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alt title(s): Boob Muffler
And now I'm jealous of a ten-year-old.
"Just don't inhale."
The Atom, cut line from Justice League Unlimited

"Hey-wai-don't touch me! DON'T HUG ME! I'm not a doll, you know. I can't breathe...I-* mggggfffh* "
Raspberyl, Disgaea 3

One Head Taller, with a few inches on top (and quite a few more in front).

Usually found in anime or manga: a (usually short) (usually male) character becomes smooshed in the chest area of a taller female character. They get a cleavage cushion. A push-up pillow. A rack resting place. A maternal muffler, If You Know What I Mean..

If she's Hot For Student, she may use this as an initial seduction tactic, but most of the time, the hugger is unaware of (or unable to see) the implications of the situation. This is often done for pure Fan Service value, but may also be used for comedy in one (or both) of two ways:
  • The guy in question is a little too young or innocent to appreciate the situation, and is more embarrassed than enjoying it (especially when it happens in public).
  • The poor boy is quite literally being smothered in the process, as the girl is really well-endowed.

Because of that last one, this is sometimes initiated from behind the victim instead, allowing both him to breathe and the audience to see his reaction better.

The name comes from a scene in Mahou Sensei Negima, where poor Negi nearly got drowned when several girls did this to him at once while he was partly submerged. Poor, lucky bastard.

Funny thing is, this trope is Fetish Fuel. Google "smothering porn" in case of doubt!

See also Funbag Airbag, Thanks For The Mammary.


Examples

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    Anime & Manga 
  • Aside from the aforementioned scene in Mahou Sensei Negima, Chizuru, the class member of most ample bosom, has this happen quite a lot. The trope naming scene occurred when a swimming Negi got caught in her bikini top somehow, and when a semi-feral InuYasha homage showed up in her room, she simply marshmallow hell-brainwashed him. And has since more or less adopted the lucky dog, who wishes she wouldn't marshmallow hell him in public while his male friend is watching.
    • Chizuru, you say? Where have I heard that name (and accompanying Marshamallow Hell) before?
    • The picture above is also from the manga, with Ayaka doing it to Negi for what may be less than innocent reasons...
    • Oddly enough, Negi found one benefit from a situation like this. After a minor marshmallow incident with the amply endowed Shizuna-sensei, he inadvertently tricks one of his students (Kazumi, disguised as Shizuna) into revealing herself by noting that her breasts seemed smaller (whereupon the "teacher" protested that she had the "fourth largest in the class").
    • In the English version of the manga Negi wins for getting wedged between Shizuna's boobs, and looking up with the request: "May I have a cookie?"
    • Makie actually pulls this on Negi in a chapter, despite being somewhat on the sugar-free side of the scale, so to speak.
    • Also pulled by Anya on Asuna, when she hugs her out of relief when Asuna's week-long Heroic BSOD is over.
  • Tsunade on Konohamaru in Naruto, although he seemed to enjoy that a little too much considering his age, most likely due to the fact he had been 'taught' by Naruto. Hey, he's only human.
  • In Axis Powers Hetalia there's a strip where Hungary and Chibitalia share a bath and Hungary hugs "her" to her chest.
  • In the Pokemon episode "Hypno's Naptime", Ash gets hugged by a woman who mistakes him for her missing son, and he gets a faceful of bosom as the woman gleefully hugs him before he can explain she's got the wrong person. In the filler arc episode "Pokemon Double Trouble", it happens to him again, for the exact same reason.
  • In one episode of Keroro Gunsou, Hot Shounen Mom Aki Hinata does a milder version of this (referred to by the Narrator as "Mama Hinata's Secret Technique: A Mother's Loving Embrace") to her son Fuyuki to snap him out of a case of "spring fever".
  • .hack//tasogare no udewa densetsu loves doing this to Shugo, who has enough girl troubles anyway, especially when his sister catches him drooling at girls instead of doing something productive.
    • In another moment, one kid is musing about his dilemma—a double life between the real world and the game. He absentmindedly walks into a female character's breasts and ends his speech with the line "And now I'm caught between two worlds".
  • Poemi of Puni Puni Poemi is frequently subjected to a variation on this where Shii Aasu rests her ridiculously enormous breasts on Poemi's head. Poemi's reaction is to panic and act like she's being quite literally crushed under their prodigious weight. Although the mechanics are a bit different and both parties are female, it's close enough that it was probably intended as a parody of or reference to this trope. (It is made clearer, at least in the dub, when another Aasu sister reminds Shii "what happened to the cat".
    Poemi: Why are there huge boob like things on Kobayashi's head?*  *
  • Magic Knight Rayearth: Hikaru Shidou ends up getting this happen to her often with Cool Big Sis Caldina's enthusiastic displays of effection.
  • In Mahoromatic Shikijo also rests her Gag Boobs on Mahoro's head when they go to a public bath together. However, she does this more to taunt her small-breasted rival than any thing else. After all, this Little Kid Lover is a Shotacon not a Lolicon.
  • In Grenadier, Rushuna uses this to hide Yajiro from enemy soldiers while in a hot spring (like Negi, he almost drowns, but unlike Negi, he's old enough to enjoy it).
    • It's also her patented approach to negotiation, though sometimes she just goes for a regular hug.
  • In a variation that can only be described as... odd, the final episode of Gravitation's anime features Sakano calling in a gang of sumo wrestlers to smother an especially depressed Shuichi.
  • This makes an appearance in the manga version of Excel Saga, with Professor Shiouji's reunion with his mother.
    Miwa: Why, other than your windpipe being blocked, don't you say, "Mom, I'm dying for your love"?
    Shiouji: I... I'm dying...
    • She has done it to Umi and "Teriha" too. None of the times has it ever been innocent.
  • In Bleach, Matsumoto does this to Captain Hitsugaya in the fifth opening. He's half her height and she has boobs the size of watermelons, perfect example. Also, in a flashback chapter, the first time these two ever meet is when a giant chest (Matsumoto's) comes out of nowhere and nearly suffocates him. Matsumoto's bosom is practically a character in and of itself.
    • In a filler episode, she does this to the wandering soul of a little kid for calling her "old lady". She continues to hold him there while having a conversation she has with Hitsugaya and Ikkaku.
      • Funny enough, the kid's name was Shota.
      • Link please.
    • Matsumoto also does this to Orihime. While stark naked and on top of her.
      Matsumoto: I'll cheer you up! Let me smother you in my bosom!
    • Later on, Mad Scientist Mayuri discovers a practical use for this. When Ishida is protesting Mayuri's decision to treat his injuries, Mayuri has his assistant Nemu use her endowments to stifle Ishida's protests. See this image from the manga.
      • Mayuri also has Nemu do this to Ichigo in another filler episode.
    • Kon actually has a brief daydream of having one of these with a bunch of girls. He actually uses the word "marshmallows", at least in the dub.
    • Another instance Matsumoto has smothered Hitsugaya was when she covered his eyes and attacked from behind.
    • Matsumoto also appears to be mere inches away from doing this to Gin in chapter 417. He doesn't seem to mind too much, but that might be in part because he's distracted by his currently health status.
  • In Little Nemo (a children's movie musical which was, nevertheless, made in Japan), Nemo gets smushed between a dance instructor's enormous bosoms several times ("Not again!") during a sequence about learning to be a prince. [1]
  • The title character in Steel Angel Kurumi does this to the male lead as a running gag.
  • In Jungle de Ikou, Mii turns into a giantess and does this to Ongo's monster form to get him to stop his rampage and change back.
  • Subverted and played straight in the Haunted Junction manga. When Kazumi and other guys are beaten up and brainwashed by the villainess Blue Spot Girl, Haruto summons the female ghost Toilet Hanako and she snaps Kazumi out of it when he accidentally buries his face on her chest. The subversion comes right afterwards, as the Marshmallow Hell debrainwashing only works on Kazumi, who's been infatuated with Hanako for a long time; she notes how her and Blue Spot's supernatural abilities are different, therefore she cannot do anything against her. It takes Red Mantle taking his mask off to rescue the rest.
  • In Eiken, Hot Amazon Trickster Mentor Kirika constantly inflicts variations of this on Unlucky Everydude Densuke (Crash Into Hello, resting her Gag Boobs on top of his head; later on, she even starts carrying him between her breasts.) Despite (because of?) being a textbook Accidental Pervert, Densuke never really enjoys this.
  • In Gulliver Boy, Teen Genius Edison's adoptive mother always hugged him to her very ample chest. After parting ways with her, Edison constantly hugs Misty and buries his face on her also huge breasts, and (weirdly) she doesn't mind at all.
  • Inverted in Mai-HiME: Mikoto, who's rather short by anyone's standards, likes to bury herself between Mai's bosom whenever she goes in for a hug.
    • In the Mai Otome manga, Erstin likes to hug Manshiro this way, and it's called "Bust Impact" and described the same way as one might describe an attack from a typical Shounen. It's even given variants like "Bust Impact Returns" and "Bust Impact Forever".
      • This is because it really is an attack, presumably toned down so it doesn't do any damage (maybe it tickles?). She uses the full version of it against Arika in their fight, and it almost completely wipes the latter out.
  • Although Kitagawa from Doki Doki School Hours usually makes sure she doesn't smother her beloved teacher Mika, she can't always help it since she's so well-endowed and the object of her affection is so small.
  • Cheri in Kyou Kara Maou does this to Yuuri all the time...and at times to Wolfram as well, who just happens to be her son.
    • Plus in episode 5 when Yuuri is assaulted by 5 different women's breasts. All at once.
  • In Blue Dragon, Stalker With A Crush Bouquet does this to Shu, which rather upsets Tsundere non-girlfriend Kluke.
  • Kanokon probably breaks the record for the fastest time, when Chizuru smushes Kouta within five minutes (counting the Op). Perhaps boys should start avoiding (or seeking out) girls named Chizuru on general principles.
  • In Eyeshield 21, Mamori thinks Sena has been beaten to unconsciousness and clutches him protectively to her chest, consequently smushing his face right between her breasts. Surprisingly, for this trope and this genre of manga, it's quite understated and nothing ever comes of it.
  • In One Piece, Sanji is rescued from drowning by a mermaid who carries him to the surface with his face pressed to her bosom (resulting in a nosebleed that leads her to think Sanji must be dying from the pressure change). Although it's kind of a subversion because in Sanji's case, it was more like Marshmallow Heaven.
  • In Fairy Tail, Action Girl and Team Mom Erza has a habit of clutching other characters to her bosom whenever she's relieved at their safety or proud of their accomplishments. Unfortunately for them, she wears breastplate armor at all times. Ouch...
    • Accidental variation: Natsu got a faceful of Lucy's breasts once when he caught her from falling out of a tower. Being a Chaste Hero, the only thing he was worried about was his air supply.
  • In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, when Kamina and Simon are ambushed by Kittan and his three sisters in Episode 4, eldest sister Kiyoh (who let's just say could give Power Girl a run for "bustiest blonde in media") uses this on Simon.
    • There's also the very first episode where Simon gets a face full of Yoko boobage after crash landing the Lagann — twice. While the first one probably counts as a Funbag Airbag, the second is gratuitous Marshmallow Hell as Yoko was trying to get him to duck, but looks like she's going out of her way to make sure her boobs were right in his face.
    • In the High School AU of Gurren Gakuenhen, Yoko (in a sailor suit) does this to Simon... and forgets about him as plot happens. He finally surfaces three pages later.
  • In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Lotte hugs Chrono like this... twice, then outright pounces on him. When she finally gets up from behind the sofa, she says "That was yummy". When Chrono resurfaces, he's Covered In Kisses.
  • To Love Ru takes this to new heights. After one of Lala's machines accidentally shrinks Rito to about 5 inches tall, she hides him by carrying him around in her cleavage all day. Naturally, she's not wearing a bra. He nearly gets suffocated and/or squashed multiple times.
    • Not to mention this incident.
    • Rito is subjected to this so much that it probably isn't a far stretch to say that his hands and head are breast magnets.
  • In Chrono Crusade, this happens with Chrono and Satella. In the manga, she does it on purpose, because of her shotacon complex and the fact that she was drunk at the time. (Luckily Chrono is Really Seven Hundred Years Old.) In the anime, he accidentally faints from a fever and lands right into Satella's cleavage. Since in the anime Satella doesn't like little boys in that way, he gets punched in the face for his trouble. (Later in the episode, Rosette faints into Satella's breasts, as well.)
    • Also in the manga, Azmaria bursts into tears and falls into Rosette's breasts while they're taking a shower together. Azmaria didn't mean this to be titillating in any way, but there's a good chance that Moriyama, the mangaka, did.
  • Done in Flame of Recca. Made worse by the fact that the one doing the hugging was a being made of extremely hot fire.
  • In Gravion, Mizuki does this to Kouga from behind during a picnic. She was, however, somewhat inebriated at the time.
  • In the Sonic the Hedgehog anime, Tails ends up here after a snowball he was riding in crashes into Sarah. Knuckles is disgusted (or maybe just jealous).
  • In one volume of Tenchi Muyo!, Ryoko is holding some kid, and then accidentally brings him a little close...
  • Happens twice to Ken Hidaka in one episode of Weiss Kreuz - and made even more awkward as the woman in question is considerably older than him, used to be a nun, and reminds him of his mother.
  • Kurumu does this to Tsukune in Rosario+Vampire. Yukari yells at her for hogging Tsukune, which Kurumu replies to with a disparaging remark about Yukari's inability to do the same.
  • The Unwanted Harem in Omamori Himari love to do this to Yuuto.
  • In Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, Usso Evin repeatedly goes through Marshmallow Hell, specially thanks to The Shrike Team girls. He even has to bite his way out of that sort of situation once (against Lupe Cineau, if you wonder).
  • The huggee doesn't even to be human to invoke this trope. Sphinx, Index's pet kitty in To Aru Majutsu No Index, gets to know Index's new friend Hyouka in a very close, soft kind of way. Sphinx seems taken aback by the whole thing, apparently preferring the flatness of his owner.
  • In one of the manga arcs of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, Mion and Rena like doing this to Keiichi. Usually while yelling "Squish Attack!" This doesn't seem completely innocent.
  • Impa does it to Link in the manga version of The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons.
  • Azumanga Daioh has a sort-of example with any scene where Sakaki hugs Maya (for those unaware, Maya is a cat).
  • Ranma ½'s Akane can be somewhat... enthusiastic when hugging her pet piglet P-chan, regardless of her state of [un]dress. Then she wonders why the little piglet faints in a massive nosebleed.
    Akane: (dreaming) Oh, P-Chan! Where have you been?
  • This is parodied in a Zombie Powder omake with Wolfina and Elwood, where Elwood gets mushed into her h-cup breasts so many times that he gets whiplash.
  • In the Shuffle OVA (OVA because most of the fandom rejected Memories), a shrunk down Rin Tsuchimi tries to get Sia's attention. By leaping from a wooden plank and landing smack in her cleavage. The other girls were not amused.
  • In one Fate Stay Night doujin (Heaven's Failure), a genderflipped Shirou in Ilya's body (thus having her dubbed Emilya von Einzbern) is hugged by a tearful Sakura in this manner.
  • In Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0, Shinji is introduced to Mari this way when she parachutes onto him.
    • One of the times this trope looks seriously painful. He was lucky not to have a concussion despite of the "padding"".
  • In the infamous Hot Springs Episode of Outlaw Star, Jim Hawkings is subject to this. From multiple women in bikinis. At the same time. There is even a close up on his face as he speaks while a boob is pressing right into it. Lucky, lucky bastard
  • Recently in Gin Tama, Gintoki accidentally gets some "puff puff action" from Tsukuyo. It doesn't end well...
  • Blair does this to Soul in Soul Eater on occasion.
  • In episode 5 of Ikki Tousen Great Guardians, this happens to Koukin.
  • In an unusually dramatic/non-comedic example, Yaoyi in White Album does this to Touji, first making a speech about how he should forget all the others and if he can't do that "Then at least do this!" and pushes his face into her bust. Unusual both because the tone is rather tragic, and because she doesen't have Gag Boobs.
  • Hayate No Gotoku has Saki do this to her charge Wataru. He makes it clear that he is of age to be thinking of things like that and protests. Saki realizes what he's objecting to and releases him to berate him about watching adult videos, they live in a video rental store.
  • In Change 123, the main character (Characters? It's confusing, the main character has 4 5personalities) is told that she cannot be a warrior because of the awkward mounds of flesh on her chest. She proceeds to attempt to smother the offender with them in an attempt to prove that they can be used as weapons.
  • At the end of Castle in the Sky, Ma Dola catches Sheeta in a big hug to comfort her over the loss of her pigtails. Sheeta's more upset about getting poked in the eye by stolen jewelry (in Victorias Secret Compartment) than she is about getting smothered in a middle-aged woman's bosom.
  • In Denno Coil, Tamako hugs Haraken to her boobs, in order to calm him on his guilty feelings for Kanna's death.
  • A subversion of this happens to Rana in Queen's Blade quite often, as his Action Mom Cattleya fights while holding him with the other arm. So often times when she loses balance Rana gets a face and hand full. The subversion is that there's no perversion factor, Rana just loves to be around his mom.
  • Happens momentarily to Kaneda pushing his way through a crowd in Akira.
  • In Girls Bravo this is one of Lisa's favorite tactics when trying to seduce Yukinari.
  • When a student appears to be contemplating suicide by jumping off the school roof in Gokusen, Fujiyama-sensei offers to catch him if he really wants to jump. She says while she may not survive his landing, her boobs will probably save him. Other students unsuccessfully try to take her up on that offer.
  • Used in Popotan within the first two minutes of the first episode to a point where Daichi gets stuck.
  • Guu gets this in episode three, but not in the traditional sense. Don't read unless you have Brain Bleach at hand: She gets a face full of the elder's Funny Afro chest hair.
  • In Working!!, Souta's oldest sister Kazue can't withstand Popura's cuteness proximity and gives her this treatment, much to Popura's confusion.
  • In Strike Witches Lynne does this to Yoshika after they successfully took down their first Neurois.
  • In the "Fighting Wings" Special of Ah My Goddess, Belldandy, of all people, does this to Keiichi when the latter is returning to consciousness after the battle with the Angel Eater and trying to get back on his feet. It is purely by accident, although it is still rather amusing to behold.
  • Midori Days goes to a higher level when a drunken Lucy Winnlad stumbles into Seiji's room with barely anything on and sleeps with him, causing Midori, who is Seiji's right hand, to struggle with breasts bigger than her.
  • Keade from Iketeru Futari got it so bad from his mother when he was a baby that it gave him a breasts phobia. Needless to say this kinda complicated things for his potontial love interest, Yuki.
  • Something of a meme in a corner of the Yu Gi Oh GX fandom, taken from the end of the third season when Juudai falls, unconscious, against Yubel's chest. A poorly-drawn set of in-between frames gives the impression that he faceplanted directly on the one breast she's got.
  • In Saber Marionette J, Bloodberry gives these to Otaru on occasion.

    Comics 
  • An issue of Lobo combines this trope with Attack Of The Fifty Foot Whatever.
  • Astonishingly, Power Girl herself is nearly on the receiving end of one of these during a supervillain-induced hallucination in a recent TPB.
  • In Hate, Buddy takes his elderly dad to a strip joint and is shocked to find him with his head in a dancer's chest. Thinking he's passed out, Buddy rushes up to the stage to get him, but instead he says to Buddy, "Can't you see I'm having the time of my life?"

    Fanfiction 

    Films 
  • A woman does this to a pipeline operator in the James Bond film The Living Daylights as part of a Show Some Leg distraction ploy.
  • This was sent up in the Revenge of the Nerds series, with the short character Wormser always ending up with a tall girl (or girls), talking to/dancing between the girl's breasts. And usually breaking the fourth wall by making a knowing aside glance to the audience.
  • The '70s Chesty Morgan film series, which starred the titular Chesty Morgan, an Danish stripper with large breasts (something like a triple J cup) as an assassin who would seduce her targets and then smother them to death in her cleavage. Seriously.
  • This takes place in Police Academy 3, too: a small Chinese student attempts to seduce his hardass Amazonian drill instructor. The drill instructor immediately pulls him into the bedroom, and tackles him down to the ground with his face in her breasts. His (muffled) comment? "I love America!"
  • Believe it or not, a Disney animated feature used this trope!! In The Black Cauldron, young would-be warrior Taran, Princess Eilonwy, and minstrel Fflewddur Fflam travel to the house of three witches, trying to get the * ahem* titular cauldron before the movie's Big Bad, the Horned King, can get his hands on it. The fattest and most voluptuous of the three witches develops a crush on Fflewddur, and at one point, proceeds to bury the horrified, skinny man right between her breasts. But wait — there's more! One of her sisters, tired of this lovey-dovey display, turns him into a frog in preparation for eating him... and the frog-Fflewddur gets completely smothered in the cleavage, desperately trying to wade his way out of there for several seconds of screentime. And that's just one of the two reasons why this is the first fully-animated Disney movie to ever get the PG rating...
  • A similar version of this is in the obscure European movie The Real Shlemiel where the Kid Hero's huge aunt is always hugging him this way. And, when a goblin is in the front pocket of his shirt is almost crushed by Aunt Sarah's cleavage. So, the goblin has to jump every time he realizes that Aunt Sarah is about to hug Aaron.
  • In the film Fievel Goes West, there's one scene in particular where this trope occurred. As soon as Fievel enters into the saloon, he proceeds to nab a fork and plunge it into the... * ahem* hindquarters... of Cat R. Waul, causing him to jump several feet in the air, right through the roof above him (which was in turn the floor of the human saloon above them). As soon as he emerges, he is quickly grabbed by a rather affectionate woman who proceeds to put him through a Marshmallow Hell before he barely manages to escape and descend back into the saloon.
  • Happens to Austin Powers in The Spy Who Shagged Me, when Felicity Shagwell borrows a pair of binoculars still attached to his neck.
    • "Mummi. Mummi. I want some chocolates. I want some Mars bars! Mummi?"
  • Done kind of Squickily by Pam Ferris to Michael Rispoli in Death to Smoochy. Yeesh!
  • Also subverted in a similar way in Dirty Work.
    Young Mitch: Note to self; Aunt Phyllis is your aunt!
  • The Narrator of Fight Club gets pressed between Bob's bitch tits during a testicular cancer support group.
  • When the guys try to set up a bachelor party for Jim in American Wedding, they hire a stripper in a police uniform who has a tendency to punish people via this method. She even punishes Jim's MOTHER via this method!
  • Happens in Honey I Blew Up The Kid when the eponymous kid's Hot Mom volunteers to be hit by the growth ray in order to calm him down (he's crying after being electrocuted by a giant Las Vegas guitar). It just so happens that her teenage son and his girlfriend are in the kid's front pocket.
  • In the MST3K classic Village Of The Giants, a guy is picked up by a giantess, who danced with him pressed to her gigantic bosom, clinging to her bra straps for dear life. Quoth Mike Nelson, "First base is larger than I remember!"

    Literature 
  • Occurs in Thunderhead, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, when a male scientist falls during a rock-climbing accident, and is caught by a certain generously endowed female scientist below him, cushioning his face in a very sensitive area.
  • The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ends with the governess smothering her ward to death in her bosoms in order to protect him from ghosts. making this trope Older Than Radio.
    • Seriously, death by Marshmallow Hell? That is probably the greatest thing I've ever heard.
  • Parodied in Wyrd Sisters. After the fool is stabbed... with a fake stage knife., he ends up in Magrat's bosom, such that it is. There was some interesting dialog as they end up actually arguing about whether or not he's dead since, on the one hand, he thinks he's in heaven because there's boobs in his face, and on the other hand, dead people don't need to breathe.
  • This happens in the novel Cold Mountain, when Inman and Veasey are staying with a man and his several wives and offspring. One of the women, named Lila, does this to him because she wants to have sex with him. Fortunately, although they are (involuntarily, in Inman's case) married, it doesn't happen.

    Live Action TV 
  • This happened often (and probably unintentionally) on early Doctor Who whenever Barbara hugged Susan.
  • This would seem to be Benny Hill's sole reason for living.
  • In an episode of Star Trek Enterprise, Captain Archer winds up tied to his "breast officer" T'Pol and, in course of wiggling free, they wind up dancing cheek to chest.
    • This is slightly lampshaded by the fact that, when Archer realizes that he will have to end up chest to cheek with her, he looks up at her and she gives him the "yeah, yeah, yeah, go on..." eyebrow raise...
  • Miss Piddlin, the lunch lady character on All That, would often hug students this way. (Though the first time could've been accidental, as the character was played by Kenan Thompson.)
  • Lampshaded twice, from Olive and Chuck, on Pushing Daisies when Olive comforts a boy who recently lost his mother:
    Olive: There, there.
    (pushes him over to Chuck)
    Chuck: No, not here, here!
  • This happens to Joey once on Friends. When he stars in (a So Bad Its Horrible) show, Phoebe makes him think he's done a great show by hugging him in a very special way. Used again in the same episode when Joey's show gets canceled. This time, both Phoebe and Rachel do this.
    • Lucky bastard.
  • Band of Brothers. Perconte gets this from a matronly Dutch woman during the liberation of Einhoven Eindhoven. Sgt Lipton yanks him away, whereupon Perconte staggers off with a stunned expression on his face.
  • In an episode of House, House wonders why someone would try to commit suicide by electrocuting themselves. He lists off a number of other ways to kill yourself, rounding it up with: "Bury yourself alive in Cuddy's cleavage."
  • Darla did this to Angel when she sired him. She drank his blood, then cut herself between the boobs and pushed his face to her chest to make him drink her blood.
    • This is actually what Dracula does to Mina in Stoker's novel, but without the titties (also, Mina doesn't turn right away, giving us an Ill Girl sort of plot where the heroes have to destroy Dracula and end the taint before she dies).
    • And it was also (implied) when Drusilla sired a resurrected, human Darla - we don't see the whole thing, but Drusilla also cuts herself there. This troper got the impression that all female vamps sire new vamps like this. In a sense, it's symbolic - the sire is like a parent and the new vampire like a child, and what does a mother do when her baby is born ...? Essentially, it symbolises a new birth.
  • Happens in Just Shoot Me when Dennis' fiancée hugs him when he proposes.
  • Lexx: Xev delays Stan from asking the Living Ship to destroy an inhabited planet by knocking him down and smothering him while she argues against it.
  • In a Seinfeld episode, Elaine sends out Christmas cards with a photo of her accidentally baring a nipple. George is upset that everybody she knows got one, except him. Elaine gets angry, and rubs his head on her breasts.

    Professional Wrestling 
  • Professional Wrestler Jillian Hall has more done this a few times against mostly female opponents to humiliate, disgust and or attempt to smother them. One memorable time was in mocking Ashley Massaro, who was revealed to be on the cover of an up coming Playboy magazine. This actually doesn't always get a positive reaction from the fans in attendance, as Jillian has a habit of making the audience hate her.
  • There is (or was - I haven't seen it for several years) an image of a valet on an indy show who basically had real life Gag Boobs. Her wrestler's opponent was lying with his head on the apron facing up, and she dropped her breasts on his face as a variation of the old "manager choke from outside the ring" spot.

    Video Games 
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, one of the sidequests involves delivering milk from the ranch to the bar, in exchange for which you get the mask that lets you into the bar, which lets you get a power-up of Infinite Magic. Due to the nature of the game, it's possible to do this sidequest more than once, even if you already picked up the Infinite Magic. If this is the case, the moderately well-endowed girl from the ranch picks up young Link for a hug, resulting in Marshmallow Hell. Particularly amusing is the narrative note that "You feel all warm and fuzzy inside!"
  • In Disgaea, Laharl has the misfortune to be on the receiving end of one by Jennifer — misfortunate because he's literally allergic to Gag Boobs, and the proceeding freakout only prompts Jennifer into a impromptu sex-ed lesson. The thoughts of bystanders could best be summed up as "WTF, dood?"
  • Asuka's ending in Tekken 5. Featuring her cousin Jin.
  • In Project Justice, Tiffany's main throw got changed from a a gymnastic neck snap to one of these.
  • You does this to Kid in Ever17, although it is only mentioned in the text and doesn't have an accompanying visual.
  • And in a different place, Soul Series has Sophitia leap onto an opponent's face and muffle them with something else, turning her legs to break their neck in a throw rather appropriately called "Heaven and Hell". Considering what goes to the face, maybe this is an example of Apple Pie Hell?
  • During a scene in Pollin's storyline in Tech Romancer, Pollin transforms herself into an older (and bustier) form, and gets in an argument with Pulsion's human form Kei about whose bust size is bigger. With mutual love interest Junpei... caught in the middle. The US version unfortunately censors this, changing the written dialogue to them arguing over who loves him more.
  • The first Discworld game had this happen to Rincewind in a randomly-triggered cutscene - typically taken to the absolute most ridiculous extreme - as The Lady's hand comes down from the heavens, plucks up the hapless wizard and hides him in her truly gigantic cleavage. It's all a bid to win whatever game the Gods are currently playing, but Fate calls her on it. Much to Rincewind's frustration.
  • In many Dragon Quest games, many characters can perform this as an attack called "Puff Puff" that will usually cause the victim to miss their next turn. In Dragon Quest 6 and 7, male characters can also do it, although it has a slightly different effect (it does damage).
    • Speaking of Dragon Quest, this gets teased a number of times. In Dragon Quest III, a cute girl offers to give you one of these. You are then taken to a dark room, and when the lights come on, you learn that the person that gave you the "Puff Puff" was the girl's incredibly burly father. It also gets teased in Dragon Quest VIII, although a bit less creepy, as the girl doing it is simply using slimes.
  • In Blazblue, Boobie Lady Litchi often unwillingly does this to Taokaka, who is more than happy to enjoy her "nice comfy airbags".
    • She also willingly stuffs Carl's face into her cleavage, during his cooldown hug during CS's story mode.
  • In Grandia II, Milenia does this to Roan when they first meet.
  • Near the beginning of Boktai 3, Lita uses a "Chest Attack!!" to snap Django out of his amnesiac state. This fails because [A] Lita is size DFC and [B] she punches out skeletons bare-handed. By the time the "attack" ends, Django is 1 HP from his last save file. She does provide free medicine to fix him up, however...

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    Western Animation 
  • Happens to Schnitzel in one episode of Chowder.
  • In the "Insane in the Mainframe" episode of Futurama, Fry is let out of a robot insane asylum, brainwashed into thinking he's a robot and begins beeping. Devastated, Leela embraces Fry, pushing him up against her chest, causing him to beep more rapidly.
    • In the episode "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?", a female Decapodian named Edna, discovering that Fry had been teaching Dr. Zoidberg how to woo her in an attempt to help Zoidberg win her affections, becomes enamored with Fry and lures Fry to her apartment to try to seduce him. Zoidberg happens in upon the two as Edna is forcing herself on Fry and Edna professes her love for Fry, whilst pressing his face into her cleavage, muffling Fry's attempts to object.
  • In one episode of Pinky and the Brain, during a parody of Man of La Mancha, a woman hugs Brain and promptly loses him in her cleavage.
  • In the Justice League Unlimited episode "Dark Heart", Wonder Woman needs to carry the shrunken-down Atom into the midst of a horde of dangerous robots. While fighting her way through them with the Atom in one hand, Wonder Woman decides that she needs both hands, and promptly tucks the inch-high Atom into her cleavage. He wisely says nothing (though he was supposed to in the original script), but looks quite pleased.
    • According to writer Warren Ellis, when he questioned whether they would be able to keep the cleavage scene someone on the production crew assured them they would keep it in, reportedly saying "We will defend the cleavage with our lives!" God bless them.
  • The boys in South Park set this up as part of a plan to snap Chef out of The Super Adventure Club's brainwashing. The woman in question is a very obese stripper. When her cleavage doesn't work at first, she then puts Chef's face between her asscheeks.
  • In The Last Unicorn, Schmendrick gets this treatment from the tree he's tied to, after his magic makes it decidedly more anthropomorphic.
    • Wood breasts... ouch.
  • In one episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Meatwad is surrounded and pinned by holographic popup windows of scantily-clad, busty women.
  • Francine of American Dad promptly deals this out to Snot when she believes he's drowning at the bottom of a pool, even though he was cosplaying The Little Mermaid with Steve, Barry and Toshi.
    • Specifically, he was Sebastian. Oh, and this kicks off an Escalating War between him and Steve when Steve vows to get even by getting the same thing with Snot's mom.
      • Culminating with Snot removing a doorknob and sticking his...* Ahem* accessory through it to get Francine to touch it. It doesn't go as planned.
  • A running gag in the earlier episodes of RockosModernLife involved Rocko winding up stuck between Gladys the Hippo's breasts, every time he would do so she would yell "how dare you!" and beat him up.
  • In the Total Drama World Tour episode "Broadway Baby" in a scene cut from the US version, Cody falls into the Statue of Liberty's boobs and almost gets killed.

    Real Life 
  • At many Ren Fairs, "serving wenches" will do it as a joke. Particularly if the man in question is behaving like a cad. They even have a name for it, it's called a woobie.
  • Happens constantly in strip clubs.
    • Some years ago, an extremely huge-busted model/stripper named Tawny Peaks was sued by a club patron alleging he suffered severe whiplash from one of these.
    • If you wear glasses, it's a very good idea to take them off beforehand. Partly because they can get bent out of shape or broken like this, and also because having the nosepads mash into your eyes isn't the most comforting feeling in the world.
  • This is a favorite tactic of many Drag Queens around straight men in the audience when they interact cabaret style, especially one in the Boston area who regularly includes this as part of her act. Whether the boobs are real or fake depends on the Queen.
  • This story from a highly reputable news source.


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