History Main / GassyScare

* ''WesternAnimation/LifesAZoo'': Chi Chi's "pregnancy" in "Chi's Having a Baby" turns out to be a deeply held fart, and when Chi Chi unleashes, the stench goes across the entire mansion, and destroys the houseguests' eggs.

* ''Literature/EndOfWatch'': At the start of the story, 2 ambulance drivers named Rob Martin and Jason Rapsis are send to check on a man named Harvey Galen, who is suffering from severe chest pains. However, after a few belches and "a trombone blast from the nether regions that had his social X-ray of a wife booking for the kitchen", he already feels much better.

* In the ''Gigglebug'' episode "Tummy Ache", Barry Bear's tummy doesn't feel so well and have to interrupt their playing to go to the doctor, but once there they find out it was just gas.

* In the Gigglebug episode "Tummy Ache", Barry Bear's tummy doesn't feel so well and have to interrupt their playing to go to the doctor, but once there they find out it was just gas.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In "Critical Gas", Dexter is concerned by a build-up of gas in his body after eating a burrito. When an experiment to replicate the effect with a balloon leads him to think [[PopGoesTheHuman he's going to explode]], Dexter [[LastDayToLive sets out on a list of things to do before he dies]]. The last thing on his list is telling his parents about his secret lab. Just before he can tell them, he breaks wind with enough force to embed the television (which he was standing in front of) into the wall.

* The pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' has Sam resolve the problem of a monstrous, mutated TV dinner wreaking havoc by fulfilling its purpose and eating it. Just when it seems all is well, Sam begins to moan in pain from severe internal agony, seemingly setting up an homage to the iconic chest-bursting scene from ''Film/{{Alien}}''. After a beat, he instead unleashes a '''MASSIVE''' belch --illustrated with a live-action cut to a house flattening in an atomic blast-- and is none the worse for wear, with the added benefit of his noxious emanations drifting into the upper atmosphere and plugging up the hole in the Earth's ozone layer.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cro}}'': In "No Way Up", Nandy has gorged herself on lots of food to the point where she gets sick. [[LastDayToLive Everyone things she's dying]], so they build a hang glider so she can fulfill her dream of flying. After she takes the glider for a successful flight, she walks off to the bushes to die... then lets out a burp and says she's feeling better.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In ''Big Bob's Crisis'', Bob keels over after eating a load of ribs believing he's having a heart attack. When he wakes up in the hospital, he find out it was just gas but he still believes his "near-death experience" was a sign and he spends the rest of the episode trying to be healthier and more relaxed.

* ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'' takes the plot of the afore-mentioned ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' example a step further with "Stimpy's Pregnant," in which Ren and Stimpy similarly believe that... well, Stimpy's pregnant! As it turns out, he's constipated, but Dr. Mr. Horse doesn't have the heart to tell them, so after Stimpy "gives birth," the doctor fashions the massive turd into a baby.

* In ''Film/DrDolittle'', one of a pair of rats the titular doctor had been heckled by in previous scenes appears to be dying of severe stomach pains, resulting an extended scene of Dolittle trying to treat the rat at the hospital, and then performing CPR when the rat passes out on the examination table. Dolittle's attempt at chest compressions pushes out a fart, and the rat is fine and [[UngratefulBastard back to heckling him again with his buddy the next day.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'' takes the plot of the afore-mentioned ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' example a step further with "Stimpy's Pregnant," in which Ren and Stimpy similarly believe that... well, Stimpy's pregnant! As it turns out, he's constipated, but Dr. Mr. Horse doesn't have the heart to tell them, so after Stimpy "gives birth," the doctor fashions the massive turd into a baby.
* Peter tries to invoke this in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. After calling his boss and telling him that he and his family were involved in a horrific plane crash as an excuse to get out of work for a Red Sox game, he runs into his boss ''at'' the game and tries to brush the whole thing off by saying that the plane crash was just gas.

* ''WebComic/Rain'': Played with. In chapter 35, Emily pretends to be going into labor while in the principal's office. Maria manages to get the secretary to leave so Emily can help Maria escape school in order to avoid her parents coming to probably take her to a gay conversion camp. When Maria successfully escapes and Emily returns to the principal's office, she tells everyone she just had gas to further cover Maria's absence.

->'''Rat #1''' (''waking up'') I'm hungry!\\
'''Dr. Dolittle''': It's a false alarm. There's nothing wrong with him. He just has gas.\\
'''Rat #2''': Whoa, you're telling me!\\
'''Dr. Dolittle''': (''to a disbelieving crowd'') He just had gas.
-->--''Film/DrDolittle''

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* In ''Film/TheLastKingOfScotland'', Idi Amin has consumed some medicine with beer, which results in a gas buildup in his stomach; Amin thinks he's dying, but his doctor presses on his stomach with a baseball bat; this lets his gas escape in an enormous fart. This scene is the first time the doctor sees the dark side to Idi Amin's personality; up until now, he has seen Amin as a jolly, comical individual but now he sees him ranting and paranoid (until the doctor cleared the gas, Amin thought someone had poisoned him).

--> "Someone had better said... 'Excuse me.'"
* In ''Film/DrDolittle'', one of a pair of rats the titular doctor had been heckled by in previous scenes appears to be dying of severe stomach pains, resulting an extended scene of Dolittle trying to treat the rat at the hospital, and then performing CPR when the rat passes out on the examination table. Dolittle's attempt at chest compressions pushes out a fart, and the rat is fine and [[UngratefulBastard back to heckling him again with his buddy the next day.]]

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* In the children's book, ''Literature/FarleyFarts'', Farley is farting a lot and his parents worry that it's a sign of something but the doctor assures them that all he has is gas and that "it'll [[AccidentalPun pass]]".

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* ''Creator/SamAndMickey'': "Baby Shower" has Yasmin thinking that she's pregnant with Ken's baby. At the end, she feels like the 'baby' is going to come out. Barbie (with a doctor as one of her occupations), gets close to Yasmin to help with the 'delivery'... only for Yasmin to unleash a huge fart right in her face.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'': In "Pregnant Pause", Beavis [[PregnancyScare thinks he's pregnant]] when he feels a pain in his stomach. It turns out that he's just constipated.

* On ''Series/MurphyBrown'', Miles has what he thinks is a heart attack during his 30th birthday party, but after going to the hospital, the doctor diagnoses him with acid reflux caused by stress. Or, if you want the Cliff Notes version, "you got gas and freaked."

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* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut''. As the gang spies on the villains' lab, Mikey nervously eats a granola bar until suddenly he gets an uncomfortable feeling. His friends tell him to try and hold it in, but it's no use and Mikey unleashes a [[{{Gasshole belch that echoes through the entire lab]], alerting the BigBad of their presence and resulting in this [[MundaneMadeAwesome classic line]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cro}}'': In "No Way Up", Nandy gorged herself on lots of food to the point where she got sick. [[LastDayToLive Everyone thought she was dying]], so they built a hang glider so she could fulfill her dream of flying. After she takes the glider for a successful flight, she walks off to the bushes to die. She lets out a burp and says she's feeling better.

* An episode of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' revolves around Dorothy's elderly mother Sophia worrying that she's having a fatal heart attack. It turns out to be gas.

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* In the children's book ''Farley Farts'', Farley is farting a lot and his parents worry that it's a sign of something but the doctor assures them that all he has is gas and that "it'll [[AccidentalPun pass]]".

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