Needs A Better Title (Proposed alt title: Extrusion Effect, Hole Shaped Man)
People are surprisingly good at squeezing into odd spaces.
Toons are even better at it. They can work their way through odd-shaped holes or holes seemingly too small for them-- and due to their pliable nature, they come out shaped like the hole. Sometimes just parts of them get reshaped by the hole, such as a limb or (more often) part of their face.
Generally a slapstick
Western Animation trope, though there are some examples in other media. It has also become slightly more feasible in live-action works thanks to the magic of CGI.
Related to
Squashed Flat. Inversion of
Efficient Displacement, where the character shapes the hole. Compare
Dinner Deformation (which reshapes a character from the inside),
Traveling Pipe Bulge.
Examples
Anime & Manga
Film
- An early live-action example occurs in the 1976 version of Freaky Friday: Ellen, in her daughter Annabel's body, leads the police on a wild car chase through a canal (or maybe the Los Angeles River). She manages to drive her car (diagonally!) through a chevron-shaped duct; the police car that follows straight through gets bent into a bizarre shape, as seen here.
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Western Animation
- Happens to Tom Cat at least a couple times, most notably in the short Jerry and the Goldfish (from which the trope illustration is taken). Tom goes through both a mousehole and a radiator in this one.
- A body-parts-only variation (muzzle in the mousehole) happens twice in Kitty Foiled.
- Tex Avery uses this in the beginning of Bad Luck Blackie.
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