History Main / InvisibleHoles

* The page image is from ''WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow'' short "Lion Tamer Huck".

* Happens as the final gag in ''Film/{{Hellzapoppin}}''.

* Another live-action instance occurs in the film ''Film/CarryOnHenry'' when a character who has been tortured in the iron maiden is offered a drink to steady his nerves.

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* Frank Cross' old boss, Lew Hayward, gets this in ''Film/{{Scrooged}}''.

* Played with in the ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske comic "De Texas Rakkers"; Lambik enters a saloon and immediately, gunfire can be heard inside. Jerom then rushes in and asks Lambik if he has been hit. To check if he's okay, Lambik takes a glass of water and references this trope.
** A similar gag occurs in the ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske album "De Tamtam Kloppers", where an ape claims they were unable to shoot him, only to take a sip from a jug and to discover his body is full of holes which now sprout water like a fountain.
* Quoted and turned into BlackComedy by Charlie Hebdo in response to the terrorist attacks on Paris: "You have the guns, we have the champagner!"

* Film/TheThreeStooges had this happen from time to time. At the end of ''Tricky Dicks'', Moe and Larry put on shower caps and take out soap when Shemp's bullet holes begin squirting profusely.
--> '''Moe''': Should we call a doctor?
-->'''Shemp''': No, call a plumber.
* Happens as the final gag in ''Film/{{Hellzapoppin}}''.
* As a reference to his cartoon-like powers, Creator/JimCarrey in ''Film/TheMask'' seems to survive being shot at by a squad of {{mooks}} unscathed. He asks them smugly, "Did you miss me?". He then takes a drink, sprouts several leaks and declares, "I guess not!"

* Frank Cross' old boss, Lew Hayward, gets this in ''Film/{{Scrooged}}''.

* A variation in ''Series/ShootingStars'': after Bob stabs Vic with a pitchfork, we hear a hissing sound and Vic is able to produce woodwind-instrument-like noises by "playing" the holes.

* ''Series/CoryInTheHouse'': Newt tries to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this to convince his parents not to make him run in the school election, telling them he was attacked by an echidna. He rigged his shirt to squirt water like in cartoons. Predictably, it fails.
* Invoked by Big Mean Carl in one episode of ''Series/MuppetsTonight''. First, he eats a muppet porcupine. "Now, I'm gonna drink this water!" After he guzzles down the bucket, this trope happens. "Thank you!"
* PlayedForDrama in ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' when a Host playing an outlaw with a liking for milk drinks a bottle after a saloon shoot-out and has milk spurt from his body, showing his program is glitching as he's failed to drop down dead when shot. Turns out the shoot-out wasn't supposed to happen in the saloon either; he just went OffTheRails and started shooting.

* In [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1232 this strip]] of Webcomic/DinosaurComics, [[KingOfAllCosmos God]] says this happens to everyone in heaven who died from being machine-gunned in the chest.

* It also happens in a [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons Droopy]] cartoon in which Droopy, as a sheepherder, catches a wolf trying to make off with his flock of sheep and repeatedly shoots his gun at the wolf. The bullets all rush past the wolf, who calmly takes a drink of water and says, in a thick Southern accent, "Y'all missed me, sheepherder," and walks off, as the water flows out of holes made by the gun.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Mexican Joyride", WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck goes SouthOfTheBorder and has a bowl of chili, scoffing at how Mexican food is not so spicy. Immediately afterward, he [[FireBreathingDiner has an inferno in his mouth]], and he shouts, "It's burning holes in me!" A local sitting next to Daffy says that he has eaten the stuff for years without any harm. The man takes a drink, he gets up to leave, and sure enough, water squirts from his body on the way out.
** Also, in "Feather Dusted", after WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn gets sunk by toy ships, the holes get revealed when he stands up.
* In the Creator/TexAvery WartimeCartoon ''WesternAnimation/BlitzWolf'', the holes are revealed not by water, but by light shining from behind the character.
* Happens to Richard in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Roots", after eating a bowl of fishing hooks.

* This trope is referenced in one Franchise/ArchieComics story, where Mr. Lodge goes to a barber for a shave (just roll with it). The barber ends up cutting Lodge's neck several times, and when it's over, Mr. Lodge demands a drink to see whether his neck leaks.

* In ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'' Frank empties a revolver at his undead ex-boss to no apparent effect, until he pours himself a Bacardi.