History Main / CoveredinGunge

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman'' episode "Ruff's Case of Blues on the Brain", Ruff accidentally covers himself in green paint when he tries to imitate one of the Blue Man Group's methods of creating paintings.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman'' episode "Ruff's Case of Blues on the Brain", Ruff accidentally covers himself in green paint when he tries to imitate one of Creator/TheBlueManGroup's methods of creating paintings.

** Also the running gag with Suguro, Miwa and Shima in TheMovie.

* A rare funny moment happens to, of all people, ''The Major'' in episode 14 of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex''. She gets surprised by an android, who grabs her and punches her clean out of a window. An android herself, she isn't really hurt. However... she ends up in the middle of a heap of wet, smelly trash. ''She'' doesn't find it funny at all.
* A constant running gag in ''Literature/KonoSuba'':

* ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer loves cheese dip. So, when he acquired a magical wish, his choice was a mountain of the stuff... unfortunately for everybody within several hundred feet.

* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyGenerations'': Not shown but, in Issue 3, Fluttershy is trying to showcase creatures known as shriek-yowls who get disturbed by the rude remarks Sliverstream and Oculus are making. This causes them to cover the class in what Fluttershy calls "projectile defense" offscreen, which apparently took awhile to clean off the class.

* ''ComicBook/AllNewWolverine'': While exploring the remains of the Facility base where she was bred for Daken, she finds a figure inside a tank floating in some kind of gunk.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Vitamin E-4", a conman named Professor Anderson tricks Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton and Mr. Conklin into working for in the manufacture and promotion of the titular "vitamin". Unbenowngst to the three, Professor Anderson is really a conman who ''modus operandi'' includes tricking well-educated teachers to win over the general public. The episode ends with Brooks, Boynton and Conklin manufacturing the vitamin according to the recorded directions of Anderson. It doesn't go so well; Mr. Conklin ends up having the ingredients of the titular "vitamin" thrown, poured or falling over him. Incidentally, the main ingredient of Vitamin E-4 is ''chicken fat''!

* In ''The Literature/AdrianMole'' Diaries, the adult Adrian is invited onto what he thinks is a straightforward chat show to talk about his cookery book. As he begins talking about ''Cooking With Offal'', a tank overhead opens and deluges him with unexpected, and humiliating, gunge.
* ''Series/AllThat'', being a {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} comedy, embraced this repeatedly, but particularly memorable was a combined {{lampshade}}/ [[SubvertedTrope double subversion]]: A baker has sent the cast a roomful of cream pies, far more than they could possibly eat, in appreciation of the show. Several cast members ask pointedly what to do with the excess pies, when their ButtMonkey stage manager walks in. Someone decides to bring the extra pies to the zoo for the zebras. Stage manager calls them on it, and one explains that the baker had also sent over a large cake explicitly for throwing at him.
* ''Series/AliensInTheFamily'': Heather's boyfriend comes over to pick her up for a date, but he gets SwallowedWhole by her step-brother's alien pet. Fortunately, they're able to extract the boy from the creatures stomach and when they do he's coated in green slime.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' did this a few times, covering several characters in demon slime. And Angel's car keys in one ep.

* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode "The Vengeance Formulation", Sheldon gets back at Barry Kripke (who had sabotaged his interview with ''Science Friday'' by [[HeliumSpeech pumping helium into the room]]) by rigging his office to dump foam on him when he enters. Only one problem, the university's president and board of directors were ''also'' there with him, and Sheldon also included a recording announcing his responsibility for the prank.
* ''Series/{{Bones}}:'' In "[[Recap/BonesS6E10TheBodyInTheBag The Body in the Bag]]", the VictimOfTheWeek has died [[DeadlyBath in the shower]] with hot water pouring on her for days, making some of the evidence wash down the drain. Hodgins unclogs it and it all comes out in a big jet, which ends up leaving Booth, Brennan and Cam covered up in the gore-covered water.

* ''Series/CSIMiami'': In "Identity," a female victim is found covered head-to-toe in a clear, sticky slime that Eric says he's never seen anything like before. Turns out, she had been crushed, swallowed, and regurgitated by a 10-foot long boa constrictor.
* ''Series/{{The Day of the Triffids|2009}}''. The bodies of those killed by the {{Man Eating Plant}}s are covered in triffid venom.

* In ''Series/DirtyJobs'' Mike Rowe, in the course of doing the job, usually gets filthy by the end of it. Sometimes the filth is wet. Are the fangirls pleased by this? Yes they are.

** A lethal version occurs in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]", where EvilChef the Kandy Man executes "killjoys" by deluging them in scalding strawberry fondant. (He has other flavours, but strawberry is the only one shown.)

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem The Sontaran Stratagem]]": The Sontarans' clone-template, which eventually becomes an evil duplicate of Martha Jones, is in a pool full of green goo.
** On Amy Pond's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow first outing]] with the Doctor, she winds up in this state when [[spoiler:the Star Whale, on the verge of swallowing them, is forced to vomit.]] Or, as the Doctor puts it: "Nothing broken, there's no sign of concussion... and yes, you ''are'' covered in sick."

* In the ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' episode "Are You Being Served?" Niles is in the restroom when Martin's Hot&Foamy shaving lather heater explodes. He comes out covered from head to toe and says "I'm all right, just a little hot. And foamy."

* In an episode of ''Series/HannahMontana'' after representing Lily in teen court (and proving to everyone's satisfaction that she was to blame for Lily's current predicament), Miley gets "served" some justice, and ends up covered in pasta and sauce.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "The Glitch", a vandal known as 'the Bucket Man' is attacking cars in a village and dumping paint mixed with glue over them. The murder pours paint over his last intended victim to try and make it look like the work of 'the Bucket Man'. [[spoiler:Ironically, his intended victim was actually the real Bucket Man]].

* In a Creator/MontyPython sketch at an Army Recruiting office, an applicant (Eric Idle) protests that he hasn't gotten any funny lines - the recruiting officer (Graham Chapman) offers to start a new sketch to let him be funny - where the officer becomes a fast-talking music hall burlesque comic who gets all the funny lines again. The sketch further degenerates into a circus setting where the officer is a clown, dumping water on Idle, dropping a large fish down his trousers, upending a bucket of whitewash on him, and shoving a pie into his face, all the time telling him "It's your laugh, mate, not mine!"
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': In "War of the Colossal Beast", Joel's demonstration of his Between-Meal Mortar, a cannon that fires snack cakes, goes awry when a "live" Twinkie bounces back. Despite Joel's attempt at JumpingOnAGrenade, it explodes and leaves him, Crow, and Servo covered in creme filling.

* This became something of a running joke in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' with Clyde ''always'' seeming to get Raxacoricofalapatorian gunge all over him. Or any other kind of gunge, actually.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In "Squeeze", Tooms is a monster who produces some kind of yellow slime, which Scully thinks is bile. Mulder actually regretted that his favourite investigative method is FingertipDrugAnalysis. Scully gets slimed a bit when Tooms attacks her.

* ''Series/YoungSheldon'': In "A Free Scratcher and Feminine Wiles", Dr. Lee booby trapped her office so that anyone trying to hack into her computer (in this case, Sheldon) gets their face shot with blue powder.

*** Probably the iconic example comes when Peter Venkman gets slimed by Slimer, the ghost of the Sedgewick Hotel, after Ray Stantz calls him an "ugly little spud" on Peter's comm and [[BerserkButton accidentally pisses the ghost off]].

*** Probably the iconic example comes when Peter Venkman gets slimed by Slimer, the ghost of the Sedgewick Hotel, after Ray Stantz calls him an "ugly little spud" on Peter's comm and accidentally pisses the ghost off.

** In ''Film/GhostbustersII'', after being hosed with the "good vibrations" pink slime, Janos asks, "Vy am I dripping viss goo?"

*** Probably the iconic example comes when Peter Venkman gets slimed by Slimer, the ghost of the Sedgewick Hotel, after Ray accidentally pisses him off by calling him an "ugly little spud".

** When Stay Puft explodes, everyone within a few city blocks gets covered in melted marshmallow. Everyone except Venkman, that is.

* More or less the entire idea behind the Discovery Kids show ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}''.

* ''Film/TheGreasyStrangler''

* Director J. Lee Thompson made two movies back-to-back with star Creator/ShirleyMaclaine, ''Film/WhatAWayToGo'' and ''John Goldfarb, Please Come Home'', which end with Shirley’s character getting drenched in crude oil.
* In the Vietnamese movie ''Cyclo'' (1995), the protagonist is supposed to carry out an assassination, but gets high on the drugs [[BottledHeroicResolve he was supposed to take just before the hit]] and covers himself in blue paint. The [[EvilMatriarch woman in charge of his criminal gang]] is [[YouHaveFailedMe going to have him killed]], but decides to spare his life because her mentally-disabled son (who had just died) [[YouRemindMeOfX would also cover himself in paint]].

** In the FirstContact montage the Kortan Dahuk, the first alien race to meet humanity, look reluctant to shake hands. Presumably this is because they are unfamiliar with the gesture, because later aliens do it without hesitation, apparently having been briefed on human customs. The final group of aliens are eager to shake hands...and the human ambassador grimaces as he realises his hand in covered in sticky fluid.

** After TranslationByVolume doesn't work, Laureline loses her temper and tried roaring for intimidation instead. The female Boullan-Bathor [[HamToHamCombat responds with a longer and louder roar]] which leaves Laureline covered in spit.

* ''Film/ThorRagnarok''. Skurge is chatting up a couple of hot Asgardian chicks when Thor activates the Bifrost just as he's about to be eaten by a dragon. In doing so the dragon is [[PortalCut decapitated as its head is transported to Asgard]] along with Thor. Skurge and the two women get covered in dragon innards gunk. When we next see Skurge, he's using a mop.

* ''Series/FortBoyard'': An unavoidable fate for the contestants facing several challenges is to end up covered in disgusting stuff, such as the mud wrestling, the spiderweb, the tomato sauce fabric or the "Willymix". Though they are at least given the opportunity to clean up before the next challenge, and not stay that way for the rest of the game.

* ''Series/ThirtyRock''

-->'''Cordy to Doyle:''' Do you think that tentacle spew comes out with dry cleaning?

* ''Series/{{Bones}}:'' In "[[Recap/BonesS6E10TheBodyInTheBag The Body In The Bag]]", the VictimOfTheWeek has died [[DeadlyBath in the shower]] with hot water pouring on her for days, making some of the evidence wash down the drain. Hodgins unclogs it and it all comes out in a big jet, which ends up leaving Booth, Brennan and Cam covered up in the gore-covered water.

* ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' had the RunningGag of dousing kids with green slime whenever they said "I don't know" (check the picture). Other colors of slime were used occasionally, for example a blue sliming once when they "ran out" of green slime. One episode that had been "taken over" by the Russians features red slimings for saying "free."
** Due to the popularity of ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' on {{Creator/Nickelodeon}}, the network's [[UsefulNotes/KidsChoiceAward Kids' Choice Awards]] has this done to extreme lengths since the 1980s. Most of the time it happens to celebrity guests, who have included the likes of Creator/WillSmith, Creator/JackBlack, Creator/RobinWilliams, Creator/HarrisonFord (the source of the page image), Creator/DwayneJohnson, Music/JustinBieber and Creator/RobertDowneyJr. Green slime has become a motif in the channel's brand.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': In "Boston Brawl" Phase (the prissy rich kid) ends up dumped in the Boston sewers. 'Slimed' doesn't begin to describe it. It takes a lot of work to get her cleaned up enough that she can ride home with everyone else.

** In the first episode, Sokka is instantly established as the local ButtMonkey when he gets covered in flying bison snot.
*** Which closely resembles good ol' green slime (it ''is'' a {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} program, after all).
** [[TruthInTelevision Tunnel boring machines]] often mix the excavated soil with water to ease removal. No prizes for guessing where two thirds of Ozai's Angels and three-fourths of the Gaang end up at the end of "The Drill".
** ...Neither of which compare to what was waiting for [[spoiler:Aang and Zuko in the TempleOfDoom]] in "The Firebending Masters".

* Also hosted by Dave Benson Phillips (less known than ''Get Your Own Back'') was the Saturday morning kids show "Wake up in the Wild Room". Most of the mess was pies in the face by a creepy ghost, but there was one game in the bathroom (not always played) where one kid was locked in a gunge tank and their partner had to let them out by finding keys within a time limit. If they failed then the poor kid in the tank got COMPLETELY COVERED in gunge (even long hair in a ponytail got completely covered, as shown by the girl in this clip https://youtu.be/tXS-aqxsSJs?si=vpjnknfvYncpd_Ar, though sadly has no proper sound). Believed no one left the tank with clean hair
* Live And Kicking had the inevitable SaturdayMorningKidsShow gunge tank built into its set in its last series in about 2000. Members of the studio audience were selected as victims, often apparently as a complete surprise to them. The game played varied throughout the series' unusually long lifetime:

* Also hosted by Dave Benson Phillips (less known than ''Get Your Own Back'') was the Saturday morning kids show "Wake up in the Wild Room". Most of the mess was pies in the face by a creepy ghost, but there was one game in the bathroom (not always played) where one kid was locked in a gunge tank and their partner had to let them out by finding keys within a time limit. Fail and their hair would be COMPLETELY COVERED in gunge (see this clip https://youtu.be/tXS-aqxsSJs?si=vpjnknfvYncpd_Ar, though sadly has no proper sound).

* Live And Kicking had the inevitable SaturdayMorningKidsShow gunge tank built into its set in its last series in about 2000. Members of the studio audience were selected as victims, often apparently as a complete surprise to them. The game played varied throughout the series' unusually long lifetime:

** ''Film/DoctorInDistress'':

* In ''Atomic Lobster'' by Creator/TimDorsey, after some bad drugs make her think there are snakes in her hair, AddledAddict Rachael runs into a tree, tears at her hair, and then rolls on the ground, getting covered with blood and dirt, especially on her face. An observing Serge and Coleman agree that BeautyIsNeverTarnished is very much ''not'' in play.

* ''Film/DoctorAtSea'': When Chippie runs across the deck screaming, he bumps into Archer, making him spill his athlete's foot remedy on his face.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': In the episode "The Old Switcheroo'', Tigger and Roo get covered in mud and bubblegum while playing together.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': In the episode "The Old Switcheroo", Tigger and Roo get covered in mud and bubblegum while playing together.