History Main / KissingTheGround

* At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, one post-race tradition both in UsefulNotes/IndyCar and {{NASCAR}} is "kissing the bricks", where the race winner and his pit crew line up and kiss the row of paving bricks that mark the start-finish line. It first began in 1996 when Dale Jarrett won the Brickyard 400. It was exclusively a NASCAR tradition, but it was adapted to the Indianapolis 500 around 2003.

* At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, one post-race tradition both in IndyCar and {{NASCAR}} is "kissing the bricks", where the race winner and his pit crew line up and kiss the row of paving bricks that mark the start-finish line. It first began in 1996 when Dale Jarrett won the Brickyard 400. It was exclusively a NASCAR tradition, but it was adapted to the Indianapolis 500 around 2003.

* BugsBunny kisses the ground as a sign of patriotism against Hessian Sam in "Bunker Hill Bunny."

* In ThePacifier, Lulu, after a horrible experience with Zoe's driving, happily embraces the ground when they reach school.

* Ed does this once in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncrediblyMentalMisadventuresOfEdGrimley''. He then muses that it doesn't really taste as good as you think it will.

* The TexAvery short "The Cat Who Hated People" has the cat flying to the moon to get away from people, only to be driven mad by the moon's inhabitants. After returning to Earth, he hugs the sidewalk and kisses it.

* From Roman legend, it is said that the sons of Tarquinius Superbus, the last King of Rome, asked the Oracle of Delphi who should rule Rome. She answered, "[[ProphecyTwist The first to kiss his mother]]." Accompanying them was Lucius Junius Brutus, who [[ObfuscatingStupidity immediately tripped and kissed the ground]], the universal Mother of humanity. Brutus would become a leader of the revolution that deposed Tarquinius and established the UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic and one of the first Consuls.

* Some immigrants to Israel do this.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'': Miguel and Tulio both kiss the ground upon their boat arriving in South America.

* In ''RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'', the eponymous character does this when he arrives back in England after the crusades. Then proceeds to find that his father's been executed on false charges and all his lands confiscated.

* In ''RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'', the eponymous character does this when he arrives back in England after the crusades. [[ItGotWorse Then proceeds to find that his father's been executed on false charges and all his lands confiscated]].

* Pope John Paul II used to do this.

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin kisses the ground in an early strip after [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome surviving sliding down a playground slide]].

* In ''TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'', Plucky is so happy to be home from a horrible road trip that took all summer that he kisses Hamton's lawn, only to discover that there's fertilizer on it as plants start to grow on his tongue.
* In the WinnieThePooh short "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too", Tigger kisses the snow after being rescued from a tree.

* Bob the tomato did this in the {{VeggieTales}} episode "An Easter Carol", after he and Mr. Nezzer land on the ground from riding in a runaway cart.
* ''TheRoadToElDorado'': Miguel and Tulio both kiss the ground upon their boat arriving in South America.

* Ed does this once in ''TheIncrediblyMentalMisadventuresOfEdGrimley''. He then muses that it doesn't really taste as good as you think it will.

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "The Mysterious Mare Do Well". The Mare shows Dash up by saving a cart full of ponies. One pony hops out and kisses the ground out of gratitude for having been saved.

* Pope John Paul II used to do this.

After a character has been lost at sea, on a near-deadly airplane flight, or perhaps just on a vacation gone wrong, they'll be so happy to have solid ground beneath their feet or be back home that they'll start to kiss the ground, no matter how filthy it may be. Sometimes for added humor they'll begin to spit and wipe their mouths in disgust afterwards.

* In one of the Literature/IRobot stories, Powell and Donovan do that after an interstellar travel a half mad AI sent them on.

* In the pilot episode of {{Series/Sliders}}, Rembrandt kisses the ground when he thinks they've made it back to their home dimension from a world of ice and tornadoes. Unfortunately, of course, he was wrong.

* In one of the Literature/IRobot stories, Powell and Donovan do that after an interstellar travel a half mad AI sent them on.

* When DonaldDuck lands on a deserted island in the short "Sea Salts", the ant he was with in the raft kisses the beach.
* In ''TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'', Plucky is so happy to be home from a horrible road trip that took all summer that he kisses Hamton's lawn, only to discover that there's fertilizer on it as plants start to grow on his tongue.

* In the WinnieThePooh short "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too", Tigger kisses the snow after being rescued from a tree.
* The TexAvery short "The Cat Who Hated People" has the cat flying to the moon to get away from people, only to be driven mad by the moon's inhabitants. After returning to Earth, he hugs the sidewalk and kisses it.
* In one of the Literature/IRobot stories, Powell and Donovan do that after an interstellar travel a half mad AI sent them on.
* Bob the tomato did this in the {{VeggieTales}} episode "An Easter Carol", after he and Mr. Nezzer land on the ground from riding in a runaway cart.

* ''TheRoadToElDorado'': Miguel and Tulio both kiss the ground upon their boat arriving in South America.

* RealLife: Pope John Paul II used to do this.