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Gasshole
"If I wanna put a trumpet in my ass and run around this restaurant and blow "Hallelujah, Yankee Doodle," that's my business!"
Cletus Klump, The Nutty Professor II

A Gasshole is a character in a series who is known for being, well, gassy. The humor may focus on the frequency with which this person farts/belches, or the magnitude of their emissions, or their shamelessness about it. If they use their, ahem, talent as a form of attack, the trope is Fartillery, and if they meet their match it's Farts on Fire.

A blatant example of Toilet Humour.


Examples:

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    Anime and Manga 
  • Gasser/Heppokomaru in Bobobo Bo Bobobo. However, this is treated like any other power in the series, and the fact that his attacks are farts is hardly ever addressed after his first major appearance.
  • In Eyeshield 21, flatulence is one of many bad habits of Otawara.
  • Played in a surprisingly serious manner by those affected by The Virus in Gyo.
  • In DNA˛, a shy and sweet gym practitioner named Kotomi Takanashi has an unusual disorder: she farts when she's nervous. (And in the manga, her farts are epic.) So she tries to solve this by bonding with her friend Junta Momonari aka the main character, an Unlucky Everydude who throws up when he gets aroused.
  • Veku, Vegeta's and Goku's failed attempt at merging into Gogeta, can only attack with his flatulence. This, as well as his bouncy fat feature, are the only things that make him useful.
  • Iggy the dog in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is known to cling to the faces of people he doesn't like (nearly everyone) and fart. This turns into Fartillery in the fighting game as he does this as his throw, and he has a super version that looks and acts similar to Akuma's Raging Demon.
  • Himawari! features Momota, a cute animal sidekick who frequently attacks with his gas. As well, at one point, as using his backside as a watermelon-seed machine gun
  • Hiroyuki(Fuusuke pet penguin) from Ninku known for release explosive farts in the anime only
    • In the manga this ability belong to Toji.
  • Keroro Gunsou: Tamama has farts vastly more potent then a normal Keronian, which he is quite proud of, and uses them as an attack on a few occasions. He also can use them to increase his swimming speed.
  • Nezumi-Otoko only real abitilty other than his bad breath and body odor is farting GeGeGe no Kitaro

    Comics 

     Fanfiction 
  • In Harry Potter and the Champion's Champion, when Harry and Hermione started a relationship shortly after Halloween Hermione got Ron to sign a "jealousy contract" which was charmed to cause uncontrollable and untreatable flatulence whenever he became jealous of either of them for any reason. This eventually became such a problem that Hermione had to cast a switching spell on the contract so that his farts were rerouted to destinations other than Gryffindor Tower. (By then, Harry and his other dorm-mates had become very very good at air-freshening spells...)

    Film 
  • In Amadeus, Mozart ripped a loud one while caricaturing Salieri at the piano.
  • Shrek:
    • Plenty of this film series' humor comes from Shrek and Fiona's bodily functions. During the opening sequence Shrek leaps into a pond, lets go one, and tries to feign innocence as a few bubbles rise up behind him — followed by a dead trout! Also, "Better out than in, I always say, eh?".
    • This gem:
      Donkey: Whoo, Shrek, did you do that?! Man you gotta warn somebody before you just crack one off; my mouth was open n' everything!
      Shrek: Believe me, Donkey, if it was me, you'd be dead!
    • And the fairies captured in jars wished they were in the opening sequence of Shrek 2!
  • Pumbaa the warthog from The Lion King was said to be an outcast among the other jungle animals due to his uncontrollable (and intolerable) flatulence. This quality was played for cartoonish comic effect in the spin-off series, Timon & Pumbaa.
  • The Spleen from Mystery Men was cursed with explosive flatulence after he blamed a fart on an old gypsy woman who was passing by when he was walking in the park with his friends. He now uses his superior farting skills to fight crime. Fo' serious.
  • In Last Action Hero, there's a character in the movie-within-a-movie who was apparently known for being flatulent (he's Dead to Begin With). His name was Leo the Fart.
  • Aunt Fanny from Robots managed to KILL A STREETLAMP.
  • In Tropic Thunder, Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black) is famous for a series of movies in which he plays an entire family whose humor seems to be entirely fat jokes and lots of flatulence.
    • Likely a parody of Eddie Murphy's latest movies. Cletus Klump in The Nutty Professor is such an example that he provides the page quote.
  • This was the defining characteristic of Devlin Bowman, the Big Bad of Master of Disguise. Not Brent Spiner's finest role. Disturbingly enough, there seems to be an implied aversion of No Dead Body Poops in the ending...
  • Booger in Revenge of the Nerds.
  • Judy and Hugh Neutron at the end of the movie, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Justified as the soda they drank was Jimmy's Neutronic Burping Soda which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. [1]
  • Cholly the chalicothere from Ice Age, whose flatulence was so loud it was mistaken for a mammoth trumpeting.
    • Not to mention that he uses his farts to propel Scrat into the air in the game.
  • Ed, from Shaun of the Dead: "I'll stop doing it when you stop laughing."
  • The strangely flatulent Sir Bedevere in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Although his gas isn't a common source of humor after that; the funny part is more that that's the only thing he has to distinguish him by, when the other knights are called things like "brave" and "handsome."
  • The 1984 film Night Patrol features among its characters a flatulent midget police captain.
  • In Who's Your Caddy?, a big guy in a kilt cuts loose a long fart. He must have really held that in for so long!
  • Rudy from Little Giants.
  • In one scene from Chicken Little, Runt trips while he, C.L., and the others were running away from the aliens, and belches with each impact.
  • One of the sailors in Treasure Planet speaks exclusively in farts. After an initial gag it's played seriously.
  • Thunderpants is a 2002 movie about a boy with superpowered flatulence.
  • Blazing Saddles. Campfire scene + Cowboys + Pot full of beans = Memorable (and funniest!) Movie Scene in Cinematic History.
    Cowboy: How 'bout some more beans, Mr. Taggart?
    Mr. Taggart: I'd say you've had ENOUGH!
  • Cletus Klump from the remakes of The Nutty Professor more than counts. Aside from being the one with the privilege of giving us one of our two page quotes there, he openly demonstrates his gasshole tendencies on both family dinner scenes in the first movie, resorting to deliberately breaking wind and utterly destroying any tracks of conversation that preceded it. Much to Ernie Junior's vast amusement.
  • In Hotel Transylvania the Invisible Man farted while standing right behind the Mummy, leading to frantic denials from the latter.

    Literature 

    Live Action TV 
  • The Slitheen in Doctor Who, due to something or other to do with how they compress themselves into their disguises. Well, the extra material has to go somewhere.
  • The natives of Tersurus in the Comic Relief special Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death communicated via controlled flatulence. They all died when one of them discovered fire.
  • The yeast sock puppets on Good Eats; just like real yeast, they do nothing but eat, multiply, and pass lots of gas.
  • "Timmy Toot-Toot" of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. Lisa Zemo as well, who entered a talent show with burping the alphabet as her talent.
  • Farscape:
    • Rygel farts helium! Is there anything Rygel can't do?!
    • Crichton calls a Sheyang scavenger this very name in a season 1 episode.
  • So Random, the Show Within a Show on Sonny With A Chance has sketches with Gassie, a parody of America's Favorite Collie, who communicates through her flatulence.
  • Beans from Even Stevens. Why do you think they call him "Beans"?
  • If this Saturday Night Live sketch has any truth to it, Grace Kelly.
  • Subverted in the episode "Drew Blows His Promotion" of The Drew Carey Show, where Drew shows a safety video he made to his company's Board of Directors which apparently featured him passing gas loudly every few seconds - however, the fart noises were actually added as a birthday prank by one of his friends. Then played straight later when Drew meets with the Board again to explain that the video was a prank, but is struggling not to actually pass gas while he's talking, because he had previously eaten a rotten tofu cake.
  • The Fast Show had the character of Bob Fleming, a TV host with a persistent terrible cough. Different sketches introduced his friends with similarly distracting tics, one of whom was a woman who continually belched and farted.
  • Woody from The Suite Life on Deck, who can perform "Stairway To Heaven" Le Pétomane-style after eating the Mexican buffet.
    • When his attractive sister shows up, she clears the deck. "I've been holding that one in since I got on the boat!"
  • Continuously defied in a Saturday Night Live sketch, Bean Cafe, where Tom Hanks is the proprietor of a café that sells nothing but beans. The entire premise of the sketch is that it neatly avoids every single fart-joke it sets up. As the old rhyme goes "Beans, beans, good for the heart. Beans, beans, great for your heart!"
    Customer: (sniffs) Alright, who did it?
    Owner: What?
    Customer: Who went and made my favorite pie again?
  • Dick And Dom In Da Bungalow had Diddy Dick and Dom, puppets (played by the presenters) who live in a cupboard in Da Bungalow. Theme song:
    We may be really small but we've both got big hearts
    It's all right in here as long as no-one...
    (one of the puppets farts)
  • Horrible Histories had a musical number where a group of cowboys sing about what the life of a real cowboy was of like. One of them farts a solo because of all the beans they eat.
  • On WWE Smackdown, there was a storyline in early 2012 where WWE Diva Natalya suffered from this.
  • A villian in Power ranger Turbo, was called big burpa. lets just say she lived up to her name.

    Music 

    Toys 
  • Kapura from BIONICLE produced fiery gas-clouds of flatulence, which propelled him forward. This detail was only ever seen in the Mata Nui On-Line Game, and was to be mentioned in the canceled Legend of Mata Nui video game, so its place in the canon storyline is dubious. After the story turned serious, it is doubtful it will be ever brought up again.

    Video Games 
  • Wario, in Wario Ware and Super Smash Bros.
  • EarthBound's Master Belch.
  • The boss of New Junk City in Earthworm Jim.
  • The Bile Demons from Dungeon Keeper had weaponized farts.
  • In Donkey Kong 64, one of Chunky Kong's most powerful attacks is a giant belch that, in the form of a circular green shockwave, kills any enemy it hits, including some that can't be defeated in any other way.
    • Donkey Kong Country 3 also had a giant living barrel named Belcha as its first boss. To defeat it you had to throw things into its mouth and make him burp himself off the edge of the level.
  • Sloppy Sims in The Sims series and Sims with the "Slob" trait in The Sims 3 burp and fart randomly.
  • ALL the monsters in Rampage: Total Destruction burp and/or fart after consuming people.
  • In the original Grand Theft Auto game, there is a button to honk the horn while driving a car. If you press it while your character is on foot, he burps or farts.
  • Boogerman.
  • Occurs often in fighting games, bonus points if the character is also morbidly obese (ie: Earthquake, Chaos, Bo'Rai'Cho etc). The same characters tend to also hurl other bodily fluids on command, which may stun, slip or just dissolve the recipient.
  • The Stenches in the Crash Bandicoot games, are bird/skunk hybrids known for their huge bursts of concentrated stink in their enemy's direction. They do not qualify as fartillery as they're not actual farts. In ''Crash Mind Over Mutant, though, their special attack appears to come from their... yeah.
  • Oddworld features a weaponized version in the form of a green cloud that can be possessed (yes, really) and detonated on command.
  • The demon Gluttons in Dante's Inferno.
  • Some puzzles in McPixel end with someone farting if you get it wrong. 100% Completion wins you a "Fart-Along" rhythm game.
  • In Tropico, this is one of the character flaws you can choose. (The effects: worse foreign relations, and your palace staff gets double pay.)
  • Vivi in Brain Dead 13. In a death scene, after exsanguinating Lance by sucking his blood, she lets out a very loud and unfeminine belch, plus an almost-proud sound giggle afterwards.

    Web Comics 
  • Loserz: Not all the time (fortunately), but when Jodie does, it's not pretty. She's such a delicate flower.
  • Baby Man from Axe Cop, who has the powers of a baby.
  • Lampshaded in theseeditions of World of Fizz, although other characters are more frequently shown belching or farting than Kelli.
    • Kelli's little brother definitely fits the bill. He is prone to flatulent outbursts more so than any other character.
  • Skull the large blue troll on PVP.
  • Ayanah from Pawn. Not only does she fart several times throughout the series, they're also usually comically exaggerated; they have been shown to be capable of echoing throughout the entire dungeon and were even (accidentally) used as Fartillery.

    Web Original 
  • Germaine of Neurotically Yours chugged down a bottle of the titular soda in "Gas-E-Pop" and burped constantly for the remainder of the short. Since then, she has been known to burp randomly out of the blue (and again with soda in the A-Kon Convention episode).
  • Nate, of the school Underdogs at Whateley Academy in the Whateley Universe, has this as his superpower. His codename is Miasma. What more do you need to know about him?
  • While in the original I Luv Halloween amerimanga, Moochie's "cabbage poot" is an almost blink-and-you'll-miss-it joke, the youtube animation turned it into a 20 second long EXPLOSION that leads one to wonder just what the heck she ate for breakfast that day.
  • Obscurus Lupa farts so often that Allison Pregler, her creator and performer has been called "the Peter Griffin of TGWTG."

    Western Animation 
  • Billy from The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy. He's guaranteed some approximation of three fart jokes and five burp jokes per scene he appears in. In the episode "Tastes Like Chicken" Mandy proved herself quite the Gasshole as well (her belches cause minor earth tremors).
  • The titular character from Fleabag Monkeyface
  • Gonard from Kappa Mikey is also a constant source of gas-themed humor, featuring such gags as him accidentally blowing up a house with a fart. (the same episode mentioned that medical science used the term "Gonard's Syndrome" to describe explosive flatulence) Mitsuki, however, whose own fart echoed throughout the galaxy after she accidentally ate some ice cream with novelty farting powder on it.
  • Family Guy's Peter Griffin, the King of the Fart Joke.
    • Not only Peter uses his farts at will (mostly to abuse Meg), but in a cutaway gag, he had a farting contest with Micheal Moore and the two basically "created" music out of it.
  • In Animaniacs, Wakko Warner was a Gasshole as well as an Extreme Omnivore and Big Eater. He once belched The Blue Danube in Symphony Hall, and was a general provider of dozens of burp jokes throughout the run of Animaniacs. His Symphony Hall performances ended with him bowing and repeatedly declaring, "Excuse me!"
    • As his alter-ego the great Wakkorati.
  • Hector's stomach, Stomach, in Evil Con Carne.
  • Drawn Together, natch:
  • Kim Possible: One would think Kim's friend and sidekick Ron Stoppable, with his primarily Bueno Nacho-based diet, would be an absolute fart machine...but aside from a passing (no pun intended) reference in "Ron Millionare", you'd be wrong. His mole rat pal Rufus, however, rips a horrendous one after gorging himself on kibble in "Adventures in Rufus-Sitting", and is chided for burping when Ron wishes to impress Zita Flores.
    Kim: Hey, you don't tell him to cut out the gross stuff when I'm around.
    Ron: What's your point?
  • Johnny Test has his signature "flaming power poots" under his superhero form, "Johnny X".
    • Dukey and his continuous farting with little concern for others.
      • "That's a sign of happiness in many cultures ."
  • The Simpsons: Barney Gumbel, whose distinctive belch is his Catch Phrase.
  • Terrance and Phillip. are farting machines.
  • Granma-ma from Duckman, who was in a vegetative state and could only communicate through farting.
  • Stimpy of Ren and Stimpy was very flatulent from time to time. In one episode he forgets what a fart is and calls it his child because it came out of his butt. Given that it was Ren and Stimpy, the fart actually is sentient.
    • Giant powerhouse superhero Powdered Toast Man sells and gives powdered toast that doesn't taste right unless he releases a loud and long fart on it.
    • Don't think that Ren wasn't a Gasshole from time to time... he did make bubbles in the bubbles in the bathtub in a couple of episodes... and not with his mouth!
  • Heffer of Rocko's Modern Life was also very flatulent, on one occasion when he is sitting (literally) for Filburt's egg he farts and Filburt angrily replies "what did Mr. Big Squishy Butt say?" because he was jealous that he couldn't sit on the egg.
  • You Can't Do That on Television had this occur a lot.
  • In The Ripping Friends the villain Citracet was granted super powers all revolved around farting.
  • Mr. Rude of The Mr. Men Show does this on occasion.
  • Yoshi in Super Mario World burped quite often including one that resulted in Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool sharing a parting laugh.
  • Robotboy: Gus Bachman-Turner.
    • Gus meets his match when Santa Claus (who is actually revealed to be extremely buff in that episode) presses his butt into an open present, lays a tremendous fart, and gives it to Gus. The stink burns Gus's eyes and leaves him smelling like Santa for months, which isn't nearly the punishment his present got, who had to take it head on.
  • Yvon Ducharme (of The Yukon) not only never bathes, but also farts frequently. At one point, someone tried to use CPR on him, and the chest compression casued Yvon to fart, which caused his would be rescuer to pass out.
  • Maurice the Maggot of Freaky Stories, continually farting. At one point he gets the "Maggot Flu", which is like the normal flu, except you also fart whenever you sneeze. That said, Larry the Cockroach was able to beat him at a fart-off.
  • In Beast Wars, Megatron uses a virus to turn Rhinox into one of these. It backfires. literally. [2]
  • The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius: Hugh Neutron, Jimmy's dad
  • Ripper from Stoked, hence the Meaningful Nickname.
    • Fin is a belch variant. She doesn't do it too often, but she has burped more than anyone else on the show (except for mybe Reef or Broseph) and at one point she even burps with enough force to blow Reef's and Broseph's hair back, knock Johnny over and shake the room they were in. [4]
  • Total Drama Island: Owen. The guy kills a fish in the opening intro!
    • In a similar vein as Fin, Izzy has also been seen releasing burps of such magnitude that they cause a small tidal wave in a pool. [5]
    • Blainey can fart and burp at the same time with enough force to shake her bloated stomach, the room and even the camera to the point of breaking.
  • Jade acquires a belching habit in the Jackie Chan Adventures episode "Relics of Demons Past", although it's never brought up or referenced again.
  • From The Mask: the Animated Series, Kablamous the Exploding Man (who's somehow able to inflate and explode himself repeatedly) is defeated when The Mask affixes a tap to him, causing him to deflate harmlessly every time he tries to inflate... turning him into what is essentially a perpetual farting machine.
  • The Venture Brothers: The Action Man from the original Team Venture is prone to flatulence at his advancing age.
  • The Cleveland Show - in the episode "Gone with the Wind" Cleveland is given a literal fart card by his doctor.
  • Gunther from Kick Buttowski. Brad has been known to fart when he needs to (e.g. in a fight) and one episode revealed Kendall is one in private.
  • Beezy on Jimmy Two-Shoes, usually of the burping variety.
  • Dragon from Jane and the Dragon.
  • Double Subverted with Gunter from Adventure Time: In the Vignette Episode "Five Short Graybles" the Ice King falsely accuses him of stinky air, only to realize it was his own armpits. Later on, after the Ice King is done bathing and apologizes to Gunter, the latter gets comfortable under Ice King's arm... and cuts one.
    • Also, Starchie. If you squeeze him, he'll fart!

    Real Life 
  • 19th Century French stage performer Joseph Pujol, aka Le Petomane, was known for his act of using his wind to imitate cannon fire and explosives, blowing out candles from several yards away, and playing "La Marseillaise".
    • In his army days, he amused his fellow soldiers by, ah, immitating a waterspout. Yes, with his ass. Le Petomane is a doubtful example, actually, as he did not actually fart - he just had incredible control over his butthole muscles, which let him...suck in large amounts of air. Into his ass. Bloody Frenchmen.
  • Justin Timberlake, who has won the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards burping contest more than once.
  • Cameron Diaz won the inaugural Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Best Burp Award.
  • Paul Hunn, the Guiness record-holder for loudest belch.
  • Dougie Poynter from Mc Fly.
  • Katy Perry, according to her former husband...
    "That woman is like a flatulence factory. The pop hits that she fires out of her mouth are nothing compared to what comes out the other end of her!"
  • Anybody following a healthy diet is going to become one. High-fiber vegetables and beans create a lot of gas, while sulfurous foods such as eggs and onions make it smell (fitness-minded people have said that the gas from hard-boiled eggs is a special kind of hell.)
  • Metformin, the front-line drug treatment for type II diabetes, is sometimes called 'Metfartmin'.
  • There are several videos on the internet of people showing off their belching skills. Those are only a few of the many, many, examples.
  • The He-gassen Japanese painting. No comment.
  • Jessica Simpson and her truck-driver belches. [7]
  • Adolf Hitler had serious stomach problems, which lead to his vegetarianism. And given how the pills to treat that in the 30s and 40s were full of toxic stuff, some argue he was falling ill and/or insane inside the bunker.
    • Inverted by Josef Stalin, who had a phobia of farting in public.
  • One of André the Giant's favorite pranks was farting very loudly in a crowded elevator, and then blaming it on a little girl.
  • Among those who knew her, Marilyn Monroe was notorious for her frequent flatulence. Which really sheds a new light on the famous skirt-blowing scene.


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