Line #4 Main/BabyDontGotBack


1	->''So your girlfriend rolls a Honda''\
2	''Playin' workout tapes by [[Creator/JaneFonda Fonda]]''\
3	''But Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her Honda''\
4	''My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hun!''
5	-->-- '''Music/SirMixALot'''
6
7	Some people like big butts. And they cannot lie. Which makes someone's lack of derriere all the more noticeable. This trope comes up when a character is made fun of or feels insecure about their small butt.
8
9	This is most often PlayedForLaughs, though on some occasions it came be PlayedForDrama for characters very sensitive about it, to the point of AppearanceAngst. For black and Latina women, this is a sore spot as they are stereotyped as having the ImpossibleHourglassFigure. Despite this, this trope isn't AlwaysFemale, as men can have angst about their butts being small. The person bringing it up could just be a peer, but if somebody is rejected as a sexual partner for this reason, it overlaps with YoureNotMyType.
10
11	See ACupAngst and TeenyWeenie for worries about how other parts don't measure up. Contrast ComicallyOversizedButt.
12	----
13	!!Examples:
14
15	[[foldercontrol]]
16
17	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
18	* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero'', Bulma uses one of Shenron's wishes to make her butt bigger.
19	[[/folder]]
20
21	[[folder:Comedy]]
22	* Creator/AishaTyler incorporates jokes relating to this trope into her stand-up routines, including writing a song called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbHw7YrujKU "No Ass At All"]], and warning the audience as she prepares to turn around not to freak out: yes, she is a black woman; yes, she has no ass; yes, she is aware of this.
23	[[/folder]]
24
25	[[folder:Comic Books]]
26	* In one ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise'' storyline, body-conscious Francine decides to join a gym. She's impressed with her trainer Monica's muscular arms, but then...
27	-->'''Francine:''' ''(narrating)'' Then I saw her butt. Or should I say, I ''didn't'' see it! I swear to God, the woman had ''no butt!''\
28	'''Monica:''' ''(notices Francine staring)'' Something the matter? Do I have something on my pants?\
29	'''Francine:''' Huh? Uh... no. Sorry.
30	[[/folder]]
31
32	[[folder:Fan Works]]
33	* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaReturns'': In Chapter 34, Chef is making the campers do Pilates exercises. Noah isn't moving at all, so Chef emphasizes the importance of having a big butt to him.
34	-->'''Chef''': No you ain't! Listen, a man your age needs a nice, firm, juicy butt. You can't be havin' no bony butt, turkey! Ain't no girls gonna be after you if you ain't got a butt! But the only way you get that is through exercises like this!\
35	'''Noah''': ''(sarcastically)'' Oh yeah, having a firm butt is totally an important thing to me.\
36	'''Chef''': Good! Then get moving!\
37	'''Izzy''': I agree with Chef. You need to get a butt before we can date, Noah.\
38	'''Ezekiel''': Yeah, you need a butt, Noah.\
39	'''Noah''': Wow, this conversation has suddenly gone off the deep end of awkwardness.
40	[[/folder]]
41
42	[[folder:Film]]
43	* In the movie ''Alleen Maar Nette Mensen'', the main character develops a RaceFetish for black women after he finds himself no longer attracted to his skinnier white girlfriend. In a subversion of a DoesThisMakeMeLookFat scene, he just sadly replies that no, her butt does not look bigger in those pants.
44	* ''Film/TheLastSeduction'': When Bridget tries the [[TheVamp Vamp]] routine on the black Harlan, he initially blows her off, complaining that white women have "no ass". He does give in her to her demands to see [[BlackIsBiggerInBed his supposedly huge dick]], apparently more out of wounded ego than a real desire for Bridget specifically.
45	* ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise'': The main female lead, Jennifer Baker, is mocked by the main protagonist and his grandfather for having a small butt.
46	[[/folder]]
47
48	[[folder:Fan Works]]
49	* PlayedForLaughs in ''Fanfic/{{Promstuck}}''. Terezi is described as having a butt so bony and sharp that it has injured other people, and it's drawn as a triangle. Dave is nevertheless very attracted to her ass-lack, and Karkat calls him out for being too busy scoping out something non-existent (her butt) to help him.
50	[[/folder]]
51
52	[[folder:Literature]]
53	* In ''Literature/TheClique'', AlphaBitch Massie usually finds every reason to laugh at her BetaBitch Claire, but secretly envies her butt.
54	* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Lamprey dislikes that she lost size in her boobs and butt when she mutated.
55	[[/folder]]
56
57	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
58	* ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'': One story has a woman hiring a doctor to make her butt bigger to attract more men using silicone injections. Said doctor however, is a complete fraud, and instead of using actual silicone, injects ''bathroom caulk'' into her. She eventually dies because some of the caulk was injected directly into her bloodstream, causing massive blood clots to form, almost completely cutting off blood flow to her whole body.
59	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In Season 4, [[IronWoobie Wesley]] and [[AmoralAttorney Lilah]] are an item when she discovers he secretly has feelings for [[SouthernFriedGenius Fred]]. She deals with this by seducing him while dressed as Fred, impersonating her accent while saying things like, "And if I'm a good girl and eat all my vegetables, I might get hips."
60	* The first episode of ''Degrassi: Next Class'' (a SoftReboot of ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration''), sees Shay insecure about her rear end (described by her friend as "the butt of a four-year-old"), especially since her crush Tiny, likes women with voluptuous figures. Predictably, this leads to Shay using padding to make her hips bigger and there was a chemical spill accident in chemistry on her pants which...you can predict the rest.
61	* In the ''Series/ICarly'' episode "iDo", while rattling off a list of Spencer's flaws, Sam mentions that he has a flat butt. Spencer immediately thinks she went too far.
62	-->''"C'mon it's like two fresh apples back here!"''
63	* ''Series/TheKillPoint'': Brought up when Horst Cali is replaced as the leading hostage negotiator by a female FBIAgent. The SWAT captain, a SassyBlackWoman, tells Cali in private that the Agent has a flat ass.
64	* Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E14RidingWithDeath: Tom Servo builds a new trucker body for himself, but Mike doesn't approve of the bow-legged, assless redneck look.
65	-->'''Tom:''' Ah, you're just jealous, Nelson! I have a ''fine'' butt! You ''wish'' you had my butt! ''I'' like my butt! ''[swivels head around]'' Yeah, I like you, butt.
66	* In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Elliot having a "flat butt" is something of a RunningGag throughout the series. Zig-zagged, however, in that numerous characters (including J.D.) are noted to be quite fond of her backside in spite of this.
67	* ''Series/ShesGottaHaveIt'': Shemekka, one of Nola's friends, is an exotic dancer who's insecure about her flat butt. She starts getting illegal silicone injections in her butt over a couple episodes to make it bigger. Naturally, at her debut at a club, everything goes wrong when she slips and falls on the stage right on her butt -- and her butt ''bursts, drenching the audience in silicone.'' This later turns toward drama as the injections have caused her to get an infection in her bloodstream, and she gets hospitalized. She recovers, and helps in a sting to bring down the suppliers with the police after finally accepting her body.
68	* One episode of Creator/{{MTV}}'s ''Series/TrueLife'' is focused on this, titled "I Hate My Butt."
69	[[/folder]]
70
71	[[folder:Music]]
72	* ''Music/YourFavoriteMartian'' has a song that is presented as a jingle for an ass implant store, promising patrons that they'll "Have double-D's in the front ''and'' the back!"
73	[[/folder]]
74
75	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
76	* Texas Cocktail Waitress turned CTPW Women's Champion Venus considers herself the ideal of Latin beauty, boasting to be strong but soft in all the right places...but would rather not talk about her ass, or rather the fact she has none.
77	[[/folder]]
78
79	[[folder:Theatre]]
80	* In ''Theatre/AChorusLine'', in the number "Dance 10, Looks 3", Val sings about how she repeatedly loses dance parts due to her [[ACupAngst flat chest]] and small butt. Once she got plastic surgery and increased the size of her assets, she started getting plenty of parts.
81	-->"Tits and ass have changed my liiiiiiiiife!"
82	[[/folder]]
83
84	[[folder:Video Games]]
85	* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', Serendipity is self-conscious about her looks, especially when her robotic assistant Gigi is constantly insulting her [[ACupAngst small breasts]] and ''especially'' her rear. She angrily tells him to stop talking about her... body parts before remembering that she's in the middle of evaluating your work.
86	[[/folder]]
87
88	[[folder:Web Original]]
89	* In the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'' roleplay universe, this is most likely invoked by [[PresidentEvil Schlatt]], who effectively demoted Quackity (also his partner and NobleTopEnforcer) to a VicePresidentWho and [[MrFanservice eye candy]] by the time their coalition won the L'Manburg elections, saying he just had to "[[HotConsort sit there and have a fat ass]]". Then, in an act of DomesticAbuse, Schlatt proceeded to mock him for allegedly having a "flatty patty", among many, ''many'' other things. It's ultimately PlayedForDrama, as those two words end up becoming one of Quackity's {{Trauma Button}}s and his relationship trauma becomes a major plot point in the seasons afterward.
90	* As put by Website/{{YouTube}}r Ruthbell:
91	-->My booty don't jiggle jiggle\
92	It's flat\
93	You wanna see it wiggle wiggle\
94	Too bad\
95	I mean, I may be flat in the front AND in the back\
96	But my personality is THICC\
97	And my heart is even thicker\
98	[[/folder]]
99
100	[[folder:Western Animation]]
101	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': One episode has Steve distressed over having a flat ass, desperately looking for a way to make it bigger by eating donuts. In the end however, Steve decides he doesn't need to have a large ass to be attractive and abandons his plans and leaves the donut shop (although he left half a dozen people in there to die in a fire while making a call to 911 before getting distracted by his epiphany).
102	* One segment of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' has Beavis trying to learn how to "shake his meat" from an online video. Butt-Head comments "You have no ass. You look like somebody shoved a pair of legs into a back".
103	* Death in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' remarks on how he has no ass (because [[DemBones he has no flesh]]) when Peter takes him shopping for new clothes.
104	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Parasites Regained," Leela, Bender, and Zoidberg grab onto Fry's pants while hanging off a cliff, only for his pants to fall down. Leela chastises him for not wearing a belt, while Bender calls out that he doesn't even have a substantial butt.
105	-->'''Fry''': Sorry, guys. I'm a flatty.
106	* In a ''Sniz and Fondue'' segment on ''WesternAnimation/{{Kablam}}'', Sniz complains that as a result of his "gluteus minimus", he can't find any jeans that fit him, which prompts Fondue to start a new career as a fashion designer, beginning with him designing a pair of jeans that fit Sniz.
107	* Famously, Hank Hill from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''. There's been jokes thrown his way all through the series about his lack of ass, and at least one entire episode about it where he's diagnosed with "diminished gluteal syndrome" (which seems inspired by an actual condition). Outside the show, his small butt has been the subject of MemeticMutation for years.
108	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': According to Wendy's rant in "[[Recap/SouthParkS17E10TheHobbit The Hobbit]]" about all the girls' flaws and imperfections, Heidi Turner [[InformedFlaw apparently]] has a flat butt.
109	[[/folder]]

Context Main / BabyDontGotBack