History Main / ForceFeeding

* Shows up in [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1985/03/03/ this]] Garfield strip, using scrambled eggs.

* Some cultures eat like hogs, and it's a grave insult to decline, or leave before the meal is finished. For a westerner who's idea of a big meal is a supersize bigmac, it can feel like this trope.

[[TheSimpsons http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Force_Feed_homer_3125.jpg]]
[[caption-width:351:[[TooSpicyForYogSothoth Too bad Homer just doesn't understand "irony".]]]]

** ''A Tale of Two Mice'', featuring the AbbottAndCostello expies Babbitt and Catstello, ends with Babbitt scoffing at the cheese Catstello has brought back for them: "You know I don't like Swiss cheese!" Castello slaps him about the head before shoving hunks of cheese into his mouth, saying, "Well, Babbitt, you're goin' to ''loin'' ta' like it right now!"

* And don't forget the gravy! The LooneyTunes short ''Chow Hound'', directed by ChuckJones, dates from 1951, illustrates this page and may come fairly early in this trope's life - funnel and everything.

** ''A Tale of Two Mice'' ends with Babbitt scoffing at the cheese Catstello has brought back for them: "You know I don't like Swiss cheese!" Castello slaps him about the head before shoving hunks of cheese into his mouth, saying, "Well, Babbitt, you're goin' to ''loin'' ta' like it right now!"

[[LooneyTunes http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chowhoundJOUKUl.jpg]]
[[caption-width:258:"This time we ''didn't'' forget the gravy!"]]

* Force-feeding was commonly practiced in Guantanamo Bay on prisoners who "refuse[d] to eat". Note that said prisoners didn't exactly get to tell the outside world whether or not this was actually the case, and the rest of the world universally considers this to be an act of torture.

* There have been occasions in which Bluto has crammed a cup or even a full can of spinach down [[Popeye]]'s throat. [[WhatAnIdiot Guess how well that turned out for him]].

* In RingOfHonor, during the CM Punk vs Raven feud, Punk was forced to drink beer against his straight-edge beliefs.
* In an episode of SmackDown, Mickie James (nicknamed Piggy James) is held down by Beth Phoenix, Michelle, and Layla in the ring and gets stuffed in the face with a cake shaped like a pig. After that she then has fruit punch dumped on her head.

* ''{{Matilda}}'': Involves a overweight kid who is forced to eat chocolate cake, as punishment for supposedly stealing Miss Trunchbull's cake, while Miss Trunchbull watches. In other words, he is not allowed to stop eating until he has finished the ''whole'' cake, and it's HUGE too. Even if he gets sick, he has to keep eating. To add insult to injury, Miss Trunchbull later reveals that the cook who baked the cake, "baked her sweat and blood into the cake'', but the children '''don't realise it's a figure of speech''' and, given Miss Trunchbull, it might be literal. He manages to eat the whole thing, but not before looking incredibly sick while doing so as he stuffs morsel after rich morsel into his mouth. NauseaFuel incarnate. For a kid's film at least.

* Plays a part in the movie ''Iron Jawed Angels'', as the women are all suffragists whose lobbying tactics get them thrown in prison, and once they go on a hunger strike for their cause, they are viciously force-fed raw eggs, in a scene that made even this troper, who doesn't scare easily, close her eyes and shudder in disgust.

* In ''{{Aladdin}}'', Iago's revenge against the Sultan for feeding him stale crackers is to force feed him the same crackers. (No, not [[{{Squick}} literally the same crackers]].)

* Used as water torture in the opening scene of the movie ''Salt''. Agent Salt gets a water hose shoved in her mouth as torture.

* Weird Al Yankovic's "Albuquerque" begins with his mother tying him to a wall, sticking a funnel in his mouth, and force-feeding him nothing but sauerkraut until he was twenty six and a half years old.

* And don't forget the gravy! The LooneyTunes short ''Chow Hound'', directed by ChuckJones, dates from 1951 and may come fairly early in this trope's life - funnel and everything.

* Spoofed in ''TheSimpsons'' fourth Halloween special when Homer goes to Hell, having sold his soul for a donut. He is given an ironic punishment: eat all the donuts in the world. However, the punishment doesn't bother Homer as he just keeps growing fatter and fatter and fatter with no sign of displeasure. The torturer is left confused, as "James Coco went mad in 15 minutes".

It should be noted that real life force feeding methods sometimes involve the hose going through the NOSE and down the throat so the victim has no chance to resist ingestion. Done improperly this can cause severe and bloody damage to the nose and throat.

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* In the ''DannyPhantom'' fanfic titled "Narcissism" by WTF Wonder, Dark Danny threatens to do this to Danny.
* In the ''DeathNote'' fanfic titled "Stolen" by [=SekushiAi=] a psychopath presses a scalpel to Light's tongue, cutting it open. And then he pours some liquid which contains ''vinegar'' into Light's mouth right afterwards. Light tries to cough it up, but the psychopath holds his mouth shut and pushes his head back, [[NauseaFuel forcing Light to ingest the liquid laced with vinegar and the resulting blood that was pooling in his mouth from when his tongue was cut]].

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* A serious essay/article on the subject coming from the hunger strikes of the women's suffrage movement. [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/How_It_Feels_to_Be_Forcibly_Fed How It Feels to Be Forcibly Fed]]
* TruthInTelevision: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras_controversy Foie gras]]. The waterfowl that get fed like this end up with a disease that makes their livers enlarge, and would kill them if they didn't get slaughtered.
* One terrible RealLife example is a form of water torture, called Waterboarding, where the victim is strapped to a bed and water is forced into his throat via a funnel in its mouth. The victims would constantly feel like choking, and they say sometimes their stomach could in fact burst. This is known as dry-drowning, and the victim undergoes what feels to them is an execution; they feel like they are dying.
** The above-described version of waterboarding was used during the Spanish Inquisition; the modern version used in places like Gitmo involved pouring water over cloth on the victim's face. Far less (maybe even no) water is ingested but the drowning and panic reflexes are triggered due to feelings of suffocation.
*** No water makes it past the cloth, but the weight of the water pushes the closh most of the way down the victim's throat.
* Force-feeding was commonly practiced in Guantanamo Bay on prisoners who "refuse[d] to eat". Note that said prisoners didn't exactly get to tell the outside world whether or not this was actually the case, and the rest of the world universally considers this to be an act of torture.
** There's [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121700018.html an article]] where a man recounts how he went on a hunger strike while in a Moscow prison, and it was decided that he would be force-fed through the nose to break his will.
---> The feeding pipe was thick, thicker than my nostril, and would not go in. Blood came gushing out of my nose and tears down my cheeks, but they kept pushing until the cartilages cracked. I guess I would have screamed if I could, but I could not with the pipe in my throat. I could breathe neither in nor out at first; I wheezed like a drowning man -- my lungs felt ready to burst. The doctor also seemed ready to burst into tears, but she kept shoving the pipe farther and farther down. Only when it reached my stomach could I resume breathing, carefully. Then she poured some slop through a funnel into the pipe that would choke me if it came back up. They held me down for another half-hour so that the liquid was absorbed by my stomach and could not be vomited back, and then began to pull the pipe out bit by bit.

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* In ''The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'' a bookshop employee is tortured to death by being forced to eat book pages.