History Main / InflatingBodyGag

** In another episode, Wakko's being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Scratchnsniff, who follows up one of his statements with, "Would you care to expand on that?" [[LiteralMinded So Wakko literally expands himself.]]

** "Pizza Delivery" has [=SpongeBob=] check the tire pressure by putting his mouth up to the tire and letting the air fill him up. He deflates by blowing the air right into Squidward's face.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT_EMKl2A3Y 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 bunch of water, causing it to look like a balloon on a string until it opens its very large mouth and lets the water out.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "Steven the Sword Fighter", Amethyst eats a magic cloud and immediately puffs up like a balloon and starts floating away -- Garnet has to hold her on a string until she deflates.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' episode "Calling all Goofs," after eating overwhelmingly spicy food, Pete freaks out, complete with a fire truck siren blaring, finds the nearest water source outside which happened to be a water hose and proceeds to fill up until he's a living silly water balloon as he waddles, sloshes and squeezes back through his front door where he's met with a pushy Sargent type Goofy relative who believes that Pete put on a lot of weight, (bringing a literal meaning to water 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 later Max inflates a small 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 catch a large fish, in order to have him not move his boat because it's right above a sunken treasure Max wants to retrieve.
* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheThreeCaballeros'': In the episode "[[Recap/LegendOfTheThreeCaballerosS1E10MtFujiWhiz Mt. Fuji Whiz]]", Cornelius Coot teaches the Caballeros that, as ghosts, they can inflate any body part they want, giving them a combat advantage. Sheldgoose and his ancestors also weaponize this, each inflating a different body part and merging into a BodyOfBodies. The scene is a MythologyGag referencing a similar scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''.

* Maybe the weirdest version of this trope was done in the ''WesternAnimation/{{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 middle of the episode, Cheryl reaches his heart, which is represented by a pair of bagpipes connected to air compressors. Cheryl does a dance and accidentally lodges her cane in Bonkers's heart, causing his heart to swell. This gives Bonkers the hiccups, and every time he hiccups, another part of his body inflates until he floats into the air.

* WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears: Drinking [[PowerUpFood Gummiberry juice]] that doesn't include purple berries in the mix results in bodies being inflating like balloons, as Duke Ickthorn and his ogres found out.

* On the ''WesternAnimation/WillieWhopper'' cartoon "Stratos Fear", Willie gets too much gas at the dentist, and he inflates like a balloon and floats up into outer space.

* Lola Pop from ''VideoGame/{{ARMS}}'' can inflate her entire body like a balloon as a shield.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ShimmerAndShine'' episode "Potion Control," Zeta the Sorceress accidentally inflates her body into a balloon shape after mixing some potions together. She then floats up into the air, much to her dismay.

-->-- '''Luigi''', ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld'' cartoon:

Compare BalloonBelly (when a character gets an extreme potbelly), BreastExpansion (because BuxomIsBetter) and TemporaryBulkChange (when a character gets fat and then inexplicably slims back down between scenes) or AttackOfThe50FootWhatever (grow in size but not inflate). Its logical conclusion is usually PopGoesTheHuman. Related to BeTheBall, so overlap occurs. Contrast with SquashedFlat. As a form of ToonPhysics, this trope tends to run on RuleOfFunny and WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief.

Online, this trope is also known for being a common {{Fetish}}... [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement but let's not get into that here.]]

* Unlike what [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement certain online communities would like to have you think (but let's not go into too much detail)]], 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 Mumbai who met his end after his LethallyStupid friend decided to [[AssShove jam an air hose straight up his rectum]], then [[http://www.deccanchronicle.com/151023/nation-current-affairs/article/mumbai-car-washer-killed-after-colleague-inserts-high-pressure turned it on...]]

* Unlike what [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement certain online communities would have you think (but let's not go into too much detail)]], 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 Mumbai who met his end after his LethallyStupid friend decided to [[AssShove jam an air hose straight up his rectum]], then [[http://www.deccanchronicle.com/151023/nation-current-affairs/article/mumbai-car-washer-killed-after-colleague-inserts-high-pressure turned it on...]]

A character [[HeliumSpeech inhales too much helium]] or some other gas, and their whole body inflates like a balloon. Usually their [[MagicPants clothes stretch with them]]. This is often inflicted on the character as an AmusingInjury, but some characters will do it to themselves deliberately. Because AllBalloonsHaveHelium, inflated characters are liable to float in the air or blow away in the wind, 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 as the gas rushes out of them. Alternately, the character may inflate beyond their limits, resulting in PopGoesTheHuman.The inflating body gag can happen if a character blows his thumb.

Compare BalloonBelly (when a character gets an extreme potbelly), BreastExpansion (because BuxomIsBetter) and TemporaryBulkChange (when a character gets fat and then inexplicably slims back down between scenes) or AttackOfThe50FootWhatever (grow in size but not inflate). Related to BeTheBall, so overlap occurs. Contrast with SquashedFlat. As a form of ToonPhysics, this trope tends to run on RuleOfFunny and WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'', an alien frog skull causes Ensign Rutherford to expand. Unlike most examples of this trope, it's treated as a horrific event -- Rutherford is visibly disoriented and distressed, and Ensign Tendi has to quickly use an antidote on him. Once back to normal, he vomits profusely.

* In ''Fanfic/EarthAndSky'', a battalion of Royal Guards get dosed with Poison Joke pollen, which induces [[BalefulPolymorph transformations]] with a humorous bent. Their leader, Sir Concord, turns purple and inflates until he resembles [[StealthPun a giant grape]].

** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheGalaxySuperExpress'' have Nobita and Doraemon visiting the Planet of Cowboys, where they get to play Sheriff with inflating guns - it deactivates robot {{outlaw}}s 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 later in ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheSpiralCity'' as a ContinuityNod, where Nobita gets to use the inflating gun to harmlessly take down Onigoro and his clones (and later tie them up like balloons).

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheGalaxySuperExpress'' have Nobita and Doraemon visiting the Planet of Cowboys, where they get to play Sheriff with inflating guns - it deactivates robot {{outlaw}}s 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 later in ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheSpiralCity'' as a ContinuityNod, where Nobita gets to use the inflating gun to harmlessly take down Onigoro and his clones (and later tie them up like balloons).

** In the 1947 WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short "Wide Open Spaces", Donald inhales a huge amount of air ballooning his own body to blow up an air mattress.

** One WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup short has Pluto deal with a BullyBulldog trying to steal his bone by using a bicycle horn to inflate the bulldog like a balloon and send him flying.

** In "Squirrel Jokes", Sandy makes [=SpongeBob=] stop making offensive jokes about squirrels in the hard way, by inviting him over to her house where she behaves stupidly like the squirrels described in his jokes, taking out [=SpongeBob=]'s water 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 and attaches the tube to a bigger water outlet. By the end of it, [=SpongeBob=] is overinflated to the point of filling every inch of the treedome.

** There's a RunningGag involving Mrs. Puff getting inflated whenever she's startled, usually by [=SpongeBob=] crashing during his driving lessons. In "Pranks a Lot", she gets so scared by [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick pretending to be ghosts that she deflates and flies all over the room.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'', an alien frog skull causes Ensign Rutherford to expand. Unlike most examples of this trope, it's treated as a horrific event - Rutherford is visibly disoriented and distressed, and Ensign Tendi has to quickly use an antidote on him. Once back to normal, he vomits profusely.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld'' cartoon.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT_EMKl2A3Y This viral video of some people in a submarine coming across a fish (probably a gulper eel, a species that can eat things larger than itself) that had inflated itself with a bunch of water, causing it to look like a balloon on a string until it opens its very large mouth and lets the water out.]]

* Near the beginning of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' Harry's accidental magic makes Aunt Marge inflate and fly into the sky.