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** 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.

* In ''Film/OnTheLoose'', Thelma Todd and [=ZaSu=] Pitts get splattered with mud thrown up by a passing car.

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As you might expect and as several unfortunate saps can attest to, this is TruthInTelevision. However, DoNotTryThisAtHome -- in many jurisdictions, deliberately (or even accidentally if you could have avoided doing so) driving through puddles to soak pedestrians can get you cited under "driving without due care for other road users" statutes. There have also been cases where people have lost their jobs for doing this in the company vehicle.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS19E4HenrySpotsTrouble Henry Spots Trouble]]", both Thomas and Gordon end up on the receiving end of one. Thomas gets splashed with mud from Butch when the latter pulls Farmer [=McColl's=] tractor out of it, and Gordon gets splashed with paint when Connor runs over the track covered in paint from a fallen paint can. These both lead Henry to believe that they have chicken pox.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS19E4HenrySpotsTrouble Henry Spots Trouble]]", both Thomas and Gordon end up on the receiving end of one. Thomas gets splashed with mud from Butch when the latter pulls Farmer [=McColl's=] tractor out of it, and Gordon gets splashed with paint when Connor runs over the track covered in paint from a fallen paint can. These both lead Henry to believe that they have chicken pox.

* Mamimi in ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' gets soaked by a passing motorbike in the final episode. She later gets revenge by having the terminal core eat the bike.

* In ''Anime/PokemonJourneysTheSeries'', while they're walking back home Ash's newly evolved Sirfetch'd blocks a splash from a passing car on the road.

* In ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'' #200, Bob tries to persuade Shiela to give Brian a ride to Crutch's game. Shiela instead drives through a puddle, soaking Brian and leaving him standing on the side of the road.

* Robin Hood and Little John actually do this to [[BigBad Prince]] [[KingofBeasts John]] at the very beginning of ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' shortly after stealing his carriage and clothes, leaving him only in underwear.

* Happens to Creator/BobcatGoldthwait's character in ''Film/{{Scrooged}}''.
* ''Film/TheMask''. Outside the Coco Bongo club, right after he's been thrown (literally "thrown") out of it.

* Done as a MeetCute in the opening scene of ''Film/ThatTouchOfMink'', with Doris Day getting splashed by a limo carrying Creator/CaryGrant.
* In Jacques Tati's ''Film/MonOncle'', 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.

* Happens to ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'' after he loses the Male Model of the Year award to Hansel (So Hot Right Now).

* In ''Film/IntoTheWoods'', Jack's mother is splashed by Cinderella's step-mother's carriage running through a puddle as she bows.
* In ''Film/AllIWantForChristmas'' Hallie goes to see a MallSanta, and when she sees a car passing close by the sidewalk, [[DefiedTrope she steps back]], keeping her winter coat and [[PrettyInMink fur muff]] pristine, while the people in front get splashed with wet snow.

* In ''On the Loose'', Thelma Todd and [=ZaSu=] Pitts get splattered with mud thrown up by a passing car.
* ''Film/{{The Raven|2012}}'': When Poe exits Hamilton's carriage, he immediately splashed as the carriage passes through a puddle as it drives away.
* ''Film/{{The Idiot|1951}}'': A wave of snow, which splatters Kameda when a truck passes. Played for drama, as this, combined with the other petty annoyances of urban life--the noise of traffic, the jingling of bells on horses--push Kameda, who has a nervous condition, to the verge of a seizure.
* In a 'blink and you'll miss it' moment in ''Film/{{Darkman}}'', Westlake gets soaked by a car driving through a puddle as he is trying to cross the road after escaping the hospital.
* In ''Film/{{Accident}}'', several pedestrians get soaked when the Triad boss pulls over to the side of the road; driving through the water the water Brain's crew have spilled on the road as part of the plan.
* In the opening scene of ''Film/{{Rags}}'', Charlie's [[StreetPerformer street performance]] gets cut short when a speeding car sends water all over the people watching and dancing, causing them all to leave.
* In ''Film/TheSpiritOf76'', Adam-11 and Chanel-6 do this to the CIA agents when the agents run up behind their dune buggy in a muddy alleyway.
* In ''Film/TheOddAngryShot'', Bill gets soaked by a jeep driving through the muddy camp as he is walking back to his tent with his kit. And then the torrential rain starts.

* Bert the Small Railway engine ends up on the receiving end of one of these in ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries''.
* In ''Literature/{{Longarm}} and the Man-Eaters'', Longarm gets soaked by a wagon running through a puddle just after he has been cursed by a local ''brujo''.

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* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': Dr. Kelso exacted his vengeance on Carla with this.
* Opening credits of ''Series/SexAndTheCity''.
* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': Happens to Carly, Sam, and Freddie in ''iGo To Japan''.
* Happens to Judy and Sandy in ''Series/AsTimeGoesBy'' when they're already having a rough time because of romantic woes; Lionel's unsympathetic reaction helps kick off the episode's plot.
* ''Series/TheMiddle'': Happens to Sue when she is walking home from a football game in the mascot costume in the episode where she breaks Axl's foot.

* In the ''Series/{{KYTV}}'' episode "Hot Crimes", Mike Channel repeatedly ends up on the receiving end of splashes thrown up by passing lorries. After a while he tries standing as far away from the road as possible, which doesn't help.
* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'': In "Death's Door", the diplomat Steed and Mrs Peel are assigned to protect has a seemingly prophetic dream that he will die if attends the peace conference. The dream is full oddly specific details, and when Steed and Emma ride his route to the conference, each of the details comes true; except for being splashed by a car driving through a puddle as he gets out of his limousine. Then Steed realises that made the run early, and Lord Melford would have been arriving at exactly 10:30. When they drive around the block and arrive at exactly 10:30, Mrs Peel is splashed by a car driving through a puddle as she gets out of the limo.

* In the TrappedInTVLand episode of ''WesternAnimation/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.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'', Slobster takes time out of delivering a squid to Dr. Paradigm to deliberately drive his motorcycle through a mud puddle when he spots the Street Sharks at an outdoor fast food restaurant, drenching them.

* Happens twice to Heloise on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', when the same car that did it to her backs up and splashes her again.

* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'': Rex and Noah get splashed by the DrillSergeantNasty's jeep during the cross country run in "Basic".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': This happens to Moe as part of a HumiliationConga in "Moe'N'a Lisa". Immediately afterwards, the sprinklers turn on, and then it starts to rain, but only on him.
* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts
** In the WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse short "Mickey's Delayed Date", Mickey tries to hail a taxi, but the taxi passes him and hits a puddle. Luckily, Mickey stretches himself and hides behind a lamppost to avoid getting wet.
** In the WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} short "WesternAnimation/MotorMania", Goofy, playing {{jerkass}} motorist Mr. Wheeler, intentionally does this to a pedestrian. As Mr. Wheeler laughs at his misfortune, another car passes him that causes water to [[LaserGuidedKarma splash right into his car]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SheZow'': In "[=SheZow=] Happens", Guy is testing out his new SuperSpeed and runs through a puddle, soaking Kelly.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS19E4HenrySpotsTrouble Henry Spots Trouble]]", both Thomas and Gordon end up on the receiving end of one. Thomas gets splashed with mud from Butch when the latter pulls Farmer [=McColl's=] tractor out of it, and Gordon gets splashed with paint when Connor runs over the track covered in paint from a fallen paint can. These both lead Henry to believe that they have chicken pox.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangbone}}'': In "The Ballad of Meh", Fangbone attempts to defend his friends from a roadside wave with a sword, having mistaken it for an aquatic demon. His friends still end up getting soaked.

* Another advert for a car plays with this trope. Earlier an elderly gent was on a massive yacht with two attractive young ladies, he sails by two people windsurfing and the wake knocks them off balance. Later one of the guys windsurfing driving home sees the gent a pair or lovely, erm, ladies walking by a massive puddle. They recognise each other and the gent looks on with horror as the car speeds up only for the man to avoid the puddle.
* A Brazilian Volkswagen advert also parodied the trope, because the model in question was an offroad. It started as an average off-roader ad, showing the car driving on all kinds of terrain. At the end, when the car gets to the city, covered in mud, another car drives by and splashed it with so much water, it washes off all the mud. The owner of the off-roader gets out... and weeps in despair.

* In the very first episode of ''Anime/SaberMarionetteJ'', Lime walks out of a store happily wearing the new clothes Otaru bought for her. Then Hanagata passes by driving his car splashing her. Otaru demands that he apologizes but Hanagata refuses, and Lime chases him around the block and tosses him a ''four-story'' building at him.

* And to Leslie Bibb's character in ''SeeSpotRun''.

As you might expect and as several unfortunate saps can attest to, this is TruthInTelevision. However DoNotTryThisAtHome -- in many jurisdictions deliberately (or even accidentally if you could have avoided doing so) driving through puddles to soak pedestrians can get you cited under "driving without due care for other road users" statutes. There have also been cases where people have lost their jobs for doing this in the company vehicle.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': This happens to Moe as part of a HumiliationConga in "Moe'N'a Lisa". Immediately afterwards, the sprinklers turn on and then it starts to rain, but only on him.

* ''WesternAnimation/SheZow'': In "[=SheZow=] Happens", Guy is testing out his new superspeed and runs through a puddle, soaking Kelly.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangbone}}'': In "The Ballad of Meh", Fangbone attempts to defend his friends from a roadside wave with a sword, having mistaken it for an aquatic demon. His friends still end getting soaked.

* Robin Hood and Little John actually do this to [[BigBad Prince]] [[KingofBeasts John]] at the very beginning of ''Disney/RobinHood'' shortly after stealing his carriage and clothes, leaving him only in underwear.
* Happens to Milo Thatch at the very beginning of ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' after Fenton Harcourt refuses his proposal and speeds away from the Smithsonian Institution in his car.

** In the WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} short "Motor Mania", Goofy, playing {{jerkass}} motorist Mr. Wheeler, intentionally does this to a pedestrian. As Mr. Wheeler laughs at his misfortune, another car passes him that causes water to [[LaserGuidedKarma splash right into his car]].

* Another advert for a car plays with this trope. Earlier an elderly gent was on a massive yacht with two young attractive ladies, he sails by two people windsurfing and the wake knocks them off balance. Later one of the guys windsurfing driving home sees the gent a pair or lovely, erm, ladies walking by a massive puddle. They recognise each other and the gent looks on with horror as the car speeds up only for the man to avoid the puddle.

* This happens to ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' (and Spike) in one cartoon. The often-{{Bowdlerized}} results show the three in {{blackface}}.

As you might expect and as several unfortunate saps can attest to, this is TruthInTelevision. However DoNotTryThisAtHome - in many jurisdictions deliberately (or even accidentally if you could have avoided doing so) driving through puddles to soak pedestrians can get you cited under "driving without due care for other road users" statutes. There have also been cases where people have lost their jobs for doing this in the company vehicle.

* Parodied in an advertisement for beer, where a man waiting at a bus stop realises to his horror that the driver of an approaching car is going to inflict this on him. The driver grins evilly and pushes the accelerator to the floor. The car reaches the puddle... and sinks.

* ''Film/TheMask''. Outside the Coco Bongo club, right after he's been thrown (literally 'thrown') out of it.