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(aka: Shove Up His Ass)

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Ass Shove (trope)
A demonstration of both versions of the trope.
"Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years."
Captain Koons, Pulp Fiction

Quite simply, this trope covers the act of putting something into or pulling something out of a character's rectum — or, alternatively, merely implying the act. Usually, this is done for comedy.

A variation of this trope is to give a character a rectal examination, an enema, a rectal laxative, or some other similar medical procedure, whereupon hilarity ensues. Often, just having the character bend over while the physician or Battleaxe Nurse snaps on a rubber glove is enough to play the joke.

In Science Fiction and Alien Abduction stories, this is usually an Anal Probing.

Sometimes paired with All Gays are Promiscuous, to demonstrate that gays chase anyone.

Also see Trouser Space, Bowel-Breaking Bricks, Orifice Invasion, Suppository Gag, and Thermometer Gag. Nose Shove can be a variation used in child-friendly works. See Mister Seahorse and Homosexual Reproduction for when the ass in question belongs to a male and the object in question is an infant.

Truth in Television, but such things are almost never as funny or as safe as they are in fiction; the rectal walls are surprisingly fragile and can be easily ruptured if a foreign object is recklessly inserted. Indeed, a number of people who got a little too experimental with their exhaust pipes have suffered serious blood loss and even death from accidentally tearing these walls open. For these reasons, Don't Try This at Home.note 

Sister Trope to Targeting the Exhaust System, where a machine or organism's exhaust/waste removal system provides a weak point that can be attacked.

Sub-Trope of Joke of the Butt. Not to be confused with Ass Pull, which is when a plot device or explanation seems so poorly contrived as to have a rectal genesis (although sometimes both happen to dance cheek-to-cheek). Nor to be confused with Ass Kicks You, when using one's backside as an actual weapon. Or with the saying "Shove it up your ass!"

Contrast Anuscape Plan, when a character is inside an organism and the idea of escaping through the ass gets brought up as a result (even if it's ultimately not used as the exit due to being too disgusting) and the slightly less aggressive-yet-still-gross Wet Willie, when a character shoves their finger in someone's ear after coating it with drool.


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    Advertising 
  • Suggested in a commercial for pretzel M&M candies.
  • Two guys have their heads literally in their asses in this commercial for a texting service.
  • The Big Dig, Explained.
  • You can find a video on YouTube of an old beeper commercial where Emmanuel Yarbrough (the largest athlete in the world) goes against another sumo wrestler. The smaller wrestler drops down and crawls between his legs. The bigger wrestler sits down. We are treated to a few slurping sounds as well as the smaller wrestler disappearing. Seeing the other wrestler gone, he shrugs and walks away, and we see the smaller wrestler shoulder deep in his ass. The video can be found here.
  • There was a commercial where a guy was skateboarding. He tried to do the railing trick where you glide down the railing on the skateboard, but he fell, and the skateboard ended up in his butt with some of it sticking out.
  • From the Parody Commercial Big Bill Hell's: "If you find a better deal, shove it up your ugly ass! You heard us right, shove it up your ugly ass!"
  • A Bounty Paper Towels commercial has a young girl in a pirate costume running through the house when she accidentally impales her dad in the butt with her toy sword, causing him to spill the drink he was holding.

    Animation 
  • In Clinic, one of the old man's nightmares involves a Creepy Physical where, among other indignities, the doctor pulls the patient's pants down and gives him a turpentine enema.
  • In Larva, Yellow becomes a problem in "Gum Fart", and needs a good plugging. Of course, it doesn't work for long.
  • Adventurer Carly features Bobby getting plugged up after being accidentally shoved by the protagonist butt-first onto a traffic cone in his introduction scene. It later becomes a Running Gag that the boy's butt becomes a target for slapstick violence.

    Comic Strips 
  • Dilbert: One strip has Dilbert open a software package, and by doing so agree to a full-body cavity search at any time. Enter a woman with the Glove Snap.
  • The Far Side: The implication of this is the punchline for one cartoon, which depicts a time-traveling scientist with a giant thermometer approaching a dinosaur from behind.
    "An instant later, both Professor Waxman and his time machine are obliterated, leaving the cold-blooded/warm-blooded dinosaur debate still unresolved."
  • Knights of the Dinner Table: When Bob's Player Character is exploring Uzer's pyramid, he finds a valuable-looking medallion. He has his character "keister" it so he doesn't have to share it with the others. This turns out to be instrumental later when it's revealed to be a component for the Scepter of Five Parts. Amusingly, Bob had actually forgotten about it, meaning it's been... keistered for some time.
  • Madam & Eve:
    • After Madam and Mother are arrested for attending an illegal rave party, one of the other prisoners offers to let them use the cell phone that he snuck in.
      Mother: "I hope it's one of the small ones."
    • This is Eve's response when she's asked about what she'd do if she were to win the All African Domestic Games.
    • President Mugabe finds another 50,000 votes.
  • Ogri: In one strip, Mitzi responds to a loutish driver's proposition by shoving his head up his own arse.

    Films — Animation 
  • Duck Duck Goose has Peg the goose get his head stuck up a pig's butt briefly. Later, a pig comes down on his face from above, as he weakly says "not again".
  • Hotel E: At the very end, a farmer rabbit in overalls has a carrot stuck up his rear, and lit on fire. Via cartoon logic, this inflates the rabbit, and the gas shot out propels him a ways.
  • A long Running Gag of Beavis and Butt-Head Do America is that Agent Flemming of the FBI has nearly every character in the story subjected to a full body cavity search.
  • Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return has Wiser the owl say he has a large piece of wood lodged in his hindquarters after tumbling over and destroying part of a fence.
  • Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted had a kid shooting spitballs at an elephant trying to balance on a ball. Unfortunately, the elephant overbalances, and rolls towards the offending kid.
  • The Missing Link: Oh helps a dragon who shoots fire out the wrong end in the obvious manner.
    Dragon: He stuck a cork up my ass!
    • Later, humans shove burning torches up triceratops rears to make them charge into no-lobes as bowling-ball-like weapons.
  • Stella the Skunk from Over the Hedge is given a makeover to look like a cat so she can seduce distract Tiger, the housecat owned by the film's antagonistic suburban homeowner. Unfortunately for her, this included getting "plugged" with a cork, which she complains about more than once. (And the whole getup eventually turns out to have been unnecessary anyway, since Tiger falls in love with her and remains attracted even when he finds out the truth.)
  • Surf's Up 2: WaveMania has a brief imagine spot where Vince McMahon as an otter dreams of milking a fish, showing one with a straw shoved right up its rear as he sucks a few times on it.
  • Done in the epilogue of Toy Story 3, when Mr. Potato Head discovers the Peas-In-A-Pod popping out of his rear hatch.
    Mr. Potato Head: I told you, kids, stay out of my butt!

    Jokes 
  • There's a joke about three explorers who were captured by a native tribe. The natives say that the explorers may survive if they collect and bring back ten pieces of a fruit of their choosing. The first explorer returns with ten berries and is told he'll go free if he gets all ten inside his anus. He succeeds and is released. The second explorer returns with ten apples and is told the same. He suddenly bursts out laughing; when the natives ask what's so funny, he tells them that the third explorer was collecting pineapples.
    • A variation has the third man arrive, have the task explained to him, and choose death after some consideration. The natives then proceed to execute him in the traditional way, by inserting a fatal number of pineapples into his anus.
    • Yet another variation has the natives telling them that they will kill them if they make any facial expression whatsoever during the 'challenge', and the one telling the joke is encouraged to announce the number out loud. The first explorer, having something large-ish (like apples), is killed after a few (3-4) for grimacing. The second explorer, having picked something small (berries or grapes), allows the one telling the joke to count up to 7 or 8, then the explorer inexplicably bursts out laughing and gets killed as a result. The two explorers meet in Heaven, and the first one is distressed, asking the second what had happened since he was doing so well... the second explorer, still laughing, says "I just saw the third guy, and he's got PINEAPPLES!".
    • Yet another variation: a trader is heading through the jungle with a load of bananas, but then he's captured by cannibals. They decide they want to stuff him before cooking him, so they proceed to shove the bananas up his ass...and the trader starts laughing hysterically. The cannibal chief asks, "What's so funny?" The trader's response? "My partner's a half-day behind me, with a load of pineapples!"
  • There's a Christmas joke that an angel approaches Santa Claus while he's in a bad mood and asks "Where should I put the Christmas Tree?" As you might have guessed, Santa's reply was something along the lines of "Stick it up your ass!" ...and that's why the angel goes on top of the Christmas tree every year.
    • One version has him asking for it by saying "Oi, fatty! Where should I stick this?"
  • This joke from a WWII vet regarding rectal exams: "Well, first he put his right hand on my shoulder. No, wait, he put his left hand on my shoulder. Wait a minute, he put both his hands on my shoulders."
  • A doctor is making his rounds through the hospital when he stops to talk to the head nurse. The nurse says, "By the way, doctor, did you know you've got your thermometer stuck behind your ear?" The doctor feels around his ear and says, "Great, some asshole has my pen."
  • A farmer looked out his window and saw that one of his cows was near the road and having difficulty giving birth, so he went out and took a hold of the calf's legs and started tugging. Before long a luxury car stopped and a man got out asking if he could help. The Farmer said it would be appreciated. The man took off his Rolex and rolled up his sleeves, and after both men did some tugging the calf came out just fine and healthy. The farmer thanked the stranger, who said: "I just have one question... how fast was the little cow going when it hit the big cow?"
  • A doctor was surprised when he examined his elderly patient. "Sir... do you know you've got a suppository in your ear?" The old man promptly takes out his cell phone and calls his wife. "Martha, you can stop looking for my hearing aid. I think I know where I put it."
  • A hillbilly goes to the doctor for the first time in decades. The doctor prescribes him some suppositories, which he doesn't know how to use but isn't about to admit to some city slicker. A week later, he comes back absolutely furious. "Dammit doc, I took them suppositories like you said and the damn things don't work! One a day for a week with a glass of water, and lemme tell you, I could've shoved'em up my ass and it'd have had more effect!"
    • Another variation has the doctor tell the patient to put the suppository "in his back passage." The punchline is the same but suggests the patient left the supp on a table just inside the back door of his house.
    • Yet another one has the patient complain that he'd used all the suppositories but there was no effect whatsoever. To which doctor incredulously replied: "How can this be? Did you eat them or something?" - and got this response, Sarcasm Mode full on: "No, dammit, I shoved them up my ass!"
  • A man walks into a bar with his pet monkey. He orders a drink while the monkey hops up onto the pool table. The monkey grabs one of the pool balls, shoves it in his mouth, and swallows it whole. The angry bartender tells the man he has to pay for a new ball and the man agrees, paying. The man returns several weeks later, with the monkey. The man orders a drink, while the monkey hops onto the bar and goes for the jar of pickled eggs. He takes out an egg and shoves it up his ass. Then he takes it out of his ass and eats it.
    Bartender: [disgusted] Gross! Your monkey just ate a pickled egg that he shoved up his ass!
    Man: Yeah, ever since that pool ball came out of him, he makes sure to measure everything first.
  • A man goes to the doctor and is diagnosed with a tapeworm. The doctor says he can get rid of it if the man comes back the next day with a banana and two cookies (or some other combination of health and junk food). The man comes back with the items, and the doctor tells him to drop his pants and bend over. The doctor then shoves the banana up his ass, followed by the cookies. He then instructs the man to come back the next days with the same items. Wanting the tapeworm gone, the man obeys. The next day, the process is repeated, and the doctors tell him to come back tomorrow. For a length of time, the man comes every day and has the items shoved up his ass. Finally, the doctor tells him to come back with a banana and a hammer. After a sleepless night wondering what the hammer is going to feel like, the man returns. The doctor shoves the banana up his ass, grabs the hammer... and waits. After a few minutes, the tapeworm sticks his head out and demands his cookies, at which point the doctor hits him with the hammer.
  • A man is going on a business trip and is worried that his wife will cheat when he is away, so he goes to a sex shop and buys something the shop owner calls a "voodoo dildo". To activate it, he tells her that the magic words are "Voodoo dildo, my pussy!" After he leaves, she decides to use it. It works perfectly, but she realizes he didn't tell her how to turn it off. She gets in the car to drive to the sex shop with the dildo still moving inside her and is swerving all over the road. A police officer pulls her over and says, "Ma'am, what are you doing? Are you drunk?!" The woman yells, "Help! Th-th-th-there's a voodoo d-d-d-dildo in my pussy!" The officer snorts and says, "Yeah, right. Voodoo dildo, my ass!"
  • A three man band consisting of a drummer, a guitarist and a flutist are performing for an African chief. The chief loves their music and allows them to take as much gold coins as can fit in their instruments. The drummer and guitarist are able to fit loads into their instruments but the flutist can't even fit one. On another occasion they're performing for the Chancellor of Germany. The Chancellor loves it so much he allows them to take as much marks (this jokes is quite old) as can be held in their instruments. Once again, the drummer and guitarist get plenty while the flutist can't even fit one. A different day, they are performing for a Russian Tsar. The Tsar doesn't like the music and declares that the band members will have to shove their instruments up their asses. The drummer and guitarist can't fit their instruments up their though, the flutist however...

    Music 
  • Stephen Lynch:
  • Gorillaz: Murdoc's gonna feel that tomorrow.
  • "London Underground" by Amateur Transplants ends with the line: "Take your Oyster card and shove it up your arsehole..."
  • Stab Me In The Back by X Japan is about seeking this via sex with another man.
  • King Missile's "Up My Ass" is a list of things that the lead singer shoves up his ass.
  • One of the Ruff Ryders compilation albums features a skit called "Put it in Your Hole" about 2 people getting pulled over and the driver telling the passenger to hide his cannabis in his prison pocket. He refusesnote  and the pair is subsequently arrested.
  • Eddie Murphy's "Boogie In Your Butt" is made of this trope, revolving around one man trying to convince another to shove various increasingly bizarre objects up his ass.
  • GWAR often shoves things in people's asses.
  • Dos Gringos track S.O.S contains a short spoken part, where the narrator has a BSOD at his instructor and yells:
    I'm going to shove that red hat so far up your ass, you'll be shitting through mesh for a week!
  • Shows up in Toby Keith's controversial "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue," with the line, "We'll put a boot in your ass; it's the American way."
  • Garth Brooks has this to say about Prince Charming in "It's Midnight, Cinderella."
    I guess your Prince Charming wasn't after all,
    'Cause he sure seemed different right after the ball.
    I guess that more than horses are turnin' into rats,
    And by the way he's walkin', I can guess where your slipper's at!
  • DJ Lubel with Taryn Southern have the song Wrong Hole, which is about a man who had a sexual encounter with a woman but went in the wrong hole. He offers to let her peg him as payback, but the twist is that she liked the experience and from then on, each night it's the "wrong hole".
  • The last verse of Eminem's infamous "Fack" describes inserting a gerbil in one's rectum through a cardboard tube, as in the Richard Gere urban legend.
  • Alestorm's "Fucked With an Anchor" involves the singer very profanely swearing to do this with an anchor to the witch doctor that cursed him with with Hollywood Tourette's.
  • The cover for blink-182's album Enema of the State heavily alludes to this. As if the title wasn't enough, the image on the cover is that of porn star Janine Lindemulder in a Naughty Nurse Outfit putting on a blue latex glove as she gives a seductive smile to the camera, as if she's gonna enjoy this.
  • In the Ivor Biggun song "I've Got a Monster", Dracula's verse ends with the chorus stating that Peter Cushing is pushing half a fencepost up Dracula's khyber (short for "Khyber Pass", which is sometimes used as Cockney rhyming slang for "ass").
  • Implied in the Aurelio Voltaire Doctor Who filk song "It's Bigger On The Inside'' towards the Daleks:
    If they make it to the second floor
    I'll show them what that plunger's for!

    Music Videos 
  • At the start of the video for Bubble Butt, three women are accosted by a Giant Woman who summons bike pump hoses from her mouth that shove themselves up the women's butts and inflate their rear ends to a cartoonishly large size. This is all a prelude to the Giant Woman conjuring up a dance party in the women's apartment.

    Mythology & Religion 

    Pinball 
  • Many of the Ghost Doctor's prognosis in America's Most Haunted involve this trope.
    "Patient is unruly. Recommend enema, repeat until condition improves."
  • The end-of-game match sequence in the Family Guy pinball has Brian the dog blowing and popping a bubble-gum bubble... from his rear.

    Podcasts 
  • The Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe? incarnation of Jack Griffin, The Invisible Man, can only cause other objects to become invisible by getting them inside his body. This means that when he's forced into doing heists in the first act, he has to hide things by either putting them in his mouth or putting them...elsewhere. But he also uses this to his advantage when facing Chip Lester, as Jack's able to get the drop on him by hiding a stake up his own butt.
  • As discussed in Fat, French and Fabulous, Canadian serial killer Alan Legere escaped from prison using a TV antenna he hid up his anus to fight off the guards. Presumably, he removed it from his anal cavity first, but it's much funnier to imagine him attacking the guards with it still sticking out of his ass like a bee stinger.
  • The genetically designed CLINTs of Mission to Zyxx keep a backup weapon in their anal cavity. Dar is enthralled by the visual.
  • Off Book: The Improvised Musical: The episode Arms Race features an illegal arms dealer pulling a nuclear grenade out of his employee's ass.
  • This gets discussed on the Rooster Teeth podcast, where Burnie quite openly mocks the whole "it just happened to go right up my arse as I fell" story.
  • Referred to as "corndogging", the subject is a repeated topic of discussion in the comedy podcast Walking The Room. Notable examples include the open question as to "Why you gotsa go corndoggin' when you know you got frien?" [sic] and the discussion of plans for Corndog: The Movie, summed up as "A man puts his arm elbow-deep into another man's ass, and then they solve crimes."

    Pro Wrestling 
  • Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling had the "anal explosion" match, in which victory could only be achieved by successfully making a firecracker go off in the opponent's ass.
  • WWE has twice done skits involving a colonoscopy—both with the same "You have your head up your ass!" punchline and both Gooker winners. The second came days after a commentator actually had one!
  • One of The Rock's (in)famous catchphrases. He occasionally adds a few more phrases before shoving in the last three:
    "Take [this/that] [noun]... SHIIIIIIIIINE it up reeeeeeal nice... turn that sumbitch sideways, and STICK IT STRAIGHT UP YOUR CANDY ASS!"
    • Mick Foley pointed out how unrealistic that is in his second book, Foley Is Good... and the Real World is FAKER Than Wrestling.
  • Unforgiven 2006 had DeGeneration X shove Vince McMahon's head up Big Show's ass.
  • Pure Wrestling Association champion Eddie Osbourne had lots of nasty, disrespectful habits he developed due to his confidence to control other wrestlers on the mat with his superior amateur skills, including sticking his thumbs up their butt. This earned him some righteous beatings from equal mat technicians who were a lot bigger and stronger than him like Samoa Joe.
  • Joey Ryan suffered this after Karlee Pérez pulled down his trunks and exposed his thong to the crowds of Beyond Wrestling. She used blow pops, Ryan's Trade Mark Favorite Food, for extra humiliation.
  • During the Austin/McMahon hospital skit, one of the things that Austin did to poor Vince is to give him a forceful enema right in Vince's ass.

    Tabletop Games 
  • The Ass of Holding. Pretty much what it sounds like.
  • This story from 4chan's /tg/ board details how one player played as a concubine who was nothing but The Load to the party throughout the entire campaign, much to the other players' great frustration. When the party reaches the Dark Lord's fortress, the concubine immediately betrays the party and declares her undying love for the Dark Lord. The party is locked in the dungeon while the concubine and the Dark Lord get married. They return to his chambers to consummate the marriage, and as soon as he turns his back, a halfling rogue emerges from the concubine's ass, shoots straight up the Dark Lord's ass, and tears him apart from the inside. The rogue was the poster's real character all along, making use of the "Extremely Tight Space" skill, and the concubine was merely a hired NPC. He had even secretly been making rolls the entire campaign in order to avoid falling out early and ruining the surprise for the rest of the group, who were all naturally left speechless by The Reveal.
  • The infamous "arseplomancer" build for Dungeons & Dragons 3.5: the Exemplar class lets you pick one skill which can be used to impress people, and a high enough Escape Artist skill lets you pass through a space narrower than your head. The result is a character who climbs into a guy's rectum in a manner so awesome that everyone in 60 ft becomes undyingly loyal to him. Then the poor guy explodes.
  • Magic: The flavor text on the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, or Tenth Edition printings of Might of Oaks.

    Theatre 
  • In Jerry Springer: The Opera, Jerry's primary motivation in Hell is to not be "fucked up the ass with barbed wire!"
  • In The Book of Mormon, Elder Price gets his own copy of the Book of Mormon shoved up his butt by General Butt-Fucking Naked.
  • In Avenue Q, Princeton gets an unexpected one by Kate. He likes it.
  • Figuratively implied in the last stanza of "Master of the House" in Les Misérables.
  • The scene in Marlowe's Edward II where the titular king is murdered with a red-hot poker demonstrates how effectively horrifying this trope can be.
  • During the song "Cabinet Battle #1" in Hamilton, Hamilton implies he wants to do this to Jefferson.
  • In The Club, one of the tips Jock gives Geoff for distracting an opposition player is to jam your thumb up his bum as he's going for a mark.

    Visual Novels 
  • Kinkoi: Golden Loveriche: As a kid, Ouro would finger gun Sylvie in the butt when they were at the camping trip. Ayaka reveals that his friend Takato did the same thing to her, but accidentally went in too deep. This made her develop a thing for anal sex, which she demonstrates in a threesome during Reina's route.
  • Nukitashi:
    • In Nanase's Route, Junnosuke infiltrates the SHO headquarters to retrieve personal data of island residents from the servers. He brings a buttplug-shaped USB drive hidden in his rectum. Later on, he does the same with his solid anal vibrator, which he normally uses as a melee weapon, in order to bypass the limit of only one adult toy at school.
    • Misaki had an accident when she got a magical girl figure stuck up her ass. In her route, she likes to penetrate her enemies with an anal vibe at max power.
  • This happens to Akira in Keisuke's route in Togainu no Chi, in a non-comedic example. One word: screwdrivers.

    Websites 
  • Darwin Awards
    • An Urban Legend recounted on the site starts with two youths trying to sneak into a rock concert, and ends with both dead, one in a car that's hung up in a tree, the other under the car in the same tree with a branch rammed up his rump.
    • There are several examples of people getting killed or injured by putting strange things up their bums, often for erotic purposes.
  • Start of winter term in the Whateley Universe: Don Sebastiano gets what's coming to him when the mindslave spell on Cavalier and Skybolt fails. Everyone who reads the hospital report cracks up laughing when they get to the part about the doctors having to remove the lamp base.
  • Barry Petchesky of Deadspin and its successor, Defector posts an annual article on Christmas Day titled "What Did We Get Stuck in Our Rectums Last Year?" which lists various objects that people got stuck in their orifices and had to go to the emergency room to get removed that year.

    Other 
  • There is an entire porn genre centered around this concept called anal vore, in which a predator eats a victim alive and whole through the anus. In some cases, the victim is unharmed, while in others, the victim is digested, absorbed, or magically transformed into poop.
  • Another popular porn/sex act is what is known as anal fisting or simply fisting, where a person's fist is literally shoved into another person's butt hole. Given the above-mentioned fragility of one's anus, this is seen by some as an "extreme" form of sexual activity and is thus considered illegal in certain jurisdictions.
  • This trope has been combined with Impaled with Extreme Prejudice when the executioner wants to add a dose of humiliation and suffering to the victim.

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An overexcited Carly accidentally knocks a boy named Bobby over...and he falls in a precarious situation

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