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16	->''"Tummies. They're never satisfied."''
17	-->-- '''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'''
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19	The digestive system can sometimes be a noisy thing, from the stomach growling when you're hungry to the various noises food and/or gas make as they're being processed and passing through. In media, these sounds are often used to make very clear what's going on with a character, in two distinct ways.
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21	If they're really needing to eat, or are [[BigEater known for having a huge appetite]], their hunger can be indicated by loud stomach growling. In comics and animation, this is often accompanied by the belly visibly rippling or shaking. Sometimes this growling is loud enough that other characters can hear it, which can cause embarrassment; it can also lead to the character changing their plans on the fly to get something to eat. It can also [[SoMuchForStealth ruin someone's attempt to hide from someone else]].
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23	On the other hand, if the character has eaten, rumbling and/or gurgling can mean that they're having some indigestion, have eaten GassyGastronomy, or are just a {{Gasshole}}. At worst, deep basso gurgling means major trouble is brewing, which often leads to a PottyEmergency or even PottyFailure in severe cases.[[note]]ArtisticLicenseMedicine, since while sometimes stomachs growling ''does'' mean a need to defecate, it is not consistently deeper than when one's stomach growls for other reasons.[[/note]]
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25	The medical term for this is the [[InherentlyFunnyWords amusingly onomatopoeic word]] '[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borborygmus Borborygmus]]', though often it's simplified to just 'Stomach rumble'.
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28	'''Note:''' ''This is often TruthInTelevision, but Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease, otherwise we would be here all year.''
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31	!!Example subpages:
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33	[[index]]
34	* GrowlingGut/{{Advertising}}
35	* GrowlingGut/AnimeAndManga
36	* GrowlingGut/FanWorks
37	* [[GrowlingGut/AnimatedFilms Films — Animation]]
38	* [[GrowlingGut/{{Film}} Films — Live-Action]]
39	* GrowlingGut/{{Literature}}
40	* GrowlingGut/LiveActionTV
41	* GrowlingGut/VideoGames
42	* GrowlingGut/{{Webcomics}}
43	* GrowlingGut/WesternAnimation
44	[[/index]]
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46	!!Other examples (sorted by type):
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49	!!!Hunger
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51	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
52	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 6 episode 41, Big M. is being taken care of by the other monsters when he is [[MisterSeahorse assumed to be pregnant]], and the monsters are on the watch for when he's ready to give birth. One of the false alarms is him having a growling stomach from hunger and this being mistaken for him about to give birth, which is then followed by everyone thinking he's giving birth again when it's just Fish Monster's stomach growling from hunger this time.
53	* In ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'', this happened to Totobory in the episode "[[Recap/NoonboryAndTheSuper7S1E3ColdyguryAndTheHotLostBuns Coldygury And The Hot Lost Buns]]", while he is waiting for breakfast to be ready.
54	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In episode 22, the goats are hiding underground as the wolves search for them. [[ObsessedWithFood Paddi's]] growling stomach is what alerts Wolffy to their presence.
55	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatFunClass'': In ''Mighty Goat Squad'' episode 3, the caterpillars' stomachs gurgling prompts Weslie to get them some leaves to eat.
56	%%* ''Animation/PororoTheLittlePenguin''
57	%%** Petty gets this in "Petty's Secret Friend", "Hello Friends", "Pororo's in Danger" and "Petty the Great Storyteller".
58	%%** Happens to all the characters in the episodes "Get Well Soon, Loopy", "Loopy's Camping Adventure" "Rody and Tu-Tu's Great Adventure".
59	%%** Popo's stomach growls in "Everything Looks Amazing".
60	%%** Happens to Harry and Poby in "Harry and Summer Island" and "Our Summer Island Friends Come Visit".
61	%%** Poby's tummy rumbles in "Rody's True Friends", "Magical Car, Tu-Tu", and "A Day in Porong Porong Village".
62	%%** Crong gets this in "Stomach Ache", "To Tell the Truth...", "Gigantic Crong", "Crong Goes Number Two", and "Pororo's Special Present".
63	%%** Eddy's stomach growls in "Loopy's Camping Adventure" and "Snowy Day".
64	%%**Happens to Loopy in "A Meal Made for Loopy".
65	* In the first episode of ''Animation/SweetsFairy'', Mousse Benetta wakes up with a growling stomach and Mocha Dennis remedies it by providing her with food.
66	%%* On ''Animation/TayoTheLittleBus'', Hana's stomach growled in the episodes "Hana's Special Day" and "The Best Mechanic".
67	%%*''Turning Mecard'':
68	%%**Dana and Jason's stomachs growled in the episode "The Big Chase".
69	%%**Dabi's stomach growls in "The Appearance of a New Mecardimal Sphinx".
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72	[[folder:Audio Plays]]
73	* There's a segment in the 2X-L program, "Monsters, Myths & Dinosaurs", where 2X-L takes the listener to interview with a caveman. Towards the end of the interview, the caveman mentions his stomach growling for food.
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76	[[folder:Comic Books]]
77	* It happens to Dot in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' comic series story "Dot the Vampire Slayer" where she goes to get a midnight snack, but finds out that she's hungrier than she thought.
78	* In issue #1 of ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'' (Rebirth, 2016), Barbara Gordon's stomach growls while she's visiting a friend in Japan. The two decide to grab some seafood shortly afterwards, with Babs grossing her buddy out when she decides to eat a small octopus.
79	* This happens in one of the ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' comics in an issue of ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures''. In this instance, Phoney Bone's stomach growls very loudly, he tells it to shut up, and it whimpers in response.
80	* In one of the official ''VideoGame/CookieRun'' comic books, Moonlight Cookie's growling stomach heralds her descent into hunger-induced rage, which sees her flying off the handle and acting uncharacteristically bratty right when Cream Puff Cookie compliments her for being the very soul of wisdom and grace.
81	* In ''ComicBook/TheDandy'':
82	** It happens to the Geordies who are watching the jocks eat a typical Scottish dinner which they refuse to eat though Egbert was the only one who claimed his tummy was rumbling.
83	** When hungry enough, Desperate Dan's stomach can produce growls strong enough to ''generate Shockwave powerful enough to destroy houses''.
84	* Anna works up an appetite while hiking in one of the stories in the ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' comic book ''Frozen Adventures, Snowy Stories'' and mentions being hungry. When Olaf asks what hunger feels like, she explains it as feeling weak while your stomach grumbles, just in time for her tummy to growl as a demonstration.
85	* Happens to Gwen Stacy three times in her solo series ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen''. First time was in "Spider-Gwen: Most Wanted." Gwen Stacy has to return stolen money to a cashier who runs a hot dog store. While the cashier is complaining that not all the money was stolen, Gwen's stomach growls from hunger. The second time is in issue #26, after bonding with Venom. The third time is in "Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider," where she is notably hungry and is stated to be broke after getting out of prison. Her friend, Harry, ends up buying her something to eat.
86	%%* In the October 2011 Issue of ''Ranger Rick Adventures'', Boomer Badger's stomach rumbled at the end.
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89	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
90	%%* It happens to ''ComicStrip/BroomHilda'' in one strip.
91	* In a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strip, Snoopy asks to get fed, but Charlie Brown tells him about the Daylight Savings hour change. However, Snoopy’s stomach argued back at Charlie.
92	* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': In one strip, Jon's growling tummy leads him to go to the fridge only to discover that Garfield had totally cleaned it out leaving inside a snowman.
93	%% The title character's stomach growls in a number of strips.
94	%%* Happens to ''ComicStrip/{{Buckles}}'' in one strip, which leads to a burp.
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97	[[folder:Jokes]]
98	* An anonymous limerick:
99	-->I sat next to the duchess at tea.\
100	It was just as I feared it would be.\
101	Her rumblings abdominal\
102	Were simply phenomenal\
103	And everyone thought it was me!
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106	[[folder:Manhua]]
107	* ''Manhua/MyBelovedMother'': This happens to the protagonist, Sinbell, after wandering around the big city for three days with barely any food.
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110	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
111	%%* Only happens very little in ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'' when the purple dinosaur experiences rumblies in the tumblies in "Hoo's In The Forest", "Going on a Bear Hunt", "Circle of Friends", "Birthday Ole" and "Spring Into Fun". As the seasons went on, BJ and Baby Bop got rumbly tummies too. BJ in "Play for Exercise" and "BJ's Snack Attack". Baby Bop in "Way to Go: A Travel Adventure". Some of the kids' stomach growled as part of the story "Three Billy Goats Gruff" in the episode "Stop! Go!"
112	%%* In ''Bear in the Big Blue House, Ojo's stomach growled in the episode "Woodland House Wonderful".
113	* Happens to Theo in a rather twisted episode of ''Series/BetweenTheLions'', "Huff and Puff", in which Leona runs off to write a second half of a story and tells her father Theo to stay put until she gets back. As a result of having no lunch yet, his tummy begins to rumble.
114	%%* In the episode "Rumble Rumble" of ''Series/MopatopsShop'', Puppyduck's stomach rumbled a couple of times on the episode.
115	%%* Happens to the lovable yet full of questions Horace in the PBS hit TV show ''Series/WimziesHouse'' about 2 times in the series, once in the episode "I Don't Like Chores!" and another time in "Growing Up Is Hard To Do".
116	%%* On ''Series/SesameStreet'', it happened to Davy the monkey on episode 3,071, Baby Bear on episode 3,998 and Telly on episodes 3,689 and 3,778.
117	%%* Happens to Uma once in the beginning of the ''Series/{{Oobi}}'' episode "Make Pizza." The growling noises were done by her puppeteer.
118	* ''Mutt & Stuff'' is the first Sid & Marty Krofft TV series to own this trope.
119	%%** Happens to Stuff in "Doggy Dino".
120	** Not only it happens to Stuff in "Cleo Kibble", but it happens to the other dogs as well, due to the food dispenser being broken.
121	%%** It happens to Stuff again in "Sherdog Bones".
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124	[[folder:Web Animation]]
125	* In ''Chibi Tiny Tales'', Marnie's stomach constantly growls throughout the episode "First Date Fright" where she goes on a lunch date but keeps running into hurdles that prevent her from eating, such as Halloween Town's local cuisine being disgusting, and the restaurant staff taking away the sandwich she smuggled in.
126	%%* In Crawford's Corner, it happens to Crawford himself such as in "Crawford Washes His Hands" and"Crawford Puts On His Coat".
127	* In ''WebAnimation/BeeAndPuppycat'', Bee's stomach growls from hunger which she realizes that she has no money to buy food. Puppycat guards his food from Bee but she assures him that she's not gonna eat his food.
128	-->'''Bee:''' Crap! I ran out of food money!\
129	''[Puppycat guards his food]''\
130	'''Bee:''' Relax, man. I'm not gonna eat ''your'' food.
131	* On ''DC Super Hero Girls'', Batgirl's stomach growls in the episode "My New Best Friend" while tinkering with her motorcycle, which causes Poison Ivy to mistake the growl for the engine starting itself.
132	%%*On ''Enchantimals: Tales from Everwilde'', Bree and Felicity's stomachs growled at the beginning of the episode "Just Bear-ly Asleep". In the same episode, Sage's stomach growls.
133	* On ''WebAnimation/MightyMagiswords'', Vambre's stomach growls at the end of the episode "Do You Know the Muffin King", where she's left hungry and disappointed after her brother pacifies a bunch of hostile Kotassiums with muffins but doesn't leave any for her.
134	* In the flash cartoon, ''VideoGame/MetalGear WebAnimation/{{Awesome\|Series}}'', Snake asks one of the guys communicating with him why he hears a helicopter in the background, and he responds, "It's my stomach. I'm hungry."
135	%%* On ''Monster High: Adventures of the Ghoul Squad'', it happens to Clawdeen in the episode "Home for the Howlidays".
136	%%* On ''WebAnimation/FizzysLunchLab'', Avril's stomach growled on the episode "Hook, Line, and Stinker."
137	* In Chapter 1 of Volume 3 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', just after their fight, Ruby asks if anyone else is starving. Blake mentions that she 'may have worked up an appetite,' at which point her stomach growls loud enough to startle all four of them.
138	%%** ''Chibi'' - A Slip Through Time and Space Pt.2
139	%%** Volume 2, Chapter 9 Search and Destroy
140	* ''WebAnimation/GossipCity'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WT5vDFoUNI Tsubaki's]] stomach growls due to her skipping lunch.
141	* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''
142	** Lumpy’s stomach gurgles in "Snow Place To Go", when he and several other Tree Friends are stuck on an icy island without food.
143	** Giggles's stomach growls in "Dunce Upon A Time" due to hunger, because she and Nutty are too poor to afford much food.
144	** Nutty’s stomach rumbles in "Chew Said a Mouthful", presumably due to not eating breakfast before starting the episode’s conflict.
145	** Russell in "Snow Place To Go" while he and his pals were stranded on a snowy area and he was hungry.
146	** Cro-Marmot apparently had this happen to him (as indicated by a picture of a lion on his belly) in "Dino-Sore Days", leading to him going after a dead dinosaur and accidentally upsetting an alive dinosaur in the process.
147	** Disco Bear's stomach rumbled in "Ipso Fatso", due to him being overweight.
148	** Lifty's stomach rumbled in "Buns of Steal", leading to him and Shifty trying to rob a passing bun truck.
149	* This happens to Emma and Stephanie in "LEGO Friends".
150	** Emma's stomach growls in "Finding the Pets: Emma" after she mentions a pizzeria.
151	** Stephanie's stomach growls in the episode "Dating by the Book" immediately after she says that she's not hungry.
152	%%* On ''Human Kind Of'', it happened to Judy in the episode "Volleyball Goddess."
153	%%* On ''Lastman'', Siri's stomach growled on episode 5.
154	* In ''My Little Pony: Equestria Girls'' shorts, It happens to Pinkie Pie in "Friendship Math" while working on a friendship quiz with Sci-Twi and "Pinkie Pie: Snack Psychic" after working up an appetite while working at her cafe job.
155	%%* A girl's stomach growled in a Nicktoon short call "The Fat Files."
156	%%* ''Talking Tom and Friends''
157	%%** Hank's stomach gurgled after eating a lot of hamburgers in "Hank The Millionaire" and it happened to him again in "Angela The Cheerleader".
158	%%** Ben's stomach starts making noise in "Doc Hank".
159	%%** Tom's stomach growled after he sees some pizza in "Friends Forever".
160	%%** Jeremy the Germ stomach growled in "Germinator 2: Zombies".
161	%%** Angela's stomach growled a couple of times on the episode "Funny Robot Galileo" and at the end of "A Secret Worth Keeping: Part One" after eating a lot of ice cream.
162	%%** Ginger in "The Queen of Drones."
163	%%** Happened to most of the characters in the episode "Kids Again".
164	* ''[[WebAnimation/ShutUpCartoons Smosh Babies]]'':
165	%%** Anthony's stomach bubbles in "Potty Training".
166	** Isla had this in "Learning about the Birds and the Bees" because she skipped breakfast.
167	%%** Vida gets a gut feeling in "Ian Speaks Spanish".
168	%%* This happens to Melissa in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIPDVhjR7D0 one episode]] of ''[[WebAnimation/PlanetDolan Super Planet Dolan]]''.
169	%%** This happened to Danger Dolan in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBs5xzuGdFw another video]]
170	%%* In ''Pencilmation", Pencilmiss's stomach growled in the short "Through the Looking Glass".
171	%%* This happens to Jake in the ''Subway Surfers'' episodes, "''Busted''" and "''Flux''".
172	* On ''Teenz'', happened to Greeny in the short "Upper Shelf Problem". It's in the video "Short People vs. Tall People Problems".
173	* This is the focus of the ''Bluey and Rosy'' short ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh4aAb_eqlA Night of the Gruesome Growl]]'': Rosy wakes up in the middle of the night to a monstrous growling sound. Scared silly, she searches the house for the source of the growl, only to realize at the end that it's just the roaring of her hungry belly.
174	* Germaine's gut noises are the punchline of the ''WebAnimation/NeuroticallyYours'' short ''Thrift Store'', where her stomach unleashes a huge, ''monstrous'' growl that scares Foamy and a bunch of customers out of the titular store, due to them mistaking it for [[ItMakesSenseInContext the roar of her scorned boobs.]]
175	* In the ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'' episode "The Forest," a lost-in-the-woods David's stomach growls twice after being reminded of food; once when he finds a frozen yogurt coupon in his wallet, and once when he walks by a (presumably poisonous) berry bush. The second time, he's tempted to eat the berries to quell his rumbly tumbly, [[GenreSavvy but he ends up walking by it.]]
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178	%%[[folder:Web Videos]]
179	%%* This happened in several ''WebVideo/SevenSuperGirls'' videos, such as in "Kaelyn And The Pizza Expedition".
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182	!!!Gas and/or gut troubles
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184	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
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186	* The ''Animation/{{Larva}}'' episode "Stomachache" features the main larvae, Red and Yellow, having this because they ate mushrooms.
187	%%** This happens to Yellow in ''Gum Fart''.
188	%%** This happens to Yellow again in ''The Chaser''.
189	%%** This happens to Red in ''Mushroom''.
190	%%** This happens to the duo again in the ''Larva Island'' episode, ''Farming''.
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193	[[folder:Comic Books]]
194	* In [[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn Harley Quinn's]] 2014 annual, she eats a ton of pizza and gets incredibly gassy as a result. At one point, her stomach growls and gurgles loudly before she incapacitates an evil orderly with a noxious belch.
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197	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
198	* In the ''Series/FraggleRock'' episode "Fraggle Wars," Mokey tries to convince the Cave Fraggles to listen to their inner voices. The only "inner voice" they hear, though, is a stomach gurgle, which one of them says is his lunch digesting.
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201	[[folder:Web Animation]]
202	* In one episode of ''WebAnimation/TheBedfellows'' has Sheen eating a ton of bubble gum in an effort to make a viral video. He turns the camera on his moaning stomach and [[spoiler: we GilliganCut to him in a hospital bed having just had his stomach pumped]].
203	* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''
204	** Lumpy’s stomach gurgles in the episode "A Hole Lotta Love" after he eats several cans of beans, making him then rush into an outhouse.
205	** Nutty’s tummy rumbles in "Going Out With A Bang" due to eating a bunch of fireworks. Thankfully, he spots an outhouse nearby and gets inside to do his business.
206	** Flaky suffered a stomach gurgle in "Royal Flush" when she ate a sandwich with Mr. Pickels inside it.
207	** Splendid's stomach gurgles in "Breaking Wind", due to gas building up.
208	* ''LEGO Friends'':
209	** Stephanie's stomach growls due to nausea in "Winner Takes All".
210	* In ''My Little Pony: Equestria Girls'' shorts, it happened to Sunset Shimmer at the end of the Pinkie Pie version "Wake Up" after eating too much sugary sweets.
211	* It happened several times to Mini Tom because of diarrhea in the episode "Tom's Sick Day" of ''Talking Tom and Friends Minis''.
212	* In the beginning of the ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'' episode "Nikki's Last Day on Earth," the first sign of Nikki's "dying" is her tummy aching and making gurgly noises. [[spoiler: Turns out, she's just getting her first period, and the stomachaches were just cramps.]]
213	* ''WebAnimation/RuneAdventure'': To Anna Lucy growls her stomach after eating too much, this is largely because her intestinal problems are always a sign that she has to uncontrollable farts and poops a lot.
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216	[[folder:Web Videos]]
217	* In the ''WebVideo/RedLetterMedia'' review of ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Mr. Plinkett's growling gut is likened to the roar of a Wookiee, before erupting into [[spoiler:explosive diarrhea]].
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