I know my rights. I want my phone call. Agent Smith: Tell me, Mr. Anderson, pause what good is a phone call if you're unable to speak? Al: Mean! Mean and Nasty! Ray: YES!!! Wallace: [heckling] Is that girl a boy, too? Crash: Yes. Hertz: That's the last time you'll be doing that. Guard: All right, hands up.
You're under arrest for illegal parking! Rebecca: There is a great, big, humongous honking booger in your left nostril I suggest you use this finger to get it out! Earl: Hey, Melvin, you wanna make a buck? Melvin: Aww, eat it! In the Amtrak Wars series, Steve Brickman demonstrates his Mute disguise by washing the bodypaint off his finger and raising it to be examined by the Shogun's herald, Toshiro Hase-Gawa.
Given the Iron Master's taste for Cold-Blooded Torture , it's fortunate that Toshiro doesn't understand the meaning of the gesture. Mentioned in one Dave Barry column, about the hazards of driving with a small child who expects you to perform children's songs while driving with all the associated gestures: But the worst song, from a driving standpoint, is Where is Thumbkin? This is the one where you sing about, and display one at a time, the various fingers on your hand: Thumbkin, Ring Man, Pointer, etc.
As you can imagine, this can create misunderstandings in traffic when your fellow motorists see you holding up Tall Man. I live in Miami, a heavily armed area, and I'm concerned that one of these days, some stressed-out driver is going to see me displaying Tall Man, and he's going to respond with: Trigger Man.
The Thing in the Circle gave me the paw as I left, and it's hard to turn your leg that way. Live-Action TV. Creators: David Letterman got away with it on his show; a guy wrote him a letter saying that he's hanging upside down, so Dave flipped him the bird upside-down. Which is a Bilingual Bonus for those who are from the Middle East who know that the middle finger pointed down means "impotent"!
Series: 7th Heaven plays this for drama when Simon is caught flashing the gesture among a group of friends, and later Ruthie shows her mother. The actual fingers are obscured, but it's made clear which ones are being held up via slow-motion and a dramatic music sting. Altered Carbon. In "Force of Evil", Takeshi Kovacs is captured and searched by the villains who find a tracking device that Detective Kristin Ortega secretly planted on him in the first episode.
They see this as evidence that he's an undercover police officer and torture him. After escaping Kovacs leaves the bug clenched in the fist of a headless corpse for Ortega to find, middle finger raised. Are You Being Served? They return the favour after Status Quo Is God is maintained from hijinks, apparently intentional. Another episode had the department demoted to working in the bargain basement long story.
When they arrived at work the next day, as they were supposed to arrive early to help move everything down, they instead all gave Mr. Rumbold the "V" salute and closed the lift. Babylon 5 : A promotional we think image has the cast flipping off the camera in costume, with Peter Jurasik Londo giving both barrels.
It can usually be found as an Image Macro with a caption like "Babylon 5 agrees that you're a fucking idiot". According to Patricia Tallman in her book Pleasure Thresholds , it was a spontaneous reaction to being forced to do an unpaid cover shoot for TV Guide at the end of a long week. The Barrier : Emilia lives right across the hall from the neighborhood informer Begontilde, who tends to operate as a professional Nosy Neighbor. At some point, Begontilde helps someone get into Emilia's apartment so they can kidnap her granddaughter , which makes Emilia extremely angry at her.
Later, when another plotline results in a couple of people Begontilde doesn't know being brought into Emilia's apartment by her daughter and son-in-law, Emilia walks to Begontilde's door and raises her middle finger towards it because she knows Begontilde is spying on them via her peephole.
In The Big Bang Theory , Howard has "borrowed" a robotic arm from his lab and is using it to serve dinner, very slowly. When Sheldon makes a snarky comment: Howard : Hey, Sheldon. Howard : No, not peace. Hang on Foggy Nelson: So, you can see.
Foggy Nelson: Yeah, "world on fire," I got it. But you can see! Matt Murdock: Yeah, in a manner of speaking. No manner! Matt Murdock: [with a "Seriously? Grotto: [chuckles] I'll take it.
Earl: Honey, this is for you kisses his two fingers in Joy's direction. Blake, one of these two fingers is for you. Root : You can just call me Root, bitch. Faithful: Hey mate, before ya go Bomb officer: Yeah, it's only got one digit. Nancy: We also voted that the restaurant's official bird should be the toucan.
Roseanne: Would you like to see the bird I voted for? Charlie: Aww Nintendo Power of all publications had a character Gazh doing this in their Clash at Demonhead article.
One wonders how this slipped past editorial review. When he cursed his name, turned and chased the dollar. But it broke his heart so he stuck his middle finger to the world, to the world, to the world. And all of this controversy circles me And it seems like the media immediately points a finger at me So I point one back at them But not the index, or pinkie, or the ring, or the thumb; It's the one you put up When you don't give a fuck and you just won't put up With the bullshit they pull, cause they full of shit too So would the real Shady please stand up and put one of those fingers on each hand up I would've given you the finger on my left-hand The one you use for a wedding band But now I'm giving you the one in the middle The one that's a little bit longer And I've got another one on my other hand So I can say it even stronger I'm not coming undone I've got nothing but love You put the FU in fun , it's all good I'm not trying to fight I'm not wasting my time I'm just saying goodbye One finger shy of the Peace Sign.
You say that you're watching the birds out the window Well, I got a bird you can watch. Music Videos. Ed Robertson gives a blurred one following a thumbs-up to some customers in Barenaked Ladies ' "Pinch Me". She does this twice in the "Bad Reputation" video. One of the teens in Smashing Pumpkins ' "" throws a couple from atop a hill near the beginning. Mentioned in "Piece of Me" by Britney Spears and shown in the video. In the music video of "Calfornia Gurls" a gummy bear of all things gives Katy Perry the finger though censored.
So it's no surprise when she eventually flips off the cameras broadcasting Cobalt's battle with Kent out of annoyance. What is surprising is when Scramble, her Togepi, sees the gesture, looks at the little flippers it has instead of hands, and cheerfully tries to imitate it. Kent remarks that, while he does not condone that act, it was pretty adorable. Pro Wrestling. Taking Madusa by the hair, Sherri Martel flipped off the crowd before delivering a fatal knee shot.
This was late in her AWA reign. Vince McMahon does this a lot. He was idiotic enough to flip off The Undertaker and Kane once. They broke his leg. Vince flipped him off both times to enrage him into coming back.
After being defeated by Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania 22 , Vince was loaded onto a stretcher and wheeled away. Vince defiantly flipped Shawn off right before he disappeared. He did the same thing after losing to Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania America flipped off Vince McMahon in the middle of their arm-wrestling match. During their Iron Man Match, Brock Lesnar tried to call for a time out, only for Kurt Angle to give him the double bird and keep attacking him.
At SummerSlam , a man in the audience flipped off The Undertaker during his entrance. Since mid, Christopher Daniels has adopted the tendency to tape his fingers in black and show the handoff to the crowd, but not his thumb and middle fingers.
When the camera focused on him, he gave the Finger. Randy Orton flipped off Seth Rollins after turning on him in March Jon responded by silently flipping him off. Whenever Paul Robinson enters, the majority of the crowd will do this. Jimmy Havoc did this a lot as well. Being more " family friendly " than most of the other shows running in Dallas that weekend, it was met with gasps and admonitions of "that's not nice". At the Aftershock Kenny King ducked under the ropes to high five all his "fans" after knocking over Will Ferrara, but aside from those he had hired , he pulled away just within arm's reach to give them something else.
Matt Taven: I'm pretty sure he told that kid in the front row he's number one twice. In the John Finnemore's Double Acts episode "The Goliath Window", Mark the sailor, explaining how he always knows what his phantom limb is doing to Luke the parson, tells him that "it is now making a signal most inappropriate for a parson's parlour".
A clearly irritated Luke simply responds "Really? Is it this one, or this one? Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues : Zia gives a salty middle finger to Simon's back as he staunchly keeps to himself and refuses to join her group. Fellow punk Nadine gives one of her proudest middle fingers to Finn after one of his usual bouts of jerkassery.
During the Occupy Wall Street OWS protests in and , many middle fingers were thrown in the general direction of the Wall Street establishment, and more directly at individual police. Two OWS protesters were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for doing the latter on a train car in While middle fingers are sometimes looked down on as vulgar or indecent, vulgarity and indecency are at the heart of why we give the finger. A raised middle finger reflects something detestable, and shows whoever committed the offense just how awful we think it is.
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The obscene hand gesture comes to America Flipping the bird later travelled across the ocean and arrived at a place where it could thrive.
Charles Radbourn giving the finger to cameraman. Howe What? You thought only modern athletes flouted the rules?
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