History Main / UnderwaterFartGag

* ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'': In "Swim By Me", Uncle Ted takes Bobby to the community center for swimming lessons. During his first lesson, the teacher asks Bobby to put his face in the water and make bubbles. Bobby is standing next to Uncle Ted, and asks him how he can make bubbles without putting his face in the water. Uncle Ted tells him "Tell you what, Bob-o, let's just keep that our little secret, okay?"

* A throwaway panel in a ''Promises Promises'' comic has an instructor chastise an embarrassed woman (whom the other swimmers are straying away from) that there's no such thing as a "bubbles" pose.

* A throwaway panel in a ''Promises Promises'' comic has an instructor chastise an embarrassed woman (whom the other swimmers are straying away from) that "bubbles" is ''not'' an appropriate swimming technique.

* A throwaway panel in an online comic has an instructor chastise an embarrassed woman (whom the other swimmers are straying away from) that "bubbles" is ''not'' an appropriate swimming technique.

** In the [[WesternAnimation/Shrek1 first movie]], Shrek farts in the bath and it smells so bad, three fish float up dead, and some of the reeds around the pond wilt over.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'':
** In the first movie, Shrek farts in the bath and it smells so bad, three fish float up dead, and some of the reeds around the pond wilt over.

->''(thinking) It's not fair! I'm not the only one who stinks. When Mum lets off a poot, she coughs at the same time to cover it up. When Dad let's off, he's so sneaky you don't know what's coming until it hits you. Gran's always letting rip. She just blames the cat. Suzy claims she never trumps, but she sounds like a brass band when she thinks no one's listening! And when the dog boffs, he wafts it about! So there, everybody does it! But *I* do it best... Especially in the bath!''

* A gag in ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' has Jay in a jacuzzi. Some women want to join him, but then they realize it isn't turn on, but there are bubbles anyway.

The thing is, this bubble means that it's pretty hard to pretend you didn't fart, while on the flip side, if there is air in your swimsuit, it's easy to be [[MistakenForFlatulence mistaken for having farted]]. Also, it's clear who did it unless more than one person is in close proximity to the one who farted. Plus, bubbles are sort of inherently funny anyway.

* ''WesternAnimation/AllHailKingJulien: In the episode "My Fair Fooza", when King Julien and friends are in the hot tub, King Julien teaches Mary Ann about it and Mort says it's fun to toot in and toots. Mary Ann's fart was so powerful, that Mort and Maurice fell down.

* A tie-in comic for ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', the duo get jobs as lifeguards at a public pool. While there, aren't shows the ability to "blow" massive twenty-foot bubbles underwater, which he uses to discipline a rowdy kid by tossing him out of the pool. He claims it was "a powerful geeft, that I swore only to use for the Forces of Good."

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!! Examples

[[folder: Advertising]]

* A Japanese soap commercial (which was shown for its humor on ''Series/TheTonightShow'' during the Carson era) showed a small army of young Japanese boys bathing (to the tune of Beethoven's Turkish March) in a large tub . . . with a fart bubbling up as a tag.

[[folder: Comic Books]]

[[folder: Comic Strips]]

[[folder: Films - Animation]]

-->'''Timon''': I'm out!\\
'''Simba''': Right behind you!

[[folder: Films - Live-Action]]

* In ''Film/ACinderellaStory'', Brianna does this while in a pool, which prompts her sister to angrily attack her while their synchronized swimming instructor tries to get them to stop fighting.
* In ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise'', the villain, who has [[{{Gasshole}} a habit of farting]], does one last fart after his KarmicDeath in a pool.

[[folder: Literature]]
* In the ''Literature/DirtyBertie'' book "Pooh, Is That You, Bertie?", Bertie is told off for farting in public, then says, "We all do it, but I do it best of all, especially in the bath!".

* Subtly invoked in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' where Ridcully, describing the many features of the B.S. Johnson "Typhoon" Indoor Ablutorium With Automatic Soapdish, describes the jacuzzi as "that tub over there's got a big blower thingy so's you get bubbly water without even havin' to eat starchy food".

[[folder: Live-Action TV]]

* Done ForScience on an episode of ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' that dealt with flatulence. It was the best idea they could come up with for capturing a flatus to analyze its chemical composition. Cue Adam Savage sitting in a bathtub (in swimsuit) making bubbles into a funnel, which are draw into a plastic cartridge under vacuum.

[[folder: Radio]]

[[folder: Western Animation]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowski'' episode "Clean... to the Extreme", one of the deals in the ChainOfDeals is providing the bubbles for Brianna's bath. Gunther does so by farting but Brianna doesn't seem to mind.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "The Two Mrs Nahasapeemapetilons", Homer and Apu are sitting in a jacuzzi and Jasper offers to turn on the bubbles.