History Main / TooGruesomeForCartoonPhysics

* In 1944’s "WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyNipsTheNips", Bugs gives the Japanese soldiers grenades hidden in ice cream bars, they walk away to eat them and series of explosions occur, Bugs watches the explosions and shields his eyes at some of the offscreen carnage before driving away.

*** Squidward gets his tentacle feet tangled in his bike pedals and careens off of a cliff, bouncing off the rocks on his way to the bottom, where he inexplicably explodes offscreen in a mushroom cloud. In the next scene he's in, Squidward is completely bandaged up from-head-to-toe in a motorized wheelchair.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Around the climax of "Operation: M.O.V.I.E.", Numbuh 4 confronts Toiletnator in the projection room of a cinema where villains are meeting up. After a brief scuffle, he turns on a film projector and causes Toiletnator's toilet paper to get pulled into the projector's spinning reel, along with him too. We don't see what's happening to him, but we do hear [[FoldSpindleMutilation the unmistakable sounds of grinding flesh and shattering bones]], and see Numbuh 4 recoiling at what he sees, and it's obviously not a pretty sight. Somehow, Toiletnator survives ''and'' gets launched out fully intact.

* In 1944’s Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips, Bugs gives the Japanese soldiers grenades hidden in ice cream bars, they walk away to eat them and series of explosions occur, Bugs watches the explosions and shields his eyes at some of the offscreen carnage before driving away.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Around the climax of "Operation: M.O.V.I.E.", Numbuh 4 confronts Toiletnator in the projection room of a cinema where villains are meeting up. After a brief scuffle, he turns on a film projector and causes Toiletnator's toilet paper to get pulled into the projector's spinning reel, along with him too. We don't see what's happening to him, but we do hear [[FoldSpindleMutilation the unmistakable sounds of grinding flesh and bones crunching]], and see Numbuh 4 recoiling at what he sees, and it's obviously not a pretty sight. Somehow, Toiletnator survives ''and'' gets launched out fully intact.

*** While Jellyfishing, Squidward finds the mother jellyfish, while Spongebob and Patrick cheer him on. Offscreen, he is immediately and extremely powerfully shocked. Spongebob and Patrick can only say "Oohhhh..." in aversion at the sight. The next time we see Squidward, he's in a motorized ''hospital bed in a full-body cast''.

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* In a rare example, ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} had this on [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2014/02/23 February 23, 2014]], where Jon tries to make a snow angel, but instead [[spoiler:falls onto a garden gnome hidden in the snow.]]

** "Batty Baseball" (1944) has two instances.

* In 1939's "Hamateur Night", Swami River, a middle-eastern performer, asks for a volunteer from the audience for his Indian Basket Trick. Egghead volunteers and gets into the basket, and Swami pierces it with a sword while he's inside. Instead of coming out unharmed as normally expected, Swami looks into the basket, and "tsk"s in disappointment, strongly implying that he accidentally killed him. He then gives the basket to the usher, saying [[{{Bathos}} "...give this gentleman]] [[{{Understatement}} his money back."]]

** [[https://youtu.be/uAzzoGCYw2U Donut Unto Others]]: Homestar competes with Bubs' Concession Stand in making donuts, where Homestar's donut stand is a simple cardboard box with a window cut out of it and a built-in sign labeled "Do-Nots", as well as a working heated deep-fryer. Near the end of the cartoon, Strong Bad, acting as the health inspector, slaps a post-it note marked "F" on the side of the box, knocking everything over. We never see the results it has on Homestar explicitly, we [[ScreamDiscretionShot just hear him yelling in pain]].

** In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "privileges", The Cheat runs off to do something involving a drill to Strong Sad in order to get a point on his "Gold Plus Membership" scorecard.

** In "origins", Strong Bad suggests that Strong Sad received his navel because of a new drill that Young Strong Bad received for his birthday.
** In "the chair" Strong Bad has said in the past that his mask is a part of his body, yet he takes it off, but [[TheUnreveal only behind the obscured view of his new chair "Lé Restige"]], with gurgling noises akin to a painful movie-effect transformation.
--->'''Strong Bad:''' Ugh. [[ImNotDoingThatAgain I am NEVER doing that again!]]
** In "hremail3184", it's implied that Homestar Runner has been doing his parallel email show to Strong Bad's since 2001, as he's completely drained of hosting vigor. Strong Bad is so frustrated that he yells for several gardening tools [[spoiler:from Marzipan]] to hit Homestar over the head.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Homer's Enemy", Frank Grimes goes so insane at Homer winning the Nuclear Plant design contest that his final act is to grab a pair of live high-voltage power terminals, which immediately electrocutes and fries him. Homer and the rest of the plant staff can only cringe in disgust. (And this is considering Homer has fallen down Springfield Gorge, gotten hit by lightning, hit by baseball bats, etc.)

* In 1964's "Dumb Patrol", Yosemite Sam's plane falls out of the sky and crashes into the ammunition dump. All we see is Bugs watching the fall, then looking away as the screen shakes with the explosion.