History Main / TermiteTrouble

* In the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTheGummiBears'', Duke Igthorn seeks out a highly destructive termite known as Big Tooth and plants it on Zummi, who unknowingly takes it back to Gummi Glen. There, RealityEnsues as, despite Gummi Glen being built to last, it's still wood, with the termite completely [[TrashTheSet demolishing the Gummis' home]].

JustForFun/{{Termites}} are portrayed in fiction as very fast munchers of wood making saw blade sounds; often, simply a terrifying invisible force that disintegrates wood rapidly. They are often a problem in buildings and may require fumigation tents.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' was about a swarm of termites raiding Rabbit's house.

* For a sci-fi take on it, there's the WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker cartoon "Termites [[RecycledINSPACE From Mars]]". What makes them so different from Termites From Earth is that these ones chew through anything. [[spoiler:Except adhesive tape.]]

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' deals with Popeye defending his newly built home from termites. After eating his spinach, he rebuilt his house completely out of steel.

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* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Lebrac throws a bottle of termites at Gaston's [[BizarreInstrument Gaffophone]] over the weekend. On Monday morning, doors collapse, desks crumble to dust, pencils are gone... Gaston quickly puts two and two together and goes to check on his instrument... which is sitting untouched by the termites.

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* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Lebrac throws a bottle of termites at Gaston's {{Xenophone}} over the weekend. On Monday morning, doors collapse, desks crumble to dust, pencils are gone... Gaston quickly puts two and two together and goes to check on his instrument... which is sitting untouched by the termites.

{{Termites}} are portrayed in fiction as very fast munchers of wood making saw blade sounds; often, simply a terrifying invisible force that disintegrates wood rapidly. They are often a problem in buildings and may require fumigation tents.

* An episode of ''TheBerenstainBears'' featured a story about a termite who teams up with the episode's villain to sell bogus "termite insurance" to bears. The scam involves the termite chowing down on wooden property.

* For a sci-fi take on it, there's the WoodyWoodpecker cartoon "Termites [[RecycledINSPACE From Mars]]". What makes them so different from Termites From Earth is that these ones chew through anything. [[spoiler:Except adhesive tape.]]

->''Some primal termite knocked on wood\\

Fell through the parlor floor today.''
-->--"The Termite" by Creator/OgdenNash

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* ''ThePinkPanther'' episode "Pink Pest Control": A termite bedevils the panther by literally eating him out of house and home. Watchable [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWvfFRUFqNk here]].
* Also from DFE, ''TheAntAndTheAardvark'' episode "Rough Brunch": The Aardvark fights a termite (and his family) who can eat through wood products at lightning speed with the accompanying sound of a buzzsaw. There's a complete episode guide [[http://www.tv.com/the-ant-and-the-aardvark/rough-brunch/episode/264614/recap.html here]] and the episode is viewable [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCyGQ2m-Z1g here]].

* In one episode of ''TheHuckleberryHoundShow'', Huck encountered a crafty termite.

* One episode of ''TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' was about a swarm of termites raiding Rabbit's house.

* A termite in ''OggyAndTheCockroaches'' had gigantic metal jaws and could reduce anything to splinters in a second. Even electrical appliances.
* An episode of ''EekTheCat'' called "The Eeksterminator" had the eponymous cat accidentally breaking Wendy Elizabeth's inflatable Squishy Bears cage of termites and dealing with a termite that freed from the cage.
* An episode of ''{{Popeye}}'' deals with Popeye defending his newly built home from termites. After eating his spinach, he rebuilt his house completely out of steel.

** Incidentally, the Warner Bros. Animation studio in TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation was called "Termite Terrace" by Creator/TexAvery and the other employees, due to the title trope.

[[FloorboardFailure Fell through the parlor floor today]].''

* For a sci-fi take on it, there's the WoodyWoodpecker cartoon "Termites [[RecycledINSPACE From Mars]]".

* In the ''LuckyLuke'' comic "The bridge on the Mississippi" the evil mayor suggests that the opening of a wooden bridge be celebrated by swinging a bottle of champagne against it. As a test a seemingly empty bottle is used, but it really contained termites, which begin to eat the bridge from the inside. Then the cavalry attempts to ride across the bridge, but it collapses under their weight. And of course, this part of the river just happens to be full of alligators...
* Termites turn out to be the savior...and the new problem...of the Smurf Village in ''TheSmurfs'' comic book story "You Don't Smurf Progress".

** One of the Gremlins from the Kremlin in ''Russian Rhapsody'' uses "termiteskis" to get rid of the wings on {{Adolf Hitler}}'s plane.

** Incidentally, the Warner Bros. Animation studio in TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation was called "Termite Terrace" by TexAvery and the other employees, due to the title trope.

[[Floorboardfailure Fell through the parlor floor today]].''

Fell through the parlor floor today.''