Has there ever been a male “wardrobe malfunction” (genitals-related)? I don’t mean a guy deliberately exposing himself, but something totally accidental.
How about that Sears catalog that supposedly had a male underwear model’s unit showing? http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_186.html
A few months ago at my D&D game I had to pass a note to one of my players reading, “YOUR FLY IS OPEN!”
I could just as easily have said it out loud, so that people could mock him, but it was much more fun watching them try to figure out what secret his character knew…
I can’t think of any involving famous people. I have had a distressing number of “I can see your nuts” moments at the gym involving men who didn’t think it necessary to wear underwear with their exercise shorts.
I’m still waking up screaming from the 1967 Girlfriend’s Father’s Swimming Trunks incident.
I came in specifically to mention John Ritter’s inadvertent exposure on Three’s Company. Now I see I’ve been beaten to the punch by whole bean.
In a reunion show of the Carol Burnett Show, they got to talking about memorable screw-ups. One of the funnymen (Harvey Korman?) told of a skit where he was supposed to suddenly lose his pants. Just as the moment came, he remembered he wasn’t as well-dressed under his pants as he meant to be. I think he meant he was wearing briefs instead of boxers, but I’m not sure.
I was told that the tear-off style of NBA warmup pants were designed after a few players yanked down the original warmups to enter the game, and the uniform shorts came down with them. So, the player would be standing there in his jockstrap.
victory is mine!
There are lots of still photos of footballers with the goods hanging out of their shorts during the rough and tumble of play.
I think it happened to Red Skelton on live TV back in the 50’s. Someone was supposed to grab his pullaway suit but grabbed his longjohns as well and the whole thing came off. :eek: He said is face was as red as his hair.
Ask a man who wears a kilt about high winds and vigorous dancing. 
Not completely safe for work, but it has a picture of our dear old Queen so …
Not televised, but I think someone got in trouble at a concert put on by KIIS-FM in Los Angeles a few years ago.
You’ll find plenty here:
The book I read it in is at home, but several year back NHK (Japan’s public network) was running a samurai-era drama in which one of the characters was running up a long outdoor stairway wearing just a fundoshi (a length of cloth that wraps around the waist and through the legs. A much lighter version of what sumo wrestlers wear). A some point, the actor’s package managed to get free and was bouncing around rather vigorously as he went up the steps.
American singer PJ Proby, who was making a go of it as “Jett Powers” and other pseudonyms in the UK, pretty much helped torpedo his own career with a series of staged “wardrobe malfunctions” in UK performances in the mid-60s. This page makes reference to at least one incident but as I’ve read it in the pages of Ugly Things and other 60s fanzines there were actually a series of incidents following warnings which made it increasingly difficult to get booked for UK dates.
Proby sometimes demoed Elvis songs and the pants-ripping thing seemed to be a bid to be more outrageous then the no-filming-waste-down edict for Presley several years earlier. It backfired (no pun intended). I think this is closest in spirit to the Janet Jackson incident because it was so obviously staged. I’m sure if you search on “Proby” and “pants” you can find out all the detail you want about this weird little sideshow in rock’n’roll history.
Jim Morrison of the Doors was found guilty of exposing himself during a concert that took place 27 years ago yesterday.
Miami Herald has a nice write up of it
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The long-haired and bearded Morrison, then 25, exposed himself, briefly rolling down his beltless leather pants and simulating masturbation before a raucous crowd of fans – or so the authorities alleged.
Morrison followers, along with fans at the infamous Miami concert, say the rock star did nothing illegal.
‘‘Nowadays, we would call it a wardrobe malfunction,’’ said Donald Bierman, 65, one of Morrison’s two Miami attorneys, who assisted the singer’s Beverly Hills lawyer, Max Fink.
Bierman’s theory: ``I think he feigned exposing himself.’’
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Life imitating Art – Sumo wrestler Asanokiri forfeited a live-televised match in 2000 after accidentally flashing the crowd. You’d think the wardrobe would commonly be subject to such malfunctions, but this was reportedly the first such incident in 80-some-odd years.
Professional wrestler Shane Douglas once had a wardrobe malfunction with his tights coming down (showing cheek is rather common - see Monday evening’s WWE RAW-but not the front half). At the ECW arenas, he was always razzed as “Little Dick”.