Anuscape Plan

No, thank you.

Aah! There's no way out of here! Except one, but... I wouldn't recommend it without a wetsuit.

— Jack Spicer, Xiaolin Showdown

When inside a body — such as by a "Fantastic Voyage" Plot or simply being Swallowed Whole — and discussing or considering options regarding exiting it, chances are likely that the anus will be, in some shape or form, brought up as a means of doing so. After all, that's the one orifice that's designed to get solid matter out and is generally the most accessible, so naturally that would be the place to go if someone is looking for a way back outside. But there is one major problem with this escape route: it tends to be extremely humiliating and undignified, not to mention horribly disgusting to even think about. Because of this, the mere idea is usually considered undesirable; if given the option, the character(s) may very well reject such an idea and find another way out.

Alternatively, the deed happens without prior discussion, whether that character likes it or not. In a case like this, there might not be a better option or this orifice is de facto the only escape, or there isn't even a choice in the matter and the character is unceremoniously expelled against their wishes. Though one character may not think of it as a big deal, another might recoil in disgust or be traumatized by the experience, possibly even dwelling on it after and becoming evasive if asked about it.

Due to the very gross nature of this story element, it will often be an Implied Trope. This is especially the case in media geared towards the general or younger audience, as explicitly showing or talking about it tends to fall under mature content and the censors won't allow it. As a result, the escape method will be hinted at and any escape actually happening will occur offscreen. In some scenarios, it might qualify as Getting Crap Past the Radar.

Compare Orifice Evacuation, where some horrifying creature leaves its host through a natural opening. Contrast Ass Shove and Orifice Invasion, in which an anus may be used to get in. Also contrast Uvula Escape Route, when the character escapes or tries to escape using the eater's uvula.

Related to Toilet Humor.

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Examples:

Animation

• In an episode of Pucca, Garu forces his way into a lion's mouth to get away from Pucca, so the latter cracks a whip to make the beast release him. He's then shown reappearing from the other end, cutting to just after he fully gets out but making it evident exactly how he escaped.

Anime & Manga

• Late in Delicious in Dungeon, the heroes are swallowed up by a Body of Bodies made from countless bird-shaped magical familiars, which carries them off. They struggle for a way out including cloaca-wards, but it's only superficially a whole body and doesn't let them go. Then a titanic Couatl summoned by The Beastmaster flies after the 'bird' and swallows it whole, causing the 'bird' to fall apart into its constituent parts. In its gullet the party is relieved only to find that there's a slight unpleasant tingling of digestion underfoot and try to escape. Peristalsis pushes them along the Couatl's digestive tract, which fortunately only digests the familiars, and they're expelled unharmed but smelly.
• In Chapter 182 of the Doraemon manga called "Inside The Stomach" and it's 2005 anime adaptation ("Even Though It's Inside the Stomach Acid"/"Noby's Tough to Stomach"), Noby and Doraemon go inside Shizuka's stomach by shrinking themselves using the Suichu Buggy submarine and the Small Light in order to retrieve an opal that was part of Sue's mother's $5000 dollar wedding ring and was in Sue's peanuts that she was eating (in the 1979 anime reboot, it's instead a red candy which was actually a prize for a trip to Switzerland). After the duo teleport themselves to the bathtub after doing the job and go back to their normal size, they decide to make a prank on Sue, who's still believing they're inside her and is worried that they aren't responding her. They say that the submarine broke after she moved, and the only way they could escape was that path, to Sue's horror. They eventually show themselves to her while laughing, and Sue takes this as well as you can imagine.
• One Piece: In the Skypeia arc, Luffy ends up inside a snake alongside some of his friends. His first idea of escaping is to go straight for the tail, which his friends then persuade him against doing.
• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: The two angels get miniaturized, and end up being swallowed by Brief. They have some wild fun inside him, such as using his lungs as bouncy castles, and making him jerk and twitch by shooting and stabbing brain lobes. However, the miniaturization is due to wear off, so Garterbelt has to secure Brief in the lithotomy position to extract the angels through the anus. Merciless Glove Snap included.
• Super Mario Bros. Manga Mania: In Volume 14, which adapts Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Yoshi and Baby Mario are eaten by Prince Froggy. They end up coming across a Super Star which Baby Mario picks up, then beats up Froggy's uvula. This causes Froggy to defecate them both.
• Briefly discussed in Yu-Gi-Oh!, where Mokuba swallows an important key the Big Five are after, and laughs about how they crowd around to check every time he goes to the bathroom. Eventually they just ultrasound his stomach and 3D-image the key together so they can make a copy.

Comic Strips

• The Dilbert strip for Thursday 1 December 2016 has Wally and Asok observe Dilbert working on a supremely boring task. Wally points out that Dilbert has to keep his ears covered so that his brain can't escape that way. Asok observes that Dilbert is suddenly growing taller in his chair, suggesting that his brain is attempting to escape rectally.

Fairy Tales

• Older Than Steam: Tom Thumb gets swallowed by a red cow (unsurprisingly), and the cow is given a laxative and Tom passes from her in a "cow pat". He is taken home and cleaned thereafter.

Fan Works

• The Chess Game Of The Gods: Myou've Got To Be Kidding Me: The chapter 'Ah, But I Digest' features the protagonist fed to a dragon, having only seconds to cast the spells needed to save their life. They finally end up slipping out the back end, but with hooves and fur half digested in the process.

Films — Animated

• Ice Age: Collision Course: Gavin swallows Granny whole. As she believes she died and looks for the light, she "discovers" it while shown to be facing the backside (evidenced by the bulge in his body). Gavin, clearly embarrassed, quickly pulls his tail down so that she doesn't force her way out there.
• In The Missing Link, a character is swallowed by a massive shark. After swelling it up like a balloon by lighting a fire in it, he is shown crawling out of the creature using the anus.
• Space Chimps: During the course of the movie, Kilowatt allows herself to be eaten by a monster so that the main cast can get through the cave safely. Later on she turns up alive and explains how she escaped (complete with a flashback), to which everyone reacts with disgust.
• The Spongebob Squarepants Movie: 'Now That We're Men' features a brief sequence of Spongebob and Patrick walking willingly into a sea monster's mouth, through its see-through body, and out the rear.
• Wendell & Wild: Buffalo Belzar, an extremely massive character, ingests several disembodied spirits which travel all the way through his digestive tract. As a result, they end up exiting his system through the anus - and this is shown in full view, not at all obscuring the orifice they just came out of.

Films — Live-Action

• Cool World: Just after Holli Would climaxes, her goon squad topple from their wobbly perch and plummet to the ground. The camera focuses on The Big Guy Bash, screaming in fear. The camera goes into his mouth and travels through his interior, which has only a spinal column and fish ribs. Bash has no visible organs, just empty space, though there is an expy of Gepetto and Pinocchio inside him. The camera zooms toward the sphincter at the end, makes a "foomp" as it passes through, then about-faces to show Bash's bare ass, anus included, continuing his downward plunge. Thank you, Ralph Bakshi, for that informative perspective.
• Land of the Lost: When Grumpy the T-Rex and Rick finally confront each other, the battle is cut short by Grumpy simply swallowing Rick whole. Several scenes later, the two return as best pals; Rick explains that he snaked his way through the dinosaur's intestines and, in the process, dislodged an intestinal blocking. By the time he came out, Grumpy was feeling much more affectionate towards him.

Literature

• Horrible Science: In Blood, Bones, and Body Bits, the digestive system chapter has a pamphlet advertising a trip through the digestive system, ending with the tour boat being pooped into the toilet after a 1-2 day journey.
• A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein: "Quick Trip" has some kids getting eaten by the "Quick-Digesting Skink" and coming out the other end over the course of a four-line poem.

Live-Action TV

• Farscape: In "Green Eyed Monster," Crichton, Aeryn, and Crais are aboard Talyn when it is swallowed by a massive interstellar alien called a budong. While discussing an escape plan, Crichton is incredulous when the other two consider "flying out the ass." The option is quickly shot down by Stark, because Talyn wouldn't survive the trip through the rest of its digestive system.

Video Games

• Implicitly done in Abadox, where the final stage takes you through a rapid escape past areas resembling the parts of Parasitis' inner workings that you traveled through in your quest, in reverse order from how you entered, but at the end of it you get out through a winding, vaguely intestinal-looking path and a smaller orifice that decidedly doesn't look like the mouth you used to enter the beast.
• Conker's Bad Fur Day: After beating the Boiler, the Imps inside try to leave the way they entered only to fail due to the Boiler having collapsed on that exit. One of the imps points toward another door only to be informed that they don't wanna go there as that way is the "back passage".
• Ice Age: The Meltdown: The video game version of the movie has Maelstrom swallow Scrat, so the latter journeys through his belly to escape. At first it appears he escapes using the back way out, as the level directs the player mostly forward and has Scrat squeeze through a sphincter after defeating the eyeballs surrounding it, but Maelstrom spits him up instead.
• Jet Force Gemini: During his visit to the volcanic planet Eschebone to dispatch the local Drone army, Lupus reaches the whereabouts of a gigantic worm. He throws a grenade at its mouth to incapacitate it so he can go inside. The rest of the playable world has him go through the worm's anatomy and dispatch more Drones as he does so. The way back outside requires traversing the anus, but Lupus will need to gather a color-coded key to open the way. As shown in the cutscene preceding a Dual Boss fight, the worm does explicitly excrete Lupus, alongside other fluids.
• Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time: The main cast is at one point swallowed by a Yoob — a giant Yoshi mutated by the Shroobs — and the player is cast into a Womb Level. The only way to escape the Yoob's body is shown to be through the digestive tract; the Yoob latches to a cliffside prior to eating its victims, and the final cutscene shows the characters free-falling under the Yoob.
• Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island: In the castle of the third area in the game, before Yoshi and Baby Mario have a chance to fight the boss Prince Froggy, the pair are shrunk by Kamek's magic and then subsequently eaten by Prince Froggy. The boss fight has Yoshi hit Froggy's uvula with eggs causing damage to the boss. Once Yoshi has hit Prince Froggy's uvula with enough eggs, both he and Baby Mario will exit through the boss's anus. Yoshi himself noticeably has a disturbed expression at the events that had unfolded.
• In Tales of Graces, the party is swallowed by an enormous desert monster, and it's suggested by Sophie that they find the monster's butt and exit it that way. Cheria is so disgusted by the idea that she refuses to even consider it, screaming at everyone in a skit that she'd rather die than try and exit via the monster's butt.

Web Animation

• A parody of Finding Nemo titled Fondling Meno by Eder KF Card has Marlin and Dory eaten by a whale like in the original movie. Unlike the original movie, however, they're not shot out the whale's blowhole — Marlin instead winds up in the whale's poop (which is not unusual considering Eder's parodies feature feces and defecation as a Running Gag), while Dory performs an Offscreen Teleportation and complains to him that he stinks and should take a shower.

Webcomics

• In The Order of the Stick, a creature from a bag of tricks is thrown at an ogre, which promptly eats them. Later, a mysterious figure tracking down people the order have wronged interviews them, and they complain they "didn't take the scenic route, if you know what I mean" to escape.

Web Videos

• The Youtube Poop named "CD-i Colon Mario" has Bowser trick Mario and Luigi into walking into his mouth, eating them. The two immediately find themselves in the colon and look for a way out. Mario is then shown being farted out — using Larry's cave hotel cutscene and labeling the exit "Bowser's Anus" — quickly followed by Luigi, though not before he has a pile of poop dropped on his face for good measure.
• In the Oxventure episode "Clear and Present Danger", the party walk into the mouth of a sickened giant. After finding the cause of his illness, the party travel the rest of the way out through his digestive system aside from Prudence, who carves her way out with a dagger.
• Vinny from Vinesauce plays LittleBigPlanet 2 in one video, and one of the levels has him face a whale trying to eat him. While he does try the "get out the back door" tactic once he's inside the whale, it ultimately turns out to be lethal.
  Vinny: Okay, you die if you go through the asshole. Whoops.

Western Animation

• Adventure Time:
  • In the episode "Belly of the Beast", the title beast drinks lava from a volcano, and the bears (plus Finn and Jake) – who are inside its stomach – are forced to take the back way out to avoid getting killed by the lava. Jake is disgusted by the idea but complies due to the danger.
  • A symbolic PG example happens in the finale. After Golb swallows Finn and Simon, they escape his gut through a downward-facing sphincter-like passageway that exits out his lower belly. This only opens after the other characters play music for Golb, implying the music is giving him indigestion.
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: In "Journey to the Center of Carl", Jimmy and Sheen are inside Carl's stomach getting chased by germs, and Jimmy declares they're going to escape "through the nearest exit". Cut to a map of Carl's body on a computer screen... which shows the exit to be the rectum. Sheen asks if there's a plan B, and Jimmy answers they're going to make Carl sneeze them out as they go up his esophagus.
• The Amazing World of Gumball:
  • In "The List", Nicole is taken on a "trip" around the world by Gumball and Darwin via the internet maps, and they wind up in a fish's gullet in the process. They move forward, they see the light and move to it, and... instead of the expected orifice, the exit turns out to be a mouth because the fish is caught and eaten.
  • In "The Secret", when Gumball and Darwin swim up through the sewers into the toilet their father just got off of, he confusedly asks them "Did I eat you?"
• Apple & Onion: In "The Eater", the titular duo have a dream where they get attacked by a gigantic human toddler. They ultimately get eaten, but manage to make their way out through the rest of the digestive tract, which causes them to wake up from their dream.
• Bottersnikes and Gumbles features Tootgumble, a lookout of the titular Gumbles who keeps constant watch for Bottersnikes because one of them had once swallowed him whole, forcing him to endure coming out the other end. Both the show and the official website all but confirm that this traumatized him so much that he can’t speak anymore, only say “toot”.
• Camp Lazlo: In "The Big Weigh In", Lumpus and Lazlo are swallowed by a lard-a-doodle (a giant poultry-like animal) and the former is convinced they'll never escape. After a pep talk from Lazlo, Lumpus reaches for the uvula-shaped appendage and causes the bird to expel them — and a huge variety of items it'd eaten beforehand — inside of an egg.
• In one episode of Chowder, after Gazpacho tells Chowder they need to get inside Scary so that they can subdue and remove the Crazy Fruit (which Chowder added for "extra protection"), Gazpacho and Chowder along with Mung Daal get eaten by Scary by pretending to be burglars. When they do subdue the Crazy Fruit, however, Chowder asks how they're going to get out. Gazpacho's answer is to wait until nature calls; Chowder then answers an offscreen phone call. The next scene shows Scary walking out of the bathroom with the three following behind.
• Drawn Together: In one episode, Toot slurps an entire fishing tank which includes a tiny treasure diver, who at first holds on but then lets go when he loses all of the treasure because "[he has] nothing left to live for". Then he emerges from her ass later, celebrating his survival... before he gets crushed to death by Captain Hero's legs and knees.
• Duck Dodgers: Implied in "Hooray for Hollywood Planet". A producer is trying to record a movie with Duck Dodgers in it but is flabbergasted when the duck befriends a giant dragon that was supposed to make for a deadly movie scene. He foolishly yells at Duck Dodgers and is chomped on by the dragon for his troubles; while the beast isn't shown swallowing or even fully getting him into its mouth, Duck Dodgers' comment that it'll "take 12 to 14 hours to work his way through the digestive tract" heavily suggests that it's already eaten him offscreen and that he'll have no choice but to be passed later.
• The Fairly OddParents! In "Vicky Loses Her Icky", Timmy wishes that Vicky would become nice. So a bug containing all of her evilness crawls out of her and starts literally crawling up people's butts to turn them evil.
• Forky Asks a Question: In episode 8, one toy recounts their story of being Swallowed Whole by Dragon, a cat. After surviving the stomach, she spends eight days wandering the cat's intestines before finally finding the exit. After telling this, she seems to acknowledge it was fun, and she and Forky deliberately seek out Dragon to do it all again. After the credits, they're both seen buried in a sandbox, implied to have gone through at the same time.^note This happened in the movie too, but Dragon's prey was coughed up naturally, probably because it was faster on the plot.
• Futurama: In "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" while trying to rescue Fry and Leela from a zoo the rest of the crew get eaten by a Moon Worm. A week later the worm passes them, unharmed but disgusted, but by then their coworkers are already headed home from their "vacation".
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy:
  • Irwin winds up eaten by an alien insect in one episode, but escapes offscreen and turns up alive later. When asked about how he got away, Irwin implies he took the rear exit which he didn't enjoy.
  • Happens to an object in Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure, where Billy swallows an eye Boogeyman is using to spy on the main cast. The eye inexplicably finds its way back outside some time later, and Boogeyman is told not to think about it too hard when he brings up that Billy had eaten the eye.
  • In "Smarten Up!", Billy's pet cat Milkshakes eats the Book Worm meant for the boy, becoming intelligent. The cat is later on found to be its usual self again. Grim comments that the worm must have worked its way out of the cat's system, suggesting that the cat had eventually eliminated it.
• In an episode of Hero: 108, the main cast goes inside a colossal chameleon to retrieve a chest containing a powerful artifact that the chameleon had swallowed. HighRoller finds and seizes the chest, then makes a run for the back exit with Lin Chung hot on his heels.
• Jellystone!: In "Gorilla In Our Midst", Yogi and Boo Boo find their way inside a giant purple gorilla's stomach. Boo Boo is later shown rolling an inflated Yogi coming from the opposite side of where the ape's mouth is, and he gets quite uncomfortable when asked about it.
  Cindy Bear: Wait, Boo Boo? Yogi? You're alive! Wait... How did you guys escape?
  Boo Boo: Oh, we got out... a... different way.
  Cindy Bear: What do you mean, "different"?
  Boo Boo: [Beat] We're not answering any more questions.
• Johnny Bravo: Carl is eaten by a giant gorilla, and then inexplicably shows up on the boat back home with Johnny and Pops. Pops, of course, asks Carl how he escaped, since he saw the beast swallow him. Carl outright refuses to discuss it.
• Johnny Test: The episode "Johnny Trick Or Treat" involves the main cast (consisting of Johnny, Dukey and Jillian Vegan) getting swallowed by a massive worm monster. Dukey weighs two options: either coming back the way they came in or the other end. The group decides on the first option because they don't want to take the dirty way out.
• Kid vs. Kat: Growler the dog is enlarged by Kat's device in "When Bad Dogs Go Big", and it leads to him swallowing the two title characters plus Dennis. When the dog starts shrinking, Kat runs one way and Coop tries to follow him, only for Dennis to stop and warn him not to go there. The kids run the opposite way and come out of Growler's nose coated in mucus, but ultimately have it better than Kat who's expelled from the other end and rendered so petrified that he's quivering and assuming a Troubled Fetal Position, clearly regretting his choice.
• In the The Magic School Bus episode “For Lunch”, Mrs. Frizzle teaches her class about the human digestive system by shrinking the bus and using it to explore that of Arnold, top to bottom. When she nonchalantly proposes that they “join the rest of the waste products and finish the trip”, the class collectively responds with a Big "WHAT?!" and objects to the idea, in the end deciding to backtrack and exit through the mouth instead. Lampshaded in the "Producer Says" segment, where a caller brings it to attention and the producer asks if they really expected them to show that on daytime TV.
• The Mighty B!: In the episode "Body Rockers", a tour group leaves the model human body through the rear in a flood of chili.
• The Mighty Ones: The main cast traverses through a snake in search of Rocksy in "Venomous Bush Viper". They go through the intestine and reach a sphincter labelled "End of snake" and "No access". The characters have next to no response to this — Very Berry, who's been leading the others and happily announcing the path they're taking as they go, simply goes "Wait..." and decides to backtrack. Rocksy and Very Berry (the former carrying the latter) later reach the same place while trying to get out of the snake, and Rocksy immediately turns around to escape through the mouth instead.
• Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023): Heavily implied in "Belly of the Beast". Lunella and Casey don't leave through the mouth, emerge under the tail, and Devil is given a close One-Eyed Shot to emphasize his panic when it happens.
• Monsters vs. Aliens (2013): Dr. Cockroach shrinks Susan and puts her in his throat so she can sing for him, but he accidentally swallows her. This route is briefly suggested, but they don't have time because she'll grow in size before then.
  Link: Maybe if we wait long enough, she'll come out the, you know, the other way?
  Susan: Ew! Just make him hurl!
• Oggy and the Cockroaches:
  • Oggy apprentices a kitten in "Oggy Has Kittens", near the end of which it eats the cockroaches. Shortly after the kitten leaves, Oggy finds the cockroaches in the litter box covered in sand and visibly shuddering, as if traumatized by the experience.
  • In "Globulopolis", Dee Dee journeys through Oggy when he's accidentally consumed by the latter and comes across a lid covering a hole leading downwards. He lifts the lid only to see the floor and Oggy's legs. Dee Dee is completely unamused and puts the lid back in place, not wanting to take this particular way out.
• The Penguins of Madagascar: In "The Big Squeeze", after being regurgitated by Savio, Maurice says "please tell me we came out the mouth."
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • In "Journey to the Center of Candace", Phineas and Ferb are looking through Isabella's sash inside Candace's body, thinking is her dog Pinky's. During the song "Hemoglobin Highway", one of the lyrics say "Slow down before we reach the colon". This gets snarled, however, as when Linda remembers all of the things Candace said to her about the brothers' shenanigans in "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted!", the line referencing that episode was "Phineas and Ferb are in my large intestine!" (though considering that the whole premise of the episode ends up being All Just a Dream, this might be some sort Foreshadowing).
  • In "I Was a Middle Aged Robot", Candace and Lawrence (the brother's dad) are preparing themselves for a father-daughter obstacle course, but Lawrence finds Agent P's lair and his memory is accidentally erased. Perry then takes Lawrence's place by using a Lawrence-Robot. During the pie eating contest, Perry has the Lawrence-Robot suck up all the pies and chucks them out of the robot's butt. A kid standing nearby, Balthazar (aka the Ballpit Kid) is grossed out by this.
• Rick and Morty: In Anatomy Park, after Ruben dies, they were going to leave through the anus, but they have to change plans after the sphincter dam that was installed after Ruben became incontinent bursts.
• Robotboy: Exploited in "Journey to the Center of the Gus". Robotboy goes inside the body of the character named in the episode title to track down a microscopic robot that wound up there by mistake (it was supposed to get to Robotboy, not inside Gus). Robotboy tricks the robot into getting itself lodged in the intestine, causing Gus to run to the bathroom (with a predictable outcome for the antagonist) as Bjorn and Bjornbot watch on through the robot's camera. While Bjorn's reaction is a Big "NO!", Bjornbot goes with it and gets excited.
• Robots Of Mars 3 D Adventure: The supervisor eats a crystal that makes him grow giant, and then eats the heroes too with the viewer taken along for the ride. It eventually leads to the conveniently labelled "Rear Exit", and the camera turns around to reveal the main cast just exited out the supervisor's ass.
• Samurai Jack: Jack goes inside a dragon and explores his body to find the cause of his flatulence. When Jack finally does so (the source is a baby dragon, its "mother" being a male notwithstanding), the dragon lets one final one rip — the samurai sees an encroaching cloud of gas and uses the baby dragon's flame to ignite it, getting ejected with extreme force.
• Sanjay and Craig: In "Scream Day", Sanjay and Megan go inside Craig to find the latter's voice. They do eventually find it and Hector too, but the three of them are puked out when Craig is given a stomachache. Not long after the three are out, there's a long shot focused on Craig's face with a prolonged fart sound followed by the camera panning to the voice just behind him running towards the fence.
  Hector: Whoa. He took the back door. Wink!
• The Simpsons:
  • "Monty Can't Buy Me Love": When Mr. Burns finds the Loch Ness Monster in order to capture it so that people would love him he asks Homer and Willie for help:
    Mr. Burns: Come on, boys. Overpower it.
    [Homer, Professor Frink, and Willie walk away whistling]
    Mr. Burns: Fine. I'll do it myself.
    [Nessie hangs from the underside of a helicopter]
    Willie: That was amazing, Mr. Burns!
    Mr. Burns: I was a little worried when he swallowed me... but, well, you know the rest.
    [Homer and Willie give make a "grossed out" face]
  • "Simpsons Tall Tales": After Paul Bunyan (Homer) eats the flapjacks the townspeople made for his breakfast:
    Moe: Yuck! All right, uh, let's get started on lunch. And— wait. Where's Lenny?
    Lenny: [inside Bunyan's stomach] Hello? Can anybody hear me?
    Willie: I think I found a way out. It's not pretty, but it'll do.
    [Willie dives down into the stomach, Lenny makes a grossed out face and follows Willie]
  • "Smart and Smarter": Homer, Marge, and Bart wind up inside not an actual living thing, but a massive model of the human body when Maggie plays with buttons and presses the Swallow button which causes them to be thrown into the model stomach. Once she presses the Evacuate button, the three are sucked through the model intestines; they're first shown being passed through the large intestine and are then expelled from offscreen into the fountain below the giant model.
• Spliced: In "Brothers in Farms", Entree's Evil Twin Aperitif eats almost everyone on the island. While trapped in his stomach, they learn there's only one way out. But Fuzzy Snuggems (who just tried) advises against it.
  Fuzzy: Expedition Note: You really don't want to go that way.
• Spongebob Squarepants:
  • In "Squidtastic Voyage", shortly after Spongebob and Patrick enter Squidward's body, Sandy informs them of a way to exit his system. She does it by showing them a picture of Squidward with a flashing dot located on his posterior, calling it the "extraction point".
  • In an episode of season 11, Squidward accidentally angers the Loch Ness monster by releasing sound from a bagpipe (which it hates), prompting it to eat him. The time card goes "One very long digestive tract later" before it cuts to Spongebob and Patrick jumping around Squidward, who looks shell-shocked.
  • Plankton at one point builds the so-called Q.T.-π — a robotic bird with a "quantum stomach" — and the robot consumes everyone in town. The townspeople take advantage of this so that they can reach the "Emergency Evacuation Uvula" on top, and once they do, the robot launches everyone out through an opening in its rear end. It then becomes an attraction at the Glove World theme park, eating the guests one by one and "expelling" them.
  • One time, Plankton's failed attempt at stealing the secret Krabby Patty formula leads to Mr. Krabs finding him on the floor, mistaking him for a pickle, and then eating him for some reason. The time card goes "approximately 10 hours later", implying he goes through his digestive system to escape. The next scene shows him running to Karen covered in a bruise and a bandage.
    Karen: Plankton, where have you been?
    Plankton: Trust me, you do NOT want to know.
  • Mr. Krabs was once swallowed by the Abominable Snow Mollusk alongside his crew and tells SpongeBob (who's at the moment unaware of the full truth and thinks they bravely escaped) that they had to "wait for nature to take its course", as evidenced by the stomach acid flushing. SpongeBob then finally gets it, but once his realization sinks in, he shudders and goes "ew". Plankton later has the same thing happen to him, and his only reaction is quietly, unamusedly embracing what's about to take place.
  • Really, Plankton is the butt of this joke often. In Krabs à la Mode, Plankton is swallowed by an old man. From inside his stomach, Plankton says "No matter. In 4 to 6 hours, I will have my revenge!" The scene cuts to the old man, who was locked inside the Krusty Krab, leaving the bathroom, with a wet Plankton following behind, free to roam the restaurant.
• South Park: Inverted. In the episode "The Death Camp of Tolerance," Lemmiwinks the gerbil gets shoved up Mr. Slave's Ass, and now must get out. At first, he tries escaping from the way he came, but Mr Slave's rear quickly closes, and the Frog King informs Lemmiwinks that he cannot get out that way. This is what causes Lemmiwinks to go up Mr. Slave's digestive system, and at the end of the episode, he exits out of his mouth.
• Teen Titans Go!:
  • In the Halloween episode "The Ghost With The Most", Beetlejuice shows up and eats Starfire's pet Silkie. When she demands him to spit Silkie out, Beetlejuice begrudgingly complies; however, instead of spitting him out, he summons a porta potty and goes inside before reemerging with a horrified Silkie in his arms.
  • In an attempt to hide from Cyborg, Robin and the other Titans decide to hide inside Silkie. It works at first, only to discover that something else found them. The Titans decide to hightail it out of there, and soon after they're shown in a dogpile right behind where Silkie is.
• In The Tom and Jerry Show, the episode "Belly Achin'" features Jerry and Little Quackers both being eaten by Tom. When they fail to escape by climbing back out using a noodle Tom had swallowed earlier, Little Quackers proposes to Jerry that they take a path labelled with a sign that says "Alternate Route". Jerry quickly stops him and persuades him not to, evidently knowing where it leads and that it's not worth it.
• An episode of Tripping the Rift had Chode, Gus, and Whip go on a "Fantastic Voyage" Plot inside of Darth Bobo. Near the end, they try to get to his small intestine to be absorbed into his bloodstream and exit through a cut, but they overshoot and have to take this method of exit.
• Trollhunters: In the episode "Roaming Fees May Apply", one of the Mineral MacGuffins that the team needs to get is inside a giant lava monster named Gatto. In order to get it, they intentionally get eaten and then escape using its digestive tract.
• Xiaolin Showdown: In "Enter the Dragon" a temporarily evil Dojo devours both the heroes and villains and the possibility of escaping through the back door is suggested and rejected. Instead, Omi uses the Changing Chopsticks to shrink small enough that Dojo "sweats" him out and then recaptures him and forces him to regurgitate the others.

Real Life

• Intestinal parasites such as tapeworms use the digestive tract to their advantage. While the parasites themselves generally don't escape the back way out, what does escape is something that is or was a part of them; tapeworms, for example, will sever their segmented bodies so that they may be passed along with the feces in hopes that another potential host consumes them and the severed segments grow into new tapeworms, completing the cycle.
• A species of water beetle can survive being swallowed by a frog by moving fast enough through the frog's gut that it gets pooped out before being digested.

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