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* In the ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' short "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too", Tigger kisses the snow after being rescued from a tree.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "{{Literature/Escape}}": Michael Donovan's first action, after returning to Earth from an interstellar trip orchestrated by a half-mad AI, is to kiss the runway of their landing.
-->And then, slowly and purposefully, the one with red hair knelt down and planted upon the concrete of the runway a firm, loud kiss.

* In the Disney/WinnieThePooh short "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too", Tigger kisses the snow after being rescued from a tree.

* The villain of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', Big M., crash-lands himself and his assistant Little M. on Planet Xing at the beginning of the series and [[YouCantGoHomeAgain can't get back to his home planet of Planet Gray]] for the first three seasons. In the first episode of Season 4, he follows the Supermen onto a train [[CasualInterplanetaryTravel from Planet Xing to Planet Gray]] and kisses the ground once he arrives at the train's destination.

* 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 is wrong.

* Sean from ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' does this sometimes, whenever the gang gets back from space.

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--> '''Shad''': Strange custom.

* WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne: Saraline in "Like a Happy, Happy Bird". Snaps "quiet, I'm floor-kissing" when Ansi interrupts her.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'': Miguel and Tulio both kiss the ground upon their boat arriving in South America. Poor Miguel winds up ending his kiss on ''a rotten skull!''

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

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

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* 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.

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

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* When DonaldDuck lands on a deserted island in the short "Sea Salts", the ant he was with in the raft kisses the beach.

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* ''Film/FlashGordon'' (1980). After Flash manages to crash land a plane without killing them, Dale Arden says "Hold me for a second, then drop me, I'll kiss the ground."

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Marge on the Lam]]'', Chief Wiggum's idiotic driving sends the car he's driving over a cliff... and into a colossal mound of garbage. Homer, who was riding shotgun, kisses the garbage, repulsed at the taste... until the last kiss tastes like pizza.

** As a common joke goes, wanting to kiss the ground is a common reaction to flying (old) Alitalia on account of some of their planes having been pretty old.

* ''WesternAnimation/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.

* At the end of TheMagicSchoolBus's field trip around the solar system, one of the kids is doing this when the bus returns to Earth.
* ''[[Literature/TenSixtySixAndAllThat 1066 and All That]]'': The first action William I (1066) undertook in conquering England was lying down on the beach where he landed and swallowing two mouthfuls of sand.

* The debut episode of ''GilligansIsland'' has Gilligan first bemoaning that he and the others are stranded on an island then being grateful for being on land in the first place. He kisses the beach and spits out sand.

** Parodied in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights''. Robin kisses the ground noisily when he lands in England, then spits sand out of his mouth.

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* At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, one post-race tradition both in UsefulNotes/IndyCar and UsefulNotes/{{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.

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