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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 or Funbag Airbag, for related physical gags.
Contrast with Pettanko, and on a different axis Gag Penis.
Examples
- A Dirty Shame: Selma Blair as Ursula Udders. 'Nuff said.
- 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, who is almost more boob than girl.
- And if you thought Komoe was bad, he later gives us Ichigo. Explanation? Feh.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Simpsons movie. "Thank you, boob lady!"
- 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".
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Matsumoto Rangiku'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 Faux Action 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.
- Buxom Gal from Supermegatopia.
- 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.
- Junko Asagiri from "Sunabozu" (Desert Punk).
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In one episode of Justice League, The Atom gets to ride in Wonder Woman's Wonder Bra. And he looks very satisfied with himself.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- Some of the female characters of Soul Calibur, most notably Taki, have breasts of absurd sizes with little to no support, that, logically speaking, should actually be hindering their performance.
- Taki? Yeah she's big, but Ivy seems bigger to me, and she's got a stripperific outfit to boot.
- Mikuru Asahina in Suzumiya Haruhi.
- Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
- If Fa'lina isn't there already, then she's closing in fast.
- 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!"
- 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!"
- Russia's older sister Ukraine goes "BOING!" in the Axis Powers Hetalia manga.
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