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  • In Abominable, Everest's stomach growls after Peng talks about food.
  • In Bambi II, Bambi's stomach growls twice when he gets up in the morning due to hunger, prompting his father the Great Prince to realize that he will have to handle feeding him with his mother gone.
  • In Barbie A Fashion Fairytale, Jacques the dog's stomach growls as part of a blooper scene.
  • In Bolt, Bolt's stomach growls, and he freaks out over it thinking that Mittens implanted some kind of poison in him.
    • It also happens to Mittens, who uses her stomach rumbles to threaten Louie into finding food for her.
  • In The Good Dinosaur, Arlo's stomach gurgles while he's looking for berries.
  • In A Goofy Movie, Max's stomach growls while he and Goofy are in their car trying to stay safe from Bigfoot.
  • Happens to Wolf in Hoodwinked! while spying on Red in the bushes. Red mistakes it as a threatening growl.
  • Ice Age:
    • In the first movie, when the baby is crying, the three main characters don't know the reason for it, until the baby's stomach growls.
    • While the main three are walking over an ice-covered volcano, they hear a deep rumbling. Manfred then says to Diego, "Tell me that was your stomach."
    • In the fourth movie, when the continent breaks apart with a loud noise, Sid apologizes because he thought that his stomach causes that noise.
  • In The Iron Giant, the Giant's stomach growls due to having no metal to eat.
  • Po's stomach growls at the beginning of Kung Fu Panda 2, leading to this gem:
    Po: My fist hungers for justice! *loud stomach growl* That was my...fist.
  • The Land Before Time:
    • In the original film, Ducky and Littlefoot's stomachs growl while trekking towards the Great Valley. When they stop to munch on some plants, Littlefoot meets Petrie by way of accidentally tossing him around by biting onto a plant he was roosting on.
  • In The Lion King (1994), Banzai's stomach growls while he’s waiting with the other hyenas to start the wildebeest stampede.
  • Occurs twice in Minions; first Stuart's stomach rumbles as they leave the ice cave, causing the narrator to remark that 'he was going to be the one to eat this banana', and then Bob's stomach growls loudly when they are on the rowing boat, right before Stuart starts seeing him and Kevin as bananas.
  • In Monster Family, Emma's thirst for blood is treated like the vampiric equivalent to hunger, complete with agonizing pangs and loud stomach noises.
  • The opening of Over the Hedge has RJ momentarily reconsider robbing Vincent the bear of his hibernation stash, until his hungry stomach rumbles, convincing him otherwise.
  • In the 2009 BBC adaptation of "The Gruffalo", it happen not only to the Mouse due to hunger twice but the Gruffalo himself which the whole forest can hear it.
  • Ratatouille has a scene in which Remy, trapped in the sewer and hungry, tries to distract himself by reading Gusteau's cookbook. Of course it only makes him hungrier, punctuated by his stomach grumbling.
  • In Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, Simone and Lena are telling the gang about the pirate who once inhabited their island and who's soul they believe still roams it. Suddenly, a horrible growl is heard... which turns out to be Scooby and Shaggy's stomachs.
  • In the Novelization of Turning Red, Mei mentions this happening when she sees her mother having made all her favourite dishes in a ploy to keep her from going out.
  • In the Wallace & Gromit movie The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Wallace's stomach rumbles hungrily to punctuate his line about his and Gromit's rabbit pens "getting a bit full down there."
  • Happens quite regularly to Winnie the Pooh, hence his catchphrases: "I'm rumbly in my tumbly" and "Do you have any honey?". Some memorable examples of this would be in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh while doing his "stoutness exercises" and while waiting with Piglet in the pit after Tigger and Rabbit have left, in Pooh's Grand Adventure which his friends assume is the Skullosaurus, during The Tigger Movie shortly after Tigger has run away, and various times in the 2011 movie and The Halloween Heffalump Movie.
  • On The Willoughbys, the four Willoughby siblings are hungry at the kitchen as they are watching their parents eat in the dining room. Tim tries to convince them to wait, but his and his siblings' rumbling bellies give away their hunger, and Tim is forced to go into the dining room to ask the parents for food.

Gas and/or gut trouble

  • In The Ant Bully, after eating a bunch of honeydew and realizing that it's essentially caterpillar poop, Lucas' belly starts gurgling and rumbling up a storm as he fights back the urge to puke. Hova comes to the rescue with some alca root to settle his stomach with... albeit at the cost of making him burp after taking it, which is heralded by an even louder growl.
  • Archibald Snatcher from The Boxtrolls had this from an allergic reaction to cheese.
  • In Elliot, the Littlest Reindeer, Hazel's stomach growled multiple times after eating a can.
  • In The Emoji Movie, this happened to Hi-5 after eating too much candy.
  • In Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation: This happens to Drac and later Mavis after eating guacamole laced with garlic, courtesy of Ericka.
  • In The Iron Giant, Kent Mansley's guts growl due to a milkshake that Hogarth laced with laxatives.
  • In The Lion King 1 ½, Pumbaa's stomach gurgles a couple times before he lets out a big fart causing all the animals crowding him and Timon to faint. Some of the other animals saw those animals fainting and thought the those animals were bowing and decided to bow with the other animals.
  • Mort's stomach gurgles after he ate too much cake in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted.
    Mort: *stomach gurgles* My tummy is speaking to me.
  • Happens to Elliott the clumsy but kind-hearted dragon in Pete's Dragon (1977) when he drinks some sort of an alcoholic beverage offered by Hoagie and Lampie, causing his tummy to rumble, wiggle and shake which triggers a fiery belch chasing them away.
  • In Penguins of Madagascar, Kowalski's stomach growled after eating too many Cheezy Dibbles.
  • In Toy Story 2, Woody tries to get his detached arm out of a sleeping Al's shirt pocket. He's momentarily distracted by an earthquake-like rumble beneath him, traveling from Al's stomach through his throat, resulting in him burping right in Woody's face and almost suffocating him.


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