I Ate What / Western Animation

Inedible "edibles" in western animation TV.

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• In the pilot episode to 6teen, Jonesy and Jude make fun of Julie for working at Wonder Taco and to get back at them, she sprinkles dirt from a dust pan onto their tacos and then spits on them. While eating them, Jonesy states that "It would suck to work there, but they make a good taco." Near the end of the episode, the others point out that the employees do spit in the tacos and Jonesy runs off to go throw up while Jude just looks at his taco for a second and then finishes eating it.
• In the Adventure Time episode "The Duke", Jake eagerly partakes of the bowl of mixed nuts offered by the Duke's wife. A minute later he remembers that she's a nut-person and worries that the nuts he was eating were her eggs or something.
• The Amazing World of Gumball: In one episode, Darwin is shown drinking from a water fountain that later turns out to be his shapeshifting clay-ball classmate Clayton. Upon realizing this, Darwin subsequently freezes in a mix of horror and disgust as he wonders just what he was actually drinking.
• American Dad!: Stan drinks a toxic fluid that would liquify his internal organs 24 hours after consumption. It turns out that it was inert.
  • The potato salad made with alien breast milk.
  • Roger once served Francine a drink whose exotic flavors he gushed at length over; when she asked for more, however, we see that the machine he serves from has a hose leading to a toilet. Soon after, he mentions once tricking Stan into "drinking pee disguised as vintage"; Francine scoffs "what an idiot" and downs her glass while Roger looks on in calm amusement.
• Amphibia:
  • At the end of "Contagi-Anne", the Plantars discover that their bodies have turned red not because of a terminal illness, but from consuming a certain kind of mushroom, and Anne realizes that she used that very mushroom as an ingredient in their soup.
    Hop-Pop: That mushroom ain't for eatin', Anne. I use it to scrub the pots, and wash the bathroom floors, and... clean Bessie's stable. (scare chord)
  • Season 3 shows that even after coming back to Earth, Anne has acquired a taste for Amphibia's bug cuisine. In "If You Give a Frog a Cookie", Mrs. Boonchuy finds out the hard way that the cookies Anne just baked have cicadas in them.
• Bonkers: Lucky Piquel accidentally drinks a glass of turpentine in "Stressed to Kill".
• Brickleberry: When Malloy moves out of Woody's house after getting sick of his rules, he briefly has a job at a burger place, only to quickly get fired due to his rudeness against the customers. As he leaves, he tells the people eating in the restaurant that he jerked off in the special burger sauce. The customers pause... then do a Shrug Take and keep eating.
• Captain Planet:
  • Combined with Cool, Clear Water in one episode: Kwame drinks a bottle full of river water, unaware Wheeler didn't boil the water thoroughly. As it turns out, the water is polluted (Dr. Blight and Sly Sludge were operating a sewage dumping operation upstream), and the other Planeteers have to go on a "Fantastic Voyage" Plot to blast the parasites from inside his body. The episode had an And Knowing Is Half the Battle at the end teaching viewers how to purify water.
  • In another episode, Wheeler gets sick when he unwittingly eats squid in its own ink. At the end of the episode, Wheeler eats grubs, thinking it's pasta. The other planeteers decide not to tell him.
• Close Enough: In "The Canine Guy", Josh complains about how his grog tastes like horse piss. Unbeknownst to him, said grog really is horse piss, and the employee who collects it switches to Plan B: selling the horse's turds as brownies.
• Codename: Kids Next Door:
  • "Operation: P.I.N.K.E.Y.E.", where Numbuh 2 was eating Nurse Claiborne's apple crumble as he was investigating the mystery epidemic of pinkeye going around the school. Once it got out that it was Claiborne herself who was the one infecting the students with pinkeye, it also became apparent that she was using eye crust for her apple crumble, making Numbuh 2 gag at the very fact that he was eating them. However, at the very end, he went back to eating them. Although, Numbuh 2 seemed to have second thoughts after finding out that the filling of the crumble was mucus.
  • Claiborne's second appearance in "Operation: H.O.M.E." had her go into the cereal business by making the sweet bits from Rainbow Monkey dolls. Including one of Numbuh 3's most prized doll. Kuki was not amused.
  • The episode "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-T.H.R.E.E." ended with the KND letting the Delightful Children from Down the Lane eat the birthday cake they were trying to steal, not telling them that it was crapped on by baby chicks.
  • In "Operation: S.C.I.E.N.C.E.", Numbuh Two grosses out everyone else with the invention of a substance resembling snot called "I Can't Believe It's Not Boogers", particularly when he starts touting the substance's edibility. He finally gets the others to try some by assuring them that it's not really made of boogers. They find it delicious, but are aghast when Numbuh Two tells them that it's actually made of earwax.
• In one episode of "Courage the Cowardly Dog", Eustace is eating out of a pot on the stove before Muriel comes back to the kitchen and tells him she'll start making dinner once she finished cooking her prize winning dog food. Cue Eustace doing a Spit Take and feverishly scrubbing his tongue.
• In Dan Vs. "The Animal Shelter", Chris comes over to Dan's place and immediately starts eating Dan's freshly made meatloaf. Dan then explains his plan to destroy the shelter which involves poisoned meatloaf. Chris keeps eating the meatloaf for a few seconds before he puts two and two together.
• Dexter's Laboratory: In "Maternal Combat", Dee Dee makes Dexter a mud pie, with real mud. Dexter thinks it tastes good, but when he is told it is mud and he sees it has worms in it, he freaks out and spits it out.
• In Earthworm Jim, Peter Puppy experiences this trope when he learns the ingredients to haggis.
  "Heart... lungs... and liver?"
  • Also a Running Gag, as several different episodes have Peter scarfing down haggis (he finds it delicious) until he's reminded what it's made of. One episode even lampshades it when Peter discovers he's eating haggis and says "Don't tell me: you take the heart, lungs, and liver of a sheep and boil it in its own stomach".
• The Fairly OddParents! episode "Truth or Cosmoquences" revolves around Cosmo and Wanda attending a high school reunion in Fairy World, bringing Timmy with them. In the B-plot, Timmy has a Potty Emergency, and discovers that the bathroom doors are just painted on since fairies can teleport. Having failed to wish himself into the bathroom, the episode ends with Cosmo and Wanda drinking a yellow liquid from a pitcher, and Timmy saying "Speaking of relief, don't drink the punch!"
• Family Guy:
  • An exchange regarding the pronunciation of "whip" while Stewie is eating some pie that Meg gave Brian:
    Brian: Say "whip."
    Stewie: Whip.
    Brian: Now say "Cool Whip".
    Stewie: Cool Hwhip.
    Brian: Cool Whip!
    Stewie: Cool Hwhip.
    Brian: Cool Whip!
    Stewie: Cool Hwhip.
    Brian: You're eating hair!
  • Subverted when Tom Tucker asks Neil Goldman if he added something to his coffee. Neil says he put Sweet 'N Low in and Tom tells him to put urine in it like he asked.
  • When Peter tells the family that some of the jars in the refrigerator are horse sperm, Stewie stops eating his cereal for a minute before continuing.
  • In "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas":
    Cleveland: Sounds like somebody's got a humbug up his butt.
    Quagmire: Maybe we should set him up with another lemon snow cone, eh?
    Peter: No, thanks. The last one you gave me didn't taste like lemon. It tasted like... [Beat] Oh, you guys are asses.
  • The end of the episode "Friends of Peter G." has two seagulls in a landfill drunk from drinking the beer Peter throws out, with one saying that an awesome kind of food is the stuff found in buckets labelled KFC. The other informs him that he's actually eating another bird, to which the first seagull has a Freak Out.
• On Fancy Nancy, this is Dad and JoJo's reaction in "Nancy's Ooh La La Spa" when Nancy tell them that they've been eating the spa products she made for Mom and left in the fridge, even though it's all perfectly edible and tasty stuff. (Specifically, avocado paste and cucumber slices.)
• Fangbone! has an episode where Fangbone and Bill eat fudge made out of pixels.
• One memorable episode of The Flintstones starts with Barney at Fred's house asking Wilma where Fred is (he's working late) and Wilma lets Barney take the last bottle of Cactus Cola before he leaves, not knowing that Fred was saving it. When Fred does get home, exhausted, hot, and thirsty, and finds that Barney took it, he blows a fuse, goes to Barney's house, where Barney is now washing his car, chews his friend out, and sees what he thinks is the Cactus Cola on the hood of the car, and grabs and drinks it. Only when Barney is able to get a word in edgewise does Fred realize he just drank Barney's car polish. (Then it just gets worse. Fred Freaks Out, knocks himself out by throwing the bottle in the air and hitting his head with it, and when he wakes up, his personality has changed, and things just get sillier.)
• A few Freaky Stories involve this, like:
  • A gourmet escaped from prison, starved for food with a bad cold finds a building without power and eats the contents of its fridge in the dark, wakes up to find it was laboratory and the fridge was full of human organs.
  • A glutton in a dormitory steals someone else's food overnight, not realizing it was in fact full of animal skulls full of mealworms.
  • A boy trapped hiding under a girl's bed all night becomes parched and grabs and drains the glass of water on her bedside table as soon as she leaves the room. He then discovers he drank a glass of saline solution and her contact lenses.
  • A stock boy named Mike helps an old lady carry her groceries to her home. While she goes to get some money for his trouble, she lets him help himself to whatever is in the kitchen. After finding less than appetizing meats from various animals, he settles for a jar of mixed nuts as it seems the least unnatural. He apologizes to the old lady for eating all of them. She's not upset, revealing that, due to the poor condition of her teeth, she only sucks the chocolate off them. Mike breaks into tears.
  • A family accidentally uses the ashes of their dead relative as a seasoning due to the letter it came with being eaten by a goat.
• Futurama: This is a fairly common source of humor on the show.
  • "The Problem With Popplers":
    • It turns out that those delicious popplers just happen to be the baby forms of Omicronians. The episode ends with the Planet Express Crew agreeing that eating intelligent species is wrong and with them eating a smorgasbord buffet of unintelligent animals, including a suckling pig and a dolphin who wasted all his money on instant lottery tickets.
    • When they start selling popplers, Bender gets rid of a rival by acting in front of the rival's customers as someone delivering rat droppings ordered by the rival. The rival protested Bender didn't look like the guy who delivers his rat droppings.
  • "A Leela of Her Own":
    • Made even more explicit and Squick-worthy in the episode with the Cygnoids' pizza parlor.
      Mama Cygnoid: It's "Leela's Bean Pizza". It has six kinds of beans, plus several things that look like beans.
      Joseph "Fishy Joe" Gellman: I don't care if there's horse manure in it.
      Papa Cygnoid: That's a-good.
    • Also mentioned in that episode is that rats are crushed to make the wine. Fry, who's drinking wine, immediately does a Spit Take in Bender's face, who then spits back in his face.
  • And then there's "Fry and the Slurm Factory", an Affectionate Parody of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The Planet Express gang finds out that the titular soda drink really comes out of a mother slurm worm's behind. Leela calls her out on this, but the Slurm queen claims that honey and milk come from the butts of bees and cows respectively.^note Strictly speaking, she's wrong on the count of honey — it comes out the bees' other end.
    Slurm Queen: And have you ever tried toothpaste?
    Fry: Whose behind does that come from?
    Slurm Queen: You don't want to know.
  • In "Mars University", Leela offhandedly mentions that Gunther's father had been playing in the punch bowl... while Fry has a cup full of punch.
  • In "My Three Suns", Fry becomes Emperor of a planet of liquid-based aliens after accidentally drinking the previous Emperor.
  • In "T.: The Terrestrial", Fry is shown eating some candy-like stuff, which despite being initially disgusted with the revelation, he still continues eating. It's actually Jrrr's poop. Fry may or may not have gotten sick from eating it.
    Fry: Feces pieces?
  • In "Murder on the Planet Express", Bender puts Fry's stolen kidney into Hermes's lunch box, which leads to Leela unknowingly eating it.
  • In "Overclockwise", when Cubert overclocks Bender's CPU:
    Bender: There's 3018 jelly beans in that jar!
    Cubert: Damn, I'm good. [eats handful of jelly beans]
    Bender: I mean 3018 rat kidneys!
    Cubert: [spits out kidneys]
  • In "The Lesser of Two Evils", Fry, Bender, and Leela are watching a crime reality show. Leela asks if that's the episode that he's in.
    Bender: Nah, this week I'm on Caught On Tape 3 because of what I did in the coffee pot.
    [Fry spits out his coffee]
• In The Great North, Season 2 "Tasteful Noods Adventure", Ham discovers that Momma Marita and Poppa Paul rinse and re-use uneaten noodles, even the ones from dishes collected in the bus tub, and serve it to the customers in their restaurant. Momma even keeps her salad starter inside a bag that originally held mice meant to feed a snake and flies are seen flying out of it when Ham opens the bag. Even with the truth revealed, their restaurant is still open and Wolf still wants to eat there.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy:
  • In one episode Grim sells cookies made of some exotic ingredients. At the end, it is revealed that the secret ingredients are dung beetles, nightcrawlers, and crickets. When the secret gets out, people pause for a second, stare at the cookies, and then go back to eating them, as they are apparently really good cookies.
  • Another episode had Grim and Mandy giving Billy a bag of special "steak sauce" which Grim got "fresh from the front yard". Billy has used it as a "shampoo" as well. Said stuff (as Billy eventually finds out at the end of the episode) is made from dog doo-doo.
    Billy: Wait...this isn't shampoo! IT'S DOG— [cuts to the Cartoon Network Studios logo]
• In Happy Ness: The Secret of the Loch, the evil Nessies end up coming down with extreme pain of the stomach after slurping up seaweed jelly.
• In one episode of Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats, Riff-Raff is able to open a restaurant that's very popular with the neighborhood cats after Mungo starts cooking a "secret family recipe" that everyone loves. The thing is, not even Mungo knows what's in it. (He can't read, and identifies the cans by the pictures.) Only when Wordsworth gets a good look at them does everyone realize what it is - dog food. (It isn't a total loss; Leroy still loves it, seeing as, well, he's a dog.)
• In the Johnny Bravo episode "As I Lay Hiccuping", Johnny gets the hiccups and goes between curing them and getting them again. At one point, he eats something neighborhood geek Carl bought. Carl says that he didn't know that Johnny was a fan of slug kibble. Johnny spits it out upon hearing that and shivers.
  Carl: Gee Johnny, I never knew you were such a fan of slug kibble!
  Johnny: (with mouth full) "Slug... kibble?" (spits out slug kibble, shivers)
• In an episode of Kaeloo, Olaf is asked to judge a cooking competition between the rest of the cast. He tastes Pretty's dish and he seems to find it perfectly fine... until he finds out that it was made from worms (by seeing a live worm crawl out of his mouth), at which point Pretty is disqualified.
• Kamp Koral: In "The Taste of Defeat", Narlene cooks food for the campers entirely with her feet, including sticking her foot into soup and licking it off. When the campers find out, they abandon her restaurant entirely.
  Boy camper: This corn is made from corns! And the onions are bunions!
• Kim Possible; "The Full Monkey" had Ron and Rufus finding a bag of chips that belonged to the current client and began eagerly eating them... at least, until the client tells them the chips were made from crickets.
  Kim: Ron, maybe you should look before you eat.
  Ron: Crunchy and spicy has never betrayed me like this before...
• The Legend of Korra: After Equalists take over Republic City and Team Avatar is taken in by friendly street bums Asami finds out the gruel that she was apprehensive about eating was actually culled from the "finest dumpsters", so she has a sick-color face for a second, spits out the one mouthful she hadn't swallowed yet, and puts it aside. Pabu then laps it up. On the other hand, Bolin, as a former Street Urchin, declares it the finest street gruel he's ever had.
• The Looney Tunes Show: Porky loves eating pepperoni, until he finds out it was primarily a pork product. That didn't stop him from eating more pepperoni to curve his depression though.
• The Loud House:
  • In "Undie Pressure", Bobby gives Lori a smoothie... the exact same one from their first date 6 weeks prior, causing her to rush for the bathroom.
  • In "Pets Peeved", the Loud pets try to remove the new dog from the equation by eating the dinner Lynn Sr. made and blaming the new dog for it. However, Lynn Sr. admits that said dinner (liverwurst, shrimp, and hot mayo casserole) usually sends the rest of the family packing to the bathroom, so the pets quickly hurl in disgust.
  • In "Tripped!", the family enjoys egg sandwiches... that were made by Leni weeks prior. They quickly take a pit stop to hurl.
• Middlemost Post: Green, spoiled ice cream, specifically. Happens in the short "Unboxing". Parker decides to eat the ice cream despite knowing it to be spoiled, and for some reason actually enjoys it. Seeing his reaction, Angus and Russell reason it must not be that bad and try it as well. They don't enjoy it.
• Moral Orel once sold his urine as an energy drink for the school sports teams.
• An episode of ¡Mucha Lucha! began with The Flea eating things he is not supposed to, and Buena Girl telling him that those things will harm his digestive system. Cut to a sickening, freaky, and disturbing X-ray shot of The Flea eating, with his skeleton and organs visible.
• In the Muppet Babies (1984) episode "Good, Clean Fun", when the kids were trying to make a meal for Nanny, Piggy declares herself the taste tester and takes a bite of the sandwich Rolf was making, calling it yummy. Rolf comments that he didn't know she liked dog food sandwiches.
  Piggy: [standing over the sink] Oh, yuck, I'm poisoned!
• In "Pooh's Honey of a Problem" from My Friends Tigger & Pooh, Rabbit decides to deliver some of his sour squash soup to Pooh. However, since he's out of the pots that he was using to deliver it to everyone else, he puts in a honey pot and leaves it outside Pooh's front door. Pooh eats it, not knowing that it's not honey. He becomes convinced that he no longer likes honey and even goes into a full-on identity crisis that if he doesn't like honey anymore, he must longer be a Pooh Bear. Fortunately, the Super Sleuths are on the case and eventually suss out the truth.
• This started the plot of an episode of My Gym Partner's a Monkey; Jake begins eating what he thinks is popcorn off the ceiling of the school. Adam assumes that it's asbestos, but it turns out to actually be guano from the bat students. After receiving a pamphlet, Jake thinks that he's sick until it turns out it was for people who ate asbestos and he was perfectly fine.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In part 1 of the series opener, Twilight Sparkle pours herself (and drinks from) a glass of what turns out to be hot sauce.
  • "Applebuck Season" has an exhausted and sleep-deprived Applejack mishearing Pinkie Pie's muffin recipe instructions and making muffins with potato chips, soda, lemon juice and "wheat worms" ("That must be fancy talk for earthworms!"). Cut to the local health clinic, which is overloaded with victims of food poisoning.
    Nurse: There was a mishap with some of the baked goods.
    Pinkie Pie: No, not baked goods... baked bads! [barf]
  • "Party of One" has Rarity sip some delicious punch... then she notices Gummy swimming around in the punch bowl. Cue Spit Take.
  • Averted in "Inspiration Manifestation". Spike gets rid of the evil tome by swallowing it, and it doesn't do a thing to him (he's a dragon, after all, and not only can he digest gemstones but he actually enjoyed the above-mentioned baked bads). It doesn't cure Rarity either, though.
• This is Irwin's reaction when he is told the "snowflakes" he is catching on his tongue are actually dandruff in Nerds and Monsters.
• An episode of The Proud Family involves Suga Mama's lemon squares becoming massively popular to the point of ending up on Oprah. This is the part where the whole world discovers that when she says she "puts her foot in it," she means it literally. As in sticks her foot in the batter. The audience promptly starts hacking.
• Ready Jet Go!: Mindy, Sean, and Sydney have this sort of reaction in "Satellite Selfie", where they discover that the cookies that they ate were made from a full cup of minced garlic and rutabaga.
• Recess: In "Nobody Doesn't like T.J", T.J tries to get Gordie to like him by offering him a brownie. Gordie enjoys it until he discovers that it has nuts in it, which Gordie is allergic to, and he quickly spits it out and accuses T.J of trying to poison him.
• In The Ren & Stimpy Show episode, "A Yard Too Far", Ren distracts a baboon with the puppet of a pretty female baboon. The baboon presents to "her" what appears to be a box of chocolates, which Ren eagerly accepts... only to realize too late that it's actually a box of larva.
• The episode "Onwards and Upwards" of Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" dealt with Ren and Stimpy living in a spittoon and savoring many of the...er, foods it had to offer.
• In the Road Rovers episode "Storm from the Pacific", Shag cooks dog food for the other Road Rovers and they find it delicious. After Shag informs Hunter of the secret to his culinary skill, Hunter then tells the others that Shag's secret is that he cooks the food with toilet water. Needless to say, the rest of the Road Rovers are rather disgusted by this revelation.
• In the G-Force sketch on Robot Chicken, the team tells Tiny they think he needs to diet. Tiny says he just wants to eat his pizza but takes their advice after they point out he's eating the cardboard circle the pizza is microwaved on.
• In the Rocket Power episode "Welcome to the Club," Twister and Sam are trying some new delicacies at the Ocean Shores Beach Club. Sam tries some tripe, and says it "Tastes Like Chicken and salty marshmallows." He and Twister initially enjoy it, but are then grossed out to learn from another club member it comes from sheep stomach, to which they immediately feel like puking.
• Regular Show: In the episode "Survival Skills", Mordecai and Rigby had nothing else to eat but tree bark since they were lost in the woods. As they eat, the duo starts to hallucinate when the latter now remembers where he crazy got the idea of eating bark.
• Rolling with the Ronks!: In "Body Swap", Flash in Mormagnon's body is disgusted when Mila tells him the medicine she gave him is snail juice.
• Rugrats:
  • In "Runaway Angelica", Angelica runs away from home and hides in Tommy's backyard. She then orders the babies to get her some cookies and when they come back with them, Angelica wolfs them down and says that they are pretty good. That is until she finds out that they are not cookies, they're dog biscuits. Lil responds that they eat those biscuits all the time, but then are forced to give Angelica some real cookies.
  • There's also the gag that happens in a couple of different episodes (in each case It Makes Sense in Context).
    "This coffee tastes like mud!" [looks inside mug] "It IS mud."
  • In "Grandpa's Bad Bug" Lou ingests old rotten picnic food the babies tried to use to lure the "bad bug" out of him.
• The Sanjay and Craig episode "And Justice or Durdle" had Noodman trying one of Farmer Larry's "Blueberry Smoobbies", only to find out that it was made from blueberries that were picked, licked and vomited by his dogs, leading him to try and sue Larry.
• Scooby-Doo:
  • Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
    • In "A Clue For Scooby Doo", Scooby enjoys a delicious sample of a soup cooking over Widow Cutler's stove on a fire, only to be informed that what he just enjoyed was her washwater for her laundry. Scooby gags.
    • In "Go Away Ghost Ship", Shaggy and Scooby are making "ghost pirate stew" for the ghost of Redbeard, with soot, cobwebs, chains, and a bar of soap (Shaggy: "Hardly use it myself, but for a ghost...why not?") as ingredients. Redbeard forces them to eat it.
  • The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode "Scooby Doo Meets The Addams Family" has Scooby presumably following the trail of missing Addams daughter Wednesday, only his trail leads to Grandmama's soup kettle, the contents of which Scooby quickly devours. Grandmama arrives and informs Scooby that he just drank the iguana's bath water.
  Scooby: (Turning green) Bath water?! (Races out of the room, leaving a hole in the wall)
• The Secret Saturdays:
  • In "The Vengeance of Hibagon", Drew attempts to snap Doc out of his distraction by feeding him a Fiskerton hair sandwich. Doc doesn't notice until the end of the episode, throughout which he keeps coughing it up.
  • In "The Return of Tsul 'Kalu", Doyle starts eating a cryptid traffickers' dumplings and finds them to be quite delicious, only to spit them out in horror when Abbey informs him the meat is panda.
• The Secret Show:
  • "Alien Attack": Anita appears to have caused an international incident by eating an alien ambassador while disguised as The World Leader. However, when the rest of the species shows up, the rest of humanity eats them as well (that is, everyone except vegetarians, as the aliens smell like any given individual's favorite type of meat/fish). Those who do eat them, however, turn into deformed splotchy versions of themselves, until a second wave of (dessert-scented/flavored) aliens shows up. It turns out that humanity is actually part of an alien reproductive cycle; once the two aliens are eaten, the victim burps up a new baby alien, restoring themselves to normal.
  • "Return of the Killer Tootbrush": Victor and Anita find a weird white paste-like substance while investigating inside an abandoned space station. While Anita analyzes it with a handheld device, Victor looks at it, smells it, and tastes it while saying it's peppermint toothpaste. He chokes as if he's swallowed a deadly poison after the results from Anita's device come back and she starts reading off a list of dangerous-sounding ingredients. Victor turns out to be right, though; it is peppermint toothpaste.
• The Simpsons:
  • Double subversion in one episode where Homer and Bart visit a Native American village, where the chief gives them a cup of something. As they drink, he says "The bear urine will make you strong", making Homer and Bart pause. The chief then admits it's actually Fresca, and then Homer spits it out.
    Homer: [Spit Take] Fresca?
  • Another subversion occurrs in "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", when Homer is visiting the World Trade Center and came across an Ambiguously Brown street vendor.
    Homer: What do you have to drink?
    Vendor: Mountain Dew or crab juice.
    Homer: Blech! Ew! Geez...! I'll take a crab juice.
  • In "Brother from the Same Planet", Bart and his Bigger Brother watch an episode of The Ren & Stimpy Show where Ren compliments Stimpy on his meatball soup. It's actually Stimpy's collection of furballs and stomach acid. While the episode in question was fictional, this trope would not have been out of place on the real Ren and Stimpy.
  • In "Treehouse of Horror IX", Chief Wiggum appears on the news to report Apu's murder, while drinking a Squishee:
    Wiggum: We have no leads. (Sips the beverage) But I can safely say Apu did not suffer.
    Lou: Seems to me he suffered a lot chief.
    [Points to the Squishee machine, which the victim's body has been stuffed into]
    Wiggum: Ah, geez, Lou. How long were you gonna let me keep drinking this thing? [sips Squishee again anyway]
  • Parodied in "Flaming Moe's", where a man from an alcohol company wants to buy the titular drink from Moe (which he in turn stole from Homer). Moe claims the drink isn't for sale, asking the man if he knew how much of his blood and sweat went into it. Everyone in the bar instantly does a Spit Take and Moe has to assure them it was just a figure of speech.
  • "Treehouse of Horror IV": In Bart Simpsons's Dracula, the family is invited to Burns manor in Pennsylvania and is soon treated to dinner.
    Homer: Oooh, punch.
    Lisa: [Sniffs it] Ewww — dad, this is blood!
    Homer: Correction, free blood. [Drinks some of it]
  • Subverted when Homer becomes a missionary in the South Pacific in order to evade PBS. He's seen drinking from what appears to be a coconut and the tribal chief poses him this question:
    Qtoktok: So, are you enjoying your ox testicle?
    Homer: Yes.
    Qtokotk: Are you sure you wouldn't rather have a coconut? They're delicious.
    Homer: Nah, I'm good.
  • After Homer gets a monkey in "Girly Edition":
    Marge: Oh, why didn't you tell me you were bringing home a filthy monkey?
    Homer: This filthy monkey made the orange juice you're drinking.
    Marge: [Spits out orange juice]
  • "All's Fair in Oven War":
    • When Ralph Wiggum finds out that his recipe (a crayon sandwich) was rejected, he points out that Clancy only had a pretend bite. He decides to actually eat it this time, and Ralph mentions the thumb tacks too late.
      Clancy: Oh, crap...
    • To get back at the other contestants for sabotaging her meals, Marge spikes their meals with Maggie's ear medicine. This renders them repulsive enough to make the judges violently ill.
• In The Smurfs episode "Hogatha's Heart Throb", Gargamel disguised as Hogatha's dream date is offered a refreshment that he enjoys until the witch reveals that he was drinking "snail mead".
• South Park: Happens lots of times:
  • "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" has the titular Talking Poo take a bath in Mr. Mackey's coffee while he is talking to Kyle, until Mackey looks down to see what he thinks is an ordinary turd floating in the cup.
    • The baby (technically, since it doesn't say anything) in the Mr. Hankey Fake Commercial.
  • In "Chef Goes Nanners", Kenny eats a bowl of antacids thinking it was mints, then drinks water and explodes.
  • Scott Tenorman's parents in "Scott Tenorman Must Die" are the most infamous example. Cartman tricks them into getting themselves killed, makes chili out of their bodies, and tricks Scott Tenorman into eating it.
    • Notably Scott had expected this reaction from Cartman after revealing to him that his Chili was pube laced, but Cartman anticipated it and switched his chili bowl with Chef’s before revealing what he ate.
  • In "A Ladder To Heaven", Cartman mistakes Kenny's ashes for chocolate milk mix.
  • In the episode "Ass Burgers", Cartman sells hamburgers— which wouldn't be so bad if the secret as to why they were so delicious wasn't letting them marinate in his pants. The many customers are disgusted, with Kyle exclaiming, "You were sticking these in your ASS, Cartman!?!"
  • Butters' "creamy goo" in "Sarcastaball".
    Randy Marsh: This is cum.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • An episode has Mr. Krabs (upon hearing there is a fake health inspector going to restaurants to get free food) do squicky things to a Krabby Patty, including dropping into a toilet. Then he finds out the imposter was caught, and the man he gave the "Nasty Patty" to, was a real one. This is actually averted in that the Health Inspector was choked by a fly. What?
  • "My Pretty Seahorse" references this trope after SpongeBob brings Mystery into the Krusty Krab kitchen. Mr. Krabs tells him that the kitchen is no place for a live horse. Cue customers overhearing this and spitting out their food.
  • Similarly, in "Suds," Mr. Krabs sends SpongeBob home due to his sickness, explaining that while there's nothing personal he can't have SpongeBob sneezing all over his food. This leads the customers to go into a panic and eventually rush out of the restaurant.
  • In "Company Picnic", Squidward is horrified to discover the candy pen he is eating is actually a centipede.
  • In "Ink Lemonade", the Bikini Bottomites love drinking "black lemonade" until they learn that it is actually ink, which came from Squidward's nose. Later, Squidward eats some cookies that SpongeBob and Patrick made with spider eggs.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
  • In "Star vs. Echo Creek", when Star is eating some of Brigid's pancakes, Brigid says she likes to make things out of discarded hair... including pancakes. She then says she was just kidding.
  • In "Wand to Wand", Ludo staggers into a Bad Guy Bar and asks for porridge. The bartender serves him a bowl of mud instead. Ludo is so hungry that he doesn't realize what he is eating until the bartender and patrons all start laughing at him. Towards the end of the episode, he subverts this by going in and making the same order but confidently chowing down on the mud, terrifying the entire bar enough that he is able to get actual porridge from the bartender.
• In an episode of Teen Titans (2003), Cyborg becomes infected with a computer virus, which affects his brain and causes him to view everything as food, which in turn, causes him to rampage through the city eating everything in sight (mostly things that aren't food). It isn't pleasant for him when he finally recovers:
  Cyborg: Ooh! My stomach! Feels like I ate a tire!
  Raven: That's a distinct possibility.
• Toonsylvania had the trope occur in the Night of the Living Fred segment "Bang!" when the Deadmans invited their new neighbors the Baffs over for a dinner party with a Hawaiian theme. The Baffs are disgusted when told that the dish they're being served is made of maggots.
  Mrs. Baff: Now, Mr. Deadman, what is this Hawaiian dish? Is it some kind of macaroni?
  Dedgar Deadman: Close, it's maggot-roni.
  Mr. Baff: You mean rigatoni.
  Stiffany Deadman: Oh, no. Maggot-roni, with fresh Maui maggots. (The Baff kids make disgusted faces and Mrs. Baff spits her food into Mr. Baff's face)
• In "My Family" from Timothy Goes to School, Nora is feeling down on her little brother Jack because he's always crying and doing stuff like scribbling on her homework. In the morning, before going to school, she's excited to take a special butterscotch pudding she made with her mother to school. Her mother tells her that it's in the refrigerator in the "green container." She grabs it and puts it in her lunch bag. At lunch, however, when she goes to taste it, she find it doesn't taste at all like pudding and it smells bad too. Fritz looks at it and points out it doesn't really look like pudding either, and Nora realizes that it's Jack's baby food, which was also in a green container. She mutters to herself that she wishes she didn't have a little brother.
• Voltron: Legendary Defender:
  • In "Tears of the Balmera", the Balmerans serve Coran and Hunk a stew that turns out to be made with roots and bugs.
    Coran: Thank you for... the bugs...
  • Despite developing a love for milkshakes beforehand, Allura and Coran are repulsed when Lance teaches them where milk comes from.
• The Wild Thornberrys: In one episode, Debbie's excited over the prospect of being served burgers. She's told that the burgers they're eating are not made of beef, but of a capybara, and notices one walking by. Nigel states nonchalantly that they're basically giant water rats, to which she silently puts the burger down and walks away from the table back to the Comvee.

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