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The (often satirical) use of female breasts for comedy, other than (or in addition to) Fanservice. Although motherly characters are often given large chests, it is more common for the chest to be a cartoonish exaggeration (even within the context of the series) on a funny character for the purposes of physical humor. This even applies to a character who is otherwise very boyish-looking.
Will usually be co-opted back into fanservice at some point, unless the show is a shojo series.
See also Gainaxing, and Most Common Super Power.
See also: Marshmallow Hell, Funbag Airbag and Thanks For The Mammary, for related physical gags.
Contrast with Pettanko, and on a different axis Gag Penis.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
- Shikijo-sensei in Mahoromatic.
- Mune-Mune in Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai. (Her name literally means "boobs".)
- Mina in Airmaster.
- Shii Aasu from Puni Puni Poemi is a particularly shameless example.
- Arguably the premise of Eiken, where most of the girls have breasts the size of potato sacks. The worst is the Token Loli (yes, even she has huge breasts!), who is almost more boob than girl.
- And if you thought Komoe was bad, the same artist later gives us Okusama wa Shougakusei. One of the side characters is, erm... a kindergartner with P-cups. Yeah.
- Naga from The Slayers has breasts that match her personality: bizarre, flamboyant, and overly proud of themselves. She's a parody of all those Stripperiffic fantasy sorceresses, so that's only to be expected.
- Then there's that scene where she's trying to traverse a very narrow ledge overlooking a steep precipice. Awkward hilarity ensues.
- One of the more disturbing gags in the disturbing gag-packed last episode of Excel Saga features a lolicon character who reveals a pair of enormous Gag Boobs that she's been hiding under her shirt all this time. This prompts the pedophile scientist she's in love with to lose all interest in her.
- Somewhat subverted in Bleach, when Nel (in her buxom, grown-up form) gives Ichigo a hug. She seems oblivious to the fact that he has several massive wounds, resulting in her large chest putting him in a considerably large amount of pain (Arrancar have "skin of iron", remember?).
- Early on, Orihime Inoue got a lot of this; for example, one character explains Orihime's ability to eat a lot without gaining weight by claiming that "It all goes to her breasts." Also, the resident lesbian Chizuru often hugs Orihime from behind and attempts to grope her boobs, much to Orihime's surprise and Tatsuki's anger.
- Rangiku Matsumoto's habit of bringing up (and down and up and down) her endowments in regular conversation is a kind of
Running Jogging Gag.
- And let's not forget Nemu holding Ishida down, oblivious(?) to the fact that she's suffocating him with her ample breasts.
- In Gulliver Boy, one recurring Running Gag was to have 12-years-old Gadgeteer Genius Edison hug the local Magical Girl Misty and bury his face on her huge breasts, with Misty not even blinking an eyelid. It's later explained that he's an orphan raised by a very kind and large-chested nanny whom he adores and hugs in exactly the same way.
- Junko Asagiri from Sunabozu (Desert Punk).
- Akahori Gedou Hour Rabuge manages to combine this with Powered Armor (yes, really). Aimi, who's a bit on the flat side, has fake breasts on her super suit made of "Paff-Paff X", a material which is bouncy enough to reflect anything, including incoming missiles.
- Yoko from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has countless instances of Marshmallow Hell and Boota using her boobs as a warm, cozy place. Kiyoh, the eldest of Kittan's sisters, has this going for her as well.
- Naeka from Kamen No Maid Guy. Her breasts even have their own fanclub, a set of three lechers from the boy's kendo club.
- Mikuru Asahina's boobs are important to the plot in Suzumiya Haruhi.
- Katyusha aka Ukraine goes "BOING!" in Axis Powers Hetalia. Word Of God says that her huge breasts permanently make small noises.
- Masane in the anime version of Witchblade - her name is perfectly normal, but she quickly gains the nickname Masa-mune, literally "invincible breasts" after one man's drunken stammer. The name sticks because of her proportions.
- Masamune is also the name of a historic swordsmith, whose blades were legendary for their beauty and power. A multi-layered pun perhaps?
- Mahou Sensei Negima does this on occasion, usually involving Chizuru or Yuuna. There was even a chapter where Yuuna had a nightmare in which Makie had magically stolen her "size".
- To say nothing of the whole Chichigami incident...definite proof that Gag Boobs don't have to be outrageously large.
- Although we have that covered, too. In the Ala Alba OA Vs, during the scene where Anya sees just how far the chest size spectrum goes with Class 3/A. Chizuru, for that one scene only, was given boobs each the size of her entire torso.
- To say nothing of the infamous scene where Negi attempted to inflate Asuna's chest...
- Or when Anya tried the same trick on Nodoka and herself...
- In a series packed with fanservice, Izumi from Kemeko DX takes the cake with her ridiculous Gag Boobs beating out even MM. The 'Ode to Joy' sequence in episode 4 probably qualifies as the most awesome wardrobe malfunction in anime history.
- Fresh of Shikabane Hime, which is only really noticeable compared to all the other non loli girls because her character is so ridiculous.
- At one point in the Pokémon Special manga, Blue stuffs her shirt with Poké Balls. Fanservicey and practical!
- Hinata Aki's long-awaited swimsuit scene on Keroro Gunsou is marked by air raid sirens and flashing red lights ("WARNING!" "DYNAMITE!!").
- Courtesy of Code Geass, Norio Wakamoto and a certain 4koma... ALL HAIL
BRITANNIA BOOBS!!
Comic Books
- In The DCU, Young Justice's first "opponent," if she could be called that, was Mighty Endowed, who touched a mysterious relic and transformed into a power-crazed Cat Girl with "huge... tracts of land." We never actually see them, but the impression is they outclass even the normal Most Common Super Powered heroines exponentially. As evidenced by the fact that she can't stand upright anymore.
- She tries to get around this limitation by getting support from the guys she controls. Seems a big enough pair of breasts can hypnotize men. Possibly Truth In Television.
- Olga Lawina, a regular character in the Dutch comic Agent 327 (a parody on James Bond) is quite literally the embodiment of this trope, If You Know What I Mean. In fact, she has probably been the target of every breast-related trope and then some. You can check out her, ahem, 'assets' here◊.
- In the WITCH comic series, perpetual flirt tomboy Irma Lair tries on two seperate occasions to get older boys to notice her by using her Glam Of Shazam to boost her bust. Possibly as some kind of attempted moral about vanity both attempts end with her being humiliated or embarrassed in some way.
- In the comic Harry Johnson (yeah...), one issue has a female scientist trying to impress the eponymous main character by inflating her breasts to beach ball-like size with a special "super-soldier" serum.
Film
- A Dirty Shame: Selma Blair as Ursula Udders. 'Nuff said.
- In Woody Allen's anthology movie Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask, an accident at a sex researcher's laboratory lets loose an enormous disembodied breast.
- The worse-than-So Bad Its Horrible Doris Wishman-helmed film Deadly Weapons was about an ex-stripper who uses her ludicrouly huge boobs to kill people. In this case, "gag" takes on multiple meanings.
- Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
- Beaches. "One night at the opera he saw an Aida whose bust was so big they would often impede her. Bug-eyed he watched her fall into the pit, done in by the weight of those terrible tits! Oh, my god! There she blows! Aerodynamically, this bitch was a mess!"
- In Liar Liar after Fletcher's son made his truth wish, he meets a well-endowed woman on the elevator.
Busty Woman on Elevator: Everybody's been real nice.
Fletcher: Well, that's because you've got big jugs. I mean your boobs are huge. I mean, I wanna squeeze 'em. Mama! *makes bottle-sucking noises*
- The outtakes from that scene are pretty funny too.
- Yvette from Clue.
- Miss Forcible from Coraline. Oh god, Miss Forcible...
- In Wild Wild West, Artemus Gordon has a female disguise. This lets to two breast-joke related scenes: one where Gordon shows James West his fake breasts, and another where West drums his hands across the breasts of a woman he thinks is a cross-dressing Gordon (which almost causes West to be lynched).
Literature
- A very disturbing use of Gag Boobs can be found in Gulliver's Travels, during a scene where Gulliver describes how the 60-foot-tall giantesses of Brobdingnag liked to treat him like a doll or plaything, often stripping him naked and setting him astride one of their nipples.
- Maybe disturbing for YOU!
- Well, yes, but the same chapter also noted that said breasts, which would look good on a normally-sized person, are much uglier when magnified!
Live Action TV
- An episode of Allo Allo features two well-endowed female characters wearing low-cut outfits serving ice-cream. From a vibrating ice-cream truck.
- And, of course, the Mac Guffin through the whole series was "ze picture of ze fallen Madonna wiz ze big boobies".
- One of the recurring characters in English sketch comedy Little Britain was a sheltered mama's boy in his late twenties who's still being breastfed. Like everything else in the show, it was done in the best possible taste.
- Benny Hill. Never an episode went by without some kind of Gag Boobs gag. The most frequently repeated was the golf-ball-lands-in-the-cleavage shot, the "I dropped my keys down there" bit, and umbrella handles getting snagged in low necklines.
- The premise behind Lindsay Lohan's HarryPotter skit on SNL was that Hermione had gotten big boobs over the summer and every single male character was jaw-on-the-floor ogling at them.
- Anything involving Cleo Roccos, especially in her Kenny Everett Show days.
- During the second and third seasons of Friends, Monica had to work at a 50s themed diner where she was made to wear huge fake boobs under her uniform.
- The Japanese Sketch Comedy show Downtown no Gottsu Ee Kanji had two episodes of its Seikimatsu Sentai Gorenjai sketch revolve around the titular Goranger parody team changing its theme to various kinds of boobs which they would then dance around and [[Gainaxing Gainax]] with.
- The obvious... endowments of the female lead in the bottomlessly... er... the awful "Quest of the Delta Knights" probably weren't intended to be played for laughs, but during the host segment on that episode of MST 3 K, Tom Servo's "breasts" definitely were.
New Media
- Mai Valentine's endowment is a running gag in Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series (though in fact she's merely large, but not to a comical degree; the joke is mostly in referrence to her role as Ms Fanservice).
- Episode 38 takes the gag to the max, especially during the "Joey catches Mai" scene.
MAGNUM: She's going to fall to her untimely death! What would L. Ron Hubbard do?
JOEY: I see London, I see France, I see Mai Valentine's underpants!
MAI: Joey, stop gawking at my nethers and save my butt!
JOEY: Aww, can't I do both?
MAI: Just shut up and catch me!
JOEY: Okay, but whatever you do, don't let go until I say—
(Joey gets crushed by Mai's breasts with a squeaky toy like noise.)
MAI: It finally happened! I killed a man with my breasts!
Theater
- Pictured above: Magda, the scullery wench from Tanz Der Vampire, manages to produce this effect in live action. On stage. While she has a few lines beforehand, she is basically introduced through an exchange in which Professor Abronsius asks Alfred if he's noticed "those little round things", and Alfred, transfixed by Magda's bouncing chest as she washes the Professor's feet, doesn't realize he's talking about the garlic all over the room: "Little? Those things are huge!"
Video Games
- Half the game Stretch Panic revolves around Boss Battles with Linda's possessed sisters, while the other half revolves around fighting "Bonita Zakos", demons that take the form of scantily clad women with breasts that are about twice the size of the rest of their bodies.
- Interestingly, much greater damage is done for hitting (usually stretching then snapping) a "weak point" on a boss, and more points are acquired for doing so on Bonita Zakos - in this case, however, the "weak point" is anything but the breasts - a difficult feat nonetheless.
- Seolla, from Super Robot Wars, is a 16 year old with large breasts and most of the comical banter between her and love interest Arado is about her breasts. This becomes a plot point when during a battle she screams at Arado to stop making fun of her breasts, even though she has been Brainwashed into thinking that Arado is an enemy, and had forgotten about their earlier time together.
- The Sunflower Girl from Conkers Bad Fur Day, who has a positively enormous pair of...stigmas. And later on offers Conker a chance to reach a bit of extra height by bouncing on her lovely twosome. "Now this is what I call a platform game" indeed.
- Telma from Twilight Princess, while a bit more mature that many examples here, certainly qualifies. The fact that the man she's interested in has no interest in her whatsoever seems a great shame to this troper.
- Tales Of The Abyss, in the skits. TWICE, on Tear...
Oh, I remember about that book. That character got big breasts, right? Maybe Tear would've been a better... OWOWOWOW!! - Luke (speaking about the Star of Ispania costume on Natalia)
No way you could hope to match those melons! - Luke
M-m-melons, what do you mean melons!? Are you stupid!? Can't you be a little more quiet!? - Tear
- Also in the all-girls swimsuit battle ending.
Natalia: I'm so worried this swimsuit will just fall off.
Tear: I know. I feel like I'm going to... pop out.
- Tales Of Vesperia proudly continues the tradition with Judith, also mostly in skits...
Judith: If that's what it is, then just wear this outfit yourself.
Estelle: Like my boobs could fill out that top! *gasps and flees*
Judith: ...I didn't say anything about boobs...
- ...but also in a Victory Pose or two.
Estelle: They're...bouncing.
Judith: What're you looking at?
Estelle: I wish I could bounce...
- During one part of Persona 4, the entire party get medical checkups to see if the television world is having any adverse effect on their health. Hilarity Ensues when Rise gets a hold of Naoto's chart and is flabbergasted by her breast size measurements.
- In Castlevania Judgment, the assets of Shanoa, Sypha, and Carmilla are played for laughs in Maria's story mode:
- In Mad World, one of the boss is a vampire who has two large and round racks. Everytime Jack managed to struggle against her arms, he found himself staring at them, allowing the boss to bite him if he is not fast enough. Awesome rack on her, though!
Webcomics
- Buxom Gal from Supermegatopia.
- The Magnificent Milk Maid, which redefines NSFW, has many heroines with immense sweater puppies (including a villainous named Sweater Puppy...who lives up to the title), but then they also have Ju GG Gz. Originally a flat-chested, insecure girl she gains the power to grow to immense size, or at least her boobs do, as well as superstrength and durability. After a breif rampage though her roaring rampage of revenge is brought to a close when a boy she was lusting after calls her a freak and says he's not interested in someone with boobs the size of her whole torso. Ouch. She shows up again from time to time...with similarly humiliating results for her in each case.
- The webcomic Craving Control has this as its central premise. Lalia, the main character, is a Big Eater with the "straight to the breasts" clause. She's also klutzy, impulsive and jumpy, huggy (when drunk), and often... overflows her wardrobe.
- Monica, main character of Wapsi Square, sometimes uses her large breasts comedically, especially when she's been drinking. Other times, it just happens to her.
- Turn the Minotaur from Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic travels with the other monsters to steal a treasure from a Sphinx. Unlike the others however, what he seeks is the sphinx herself, whom he imagines is as lonely as he is. He is last seen resting comfortably between a pair of breasts several times his own size.
- This trope appears to be the entire reason behind Didi from Menage a 3. Most strips she's in feature some kind of gag about her enormous breasts.
- Which is practically lampshaded by her cast page picture, which shows the bottom of her nose, the mouth and chin underneath... to her chest.
- She seems to be roughly two-thirds this, and one-third Boobs Of Steel.
- If Fa'lina isn't there already, then she's closing in fast.
- Crops up occasionally in The Wotch, usually during an Attractive Bent Gender.
- Last Res0rt's Adharia Kuvoe gets the brunt of the boob-related gags.
Veled: We're just debating whether you'd look better as a blonde like us.
Cypress: Like you? While we're at it, how about I throw in some breast implants?
- Ellen from El Goonish Shive has fairly large breasts normally, but when she zaps herself with her own Transformation Ray her tracts of land quickly reach gag boob territory. This is used by her to tease her "brother" Elliot.
- The whole plot of the Breast Expansion web comic Pulse is that Annie Chang was a massively insecure teen girl who wanted bigger boobs, who undergoes a procedure to get superpowers. Chief among those powers are, no joke, 100-inch breasts, each larger than her entire torso. Somewhat realistically the series also deals with the embarrassment, insecurity and freakshow status such size would cause her; at first pleased by her new appearance she rapidly realizes just how ridiculous she looks and the danger she's in as a superhero.
- A web comic by the same author, Peeved, has a similar theme. Eve, a young girl, wishes to match up with her impossibly busty sister Juno and makes a birthday wish...which comes true. But again, her joy soon sours as her big boobs cause big problems in her life, and she gets made fun of by her co-workers and freinds.
Western Animation
- A Giantess on Chowder who, predictably, launches Schnitzel straight into Marshmallow Hell.
- The Simpsons movie. "Thank you, boob lady!"
- In one episode of Justice League, The Atom gets to ride in Wonder Woman's Wonder Bra. And he looks very satisfied with himself.
- Anastasia: Sophie, cousin to the Dowager Empress. No wonder Vlad considers her his "cream puff".
- An episode of Duckman featured twin models with breasts twice as big as their heads. They hire Duckman to find out why men seem to act so strangely around them.
- The self-same episode had Duckman heading to a plastic surgery clinic (no...completely different reason) and we get a short sequence of a woman having her breasts enhanced. Something apparently goes awry though because she rapidly gets so big she explodes and deflates.
- In An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, there is a human woman with huge knockers who is infatuated with Cat R. Waul, whom he meets when Fievel stabs him with a fork and sends him shooting up into the human overworld, and whose unwilling pet he becomes when the good guys send him packing on a train at film's end. In her first scene, she even snuggles him up into her cleavage!
- Come to think of it, I don't really see how Fievel and the gang came out on top, there...
- A cutaway joke in Family Guy features a parody of The Ghost Whisperer features the main character talking to a ghost and asking why all the ghosts come to her and it reveals she has enormous breasts longer than the rest of her body.
- Mrs. Toad from Thumbelina. A toad with perfectly circular, gianormous breasts that bounce and sway everywhere. What's worse is the artists dressed them in polka dots.
- Well, isn't she voiced by, like, Charo?
- Ever heard of Clara Cluck? They might not be classic boobs per say, but her chest area is a rather...prominent gag wherever she appears. Donald gets a free ride on them in "Mickey's Birthday Party".
- When Cartman became a very thinly-veiled parody of Dog the Bounty Hunter, he too got a buxom assistant. Her chest was so large that she could only just see over it.
- In the episode "Busted" of Braceface, the title character, Sharon, gets tred of being flat-chested and buys a breast enhancement pump to impress a boy. Unfortunately she ends up so overinflated that instead of impressing the guy everyone just laughs at her. Oh but wait, that's not all, because then she goes even bigger and one of her boobs explodes! The moral is supposed to be about being proud of how you naturally look...I guess.
Web Animation
- The gags Doreen and Maureen is most famous for usually involve Doreen's huge, sagging breasts. They're always moving, possibly due to wind, but at times they seem to be controlled by Doreen, or have a mind of their own. On occasions they've been used for slapping people in the face, throwing people, opening doors and picking up objects.
- This joke is parodied with Doreen's mother, Noreen, whose breasts are so long they reach the floor. She uses them for walking, and can slap two people at a time with them.
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