girls who angrily accuse them of peeping. Just as they try to explain their innocence, the girls refuse to listen, and Makaoto lays them out with her Fists of Justice while she and the rest of the girls coldly walk away. This event is never brought up again afterwards.
Puyo Puyo, Schezo has just about the worst case of poor word choice ever. His utterances more than likely comes off as sexual, making him come off as a pervert. Naturally, Schezo is dismayed by this.
Schezo: I want you to give me all of you!
Arle: You know, it makes you sound like a pervert when you put it that way.
At one point in Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc, Rayman's transport fails on him, causing him to fall into a swamp witch's outhouse... while she's using it. She runs out screaming about perverts while Rayman desperately tries to defend himself. When you see her later she tries to kill you, leading to a mini-boss.
Resident Evil:
- In Resident Evil 4, if you're in any position to see up Ashley's skirt, accidental or not, she calls you a pervert. Numerous times Leon has been knocked flat on his back by an enemy, his head under her skirt, and she feels it's more important that he saw her underwear rather than the fact that something is trying to kill them at that instant.
  - Should Leon's head happen to land face-up beneath her after he's been decapitated, she will *still* try to call him out for it.
- The remake of Resident Evil has several shots where, if Jill is equipped with her civilian outfit from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, the camera points upskirt. Especially the "Jill Sandwich" cutscene.
In Resonance of Fate, Leanne is taking a bath while Zephyr and Vashyron kick back and watch a little TV. When the power goes out unexpectedly, she screams, and Zephyr bursts in thinking she's been attacked. She slaps him, of course (though she apologizes for it afterwards; it was probably a knee-jerk reaction). He swears he didn't see anything, but he later claims to be "good in the dark."
In Skies of Arcadia, Vyse falls victim to this. Really, Aika, while we get you would want to cover up a hole in the wall of your house, what can you expect when you hang a brightly coloured handkerchief on the outside?
In Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), all the cutscenes have wonky animations and models, especially prominent in the eyes and mouths. This could be the reason why Shadow occasionally stares directly at Rouge's breasts while she's talking to him.
A Running Gag in Star Ocean: The Last Hope has Edge accidentally walking in on Reimi when she's in the shower or otherwise "Less than presentable". She, of course, never takes it well, leading to much hilarity. Edge eventually gets tired of this and calls her out on it though. The first possible moment isn't really an accident, and correspondingly gets the most violent retribution. Getting that scene implicitly turns the genuine accidents into a Once Done, Never Forgotten situation.
In Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2, the protagonist accidentally stumbles upon the ninja siblings, Kuuya and Kohina, taking a bath at the Oni Hot Springs:
Aera: I'm not a voyeur! You're exhibitionists!
Kuuya: You idiot! Who bathes in a hot spring with his clothes on!?
Kohina: If you're a Peeping Tom, you should admit it. Be proud of who you are!
Tales of Symphonia:
- During a hot spring cutscene, Zelos attempts to take a peek at the females in the party while they are bathing. Lloyd, being far less of a pervert than Zelos, catches him in the act and loudly tells him to stop. This, of course, causes the girls to march out and "catch" Lloyd in the act, while Zelos escapes.
- Subverted in the OAV when Lloyd trips and falls on top of Collete. Both of them are too innocent to see it as anything other than funny.
- Played straight in an optional scene in the sequel, where Lloyd becomes the accidental pervert again, in an almost identical situation to the first game. It's inverted in a different version of that scene, where Emil decides to go into the hot springs alone, and it's Marta, his main love interest, who peeps in on him and then joins him. He chivalrously tries to resist her advances, but ends up catching the attention of the rest of the party, who naturally dub him a pervert. Both Emil and Marta try to explain, but everyone thinks Marta is just trying to cover for Emil. Of course, only Lloyd truly believes him.
- Carried over to Tales of the World, where the girls overhear Chester telling Lloyd about his secret spot with "the best view." Though Lloyd was never given the chance to show if he had any interest in it, he is automatically labeled as a pervert by the girls. The skit ends with him shouting "I was framed!"
Jin Kazama of Tekken fame became an accidental pervert in one of Tekken 5's many endings. After being rescued by Asuka Kazama from his monstrous great grandfather Jinpachi Mishima and regaining his humanity through some kind of healing touch unintentionally administered by Asuka, he awakens suddenly and thrusts himself forward to get to his feet, but accidentally bumps into Asuka while she was trying to wake him. Naturally she falls on her back and he lands facefirst between her (somewhat ample for a 17 year old...) bosom with an obligatory "boing" sound effect. Much time passes before he stands up, at which point the hot-headed Asuka becomes outraged and punches him into a rock before storming off. Depending on the viewer, this exchange can be made disturbing when you consider the two are actually cousins, though Asuka doesn't learn about it until Tekken 6.
Trails Series
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero: Lloyd, after The Stakeout to catch a burglar, forcibly seizes them when they attempt to escape, and he can't figure out why the burglar won't stop struggling. It turns out it's a Lady Looks Like a Dude situation and he gets chastised by his teammates, while the burglar holds a grudge.
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel: In the first game, Rean happens to get a face full of Alisa's bosom after protecting her from a trap door. She ends up slapping him and doesn't apologize to him for 3 whole weeks. In Cold Steel III, the exact same thing happens between Rean's students Kurt and Juna after the new Class VII also fall from a trap door.
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak, After fighting a cryptid, an exhausted Judith's bathrobe loosens up, revealing her front body to the entire party. However, since Van was holding Judith he was the one who saw it all. Like Rean and Kurt before him, Van also earns a slap for his troubles.

Visual Novels

Ace Attorney:
- Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney:
  - For completely legitimate and case-related reasons Apollo Justice winds up in possession of two sets of panties, one belonging to a fifteen-year-old girl and the other to a mob boss' wife. The judge is rather disturbed by this.
  - The reason the panties became involved in the case in the first place is that Wesley Stickler wanted to steal the "Magic Panties" used in Trucy's magic show to figure out how they worked. However, he didn't know where Trucy lived, so he just went around stealing all the panties he could get his hands on hoping to get lucky and find the right pair.
- In Case 5 of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, poor Edgeworth ends up with Wendy Oldbag's undershirt as evidence. Franziska takes this the wrong way and promptly whips him.
The protagonist of Daughter for Dessert walks into the bathroom once, and sees Amanda coming out of the shower.
Two different times in Double Homework:
- The protagonist walks in on Johanna masturbating to a video clip of him skiing. There are options to either leave, or to stay and watch.
- The protagonist walks into the wrong locker room by mistake, hoping to get some training in. Just his luck, Rachel walks in and gets undressed before realizing that he's there.
The first Galaxy Angel trilogy has two major cases for Tact, both of them involving Ranpha. On the first game, an enemy-inserted drone took on his appearance and freaked her out on the locker room, and when he hears her screaming he sees her covered in only a towel. The second instance happens on her route in Eternal Lovers, when they're swimming together and he gets a cramp. When Ranpha tries to save him from drowning, he grabs the first thing he can reach... which are implied to be Ranpha's breasts.
Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! has Yamato seeing Chris naked enough times for them to reconsider if there's even a point to make peace, as it would just happen again and ruin said peace.
Happens to MC multiple times in Melody (2019):
- Several times, MC sees Melody's naughty bits when she's changing, or when her towel slips.
- Also, MC finds himself up against Becca's rear end (on her romantic path only) after running into her at the library and asking her to get a book for him.
As a minor plot point for Kanna's route in YU-NO Takuya walks in on her just as she finishes showering. While he's embarrassed, the point of the scene is her complete indifference. She simply doesn't care about being seen naked.
In Doki Doki Literature Club!, Natsuki uses a swivel chair to reach a box of manga from a high shelf, and the protagonist helps by trying to keep the chair stable. He realises that he could look up Natsuki's skirt from his position, so he tries to look away. Unfortunately for him, Natsuki notices this and then accuses the protagonist of setting her up.
In Tick! Tack!, Rin manages to walk in on Sage changing once and Ai in the bath not once, not twice, but three times. The first time is laughed off. The second time is narrowly forgiven. The third time is only if you've pursued Ai, at which point fun times ensue for Rin.
In The Eden of Grisaia during the epilogue Yuuji walks in on Yumiko during the bath. While initially irritated, she has to bundle him away before someone else walks in on the two of them naked. A much different type of scene soon unfolds, which sets the general tone for the rest of the afterstory.
In Princess Evangile, this happens to Masaya from the prologue alone. Accidentally mistaking a shady character "harassing" a random schoolgirl for a man, he accidentally gropes "his" chest, which results in a frenzied Pervert Revenge Mode that forces him and the girl he rescued to flee. Unfortunately for him, his situation goes From Bad to Worse when he ends up studying in an exclusive all-girls school as part of an experiment, as the girls there clearly do not like young men by default, and automatically assume that All Men Are Perverts.
In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Kaito desperately tries to give himself an alibi during the second trial by using Miu's alibi and saying that could've been anyone walking around in women's underwear, even himself. Tsumugi nervously replies in reponse to his accidental perverted comment by saying "That'd be a whole different issue."
The main protagonist of Moe! Ninja Girls, frequently ends up accidentally colliding with the girls in his life or witnessing them in scandalous situations, but rarely minds it due to a perverted mind. One of the side-stories, "The Law of Force Majeure", is even dedicated to the main cast trying to analyze why this seems to happen as frequently as it does despite all of them being well-coordinated ninja.
Senren * Banka: Masaomi does his best to avoids this, and when it does happen, it's because it happens on accident or the girls caused it.
- He ends up groping Murasame's chest after being asked by her to try and touch her because she expected him to go right through her, as she's technically a ghost.
- As he defeats a cursed spirit for the first time using Murasamemaru, he also cuts off Yoshino's enchanted miko outfit in the process.
- Becomes a Running Gag between him and Mako. When they first meet, it almost happens when he was doing laundry, and Mako thinks he is an intruder. Once they clear everything up, Masaomi can't help but feel her breasts on his back. However, in her route, Mako walks around her house casually topless until she spots him, thinking she might be hallucinating. She freaks out finding out he was real. And then, after one bath later with him (at that moment, she was transformed into a puppy against her will), she transforms back into human with the both of them having a face-view of each others' privates. It goes as well as you'd expect.

Web Animation

Dayum:
- In "Brother vs. Sister Portrayed by Minecraft", the sister somehow declares there's a pervert in her room when her sibling enters.
- In "Boys vs. Girls Portrayed by Minecraft", Ruth thinks a man at the gym is staring at her butt.
I'm Anton!: Anton accidentally looked at Rolly when she was getting dressed due to a parasite in his brain making him involuntarily look at her.
In My Jungle Book, Your Year Furi knocks into Demonica and accidentally grabs her breasts in episode 2.
In Paranormal High School, the newspaper club's president, Shinji Yuki, has this as his special ability. It turns out to be surprisingly powerful, as it's even able to affect other species and inanimate objects, and nullifies most serious damage as a result. The president himself doesn't really like the ability, however.
In RWBY, during the battle against the Nuckelavee in the Volume 4 finale, Childhood Friends Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie end up pinned to a wall by the creature, with Ren pinned down below Nora. When Ren looks up to see if she's okay, he accidentally looks up her skirt. Not that Nora really minded.
Discussed in How to Survive a Harem Anime. The laws of nature themselves conspire to render the protagonist an Accidental Pervert.

Webcomics

Akumas Comic: TJ first meets Jenny Wily by seeing her bathe while sneaking in the villain base she's in at the time. TJ is embarassed but the two deal with the awkwardness not long after.
In one strip of Awkward Zombie, Tears of the Kingdom-era Link takes his bird photography hobby a little too far.
The Webcomic BAD Endings has an issue where the MC is assumed to be this as he "accidentally" crashes into girls and fondles their breasts, but in reality he's doing it on purpose. This comes back to bite him when he pulls the panties down on the class president "by accident", but instead of becoming angry, she starts crying. To make matters worse for him, she's on her period. Ultimately, the boyfriends of the girl's he's harassed beat him down while other girls escort the class president to the bathroom to help her clean up.
When Li Yun has to pee in Chapter 40 of Bailin And Li Yin, he draws his bathroom's shower curtain so Bailin won't see him. He innocently yanks it back, wondering what's going on, leading to an embarrassed blush from both.
Bronze Skin Inc.: In many Fanservice scenes, Dante fears being identified this way!
Dragon Mango: Dr. Yong-Yi has to undress and change an injured and unconscious Mango to treat her. Later, when she wakes up and realizes this she has a delayed Naked Freak-Out and doesn't accept his insistence that he's a doctor as an excuse to have undressed and goes into Pervert Revenge Mode.
Chapter 19 of Furry Fight Chronicles has Cookie going into Muko's room to cheer her up...only to find her masturbating. After exchanging expressions of mutual embarrassment, Muko kicks Cookie out of her room.
Girl Genius: When Wooster walked in on Agatha while she was executing her Full-Frontal Assault plan to scare away assassins.
Agatha: Tch. What kind of master spy stands around in the hall screaming at the sight of a lady dishabille, anyway? What would your Queen say?
Wooster: She'd say: "thank you Mister Wooster, for not doing anything- that would make Gilgamesh Wulfenbach melt England!"
In Girls Next Door, Sarah faces Male Frontal Nudity not once, not twice, but three times.
El Goonish Shive:
- The NP arc Non-Gratuitous Nudity began with Sarah "caught" by Susan looking for books with illustrations of naked people. She was actually just trying to find art reference.
- In this page, Tedd is using an amped-up version of their Aura Vision to analyze Elliot's Gender Bender spell, when they suddenly avert their eyes from a bright light. Only, they didn't see a bright light, they accidently saw through Elliot's shirt.
In the Sci-fi arc of Dubious Company, Sal becomes an accidental voyeur after she becomes the crew's spaceship which gives her a direct feed of EVERYTHING that happens on the ship. It doesn't stop her from teasing Leeroy though.
Level 1 Housewife: Angrboda is a hulking amazon swordswoman who has married a fruit merchant half her size and retired to domestic life. In one episode, she is settling down for sleep when she realizes he has reached around from behind her and is fondling her breasts. He turns out to be asleep having a dream of selling giant apples.
In unTouchable, Sia runs after her new neighbor Jiho, trips, and ends up with her hand on his crotch.
Dr. Minivan from Unwinder's Tall Comics comes off as one after he picks a body wash product with a really embarrassing caption.

Web Original

Inverted in Tales of MU: when Mackenzie walks in on Amaranth the nymph trying on a bathrobe in the privacy of her own room, it's treated like walking in on someone naked.
Michael Garcia in The Impossible Man can never get a break with his female employees... except for one subversion in the entire story.
This poor guy from Not Always Right, who just keeps digging himself deeper...

Western Animation

Adventure Time:
- An extreme example from the episode "Blood Under the Skin": In a trial for a quest to gain armor, Finn goes through a swamp with curtains that are all full of people taking showers. Finn was mentally scarred by the sight of old people private parts, and a mother bathing her child called Finn a pervert.
- Finn falls victim to this once more in "Marceline's Closet" when he enters Marceline's bathroom just after she removed her clothes to take a bath.
  Finn: (mortified) I'm not going back out there...
- Finn also has one at the start of "Incendium", when he lays his head in Princess Bubblegum's lap and she tells him he's making it weird.
Avatar: The Last Airbender: In Book Two's "The Earth King", as Team Avatar invades the Earth King's palace, Sokka accidentally opens a door with a woman (dressed decently) behind it who then yells "Burglar!" and throws herself to the ground. Sokka responds by immediately closing it and calling back "Sorry! Wrong door!".
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: In "Fake Me to Your Leader", Professor Nimnul uses his Gigantico ray gun to enlarge some pill bugs and an unwitting Zipper as part of his plan to fake an alien attack and extort the city's gold supply for spaceship fuel. The police pursue the enlarged Zipper at a department store, and the last place they check is inside its dressing room. A lady changing her clothes (who isn't seen to the viewers) shrieks in horror upon seeing the police, who apologize to her.
In The Cleveland Show, a major running gag is Cleveland being Mistaken for Gay or Mistaken for Pedophile. Usually it's his lack of social skills or just plain stupidity that causes these unfortunate situations to occur.
ComiColor Cartoons: The short "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" has Aladdin wish that he was the same place where the princess is, which the genie grants by teleporting him to the princess while she's taking a bath. Strangely, the princess doesn't mind and agrees to marry Aladdin shortly afterwards.
In the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode "Remembrance of Courage Past", baby Courage accidentally opens the door to a woman showering. When he closes it and gets ready to keep moving, he stops for a moment and looks inside again.
Happens at least twice in "The Daltons". The first one is in "Joe the Playboy" when Joe, while on a walk with Miss Betty in an attempt to seduce her, tries to grab her hand only to miss his mark and earn a slap for it. The second one is in "The new Warden" when, after protesting against the replacement of Mr. Peabody, Miss Betty falls asleep sitting on the exit of a tunnel. Peabody eventually finds himself going through said tunnel and sees her butt blocking the exit. Not realizing what it is, he gives it a light squeeze, almost receiving a sign in the face from her before they both properly recognize each other.
In one of the final episodes of Nickelodeon's Doug, Doug and his friends go through great lengths to see the principal physically and plan to see him through the window of his office, with Doug on the top. When he finally reaches the window, he realizes it's actually the window of the girls' restroom instead. Since they are graduating soon, Vice Principal Bone lets Doug and his friends off with a warning.
Mickey Mouse, of all people, falls into this trope in the MouseWorks short "Future Mania", which originally aired as part of the House of Mouse episode "House of Genius". When Ludwig Von Drake uses Mickey to test his future viewer, Mickey attempts to call Minnie on a viewing monitor, but ends up seeing her in a towel. When he tries to get Minnie to settle down, he only ends up digging himself deeper. Not helped at all when Ludwig apparently thought that now was a good time to show Mickey the existence of mousedroids.
Flip the Frog: The boss in the short "The Office Boy", who gets the secretary mad at him first from staring at her rear when she has a sign reading "Private" stuck to it and a second time when he accidentally slaps her ass while trying to stop a mouse.
In Justice League, The Flash once accidentally ended up with his hands on Hawkgirl's chest.
King of the Hill:
- The episode "Naked Ambition" centers around this. Bobby accidentally sees his cousin Luanne naked during a camping trip (Luanne was in the shower and Bobby walked in on her, thinking the shower was vacant), and when he tells his friend Joseph, Joseph becomes obsessed with getting a look. His attempt to peep causes Bobby's girlfriend Connie to accidentally think they're peeping on her. At the end of the episode, Connie's father also accidentally sees Luanne and when she screams about it, Joseph (who's passing by on his bike) says "Aw man!"
- Also happens on the episode "Hank's Dirty Laundry." Hank (who has been accused of renting a porno movie at a video store and not returning it) is given a collection of porno movies by an anonymous source and watches them so he can find clues that will clear his name by proving that the porno he allegedly rented doesn't exist. With the way Hank is hunched over as he watches the film makes Peggy think he's masturbating to it, causing her to freak out and tell Bobby to get out of the house (the original scene was supposed to have the masturbation illusion more explicit by having Hank's pen dry up and Hank shaking the pen, but FOX censors wouldn't allow it. It does appear as an alternate scene on the second season DVD set).
Looney Tunes:
- Bugs Bunny is on the run from an angry shiek with Aladdin's lamp. He runs into a room and is greeted with the screaming of women. He comes out and embarrassingly says "A harem...I think." The genie of the lamp comes out and takes a peek himself. "Oh, that was a harem all right. I know a harem when I see one!"
- Bugs pulls this as a gag twice as a woman taking a shower in "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" (with Beaky Buzzard) and "Bill of Hare" (with the Tasmanian Devil).
- In "Hare Trigger," Bugs hides from Yosemite Sam in a train berth and impersonates a partially dressed woman as Sam encroaches.
In the Oh Yeah! Cartoons short "Max and the Pigeon Incident", Max accidentally steps into the girl's bathroom. A woman promptly attacks him and accuses him of being a "sicko".
In the Popeye short "A Dream Walking" a sleepwalking Olive walks into a construction site, prompting Popeye and Bluto to keep her safe until she gets home. Eventually Olive makes her way back to her room, but when she sees Popeye looking at her in the window she thinks he's being a Peeping Tom and starts throwing stuff at him.
Western Animation can do this Fanservice-free: Rocko's Modern Life has a Running Gag of Rocko or another character accidentally violating the gigantic Hippo Lady's personal space. "How DARRRE YOOOU."
Rugrats: Implied in the episode "Let Them Eat Cake"- Stu, looking for Elaine, starts looking into various rooms in the wedding venue. When he opens one of the doors, we hear a woman scream and he apologizes, indicating she was in a state of undress.
It was the plot impetus for The Simpsons episode, "Homer Badman". As Homer is driving a babysitter home (who immediately wanted to be dropped off after Homer asked the babysitter to take the wheel so he can scratch himself in two places at once), Homer finds a rare gummi candy (which he stole earlier in the episode during the candy convention) stuck to the seat of the babysitter's pants and peels it off her. What the babysitter sees is Homer drooling as his hand reaches out and grabs her ass. She freaks out and runs...and the next day, rallies a protest group against him, which leads to a media circus over Homer being a pervert who likes to molest college coeds. And then, the tabloid TV show who interviewed Homer blatantly edited his interview to support these claims.
Steven Universe: In "So Many Birthdays", a magically aged-up Steven asks Sadie and Lars to help him into his birthday suit, unaware of the implications and intending to refer to a cape and crown his dad got for him to wear on his birthday. Cut to the next scene, Sadie chasing Steven out of the doughnut shop with a chair.
In the Stickin' Around episode "Hit the Showers", the boys and girls run out of the showers and freak out when they see each other.
Superfriends: Implied in the Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show episode "Reflections in Crime", where Mirror Master traps Superman in the mirror world and the Man of Steel starts appearing in different people's mirrors. One scene has Superman apologize after a woman screams from off-screen, most likely implying that he accidentally appeared in the mirror of a woman who was in a state of undress.

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