History Main / CartoonBugSprayer

* Hawkeye and co. have one of these inside the Swamp on ''Series/{{MASH}}''.

* In ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'', Harpo uses one at the end of the movie. It knocks everyone out, including himself.

* ''VideoGame/{{Blood}} 2: The Chosen'' features the Insect-a-Cutioner, with a lit Zippo lighter attached to the top - primary fire shoots out extremely caustic bug spray, secondary turns it upside-down to use it in the same manner as an AerosolFlamethrower. It's a poor weapon overall, and its ammunition is better put to use as grenades for your assault rifle.

* The name "flit gun" is a BrandNameTakeover, referring to the insecticide company Flit. Flit rose to prominence in the early 20th century due to a highly successful marketing campaign. The campaign used humorous cartoons, drawn by none other than a pre-fame Creator/DrSeuss, and spawned a popular CatchPhrase, "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" So successful was the campaign that, at one time, crop dusters were nicknamed "flying flit guns".

* ''VideoGame/{{Blood}} 2: The Chosen'' features the Insect-a-cutioner, with a lit Zippo lighter attached to the top - primary fire shoots out extremely caustic bug spray, secondary turns it upside-down to use it in the same manner as an AerosolFlamethrower.

* WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic: Applejack has one during the defense of Sweet Apple Acres in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E10SwarmOfTheCentury Swarm of the Century]]".

* MickeyMouse uses one in "Mickey's Garden". In "The Worm Turns" he uses one to dispense Super Serum.

* ''VideoGame/{{Blood}} 2: The Chosen'' features one of these as a weapon, with a lit Zippo lighter attached to the top - primary fire shoots out extremely-acidic bug spray, secondary turns it upside-down to use it in the same manner as an AerosolFlamethrower.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends]]'' episode ''Termites from Venus'', Batman shouts "Quick Robin! The Bat Repellent!" (which, it seems, is ''bug'' repellant branded by Batman, not repellent to repel bats). They pull out collapsible old-fashioned bug sprayers from their utility belts and spray the giant termites... to no effect whatsoever, as they are immediately captured along with the rest of the Super-Friends

->''"Stand back!" ordered Mr Wonka, and suddenly, from some secret place inside his coat-tails, he whisked out a spray-gun. It was one of those old-fashioned things people used to use for spraying fly-spray around the room before aerosols came along...''

->''Stand back!' ordered Mr Wonka, and suddenly, from some secret place inside his coat-tails, he whisked out a spray-gun. It was one of those old-fashioned things people used to use for spraying fly-spray around the room before aerosols came along...''

* This is what your character uses in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong 3'', and in the UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch game ''Greenhouse''.

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* The 1934 WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheresSomethingAboutASoldier'' has an Army regiment battle giant mosquitos. The soldiers have middling success with giant swatters and peculiar artillery, until Betty Boop arrives at the front with a huge flit gun. It takes four men to pump it, but its gas cloud eradicates the mosquitos, for which Betty is given a hero's parade through town.

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Flit guns were in common use from about the late 1920s until the mid-1950s, which coincides almost exactly with UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation. While Golden Age cartoons with flit guns are just reflecting contemporary technology, it's their use of such devices which established flit guns as the Universal Cartoon Symbol for Bug Sprayer and they've remained so long after the technology became obsolete in the real world.

* Willy Wonka uses one in ''Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator''. Creator/RoaldDahl explicitly lampshades it as the kind you'd see "before Aerosol."

* A ''[[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Bullwinkle's Corner]] segment has Bullwinkle reciting "Morey Had a Little Lamb" (the name changed from Mary since Rocky, who is participating in the visual, is a boy). Bullwinkle's sheep costume has fleas that cause him to scratch frantically until Rocky applies bug spray to it.

* In ''[[VideoGame/NancyDrew Legend of the Crystal Skull]]'', NancyDrew must use one of these against wasps to gain access to a tree's fruit.

* This is what your character uses in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong 3'', and in the GameAndWatch game ''Greenhouse''.

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* You can still find these in Ace and True Value hardware stores, but they're quite obscure.
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