History Main / FloatingInABubble

In "Western Animation/ He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983)"'s episode "Song of Celice", He-Man uses traps Skeletor in

** In the episode "Find Her, Keep Her", the little bird Rabbit is taking care of floats away in a soap bubble while Rabbit bathes her.

* Scrat gets caught inside a bubble from a tar pit in ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs''.

** In the episode "Find Her, Keep Her", the little bird Rabbit is taking care of floats away on a soap bubble while Rabbit bathes her.

* Scrat gets caught inside a bubble from a tar pit in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs''.

In "Western Animation/He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983)" "Song of Celice", He-Man uses traps Skeletor in

'''He-Man:''' I always said you were light weight, Skeletor!

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'': Scaredy Smurf borrows a wand from a water sprite that can create bubbles even around himself as protection. Unfortunately, he ended up dropping the wand and Gargamel used it to trap Scaredy in a bubble until the other Smurfs got the wand out of Gargamel's hands and trapped him and his cat inside a bubble.

* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' we see Isabella use this in "The Wizard of Odd" before and after the pointless song and dance number

->"''Ayy, can i pop this ? you tried to put me in the bubble, but i popped it.''"
-->-- Lyrics from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j38vZ4Vbwsk&list=LLfzX6VbcGDhsvgieqTku8qQ Lil Nas X - Holdiay (Clean)]]

-->-- Lyrics from Lil Nas X - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j38vZ4Vbwsk&list=LLfzX6VbcGDhsvgieqTku8qQ Holdiay (Clean)]]

->"''Internal combustion is such old science. Bubble travel is the way of the future!''"
-->-- '''Jimmy Neutron''', ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius''

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger:'' Some of Frog's double techs involve enclosing a teammate inside a giant floating water bubble
and dropping them on an enemy.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender's Big Score]]'' had an improbably cute version during the dating montage with Lars & Leela.

* Happens regularly on ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': the butterfly 'monster' in "Wormy", Squidward at the end of "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost", Squidward's whole ''house'' in "Bubble Stand", and Spongebob himself in "Fungus Among Us".

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' had the boys working on a bubble that could be ridden in.
* Showed up occasionally in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony''. The Sea Ponies could form breathing bubbles around people to stop them from drowning, and Fizzy could make all sorts of bubbles, including a couple times bubbles for floating through the air.
* Scaredy Smurf in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' borrowed a wand from a water sprite that can create bubbles even around himself as protection. Unfortunately, he ended up dropping the wand and Gargamel used it to trap Scaredy in a bubble until the other Smurfs got the wand out of Gargamel's hands and trapped him and his cat inside a bubble.
* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes "Rabbit Every Monday", Bugs plugs the barrels of Sam's shotgun with bubble gum - when Sam fires, he ends up trapped inside a giant bubble, which Bugs sends bouncing off with a small puff of breath.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom – Part 1]]", Spike is briefly trapped in a bubble by Discord, which pops after lifting him up for a bit. Rainbow Dash catches him before he hits the ground.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom – Part 2]]", when bargaining with Twilight for all the alicorn magic in Equestria, Tirek holds her friends -- including [[TheOneGuy Spike]] and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Discord]] -- suspended in individual bubbles.
* This is a major form of space travel in ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' (conveniently, "orbble juice" bubbles seem to generate their own air).

* In ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears Camping Adventure'' for UsefulNote/SegaGenesis and UsefulNotes/GameGear, if Brother or Sister fall into a pit, they will float back to the platform they were last on in a bubble, until they have run out of lives.

* In [[WesternAnimation/Phineas and Ferb]] we see Isabella use this in "The Wizard of Odd" before and after the pointless song and dance number

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3D'', any dream eaters that that can't swim (Which is almost all of them) end up in a bubble while playing the Water Barrel minigame. It's also weaponized by the Bubble Burst reality shift, where Sora or Riku can ride on top a bubble and entrap multiple enemies within before popping it with explosive force, and again by the Tatsu Steed's Bubble Blast link attack which traps foes in an exploding bubble if they get hit enough times.

* ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'' features bubbles as a form of public transportation in the future.

* Timothy Mouse on ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'' gets caught up in the bubbles Dumbo makes after getting drunk.
* In ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', Dopey eats a bar of soap which causes him to hiccup bubbles. The climax of that scene has him hiccup a bubble the size of his head, which carries his hat into the air for a few seconds before popping. A DeletedScene also has Dopey hiccup out a bubble containing the spoon he ate shortly thereafter.

* The stonefish seen during this part of the song "Under the Sea" from ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'':

* The elephants in the "Dance of the Hours" segment of ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' blow bubbles with their trunks. One is shocked to find a fish floating inside one. Another ends up getting a bubble stuck to her foot.

* On ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'', Jiminy Cricket gets caught inside a bubble underwater. He punctures it trying to retrieve his hat (which is in a different bubble) and it starts ''filling up with water''. [[MST3KMantra best not to dwell too much on it.]]

* After Wayne, Gordon, and their wives have been shrunken in ''[[Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids Honey We Shrunk Ourselves]]'', they attempt to go and get their kids to help them. Fortunately, the kids, thinking that their parents left on vacation, throw a party, where a bubble machine is conveniently placed on the staircase. Wayne and the others leap into the bubbles to go look for the kids.