History Main / FartSonFire

** http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/legends2000-06.html is a 2000 Darwin Award given to a total idiot who successfully lit farts [[spoiler:of a cow -- the cow then exploded as the flame entered the cow's rectum and [[UndignifiedDeath killed the aforementioned idiot by means of flying cow femur bone shrapnel]]]].

* [[PlayedForDrama Not played for laughs]]: In Creator/StephenKing's novel ''Literature/{{It}}'', a fart-lighting scene leads to a homosexual encounter between two of the Bad kids. It's one of the most suspenseful scenes in the book, because the whole thing is witnessed by one of the Good kids.

* There's a scene in ''ComicBook/{{Hate}}'' where a whole bunch of people at a night-time party stand in a line and light their farts.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'':
** The beginning of the first movie has Shrek lighting a belch to light the fireplace.

* In ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' episode Cash, Vyvyan thinks he's pregnant, backed up by his [[BalloonBelly rapidly expanding gut]]. Turns out it was just gas. Right after it's released someone(I think Rik), lights a cigar, and blows the house up.
** It was Mike. When Vyv started 'going into labour', he left the room because he didn't want to watch, and came back after the fart had filled the air to congratulate Vyv. Clearly from this scene, Mike has ''no sense of smell''.

Winnings, skite!\\

Flatulence, ignite!

* This is actually an odd hobby of Kobato Hasegawa from ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}''. However, it wasn't mentioned in the anime.

* The Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Literature/GuardsGuards'' features Sybil Ramkin, a woman obsessed with breeding the small woebegone creatures known as Swamp Dragons. Errol is a "complete whittle" who she puts up with as she is too soft to put him down. She discovers later in the book that he is built that way for a reason. As alone among dragons, Errol flames from, err, the opposite end. [[note]]Which he then uses for jet propulsion. [[/note]]

* The Congalala of ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' changes what kind of...[[{{Fartillery}} "munitions"]] it uses [[PowerUpFood depending on if it's eaten a Nitroshroom, Mopeshroom, or Parashroom.]] When it eats a Nitroshroom, the mushroom's volatility sets its farts ''and'' its belches on fire.

** The second segment of "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1" had the Griffins [[ILoveNuclearPower develop superpowers from toxic waste]]; when Chris discovers he's {{p|layingWithFire}}yrokinetic, Peter gets the idea to do this, resulting in a long trail of flame.

* GeorgeCarlin mentions about this in a sketch called "''Cute Little Farts''". Also found in album ''Carlin On Campus''.

* ComicBook/{{Lobo}} took this trope UpToEleven, using a can of baked beans to nuke his {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le daughter.

* Taken UpToEleven in the 2002 comedy ''Film/{{Thunderpants}}''. A boy with a [[{{Gasshole}} severe flatulence problems]] teams up with a ChildProdigy who invents the titular Thunderpants to turn our farting hero into a living rocket [[RecycledINSPACE INTO SPACE]]!

* The Music/{{Genesis}} song "Music/SuppersReady" has the lyric "Oooh, can't you feel our souls ignite...". This has inevitably led to the mishearing "can't you feel arseholes ignite".

* In ''Film/BlackSheep2007'', the fact that their fart contains large amounts of methanol is used to blow up the [[spoiler: flesh-eating sheep]].

* In the ''Series/ImInTheBand'' episode "Don't Date the Principal's Daughter", [[{{Gasshole}} Burger]] does this [[spoiler: on Derek after Ash, who pulls his finger in order to make him burp fire]] (because he accidentally discovered earlier that pulling the wrong finger will result in a burp when it's Burger), but [[EpicFail fails hilariously]]

** http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/legends2000-06.html is a 2000 Darwin Award given to a total idiot who successfully lit farts [[spoiler: of a cow - the cow then exploded as the flame entered the cow's rectum and [[UndignifiedDeath killed the aforementioned idiot by means of flying cow femur bone shrapnel]]]].

Compare {{Fartillery}}. Nothing whatever to do with {{Gaslighting}}.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The flaming flatulence was featured in the very first episode, "Cartman Gets an {{Anal Prob|ing}}e". "Dude, you're farting fire!"

** The ending of ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird''. A dronkey baby burps out fire, then [[spoiler:an ogre baby]] farts at it, causing the fire to change directions and light the fireplace.
** In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekFourD'' (the UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie that plays at Ride/UniversalStudios), when Shrek is about to get fireball'd by a stone dragon, his flatulence ends up sending the fire right back at the dragon.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The flaming flatulence was featured in the very first episode, ''Cartman Gets an {{Anal Prob|ing}}e.'' "Dude, you're farting fire!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', it was played in Terrence and Phillip's [[ShowWithinAShow Movie Within a Movie]] ''Asses of Fire'', and [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny dies]] while attempting the stunt. This is one of the series of incidents that leads to Sheila Broflovski's crusade against Canada.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHeadDoAmerica''. It causes a mushroom cloud.

* Often when Meg farts in ''WesternAnimation/MegaBabies'' she tends to do so rather explosively (literally).
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' had the Griffins develop superpowers from toxic waste; when Chris discovers he's {{p|layingWithFire}}yrokinetic, Peter gets the idea to do this, resulting in a long trail of flame.
** In another, the universe is a result of God lighting one.
* In ''Kung Fu Kenobi's Big Adventure'', several cans of beans are used by the titular character to blow up Jabba the Hutt, and his palace with him. And that's the least bizarre part of that particular short.

* A ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' short tuned this UpToEleven for a hilariously disastrous fuel-air bomb when Lazlo was invited to a ceremony right after a bean-eating contest. The beans caused gas to build up and overload Lazlo's tummy. The moment the ceremonial torch was lit, [[PottyFailure he let it all go]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Ignition Point", Finn and Jake fart and belch into carrier bags, then tie them up and throw them into the air as explosive targets for Flame Princess to shoot at with her elemental fire powers.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCanterburyTales'': In this AnimatedAdaptation, the famous fart that Nicholas lets fly into Absolon's face bursts into flame when it hits the hot poker Absolon is wielding, leaving Absolon with AshFace.

** http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/legends2000-06.html is a 2000 Darwin Award given to [[WhatAnIdiot a total idiot]] who successfully lit farts [[spoiler: of a cow - the cow then exploded as the flame entered the cow's rectum and [[UndignifiedDeath killed the aforementioned idiot by means of flying cow femur bone shrapnel]]]].

* Chimchar from ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' has a flame coming out of its buttocks whenever it's awake.

* The Congalala of ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' changes what kind of...[[Fartillery "munitions"]] it uses [[PowerUpFood depending on if it's eaten a Nitroshroom, Mopeshroom, or Parashroom.]] When it eats a Nitroshroom, the mushroom's volatility sets its farts ''and'' its belches on fire.

* SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} took this trope UpToEleven, using a can of baked beans to nuke his {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le daughter.

* ''The Tank Battalion'' (1991). ThePoliticalOfficer asks the Czech conscripts what they do in their spare time. While the soldier asked is lying about their fervent study of political works, a flashback shows them lying naked on their bunks, holding in their farts until as someone runs from one man to the other with a lighted match, producing long streams of blue flame.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if you try to tell [[BoisterousBruiser Oghren's]] ex-girlfriend Felsi that he's more fun than other men she probably knows, she'll say "If by 'more fun' you mean 'more likely to light farts on fire.'" And this isn't even the dumbest of his antics that she recalls. . .

* The Music/{{Genesis}} song "Music/SuppersReady" has the lyric "Oooh, can't you feel our souls ignite...". This has inevitably led to the {{mondegreen}} "can't you feel arseholes ignite".
* Music/HammerFall's "Hearts on Fire" is commonly {{mondegreen}}ed into this [[TropeNamers very trope title]]. "Burning, burning with desire," indeed.

* Happens at least twice in ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie''.