History Main / WaterGunsAndBalloons

[[caption-width-right:350:It's all fun and games until the water's yellow.]]

* When Ross is trying to convince himself his student-girlfriend isn't too immature for him in ''{{Series/Friends}}'', he arrives at the dorm to find she's having a water-balloon fight. After they split up, he thinks "She handled that really maturely. Was this a mistake?" and then she drops a balloon on him from the window...

Wet T-shirts and swim suits may lead to SexySoakedShirt.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E5BartTheGeneral Bart the General]]" culminates to an all-water balloon ''Film/{{Patton}}'' parody.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E21LadyBouviersLover Lady Bouvier's Lover]]", Bart used two water guns filled with ketchup and mustard to threaten Mr. Burns when he went on a date with Marge's mother. Burns tests Bart's willingness to go through with it, which costs him.

The contents will not always be water -- it could be jelly, ink, or something more... [[UrineTrouble foul]]. Either that or some jerk will bring out the hose.

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' is another LighterAndSofter FirstPersonShooter, which uses guns filled with ink to attack opponents and claim territory.

* Some mean upperclassmen in ''Literature/PaperTowns'' throw urine-filled water balloons at freshmen before Q intervenes.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': The [[https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Soaktron Soaktron]] is a gun modified for the Dog Days Tactical Alert to spray water instead of toxins. It was originally going to shoot Acid, until Kela De Thaym suffered from some sort of gas leak, causing her to replace all the weapons with water guns and host Rathuum on a beach instead of an Arena.

* ''VideoGame/WaterWarfare'' is a LighterAndSofter FirstPersonShooter based around water gun combat.
* ''[[Website/GaiaOnline zOMG!]]'': the Heavy Water Balloon. Higher Rage Ranks will use larger balloons and [[BratsWithSlingshots slingshots]].
* Adults seem keen to start water balloon fights in ''VideoGame/TheSims 2''.
* Your starting weapons in ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors'' are water guns, specifically [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99UPQEFSGVQ Entertech motorized water guns,]] although [[WritingAroundTrademarks The game doesn't actually call them that.]] As most of your enemies are the undead, the guns are presumably filled with holy water.
* ''VideoGame/EatLeadTheReturnOfMattHazard'' features these as the only weapons really effective against the [[VideoGame/SOCOMUSNavySeals Soak'em]] commandos. Hilariously, they're just as effective against every ''other'' enemy.
* ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' has normal ones and improvised ones that work like [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrowers]].

* One of the power-ups you can shoot at your opponents in ''VideoGame/ReVolt''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' is another LighterAndSofter FirstPersonShooter, which uses guns filled with ink to attack opponents and claim territory.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' equips Mario with [[FunWithAcronyms F.L.U.D.D.]][[note]]Flash Liquidizer Ultra Dousing Device[[/note]], a high pressure water cannon with interchangeable nozzles. It comes in handy because [[PlotTailoredToTheParty a doppelganger of his has covered large parts of the island in a gunk like paint]].

* The ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' series has ''Peach Beach Splash'', the installment that has the girls fight each other with water-based weapons.

* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'', Kruller's WeaponOfChoice is a water pistol he happens to find in a nearby cardboard box. It would be rather useless against Luigi, but since only Gooigi (who melts upon contact with water) can access the combat zone, it ends up being an effective weapon.

* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' had an entire story arc based on a water balloon war, "The Great Water Balloon War", between the titular creatures that was used to parody military and wartime tropes, starting [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/2011/06/20/rabbit-duck-season/ here.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E5BartTheGeneral Bart the General]]" culminates to an all-water balloon ''Film/{{Patton}}'' parody.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E21LadyBouviersLover Lady Bouvier's Lover]]", Bart used two water guns filled with ketchup and mustard to threaten Mr. Burns when he went on a date with Marge's mother. Burns tests Bart's willingness to go through with it, which costs him.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': one episode involving the tree house has the Eds using water balloons. Another has them selling turkey basters as water squirters. Also Eddy's El Mundo Stinkbomb.
* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowskiSuburbanDaredevil'': Kick and Gunthar fight Kick's older brother, Brad, for their hangout. Kick uses water balloons and Brad uses mudballs.
* WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget has one of these equipped. For some reason.
** It's more like a miniature fire hose, and he's able to put out a fire with it quite handily. So that's probably the reason -- putting out fires.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Balloon Buffoon" has Johnny and his friends trying to defend against youngsters armed with water balloons, which is treated by Johnny as a [[SeriousBusiness military campaign]].

* Buster and Babs' story arc in ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'' begins with Buster going after a sunbathing Babs with a squirt pistol loaded with ice water. She retaliates with her own, resulting in an EscalatingWar of water balloons, kiddy pools, ''Babs opening the floodgates on a dam'', '''Buster setting off a volcano with high explosives to create a tidal wave...'''
-->'''Buster''': [[LampshadeHanging I do this water thing]] to Babs [[MediumAwareness throughout the entire video.]]

* [[https://youtu.be/I06nha_jLq8 This skit]] from ''WesternAnimation/WowWowWubbzy'' takes this trope to extreme measures. Here, Wubbzy and Widget are playing "water-fight" by using water balloons, with each one seen getting bigger and bigger. Hilarity ensues and they later on begin using hoses, and a gigantic water-hose/water balloon combination, which eventually leads to the whole town ending up underwater.
-->'''Widget:''' ''[underwater]'' That wasn't supposed to happen!

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy, Chester, and AJ use these on Tootie when she tries to come over. At the end, Tootie uses one on Timmy.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has Phineas, Ferb, and their friends using these to weaken and disintegrate a giant gelatin monster who came to life thanks to Doofenshmirtz's latest invention. The song accompanying the scene summarizes it as such:
-->''"Come on, kids! Let's squirt that gelatin monster!''

* Used in the final battle in ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'', along with silly string, no less!

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[[caption-width-right:350:Damn, that's harsh!]]

* ''{{Series/CSI NY}}'' featured an adult version called Water Gun Wars, based on the real life Streetwars game. Players try to 'kill' each other with water guns or balloons to become the last one standing in the game and win a cash prize. But one player got angry at the guy who knocked him out of the game and thought he'd pull a scare with a blank gun. He didn't know that blanks can be as dangerous as bullets at close range.

* At least once in ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'', Jason and Marcus were firing squirt guns filled with fruit punch. When they stopped to refill, they were swarmed by flies.

Compare BubbleGun.

* The ''Super Soaker CPS 2000'', is a [[SuperPrototype] water-gun released in 1996 and was the first [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_Pressure_System Constant Pressure System (CPS)]] water gun ever made but is to this day the most powerful water gun ever sold in stores. It released a quart of water in one second in a consistent stream that went up to 53 feet. It was so powerful it hurt kids and due to multiple complaints by parents the later CPS models were made less powerful. Due to its rarity it sells on eBay for $100s of dollars and specialized home-brew water guns are specifically designed to be compared against the CPS 2000 to determine if they can beat it.

* The ''Super Soaker CPS 2000'', is a [[SuperPrototype] water-gun released in 1996 and was the first [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_Pressure_System Constant Pressure System (CPS)]] water gun ever made but is to this day the most powerful water gun ever sold in stores. It released a quart of water in one second in a consistent stream that went up to 53 feet. It was so powerful it hurt kids and due to multiple complaints by parents the later CPS models were made less powerful. Due to its rarity it sells on eBay for $100s of dollars and specialized home-brew water guns are specifically designed to be compared against the CPS 2000 to determine if they can beat it.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': When the kids go trick-or-treating on the rich families' island in "Full Bars", they're warned about "Hell Hunt", where the local teens on bicycles terrorize the younger kids with, among other things, water balloons filled with pee.

-->'''Buster''': ''[[LampshadeHanging I do this water thing]] to Babs [[NoFourthWall throughout the entire video.]]''

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': when the kids go trick-or-treating on the rich families' island, they're warned about "Hell Hunt", where the local teens on bicycles terrorize the younger kids with, among other things, water balloons filled with pee. On seeing them Gene cries out "It's Helen Hunt!!!"