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* Happens to ____ at the very beginning of ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' after Fenton Harcourt refuses his proposal and speeds away from the Smithsonian Institute in his car.

* Ed in ''FullMetalAlchemist''. He gets soaked, so he uses alchemy to dry off, and is immediately arrested.

!!Examples:

* Besides the above image, another ''Scamp'' story has Scamp getting completely covered in mud by a car splash, which gets him confused for a puppy that looks exactly like him, but brown. After escaping, he promptly finds a water puddle and waits for another car to go by in order to wash off.

* Done as a MeetCute in the opening scene of ''That Touch Of Mink'', with Doris Day getting splashed by a limo carrying CaryGrant.
* In Jacques Tati's ''Mon Oncle'', a truck drives through a puddle, almost completely drenching a shopkeeper. However, the bottom of his pants are still dry... which changes when the main character, Hulot, rides by on his bicycle.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Feeling Pinkie Keen," Pinkie Pie's "Pinkie Sense" tells her that Twilight Sparkle's going to need a bath. Twilight laughs at her, then is splattered with mud by a passing cart.

** In "Hearts and Hooves Day", during the musical number where the Cutie Mark Crusaders look for a stallion to be Cheerilee's "very special somepony", [[FanNickname Doctor Whooves]] is seen doing this to Applebloom and Scootaloo\\
-->''He might do!''\\

* ''CitizenKane'', when Kane meets Susan Alexander.

* In the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Feeling Pinkie Keen," Pinkie Pie's "Pinkie Sense" tells her that Twilight Sparkle's going to need a bath. Twilight laughs at her, then is splattered with mud by a passing cart.

* ''TheMask'' - the movie, that is. Outside the Coco Bongo club, right after he's been thrown (literally 'thrown') out of it.

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* So much TruthInTelevision
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzGwUhIXLDk This video]] turns it UpToEleven.

* In the TrappedInTVLand episode of ''TeenTitans'', some old dude is standing all peacefully-like in the middle of a river, fishing in the wilderness, minding his own business when a ''pimping red sports car streaks past from out of nowhere'', splashing him in the face and scaring away the fish, followed in hot pursuit by the Titans.

[[{{Scamp}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ScampMud.jpg]]

* ''{{SCTV}}'' Had a skit called "Shower in a Briefcase", where you can clean yourself after this happens.

A character is walking along the road when a car drives past through a puddle, splashing them big-style with water. Usually used as a comedic device which adds insult to injury in the events of an already bad day, perhaps after the character [[RockBottom wonders how it could get any worse]]. Often the number one cause of DoomedNewClothes.

A character is walking along the road when a car drives past through a puddle, splashing them big-style with water. Usually used as a comedic device which adds insult to injury in the events of an already bad day, perhaps after the character [[RockBottom wonders how it could get any worse]]. A leading factor that leads to DoomedNewClothes.

A character is walking along the road when a car drives past through a puddle, splashing them big-style with water. Usually used as a comedic device which adds insult to injury in the events of an already bad day, perhaps after the character [[TemptingFate wonders how it could get any worse]]. A leading factor that leads to DoomedNewClothes.

A character is walking along the road when a car drives past through a puddle, splashing them big-style with water. Usually used as a comedic device which adds insult to injury in the events of an already bad day, and [[TemptingFate wonders how it could get any worse]]. A leading factor that leads to DoomedNewClothes.

* Some old dude is standing all peacefully-like in the middle of a river, fishing in the wilderness, minding his own business when a ''pimping red sports car streaks past from out of nowhere'', splashing him in the face and scaring away the fish, followed in hot pursuit by the ''TeenTitans''.
** Was this that "TrappedInTVLand" episode? With Control Freak?

* And to Leslie Bibb's character in the SoBadItsHorrible ''See Spot Run''.

A character is walking along the road when a car drives past through a puddle, splashing them big-style with water. Usually used as a comedic device which adds insult to injury in the events of an already bad day. A leading factor that leads to DoomedNewClothes.

* One the 'peeves' confronted by Ali Babble in the GoldenAge ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' story "Ali Babble and the Fourteen Peeves". He hauls the driver out of his car and hurls him bodily into a puddle.