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"Excuse me! I'd like to ass you a few questions."
"Boy cheeks. Fanny. Derierre! Heinie! Backside! Cover up that coin slot!"
Ned Flanders, The Simpsons, "To Surveil with Love"

People have various configurations of equipment in the fronts of their crotches, but everybody has the same naughty bits in the rear ends. Yes, we're talking about bums. Everybody has a bottom, through which they fart and poop. As such, the rear end has been a subject of humour since time immemorial. People just find arses funny. Indeed, as this very page demonstrates, there are many, many terms for the derrière, most of which are pretty funny in their own right.

May overlap with Embarrassing Hospital Gown, Mooning, Shaking the Rump, and Toilet Humour. Can be seen as the backside version of Boob-Based Gag. Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks often enter this, even if unintentionally. Despite the name, this has nothing to do with Butt-Monkey or Iron Butt Monkey.

Subtropes

  • Ass Shove: A character gets something shoved up their butt or is revealed to have hidden something by storing it up there.
  • Bare-Bottomed Monkey: Jokes involving focus on a primate's bare keister.
  • Butt Biter: A character gets bitten on their rump.
  • Butt Cannon: A character fires projectiles from their rear.
  • Butt Sticker: A character gets flattened by and stuck to another person's huge posterior.
  • Cheek Copy: A character fools around by sitting on a photocopier to print pictures of their (usually) bare behind.
  • Comedic Spanking: Jokes about people being held down and getting struck on their derrieres as punishment.
  • Comically Oversized Butt: A gag about a character with an oversized bombosity.
  • Pain to the Ass: A character suffers an injury to their buttocks.
  • Plumber's Crack: A plumber or similar manual worker ends up having their buttcrack exposed to onlookers when doing their job.
  • Rump Roast: A character gets their caboose set on fire.
  • Shot in the Ass: A character gets shot in their backside.
  • Stuck in the Doorway: A character gets stuck, usually around their butt, either because their butt is too big or the opening is too small.
  • Toasted Buns: Using a jetpack with the exhaust located below your back carries the risk of burning your own heiny.
  • Uranus Is Showing: Jokes about the planet Uranus being pronounced like "your anus".


Examples

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    Anime and Manga 
  • Crayon Shin-chan: The rear end of the titular character is his main shtick, particularly the "Buri Buri Dance".
  • My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!: Catarina accidentally sits on her new adopted brother Keith after falling from a tree and promptly freaks out thinking she killed him.
    Catarina: I can't believe I killed you with my butt!
  • Tentomushi no Uta protagonist Hiyoko often goes without underwear due to not bothering to put on a new pair after hanging her panties to dry. As one may expect, this leads to frequent comedic shots of the young girl's bare butt whenever she falls over or has her skirt hiked up.

    Comic Books 
  • In Avenging Spider-Man Annual #1, while babysitting Franklin and Valeria at a costume store, Ben Grimm has his shorts pulled from the back by a kid looking for the price tag.
    The Thing: HEY! That view ain't for public consumption.
  • The 2018 Plastic Man miniseries has Plas get the child he's looking after to laugh by turning his own face into a butt.
  • In Superman's Pal: Jimmy Olsen (2019), Arm Fall Off Boy is shown to have relatives with different detachable body parts, one of whom is a grandmother whose butt comes off (an attribute she makes good use of when several of Jimmy Olsen's friends and acquaintances come to his aid near the end of the maxiseries).

    Comic Strips 
  • In on Dilbert strip, in order to stop Dilbert from being executed, Dogbert has Bob demonstrate a "fur wedgie" on Catbert. Later, Dilbert says that the paperwork ordering his execution was lost, leading Dogbert to remark that it "probably fell into a crack".
  • Garfield: "Doug, a pig just bit me." "A pig? Where did he bite you, Earl?" "Right in the mudhole, Doug."
  • Sabrina at See-CAD: Happens when Sabrina sits down on her paint palette in class.
  • The Viz strip The Bottom Inspectors was concocted primarily to jam as many words for the bottom onto one page as possible.

    Fan Works 
  • All Mixed Up!: In Chapter 4, Oscar calls on Olive and Otto for help with Oren, who sat on a shape crystal and now has a large purple rectangle growing on his butt. Surprisingly, Olive is the one who bursts out laughing, and then Contagious Laughter sets in with Otto and Oscar both beginning to laugh, much to Oren's chagrin. Even after the trio have calmed down, Otto can't resist cracking a joke at his Sitcom Arch-Nemesis's expense.
    Oscar: Oren sat on an active shape crystal, and they're sensitive to being measured.
    Otto: [whispering, to Olive] Or maybe Oren just has a sensitive rear end.
    Olive: [chuckling]
    Oren: Enough, okay?! Can we just please get this over with?
  • Anger Management: Carlota teases Ronnie Anne by saying that Ronnie Anne has a small butt but will probably soon fill out and become curvy like her or chubby like Rosa.
  • The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Protection Payment," pigeons Vinny, Joey, and Bobby engage in a string of rear-end based puns when their friend Kelvin gets stuck in a dumpster with just his bottom showing.
  • In OSMU: Fanfiction Friction, Omar reads aloud the opening of an Odd Squad fanfic titled Omar, My Partner, My Love. It consists of Opal admitting that she loves Omar's smile, his Pollyanna nature, and his "adorable tush". Orla reacts by saying that she doesn't think Omar's butt is that impressive, which he takes offense to as he blushes in embarrassment. He then shoots a glare at Oswald, who is quick to not share even a second of eye contact with him. Orla tries to console a mortified Opal by telling her that it's just a fanfic and doesn't mean anything, but unfortunately, it doesn't remove the fact that it's on the Internet for all to see, something that Opal reacts to by pitifully moaning.
  • Peeking Through the Fourth Wall:
    • In Episode 3, when Lincoln in the fanfic tells Lynn she has a big butt, the real Lynn takes it as a compliment. She boasts about the size of her posterior, which grosses out everyone else except for Lana, who is jealous.
    • In one episode, Lana says she doesn't mind eating food that was near her butt since "that's where it's going to end up anyway".
  • In Trapped in a Cart with Three Dumbasses, all it takes to get Tamaki snorting is Kaoru saying the word "ass".

    Films — Animation 
  • In Despicable Me 2, some minions laugh at Silas Ramsbottom for having "bottom" in his name.
  • In Finding Nemo, Nemo's classmates think a boat is called a "butt".
  • Hotel Transylvania: Transformania features a couple of glimpses of Griffin's bare butt when he becomes visible and therefore naked. Right after "The End" card at the conclusion of the film, there's even one last closeup of his naked backside.
  • Robots: Aunt Fanny, the Team Mom of the Rusties, is mostly made up of her gigantic backside, leading to Fender joking about how they can't call her "Aunt Booty", so they go with "Aunt Fanny".
  • Trolls:
    • Trolls:
      • Guy Diamond is a glittery Troll who does not wear clothes and is subject to a few butt jokes.
      • King Peppy moons the viewers in the prologue, when he reunites with the escaped Trolls and declares, "No troll left behind!"
    • Trolls World Tour: At the Lonesome Flats jail, Biggie sits between Branch and Poppy on a bench. When he gets back up and turns around, a crackle on his shorts that briefly exposes his butt can be seen. Said crackle disappears after that moment.
  • In Turning Red, as Mei tries to squeeze into a narrow alley as a giant red panda she makes it most of the way before her big butt makes it difficult and the camera focuses on her struggling to pull her hindquarters through.
  • In Zootopia, Nick confesses that he sold Mr. Big a rug that was made from the fur of a skunk's rear end, much to Judy's dismay.

    Films — Live-Action 
  • The page image comes from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, in which the title character literally talks out of his ass. The Animated Adaptation makes it a recurring trait, and exaggerates it in a crossover with The Mask in which Ace sits on the mask and gets a fully functional head on his booty.
  • Alvin and the Chipmunks:
    • In the first movie, after wrecking their lip-synced concert on purpose, Alvin then jumps to the camera knowing "Uncle Ian" is watching and mocks him.
      Alvin: Hey, Ian... kiss my furry cheeks!
    • In Road Chip, Theodore raps the beginning of "Baby Got Back" (better known as "I Like Big Butts") straight off, up to and including the "get sprung" part.
  • Butt Boy involves a Serial Killer who disposes of his victims by sticking them up his behind and digesting them. The humour derives from the movie playing this absurd premise completely straight.
  • In Idiocracy, the Stupid Future People's senses of humour have deteriorated to the point that the year's most popular movie, "Ass", consists of nothing but a 90-minute long closeup of someone's bare backside. The audience finds it hilarious.
  • In Thor: Ragnarok, a lot of jokes are made about the fact that the wormhole the heroes need to pass through to return to Asgard is called "The Devil's Anus".

    Jokes 
  • Why did the toilet paper roll down the hill? To get to the bottom.
  • What did the small bottom say to the big bottom? "I'm a little behind".
  • One candidate for the oldest known joke, hailing from Sumeria, around 1,900 BCE: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman doesn't fart in her new husband's lap."

    Literature 
  • Angela Nicely:
    • In “Healthy Holiday!”, the flyer for the spa asks if the reader is “baggy as an elephant’s bottom”.
    • In “The Big Bike Ride!”, Angela thinks her father’s tight shorts make his rump look big.
  • The Bum Trilogy's premise, shared with the its animated adaptation, is that bums are sentient and can detach from people's bodies, and after their attempt to overthrow humanity and their subsequent defeat, there's an uneasy peace as human bumfighters keep the evil bums in check.
  • Butt Out! is all about a Bare-Bottomed Monkey flaunting his behind around town, and almost every single line in the book contains a butt-related joke or pun, even the dang title! The sequel, Don't Butt In! is more of the same even though it's supposed to be about said monkey not flaunting his behind, but he still does it anyway.
  • In Deep Snow by Robert Munsch, the main character is in snow that goes up to her waist, and she sings a song about her bum being numb.
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid:
    • In "The Ugly Truth", Greg and his class are playing a game involving seeing whose close-up a photo is of. They take a photo of a boy Tyson's bent arm, but the teacher thinks it's of someone's "posterior".
    • In one book, Greg teases his coach by sticking his rear out when the coach says, "Get your butts over here!".
    • One book has Greg recount an embarrassing incident where he was doing a skit in school and fell over backwards, leaving a hole in the wall shaped like his heinie.
  • Franny K. Stein:
    • One chapter in Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid has Franny wake up to the sight of what she later realizes are the bare buttocks of the titular Cupid.
      "Pinker? Squishier?" Wait a second, Franny thought. That's not the moon... That's the biggest baby butt the world has ever seen.
    • In The Invisible Fran, Franny criticizes a piece of graffiti left by the Two-Headed Robot that reads "The Principal has a Rubber Butt". The narration later mentions Franny having made inaccurate speculations on butts when explaining how discovering that the robot intends to destroy the school's library books angers Franny more than the robot's other acts of vandalism.
    • The Frandidate mentions that Franny has an invention called the Steiny Heinie Ray, which can be used to immobilize people who are sitting down by making their rear ends too large for them to get up.
  • In the X-Wing Series: Solo Command, Wes is revenge-pranked in such a way that he wanders into a Birthday Suit Surprise Party with only a toy Ewok to cover himself with, and realizes the entirety of Wraith Squadron is behind him and can see his butt. A lieutenant comes up to give him a mocking cape that he can cover himself with a little better and whispers "Nice rear". Wes takes it all quite well until his commander makes the joking(?) suggestion that they'll broadcast footage of the event.
    "Tell me you're kidding."
    "What, and deny the universe the chance to see a rear end that the Wraiths have proclaimed so hologenic?"
    "Please tell me you're kidding."

    Live-Action TV 
  • Although it's not shown onscreen, Black Books hints at a rather gross-sounding comedy routine Bernard apparently knows. After he admits that he did "Belly Savalas" while drunk at a party, which involves sticking a lollipop in the folds of his belly and pretending it's Telly Savalas, Fran asks him whether he followed it with "Cobumbo."
    Bernard: No. I didn't have any cigars.
  • Bottom's title was chosen specifically to invoke this trope.
  • Doom Patrol (2019) features a bunch of sentient butt monsters in a few episodes, with the concept of the team having to face carnivorous beasts resembling walking keisters yet another example of the series honoring the source material's penchant for having the heroes confront bizarre and surreal threats.
  • Monty Python's Flying Circus has the Man With Three Buttocks sketch, in which a man with three buttocks is interviewed by John Cleese. John uses every synonym he knows to avoid saying "bum", which the guest is perfectly fine with. He is not, however, fine with showing anybody his three cheeks.
  • The Sam & Cat episode "#FavoriteShow" ends with Sam and Cat sharing a "butt bump" ("Roommate power!")
  • Star Trek: Enterprise: In "Precious Cargo", Trip says to an alien noblewoman, "Move your butt!". She doesn't seem to understand, so he says, "Your backside! Your rear end!".
  • That Mitchell and Webb Look has The Boy With an Arse for a Face. Guess what it's about.
  • Victorious: "WiFi In the Sky" has several moments where Trina has to squeeze past Tori and her laptop to get up, showing her hindquarters to Trina's friends on camera, who all react with exaggerated disgust.

    Music 
  • The Butthole Surfers based their name on this.
  • Cat Hairballs builds its entire video up to one of these. Much like in one of the Ren and Stimpy episodes listed below, Stimpy is being forced to "hwarf" up hairballs for Ren who then stamps them for quality. Eventually Stimpy starts running out of body parts to lick up for fuel, and the hwarfing becomes too exhausting to keep up with. By the end Stimpy, who's been completely licked clean, passes out on the conveyor belt and gets rolled over to Ren, who stamps Stimpy's ass so hard it makes a tortured Hluarf! sound that ends the song. The video irises out on an unconscious Stimpy's butt, which now sports the words "Grade A" across the cheeks.

    Podcasts 
  • Buttholes are a common topic of discussion, particularly in early episodes, in Hello, from the Magic Tavern. After learning that all wizards have two buttholes, Chunt wishes to always have two buttholes, which he later comes to regret upon learning that elves have three buttholes. He later consults a lawyer, who says that he might be able to sometimes have more depending on whether the wish is interpreted to mean "exactly two" or "at least two". One listener declared that it was the number one podcast for butthole-based humour.

    Puppet Shows 
  • Muppets Tonight: Seymour the Elephant and Pepe the King Prawn dreamed of onscreen singing stardom, but it never came about, because their performances were terrible. They would always sing the same song, with slightly altered lyrics:
    Seymour: I'm Seymour...
    Pepe: I'm Pepe...
    Both: We're two of a kind.
    Pepe: I'm a little bit forward.
    Seymour: And I've got a big behind.

    Video Games 
  • The Excuse Plot of Electronic Super Joy has you seeking vengeance on the evil wizard who stole your patootie.
  • Basilio in Fire Emblem: Awakening often likes to casually bring up his "sweet brown arse".
  • Pikmin 3: Two of the fruits, a peach and a plum, are respectively called the "Mock Bottom" and the "Lesser Mock Bottom." Brittany's notes on both of them remark how they resemble butts.
  • Shovel Knight has some cheat codes that replace various key words with the word "butt".
  • Yo Kai Watch: Cheeksqueek, the Yo-kai who causes flatulence, has a butt-shaped face. Jibanyan even lampshades it: "His face is a big butt!"

    Web Animation 
  • In Strong Bad Email #173, in a flashback Strong Bad mentions wanting to print an ASCII art butt shortly before meeting and forming a connection with The Paper, his sentient printer. At the end of the Sbemail, in an attempt to get in Strong Bad's good graces after taking over for The Paper which gave out earlier in the Sbemail, New Paper prints a butt matching the description Strong Bad gave earlier.
  • Minilife TV: In "Poking the Pilot", as part of revenge for Chris and Ian pranking him, Goshua creates an alternate timeline where he convinces them to title their show "Hairy Butts".
  • The Bravest Warriors episode "The Bunless" involves Chris and Beth having to serve as hosts for two alien entities who are a couple and help them recover from a lover's quarrel. The two beings communicate through their hosts' derrieres, which become enormous while Chris and Beth are possessed.
  • ASDF Movie:
    • "asdfmovie11" has a recurring sketch involving a giant rear end that farts with enough force to rip people's faces off.
    • "asdfmovie12" features a joke on the statement "I'm not racist, but..." where it turns out the woman is merely telling a sentient butt that she isn't racist.
    Butt: Okay.

    Webcomics 
  • There is a Cyanide and Happiness strip featuring a character called the Not Racist Butt, a sentient sit-upon who harasses people who say "I'm not racist, but...", demonstrating that just about every sentence beginning with that phrase is still pretty damn racist.
  • In The Order of the Stick, the party's attempts to locate the Gate containing the Rift within Girard Draketooth's stronghold led them to a a pile of Girard's dead family members. Durkon cast Talk With Dead to see if they could extract any information from one of the bodies, but, when Roy asked it where Girard's Rift was, it responded that it 'lay between Girard's buttcheeks'.
    Elan: The tragic loss to the field of ass comedy diminishes us all.
  • The dreaded Butts Disease of Questionable Content crops up from time to time, in which characters become fixated on butts. Author Jeph Jacques makes reference to it in The Rant of issues when it does happen, and has talked about getting it professionally treated.
  • Terminal Lance: Strip #34: "It's Already Gay" demonstrates the "oil check", a barracks prank where one Marine pokes another in the anus through their clothes, as part of an argument that the then-current arguments against letting gay people serve openly in the military were stupid and hypocritical.

    Web Videos 
  • Athena P”: Athena has been shown to have an affinity for mannequin butts, to the point where her audience are called “Buttlovers,” she hits a painted mannequin butt at the start of each video, and she even has merchandise that features said mannequin butt and said nickname.
  • In the CollegeHumor video "Nicolas Cage's Agent", the actor in question keeps picking projects with an Audience-Alienating Premise to the bewilderment of his agent. One of these is a turd called Space Ass, wherein Cage plays an astronaut whose ship explodes, except for his ass, which retains consciousness and has to make its way back to Earth.

    Western Animation 
  • The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: In "Who's Your Mommy", Carl is impregnated, Face-Hugger style, with the alien baby making his butt glow purple and grow to a ridiculous size.
  • Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: The Fat Bastard Dr. Robotnik's large butt is frequently shown and exaggerated. Animator Milton Knight says this was done to show Robotnik's inflated sense of self-love. Sonic also frequently calls Robotnik "Robuttnik".
  • The Amazing World of Gumball:
    • "The Goons" begins with Gumball, Darwin and Richard fooling around by bending over and pretending their butts are their faces. Later in the episode, Gumball is in the hospital and mistakes what turns out to be a doctor with a face resembling Richard's butt for his dad continuing the game.
      Gumball: I'm getting to the bottom of this. (Gumball, Richard and Darwin laugh)
    • "The Console" has Gumball have some fun with the game's name-entering feature by entering MYBUTT as his name.
      Darwin: Please MYBUTT, tell me what's going on.
      Anais: A foul curse has been unleashed on our town by MYBUTT.
      Darwin: You mean the gates of doom were opened by MYBUTT?
      Anais: The fabric of the universe was ripped by MYBUTT.
      Darwin: MYBUTT has made quite a mess.
      Gumball: [laughs] Clearly, this is going to get old at some point.
      Darwin: Here's some healing ointment to help MYBUTT in the heat of battle.
      Gumball: [laughs] Nope.
  • Animaniacs:
    • In "Chalkboard Bungle", when asked to find their seats by their teacher Ms. Flamiel, the Warner siblings point at their heinies.
    • At the beginning of "Variety Speak", Hello Nurse tells the Warners that Dr. Scratchinsniff will be a little behind today. Cue this exchange:
      Yakko: He's not a little behind to us!
      Wakko: (stretching his arms out) He's a big one!
  • Arthur:
    • In "Prove It", D.W. claims that it hurts more to fall on your knees than on your behind, because your behind is fleshier.
    • In "Citizen Frensky", Francine takes a photo of Mr. Ratburn as he's bending over and puts it on her makeshift newspaper, with the caption:
      No ifs ands or buts!
  • Beetlejuice: In "Them Bones, Them Bones, Them Funny Bones", Beetlejuice brags about his expertise in telling jokes and changes himself to various forms to match the titles he gives himself, such as becoming a king as depicted on a playing card when he calls himself "the king of comedy" and a superhero when he says he is "the hero of hee-hee-hee". Lydia cuts him off during an off-screen transformation where he calls himself "the butt of" something.
  • Bluey:
    • In "Magic Xylophone", Bandit says he's going to have Bingo be the "bum bongos", and he taps her rear like bongos, making her giggle.
    • In "BBQ", the hose goes wild and sprays Bingo's behind, causing her to laugh.
      Bingo: It's tickling my bottom!
    • In "Bumpy and the Wise Old Wolfhound", Bandit says that he has "bum worms", much to Bingo's amusement and to Chilli's disgust.
    • There are two jokes like this in "Copycat". Bluey is mimicking everything that Bandit does. Wanting to see how far she'll go, Bandit says, "I'm Bluey, and I stink like a monkey's butt" (which Bluey copies) and later slaps his rear in front of Wendy (which Bluey doesn't copy).
    • In "Baby Race", it is revealed that Bluey learned to drag her butt on the ground before she learned to crawl. In the present day, Bluey is quite puzzled to hear that.
    • "Born Yesterday" begins with Bluey and Bingo pretending to take pictures of Chilli's rear end while she's doing yoga.
  • Bob's Burgers:
    • In "Art Crawl", Gayle makes paintings about animal anuses, much to Bob's dismay and Edith's ire. Linda even has a nightmare about the anuses at one point.
    • "Stand by Gene" revolves around the kids walking all the way across town to find a two-butted goat that may or may not exist. It does.
  • Bojack Horseman: Shenanigags leader Copernicus has a penchant for making butt jokes, which amuses Todd. When Todd later learns that Shenanigags is little more than an oppressive cult, the final straw is learning that Copernicus plagiarizes his butt jokes from a book.
  • The rejected Cartoon Network pilot Bottom's Butte had this in full force. Aside from the title's obvious posterior-related pun, the title card depicts the title written on the seat of Beverly's panties and its original title from when the show was initially planned for adult audiences was Bottoms Up.
  • Bunsen Is a Beast:
    • During the ritual to make her nicer in "Beastie Besties", Amanda comments that her tushy is becoming less clenched.
    • "By Hook or By Schnook" has some jokes about the double meaning of "booty" (that it refers to both the buttocks and a term for pirate treasure), one example being when Bunsen sings a short ditty about the homonyms and a close-up of his buttcheeks are shown.
    • Amanda's Smart House in "Remote Outta Control" comes with a fanny scan at the front door, which scans people's backsides to determine whether they're allowed entry.
  • In the Captain Planet and the Planeteers episode "Greed is the Word", one of the actors starring on Babewatch is named Linda Bubblebutt.
  • In the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers episode "The S.S. Drainpipe", Gadget says to Rat Capone "How'd you like a swift kick in the poop deck?".
  • Clone High: In "Blinded With Pseudoscience: Magnetic Distractions", a group of outcasts of Clone High called the Bleacher Creatures plan to tag a building, but are having trouble deciding on how to depict their logo. One of the designs proposed is to simply depict their butts, and it's the design they end up going with.
  • Close Enough: In "Cyber Matrix," Alex apparently has a 30 megapixel image of his own butthole. He tries to use it to slow Kira down, but it doesn't work.
  • Codename: Kids Next Door: In Operation: B.U.T.T., the Delightful Children From Down The Lane blackmailed Numbuh One with exposing pictures of his big butt if he doesn't quit the team. As he leaves, Sector V found the ransom note and the picture, which they laugh at his big butt. At the end of the episode, the viewer see the picture.
  • The Red Guy, who appears in both Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel is always naked. When he wears a disguise, his buttocks is always uncovered. And if the alias he uses for his disguise isn't a reference to his lack of pants, it's some kind of pun on butts.(The Dub Name Change in Brazil outright calls Red Guy "Bum de Fora", 'butt out')
    • I Am Weasel also has IR Baboon, who often has attention drawn to his big red butt. Among other things, it killed the dinosaurs.
  • The Danny Phantom episode "Memory Blank" has Danny lose his powers and forget his experiences as a half-ghost superhero as well as his history with Sam when the genie ghost Desiree grants Sam's wish that Danny never met her. After Sam recreates the accident that originally empowered Danny to give him his ghost powers back, she tries to bring him up to speed on how his powers work. When Sam tries to get Danny to remember his power of firing ghost rays from his hands, Danny can only manage to fire ghost rays from his tuchus. This is given a callback later when Tucker panics over Danny bending over in front of him.
    Tucker: Watch where you're pointing that thing!
  • * DC Super Hero Girls: "#ShockItToMe" has a bit where Livewire humiliates Green Lantern Jessica Cruz by showing everyone in Metropolis a photograph that depicts Cruz lying on the ground in defeat with her bottom in the air and claiming that her caboose is the source of greenhouse gases.
  • DuckTales: In "The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks!", when Mark Beaks fires Huey and Dewey after the two save him from being tossed off the Waddle building by Falcon Graves, they retaliate by swiping his phone and sending a text saying "My face looks like a butt".
  • The Fairly OddParents!:
    • The Oh Yeah! Cartoons short "Party of Three" has an example mixed with Fun with Homophones where Vicky attempts to photograph Timmy fooling around in the absence of adult supervision, only for Cosmo and Wanda to use their magic to change the photograph to one of Mr. Turner in boxer shorts. Vicky repeatedly stammers "but", to which Mr. Turner replies "Yes, that's my tush". At the end of the short, the joke repeats with Timmy stammering "but" in protest of his parents deciding that they'll continue hiring Vicky as his babysitter after all and Mr. Turner responding with "What's this fascination with my fanny?"
    • The episode "Power Mad" has the video game Timmy wished for feature a final boss fight against a robotic Vicky with a spiky steamroller for a rear end who tries to sit on Timmy, Chester and AJ, at one point exclaiming about her "sittin' butt".
    • Chester's Crimson Chin costume in "Sleepover and Over" comes with an inflatable tushy.
    • In "Most Wanted Wish", Timmy makes a wish that he is the most wanted kid, which eventually results in all fairy godparents in existence wanting him as their godchild. Jorgen Von Strangle settles this with a Texas cage match where every fairy is to eliminate one another by zapping their opponents in the butt. After Jorgen explains the rules, we see two fairies with enormous behinds who are offended by this.
    • "Open Wide and Say Aaagh" has a bit where Timmy and Cosmo are traumatized from viewing Mr. Turner in a hospital gown from the back and comment on seeing his "full moon".
    • Wishology has a recurring gag in the second installment of Timmy being described as having tight glutes, while the third and final installment has the Destructinator get rid of Jorgen by giving him rocket glutes that then blast off and send him flying away.
  • Futurama:
    • Bender the robot has a tendency to joke about his "shiny metal ass". In "War is the H-Word", it becomes a plot point when he gets a bomb implanted in him that will explode if he says his most often-said word — "ass."
    • In "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", Bender has a mechanic install shock-absorbing bumpers to prevent "catastrophic butt failure", but is displeased to see that the bumpers make him look like he has big blue buttocks. He demands that the mechanic remove the bumpers, which the mechanic obliges, but not without warning that this increases the risk of Bender's ass eventually exploding.
    • "The Honking" has a bit where Farnsworth observes that a portrait with moving eyes at the castle Bender inherits from his uncle Vladimir has motorized sensors attached to motion detectors.
      Bender: So does my butt, but I don't frame it and put it on the wall! Although...
    • "A Pharaoh to Remember" has a gag where Bender graffitis a building to depict him flexing and read "Bender lives large and kicks butt", afterwards Sal demolishes the building so that the picture turns into a big derriere (with a literal butt crack) and the message reads "Bender licks butt".
    • "Assie Come Home" involves Bender being disassembled with Fry and Leela helping him recover his scattered parts to put himself back together. For a while, Bender's assplate remains the one part they haven't been able to find, and Bender doesn't take it well, with plenty of bottom jokes made before he eventually gets it back.
      Amy: Bender, come join us, we're watching Rear Window!
      Bender: I used to stick my rear out the window...
      Zoidberg: If you prefer, we could watch Behind the Music.
      Bender: My behind used to make music...
      Hermes: Backdraft is on.
      Bender: Even my ass wouldn't watch that.
  • Garfield and Friends: "The Cactus Saga" has Cactus Jake reveal that the reason he has "Cactus" in front of his name is because of his ancestor being christened Cactus Jack after he got hurt from his rear end coming into contact with cacti. The doctor who treated Cactus Jack by removing the prickles was described by Cactus Jake's narration as getting "a little behind" in his work.
  • Gravity Falls:
    • In "The Legend of the Gobblewonker", when the twins and Soos investigate the sea monster, they come across a sign that says "Scuttlebutt Island". Soos covers the "Scuttle" part and says that they're on "Butt Island", to which Mabel calls him a 'rapscallion'.
    • In "Boyz Crazy", Wendy and Dipper MST3K the (silent) security footage. When a tourist asks to see a shirt in his size, Grunkle Stan bends over and Wendy speaks for him: "I have something better. Behold — my butt!" Both laugh their heads off.
  • Harley Quinn (2019):
  • The Johnny Bravo episode "Pop Art Johnny" has an accident where Johnny's ass presses against the wall at an art museum while covered in paints results in him enjoying success as an artist who makes prints of his own butt.
  • Josie and the Pussycats derives a decent amount of its humor from its resident Butt-Monkey and Chew Toy Alexandra's ass, specifically all the myriad of ways her butt is jabbed, pinched, poked, prodded, or smacked. As the team's resident Jerkass, her being the butt of this torment is often deserved.
  • King of the Hill: An occasional recurring joke is Hank's small ass. "Hank's Back Story" has it being diagnosed as a fictional medical condition called "Diminished Gluteal Syndrome," and Hank is forced to wear a "fake butt" so that he won't essentially be sitting on his spine and injuring himself. That episode leads to Hank's neighbors and his own father making as many jokes about his butt and what he has to go through with his condition as they can.
  • In the Lilo & Stitch: The Series episode "Cannonball", there are some jokes about the fact that the eponymous alien Cannonball has a big butt. At the end, Lilo teases Mertle and her Girl Posse by saying that Cannonball has "highly contagious butt rabies".
  • Looney Tunes:
    • Beauty and the Beast (1934) has a scene where the little girl's keister is exposed when her pajamas' dropseat is used as a parachute and ends by irising out on the girl's bare bum when her dropseat pops open after she ducks under the covers.
    • The short "A Gander at Mother Goose" has a gag where Humpty Dumpty survives falling from the wall, but as he walks away we see that the portion of his shell covering his rear has cracked, exposing a pair of fleshy buttocks.
  • The Loud House:
    • In "Patching Things Up", when Lana is asked to sew something called a "sit-upon", she says, "I already have a sit-upon. It's called my butt."
    • "Blinded by Science" reveals that Flip has two butts.
    • In "Camped", Lynn misreads "butte" as "butt" and likes the sound of it because she enjoys Shaking the Rump.
    • In "Washed Up", Lynn exercises her hiney by bouncing downstairs on it.
    • In "Frog Wild", the anus of a frog is labelled as "Dumper" on an anatomy chart.
    • In "Missed Connection", Lana mistakes a heart-shaped pizza for a butt-shaped pizza.
  • The Magic School Bus Rides Again: In "Waste Not, Want Not", Dorothy Ann is trying to convince the other kids to get back on the bus when they hear that her uncle is studying animal dung. That leads to this exchange:
    Dorothy Anne: But—
    Ralphie: [covers his ears] No! No buts, that's where it comes from!
  • Two instances from the Milo Murphy's Law episode "The Wilder West":
    • Jackie says that she can't believe the rockslide happened.
      Melissa: My Butte believes it.
    • Soon after:
      Milo: You know what they say about assuming...
      Melissa: It makes a bull's lunch out of you and me.
  • My Gym Partner's a Monkey could have been called Bum Jokes: The Series and it would have been just as accurate.
    • In "Chew on This", for a brief moment during Adam's visit to Nurse Gazelle's office, we can see Nurse Gazelle removing a rectal thermometer from Adam's butt. Also in hindsight, Gazelle had no reason to do that, since Adam only saw her because he felt lightheaded.
    • After all the characters have become morbidly obese, Principal Pixiefrog says "Our medical bills are going to be astronomical." Nurse Gazelle then replies with the aside comment, "That's not the only thing that's astronomical." Cut to a booty shot of Principal Pixiefrog's "astronomical butt", riding on a bicycle.
    • In "She's Koala That", The Pack (except Adam) takes a beeline for a specific lunch table, just to get away from Deidre Koala. They all pile up onto one chair. When they do, a visual gag involves Jake clearly shoving himself up Windsor's ass.
    • In "Poop Scoop", Adam spreads false news, which turns out to be true, about Jake's butt having "cheek implants".
    • In "The Butt of the Jake", Jake's butt inflated so big it eclipsed the sun, shocking a nun (who mistakes it for an eclipse) and offending a hipster blogger. There's also a scene where Jake sits on his head at the lunch table and drinks soda through his butt. This episode was banned for being "too butt-filled".
    • Jake Spidermonkey shoots a rainbow out of his gluteus maximus in "Animal School Musical".
    • In "Knights of the Multiplication Table", the final boss in the knights' adventure, was "Jake Dragonmonkey", a Medieval villain based off of butt-obsessed character, Jake Spidermonkey. To help commit to the "butt" theme, Dragonmonkey's cave was designed to look like a giant butt. Guess where the entrance was located.
    • In "Yesterday's Funny Monkey", Jake becomes popular when he paints eyes on his butt cheeks, puts a hat over his behind, and uses his tail to make a mouth to say things in a funny voice.
  • The Oblongs has one of Milo Oblong's friends being Mikey Butts, who suffers the deformity of having a huge, saggy rump.
  • In the The Octonauts episode "The Bowhead Whales", Shellington says that herrings blow bubbles out of their behinds. Kwazii is dumbfounded by this.
    Kwazii: Out of their...behinds?!
  • PAW Patrol:
    • In "Sea Patrol: Pups Save Their Pirated Sea Patroller", Arrby turns around and briefly hits Sid's rear with a mop, to the latter's annoyance.
    • In "Pups Save a Surprise", there are a lot of jokes about Mr. Porter's butt getting stuck in a stump, or as Alex puts it, "rump in a stump".
    • In "Tracker Joins the Pups!", Marshall collides into the other pups, and he has a boot on his rear end. He says, "Shake your booty", much to their amusement.
    • In another episode, Chase explicitly says "butt".
  • Buttercup from The Powerpuff Girls (2016) often likes to make butt jokes, such as calling Bubbles a "wimpy butt". It may or may not be a pun on the first four letters of her name.
  • The Private Snafu short "Censored" has a gag where Snafu fails to sneak past the electric eye because of his caboose coming into contact with the beam.
  • The Ren & Stimpy Show:
    • There's an episode where Stimpy genetically engineers himself to have an additional ass cheek.
    • "Son of Stimpy": Stimpy is trying to fart a second time and keeps failing, on their final try Stimpy's butt cheeks start to swell from all the strain and burst and deflate as Stimpy moans in exhausted defeat.
    • "The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball": Ren is forcing Stimpy to produce hairballs as part of a get rich quick scheme. Part of this process involves Ren stamping a seal of approval on each hairball as it's rolled down the line. However, when Ren speeds up production, Stimpy can't keep up and falls on the conveyor belt, and Ren winds up stamping Stimpy right on the butt cheeks. The music even cuts off on impact to further emphasize it.
  • Rocko's Modern Life: A program that Rocko and his friends are occasionally watching is an exercise show where the host is able to do impossible movements with his buttocks, including exercising with a barbell.
  • Rugrats (1991):
    • In the episode "Kid TV", Angelica has an infomercial for her own cosmetic which she calls her Beauty Juice. The twins mangle this up as her "booty juice". As they're clamoring and begging for Angelica to give it to them:
      Phil: GIVE US THE BOOTY JUICE!
      Lil: WE WANT THE BOOTY JUICE!
    • In the beginning of the first act of "Be My Valentine", when the babies are eating heart-shaped cookies, Phil asks Tommy, Chuckie, and Lil why they're eating cookies that look like their butts. Chuckie spits his cookie out upon hearing this, but Lil tells Phil that the cookies are shaped like hearts, much to Chuckie's relief.
  • The Simpsons:
    • In "Round Springfield", Bart goes around the hospital in his gown with eyes drawn on his butt.
      Bart: Hi, I'm Dr. Cheeks. I'll be making my rounds, but I'm a little behind.
    • "Mountain of Madness" has Smithers complain about how poorly Mr. Burns has been treating him while climbing a mountain, stating that if his boss were with him right now, he'd kick him in his bony old behind. This echoes, leading to Burns hearing the phrase and thinking it came from Homer.
      Mr. Burns: Why, thank you, Simpson. I have been watching my figure.
    • "Brother's Little Helper" has a hopped-up-on-Focusyn Bart rampage through Springfield in a tank. Krusty sees that his car is about to get run over by the tank and quickly tries to get several other clowns out of the car safely. The last of the other clowns is Sir Widebottom, whose enormous heinie gets stuck and is ultimately popped as the tank finally crushes Krusty's car.
      Sir Widebottom: I'm sure I'm alive, but why?
    • In "To Surveil with Love", Bart keeps mooning the security camera, and Ned Flanders keeps replying with synonyms for "butt", like "derriere" and "heinie".
  • South Park:
    • Dr. Mephesto's modus operandi is genetically engineering animals with a comically large number of butts.
    • "How to Eat with Your Butt" has Kenny puts his parka on upside down so his butt shows through his hood in his school picture. This gets the attention of a family who actually do have butts for heads who think Kenny is their lost son, something Cartman finds so funny that he's worried he may never laugh at anything else.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants does this on occasion:
    • In "My Pretty Seahorse", a fish called Scooter tries to insert a coin into a real seahorse that he thinks is a kiddie ride. "I can't find the coin slot... here it is!" Or, considering that Mystery is female...
    • In "I Had an Accident", SpongeBob sees many dangers that could further injure his butt. One of the dangers is a "seven-mile spanking line" which is a long line of fish each spanking the fish whose turn it is to crawl between their legs.
      Squidward: Is this where the line starts?
    • The Gemini episode of "Astrology with Squidward" mentions that Gemini's moon is in Uranus, and adds 'So, you smell funny.'
    • SpongeBob calls Mr. Krabs on Patrick's "Pants-a-Phone" (where he talks to Patrick's butt). After the phone call ends, an automatic voice says "If you'd like to make another call, please deposit 25 cents". SpongeBob takes out a quarter and Patrick smiles.
  • In the Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja episode "Secret Stache", Viceroy pulls out the results of the ninja's identity from the robot's butthole, much to McFist's horror and the robot's surprise.
  • Super Duper Sumos: The majority of the humor in this series comes in the form of the titular trio's backsides. Booma in particular treats his rear end as both an indispensable weapon and a treasured companion.
  • The Tak and the Power of Juju (2007) episode "Nice Calves" has Tak fool around with a disembodied sit-upon by pretending it is his own as well as wearing it on his head and declaring himself the Butt King.
  • Tales from the Goose Lady: "Three Bears and a Blonde", the show's take-off of Goldilocks, has a couple of jokes about the bum in their version of Goldilocks sitting in the Three Bears' chairs. After Papa Bear offers that Goldilocks sit in his chair, Goldilocks feels pain and chews out Papa Bear by rhetorically asking if he thought little girls had iron bottoms. After she then tries sitting in Mama Bear's chair, she sinks in and Baby Bear comments on the size of Mama Bear's rump by telling Goldilocks she'd need a tush as big as his mother's to be able to safely sit in that chair (a remark that infuriates his mom).
  • In the episode "Viewer Mail Day" of Tiny Toon Adventures Buster Bunny reads a viewer request for a cartoon involving people with big butts. Cue the third short where Plucky Duck works at a country club as a waiter, where his next customers are Bottomly and Fanny Buttfield, a Fat Bastard couple whose abnormally sized rear ends require the use of two chairs.
  • T.U.F.F. Puppy:
    • One of the running gags is Dudley having a habit of chewing on his own butt, which is almost always prominently on display due to his aversion towards wearing pants.
    • When Dudley and Kitty disguise themselves as a mom so that they can take down Snaptrap's plan to abduct all mothers from the inside in "Mom's Away", Dudley makes Kitty crouch under the dress's skirt under Dudley's reasoning that moms are supposed to have big heinies, with Snaptrap even commenting on the enormous keister.
    • In "Puppy Pause", one of the ways Dudley goofs off is by photocopying his backside, which he does to create greeting cards with messages that are butt-related puns ("Merry Christmas and a Happy New Rear", "Happy Keister" and "Bummed You Weren't Here").
    • "T.U.F.F. Love" has Snaptrap complain about his hospital gown not covering up his rear, showing his unsightly backside while doing so.
    • Bird Brain's species is said to be a blue-bottomed boobie, plus he is occasionally subjected to jokes where said blue bottom is commented on or emphasized.
  • Wander over Yonder: The episode "The Party Poopers" is all about this, with the writers attempting to add as many hiney jokes and Toilet Humor as possible. Wander and Sylvia visit a planet inhabited by an alien race named the "High Gnees", who happen to have hiney-shaped heads, and their dialogue is peppered with hiney- and poop-related puns. Sylvia insists that she and Wander need to act serious and respectful toward them, whereas Wander struggles really hard to hold back his laughter.


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