History Main / GassyScare

An obvious source of ToiletHumor and typically a case of MoodWhiplash. See also {{Hypochondria}} and MistakenForDying. Not to be confused with DeadlyGas (well, in a ''certain'' sense, at least).

* In [[https://www.deviantart.com/extraskater/art/A-blow-in-the-wind-611580076 this comic]] starring two people looking up to the top of the CN Tower:
-->'''Woman:''' So this is how city's air blows. I can already feel the pressure.
-->''(BOOM!)''
-->'''Man:''' Nah, it was just gas.

* [[https://www.deviantart.com/science2311/art/Containment-Breach-500379414 This parody]] of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' has Jill mistaking gas to be the T-Virus infection.

* An early episode of ''Series/{{Louie}}'' features Louie and the kids being visited by his pregnant sister, who is revealed to have had multiple miscarriages in the past. In the middle of the night, she starts screaming in pain, claiming that something is wrong with the baby. Louie rushes her to the ER and...cue massive fart.

* An early episode of ''Series/Louie'' features Louie and the kids being visited by his pregnant sister, who is revealed to have had multiple miscarriages in the past. In the middle of the night, she starts screaming in pain, claiming that something is wrong with the baby. Louie rushes her to the ER and...cue massive fart.

* ''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.

If the character isn't typically a {{Gasshole}}, this can come off as a shock, then an embarrassment, to them. If this scenario lasts for an entire episode, it will end as a ShaggyDogStory.

* In one episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory,'' Sheldon realizes that he'll miss TheSingularity by 100 years, and decides to take up healthy eating and regular exercise. However, on the night of his diet change, he comes to Leonard in a panic about his appendix being infected. Halfway down the stairs, he lets out a massive fart. He quickly gives up on the diet.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' story "Monkey Business," Townsville is enjoying a bowl of chili at Mojo Jojo's restaurant. Blossom causes a panic when she mistakes everyone farting for a gas leak.

* The ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Promortyus" featured {{FaceHugger}}s that reproduced by laying eggs after living for only half an hour. The episode ends with Rick and Morty thinking they're going to lay eggs and thus die, but they [[PottyFailure just needed to take dumps]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'': When Wallace and Gromit find an oversized rabbit in their basement with all the other rabbits trembling and terrified, they assume they've found the rampaging were-rabbit. Wallace gets a metal grabber and holds onto the rabbit by its neck. Then the rabbit starts twitching and grunting like it's about to transform, only to finally force a huge belch past the metal around its neck. The other rabbits let out a sigh of relief, and Gromit waves the stink away from his nose.

This character is minding their own business, going about their day as usual... when suddenly, there's this growing pain inside of their body! Clutching their chest/belly, they're worried that they could be having a [[HollywoodHeartAttack heart attack]] or something! Why does this tension just keep getting worse? What could this strange illness possibly be?!

This character is minding their own business, going about their day as usual... when suddenly, there's this growing pain inside of their body! Clutching their chest/belly, they're worried that they could be having a heart attack or something! Why does this tension just keep getting worse? What could this strange illness possibly be?!

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'': When Wallace and Gromit find an oversized rabbit in their basement with all the other rabbits trembling and terrified, they assume they've found the rampaging were-rabbit. Wallace gets a metal grabber and holds onto the rabbit by its neck. Then the rabbit starts twitching and grunting like it's about to transform, only to finally force a huge belch past the metal around its neck. The other rabbits let out a sigh of relief, and Gromit waves the stink away from his nose.

* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': In "Home is Where the Heart Attack Is", this gets {{inverted}} when Carlton goes into heavy denial about his father's condition and tries to make claims that it could be "acute indigestion". Of course, Will doesn't buy it.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Peter tries to invoke this in "Mr. Griffin Goes To Washington". 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.

In ''Literature/MaxisSecrets'', Maxi is whining in the car on the way home from the dog breeder. Timminy thinks she's scared and squeezes her a little too tightly to make her feel better, but it turns out she just had gas and stinks up the car.

In ''Literature/MaxisSecrets'', Maxi is whining in the car on the way home from the dog breeder. Timminy thinks she's scared and squeezes her to make her feel better, but he does it too tightly and she passes gas, stinking up the car.