History Main / LiteralAssKissing

Like LiteralAssKicking, certain rear-end related sayings aren't always figurative. Often used as a form of embarassment, Literal Ass Kissing is a rather ultimate form of humiliation and submission.

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** When Randy Marsh accidentally says [[NWordPrivileges the N word]] on TV, he apologizes to Jesse Jackson by kissing his ass on camera. This also turns the episode title "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson" into a DoubleMeaningTitle.
** Another ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' example: in the episode "Fun with Veal", Cartman refuses to help Stan and Kyle rescue the calves from the veal farm unless Kyle kisses him on the arse. Kyle reluctantly agrees, and Cartman lets off a fart in his face.

A commmon variant is the LiteralGenie version, when someone isn't familiar with the idiom and assumes it's an order.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', the dragon is about to kiss Donkey when Shrek drops in to save him, and she ends up kissing Shrek's exposed hindquarters instead. She is not too pleased. [[StealthPun Either way, she'd have kissed an ass.]]

[[caption-width-right:320:With Apologies to Jesse Jackson indeed!]]

* Medieval witches were believed to give the Devil the "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osculum_infame Osculum infame]]" or "Kiss of Shame" when meeting him. It was essentially supposed to be the Satanic version of kissing the pope's feet.
* An old tradition in the South of France: people who lose a game of ''petanque'' 13-0 are supposed to "kiss Fanny's bottom". Many bars and petanque fields have a drawing or sculpture of Fanny presenting her butt to the loser, as seen [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pétanque#/media/File:Fanny_Le_Rituel.jpg here]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', the dragon is about to kiss Donkey when Shrek drops in to save him, and she ends up kissing Shrek's exposed hindquarters instead. She is not too pleased. [[StealthPun Either way, she'd have kissed an ass.]]

* The Rock and Mr. Ass once had a match where the loser had to kiss the winner's ass. Rock won and forced Mr. Ass to kiss the ass of a fat woman pulled from the crowd instead.

* An old tradition in the South of France: people who lose a game of ''petanque'' 13-0 are supposed to "kiss Fanny's bottom". Many bars and petanque fields have a drawing or sculpture of Fanny presenting her butt to the loser, as seen [[http://photos.blogs.liberation.fr/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/25/100_2919.jpg here]].

-->''Roiben:''' That is the true nature of servitude... Not at all pretty. In the future, I suggest you be less inventive with your insults.

* Used as a combined joke and point of horror in ''[[Literature/ModernFaerieTales Tithe]]'' by Holly Black: after finding out a villain's TrueName, the main character sarcastically tells him to kiss her ass, and doesn't realize he's magically compelled to obey. "That is the true nature of servitude . . . Not at all pretty. In the future, I suggest you be less inventive with your insults."

* SlashFic. That is all.

See also LiteralAssKicking.

* In the song "Without Me", Music/{{Eminem}} challenges his MoralGuardian critics to "come on dip, bum on your lips".

* In James Joyce's ''{{Ulysses}}'', Leopold Bloom has a habit of kissing his wife's bottom as a greeting.

* [[http://despair.com/flattery.html Flattery]]
--> If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom.

* The 2000 film version of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''. When the Grinch is stealing the presents and gets to the [[JerkAss Mayor]], he presents Max's ass to him while he sleeps. Max is very clearly NOT happy afterwards

* The 2000 film version of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''.

* Thanks to the LiteralGenie nature of the magic bean in ''TheTenthKingdom'', this trope is the result when ButtMonkey ([[{{Pun}} ha-ha!]]) Tony Lewis wishes for his boss "and his entire family to ''kiss my ass'' and be my slaves forever". It doesn't help that at least one of the Murrays must have been something of a brown-noser already, since he insists on kissing Tony's ass repeatedly. (Or could that also have been covered under the "forever" part?)

** Subverted later in the same story, when Absalom gets a red hot poker and returns to the window. When he calls for his kiss again, the lady's lover sticks his ass out the window to pull the same prank. [[ToastedBuns *Sizzle* ]]

* One of the specific charges of heresy levied against TheKnightsTemplar was that initiates were required to be stripped naked and kissed by the preceptor on the navel, the posterior and the mouth.

->''Derk was the nyght as pich, or as the cole,\\

But with his mouth he kiste hir naked ers''
-->--'''Creator/GeoffreyChaucer''', "[[Literature/TheCanterburyTales The Millers Tale]]" (see below for translation).

* In the story where ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' go to Ireland, Bart tricks people into kissing his bottom (which has been spraypainted) instead of the Blarney Stone, although this trick backfired when an Irish version of Nelson decides to carve his initials in the "rock."

* Clive Barker's play ''TheHistoryOfTheDevil''. The Devil makes it a point to ask several characters, although very politely. Probably a reference to the ''"osculum infame"'' (see Other).