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Maybe they had juuuuust a bit too much to eat.

"Hey! Look! My stomach's distended! How great is that?"
Mittens, Bolt

There often are times when people eat. For most a few times a day.

There are other times when people absolutely stuff themselves. This hopefully doesn't happen as often. But when animated characters do it, it goes right to their stomachs and increases their size and figure in a similar manner to filling a balloon. This new-found girth usually goes away pretty easily, but can stay around for a while. A usually-minor form of this, known in slang occasionally as the "food baby", is Truth in Television. Usually used for comedy, but is also a somewhat prominent Fetish that pops up in fanfics and fanart.

Also, there are times when people don't have anything to eat for a long time, and then they play the trope exceptionally straight. It's called kwashiorkor. It's also a symptom of liver failure. Anyone displaying this trope in real life would therefore likely be in need of medical attention.

This trope is especially popular in Zany Cartoons to the point where attempting to list every example would probably end up with its subpage being longer than all the other subpages together. Compare with Inflating Body Gag, when it's the body inflating by itself. A Gigantic Gulp drink is often a cause of Balloon Belly. May lead to Temporary Bulk Change. Its logical conclusion is "Pop!" Goes the Human. Compare Dinner Deformation, Trampoline Tummy, Traveling-Pipe Bulge, and Weight Taller.

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    Advertising 
  • One of Nickelodeon's Nickmas bumpers features Angelica as "Grinchelica" in a parody of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. She steals all the chocolate from the other Nicktoons and unlike the Grinch, when she realizes what she's done, she decides she doesn't care. She and her cat Fluffy eat an enormous amount of chocolate and get very fat, with Grinchelica looking like a big ball.
    Narrator: And all the toons in Toonville say, Grinchelica's tummy grew three hundred sizes that day. (Grinchelica pats her tummy, now bulging out from under her jacket. Her face then turns green and she lets out a loud burp.)
  • A commercial for Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island features a big guy chowing down at a restaurant as his belly continues to get bigger, clearly referencing Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (minus the puking), right down to the end when his stomach explodes from licking one last dollop of whipped cream from his finger.
  • A famous series of ''Chicken of the Sea'' ads show a seemingly slim, beautiful woman walking to an elevator with a bunch of men fawning over her, only for her to reveal the big, bloated gut she's been sucking in once the elevator doors close.
  • A 2004 commercial for Gas X has the bellies of three women suddenly blow up like balloons while they're at a theater. One woman is able to stop her swelling with the titular product, but the other two stay bloated up.
  • A PSA for ABC warns kids about "the Munchies", making you want to eat when you're bored or depressed, as the Munchies make one boy eat until he gets fat. He learns to find other things to do, including exercise, so he doesn't think about eating all the time and soon loses the weight.

    Anime & Manga 
  • Renge Inui from Airmaster bloats up multiple times in the series, being the Big Eater she is. One noteworthy occasion is the time she speed-ate ten bowls of ramen as part of a challenge.
  • In the extra episode for Angel Beats!, after the SSS is ordered to spend the entire day in "high-tension" mode, Fujimaki and Ooyama decide to go for high tension eating.
  • In one of the later episodes of Blood Blockade Battlefront, Zapp gains a huge belly from eating too much fast food. His excuse is that he fancies one of the serving girls in this restaurant so continuously buys food from there as an excuse to talk to her. Turns out this girl is a friend of Chain and thinks Zapp is just a creepy stalker.
  • Black Paradox sees Piitan's entire stomach bloating to grotesque proportions after his pylorus expels Paradonite Jewels faster than he can cough them up, leading to Piitan going "Pop!" Goes the Human - An example where this trope is Played for Horror.
  • Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo: Suzu once ate an entire coelacanth as part of a gag; in the anime she looks heavily pregnant, while in the manga her stomach bloats to at least five feet in diameter and forces her onto her back.
  • Brave Command Dagwon: In episode 10, a minor antagonist named Killad Alien can absorb the abilities of defeated opponents via a laser on his forehead. He's defeated when he's tricked into absorbing a giant oil tank, filling his stomach up with oil and leaving him open for an attack from Fire Dagwon.
  • Digimon Adventure:
    • Agumon gets one after eating a fish twice his size.
    • Agumon gets another when Tai stuffs him with food in an effort to get him to Digivolve to Ultimate. Not only do Greymon's movements slow down when he has to fight, Tai's selfishness causes him to Digivolve to an enraged SkullGreymon.
  • Guilmon late in Digimon Tamers asks Takato if he could draw him a bigger stomach after getting particularly bloated late in the series.
  • In the Doraemon reboot's take on the classic "Memory Bread" story, Nobi uses the Bread slices to copy the notes taken for homework. This backfires when he decides to have a snack in-between while studying with Shizuka (Sue in the dub), which makes him feel sick when he tries to eat another slice of Memory Bread. It doesn't help that Nobi's mom made a special dinner with a lot of shrimp, which Nobi eats anyway, and he ends up so stuffed that he's ready to explode.
  • Dragon Ball:
    • Usually averted despite the ludicrous amount of food consumed by the Saiyans; but once, early in the series, Goku ate all the food in Master Roshi's fridge and his stomach became visibly bulged.
      • Happened to him again during the first tournament arc: he ate a ton of food, and his belly bulged a bit, to the point where his shirt couldn't completely cover it and his belt/sash was off.
    • Yajirobe suffered from a severe case of balloon belly when he ate a handful of senzu beans. They're meant to keep a person full for ten days each.
    • Krillin also does this with his tournament fight with Goku by sucking in a lot of air to make himself float.
    • Happens with Goku in Dragon Ball Z while he's training on King Kai's planet. Due to him being starved during his lengthy run across Snake Way, he asks Kai if he can take a break to fill himself up and then proceeds to stuff himself. A filler episode that features the currently dead Yamcha, Tien Shinhan, and Chiaotzu training on his planet features a similar gag when the trio take time out for lunch.
    • Played for horror during the Buu saga, where the titular antagonist kills someone by forcing his gelatinous body into their mouth, causing them to swell and swell and swell... until they explode.
    • Weaponized by Monna from Dragon Ball Super, who is able to literally blow up like a balloon and ram into her enemies with enough force to knock Cabba out of Super Saiyan form.
  • In Episode 8 of Excel♡Saga, the no-men-allowed one, Excel spends most of the episode at the pool gorging herself on food (because Cosette was paying for it). By the end, her balloon belly is big enough to render her completely immobile. And we get a close-up shot of it.
    Excel: *groans* Ohhh, so full. I'm sexy.
  • In Episode 5 of FLCL Progressive, Haruko has one for the first half of the episode, apparently as a result of her devouring Jinyu in the previous episode. Her belly is just large enough for her to pass off as being pregnant.
  • In one chapter of Futaba-kun Change!, two characters swell up like balloons after eating a lunch made by Misaki. Her Sweet Tooth somehow crammed tens of thousands of calories into that one tiny box. Later, another character has his face expand into a beachball after one bite.
  • Towa from Gals! is mistakenly given a massive order of food in Episode 36. Afterwards, she's seen surrounded by mountains of dishes and cradling her heavily distended belly, sheepishly claiming that she didn't want it to go to waste when Ran freaks out about her eating it all.
  • Hamtaro:
    • Boss gets one by stuffing himself with sunflower seeds at the end of "The Precious Letter".
    • In the movie Adventures in Ham Land, Hamtaro gets one after gorging at a sunflower sushi restaurant.
  • Hanaukyō Maid Team. In Episode 10, Taro develops a bloated stomach after he's stuffed with food during breakfast, lunch and dinner.
  • Haré+Guu:
    • In episode 14, in Hare's Imagine Spot, Guu gets a bloated belly as Hare imagines her devouring all the servants from Weda's mansion. (As she is an Extreme Omnivore monster with a Pocket Dimension stomach, this is not an unrealistic thought on his part.)
    • She also displays one in the Final OVA episode 2, after briefly swallowing everyone in the school park.
    • In episode 19, Hare lies down in bed with a bloated belly after he's forced to eat the prodigious breakfast prepared by Bell.
  • In Hell Teacher Nube, Miki once came across the wish-granting Kesaran Pasaran, and she (unknowingly) called up the "good luck" to run into a restaurant with a huge surplus. She walked away about four to five times her ordinary size, but recovered by the scene change.
    • In a more serious instance, Kyoko was possessed by the spirit of a hungry child, which caused a ravenous mouth to appear on her nape. Insatiable, it ate everything in sight, leaving Kyoko in pain from being overstuffed, and when food ran out, it started going for other things until Nube exorcised it. Unfortunately for Kyoko, she gained as much mass as Miki did in the comedic example, only she had to work it off (with Hiroshi as drill instructor.)
    • In another chapter, Kyoko and Miki are possessed and they eat huge rice bowls getting big bellies at lunchtime.
  • Jewelpet:
    • Jewelpet Sunshine: In Episode 6-A, Kanon fails to make cookies perfectly and stress-eats them all until Ruby confronts her, looking heavily pregnant in the process. Hinata gets this in Episode 17 after eating a lot of fruit. In a Continuity Nod in Episode 45, Kanon eats all of her failed Valentine's chocolates, which resemble her failed cookies, again looking heavily pregnant as a result.
    • Jewelpet Kira☆Deco!: In Episode 9, the gang finds a Rainbow Egg, which doubles in size, hatches and reveals a chick with a similar appearance to Kiichi. The chick, Kiichiro, cooks the gang food that makes them gain weight. When the chick has grown up to be a chicken, the gang is seen under a tree, having eaten food that makes them so fat they end up literally egg-shaped.
    • Jewelpet Happiness: In Episode 46, Chiari and Ruby eat all their Valentine's chocolates, and both blow up in size as a result.
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
    • Battle Tendency: Joseph Joestar tries to kill (or at the very least grievously maim) the Pillar Men with a stick of dynamite to buy time for his friends. The eldest of the trio, Esidesi, picks up the stick and swallows it whole. His belly winds up blowing up like a balloon. It goes to show Joseph (and the viewer) that the Pillar Men are a lot tougher than anything Joseph has ever faced before and since.
    • Steel Ball Run: When forced to go on a massive spending spree to prevent Sugar Mountain's transflormation from affecting them, Johnny and Gyro make a stop at a restaurant to order the most expensive meals, with Gyro developing this after eating everything.
  • In Kill la Kill, Mako stuffs herself on her mother's cooking to the point of her gut bulging to comedically huge proportions in Episode 23.
  • Kat ends up with a modest, yet noticeable potbelly in Episode 16 of Layton Mystery Detective Agency after eating a massive lunch that includes an entire cake all by herself.
  • MegaMan NT Warrior (2002): This tends to show up whenever somebody eats a whole hell lot of something; various instances abound throughout the whole series, especially with Dex and Lan with their love of curry.
  • M78 Love and Peace, a chibi-OVA based on the Ultra Series, have chibi-Ultraman getting a bloated belly after eating a watermelon in seconds.
  • In episode 20 of Midnight Horror School, Mr. X gains a balloon belly after drinking too much juice.
  • Monster Musume: Miia, Centorea, Papi, and Mero all gain weight during a spa vacation.
    • In Chapter 57 Papi is already the first and largest of the girls to balloon up.
    • At the end of Chapter 59 Papi actually doubles in size when compared to Chapter 57, while Miia, Mero, and Centorea all sport noticeable pot bellies.
    • In the first volume of the anthology series, I Heart Monster Girls (Chapter 7), Papi, Miia, and Centorea all gain weight after eating nothing but sweets.
    • In the second volume, Suu absorbs so much water that she becomes a sumo slime.
    • In the fourth volume, Lala imagines Miia really fat, because she believes Miia will one day eat everyone in the house.
  • Naruto has Choji, whose fighting style is somewhat based around this.
    • Happens to Naruto himself a couple of times, and to Naruto, Kiba, Shino, and Sai during the Shippuden Episode 95 omake.
  • In the manga Nukenai Seiken-chan, the Imperials all like to gorge on food, since as Living Weapons the sensation of eating is a novelty to them and they convert food into mana. When given free reign, they eat until their stomachs visibly bloat into almost pregnant-looking swells. The bloating is swiftly taken care of when they want to, as they can condense the "converted" mana into highly valuable mana crystals they then excrete.
  • When the idols set up a curry stand in Episode 12 of Ochikobore Fruit Tart, the first person in line is Loony Fan Tone Honmachi, who buys ten large bowls to show her support. After they sell out, Tone (who's implied to have eaten most of their stock) returns to congratulate them, and the camera moves down to show her now comically large bloated belly.
  • One Piece:
    • Happens often to Luffy, being both a Big Eater and a Rubber Man allows him to literally become spherical after a particularly large meal (Curiously, it is sometimes averted, logic be damned).
    • During the timeskip training, Usopp also ate so much that he rivaled Luffy in size.
    • Also done by Kumadori, when Chopper temporarily takes him out of the fight by locking him in a fridge. He consumes all the food in it and comes out very fat. Then he uses a special technique to immediately absorb all his fat and get skinny again.
    • Olga from the "Heart of Gold" OVA is nearly as gluttonous as Luffy, and has three different scenes where she's sporting a stuffed belly after gorging herself on ridiculous amounts of food such as when she's forcing her marine captors to give her tons of candy and when she first comes aboard the Thousand Sunny and has Sanji cook for her.
    • During a fantasy sequence, Lily Enstomach ends up gorging herself on literal mountains of food alongside Luffy. Predictably, it ends with both of them sporting massively round bellies.
  • This happens to Totoko in Episodes 24 and 69 of the 1988 anime adaption of Osomatsu-kun; both times from pigging out.
  • Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt:
    • Stocking receives this treatment in "The Diet Syndrome". After having apparently gained weight, Stocking goes to extremes to keep her weight down, but to no avail. This is due to a possessed cake she was eating throughout the episode. She snaps when her belly gets big enough to look like she's pregnant, and in a fit of rage she stuffs her face with cakes until she outgrows her tower in the church.
    • Both girls in "Nothing to Room", where their bellies grow massive after stuffing themselves on a ton of takeout. It's the page image.
  • PaRappa the Rapper:
    • The fourth episode has PaRappa get a bloated tummy after eating his school lunch.
    • In the eleventh episode, PaRappa and PJ are shown with bloated stomachs after eating at a restaurant.
  • The titular Yucie from Petite Princess Yucie overeats on her birthday in the first episode, and ends up with a painfully bloated belly because of it.
  • Pokémon: The Series:
    • May's Munchlax every time it eats a special Pokéblock.
    • Team Rocket had ENORMOUS bellies in the episode after the Summer School arc, which was a part of their Villainous BSoD.
    • Jessie looked like she was pregnant after she, James and Meowth stole a bunch of food and Dawn's Cyndaquil egg in the Johto Festival episode.
    • In later seasons, Ash's gluttonous tendencies often lead to him sporting a big belly: four times in Sinnoh (along with Pikachu), once in Unova, once in Kalos, three times in Alola, and currently four times in Journeys.
    • The same happened to Ash's Pikachu (four times) and Fletchling in Kalos.
    • Minor character Angie from the Sinnoh seasons sports a bloated gut after a huge meal in "If The Scarf Fits, Wear It!"
    • Subverted in "An Appetite For Battle", when Clemont's Chespin gets this after gorging himself on macarons, but his pudginess stays with him even after the eating scene ends, and he spends the rest of the episode trying to work off his extra pounds.
  • The titular character of Potemayo during her regular eating binges.
  • This actually becomes the source of conflict in an episode of Powerpuff Girls Z, where all three girls are too bloated to effectively fight a noodle monster after stuffing themselves at a noodle restaurant.
  • Meiko from Prison School drinks over five liters of soda during the Sports Festival arc, and her belly gets huge as a result. Because soda is tied to helping the currently meek Meiko shift back into her old, aggressive personality, her being too full to keep drinking soda is a bad thing for her team.
  • Sailor Moon: Usagi gains a pot belly from chugging down an entire bottle of soda. It disappears in the next shot, though.
  • Samurai Champloo:
    • This happens to Mugen on the few occasions when he gets to really stuff himself.
    • Fuu takes it one step further — her entire body changes shape, making her look quite obese for the next scene. In one episode, two thugs specifically looking for her didn't even recognize her because of it.
  • Tamagotchi:
    • If there's no one around to stop him, Kuchipatchi tends to eat until he reaches this point.
    • In Episode 78a, Chamametchi and Kikitchi help Perotchi look for berries. They come across a big bush of berries and eat every single one of them, which causes their bellies to bloat.
  • Kamina from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann gets one of these after gorging himself in the Hot Springs Episode.
  • This doesn't happen to Toriko often because his body's Gourmet Cells can store millions of calories, all of which he needs to use his special attacks. On the rare occasions it does happen to him, his gut gets huge due to the fact that it's often as a result of eating quantities as ridiculous as an entire mountain of pudding, or all the meat on a gigantic monster.
    • It also happens to anime-exclusive character Tina, who accidentally gets carried away with gorging herself on a tofu dish she made for her TV Show, resulting in her belly blowing up to the size of an exercise ball.
  • Uma Musume:
    • Special Week, who ended up eating a little too much after a victory in episode 3.
    • Oguri Cup, as the resident Big Eater, almost always have a giant belly after eating tons of food. This spreads to her friends in Episode 13.
  • In Episode 13 of Urusei Yatsura, main character Ataru and secondary characters Cherry (an old monk) and Sakura (his niece, a very shapely and attractive woman) participate in a beach restaurant's eating contest. Ataru and Cherry quickly get "Balloon Belly" and give up, but Sakura literally eats the restaurant out of business, even after consuming diet pills. And she's still hungry afterwards, yet she somehow manages to stay looking completely normal. The reason why she's capable of this is never explained for comedic purposes.
    • The ending of that story was changed from the manga. In the manga version, the story plays out the same... but then she lies down on an inflatable pool float... which instantly sinks, dumping her in. In other words, while the food doesn't affect her body shape, she still gets heavier.
    • Also in Episode 23 where Ataru, Lum, Shinobu and Mendou –- lost in a cave system that somehow led into a crashed alien spaceship –- all dine on tins of alien food they found. It doesn't affect Lum, but the three humans all end up with Balloon Bellies, with Shinobu suggesting the food has expanded inside their stomachs and Lum noting that it mustn't be suited for human constitutions. When they realize they are literally ten feet from the rest of their class, they try to reach them, but fail because they're too engorged to fit through the exit tubes.

    Asian Animation 
  • Happy Heroes: In Season 2 episode 13, Big M. and Little M.'s bellies become larger than usual after they eat a lot of meat prepared for them by a cat.
  • This often happens to characters in Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf whenever they eat too much.
  • In episode 12 of Yamucha's-Kung Fu Academy, Miko, Nao and Jubby become bloated from eating a bunch of apples.

    Comic Books 
  • Jughead acquires one (or more) after his binges in Archie Comics.
  • In one The Beano strip of The Bash Street Kids, the already balloon-bellied Fatty is forced to play football (soccer), but as his name indicates he is not the fittest of characters. He solves this problem by playing in goal, and eating so much that he is fat enough to fill the entire goal-mouth!
  • In a story published in the German Club Nintendo magazine, Bowser gets fatter from breaking into Mario's house and eating all his Christmas food. Dr. Mario prescribes him a bitter pill every hour to cure his stomach ache.
  • In The Dandy, the jocks stuffed themselves silly at a pie eating contest.
  • The New Universe title DP7 had a paranormal named Sponge who would absorb all the moisture in the air at a massively accelerated rate, causing her to balloon up in the space of seconds. She could purge the water equally quickly, looking like a punctured water balloon.
  • In "The Day Flash Weighed 1,000 Pounds" (The Flash #115, 1960), The Flash is zapped with a super-fattening ray by the villain of the week (who then, to add insult to injury, gives him amnesia and sells him to a traveling carnival as a sideshow attraction). He's back to normal by the end of the issue, thanks to an implausibly fast (even given that this is the Fastest Man Alive) weight-loss regimen.
    • It involves steaming himself in a room used to dehydrate potatoes, for the curious.
  • Issue 62 of Gen¹³ features a very subtle use of this after Freefall binges on junk food: her belly seems flat at a glance, but upon closer inspection is bulging slightly, just enough to pop the button on her tight shorts.
  • Gold Digger has, amongst its Cute Monster Girls, the Harpy Charlotte, a ditzy woman who is so obsessed with peanuts and pretzels that she goes temporarily insane around them and devours every last one she can find to the point of almost killing herself. This invariably results in a visibly distended stomach, if she can get enough, and once gets her Mistaken for Pregnant after she waddles off of a plane groaning in the after-effects of a bingefest.
  • In the first issue of Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey, Harley sports a small, but noticeable potbelly after devouring all the food she and Ivy bought along for a romantic island getaway. Since Harley's already on thin ice for deliberately stranding them there in the first place, this only pisses off Ivy even further.
  • From the Legion of Super-Heroes, Matter-Eater Lad's actual superpower involved eating, so he would occasionally wind up with a swollen gut afterwards.
  • Issue 12 of My Little Pony: Friends Forever had Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle and Spike giving into temptation and pigging out on food at a street fair. They each temporarily gain weight doing so.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW):
    • In #41, Derpy gets one from eating a box of muffins.
    • Issue 63 has this happening to Spike and several townsponies at an underground bakery brought on by a sugar boycott in Ponyville. The mare responsible for it, Temperance Flowerdew, also gained weight by pigging out on sweets as a filly.
  • Secret Wars II had the Beyonder in human form pigging out on a gangster's yacht. He later vaporizes the flab in a second.
  • In The Simpsons comic "Big Fat Trouble in Little Springfield", Bart makes fun of an overweight student at school, then has a nightmare about being fat. In the dream sequence, Bart is depicted with an enormous belly.
  • In the story "Creambob Conepants", SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick get explosively fat after eating an entire Alternate Universe of Bikini Bottom that was made of ice cream. They exercise it off, but here are the results, if you dare.
  • Steven Universe:
    • In The Big Donut Special, Amethyst and Steven compete in a donut eating contest and balloon up in size after gorging on every single donut available, ending the contest in a tie.
    • During a beach party in Issue 30, Amethyst ends up with a pregnant-looking gut after eating a ton of marshmallows, leading to this exchange.
    Garnet: You ate too many marshmallows, Amethyst.
    Amethyst: No, I ate just *hic* enough.
  • Titeuf once went on a waterslide, head first and dived in a pool with the mouth open. In the next panel, his body looks like a huge water balloon.
  • When Pinon the Drinker drains Wonder Woman of her blood in the comic adaptation of Wonder Woman: Warbringer, her belly is massively bloated to the point of causing physical discomfort.
  • In X-Men, Storm first met Gambit while she was temporarily de-aged to about ten or twelve (a bit of amnesia, too). Early on, he took her to eat at (apparently) a friend's home; she was so hungry and the food so good that she stuffed herself, finally sitting back and commenting in a surprised way, "My belly is bigger."

    Comic Strips 
  • One strip of Calvin and Hobbes had Calvin imagining growing to immense size after eating. In reality, he just had a bellyache from eating too fast.
  • Dogs of C-Kennel:
    • Happens to Kenny in this strip, after having apparently drank 8 glasses of water all at once.
    • Will also gains one in this strip after overindulging himself on Lay's potato chips.
  • In Garfield, the title character devours a lot of food even for him, but the shape he gained was more flabby than round. One strip featured a skinny Garfield bragging that he had finally found a diet that actually worked. He decides to reward himself by eating one single potato chip, which somehow causes him to immediately gain all of the weight back.
  • Happens on a few occasions to Nemo and Flip in Little Nemo in Slumberland after they eat something unusual.
  • In Peanuts, Snoopy frequently developed one by overeating:
    • In a 1960s arc, he indulged in dog food in hope of forgetting a failed romance at the outdoor ice skating rink.
    • In the June 24, 1962 strip, after attempting to mow his lawn by grazing it.
    • In a shorter 1980s arc, it's stated that he ate 23 hot dogs that Lucy had sold to him during one of their baseball games.
    • Not to be outdone, Snoopy's brother, Spike, ballooned up in weight when Lucy, who was disgusted with how thin he was, attempted to fatten him up. He was skinny again within a week.
    • In one storyline in June of 1982, Sally is sent to Beanbag Camp for two weeks, where all the kids do all day is lie around in beanbags, watch tv, and eat junk food. She returns home fat, and revealing that she also signed up for the following summer.
  • In a storyline in Pearls Before Swine, Rat, angry that the staff at an Old Country Buffet-style restaurant ripped him off, eats the entire buffet's stock out of spite.

    Fan Works 
  • Calvin & Hobbes: The Series:
    • Calvin's mother gets this in the end of "Camping Trip Part 2" after eating for quite a while.
    • Hobbes gains one after eating a whole lot of fish in his segment of "Tales of a Tiger".
    • Mother Brainstorm, Big Eater as she is, gains one of these in "Forecast for Disaster" after demolishing an entire buffet.
  • Several Phineas and Ferb fanfics contain these.
    • Candace gets a particularly explosive one in Grilled Cheese Nightmare.
      Candace (groans): This must be what it feels like to be pregnant.
    • Candace's medieval counterpart, Candavere, along with her friends Stacehilda and Jenavene, gain some nice bulges after a large banquet at the end of Excaliferb: A Further Adventure.
    • In Two Lads in Dangrabah, Candace swallows a submarine sandwich whole, which causes her stomach to bulge out significantly. Because in this story, she is a genie, she uses magic to shift the fat in her gut into other places, but since she doesn't do this immediately, it appears that she doesn't seem to mind being bigger.
    • This is the plot of Queen-Sized Candace, after said character spends a week indulging herself in several desserts, the first meal resulting in Dinner Deformation (which resolves itself after said meal also gives her the hiccups). Later, Stacy and Jenny also get the same treatment.
  • The Invader Zim fanfic Feast of Doom so far has Zim being fattened up to enormousness for an ally planet's Moon Festival. So much so that GIR gets lost in his rolls of fat.
    GIR: I just had the most wonderful adventure...
  • Sonic the Hedgehog's Rouge the Bat ends up accidentally fattening herself up in Rouge's Weighty Frustrations. She doesn't even notice her weight gain for quite some time, until moments before she decides to go on a heist, where her fat stomach ends up getting her stuck in a small space... twice.
    Rouge: Well, this’ll be a red-letter day for the press, won’t it? 'Former Grand Thief, Rouge the Bat, Caught in the Act, Trapped by Her Own Weight'…
  • Princess Anna ends up bloating herself up in the Frozen (2013) fanfiction The Luncheon: To Spoil Anna. Her sister Elsa doesn't seem to mind her rounder stomach, however.
  • This happens to Dawn in the second chapter of the Total Drama fanfiction, Total Drama Prison. She drinks four whole bottles of aged soda as part of a challenge. Not only does her stomach bloat up and start aching, which lasts for the rest of the chapter, but she also gets the hiccups from drinking too much.
  • The Dragon Ball Z fanfiction Exercise Me focuses on Bulma's weight gain after her pregnancy with Trunks, and how Vegeta reluctantly helps her lose the extra pounds.
  • Another example of a story revolving around this trope is A Pokémon Gaining Adventure. There are quite a few people who gain weight, but the story mostly revolves around Misty.
  • There are quite a few expansion moments in Survivor of the Smash Nintendo: Mastered Edition:
    • Zero Suit Samus becomes inflated in chapter 6 and stays in this state until chapter 9.
    • Zelda gains a bloated belly after stuffing herself at a feast in chapter 13.
    • Once again, Zero Suit Samus is inflated, only to blimp size this time due to a malfunctioning pill in chapter 16.
    • Rosalina is accidentally inflated with water by E.Gadd using FLUDD in chapter 25, before deflating and flying about the room.
    • Zero Suit Samus, once again, stuffs herself in an eating contest to the point of breaking her chair. She had to be lifted by everyone else and placed on multiple Lumas to hold her new weight.
  • Global Inflation has this happen to pretty much all the leads of Hetalia: Axis Powers, as a result of massive inflation in all of their economies.
  • In a Sailor Moon fic, Cosmic Warriors, Naru and Usagi notice several customers have this when they arrive at a pancake shop.
  • Happens twice in The Lion King Adventures:
    • Simba is fattened up by King Hapana in Desperate Measures, causing his belly to grow three times its normal size.
    • Haiba eats way too much in Changes, thus creating his obese alter ego: Don Haiba.
  • Actually handled rather tastefully in the (serious) Madoka fic Cibus Esculentus Madoka Magica. In order to serve their purpose as Cibi, girls are magically turned extremely fat upon making their contracts with Kyubey.
  • Cupcakes is a violent My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic shock-fic. Cupcakes Redux is a parody of Cupcakes where Pinkie Pie chains up Rainbow Dash in her basement and force-feeds her cupcakes, pies and other desserts. Rainbow Dash winds up with such a large belly that, when she lays on top of it, she can't touch the floor with any of her hooves.
  • In Common Interests a newly-hatched dragon drinks so much chicken blood mixed with brandy that its stomach looks like a bowling ball.
  • In The Thunder of Dragons Hermione is left with a bulging stomach after eating an entire deer.
  • It's a Running Gag for Vaccine Womannote  in One Punch Man: Hero's Harem that she will end up glutting herself on pollution until her stomach bulges, often to the point where she becomes immobile until she manages to digest some of her titanic meal. It started when she accidentally defeated a monster made of living tar by instinctively swallowing it whole in chapter 5; Tar became the first of several pollution monsters she would consume in a similar manner. In addition, in several chapters she also eats similarly bloating meals in the form of massive amounts of regular pollution, including drinking gallons of soft drink contaminated with cocaine and even having an erotic dream sequence where Saitama begins coming onto her after she has gorged herself on a massive pollution spill.
  • We Can Be Heroes! (Steven Universe): Lapis ends up with a massively stuffed belly after gorging herself on alien seafood. It's actually used as a minor narrative device by way of Lapis having eaten herself into a food coma, where she's been dreaming about the fun times she had with Steven.
  • Mystery Girl (Called Sabina here) in the Steven Universe shipping fic Distant Stars is described as having a bloated belly after eating a huge picnic meal Pearl had made for her. Amusingly, when she comments on being so full she could burst, poor Pearl takes it literally.
  • Played for drama in "Strength In Numbers" of the Facing the Future Series, in which Danny ends up pigging out a buffet (due to Desiree putting a spell on the food to make him eat nonstop), and ends up being so full of food that when a gathering of his Rogues Gallery ambushes him outside the buffet, he can't fight back.
    Spectra: (Mockingly) Awww, what's wrong, Champ? Something you ATE?!
  • Nabiki Tendo, of all characters, gets one in a chapter of Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse after some of her crew make the mistake of betting actual cash that she couldn't finish the ridiculously huge order of sweets, pastries and desserts she inadvertently placed. The end result is Nabiki winds up looking like a python that swallowed a goat, with an almost pregnant-looking potbelly. Fortunately for her, Ranma's Training from Hell helps her to burn off the calories before they can wreak too much havoc on her figure. She gets a second one, played for horror, in chapter 31, where she can only defeat a Blob Monster by consuming and then digesting it, resulting in her having to digest it before it can rip its way out of her stomach. Luckily for her, that belly goes down much faster, complete with the obligatory Burp of Finality.

    Films — Animated 
  • Mittens in Bolt gets a big belly after eating a bunch of food thanks to exploiting Bolt's cuteness. Her happy reaction is the page's current quote:
    Mittens: Hey, look! My stomach's distended! How great is that?
  • The Castle of Cagliostro: Lupin gets one after stuffing himself with food to strengthen himself up. Becomes Green Around the Gills when all this food threatens to come back up again.
  • Templeton in Charlotte's Web, during a musical number. The more recent version was more realistic and didn't have him expand so quickly.
  • A Terrible Terror in How to Train Your Dragon attempts to confront Toothless over a fish pile. Toothless quickly wins by shooting a small pulse of fire in its mouth, inflating its belly briefly.
  • Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: The morning after the kids go wild when they realize there aren't any parents left in Retroville, some kids are broadcasting a news report about how everyone wants their parents back because of how life without them isn't so great. One kid being interviewed cries about winning a cotton candy-easting contest, before the camera pulls back to reveal that he's become extremely bloated as a result.
  • Timon (and teenage Simba) at the end of the bug-eating contest in The Lion King 1 ½.
  • In the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls films, this happens to Spike twice.
    • In the Friendship Games Gag Reel, Pinkie Pie attempts to replace a display of cheese and vegetables with cupcakes but Spike sneaks inside her bag and gorges on most of them.
    • In Magical Movie Night, he also gets one when Pinkie Pie feeds him too many candy bars.
  • Ralph Breaks the Internet has a scene where Ralph and Vanellope get into a bunny-feeding touchscreen game for toddlers. Ralph goes nuts feeding pancakes to the bunny, who swells up to a huge size. And then the last plate of pancakes makes the bunny explode.
  • In The Return of Hanuman, Maruti had one after he ate the whole village food supply.
  • The Sea Beast: Blue's stomach got huge after eating a lot of fish that Jacob and Maisie caught.
  • Winnie the Pooh is fat by default, but in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, his girth nearly doubles upon eating all of Rabbit's honey. He predictably gets Stuck in the Doorway as a result.

    Films — Live-Action 
  • In the 1995 movie Backfire, Jessica sports a bloated gut after going overboard with the snacks at a fancy dinner party, much to the shock of her date.
  • The Laurel and Hardy short "Below Zero" ends with Stanley tossed head-first into a full rain barrel. He ends up this way drinking it all.
  • In Carry On Again Doctor, a massive failure of Long Hampton Hospital's electrical system (caused by Dr. Jimmy Nookey trying to impress model Goldie Locks with an X-ray machine) ends up causing a hapless patient's ventilator to start pumping at breakneck speed, inflating him like a balloon.
  • Class of Nuke 'Em High: Overlaps with a good amount of Squick. For example, in Chrissy's Nightmare Sequence, she's lying in bed at home, her belly starts swelling up at an alarming rate. Then some kind of dark green tadpole monster wriggles out of her navel.
  • Cool Hand Luke, after the Fifty Eggs Challenge. Mixed very oddly with a Crucified Hero Shot.
  • Funny Ghost: When they're forced to fight the ghost at the end of the movie, the heroes realize that her belly bulges when they sacrifice their blood to the urn she feeds from. So while playing a pitched game of keep away, the heroes stuff her full of blood until her stomach explodes.
  • Hisss: Played for Black Humor. After Nagini Swallowed Whole one of her attempted rapists, we see her lounging contentedly in her would-be assailant's bed as she sleeps off her meal halfway between forms (scaly belly, a snake's tail for one leg), lying in bed with her hand sprawled after a huge, pregnant-looking gut.
  • In How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Cindy Lou Who invites The Grinch to participate in Whoville's Whobilation. One such event has the Whovians stuffing him with food, inflating him in the process.
  • Leprechaun 2: After trapping the Leprechaun in the wrought-iron safe, Morty decides to use one of the wishes he's entitled to for the Leprechaun's gold. Where it ends up, pot and all, is inside of him.
  • Men in Black II, following this scene:
    Wanna-be rapist: Hey, pretty lady. [licks her] You taste good. What the?! Urgh, aaah!
    Serleena: [eats him whole] Yeah, you too. [walks out sporting a massive gurgling gut]
  • A particularly memorable example is the Mr. Creosote sketch in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. You'll be the one needing a bucket if you try to watch it whilst eating.
  • Happens to Christopher Lloyd in My Favorite Martian after clearing out an Ice Cream store.
    • Oddly, the same thing happened to Lloyd in Dennis the Menace after being duped into eating beans.
  • In National Lampoon's European Vacation, Audrey imagines herself overeating from European dishes, causing her chest to inflate like a balloon and her buttons to pop off.
  • In The Cat in the Hat, Cat drinks some milk, and being lactose intolerant, ends up experiencing a bad bout of gas that causes his belly to expand into a large, round shape, with a literal sound of blowing up a balloon. He is then forced to relieve the pressure by letting out a massive belch.
  • In The Naked Gun 2 1/2, Drebin incapacitates evil minion Savage by putting a fire hose in his mouth and flooding his stomach. When Drebin attempts to cut the water, he breaks the valve. Savage blows.
  • A gluttony victim from Se7en was killed when John Doe forced him to eat a large amount of food, then kicked him in his severely distended stomach..
  • Strange Brew. Comes in handy for firefighting too—
    Bob: Jeez, I gotta take a leak so bad I can taste it!
  • In Les Visiteurs II: The Corridors of Time, when 20th century character Jacquart (Christian Clavier) is stranded in The Middle Ages after an Accidental Time Travel, he's tortured by an inquisitor, being forced to drink gallons upon gallons of water. At some point the water flow isn't stopped and that makes his belly inflate even more, with his navel sticking out and even his eyes bugging out cartoonishly. He's fine afterwards, after urinating a lot.
  • The main character in Zebraman 2: Assault on Zebra City, after eating a goo alien with the size of a skyscraper in means of defeating it and thus becoming a miniature planet with head and limbs.

    Literature 
Examples by author: Examples by work:
  • One of Aesop's Fables is about a fox who discovers a stash of food hidden inside a tree. The fox gorges on the entire supply, becoming so fat that he is unable to get out. Depending on how the fable is translated, the fox is told by a weasel or another fox that he'll have to wait until he's back to his normal weight to come out of the tree.
  • The Brothers Grimm: In the last part of "The Wolf and the Fox", the fox leads the wolf to a hunter's supply of salted meat which they access by crawling through a hole in the wall. Both characters pig out, to the point where the fox worries that he might not fit through the hole once they've finished. The wolf insists on staying until he's eaten everything, a move that proves fatal when his gluttony gets him stuck.
  • In Charlotte's Web, when Templeton the Rat returns from stuffing himself on the bountiful discarded junk food at the county fair, the author describes him as "big around as a jelly jar", and by the end of the book, he gets even bigger as a result of Wilbur keeping his promise to let him have first dibs when Lurvy puts out his food.
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick's fish gets one after he eats Greg's fish in the first book.
  • In The Dresden Files, Harry pays his "spies" (fairies) in pizza. After they've violently consumed the pizza they look like this, but they return to their normal shape after a few minutes.
  • Harry Potter:
    • The Prisoner of Azkaban has Marge Dursley being blown up like a balloon for saying that Harry's parents "died in a car crash".
    • In The Order of the Phoenix, Harry eats enough at Grimmauld Place that his jeans which had once belonged to his obese cousin Dudley felt snug (courtesy of master chef Mrs. Weasley).
  • In Hatching Magic by Ann Downer, Wycca the wyvern, who has traveled through a magic hole in search of a place to lay her egg, gorges herself on ice cream and other sweets, ending up with this happening to her.
  • In I'm Hungry by Jorge Martín, a baby dragon hatches to find her mother gone in search for food, so she eats some animals on the island to sate her appetite, growing with each creature she eats.
  • Tayune in the ending of Inukami!.
  • Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo: This happens to anyone who eats too much of a Filler Cracker. As Winter finds out from personal experience.
  • In The Little Prince (and its movie version), the aviator draws a boa constrictor with an elephant inside. Since the back of the snake is the one he draws as distended, it gets mistaken for the drawing of a hat the first time he shows it to other people.
  • The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic book Applejack and the Honest-To-Goodness Switcheroo has this happen to Pinkie Pie, whose stomach is said to be swollen after stuffing herself to the gills at a pie eating contest. Doesn't stop her from wanting more, though.
  • At the end of Chapter 2 of Max and Moritz, The boys are seen stuffed after eating chicken that they stole from the widow's chimney, and resting with pieces of chicken on their mouth.
  • In NAKAIMO - My Little Sister is Among Them!, Mana looks pregnant after leaving a dinner party in the episode "The Blooming Sisters", where her hunger led to her stuffing herself with a ton of delicious food.
  • Happened to Negi in Chapter 56 of Negima! Magister Negi Magi. Makie had prepared food for him knowing he was training for Evangeline's Apprenticeship Test. And overdid it. Then she brought out the "secret" diet technique of the gymnastics club, which went too far the other way.
  • At the end of Strega Nona Big Anthony gets a visible potbelly after he's forced to eat all the pasta he made as punishment for using Strega Nona's magic pasta pot and flooding the town in the process.
  • In The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Peter becomes considerably heavier after helping himself to vegetables from Mr. McGregor's garden.
  • Poor Stuffy Pete ends up with one after guilt-tripping himself into eating two huge Thanksgiving dinners in succession by mutually unaware benefactors in O. Henry's "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen".
  • In Unseen Academicals, Mr. Nutt comes Back from the Dead, feeling hungry, and eats nine pies. He's a pretty small chap, and, anyway, nine pies, and as such, is described as looking like a snake that swallowed a goat.
  • In the Vorkosigan Saga novel Mirror Dance, Miles Vorkosigan's clone brother Mark binges on combat rations for two weeks, bringing his weight up too in a half-conscious effort to separate himself from his progenitor — which looks alarming enough, given that they both are under five feet tall. Then it goes From Bad to Worse.
  • Pinon from Wonder Woman: Warbringer swells up after draining Wonder Woman of her blood and briefly killing her in the climax.
  • Children classic Winnie the Pooh does this. Pooh eats so much he gets stuck in Rabbit's burrow.
  • Noncomedic example: According to The Zombie Survival Guide, since zombies don't digest human flesh, they can end up with distended stomachs fairly quickly.

    Live-Action TV 
  • Between the Lions:
    • At the end of "The Popcorn Popper", the pigeons Walter and Clay had MASSIVE bellies after eating all the popcorn. This happened to them again at the end of "The Good Seed".
    • This happens to the cat after it ate the hen and later the hen after it ate a bag of seeds in "Farmer Ken's Puzzle".
  • Bottom has a subtle (by its standards) use of this in the episode "Gas", when Eddie stands up after eating almost the entire contents of the neighboring flat's fridge. It's gone again a couple of shots later.
  • CSI had a rather nasty version of this when a guy was trying to use a device designed to help with dressing deer carcasses and help another guy with something. The victim basically got inflated to death. (though it wasn't murder in that situation).
    • Likewise, NCIS did a serious version where an eco-terrorist tricked his way onto a Navy sub to release deadly gas there from a cold-triggered canister. When his first plan failed, his backup was to swallow the capsule of gas and commit suicide, so his body would be placed in the freezer and chill the capsule to the point of release. His body had a gas-swollen belly when the team found it but fortunately remained intact long enough for the team to launch it from one of the torpedo tubes.
  • Over the course of the three-week Labor Day break, Jon Stewart has become so obese that special effects are required to make him look normal. John Oliver points out Stewart's obesity, but later "reveals" that he is a hallucination caused by Stewart's onset of diabetes.
    "Why did I rent that ice cream truck...?"
  • At the end of the Fraggle Rock episode "The Preachification of Convincing John", everyone gets a balloon belly after the vow to no longer eat Doozer constructions is lifted, and everyone ends up going a little overboard. Mokey concludes in her diary that she learned that there is such a thing as eating too many Doozer constructions.
  • Frasier gains some weight in a very short amount of time from excessive eating while going through a state of depression over his latest breakup.
  • In F Troop, Agarn acquires one at the end of "Survival of the Fittest" after gorging himself in celebration of surviving the survival test.
  • In the commentary for an episode of Firefly, during a Shirtless Scene, Alan Tudyk wishes they hadn't shot right after he had a big lunch.
  • In The Goodies episode "Holidays", Bill drinks so much tea he ends up with a huge balloon belly, which stays with him until the commercial break.
  • Hannah Montana has Lilly; Though normally she is a Big Eater, the only time she visibly gained weight was in "No Sugar, Sugar", where she ate an entire buffet made of nothing but sweets.
    Lilly: I spent the entire night devouring everything Oliver tried to look at! I've eaten my entire body weight in cupcakes alone!
  • At the beginning of the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids episode "Honey, It's Gloom and Doom", Wayne gets one after tasting the fizzy breakfast drink he invented. This happened because he put too much sugar in it.
  • How I Met Your Mother did a sly reference to Alyson Hannigan's pregnancy by having her enter and win a hot-dog–eating contest — with this result.
  • Incredible Crew: In the episode Face Jeans, there was a sketch where Chanelle was at a spelling B and she got her word wrong. She gasped and inflated like a human balloon, quickly floating in the air as if filled with helium. And then, like a balloon, she cartoonishly started flying around the auditorium and her then deflated body fell to the floor.
  • Monty Python's Flying Circus has Barry Zeppelin, the least talented brother of Ferdinand von Zeppelin. After Barry fails to inflate a large balloon, the balloon inflates him.
  • Happens on The Muppet Show as Judy Collins is singing "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" where a shadow puppet of an old woman gets increasingly fatter with each animal she swallows... that is, until she explodes after swallowing a horse.
    Judy Collins: She's dead, of course.
  • Night Court in the final episode of Season 6 Yet Another Day in the Life, The bailiff Bull Shannon ends up largely bloated after attempting to plug up a leak in the water pipes.
  • The titular character of The New Adventures of Old Christine gained several pounds in the episode "He Ain't Heavy"; originally she had only gained weight in her butt, but eventually she gains enough weight for her stomach to start growing too. Both her belly and her butt remain swollen for the rest of the episode.
  • In the Red Dwarf episode "Balance of Power", Cat gets a noticeable one after stuffing himself with Trout a la Creme from the vending machine.
  • In an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sabrina grows to ginormous size when she eats too many pancakes.
    Sabrina: I think I might be retaining water. ...Or syrup.
    • This happens to Harvey in another episode, when he is captured by the witch from "Hansel and Gretel".
  • Amy Poehler, while still a cast member on Saturday Night Live, used the balloon/pregnant belly gag when she was having her first child. One woman in an ad for the Michael Phelps Diet — a meal plan that directs you to eat as much as an Olympic swimmer, without the calorie-burning part — testifies next to a photo of her "old" self that she's been on the diet for "almost two weeks", and it's going great. Cue the camera angling out to show her in the same outfit, now looking like she's stuffed to burst.
    Amy: People are already coming up to me and saying, "Congratulations!" — because they know I've found the perfect diet.
  • In the Small Wonder episode "Fat's Where It's At", Ted enabled Vicki to extract energy from food the way humans do. He also unwittingly gave her a superhuman appetite, which exceeded her digestive ability.
  • This happens in a Reality Show, of all places. Survivor's 20th season has Courtney Yates, who, after getting voted off and sent to Ponderosa, eats enough to make her stomach visibly bulge. She then goes to show it off to the camera:
    Courtney: (pats belly) That's my food baby. ...Don't worry, I'm going to work out tomorrow.
    (Beat)
    Courtney: (smiles) Maybe.
  • A similar device was used in Titus to use Cynthia Watros' pregnancy for a laugh. In this case, it was a pie-eating contest.
  • Whammy: In one of the rotating Whammy animations, a supermodel Whammy struts down a runway. She sees the contestant's winnings, complains about being so hungry, and dives for the money. She has a noticeable belly by the time she's finished.
  • Adrian Edmondson's ability to inflate his stomach at will was also used for a laugh on The Young Ones episode "Cash" and The Comic Strip Presents.

    Music 
  • Near the end of this animated music video, two people get large bellies from drinking too much beer.
  • The music video for the "Weird Al" Yankovic song "Fat" (to the tune of Michael Jackson song "Bad") has the already wearing a fat suit Al literally balloon to even more impossible proportions.

    Tabletop Games 
  • In Deadlands, one of the many varieties of indigenous bloodsucker is the Shtriga, a Central European witch who feeds on blood to power her magic and preserve her youth. She is characterized by her gluttonous appetite, which sees her consuming so much blood that she ends up having to vomit some of the excess, and even after that her stomach is left so swollen and taut that she can easily disguise herself as being a pregnant woman. Her stomach is so important to her that killing her requires staking her through the stomach.
  • Pathfinder: One archetype for the Witch class, the Gingerbread Witch, has the ability to swallow any target in their size category or smaller. If the swallowed target is the same size or one category smaller, the Witch's stomach distends greatly, causing the rules for carrying heavy loads to apply to them. Curiously, the target is not harmed inside the witch's belly and can theoretically remain there indefinitely.

    Theme Parks 

    Video Games 
  • Banjo-Kazooie: Nabnut the squirrel gets so bloated that he cannot move after eating too many acorns.
  • Data East's Diet Go Go has food-based enemies that throw food at our exercise outfit-clad hero and heroine. One hit with projectile food makes you fat, two makes you obese, leading to instant death. Averted if the enemies touch you directly, which is also instant death. To boot, the entire game's premise is about an evil scientist who's spreading junk food around the world, making people obese.
  • Fat Princess is a downloadable real time strategy/action hybrid that has this as a strategic element, your goal is to capture the enemy princess whilst protecting your own and you can fatten the princess up to make it harder for the opposing army to move her.
  • Game & Watch: In Chef you control a chef who juggles food with a frying pan. If one meal hits the floor, it gets taken by a mouse who becomes larger upon eating it. Misses are also represented by fat mice.
  • In Grow Cannon, a lake creature can eat a fruit bigger than it is in one bite which make the aleady pudgy creature have an even bigger belly.
  • In Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite!, you meet a hamster in Sunflower Market who is having trouble opening a box of cookies. After you help him, he'll chow down to the point where he'll become tubbier the next time you see him.
  • In Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak, Hamtaro and Bijou come across two hamsters who have pigged out on sunflower seeds. Hamtaro can learn the ham-chat Bloat-T from them, and he and Bijou demonstrate it.
  • In Homescapes Austin imagines himself with one after his mother says that eating cake with friends is the best cure for negativity.
  • Hungry Lamu: In the "Full Course" ending, Lamu is depicted with a large, round belly shortly after he devours the player character. Although he leaves a hand behind.
  • Island Saver: When it has eaten enough fruit a bankimal expands to hilariously spherical proportions after filling up with coins that the player needs to retrieve.
  • Karnov's balloooooooooon attack in Fighter's History.
  • In the original Killer Instinct, Riptor has a "No Mercy" finisher that combines this trope with To Serve Man: After the correct button code is input, she screeches and makes a diving kick at her victim, then there is a Fade to Black Gory Discretion Shot. The scene then returns to display Riptor laying on her back, cradling an enormously distended belly. She burps loudly, farts once, and then immediately returns to her normal figure to make a triumphant roar.
  • The Kooma Panda, Hebby Repp, Sudo Neku, and Toximander Dream Eaters in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] get a brief case of this whenever you feed them one of the various oversized portions of Rare Candy. Evidently, their Hyperactive Metabolism doesn't kick in instantly like it does for the rest of the Dream Eaters; their animations show them having their stomach issues last for a few more seconds than the regular animations. In other games, the Fat Bandit Heartless gains an inflated stomach before it decides to breathe fire.
  • Big Eater Li Xiangfei gained a huge balloon belly in her team's ending for The King of Fighters 2001. Rather surprising since it was averted in the similar ending for The King of Fighters '99. It seems the artist in charge for 2001, Nona (known for drawing Gonk versions of every character), has no problem subverting the Beauty Is Never Tarnished trope. The China stage of 2002 has her in an eating contest with Cheng Sinzan, a rather large character who regularly fights by inflating himself. By the end, he loses while patting his (even more) distended stomach.
  • Kirby:
    • Though it's hard to tell thanks to his anatomy (or lack thereof), the eponymous character presents an especially absurd example. His size quite literally doubles when he inhales an enemy. (However, it swiftly returns to normal once he decides to swallow.)
    • King Dedede is prone to this, too. When he swallows Kirby, his belly gets so big it forces his head all the way back until he spits him out. He also displays it if you let him beat you in Gourmet Race.
    • All doubt is removed in the Wii installment, in which Kirby's belly wiggle is lovingly animated.
  • Long Live the Queen: In the death where you eat poisoned chocolates, Elodie will Go Out with a Smile as she sits there with a bloated gut and a green face.
  • The Lost Vikings includes an air pump which balloonizes the three characters and make them float.
  • In the Metal Slug game series, if you collect enough dropped food items, you transform into an obese version of yourself. This affects not only your movement, but also your attacks: They're all increased in size and power, and the homing missiles home in on enemies better. It also changes your standing melee attack into a fork stab and crouching melee attack into a belt whip.
  • Monster Hunter:
    • Monster Hunter 2 (dos): The Congalala uses this defensively, puffing out its stomach to deflect your attacks (Which may also trigger a retaliatory fart if you keep hitting it there).
    • Monster Hunter 4: The Zamtrios uses this offensively, puffing out its belly if it manages to swallow you, afterwhich it'll start hitting it against the ground to cause damage to you and anyone else in the vicinity. Further, if you provoke it by breaking its ice armor, it'll temporarily inflate itself to point of looking more like a Blob Monster then a shark, switching to bouncing and rolling attacks instead of its usual biting and clawing as long as it remains in that state. Unfortunately for it, it's a lot more vulnerable once inflated and can be easily killed, or at the very least severely weakened, while in its inflated state. The Tigerstripe variant however knows how to switch between its normal and bloated states on the fly, and is ''seriously'' dangerous while fat.
    • Monster Hunter: World: The Great Jagras will periodically swallow an Aptonoth or Kestodon whole and become severely bloated as a result, not unlike the Zamtrios mentioned above. While bloated, its fighting style changes to where it will not only try to flatten you by rolling over, but will also periodically vomit up chunks of partially digested monster flesh. The Greatest Jagras variant is so huge that when it bloats up, a lot of its movements can trip you up with violent tremors which is a very bad thing given its monstrous strength. You can force both the normal and Greatest variants out of their "fat mode" by continuously attacking their bellies until they vomit up the rest of their prey, with the latter spewing a huge amount of shiny drops in the process.
    • Monster Hunter: Rise:
      • Platypus/frog/kappa monster Tetranadon can stuff itself full of gravel and river rocks, causing its belly to swell up which will slow it down, but also make it hit much harder as a trade-off.
      • Thunder Serpent Narwa, whose thunder sac is a near-literal example of this trope. It's a swollen organ attached to her stomach, and is filled with tons of electric power at the cost of making her look like she's sporting a heavily bloated gut.
  • In Osomatsu-san Hesokuri Wars: Battle of the NEETs, this happens to Christmas Ichimatsu after eating way too much cake (results are rather Squicky).
  • In Overwatch, Roadhog's stomach inflates greatly whenever he inhales from his Hogdrogen gas can via his Take a Breather ability.
  • Hilde from Shadow Hearts: From The New World has two forms. Curvy Hilde is the trope. Slim Hilde is the opposite. Oddly enough, she gains and loses weight via feeding (she drinks calories, not blood—some enemies have "negative" calories).
  • In Shape Shift Shawn, one of the creatures Shawn can transform into is a blue anthropomorphic balloon. He starts out small and deflated, but the player can inflate his balloon belly to several times its original size by jumping repeatedly. This ability allows the player to defy gravity and float around the level, but they must take care not to pop Shawn by moving too close to any sharp surfaces.
  • Tzitzimitl, from Shin Megami Tensei, or at least her appearance in Persona 4, has a subtle one of these. As her Compendium lore states, she's swollen-bellied because she eats stars.
  • In Sid & Al's Incredible Toons, Chow-Man's torso turns spherical after eating food that happens to fall into his tray. He quickly deflates as he walks it off on his treadmill.
  • This happens to Sims in The Sims 2, in both directions: Immediately after getting up from a meal or getting off the treadmill, they may balloon to tubbyness or shrink to svelteness with a cheery sound effect. Contrast with The Sims 3, where fat and muscle are tracked separately, and gained or lost at a gradual rate.
  • Skylanders has Gusto, a Trap Master with the ability to inhale large amounts of air, which makes his already-noticable gut become protruding and distended.
  • In Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion, Specimen 4 develops one after eating the player in her kill screen.
  • In Street Fighter, Dhalsim gets this just before breathing fire.
  • Super Mario Bros.:
    • Any time Petey Piranha appears in a game where the player uses water as a weapon you can guarantee you'll have to utilize his ballooniness to inflate him until his belly button pops out, allowing you to ground pound it.
    • Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga tends to use this to show someone having drunk too much water or Chuckola Cola, typically with Mario swelling up like a balloon until Luigi sends the stuff squirting out by hitting him from behind with a hammer.
    • Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story: One of the Mario brothers' attacks, Snack Basket, involves stuffing Luigi with treats until he balloons up, followed by Mario tossing him at the ground to create a shock wave, as depicted on this page's image.
      • During his first visit to his castle, Bowser is goaded into gorging himself on fatty, unhealthy foods until he balloons to such a size that he breaks through the floor and remains stuck there until the Bros. can burn off the fat from inside his body. Later on he can return to said food to gorge himself up though this time he can burn the fat off himself just by doing sit-ups really fast.
    • Paper Mario: The Origami King: When the Water Vellumental absorbs water before using its powers, its torso swells to literally spherical proportions.
    • Any time you throw a shell, shoot star bits, or spin into the penguin coach from Super Mario Galaxy, he briefly puffs out his belly in order to deflect your attacks.
    • Wario:
    • In WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase, one of the minigames has Wario's belly inflating to deflect rockets.
  • It's never shown but during the Miss Tenku contest DLC in Super Robot Wars V, Salia states that Mao apparently drinks so much at night that she gets this. It's not out-of-character for Salia to exaggerate about something like this when she's talking trash in a contest, but Mao's reaction seems to indicate that it's true.
    Mao: You truly are pathetic. Could it be all the stress of the captain role you don't deserve?
    Salia: I may be stressed, but that's better then you, drinking away your cares every night until you've got the figure of a beer keg!
    • Even funnier when you realize that Salia is taking to another character who's seiyu also voices her former captain Zola Axeberg.
  • In Super Scribblenauts, fattening foods will turn anyone who eats them instantly into "Fat", "Chubby", and "Obese" versions of themselves, which involves simply stretching the body portion of the sprite to be wider. Using a potion with one of those adjectives will achieve the same effect.
  • During the Arizona chapter of the fourth Tengai Makyou game, a cinematic shows an obese cowboy sneaking into a woman's room and force-feeding her cookies that cause her to instantly fatten up.
  • This Is Why You're Fat (in 60 Seconds): The man at the end of the game can bloat up a lot after devouring all those turkeys, possibly ending up with thousands of kilograms in fat.
  • Tribal Hunter: This happens to Munch as he grows bigger, either from eating food/enemies or inhaling air. The bigger he is, the slower but stronger he gets. With the main theme being eating this happens with plenty of other characters in the game as well; to Munch’s detriment in the case of the ravenous Ghost Queen, but Munch can actually weaponize this against some bosses by force feeding them until their girth makes them immovable.
  • This happened in Um Jammer Lammy after the title character gets free pizza after putting out a fire at a pizza shop. She gorges herself so much that she looks pregnant, but she just as quickly digests it.
  • The Pakkun Lizards in the World of Mana games typically get a case of this if they succeed in catching someone with their signature move, thanks to them being diminutive in size compared to their victims. It's a case of tactical suicide, as they can't move or fight back while in this state, leaving them at your mercy (Plus the devoured character only takes damage when spat out, if at all).
  • Yume Penguin Monogatari ("Dream Penguin Story"), a Konami Platform Game where you play a penguin trying to lose weight to impress his girlfriend. Falling in water will instantly make Penta as fat as he can get, and all the enemies throw food at him which will quickly fatten him up. One level is set in a giant cake. A piracy check, when failed, will cause him to instantly bulk up as soon as he touches food.

    Web Animation 
  • Happy Tree Friends: In "Take a Hike", Nutty sucks out all the honey from a beehive and instantly becomes obese. This results in him being unable to outrun a bear and getting killed by it.
  • Kphoria animations always play this trope whenever a character eats another one.
  • Homestar Runner: In "A Jumping Jack Contest", The Cheat tries to ruin Homestar's performance at the jumping jack contest by offering him glass after glass of melonade. Homestar drinks every single one, and winds up with a big, sloshy belly and a desperate need to urinate.
  • There are animated banner ads out there that advertise ways to trim inches off your belly. Because most of these ads are animated with an Unintentional Uncanny Valley look, their portrayal of a person losing weight typically consists of an otherwise skinny person with a large belly "deflating" so to speak, rather than having realistic body proportions for their before and after weights.
  • Less is Morgue: In Episode 9, Evelyn teases Riley for looking pregnant after eating too much barbecue.
    Evelyn: "How do I put this...you ordered like four whole meals, and looking at you right now, I feel like people would offer you their seat on the bus."
  • Lucas the Spider ends up with a balloon butt after he and Findley the Fly (then known as "Bzzt") polish off a plate of chocolate-covered strawberries in the "I'm Starving" episode of the web series. Then again, being a spider, his stomach is in his butt.
  • Plan 3: Hosuh grows quite a gut while eating the tangerines provided by the Fate lord’s minions.
  • The Green Azumarill:
    • In an early short titled "The Bonk! Bamboozle (feat. Reptilian!)", Evil ends up with this after consuming many Bonk! cans.
    • In the 2018 Christmas Special titled "Green Azumarill How To's: How to Set Up the Perfect Christmas Setting", in the dramatization of an unfinished Christmas setting, the last things that were ruined were the presents, in which Green reveals he ate them, which resulted in Green getting this.
    • In the St. Patrick’s Day 2021 special titled "Green Azumarill gets a Shamrock Shake", Green orders a Shamrock Shake from McDonalds, and when he likes it, he keeps asking for more, eventually resulting in this happening to Green.
  • We Are Our Avatars: Micheal takes after his mother. At some points, it's only made even worse: Michael ate over 1,000 burgers and had a harder time working it off. He then gained huge amounts of weight as a result of faulty nanomachines, to the point where even working it off would not work.

    Web Comics 
  • Bridgette's Belly: As the comic title suggests, Bridgette bloats up quite often whether pregnant or not. Especially when she was locked in the school pantry, and the dream sequence.
  • Craving Control:
    • The comic centers on Lalia, a pretty redhead whose belly bulges out whenever she binges (which is often). Again, this is completely intentional. Notably, her eating habits started out borderline realistic, and eventually evolved to be cartoonishly large. Now provides the page image.
    • While not a glutton herself, Lalia's nerdy best friend Jane ended up with a bloated gut of her own during the Thanksgiving arc after eating her mother's cooking, albeit far more modest than the monstrous stomach Lalia herself sported on the same page.
  • Girl Genius: The Deepspeaker for Ahnkokanth starts to look very chubby indeed as he eats, which Dimo is a bit panicked to learn is a sign that he's getting near to Death by Gluttony "like a goldfish". Dimo has the Deepspeaker and other Deepdwelers at their impromptu feast get up and run around for a bit to prevent this and they all quickly slim back down to their original sizes.
  • Used quite often in Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy with the title character, but subverted in that some of the girth does stick around afterwards.
  • In Chapter 1 of Legend of Legendary Mighty Knight, the titular knight eats an entire banquet's worth of food and their stomach distends so much they have to remove their belt.
  • Zom Com: In a Thanksgiving strip, Theo is shown a future where he ends up with a huge and well-fed gut... seemingly at the expense of a turkey who was also getting its fortune read.

    Western Animation 
  • Happens a number of times in 101 Dalmatians: The Series. Usually with Rolly in "DeVil-Age Elder", "Double Dog Dare" & "Two For The Show" and with Spot in "Alive 'N Chicken"
  • Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
    • In "Internal Affairs", Oblina is infected by a parasite named Sal that invaded her stomach and caused her to gorge herself uncontrollably. Cue "Fantastic Voyage" Plot by Ickis and Krumm to free the tremendously bloated Oblina from Sal's influence.
    • Krumm swallows a helium tank in 'Krumm Rises To The Top' causing his stomach to expand and his voice to get comically higher in pitch as he floats around. He also develops a bad attitude and alienates his friends, but they come back for him and Ickis purposefully eats a helium tank himself so they can catch up to Krumm before he floats away. The helium wears off naturally after a week, and the characters return to normal.
    • Ickis' special scaring ability (referred to as looming) has him inflate his body and grow gigantic, but he can't hold the form for very long. In 'Ickis vs The Red Zimbo' he abandons looming in favor of an easier tactic, and the Gromble scolds him for becoming fat and lazy. However, Ickis slims down after he looms again and realizes that was how he was meant to scare all along.
  • In the Action League NOW! episode, "Fatter", a Gypsy puts a curse on The Chief that causes him to have a huge appetite and eat rapidly, to the point where he ends up looking like a bowling ball with a head and limbs. Keep in mind that he's a plastic toy when this happens.
  • In the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode, "Boogey-Mania", Tails is forced to eat a lot of junk food (although he's clearly happy to do so) in order to create a dream creature to combat Robotnik's nightmare monster. He ends up massively bloated and promptly triggers the Growling Gut to happen to him before deflating with a belch.
  • Adventure Time is practically married to this trope.
    • In Business Time, Finn and Jake get these as a result of giving all their work to the business men and becoming fat and lazy. Jake later uses his expanding belly to defeat the businessman's machine. At the end of the episode, Jake magically gets rid of the gut; unfortunately, Finn can't do the same.
    • The Chamber of Frozen Blades has a sick Gunther's belly swell to titanic proportions and then... he/she lays an egg?
    • In Ghost Princess, after the titular character's death, Clarence drinks a lot of Softy Cheese from a fountain dispenser, causing his stomach to expand until it explodes.
    • The Ice King gets quite plump in Play Date after he stuffs himself with the food in Finn and Jake's kitchen over the course of hours.
    • Food Chain has Finn and Jake (as birds) getting absolutely massive bellies after completely gorging themselves on caterpillars.
    • In Joshua and Margaret Investigations, on Jake's birthday he stuffs his tummy with birthday cake, making him look like his mother Margaret during, of course, her pregnancy, as shown in the flashback.
  • Gumball gets a HUGE one after drinking the contents of a sink in the The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Wand", He spits it all out after being poked by Darwin.
    • When Carrie possessed Gumball so she can eat, he wound up morbidly obese because she didn't know when to stop.
  • Hayley fattens herself up over an entire summer in the American Dad! episode "Camp Refoogee".
    Hayley: Thank God we're going home. (she then pats her stomach) I think I gained the African 20. Seriously, I threw away more food than I ate.
  • American Dragon: Jake Long: In "The Egg", when the Huntsclan steal the titular Griffin Egg that Jake and Fu Dog were guarding, the duo chases them all over the city to get it back. When the chase ends at a candy factory, where the egg is transformed into a peanut butter Easter egg and blends in with millions upon millions of other eggs in a large pile of them, it takes Jake and Fu Dog several hours to unwrap and lick off the peanut butter of the other eggs until they find the real one. 8,033 eggs later, they finally find it.
  • Amphibia: In "Hollywood Hop Pop", Anne gets noticeably chubbier when eating cereal on the couch.
  • Animaniacs:
    • Wakko gets a balloon belly from a meatball-eating contest in "Meatball or Consequences" (though it went away once the plot got started).
    • This happens to all three Warners in "Be Careful What You Eat" after gorging themselves on candy and ice cream.
  • Happens to Arthur in the episode "Just Desserts" after eating a bunch of candy, followed by a big meal, followed by two slices of wedding cake. Later, in a dream sequence, it happens again in a much more exaggerated fashion.
    • Buster's had this happen to him as well, but only in dream/fantasy sequences. Examples include him stuffing himself full of candy until he's enormously round in an Imagine Spot for the "Give Me Candy" holiday he proposes in "The Long Dull Winter", bloating up to humongous proportions after eating a massive chocolate sundae in the beginning of "Binky Barnes, Wingman", and sporting a modest potbelly in "Buster's Garden of Grief" after clearing out an ice cream truck.
  • Happens to Sparky at the end of the Atomic Betty episode "When Worlds Collide" after he eats a ton of Halloween candy.
  • In one episode of Atomic Puppet, AP does this to Joey by using him as a human water tank in order to wash the gunge of a slime-spewing monster covering up the city.
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender: Momo gets one of these in "The King of Omashu" after eating a ton of cherries. As a result, he's too fat to climb through a vent to get help for the imprisoned group.
    • Sokka gets them sometimes, too.
  • Back to the Future: In the episode "Bravelord and the Demon Monstrux", this happens to Marty Mcfly after he's surrounded by a wall of soda cans from an evil vending machine (It Makes Sense in Context). Apparently, he tried to escape by drinking it all.
    Marty: Ugh, I gotta make a pitstop...! (pats his belly)
  • In Batman: The Brave and the Bold Plastic Man is quite prone to this, especially considering his rubbery body. One instance happens in "Terror on Dinosaur Island!", where he stuffs himself with loot during one of his kleptomania fits. In "Long Arm of the Law!", he intentionally gorged on water as a tactic to stop Rubberneck.
  • Big City Greens: Cricket winds up with a massive one in "Desserted" after devouring a giant sundae to win his family a free meal. It happens to Cricket again in "Fast Foodie" after eating nothing but fast food for a week. Played less for laughs as it’s clearly taking a toll on his health.
  • In Bob's Burgers episode "Gene It On", Louise gets this after eating a lot of pie.
  • Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese: In "Pen Pals", Boy bakes great-tasting cookies, but only for his pen pal Gretchen. His siblings pretend to be Gretchen so they can get the cookies for themselves, and get quite fat in the process.
  • In Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, it happens to Whiskers for a split second after eating too many oysters.
  • Happens to the titular characters of CatDog in "Cat Dogula" after eating tons of Halloween candy.
  • A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: At the end of the credits, Snoopy and Woodstock are patting very round bellies after having a full Thanksgiving dinner.
  • Snap has gotten one in four episodes of ChalkZone — "Chip Of Fools" after eating too many cookies (it was all a dream), "If You Can't Beat 'Em, Eat 'Em" after eating a hamburger, "Gift of Good Intentions" (along with various other characters in ChalkZone) as a result of eating an everlasting sugarloaf, and "Calling Dr. Memory" where he eats a giant meatball Skrawl was launching at him and Rudy.
  • In the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers episode "Out To Launch", the Rangers eat so much aboard the spacecraft that they all show much rounder shapes while relaxing and digesting. This does not exclude Gadget; she only looks like she's pregnant.
  • Clifford the Big Red Dog
    • This happened to Clifford and his friends when they ate too many dog treats in "Tummy Trouble".
    • Cleo and T-Bone get these in "Clifford's Cookie Craving" after gorging on the giant cookie.
    • Frankie the chihuahua suffers one in his debut episode.
  • The Codename: Kids Next Door episode, "Operation: N.O.-P.O.W.U.H". also had this happen to Numbuhs One, Three, Four, and Five after they were force fed Gramma Stuffem's food, before Numbuh Two showed up and proceeded to eat the food. It also happens to Numbuh Two later on in the same episode, though not quite as severe as his teammates.
  • In the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode "The Transplant", Courage defeats Kangaroo Eustace by feeding him croissants until he's too heavy for Eiffel Tower, and falls into the river. (Feeding it over the course of a minute, of course.)
    • This also happened in the episode "The King of Flan".
    • Eustace also gets one at the end of "Dome of Doom".
  • Jay Sherman from The Critic. He has one in a photo inside his girlfriend Alice's diamond locket, and gets one from eating a giant bagpipe-playing potato.
  • The Crumpets episode "Lil Wrinkly One" is about Granny eating her stashed cigarette-like chocolates and having a balloon belly, leading to the family assuming she's pregnant. Many others consume these chocolates and grow balloon bellies too. Lil-One discovers that pressing the bellies makes their hosts fart and lose their balloon bellies.
  • This has happened twice so far in DC Super Hero Girls 2019:
    • In the short "#LetThemEatPie", Giganta ends up with a bloated gut after eating 93 pies at an eating contest. Unfortunately for her, she's the first to lose said contest.
    • This also happens to Supergirl in "#TheFreshPrincessOfRenFaire", where her belly is shown to be bulging out from under her shirt after stuffing herself on turkey legs at the renaissance fair.
  • Tod gets one after eating at his aunt's house in one episode of the Hanna-Barbera series Devlin.
  • Drawn Together had a somewhat disturbing example, in an episode in which Toot fattened up to immobility.
  • In an early Ed, Edd n Eddy episode, "A Glass of Warm Ed", Ed sleepwalks and eats the other neighbor's food, giving himself a huge belly. Eddy then starts a breakfast business by retrieving the eaten food from Ed's stomach for the kids to eat.
    • All 3 Eds get Balloon Bellies in a return from a commercial break after eating a huge sandwich together. Edd falls flat on his back at the end.
    • In the episode "Stop, Look and Ed" Sarah and Jimmy both get huge balloon bellies eating a mountain of ice cream while sliding down it.
    • Ed gets a brief one in "Brother, Can You Spare an Ed?" after swallowing a jawbreaker whole (bare in mind throughout the show, jawbreakers are typically depicted as being roughly the size of a bowling ball).
      Eddy: You're supposed to let it melt in your mouth!
  • The Fairly OddParents! episode "Just Desserts". Timmy wishes every edible in the world was dessert, and after a month, everybody balloons to ridiculous proportions, which becomes a big problem because all that combined weight causes Earth to hurtle towards the Sun!
    • Also occurs to separate characters in a few other episodes. Chester in "Birthday Wish", Timmy in "Truth or Cosmoquences" and Timmy's Secret Wish!, and Cosmo in "Mission Responsible"
  • In the Family Guy episode "Da Boom", Peter eats a whole year's worth of dehydrated meals, and then drinks a glass of water. Squicky hilarity ensues.
    Peter: Everyone leave, I have to poop. ...NOW!!
  • In the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Cookie Dough", Madame Foster bakes some cookies that Frankie apparently can't resist. When Bloo starts his plan to make them and sell them himself, Frankie takes advantage of this and spends the rest of the episode stuffing herself silly or getting her hands on more. During the credits, it shows Frankie stuffing her face with cookies and downing entire milk jugs before zooming out to show her inevitably enormous belly.
    • Bloo gains a Balloon Belly in multiple episodes. In "Hiccy Burp", in order to purposefully get the hiccups Bloo has Mac stuffing his facing, leaving him dazed and holding his bloated belly in the next shot. In "Squeeze the Day", he and Mac raid the refrigerator and eat just about everything inside, though only Bloo gets the Balloon Belly. A similar scene happens in "Imposter's Home For Um... Make 'Em Up Pals" with John McGee alongside Bloo, though his Balloon Belly isn't nearly as exaggerated as Bloo's.
  • Professor Farnsworth and Leela from Futurama both sport balloon bellies after swapping minds with Amy in the episode "The Prisoner of Benda". On Leela's fat body, Hermes remarks that she makes Fat Albert look like Normal Albert. Then Hermes swaps minds with Amy, who inverts the trope after witnessing Fry and Leela making out in Zoidberg and Farnsworth's bodies.
  • Happens several times to Garfield in Garfield and Friends. At least a couple of episodes are centered around that.
    • This happened to both Garfield and Odie at the end of Garfield's Thanksgiving.
    • This happens to Jon at one point as well, leading to a Diet Episode.
    • In "Rooster Revenge", when Roy falls in the water due to the boards on the bridge having a few cracks, his belly gets extremely large after he comes out of the water.
  • George of the Jungle (2007): In the episode, "George Skips Breakfast", George kept his friends hungry throughout the episode, and then when no one was around George ate his breakfast and got really fat (however he was more round around his body than his belly). But the others come back so hungry that they literally eat the dirt and trees around George, gaining really big bellies.
    • George also gets one when entering a pie eating contest.
    • It happens a lot in Season 2.
  • Pete has a memorable one in the Goof Troop episode "Calling all Goofs".
  • Green Eggs and Ham: Gluntz attempts to take on the Hamageddon, a massive meal comprised of a tower of green eggs, ham and toast, at a diner. She's later seen nursing a bloated stomach after only completing half of it.
  • Has happened to Billy numerous times in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. Two particular examples are in "Underfist" where he turns into a virtual ball from consuming a giant made out of candy and in "A Kick in the Asgard" where it happens to him twice. The first time from drinking from a endless fountain of nectar for several hours to try and empty it and the second from feasting Valhalla to the point where partially eaten food is seen sitting at the back of his mouth because no more can go down his gullet.
  • Predictably, a lot of "Hansel and Gretel" adaptations.
    • 2 Stupid Dogs had a trilogy of episodes where the mutts kept bumping into Little Red Riding Hood, who would then lead them on a search to find her grandmother's house. In one episode, they find themselves at the candy house from Hansel and Gretel, whereupon the witch hands the dogs various foodstuffs, demanding that they feed it to Red. One by one, the dogs toss them down her mouth into her stomach. A caption then suggests that this assembly line continues non-stop for two years and eight months, leaving Red enormously stuffed.
    • Oddly the two instances of carnivore in these episodes — Red and the dogs eaten by the witch and Granny eaten by the wolf — don't feature this, but the episode "Las Pelotas" does. Little Dog eats a compressed Big Dog, thinking it's a ball. Big Dog then returns to his normal size while inside Little Dog, seemingly filling out every part of his body.
  • Hero: 108: At the end of the episode "Marmot Castle", Jumpy Ghostface eats so many carrots he becomes too big to slide down the tube.
  • In one Imagine Spot during an episode of Higglytown Heroes, Twinkle imagines getting a few mermaids to find her missing bathing cap by having them drink the ocean through bendy straws. They find her cap, and end up with big, inflated bellies in the process.
  • In the Charlie and the Chocolate Parody episode of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Ami and Yumi get a job at the "Wacky Wally" candy factory, and as soon as they're allowed on the factory floor the girls proceed to eat everything in sight. We soon see them lounging happily on a bed of chocolate, both with full, bulging stomachs. (their reprimand was not quite as strict as it should have been).
    • In the episode "Rock N Roe", Ami and Yumi eat all the sushi at an all-sushi-you-can-eat buffet and both get full, big bellies.
  • Hunky and Spunky: The short "Snubbed by a Snob" plays this for drama when a thoroughbred colt pigs out on apples and drinks so much water that his belly reaches the ground. Spunky is amused by this until the nearly immobile colt wanders near a raging bull.
  • Inspector Gadget: At the end of the episode "Eye of the Dragon", Gadget, Penny, and Brain, while still in Hong Kong, go out for Chinese food. They are accompanied by Penny's new friend, who has introduced himself to her as the grandson of her uncle's Hong Kong contact. While they are at the restaurant, Brain becomes bloated after he devours everyone's order, while Gadget and Penny provide this dialogue...
    Gadget: Stuffing yourself can be too much of a good thing.
    Penny: That's right, Uncle Gadget, because if you're greedy, you may end up looking like my best friend...the blimp—I mean, Brain.
  • Invader Zim has some form of bloating in almost every other episode (For example, GIR swelling up to a Godzilla-sized proportion after eating too much candy); the creator is known to think morbid obesity is funny.
    • In "Zim Eats Waffles", GIR force-feeds Zim his waffles throughout the episode, resulting in his belly looking a bit round.
  • Jimmy Two-Shoes: Happens to Jimmy, Beezy, and Heloise when they discover Lucius' private chocolate reserve in "There Will be Chocolate", as the trio's greedy usage leads to them all becoming extremely obese. Lucius also gets one very briefly in the same episode after devouring an entire feast for himself.
    • Also happens in the episode "The Product Tester" when Jimmy and Beezy have to eat several massive vats worth of ice cream that Lucius needs disposed. Also occurs earlier in the episode when Jimmy drinks a large amount of soda.
    • Happens to Beezy several times, such as eating Heloise's entire picnic in "Lucius Lost", eating a gigantic barbecued bird in "Monster Mutt", having to eat the ghost of his uneaten pizza crusts in "Ghostsmackers", and mistaking rocks for a buffet in "Spring Broke".
  • The KaBlam episode "Sasquatch-Ersize!" features Henry and June having to get fit due to them being overweight couch potatoes and eating too much (practically any food they saw in that episode).
  • Happens to Quack Quack on the Kaeloo episode "Let's Play Superpowers" after he eats 712 pots of yogurt.
  • Happens to the title character of Kenny the Shark in the first episode "Special Delivery" after he's swallowed a bunch of junk to make him throw up the important package he swallowed.
  • The Kim Possible episode "Grande Size Me" had to do with Ron only eating food from Bueno Nacho, but then starts eating anything he sees. Over the course of the episode, he started to get much fatter.
    • Also, often played straight whenever Rufus eats at Bueno Nacho.
  • In Sequel Series The Legend of Korra episode "The Spirit of Competition" Pabu, the Weasel Mascot gets one after joining his owner Bolin for a night of binging on noodles. (And while Bolin is a thickly built fellow to begin with, and wasn't seen from angles that made it any too clear, he looked a bit bloated himself.)
  • In one brief scene of the Les Sisters episode "The Hermit", Wendy and Marine end up with stuffed bellies after eating a ton of berries while camping in their back yard.
  • In Lilo & Stitch: The Series, this happens to Lilo, Pleakley and Stitch when they activate Experiment 062 (nicknamed Frenchfry), after Nani restricts Lilo's diet to health food. All the food Frenchfry makes not only blows the characters up like balloons, but never makes them feel full, leaving them always hungry. In the end, they find that he is secretly fattening them up so he can eat them (he reforms later after finding Nani's health food is just as delicious).
    • Mertle also gets this at the end of "Slick", where she ends up with a huge belly after eating a ton of shave ice (17 servings in total).
  • This happens repeatedly in Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes cartoons.
    • In the cartoon "Holiday For Drumsticks", Daffy convinces a turkey to starve himself to avoid becoming Thanksgiving dinner, while Daffy stuffs himself on the food meant to fatten up the turkey and becomes massively bloated — and is then unable to hide or even run from the farmer come Thanksgiving.
    • Bugs Bunny stuffs himself silly after finding Elmer the Giant's carrot patch in Beanstalk Bunny.
    • Chuck Jones' Chow Hound leads up to this condition with a big dog who constantly bullies a cat and mouse to supply him with meat. He finally acquires all he can eat, and ends up in the hospital miserably distended, barely able to breathe. The cat and mouse reappear and utter the chilling last line "This time we didn't forget the gravy!"
    • In the cartoon "Bye Bye Bluebeard", a pesky mouse saves Porky Pig from the menacing Bluebeard, and is rewarded when Porky shares his dinner. As they eat to the count of an exercise program on the radio, the mouse lifts up the tablecloth and reveals his fat belly, happily patting it.
    • In the cartoon "Hoppy Go Lucky", a mouse eats too much cheese and uses his belly like a basketball to dribble away from Sylvester.
    • It happens to Bugs again in an episode of The Looney Tunes Show when he hires Porky Pig to cater his parties, serving various foods cooked in way too much butter. Everyone, even Porky, points out he shouldn't be eating that kind of food all the time, especially when he ends up tripling in size.
    • In Cheese Chasers, two mice, Hubie and Bertie, end up with very bloated stomachs after binging at a cheese factory.
  • On MAD SpongeBob eats too many Krabby Patties. In a later episode, Yogi Bear eats a whole picnic.
  • Happened quite a number of times to Mr. Bogus:
    • Bogus gains one after eating all of the food in the vending machine in the second act of the episode "A Day at the Office".
    • Happens to Brattus after eating an entire Dagwood Sandwich in the kitchen in the second act of the episode "Et Tu, Brattus?"
    • Happens twice to Brattus in the second act of the episode "Beach Blanket Bogus". The first time when Bogus allows him to eat the sausage link that they acquired from the dog. The second time was when he eats an entire cake.
    • The third act of the episode "Bogus In Bogus Land" had this happen to Bogus again. He hides at the bottom of an ice cream that a girl is about to have, when the girl wants 5 scoops of ice cream. Before the girl can eat the ice cream, however, all 5 scoops suddenly disappear into the cone (thanks to Bogus), which causes the girl to scream and drop the cone. Afterwards, Bogus then lifts up the cone while laying on the ground with an enlarged belly from eating the ice cream.
    • The second claymation short shown before the episode "Computer Intruder" had this happen to Bogus again after eating an entire container of Food Pills and drinking the entire vial of water used for the rehydration process. This causes Bogus to become massively bloated, making him look like a big fat blimp.
    • Happens three times to Bogus in the episode "Babysitting Bogus". The first time in the first act, where Bogus dreams that he's eating ice cream cones that he's juggling, the second time at the end of the second act where he devours an entire cheeseburger, and the third time in the third act where he drinks an entire pitcher of fruit punch to cool off his mouth after inadvertently sucking up a bowlful of chili peppers, though it goes away after that's over.
    • This happened twice in the episode "Bad Luck Bogus", the first time near the end of the first act when Bogus inflates himself like a balloon as a tactic to get rid of the ugly clone who was menacing him, and the second time in the second act, while he was eating a huge Dagwood Sandwich, to which swallowing one layer of the sandwich (which was a single slice of cheese) caused Bogus' belly to become briefly bloated.
    • A claymation short used near the end of the episode "Totally Bogus Video" had Bogus wind up getting inflated like a balloon when attempting to plug up a leaky tube with his finger.
    • Another episode had Bogus and Brattus gorge themselves on an entire submarine sandwich after taking care of Ratty and Mole and a group of tough biker rats in the first act, which results in Bogus and Brattus both gaining full, big bellies, due to their overindulgence.
    • Bogus gains another one after slurping up a strand of spaghetti that was dangling from Tommy's fork in front of him in the second act of the episode "Nightmare On Bogus Street".
    • The beginning of the episode "The Bogus Invasion" had Bogus gain another balloon belly, though he only gains it after he hiccup-burps after eating some food.
  • This happens to Buck a few times in Mega Babies.
    • One notable example was from Grossery Shopping where he gets a huge Balloon Belly at the end.
    • Another example was from Attack of the Cownibals where Buck and Derrick get swollen bellies after drinking gallons of milk.
  • Happens to Mosh in the My Dad the Rock Star episode "The Sound Of Zilla" after gorging himself on bratwurst and sausages/
  • My Gym Partner's a Monkey: In "Chew On This", Adam has the food court sell human food and all the animals quickly get addicted. The animals gain permanent weight and are shown jogging at the end of the episode, trying to burn it off.
  • Despite being a robot, Jenny from My Life as a Teenage Robot has had this happen to her. For example, in "Labour Day", her body swells from electricity overload until her belly bolt pops. "Pajama Prank Party Palooza" showed she actually had a built-in water tank made to resemble one, which she uses to drink an entire lake dry.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic loves this trope:
    • In the pilot episode, Twilight Sparkle is overseeing preparations for the annual Summer Sun Celebration. One of the tasks on her checklists involves visiting the owners of Sweet Apple Acres, who are in charge of the food. Applejack (and her enormous family) invite her to brunch. Gilligan Cut to her walking with a bulging belly, groaning, "Ugh...I ate too much pie..."
    • Pinkie Pie briefly gets one when she swallows a cake whole in "Swarm of the Century".
    • Spike gets one after pigging out on a stash of gems he finds in "Owl's Well That Ends Well".
    • Happens again to Pinkie Pie in "A Friend in Deed" when she eats a cake shaped like herself.
    • Fluttershy's mouse gets one when he eats a whole box of pellets in "Putting Your Hoof Down".
    • Spike gets another when his new friends throw a gem-eating party in "Dragon Quest".
    • Pinkie Pie gets an even bigger one in "Mmmystery on the Friendship Express" after swallowing a large cake in one gulp.
    • Spike again when Fluttershy's bunny Angel feeds him with half of a huge gem in "Just for Sidekicks".
    • Discord gets one during the song segment in "Three's a Crowd" when he drinks too much water.
    • Happens to some Breezies in "It Ain't Easy Being Breezies" when Fluttershy accidentally gives them too much food.
    • Pinkie Pie has the rest of the Mane Six become bloated when they gorge on her rock candy samples in "Maud Pie".
    • Subverted in "Inspiration Manifestation". In spite of all the ice cream Rarity eats in the midst of her depression, she doesn't gain any visible weight.
    • Pinkie Pie gets one when she forces herself to keep eating Sugar Belle's mediocre muffins in Part 1 of "The Cutie Map"
    • Happens again to Spike in "Princess Spike" after eating a bowlful of gems.
    • In "A Trivial Pursuit", this happens to Pinkie after she scarfs down a plate full of sweets.
  • My Little Pony: Pony Life does this three times.
    • In "Princess Probz", all the girls except for Pinkie Pie end up like this after getting stuck and eating their way out of flan batter.
    • At the end of "Badge of Shame", Twilight Sparkle ends up enjoying Pinkie's Cupcakes a little too much.
    • In "Pie vs. Pie" Twilight loves eating Pinkie's newest creation the dokapop so much that she stays like this through out the entire episode unlike the above mention examples.
  • The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh:
    • In "To Catch A Hiccup", Tigger ends up giving Piglet a bunch of water in an attempt to cure his hiccups. It only results with Piglet being so bloated that when he hiccups, water shoots out of his ears.
    • Happens to both Pooh and Eeyore in "Donkey For A Day" when they both eat a tree's worth of apples. Pooh is very happy about this, but Eeyore looks like he's about to be sick. When Pooh mentions they still have lunch and dinner to go, Eeyore quickly waddles away.
  • This happened to Ned in an episode of Nightmare Ned...because two oversized little girls forced him to drink water until he had to "wet".
  • Oggy and the Cockroaches: The cockroaches once filled Oggy's belly with helium, leading Oggy to believe he was pregnant.
  • On PB&J Otter, Jelly Otter imagines herself with one in "Otter in the Water".
  • Pepper Ann gets one in the episode "T.G.I.F." after having too much ice cream.
  • In Phineas and Ferb, Major Monogram bloats after eating cheese in the episode "Remains of the Platypus". Justified in this case, because what causes the bloating isn't the quantity that he eats but rather an allergic reaction to the cheese that makes him swell up.
  • Played to disturbing effect in a 1937 cartoon short "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a greedy piglet, as implied punishment for being so gluttonous that he makes his family go hungry some nights without remorse, is strapped into a machine and force-fed until his stomach distends grotesquely. As the payoff, he can't resist just one more bite of food when he finally has the window to escape...and explodes. Thankfully, it's All Just a Dream. (Not to be confused with the 1954 Pigs Is Pigs, which is a hilarious and adorable classic and not squicky at all.)
    • A Halloween episode of The Simpsons has a deliberate homage to "Pigs Is Pigs", where Homer goes to Hell and is force-fed donuts while strapped to the same "Feed-A-Matic" chair. The Devil is frustrated when a stuffed Homer happily says "More!" between mouthfuls. Matt Groening has said that the "Pigs is Pigs" scene is his favorite sequence in animation history.
  • This happens a number of times in various Popeye cartoons.
    • In the cartoon "What, No Spinach?", a huge safe full of food is busted open in a fight and Wimpy rushes into it — then at cartoon's end waddles out with arms full of food, hugely distended, and still eating.
    • In the King Features Syndicate cartoon "Egypt Us", Wimpy eats an entire picnic lunch of hamburgers while Popeye rescues Olive Oyl from savages, resulting in an enormously bloated, distended belly, which pops two buttons off of his shirt.
    • In the KFS cartoon "Hamburgers Aweigh", Wimpy eats an entire storeroom full of "Canned Hamburgers", and becomes quite full and round.
    • In the KFS cartoon Wimpy the Moocher, Wimpy eats an entire plate of hamburgers, swelling his belly.
    • In the KFS cartoon "The Rain Breaker", Popeye's belly boats after eating a picnic lunch Olive Oyl has prepared.
    • In one of the "Health and Safety Tip" segments on the "All-New Popeye Hour", Popeye is preaching the virtues of eating well-balanced meals when Wimpy sees the table full of food next to Popeye. Wimpy quickly devours everything on the table and becomes so fat that he has to carry away his hugely distended belly in a wheelbarrow.
  • The Powerpuff Girls,
    • The girls and the Mayor eat the whole candy jar and get full, big bellies in the episode "Candy is Dandy".
    • A boy in "Beat Your Greens" after eating many Broccaliens.
  • The Proud Family: In “Tween Town”, during the montage of the kids having fun without the adults around, Penny and Dijonay are seen drinking soda with multiple empty cups by them. Their bellies have swelled out from under their shirts (more so than usual in Dijonay’s case) and stretched out their skirts.
  • In one "Bod Squad" PSA about the dangers of snacking too much, a boy eats too much junk food because he's bored ("Watch out for the Munchies!"), growing temporarily fat in the process.
  • Occurs twice in Recess: The first being "I Will Kick no More Forever" with Vince while drowning his sorrows in root beer and donuts, and the second being the DTV Grand Finale Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade with Gus as a result of him eating too much.
  • On Regular Show this happens to Mordecai, Rigby, Skips, Muscleman, HFG, Pops, and Benson after eating a whole Chinese meal that ached their stomachs.
  • In Rocky and Bullwinkle, Bullwinkle in one episode, eats a large bowl of macadamia nuts, despite Rocky's warning about how salty they are, which will only make him thirsty. He quickly rushes to the kitchen and drinks 50 glasses of water, causing his belly to bloat, as well as receive a doozy of a stomachache.
  • Rolling with the Ronks!: "Out to Lunch" has Mormagnon get a bloated belly from overeating.
  • Angelica from Rugrats gets a noticable one at the beginning of "No More Cookies".
    • Phil gets one as well in a later episode after eating several jars of mashed peas.
  • In Sabrina: The Animated Series, the title character gets one in "The Bat Pack" after eating all the garlic guarding the blood vault.
    • Salem also has one in a different episode when he gorges on a ten-year supply of chocolate.
  • This has happened to Shaggy and Scooby more times than man can count. In some cases, they can instantly shrink down to normal when they get scared soon after eating.
    • Kristen Schaal gets this in her guest appearance in Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, where she takes a shot at eating like Shaggy and Scooby. She ends up so stuffed that her swollen belly pops the button right off her coat.
  • Happens to Belinda the cow in the Seven Little Monsters episode "The Whole Tooth" from Six feeding her all her meals (she was refusing to eat out of fear of losing her tooth)
  • An episode of Shnookums & Meat had the titular duo gaining these as the result of their lavish lifestyle and having to lose it before their owners get home.
  • In a Sesame Street animation, a frog eats a fly and gets pretty big.
  • In an early episode of The Simpsons, Bart imagined stuffing himself with chocolate until getting a balloon belly. In later episodes, this would actually happen several times with Homer, most famously in the Donut Hell scene of "Treehouse of Horror IV".
    • Also happens to Patty and Selma after a banquet.
    • Mr. Burns and Smithers both get one in Part 1 of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" after eating a large box of chocolates.
  • Caitlin gains weight in the 6teen episode "Girlie Boys", after gorging herself in chocolate. She ends up looking heavily pregnant and doesn't even realize she was gaining weight until she had difficulty putting on a pair of jeans.
    • Jude gains a temporary one after gorging on fries in "Over Exposed".
  • Spongebob Squarepants had this happen to Squidward when he over-indulged his new craving for Krabby Patties:
    Squidward: What's gonna happen? Am I gonna blow up?
    Spongebob: No, worse! It'll go right to your thighs!
    Squidward: My thighs...? [new shot shows his tentacles have expanded to impossible proportions]
    Spongebob: And then you'll blow up!
    • This was apparently a well-known dilemma for the paramedics.
    Paramedic: (chuckles) Yeah, I remember my first Krabby Patty.
    • An earlier episode has Spongebob accidentally feeding Squidward tons of Krabby patties... the shape his stomach acquires, however, is not that of a balloon.
    • In the end of "The Hankering", Mr. Krabs eats a whole load of chum, causing his belly to become extremely obese.
  • Stanley and Mary-Jane both get one in the first episode of Staines Down Drains after eating a giant, mutant, teddy-bear cookie.
  • The Strange Chores: Despite being a ghost, Que ends up looking like a small balloon in the Season 2 episode "Walk Wolfman" after participating in a pizza-eating challenge.
  • The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: Mario gets one in "Karate Koopa" when gorges on so much pizza, he asks for two black belts.
  • Happens three times to Yoshi in the Super Mario World cartoon.
    • "King Scoopa Koopa": He, Luigi and Mario get distended bellies when they stuff themselves with food from Koopa's concession stand.
    • "A Little Learning": Yoshi gobbles an already bloated Piranha Plant that previously ate King Koopa, Hip and Hop.
    • "Gopher Bash": Yoshi helps himself to all the cave crops that he and the Mario Bros. rescued from Cheatsy, getting a huge belly once he's finished.
  • In Take Two with Phineas and Ferb, Phineas gets one of these in a recent episode.
  • In Quack Pack, this happens to Daisy Duck in the episode "Tasty Paste", when she eats the titular food, gets addicted to it, and starts stuffing her face like a pig. She becomes enormous in the very next scene and remains that way the rest of the episode, not seeming to care in the slightest about her massive weight gain. It's revealed at the end to have been a dream episode.
  • Sushi Pack: Happens to Wasabi in the episode "Sweet Tooth" after eating Jimmy's candy.
  • Occurs a few times in Teacher's Pet. In "Movin' On Pup", Leslie has one after having too much for breakfast, in "Never Take Candy From a Kindergartener", both Leonard and Spot get them from eating too much candy, and in "Don't Make My Brown Eyes Green", Scott gets one from drinking too much water.
  • Subverted in the film adaptation of ''Top Cat, in the scene where Dibble returns to the alley to alert TC and his gang that the villain became Chief of Police... after the gang had a celebration going. It may or not be visible to you, but if you've got a good eye and can compare other scenes TC is in, take your pick (Go to 0:23:00). He does however, state he feels sick from eating too much having partied.
  • Tiny Toon Adventures had this happen a few times, notably Superbabs in one episode. Her weakness was carrot cake; she couldn't resist it...
    • The Coyote Kid and his whole posse all get one when the drink a horse trough worth of water to try and counter some really spicy chili they had eaten.
  • Total Drama: Lots of characters sport a balloon belly at least once, but it happens to the girls far more often than to the guys.
    • Gwen, Heather and Katie all stuff themselves during the breakfast buffet in "The Big Sleep". Heather's lower stomach distends enough for her waistband to sag, and spends much of the scene cradling her midsection while arching her back, looking almost pregnant. In contrast, Gwen and Katie grow smaller bumps on their bellies, but stay standing straight.
    • Leshawna's stomach bloats up with gas to the point of resembling a pregnancy after drinking a couple of Chef's bran smoothies in "Full Metal Drama". Leshawna goes as far as calling it her "air baby" and noting that it wants to be born, which her teammates, with whom she's hiding in a hole, unsuccessfully try to prevent from happening.
    • Two gossip topics in "Celebrity Manhunt's TDA Reunion Show" concern weight gain by the contestants since the end of Action. One scoop deals with Gwen mocking Heather for her three-ounce worth of plumpness bulging from her midsection. The other scoop covers Harold's new sack belly which he cultivated with burritos to expand his diaphragm and thus become a better beatboxer.
    • Lindsay's belly grows a bump in "The Am-AH-Zon Race" after she stuffs herself silly with bananas as a reward for a challenge that Team Victory won.
    • With the help of secret footage in "Aftermath III: Aftermath Aftermayhem", Geoff reveals that Blaineley has a permanent balloon belly. She has trained herself to hold it in while in public.
    • Scott pigs out at breakfast in "Food Fright" because he really likes the gruel Chef made. During the eating competition obstacle course, Scott develops a heavy sack belly from the previously consumed gruel and the challenge's giant pancakes. Throughout the challenge, he holds his stomach in discomfort and his weight both stops the rotating log from working and requires the boot to be set to an extra high setting to send him flying.
    • Sky's belly bulges out with gas after she drinks a large jug of mineral water as a dare in "I Love You, I Love You Knots". She doesn't feel well after that and can't predict which side the gas is going to come out of.
  • Happens to Clover in an episode of Totally Spies! after eating several boxes of addictive cookies that cause her to balloon up in size. Then the tables are turned on the villainess who made the cookies when she's forced to drink her own sugary, addictive formula which causes her to become just as fat and bloated as Clover.
  • Happens to the titular character of Tutenstein in the episode "The King Of Memphis" after winning a peanut butter and banana sandwich eating contest.
  • The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat had this happen to Felix in the episode "Noah's Nightclub" after drinking a flood. His girth returns to normal after a visit to the men's room.
  • In the VeggieTales in the House episode "You, Me & Tiny Pea", Larry gets one as a result of eating a huge pile of marshmallows in an attempt to prove to Bob that he is grown up.
  • In the Viva Piñata episode "Confetti-itis", Franklin gets one after drinking too many of Dr. Quackberry's "Shed No More" potions. Eventually he turns into a sphere due to how many potions he drank. Almost all of the cast excluding Dr. Quackberry himself and Fergy and Paulie later drink the potions too and gain one as well.
  • In the Wally Gator episode "Tantalizin' Turnips", Wally tries to escape from Swampy Waters by hiding underwater. This backfires when Swampy simply drinks all the water with predictable results. The next shot we see of him he's back to his normal size with no explanation how, nor why his shirt turned green.
  • In We Bare Bears, this happened to Grizzly in "Hibernation" due to having gorged himself on most of the food in the fridge so he could hibernate.
  • An extreme example occurs on Wishfart to Puffin in "Spicy is Paradisey", where he turns into a living mountain after eating non-stop for 5000 years as a result of wishing for a bottomless appetite.
  • Yin Yang Yo!: Happens three times in this show.
    • In the episode "How the Cookie Crumbles", Yin eats a lot of cereal, causing her belly to get big enough for her bellybutton to pop out.
    • In the episode "Skirting the Issue", Yang and Roger Jr. have an eating contest. Yang wins and lays down with a stuffed belly.
    • In the episode "A Walk in the Woods", Yin and Yang eat a large strawberry pie and get their bellies bloated.
  • It happens to the main characters in the Z Squad episodes, "The Riddle of the Pandora Zoot" and "Pollution Zoot".
  • Zeke's Pad: In "You Art What You Eat", Zeke gains one after eating an entire room full of pancakes. It starts to cause problems for him later in the episode, as it's so heavy that it gets in the way during PE and gets him sent to a fat camp as a result.
  • This crops up in a few Imagine Spots in The ZhuZhus episode "Zhu's the Boss" When Frankie's coming up with house rules as part of a bet with her dad, Chunk comes up with the idea of making cake be considered a vegetable. The ensuing Imagine Spot has Frankie eating a plate stacked with huge slices of cake, and once she eats it all she's left with a swollen, gurgling tummy. Another of his rules is to install a never-ending ice cream machine, and that Imagine Spot has Frankie, her mom, and her dad all with massively stuffed bellies before ice cream starts to literally flood the house.

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