History Main / WaterGeyserVolley

This is a {{Comedy}} trope that can be seen very often in WesternAnimation. A character comes across a geyser and becomes [[CuriousAsAMonkey innately curious]] about it as he looks directly into it, when the geyser suddenly erupts in a torrent of water that thrusts the character up into the air. This sometimes results in the victim bouncing around on the top of the spray.

This is often a mechanic in video games (usually of the Platformer genre), and the geysers end up being moving and/or slippery platforms.

* In ''GO-GO Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}!'' episode 9b, Wagassiertchi falls into a hole and is brought back up again by a geyser of brown liquid that gushes out of it. Kuchipatchi tastes the liquid and finds out it's chocolate, leading to the creation of a chocolate hot spring in Patchi Forest.

* Sid is sent airborne after sitting on a geyser in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge1''.

* John [=McClane=] is shot out of a sewer pipe 10 feet into the air in ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance''.
* Subverted with the 1939 ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' short "Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise" in that this trope happens with oil instead of water. While the Stooges are cleaning out the water pump belonging to a kindly old lady, oil spurts out from the pipe. Curly sits on the pipe to plug it up – but is propelled into the air by the oil geyser a few seconds later. This gag was reused in a later short, "Oil's Well That Ends Well", in which Joe Besser stops up the oil gush instead. As footage from the former short was used here, careful observation will reveal that [[FakeShemp it's Curly on the oil geyser and not Joe]].

* Sid is sent airborne after sitting on a geyser in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge''.

* In World 4-2 of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', whales shoot out water that can launch you in the air (and hurt you in the process). You can also use the water as platforms.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'': This trope is the entire basis for F.L.U.D.D..

* On ''Series/FraggleRock'', Wembley uncovers a spring of sweet water, and when he opens it up further the rush of water sends him up in the air.

* This trope is taken UpToEleven in ''Manga/OnePiece'' during the Jaya Arc: The quickest way to reach the [[FloatingContinent White Sea and the Sky Island]] is to use the Knock Up Stream, a colossal water jet which can propel ships into the sky (though in most cases they're turned into wrecks). To top it off, is later revealed that [[spoiler:the "land" on Skypiea was actually half of the Jaya Island propelled into the sky by a really gigantic Knock Up Stream.]]

* Your party in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' may heal using geysers found in the Lost Underworld. They shoot Ness and friends up into the air when used.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' had a bunch of geysers you could use to that effect. There's even an achievement for landing on top of a pig motel sign that's close to a geyser.

Can go hand-in-hand with MakingASplash.

Can go hand-in-hand with: MakingASplash

* Geysers appear in ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' as a means of propulsion to higher, otherwise-unreachable terrain, as well as in the underground caverns of ''Pikmin 2'', where they are used to return to the surface.
* Happens repeatedly in ''VideoGame/GoldenSun''. One puzzle requires you to push a column on one geyser so the other one will propel you high enough.

** ''VideoGame/TwilightPrincess'' has a slightly more realistic version where the geyser holds up a bridge instead of Link himself. There are also several geysers in Death Mountain that hurt you if you're near them.

* Fairly common in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series. ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'' all feature DownTheDrain levels where waterspouts from pipes are used as lifts.

* Happens in ''VideoGame/GoldenSun''. One puzzle requires you to push a column on one geyser so the other one will propel you high enough.

* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', the hyenas put Zazu into "the birdie boiler", which rockets him, apparently, straight to Mufasa.

* ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}, during the fight against [[{{Ninja}} Fuuma Kotaro]] in the caverns of Mount Tsurugi, Yaiba finally manages to turn the tables against his insidious opponent by using the Water orb to summon a massive water jet from the ground, knocking them both out of the caverns and into the sky. Yaiba survives thanks to his pet Vulture Shonosuke, Kotaro avoids a DisneyVillainDeath by turning into a falcon man.

* ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'': This happens to Archchancellor Ridcully when he tries out the bathroom built by B.S. Johnson. Bonus points for Ridcully remarking afterward, "Ye gods, I feel so ''clean''."

* In ''Big Heel-Watha'', ScrewySquirrel pranks the title hunter by planting a drinking fountain on a geyser.

* In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon "Good Scouts", Donald falls into Old Reliable Geyser just as it starts to erupt. His nephews try to plug up the geyser with rocks, but they just get sent up to hit him. Finally they throw a boulder big enough to plug it... for a moment.

* In the ''Taz-Mania'' game for the Sega Genesis, geysers were common in the first Badlands level. Their tops could be used as platforms, but touching their sides resulted in instant death.

* ''VideoGame/{{Uru}}'' uses this.
* This is the basis for Camisade attack in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', where the character is propelled into the air by a torrent of water before bodyslamming the enemy from a great height. Used by [[spoiler:Mindy, one of the secret Aeons]].

* Downplayed in Star Versus the Forces of Evil. King River is launched by the geyser Old Youthful, but all his hair is scalded off leaving him looking like a blushing newborn.