History Main / BuzzsawJaw

* In Episode 55 of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Gohan chews through an entire leg of meat with the motion and sound effect of an orbital sander.

* The titular ''Film/{{Coneheads}}'' all make use of this trope when "consuming mass quantities", including their daughter, who impresses a would-be boyfriend by eating an entire foot-long Subway sandwich in about three seconds.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' Darly Dimple does this to a hot dog from her gift basket of food near the end of the film.

* The Taxxon of ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' have a literal Buzzsaw Jaw. Their mouth is a gaping hole with rows of teeth. Each row can be twisted back and forth at high-speed to create the impresion of a buzzsaw.
* In ''Literature/TheLangoliers'', the titular ClockRoaches have huge mouths that can tear through everything in as much time as it takes to read this sentence. The FilmOfTheBook takes this one step further by giving them three rows of alternately rotating metallic teeth, making them look like a cross between VideoGame/PacMan and an excavation drill.

* Happened at least once with Larry Kubiac on ''Series/ParkerLewisCantLose''.
* This became a running gag on ''Series/FamilyTies'' when Creator/MeredithBaxter had to take time off for pregnancy. Her character, also pregnant, was kept offscreen, frequently demanding and buzzsawing food. They once claimed she ate a whole watermelon in a handful of seconds.

* Mileena uses this to eat an opponent's head (or entire body) as a fatality in ''Franchise/MortalKombat''. Reptile does so too, in one game snagging a victim's head with his long tongue and swallowing it, and in another, devouring most of the victim's body in three parts the same way.

* Just about any depiction of piranha you can think of.
** Sort-of TruthInTelevision, since [[JustifiedTrope piranha in a feeding frenzy are feared for a reason]].
** Termites too.
* Two of Chuck Jones' ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' shorts featured Jerry befriending a tiny dog that did this often to Tom… before hammering the hapless cat into the ground!
** In the [=MGM=] era, Tom actually took advantage of this - Spike's held back by a leash, and Tom uses his fruitlessly gnashing jaws to carve a log into a bat.
* Creator/TexAvery's ''Billy Boy'' features a goat who does this throughout the cartoon. (Of course, said goat's definition of "food" is an [[ExtremeOmnivore extraordinary broad one]].)

Often used by the HordeOfAlienLocusts, if smaller than human size, to horrifying effect, [[StrippedToTheBone leaving only bones in their wake]]. This trope may be justified by TooHungryToBePolite. Compare TypewriterEating.

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* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' features one too.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' episode "That's Snow Ghost", when Velma is chained to a log and placed on a [[LumberMillMayhem sawmill]] [[ConveyorBeltOfDoom conveyor belt]] by the titular ghost, Scooby rapidly bites the log she is chained to in two after she tells him to "make like a beaver" seconds before the blade could dismember her.

''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': Chester's superhero persona, Matter Muncher Lad, from "The Big Superhero Wish!".

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' episode "That's Snow Ghost", when Velma is chained to a log and placed on a [[ConveyorBeltOfDoom sawmill conveyor belt]] by the titular ghost, Scooby rapidly bites the log she is chained to in two after she tells him to "make like a beaver" seconds before the blade could dismember her.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' episode "That's Snow Ghost", when Velma is chained to a log and placed on a [[ConveyorBeltOfDoom sawmill conveyor belt]] by the titular ghost, Scooby rapidly bites the log she is chained to in two after she tells him to "make like a beaver" seconds before the blade dismembers her.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' episode "That's Snow Ghost", Scooby rapidly bites a log Velma is chained to in two after she tells him to "make like a beaver" seconds before she is dismembered by a [[ConveyorBeltOfDoom sawmill conveyor belt]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', Scooby rapidly bites a log Velma is chained to in two after she tells him to "make like a beaver" seconds before she is dismembered by a [[ConveyorBeltOfDoom sawmill conveyor belt]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', Scooby rapidly bites a log in two after Velma tells him to "make like a beaver."

** And his WesternAnimation/TinyToons {{Expy}}, Dizzy Devil.

* The Taxxon of ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' have a literal BuzzsawJaw. Their mouth is a gaping hole with rows of teeth. Each row can be twisted back and forth at high-speed to create the impresion of a buzzsaw.

* This became a running gag on ''Series/FamilyTies'' when Meredith Baxter-Birney had to take time off for pregnancy. Her character, also pregnant, was kept offscreen, frequently demanding and buzzsawing food. They once claimed she ate a whole watermelon in a handful of seconds.

* Mileena uses this to eat an opponent's head (or entire body) as a fatality in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat''. Reptile does so too, in one game snagging a victim's head with his long tongue and swallowing it, and in another, devouring most of the victim's body in three parts the same way.

Often used by the HordeOfAlienLocusts, if smaller than human size, to horrifying effect, [[StrippedToTheBone leaving only bones in their wake]]. Compare TypewriterEating and TooHungryToBePolite.

Often used by the HordeOfAlienLocusts, if smaller than human size, to horrifying effect, [[StrippedToTheBone leaving only bones in their wake]]. Compare TooHungryToBePolite.

Often used by the HordeOfAlienLocusts, if smaller than human size, to horrifying effect, [[StrippedToTheBone leaving only bones in their wake]].

* In Episode 55 of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Gohan chews through an entire leg of meat with the motion and sound effect of pushing it through an orbital sander.

** An episode of ''ShaunTheSheep'' features one too.
* A number of cartoon beavers, like Bingo "Bet-It-All" Beaver from ''TheGetAlongGang''.

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* The titular ''{{Coneheads}}'' all make use of this trope when "consuming mass quantities", including their daughter, who impresses a would-be boyfriend by eating an entire foot-long Subway sandwich in about three seconds.

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* In ''Literature/TheLangoliers'', the titular ClockRoaches have huge mouths that can tear through everything in as much time as it takes to read this sentence. The FilmOfTheBook takes this one step further by giving them three rows of alternately rotating metallic teeth, making them look like a cross between VideoGame/{{Pac-Man}} and an excavation drill.

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* Happened at least once with Larry Kubiac on ''ParkerLewisCantLose''.

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* Mileena uses this to eat an opponent's head (or entire body) as a fatality in ''MortalKombat''. Reptile does so too, in one game snagging a victim's head with his long tongue and swallowing it, and in another, devouring most of the victim's body in three parts the same way.

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** And his TinyToons {{Expy}}, Dizzy Devil.

* Nibbler in ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' as well as all other Nibblonians.

* Sawtooth, Rufus Ruffcut's pet beaver on ''WackyRaces''.