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A graphic symbol inhales besides much helium or another gas, and their whole torso inflates like a airship. Usually their clothes stretch with them. This is often inflicted on the grapheme equally an Amusing Injury, just some characters volition exercise it to themselves deliberately. Because All Balloons Have Helium, inflated characters are liable to float in the air or blow abroad in the current of air, even if they were inflated with normal air. It often ends with the character deflating just like an untied party balloon, flying through the air and sputtering every bit the gas rushes out of them. The inflating body gag can happen if a graphic symbol blows his thumb.

May likewise be washed with water or other liquids, in which case you can expect a lot less floating and a lot more wobbling.

Naturally, a trope Played for Laughs because of its sheer impossibility in Real Life (unless you happen to be a pufferfish).

Compare Balloon Belly (when a character gets an extreme potbelly), Breast Expansion (considering Buxom Is Ameliorate) and Temporary Bulk Change (when a character gets fat and then inexplicably slims dorsum downwards between scenes) or Set on of the 50-Foot Whatever (grow in size but not inflate). Its logical determination is usually "Popular!" Goes the Man. Related to Be the Ball, and so overlap occurs. Contrast with Squashed Apartment. As a class of Toon Physics, this trope tends to run on Dominion of Funny and Willing Suspension of Disbelief.

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    Advert

• One commercial for Gas-X involves 2 people swelling upwardly similar balloons after a meal. With ane able to quickly disengage everything from Gas-10. The other remains bloated for the balance of the commercial.
• One hhgregg advert has hh blowing up some balloons for a blowout sale via a helium tank. hh ends up sucking in the helium for one balloon, causing him to inflate and float around in the air.
• One FXX Ident for The Simpsons has the citizens of Springfield ballooning, and eventually popping.

    Anime and Manga

• Used bizarrely in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, involving a behemothic toilet. Whoever falls in, they swell upward. At one point, Jelly Jiggler (who fell into the toilet with Gasser) blows up into pieces. He got better.
• Princess Buburina from Catnapped! has an enchantment on her, causing anyone she touches to blow up into a balloon.
• Doraemon
  • Doraemon had a gadget called the Inflating Gum, and true to its name chewing a single stick tin can make a person inflate and bladder like a airship. One of the movies Doraemon: Nobita's the Legend of the Sunday King have Doraemon throwing a whole pack of these into the maw of a behemothic crocodile trying to chomp him downwards, leading to the entire croc bloating comically and floating to the stratosphere.
  • Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express take Nobita and Doraemon visiting the Planet of Cowboys, where they get to play Sheriff with inflating guns - information technology deactivates robot outlaws when scoring a hit, but if humans are shot by these guns they instead inflate into a bubble and float away. This toy weapon shows up one movie afterward in Doraemon: Nobita and the Spiral City every bit a Telephone call-Back, where Nobita gets to use the inflating gun to harmlessly take down Onigoro and his clones (and afterwards tie them upwardly like balloons).
• In episode eleven of Moeyo Ken, it happens to everybody in Kyoto (spare at least five people) who is striking with a nikuman filled with cursed medicine that blows people upward if straight contacted. Not even a bite, just whatever contact with the torso.
• I Piece: Luffy uses this as one of his attacks through Gum Gum airship, sucking in and then much air that he turns, quite literally, into a balloon. Worth mentioning is his second fight with Crocodile where he ingests an unabridged barrel of h2o and turns into "Water Luffy". He later developed a much more potent version by distributing the air in his Balloon Belly to his Haki-infused muscles, bulking him up considerably and condign very bouncy. Sounds ridiculous, but this is bona fide Person of Mass Destruction course.

    Art

    Asian Blitheness

• In Flavour 8 episode 26 of Happy Heroes, Big M.'southward torso inflates similar a balloon after he'southward striking by a needle that a guard shoots at him.
• Motu Patlu: In "Scooter Race", Dr. Jhatka accidentally inserts the pump for his scooter tires into Motu's mouth, causing Motu's torso to inflate to the point that he floats in the air.
• In Pororo the Fiddling Penguin, "Flying Poby" (season 3, episode 20), Tong-Tong uses magic to brand Poby the polar comport fly. So Tong-Tong forgets the spell to bring Poby back downwards and accidentally inflates him instead. Twice.

    Comic Books

• From the Legion of Super-Heroes: expanding into a human superball was Bouncing Male child's bodily superpower.
• Asterix: In "Asterix and the Great Divide", the Romans get their hands on some of the magic potion, but make the mistake of drinking it in combination with some other potion from Getafix (i that can instantly heal injuries). The mixture of dissimilar potions in their bodies has the side issue that they swell up like balloons earlier shrinking in size.
• Top 10 has Andy "Airbag" Soames, an insurance salesman who tin inflate himself to several times his normal size. It can happen involuntarily when he's upset, and he mentions needles can brand him "burst and fly around the room" when the police ask him to take a claret examination.

    Eastern European Blitheness

• In Sheep & Wolves, Gray briefly inflates similar a balloon subsequently downing several magic potions in agony to turn back to normal. About immediately after, though, he deflates and is sent flying upwards before falling back to the ground.
• Played for Drama in Tri Drovoseka, where a graphic symbol called Bubble inhales air in club to lift his drowning fellows out of the water. Watch information technology here.

    Fan Works

• In Changeling Space Plan, the changelings' standard procedure for pony prisoners is to keep them comatose and give them dreams about their strongest desires, and then the changelings can feed off the resulting positive emotions. When Crimson Berry wakes up from her imprisonment and sees the changeling who had been guarding (and feeding from) her:

  Cherry Drupe decided she could have lived a long, happy life without seeing a nigh spherical changeling. Information technology looked at her, gave a trivial wave with a hoof, and burped.

• In Earth and Heaven, a battalion of Majestic Guards get dosed with Poisonous substance Joke pollen, which induces transformations with a humorous bent. Their leader, Sir Concord, turns majestic and inflates until he resembles a giant grape.

    Films — Animation

• Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein: Alvin undergoes this as the "Drawing Monster Maker Frappe" starts to take its full outcome on him.
• In the opening scene of Ice Age: The Meltdown, Scrat is climbing an ice wall that all of a sudden springs leaks. He tries to plug one leak with his muzzle but winds upwards drinking the h2o and inflating. When he can't take anymore, goes flying through the sky every bit he spews the water back out.
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Crash and Eddie shoot exploding berries at a bunch of flying pterodactyls that are chasing them. Ane during the chase gets inflated like a balloon later on a berry is fired in its mouth as it tried to eat the possums, leaving information technology billowing fume and floating away complete with balloon deflating sounds.
• In Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Take chances, random parts of King Koo Koo'southward body inflate when he laughs; when he inflicts the Tickle Torture on the good guys, the "last express joy", this gets from him causes him to expand to monstrous proportions. When Raggedy Andy realizes that the Male monarch is simply "full of hot air", he tells the Pirate Parrot to pop him. The resultant explosion sends Marcella's toys, plus the Camel, back to her backyard.
• The Iii Caballeros: After Donald is shrunken down by Joe Carioca, Joe shows him how to inflate back to normal past blowing on his alphabetize finger. Donald blows on his thumb instead, causing him to inflate in all sorts of crazy shapes.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit:
  • The first scene, taking place in the Show Within a Evidence "Somethin'southward Cookin'", has Roger accidentally getting inflated by an ACME vacuum.
  • A downplayed example near the finish: after Judge Doom gets Squashed Apartment, he uses an air tank to inflate himself back to normal size.
• Eliot in Open Season, subsequently accidentally inhaling a helium balloon during the convenience store scene.
• Bloat in Finding Nemo oftentimes has this happen when his emotions go too high. Sometimes, he can be seen being used as a ball past other characters, much to his chagrin.
• The Aroused Birds Pic 2: When trying to rescue some unhatched eggs which ended up stuck on a cloud, the hatchlings inflate one of their ain, Zoe, and rides her upwardly to the cloud as she floats. It works too well, equally they pass the eggs entirely and, unable to deflate Zoe in time, terminate up floating to outer space, only landing back when the string tied to Zoe's neb gets caught in a satellite and she deflates.

    Films — Live-Action

• Large Trouble in Petty Red china: Out of anger, Thunder inflates himself past massively inhaling. He eventually goes too far and explodes.
• In Live and Let Die, Kanaga gets inflated by the gas in James Bond'southward shark pellets until he explodes. Serious Narm.
• A literal case was shown in The Master of Disguise. One of Pistachio'due south disguises while being trained by his grandfather was an inflating "fat man of affairs" suit. Unfortunately, Pistachio tugged on the string too hard and, well, estimate what happens adjacent.
• In The Naked Gun 2½: The Olfactory property of Fright Frank ends the fight against the hitman Hector Fell past shoving a fire hose into his mouth and turning it on at full force, causing his cheeks to puff upward and his body to go filled with h2o with cartoonish leaks. Frank tries to turn the h2o off, but the valve breaks. He can but run across Jane'due south flat before Savage pops.
• In The Pink Panther Strikes Over again, Clouseau tries on a Hunchback costume that includes an inflatable hunch with a helium tank included. Clouseau doesn't turn the tank completely off and is distracted by a phone call, causing the hunch to go excessively inflated and making him bladder out of his flat.
• In Space Jam, after Stan gets flattened by the Monstars, nurses Spike and Chester help him by inflating him like a balloon using an air pump, then he deflates and turns back to normal.
  • In Space Jam: A New Legacy, LeBron James squashes his legs flat upon landing in Tune Globe and having turned into a toon. He then reinflates them back to normal.
• Strange Brew: The villain sticks Bob McKenzie in a vat, slowly filling with beer, and leaves him to drown. Bob just drinks all the beer. Later bloating up as large as the vat, Bob shrinks back to normal size by peeing it out—and extinguishing a firm burn in the process.

  Bob: Jeez, I gotta accept a leak so bad I tin gustatory modality it!

• Both Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Chocolate Mill prominently feature the scene from the novel where Violet Beauregarde swells up and turns into a behemothic blueberry after impulsively trying Mr. Wonka's experimental iii-class gum.
  • The scene from the former arguably existence the Trope Codifier. It certainly didn't invent the trope, and the book came out earlier the movie did, but you'd exist hard-pressed to find an Inflating Trunk Gag more well-known or ingrained in popular culture as this 1.

    Literature

• In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Violet Beauregarde ignores Willy Wonka'due south warnings and chews on some image mucilage that's supposed to sense of taste like a three-course meal. The glue tastes fine, but the dessert—blueberry pie—transforms Violet into a giant blueberry: she turns bluish all over, then fills up with juice until she'south almost spherical.
• Near the first of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry's accidental magic makes Aunt Marge inflate and, in the movie adaptation, fly into the sky.
• In Robert Arthur's "The Wonderful Day" Danny, afterward overhearing an idiom-laden conversation between his parents, wishes on a unicorn horn that all the expressions adults apply would exist literally true for just ane day. When Mrs. Edward Norton thinks prideful thoughts the day after, she puffs up like a balloon and only grabbing the branches of a nearby crimson tree saves her from floating away.
• In John White's "The Atomic number 26 Sceptre", protagonist Mary begins to "groovy similar a balloon" after eating from a giant pile of enchanted icecream. She has to vomit a magic mirror to deflate.

    Live-Action Television set

• In Go Smart, Amanuensis 86 uses an inflatable bodysuit on a few missions.
• Dwelling Improvement: 1 of the inventions shown on Tool Time combined a shop-vac and work coveralls. Equally always, information technology's funny because it'southward impractical.
• Star Trek: Enterprise. In "Habitation", Phlox defuses a Bar Brawl by inflating his confront like a pufferfish to the warning of the xenophobic humans attacking them.

    Tabletop Games

• In the "Dungeons & Dragons" 5E book Mordenkein's Tomb of Foes there are several customization options for demons. One of these is the ability "Blimp Torso" which grants the user the levitate ability equally long every bit they take at least 50% health. This customization option can be added to Whatever demon, meaning you could fight a Balor that looks like a airship. Strangely, this customization option has no effect on physical or combat-related abilities (past that of the levitate spell) which ways a swollen demon is as deadly as its kin.
• In Paranoia XP's Mutant Experience, one of the "Useless Mutations" listed is aggrandizement. This involves the graphic symbol inflating like a parade balloon or puffer-fish (without the spikes). Non just is damage taken in this form more than mortiferous, given your character's fragile balloon nature, but they also cannot move their limbs due to the excess swelling, causing them to get a bigger target. It's upwardly to the GM whether the graphic symbol floats up, as if filled with Helium, or if their clothes survive the expansion.

    Video Games

• Breakers Revenge has Maherl's hilarious BALLOON-O! set on, in which he inflates and attempts to slam his opponent into the basis.
• In the Christmas Episode of The Darkside Detective, the monster of the week is defeated by inciting an allergic reaction that causes it to swell upwards and float away like a balloon.
• In Deep Duck Trouble, Scrooge McDuck takes a pendant from an ancient temple that curses him to inflate like a balloon and float in disgrace. The simply manner the expletive can exist removed is if Donald Duck returns the pendant to its rightful place. At the finish of the game, after Donald returns the pendant, a mysterious crown appears. He takes information technology, and since every treasure in the temple is cursed, he ends up going through the same curse Scrooge went through.
• Dig Dug: You defeat enemies by jamming a pump into them and inflating until they pop.
• Donkey Kong 64: One time Lanky Kong learns the Birdie Airship ability, he can inflate his torso to each high places, and as he does so a comical fanfare plays. He tin can only do this power if he stands onto a round pad showing his face, all the same.
• Cheng Sinzan from Fatal Fury already has a nearly spherical torso, and he can inflate himself with air during at least 1 of his attacks.
• Horace: At certain points in Chapter 7, Horace can eat a cake that volition inflate him like a balloon, allowing him to cantankerous over obstacles for a fourth dimension.
• Kirby: By inhaling enough air, Kirby puffs upward and becomes a balloon, which enables him to fly. King Dedede can also do the same thing as well.
• In The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks you get the boss Fraaz, whose attack involves inflating himself with fire or icy air, and he shows off his power within seconds of you coming together him for the first time.
• Mortal Kombat:
  • In Mortal Kombat II, Kitana's "Kiss of death" causes its victims to painfully inflate and explode.
  • A similar fatality in Mortal Kombat 9 has Rain conjure a large ball of water over his victim's head and force information technology down their throats, causing their body to bloat up until they burst. (Oddly, there is very picayune gore in the bodily explosion.)
• In Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends, both the actor characters and enemies swell up like balloons and popular when they are hit plenty times.
• Shiftlings makes a game mechanic out of this: yous play as a pair of bumbling space custodians, one of whom has swollen to enormous size subsequently drinking a bottle of "the galaxy'southward fizziest soda". The pair must traverse various stages while connected to a hose, through which the player can transfer gas to change which one of them is swollen up and which is normal-sized.
• Various Super Mario Bros. games feature inflating and floating as a game mechanic.
  • Super Mario Earth has the Power Balloon (or just P-balloon), which enables Mario to swell up and bladder.
  • In Super Mario 64 DS, the Power Flower turns Mario into Balloon Mario so he tin can float.
  • In Super Mario Galaxy 2, eating the blimp fruit turns Yoshi into Blimp Yoshi, with the ability to swell up and float.
  • In New Super Mario Bros. U, there is a purple Infant Yoshi, whose ability is to not bad up and float.
  • In Wario Land II and Wario Land 3, getting stung by stinging enemies (such as jellyfish or bees) causes Wario to peachy up, which gives him the ability to float similar a airship until he's popped.
• Lola Popular from Artillery can inflate her unabridged trunk like a balloon as a shield.
• The boulder worms in Heart of Darkness instantly bloat upward upon getting shot past Andy's Life Energy-attacks, leaving them momentarily stuck in the wall. Waiting a few seconds or shooting them again causes them to fly around like deflated balloons.
• In Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, when Crash touches a pufferfish, he would inflate near 3 times his size, floating helplessly. Happens in the North. Sane Trilogy remake too.
• The pig man, Ki Hong of Unruly Heroes specializes this trope to assistance his team by floating them through alpine passageways as well as pummel and roll down their enemies.
• The Super Smash Bros. series has multiple instances:
  • In Ball, during the E3 trailer, Wario starts to become loaded up for his signature move past the terminate of the trailer before unloading a fart nuke on the Smash combatants.
  • He besides becomes visibly bloated in Brawl and Ultimate during gameplay whenever you await some fourth dimension before using his mighty Wario Waft Down+B special for a satisfying release on the almost unfortunate victims near him.
  • Rex Dedede, Kirby and Jigglypuff all puff themselves with air to gain elevation.
  • Jigglypuff also inflates massively during its final Smash.
  • King One thousand. Rool's Down+B repels and counters harm past inflating his belly. His mid-air neutral as well causes him to briefly balloon with a silly noise. Wario's neutral air is quite similar to his.
  • K. Rool'south abdomen slap taunt too makes him bloat briefly.
• The pufferfish pirate enemies in Tribal Hunter inflate when fed a ability egg, so start floating similar balloons till defeated.

    Web Animation

• Happy Tree Friends:
  • In "Remains To Exist Seen" zombie Fliqpy gets a leaf blower shoved into his heart socket, causing his brain to inflate until zombie Toothy bites into it, causing a huge explosion.
  • In "Ski Patrol" Lumpy accidentally balloons a sickly Toothy up with an oxygen tank, sending him to drift away. Towards the terminate of the short, Toothy gets popped past a pointy flag pole.
  • In "From Hero to Eternity" Fantabulous performs a CPR on Cuddles, only due to his Subversive Savior recklessness, accidentally inflates and pops Cuddles like a balloon.
  • In "Gems the Breaks" Splendid is exposed to dusted Kryptonut, causing him to deteriorate and vomit uncontrollably his bloody innards out. When he tries to shut his mouth, his cheeks puff up from the erupting vomit until he bursts to death.
  • In "Double Whammy (Part one)" Fliqpy overfills Nutty with a h2o pistol until he bursts.
  • In "Political party Brute" Flaky'south body becomes grossly inflated due to her peanut allergy. The 2d time it happens, she pops to death afterward Mole accidentally pokes her with a donkey tale.
  • In "Sea What I Found (Role ii)" Lumpy causes Russell's diving accommodate to become overinflated due to him continuing on the air pump hose and forming a huge bulge of air that inflates Russell'due south accommodate. Then when the hose detaches, Russell painfully expands to death due to the Explosive Decompression.
• Homestar Runner:
  • In "helium", The Cheat tries to inhale helium to see if it makes his vocalisation audio funny. He accidentally sucks up the entire balloon and drifts away helplessly.

    Homestar: Woah, Marzipan, check out that ugly bird.
    Marzipan: Homestar, I think that bird is the Cheat.
    Homestar: No way! The Cheat is one fine-looking immature human being. That is an ugly bird.

  • In "licensed", Potent Bad buys some ferret ointment from Bubs that makes The Cheat "swell up similar a balloon" and, equally seen in an Easter egg, over again float abroad.

    Western Animation

• 101 Dalmatians: The Series:
  • Happens to Rolly in "Food For Thought" subsequently he is fed ice foam with a helium-based additive by PH De Ville. Rolly eventually inflates and is able to bladder around in the air.
  • Happens to Spot in "Oozy Does It" and "Snowfall Bounders". In the former information technology happens when Spot tries to deflate car tires with her beak, causing her to fill with air. In the latter, it happens when she tries to inflate an inflatable tent only too much air is released the other way.
• Aaahh!!! Real Monsters:
  • Ickis' special scaring ability (referred to as looming) has him inflate his trunk and grow gigantic, but he tin can't agree the form for very long.
  • Happens to Krumm in "Krumm Rises to the Top" when he swallows a helium tank. Ickis does the same in an attempt to chase Krumm, and he is afterward used as a parade float.
• Perchance the weirdest version of this trope was done in the Bonkers episode "Bobcat Fever." Bonkers is infected with an actress germ named Cheryl which is making her way to various organs and giving him various wacky symptoms. In the center of the episode, Cheryl reaches his middle, which is represented by a pair of bagpipes continued to air compressors. Cheryl does a dance and accidentally lodges her pikestaff in Bonkers's middle, causing his heart to swell. This gives Bonkers the hiccups, and every time he hiccups, another part of his trunk inflates until he floats into the air.
• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • In "Pseudo Sonic", Sonic and Lawrence both autumn into Poison Flower Valley. The toxicant flowers make Sonic and Lawrence get extremely itchy, and then bloat up like balloons. They stay that mode for the rest of the episode (excluding, of course, the "Sonic Sez" segment).
  • Happens to Tails in the episode, "Musta Been A Beautiful Babe", when he eats dehydrated food at a manufactory, so drinks a drinking glass of water. He swells upwardly to the size of a parade bladder, and every bit a result, gets stuck in the doorway when Sonic tries to become them abroad from Scratch and Grounder.
• In the The Amazing Spiez! episode "Operation The l Ft. Hacker", Davey Hacker steals a gadget that makes its target grow. When the kids are fighting the giant Davey, Megan uses it on herself, making herself as tall as Davey. After successfully defeating him, however, the gadget winds upwardly malfunctioning, causing her to inflate like a giant balloon. Marc manages to revert her back to normal size soon after.
• The Angry Beavers:
  • In "Tree'southward Company", Daggett has been hosting a party up a tree. Norbert inflates himself with helium to endeavor and get his attention.
  • In "Tree of Hearts", Daggett tries to stop Truckee from leaving by biting into 1 of the tires. Daggett gets inflated and rolls with the tire when Truckee starts driving.
• Animaniacs
  • An episode begins with Wakko drinking a huge root beer float, expanding, and floating back onto his seat afterwards... then he got hiccups.
  • In another episode, Wakko'south being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Scratchnsniff, who follows upward one of his statements with, "Would you lot intendance to expand on that?" Then Wakko literally expands himself.
• The Big Hero six: The Serial brusque "Gumball Problem" has GoGo mistaking one of Honey Lemon's miniature chemballs for a gumball. After eating it, she blows up similar a balloon.
• Celebrity Deathmatch:
  • In the episode with Beavis And Butthead, the two manage to plough their bodies into the "third dimension" (becoming claymation like the residual of the characters) past inflating themselves with a burn extinguisher.
  • In the last fight of the serial, Keri Russell is inflated until she explodes destroying the stadium. Information technology was lampshaded that she shouldn't have undergone a flaming detonation since she was filled with inert helium gas.
• Archetype Disney Shorts:
  • In the 1934 Giddy Symphonies curt "Peculiar Penguins", the male person protagonist penguin catches a fish every bit a gift for his dearest interest — which turns out to be a pufferfish. When she swallows the fish whole, information technology puffs upwards inside her tummy, causing her to inflate equally well.
  • In the 1936 Mickey Mouse cartoon Moving Day, Donald gets thrown beak first into an open gas line, filling his body with gas until he deflates and flies around the room.
  • In the 1947 Donald Duck brusque Wide Open Spaces, Donald inhales a huge amount of air ballooning his own torso to blow up an air mattress.
  • In the 1948 Goofy short "The Big Launder", he is turned into a giant living h2o airship due to a tap hose stuck in his pants, which swells his whole outfit with h2o until it bursts.
  • Pluto the Pup has been subjected to these a few times (by biting into an inflatable toy's valve in "Donald and Pluto" which deflates sending all the air into him, and later by biting into a leaking air tank hose in "Pluto'southward Quin-puplets") before he subjects a Corking Bulldog that was trying to steal his os to information technology in "T-Bone For Two" by using a wheel horn to inflate the bulldog like a balloon and send him flying.
• Ed, Edd due north Eddy:
  • In the episode where the Eds are pretending to be one another, Ed (pretending to be Eddy) makes Boil (pretending to exist Edd) drink enough juice to fill up a pond pool causing him to become massively bloated.

    Ed: [as Eddy] Kids will pay big money to ride a stuffed! You're a genius, Double-D!

  • Besides, in an episode in which Ed and Edd are trying to make Eddy taller (due to the latter'south hatred of beingness curt), Ed convinces Eddy to swallow an inflatable raft. As Edd points out: "Well, he's certainly... um... wider..."
• Herman and Katnip:
  • In "Rail Rodents", Katnip gets his head stuck in a water tower'southward output pipe and inflates similar a balloon.
  • In "Mouse Trapeze", Herman tricks Katnip into drinking from a hose connected to a fire hydrant, which makes Katnip swell several times larger earlier he pops off and flies across the room.
• Loona from HOOD has the power to inflate her torso like a balloon.
• One of Inspector Gadget'south less complicated technologies inflates his coat like a behemothic balloon, allowing him to float over obstacles.
• The Itchy & Scratchy Show applies their over-the-top approach to this trope in "Spherical on 34th Street". Itchy inflates Scratchy with hydrogen gas, and so shoots him with a flaming arrow to make him explode in a huge fireball.
• The guardian shark in Lego Atlantis: The Movie is defeated by existence tricked into consuming a disguised-torpedo, bloating information technology to the shape of a football & giving it some digestive issues.
• In the Lilo & Stitch: The Serial episode "Mr. Stenchy", Sew together inflates himself like a balloon when he sucks air from one of the X-Buggy's tires, causing him to float until he belches.
• Looney Tunes:
  • In the early brusk "Hold Anything", a goat bites into a radiator, causing the hot air to inflate it and send information technology flying similar a balloon. Bosko and then uses it as an improvised ready of bagpipes.
  • In "Fastest with the Mostest", Wile E. Coyote tries to accident into a balloon for his latest plan, but for the air to shoot back and inflate him. He badly grabs the nearest object — a bomb — to stop himself from globe-trotting away but just winds up carrying the flop as he floats upwards. Then he deflates and finds himself loftier in the air, even so holding a bomb. Whoops.
  • In "The Daffy Dr.", Daffy Duck gets his head stuck in an iron lung. When he takes information technology out, his caput starts inflating and deflating repeatedly. His attempts to stop it only move the inflation to another part of his body. The drawing ends with both him and Porky Sus scrofa getting defenseless in the iron lung, causing their bodies to inflate all over.
• Played to comedic effect with Lulu's father in the Little Lulu episode "A Scout with the Gout". Lulu's begetter ends upward drinking the entire contents of a cave filled with water. The drawing takes water sloshing to a ridiculous degree equally poor Papa'south body behaves like an bounding main wave, consummate with breaking. Scout here.
• During the opening sequence of Mike, Lu & Og, Lu tries to blow up an Action Guy balloon, but the air shoots back into her, causing her to inflate.
  • In the episode "Giant Steps" the Blackness Shark is taken care of when Lancelot accidentally overinflates it with a diving suit pump.
• In the opening of Season six of Minnie's Bow Toons, Cuckoo Loca gets airship blowback from a balloon she was inflating.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic uses this ane a few times:
  • In "Feeling Little finger Nifty", Little finger Pie's "Pinkie sense" makes her twitch all over — in anticipation of a "doozy" happening soon — and this includes her spontaneously inflating very briefly.
  • Takes a more grotesque turn in "Too Many Pinkie Pies": Twilight casts a spell to send the clones dorsum to the Mirror Pool, and this makes the clones inflate and pop first.
  • In "Fasten at Your Service", while desperately looking for some way to help, Spike offers to assist Applejack with breathing. He shoves a fireplace bellows in her oral cavity and pumps difficult enough to inflate AJ.
  • In "Simple Ways", Pinkie gasps so hard that her head inflates, and she but floats off-screen.
  • In "Discordant Harmony", Discord calms himself down past breathing into a paper bag. The handbag stays still, while Discord inflates and deflates as he breathes.
• The Penguins of Republic of madagascar: In the episode "Action Reaction" Skipper accidentally gets doused with a mysterious chemical chosen Inflatium. The substance takes its cost on him past making him inflate like a balloon when stressed.
• Phineas and Ferb: In "Cheers But No Thanks", Dr. Doofenshmirt's latest invention is the Inflate-inator; when some stray shots hitting him and Perry the Platypus, their bodies inflate similar balloons.
• Hog Goat Banana Cricket has the episode "Happy Chalawunga!" climax with the graphic symbol Goat attempt to sneak into a parade to sing her vacation song for the crowd. Chased by a security guard, she gets the nozzle of a helium tank stuck up her nose and inflates to a parade bladder size. In a comical inversion of Helium Speech her vox is deeper from taking in so much helium.
• Ren & Stimpy
  • One of the That's All, Folks! segments from season one had Ren tell Stimpy "You can blow yourself upward, like a balloon!" to pass the time until the next episode. Ren and then kills Stimpy by poking them with a pin, causing them to pop and leaving bits of Stimpy all over the place.
  • "Nurse Stimpy" has a faulty claret force per unit area gage inflate Ren's head.
  • A downplayed version also happens in "Son of Stimpy" when Stimpy tries to bear witness Stiny is real by trying to fart a second time. With each attempt, Stimpy'southward barrel gets just a little scrap bigger and rounder. By the tertiary attempt information technology has swelled up to its limit then of a sudden deflates like a airship.
  • In "Blazing Entrails", Dr. Brainchild subverts the "Fantastic Voyage" Plot by not shrinking Ren in order to get into Stimpy's body and help him, but by enlarging Stimpy through bike pump inflation.
• In The Scooby-Doo Show episode "The Beast is Awake in Abysmal Lake", Shaggy and Scooby inflate themselves with an air hose to scare the Monster of the Week. This also enables them to float until they open their mouths and let the air out.
• In the Shimmer and Shine episode "Potion Control," Zeta the Sorceress accidentally inflates her body into a balloon shape subsequently mixing some potions together. She then floats up into the air, much to her dismay.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • In "Naughty Nautical Neighbors" Patrick saves Squidward afterwards he accidentally got a fork stuck in his pharynx by performing a cartoonish CPR which consists in blowing Squidward up and having him deflate to spit the fork out.
  • In "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost", Patrick mistakenly blows into Squidward's wax statue in an endeavour at CPR, thinking that it's a dying Squidward. Then he blows likewise hard, causing himself to puff upwardly so zips effectually the room like a deflated balloon.
  • In "Chimera Troubles", Sandy gets puffed upward by Pearl when she desperately needs more than air, as Pearl's olfactory organ is full of it.
  • "Pizza Delivery" has SpongeBob check the tire pressure by putting his mouth upward to the tire and letting the air fill up him upwardly. He deflates by bravado the air right into Squidward's face.
  • "MuscleBob BuffPants" has SpongeBob wear inflatable "Anchor Arms" to look muscular, but when he tries to elevator an anchor with them on, the air keeps shifting to one of his body parts. He tries to push it back, only for the air to shift back to another trunk part, and and then on until the Ballast Arms only explode.
  • In "Suds", Patrick tries to cure SpongeBob by plugging his pores and then that bubbles don't come up out when he sneezes, Instead, the bubbles build up, making SpongeBob bigger with each sneeze, until he looks like a embankment ball the size of the Krusty Krab.
  • In "Squirrel Jokes", Sandy makes SpongeBob cease making offensive jokes about squirrels in the difficult style, past inviting him over to her house where she behaves stupidly like the squirrels described in his jokes, taking out SpongeBob's h2o helmet as a vase for the flowers he brought to purposefully dehydrate him, at which point she shoves a gardening hose into his mouth inflating him, then assumes that he wants more than and attaches the tube to a bigger water outlet. Past the end of it, SpongeBob is overinflated to the indicate of filling every inch of the treedome, and appears in the next scene covered in bandages.
  • In "Banned in Bikini Lesser", SpongeBob begins the episode singing an ode to Krabby Patties. He then takes in a big corporeality of air, comically inflating his torso and busting his belt. Afterwards fully inflating, he uses the air inside him to yell out the next verse to his song, which causes Squidward and a stack of cups he bundled to autumn to the ground.
  • There'southward a Running Gag involving Mrs. Puff (who, as the proper noun implies, is a pufferfish) rapidly ballooning like an airbag whenever she'southward startled, usually by SpongeBob crashing during his driving lessons. In "Pranks a Lot", she gets and so scared by SpongeBob and Patrick pretending to be ghosts that she not only inflates, but too deflates and flies all over the room.
• Star Expedition: Lower Decks: In "The Spy Humongous", an alien frog skull causes Ensign Rutherford to expand. Unlike most examples of this trope, it's treated equally a horrific upshot — Rutherford is visibly disoriented and distressed, and Ensign Tendi has to apace use an antitoxin on him. In one case back to normal, he vomits profusely.
• Star Wars: Rebels has the puffer pig from the season one episode, Idiot'south Array. In the episode, Lando Calrissian smuggles the pig onto the Ghost and out of curiosity, Zeb and Ezra await into its crate and accidentally release it. One thing leads to some other and Zeb ends up scaring it, causing it to rapidly inflate, blocking the main hallway on the ship.

  Lando: Run into? You scared her!

• Steven Universe: In "Steven the Sword Fighter", Amethyst eats a magic cloud and immediately puffs up like a airship and starts floating away — Garnet has to hold her on a string until she deflates.
• An episode of Superfriends has an conflicting family come to Globe as refugees from their homeworld, Balloonia. Their spacecraft is about the size of a child's toy, and at outset, the friendly aliens sally the size of toy soldiers. Still, they have a valve on their thorax that lets them inflate to human size. They tin as well deflate to save on volume and resource consumption.
• The Super Mario Bros. Super Prove!: In "Little Ruddy Riding Princess", King Koopa wearing a scuba conform attempts to kidnap Princess Toadstool. Nevertheless, she escapes easily by releasing the air in his tank, causing him to expand rapidly and float upwards.
• In the Super Mario Globe cartoon:
  • In "Gopher Bash", Mario touches a P-Balloon and inflates.
  • In the terminal (and well-nigh memetic) episode "Mama Luigi", Luigi grabs a P-Balloon.
• Tom and Jerry:
  • In the curt "Jerry'due south Cousin", said cousin, Muscles Mouse, inflates his fist to punch Tom beyond the room.
  • The 1952 brusk "Merely Ducky" has Tom hunt Jerry into a pond. Jerry attempts a reed snorkel to sneak away, but the movement'south a dead giveaway. Tom blows into the top of the reed and inflates Jerry into a ball. Jerry somehow inhales air while underwater and blows back into Tom's head, inflating information technology significantly larger than Jerry's body had been. The scene ends when Quacker runs in with a condom pin and pokes a pigsty in Tom'southward head, the deflation leaving it extremely shrunken.
  • In "Muscle Beach Tom" Tom puffs Jerry up with a beachball, sending him to nada away deflating in mid-air like a balloon. Towards the terminate of the curt Jerry retaliates by overinflating Tom's swimsuit with a helium tank, at which point he punctures information technology sending Tom to deflate away in the same mode he did.
  • "Mouse into Space" has Jerry getting his blood pressure level taken, and he inflates instead of the cuff.
  • In "The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off", Tom gets Squashed Apartment. Jerry offers to utilise fireplace bellows to restore him back to normal and over-inflates him instead.
  • Similarly, in "Tom-ic Energy", Tom gets his foot smashed, and Jerry tries to utilise a bike pump to assistance him "regain his shape", then inflates him into a balloon.
  • "The Year of the Mouse" has Tom grabbing himself a tourniquet, which he uses to tighten his neck. When he does, he ends upwardly inflating himself like a balloon and floats upwardly onto the ceiling. As he does, he floats out of the bathroom and back in the living room where he notices the bottle of ketchup on the table. And so he tastes the ketchup on his chest and realizes information technology's a flim-flam and starts laughing, but as he does, the tourniquet loosens and he starts to debunk, flying around the room until he lands on his pillow.
• A particularly odd version of the trope shows up in the Totally Spies! episode "The Hating Network." Lewis had invented a device chosen a CHIP which when attached to a user'south tooth causes their head to inflate. Apparently it's buoyant enough that when Sam and Clover use information technology together they send non only themselves merely a cart and passenger airborne.
• The Wally Gator brusk "Medicine Avenue" also features the "blood pressure gage inflates the patient" gag.
• On the Willie Whopper cartoon "Stratos Fear", Willie gets too much gas at the dentist, and he inflates like a balloon and floats upwardly into outer infinite.
• In the Goof Troop episode "Calling all Goofs," after eating overwhelmingly spicy food, Pete freaks out, complete with a burn down truck siren blaring, finds the nearest water source outside which happened to be a h2o hose and proceeds to fill upwards until he's a living silly water balloon every bit he waddles, sloshes and squeezes dorsum through his front end door where he's met with a pushy Sargent blazon Goofy relative who believes that Pete put on a lot of weight, (bringing a literal pregnant to h2o weight) and forced Pete back to his naturally husky and overweight self with harsh pushups with himself and a stereo speaker on his back.
  • In the episode "Slightly Dinghy", Waffles the cat accidentally inflates himself with a spray can of cheez whiz, and afterward Max inflates a small-scale fish (which will grow sick of the constant mistreatments and seek revenge on the protagonists) with an air hose to trick Pete into thinking that he may grab a large fish, in guild to have him non move his boat because it's right above a sunken treasure Max wants to recollect.
• Legend of the Three Caballeros: In the episode "Mt. Fuji Whiz", Cornelius Coot teaches the Caballeros that, as ghosts, they tin inflate any torso office they desire, giving them a gainsay advantage. Sheldgoose and his ancestors also weaponize this, each inflating a different trunk part and merging into a Body of Bodies. The scene is a Mythology Gag referencing a similar scene from The Three Caballeros.

    Existent Life

• First reported in 2013, a hedgehog can suffer balloon syndrome, which causes them to inflate, thanks to trapped gas inside their bodies. Information technology is believed to be normally acquired by their lungs getting damaged and leaking air into their trunk, which collects in the areas of loose skin on their body that let them curl up. At present those Sonic the Hedgehog fetish fanart were Truth in Television receiver after all...
• Unlike what sure online communities would like to have you think, getting air or some other vast quantity of gas or fluid trapped inside the body is a horrifying way to die, with death occurring either from barotrauma or from the rupturing of internal organs and tissues. Several people have met their end in this way, including an unfortunate Indian car washer in Bombay who met his cease later his Lethally Stupid friend decided to jam an air hose straight up his rectum, and so turned it on...
• Pufferfish can too do this, though with h2o instead of air. It's mainly used to scare away predators.
• This viral video of some people in a submarine coming across a gulper eel (a species that can eat things larger than itself) that had inflated itself with a agglomeration of water, causing information technology to look like a balloon on a cord until it opens its very large oral fissure and lets the water out.

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Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InflatingBodyGag

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