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* The ending of ''{{Shrek}} the Third''. [[spoiler:An ogre baby]] farts, then a [[donkey/dragon baby]] sneezes on the fart, lighting it on fire and causing it to change directions and light the fireplace.

Science fact: farts are, essentially, just the body expelling methane. Methane smells like, well, [[{{ShapedLikeItself}} farts]], and fleets quickly. Timing is required. Rather than the huge flame you see in [[{{SouthPark}} certain cartoons]], it'll be a tiny blink-and-you'll-miss-it flame. Don't ask us how we know. [[hottip:*:Oh, and if you're unlucky, you may char your lower intestine. So, really, just don't. What are you, anyway? A vulgarite? Get a hobby.]]

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* In RealLife, pig farms have to be routinely ventilated, or else they risk exploding.
** The ammonia would kill them before the risk of explosion would. At high enough concentrations, ammonia can blind a person and make them suffer severe respiratory consequences.
* This was given in ''The Book of Heroic Failures'', listing an episode in which a vet attending a cow in a barn stuck a tube into "that end which is not capable of facial expression" and struck a light. The resulting jet of flame set fire to the barn.
* There is at least one Darwin Award story with this. It back[[strike:[[IncrediblyLamePun side]]]]fired into the guy's rectum. Ouch.
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* In an anime adaptation episode of ''{{Kochikame}}'' at near the end, a fellow officer demonstrate farting fire. Ryotsu, not being concerned of the whole police box is stashed with heating oil, dynamite, tanker trucks, military weapons, and along with a locker full of matches, lets him do so resulting in at least a square kilometer of city destruction.

Science fact: farts are, essentially, just the body expelling methane. Methane smells like, well, [[{{ShapedLikeItself}} farts]], and fleets quickly. Timing is required. Rather than the huge flame you see in [[{{SouthPark}} certain cartoons]], it'll be tiny blink-and-you'll-miss-it flame. Don't ask us how we know. [[hottip:*:Oh, and if you're unlucky, you may char your lower intestine. So, really, just don't. What are you, anyway? A vulgarite? Get a hobby.]]

* In ''BlackSheep'', the fact that their fart contains large amounts of methanol is used to blow up the [[spoiler: flesh eating sheeps]]

* Recounted in Spike Milligan's memoir, ''Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall''.

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** Flaming flatulence featured in the very first episode, ''Cartman Gets an Anal Probe.'' "Dude, you're farting fire!"

* Happens in {{Lois McMaster Bujold}}'s ''The Vor Game'', where the main character, dubbed the camp idiot for a (rigged) accident with a piece of major equipment, is relieved when the title is taken over by a couple of new recruits who set their tent on fire lighting "fart flares."

* In an anime adaptation episode of ''{{Kochikame}}'' at near the end, a fellow officer demonstrate farting on fire. Ryotsu, not being concerned of the whole police box is stashed with heating oil, dynamite, tanker trucks, military weapons, and along with a locker full of matches, he lets him do so resulting in at least a square kilometer of city destruction.

* In ''[[{{Critters}} Critters 3]]'', when the title creatures (who are {{Extreme Omnivores}}s) invade the protagonist's department one of them eats a can of beans and does this with the flame of the stove.

* In [[{{Critters}} Critters 3]], when the title creatures (who are ExtremeOmnivores) invade the protagonist's department one of them eats a can of beans and does this with the flame of the stove.

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* [[PlayedForDrama Not played for laughs]]: In StephenKing's novel ''It'', a fart-lighting scene leads to a homosexual encounter between two of the Bad kids. It's one of the most suspenseful scenes in the book, because the whole thing is witnessed by one of the Good kids.

* In an anime adaptation episode of ''{{Kochikame}}'' at near the end, a fellow officer demonstrate farting on fire. The protagonist not being concerned of the whole police box is stashed with heating oil, dynamite, tanker trucks, military weapons, and along with a locker full of matches, he lets him do so resulting in at least a square kilometer of city destruction.

This ''does'' work in RealLife, though [[RealityIsUnrealistic not always, and not very impressively]].