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* In the ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' episode [[Recap/HTFHardActToSwallow ''A Hard Act to Swallow'']], the ants lasso a rope to Sniffles' uvula and attempt to climb their way out. Unfortunately, their weight tears it off.

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** Another example in [[Recap/HTFGetWhaleSoon "Get Whale Soon"]] has Russell and Lumpy SwallowedWhole by a whale. One of their attempts to escape involved poking the whale's uvula in hopes of being puked out, to no avail.
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* In the ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' episode [[Recap/HTFHardActToSwallow ''A Hard Act to Swallow'']], the ants lasso a rope to Sniffles' uvula and attempt to climb their way out. Unfortunately, their weight tears it off.
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* Technically a Chinese animated series, but in 1998's Journey to the West: Legends of the Monkey King, Sun Wukong famously gets swallowed by Princess Iron Fan, briefly grabbing her uvula twice.
** The first time is as he enters her mouth in which he tries to avoid getting swallowed by grabbing her uvula as she drinks him, but gets hit by a leaf and falls down her throat.
** The second time, after giving her a stomachache, he flies up her throat then swings from her uvula to land onto her tongue and hops out of her mouth.
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* In ''VideoGame/WanderingHamster'', Bob the Hamster and the new friend he made while trapped inside the Jormungandling manage to escape from said serpent by giving its uvula a solid beatdown.
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* Towards the end of the music video for J Balvin's song ''Verde'', the singer gets stuck in a bowl of guacamole and is unknowingly scooped into the mouth of one of the party-goers. Balvin hits the girl's uvula with his gold chain, causing her to spit him out.

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* Towards the end of the music video for J Balvin's {{Music/J Balvin}}'s song ''Verde'', the singer gets stuck in a bowl of guacamole and is unknowingly scooped into the mouth of one of the party-goers. Balvin hits the girl's uvula with his gold chain, causing her to spit him out.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird'' short ''I Taw a Puddy Tat'' features a scene where Tweety is trapped in Sylvester's mouth. Tweety starts punching Sylvester's uvula like a boxing speed-bag in order to escape.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird'' short ''I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat'' features a scene where Tweety is trapped in Sylvester's mouth. Tweety starts punching Sylvester's uvula like a boxing speed-bag in order to escape.



** The episode ''Beetle Romania'' has Timon being transformed into a bug; Pumbaa manages to catch him in his mouth, but Timon grabs Pumbaa's uvula in an attempt to avoid being swallowed. [[AvertedTrope It doesn't end well]].

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** The episode ''Beetle Romania'' has Timon being transformed into a bug; Pumbaa manages to catch him in his mouth, but Timon grabs Pumbaa's uvula in an attempt to avoid being swallowed. [[AvertedTrope It doesn't end well]].well.]]
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* ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'': The fight against [[spoiler:Humphrey]] instantly ends when you strike his uvula.
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* ''Fanfic/ThePokemonSquad'': In the episode "[[FantasticVoyagePlot RM and Brock: Ash's Inside Story]]", the hovercraft goes out of control and crashes into Ash's uvula, forcing him to vomit them up.
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* Played with in VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}: While at no point does it swallow you, the only way to do damage to Captain Brineybeard?s ship in it?s final phase is to shoot it?s uvula.

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* Played with in VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}: While at no point does it swallow you, the only way to do damage to Captain Brineybeard?s Brineybeard's ship in it?s its final phase is to shoot it?s its uvula.
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Either way, taking advantage of the uvula's sensitivity is enough to force the would-be consumer to cough or spit (or, in rare cases, [[ArtisticLicenseBiology sneeze]]) their unwitting prey to safety.

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Either way, taking advantage of the uvula's sensitivity is enough to force the would-be consumer to cough or spit (or, in rare cases, [[ArtisticLicenseBiology sneeze]]) their unwitting prey to safety.
safety. If the swallowing creature is a whale, the hero will likely be BlownUpwardByABlowhole.
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* Alluded to in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' episode [[FantasticVoyagePlot ''Journey to the Center of Carl'']]. Jimmy and Sheen are going down Carl's throat and spot his uvula. Sheen almost uses it as a punching bag before Jimmy tells him that'll make Carl throw up.

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* Alluded to in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' episode [[FantasticVoyagePlot ''Journey "Journey to the Center of Carl'']].Carl"]]. Jimmy and Sheen are going down Carl's throat and spot his uvula. Sheen almost uses it as a punching bag before Jimmy tells him that'll make Carl throw up.
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* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'' sees Buck telling the story of how he lost his eye and obtained his tooth dagger, which entails him having to escape from a dinosaur's mouth by swinging on its uvula.

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* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'' ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs'' sees Buck telling the story of how he lost his eye and obtained his tooth dagger, which entails him having to escape from a dinosaur's mouth by swinging on its uvula.
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->'''''Chowder:''' Um... did we just get upchucked?''
->'''''Jenny:''' The uvula. Nature's emergency exit.''

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* Alluded to in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' episode ''Journey to the Center of Carl''. Jimmy and Sheen are going down Carl's throat and spot his uvula. Sheen almost uses it as a punching bag before Jimmy tells him that'll make Carl throw up.

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* Alluded to in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' episode [[FantasticVoyagePlot ''Journey to the Center of Carl''.Carl'']]. Jimmy and Sheen are going down Carl's throat and spot his uvula. Sheen almost uses it as a punching bag before Jimmy tells him that'll make Carl throw up.
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* In the WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''WesternAnimation/BraveLittleTailor'', WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse is swallowed by the giant when he eats from a pumpkin cart Mickey was hiding. Mickey hangs onto the giant's uvula to keep from being swallowed. This gives the giant hiccups, so he picks up an entire well and drinks from it; Mickey escapes by hanging on to the well's bucket.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTheBeatGoesOn'' episode "Finn Cascade", Branch is swallowed by the episode's titular fish after trying to impress him several times so that he would befriend him. With fellow captive Baha, he eventually finds the way to escape from Finn's mouth by blocking his blowhole and hanging onto his uvula.



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* ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' has a boss fight where Prince Froggy swallows Yoshi and Baby Mario. As part of the battle, Yoshi must hit the uvula at the top of the screen several times in order to win the fight and escape.

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* ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'' has a boss fight where Prince Froggy swallows Yoshi and Baby Mario. As part of the battle, Yoshi must hit the uvula at the top of the screen several times in order to win the fight and escape.
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->'''''Chowder:''' Um... did we just get upchucked?''
->'''''Jenny:''' The uvula. Nature's emergency exit.''
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So our hero finds themselves against a notably-sized obstacle. It could be the MonsterOfTheWeek that's twice the size of them. It could be an AttackOfThe50FootWhatever if it's on a grand scale. The hero could even be the IncredibleShrinkingMan. Whatever the situation, the hero is vulnerable either to being EatenAlive or unwittingly committing OrificeInvasion.

With that, the hero must react quickly to avoid being SwallowedWhole. But, wait! What's that, hanging down at the back of the throat? The hero has the option to pull off one last [[DesperationAttack act of defiance]] in order to force their predator to [[OrificeEvacuation spit them back out]]. They can either treat the uvula like their own personal punching bag, or they can grab hold of it and hold on for dear life.

Either way, taking advantage of the uvula's sensitivity is enough to force the would-be consumer to cough or spit (or, in rare cases, [[ArtisticLicenseBiology sneeze]]) their unwitting prey to safety.

Not to be confused with AttackTheMouth, where the hero directly intends to strike their target's mouth as a direct action, rather than a reaction.

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* The first episode of ''Anime/MonsterRancher'' has Suezo partially trap Genki inside his mouth to prove his existence. Genki then grabs Suezo's uvula and starts tickling it, causing Suezo to release him.
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* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' comic strip, Garfield almost swallows a mouse that was hiding in his mouth when Jon slapped him on the back. The punchline reveals that the mouse has a death grip on his uvula.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'': Fievel is almost swallowed by Tiger after falling into a bowl of water, but manages to grab his uvula before being swallowed.
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'' sees Buck telling the story of how he lost his eye and obtained his tooth dagger, which entails him having to escape from a dinosaur's mouth by swinging on its uvula.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse'', soon after the kids sneak into the titular house while it sleeps, Chowder spots a bulbous lantern filled with glowing orbs hanging from the ceiling. He and DJ shoot water guns at it, mistaking it for the house's heart, which they have to destroy in order to kill it. Instead, a huge chasm opens up in the floor and water gushes out, prompting Jenny to realize that the lantern is actually the house's uvula. Not long after this, the house wakes up and tries to swallow them, but Jenny manages to grab the uvula and swing from it, causing a huge gush of water from the house's gullet that washes all three out of the door.
* A scene in ''[[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryDirectToVideoFilmSeries Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse]]'' has Jerry [[LuredIntoATrap run into Tom's mouth]], and escapes soon after by using Tom's uvula as a slingshot.
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* ''Film/OsmosisJones'': Ozzy and Drix (a white blood cell and a cold pill, respectively) have the virus Thrax cornered in Frank's uvula, which serves as an observation deck for the mouth. Thrax escapes by triggering a sneeze from Frank with a pollen speck; Ozzy has himself launched at him, and the two have their climactic battle on the eyelashes of Frank's daughter.
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* The music video for the Music/TheLivingTombstone song ''My Ordinary Life'' has a lion cub getting eaten by a whale, who then tries throwing him into its throat with its tongue. The cub grabs onto the uvula and bites down, making the whale shoot him up out of its blowhole.
* Towards the end of the music video for J Balvin's song ''Verde'', the singer gets stuck in a bowl of guacamole and is unknowingly scooped into the mouth of one of the party-goers. Balvin hits the girl's uvula with his gold chain, causing her to spit him out.
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* In ''VisualNovel/BurlyMenAtSea'', your characters get swallowed by a whale (which is apparently a routine means of transport). The whale will eventually spit you out at another location, but you can get to different locations by punching the whale's uvula to get it to cough you out earlier.
* Played with in VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}: While at no point does it swallow you, the only way to do damage to Captain Brineybeard?s ship in it?s final phase is to shoot it?s uvula.
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella'' contains a puzzle in which Rosella is swallowed by a whale, and must use a peacock feather to tickle its uvula in order to escape.
* Inverted in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' when Link is [[WombLevel swallowed by Jabu-Jabu]]. He can exit the beast any time he wants through its mouth, and hitting Jabu-Jabu's uvula unlocks a "door" over its throat allowing him to progress deeper into its body.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', Amaterasu has to go inside the Emperor's body to heal the sickness that is plaguing the entire city of Sei'an. The way to leave his body (besides beating the boss Blight) is by striking his uvula.
* ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' has a boss fight where Prince Froggy swallows Yoshi and Baby Mario. As part of the battle, Yoshi must hit the uvula at the top of the screen several times in order to win the fight and escape.
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* Alluded to in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' episode ''Journey to the Center of Carl''. Jimmy and Sheen are going down Carl's throat and spot his uvula. Sheen almost uses it as a punching bag before Jimmy tells him that'll make Carl throw up.
* An early episode of ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' sees Creator/RoseanneBarr literally swallowing Creator/KelseyGrammer whole. When Roseanne implies that he's giving her indigestion, Grammer takes advantage of this information by repeatedly punching her uvula until she vomits him up.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart'' episode ''Sick Mao'', after Mao Mao is eaten by an ice dragon, he retaliates by spreading his germs around the dragon's mouth to make it sick, and one of these methods included punching its uvula.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': In "The Boy Who Cried Rat", Ren is [[ItMakesSenseInContext inside Stimpy's mouth]]. When a woman gives Stimpy some milk so that he can swallow Ren, Ren clings to Stimpy's uvula so he won't be washed down.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird'' short ''I Taw a Puddy Tat'' features a scene where Tweety is trapped in Sylvester's mouth. Tweety starts punching Sylvester's uvula like a boxing speed-bag in order to escape.
* ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'':
** The episode ''Beetle Romania'' has Timon being transformed into a bug; Pumbaa manages to catch him in his mouth, but Timon grabs Pumbaa's uvula in an attempt to avoid being swallowed. [[AvertedTrope It doesn't end well]].
** The episode ''Unlucky in Lesotho'' has Pumbaa trying to hide a panther cub from Timon by putting it in his mouth. The cub starts hitting Pumbaa's uvula, eventually causing him to spit it out when Timon isn't looking.
* The ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' episode ''Eeny, Miny Missouri Go'' sees Dick Dastardly divert the other racers into an aquarium and into the mouth of a whale. However, the drivers' cars repeatedly hit the whale's uvula as they enter its throat, causing the whale to sneeze them back out.
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