Heads Up: No Pants Ride Coming Soon!

It's nice and chilly out there, perfect weather to take those pants off! Slip into your best skivvies, Improv Everywhere has posted details for this year's No Pants Subway Ride (their 9th one!), which will take place on Sunday January 10th at 3 p.m. sharp. If you want to participate, you're going to have to be able to shed those pantaloons and keep a straight face about it while on the subway. Check their site for meeting places (which include spots in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan), and get ready to see some skin. They ask that you do not wear thongs (phew) and say that if you are questioned, tell the person that you “forgot to wear pants." Send us your photos if you spot any of these fairweather exhibitionists!

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on January 4, 2010 2:44 PM

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longacre

How come there are never any reports of frodding during the no pants subway rides?

rachelblue

Me, reading Gothamist out loud to my husband: "The No Pants subway ride is this weekend. I think it's supposed to be freezing out."

My husband: "Should we go down there and make fun of them? You know, 'Oooh, my pants are so warm, motherfuckers!'"

HBHB

"new" new york trying to be old new york. NEXT!

JacqueMehoff

they should do it during rush hour on a weekday.

Atomische

The group should change it's name to "Premeditated Everywhere"

youngpro

these people were funny like a year or 2 ago. now just annoying. seriously.

Mordicai

...& this is the reason I stopped doing No Pants.

Also, BAH to the grinches. Improv Everywhere is FUN.

jaycjay

I'm sure there are still some people who don't know about it, but the bigger and more famous it gets the less No Pants is what it was conceived to be.

That point is actually made on the video I just saw, from the 2008 event. There's a huge throng of participants at the beginning getting their instructions, which start out by saying that it's essentially become a parade or celebration.

More and more the reaction from people who see it change from "what's going on?" to "oh yeah, that No Pants thing."

hotstepper

*hits nail on head*

farleft

Is there a difference between Improv Anywhere and Hipsters?

jaycjay

Is there a difference between anything and hipsters? Not if you use Gothamist comments as a gauge. If someone were trying to learn the English language by reading these pages, they'd believe that "hipster" is synonymous with "New Yorker," since doing absolutely anything in this city will result in being branded with that tag.

whitecastlerock

I think that some of the writers on this site are still learning English.

adeez

Goddamn Jayclay - I think I'm in love!

Ya see, when I saw this post, I specifically clicked on the comment section just to see how many comments it'd take to see the word "hipster." I wasn't disappointed.

Are people really this dense that they can't come up with more creative language? I've been challenging people to come up with a good definition of this word, and no one has yet to do so. The fuckin parrots just like to repeat words - "squawk...squawk...hipster hipster...squawk" Something like that.

I think it's just become a general derogatory term with no actual meaning. Don't like someone? Just call him/her a hipster. Kinda like the way people use "faggot" with no reference to sexual orientation.

Fuckit. We can even use it to put down inanimate objects, e.g., "this Senate version of healthcare reform is fuckin hipster." Or, "the journalism on this site is for hipsters yo!"