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%%* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''

* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': Mongo open candy box, candy box go KABOOM! Powder fill screen. Scene end.

* ''WebVide/PrankVsPrank'': In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLu6Haq3kJQ "BEST FLOUR PRANK EVER!!!"]], Jesse tricks his girlfriend into putting her face right at the tube of a dustblower which he had previously charged with flour. When it gets activated, a cloud of the stuff cakes most of her upper body.

** [[Recap/EdEddNEddyS2E9InLikeEd "In Like Ed"]]: Thanks to a baking powder smoke bomb [[ShoePhone shaped like a jawbreaker]], everyone gets covered in the stuff and is as white as ghosts.
** [[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E19SmileForTheEd "Smile For the Ed"]]: Ed shouts "Makeup!" and ''poof''ing Eddy through the wall with a chalkboard eraser. The episode ends with him doing it to himself, producing this trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbLetsTakeAQuiz "Let's Take a Quiz"]], Candace is the victim of this gag, in tribute to the Milton Berle show.

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* ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'': In [[Recap/RWBYChibiS1E1RubyMakesCookies "Ruby Makes Cookies"]], when Ruby tries to get the flour out of its bag, it won't come out. She shakes it until it all falls out, sending flour exploding everywhere. The camera goes into white-out as it becomes covered in flour.

* ''Anime/AdventuresOfTheLittleKoala'': In [[Recap/AdventuresOfTheLittleKoalaE03 "The Mysterious Moa Bird"]], a bee flies into the kitchen while Mommy and Laura are making eucalyptus cakes. While crouching to avoid the bee, Mommy blindly tries to swat it away from the cakes and ends up knocking a bowl of flour off the counter, covering her in flour.

* ''Anime/AdventuresOfTheLittleKoala'': In "The Mysterious Moa Bird," a bee flies into the kitchen while Mommy and Laura are making eucalyptus cakes. While crouching to avoid the bee, Mommy blindly tries to swat it away from the cakes and ends up knocking a bowl of flour off the counter, covering her in flour.

** ''ComicBook/ScoobyDooDC'': {{Exploited}} in "Flour Power" (issue #122). The MonsterOfTheWeek covers himself in flour and dresses as a bakery ghost. As he pursues them, they knock flour sacks, causing the entire room and themselves to be coated in white powder. The bakery ghost uses the diminished visibility to get rid of his costume and make it seem as if he just stumbled onto the mess.

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': This is the complete disguise of the MonsterOfTheWeek, who covers himself in flour. Must have been very convincing because, when Shaggy and Scooby get covered in the stuff, he thinks they're ghosts.

** [[Recap/EdEddNEddyS2E9InLikeEd "In Like Ed"]]: Thanks to a baking powder smoke bomb [[ShoePhone shaped like a jawbreaker]], everyone gets covered in the stuff and are as white as ghosts.

* ''WesternAnimation/LonesomeGhosts'': Ghost chasers Mickey, Donald, and Goofy spend the whole show getting trounced by tricky ghosts. In the end, all three get coated in molasses, syrup, and flour so they [[FauxHorrific resemble ghosts]], and they accidentally [[HorrifyingTheHorrible scare the real ghosts away]].

** In one short, Lambie gets lost under the couch and gets covered from head to toe in dust, requiring her to be put through the washing machine (she's a LivingToy).

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': In [[Recap/ "Four Star Spectacular"]], 'Mazing Man causes a fireplace to collapse, covering himself and the homeowners from head to foot in soot.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In [[Recap/ "Drumforgiven"]], Louise plans to send a music shop owner a glitter bomb disguised as a present, as payback for banning Gene from playing with the instruments in his shop. She has to abort the plan when Gene arrives to confront the owner himself. After all has been settled, Gene sees the bomb in Louise's hands, thinks it's a present for him, and opens it, covering everyone with glitter.

** [[Recap/ "A Day Without Cuddles": Mr. [=McStuffins=] accidentally spills flour all over [[CuddleBug Lambie]]. Doc, being a "toy doctor", [[SeriousBusiness treats this like a contagious disease]] and tells her not to cuddle anyone, lest they "catch" it. This was especially bad for her, as it was [[FictionalHoliday International Cuddle Day]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': In "Four Star Spectacular", 'Mazing Man causes a fireplace to collapse, covering himself and the homeowners from head to foot in soot.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "Drumforgiven", Louise plans to send a music shop owner a glitter bomb disguised as a present, as payback for banning Gene from playing with the instruments in his shop. She has to abort the plan when Gene arrives to confront the owner himself. After all has been settled, Gene sees the bomb in Louise's hands, thinks it's a present for him, and opens it, covering everyone with glitter.

** In "A Day Without Cuddles", Mr. [=McStuffins=] accidentally spills flour all over [[CuddleBug Lambie]]. Doc, being a "toy doctor", [[SeriousBusiness treats this like a contagious disease]] and tells her not to cuddle anyone, lest they "catch" it. This was especially bad for her, as it was [[FictionalHoliday International Cuddle Day]].

** Episode "In Like Ed" featured this gag, produced by a baking powder smoke bomb [[ShoePhone shaped like a jawbreaker]].
** "Smile For the Ed" had Ed shouting "Makeup!" and ''poof''ing Eddy through the wall with a chalkboard eraser. The episode ends with him doing it to himself, producing this trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/LonesomeGhosts'': In this classic 1937 Disney cartoon, ghost chasers Mickey, Donald, and Goofy spend the whole show getting trounced by tricky ghosts. In the end, all three get coated in molasses, syrup, and flour so they resemble ghosts, and they accidentally scare the real ghosts away.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "Band Together", several characters get pranked with glitter bombs in their faces.
* ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'': Downplayed in "Martha's Steamed", in which Ruby is initially mistaken for having a white circle on her eye, but it's just powdered sugar from a donut she stole.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Baby Cakes", when Pinkie Pie is doing a dance to try to get the Cake twins (month-old babies) to stop crying, she bumps into a cabinet, knocking a sack of flour over her. Later, when Pinkie Pie herself cries due to being frustrated with being a BadlyBatteredBabysitter, the twins deliberately spill flour on themselves to cheer her up.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "Let's Take a Quiz", Candace is the victim of this gag, in tribute to the Milton Berle show.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': In "Three Men and an Egon", Egon is [[MerlinSickness aging backwards]], and once he becomes a baby, the rest have to [[TheDiaperChange change his diaper]]. When Slimer tries to powder him, he gets powder everywhere, and everyone (except baby Egon himself) starts coughing and sneezing, with Slimer even sneezing so hard, he launches himself into the trash.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': In "All's Well That Pretends Well", Angelica takes a dusty feather duster and tries to sprinkle dust all over Chuckie to make him sneeze. However, Spike steals the duster and plays with it, so the dust ends up landing on Angelica and making ''her'' sneeze.

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': This is the complete disguise of the disguised MonsterOfTheWeek, who covers himself in flour. Must have been very convincing because when Shaggy and Scooby get covered in the stuff he thinks they're ghosts.

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* In ''AudioPlay/TheUnfinishedSpellingErrorsOfBolkien'', Gimli blows on the horn of Helm Hammerhand and gets covered in powder that old Helm left in there as a joke.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13249208/1/The-Cake-Club The Cake Club]]'' Holly and the other first-year Gryffindor girls sneak into the Hogwarts kitchens to make a cake. After Lavender and Hermione sneeze, they all end up covered in flour.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13208832/15/Out-Of-Sight Out of Sight]]'' Anna pushes Matt into a flour sack which bursts, covering him in it.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13880078/7/Out-of-the-Mouths-of-Babes Out of the Mouths of Babes]]'' about an hour after Harry proposes to Ginny, they announce that they've leaving to get married. Mrs. Weasley spins around in shock while holding a flour bag, resulting in Hermione and the other Weasleys being covered in it.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9552519/25/Reboot Reboot]]'' when Snape's son was two, he spilled cocoa powder on himself, ending up brown from head to toe.

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* The nuclear cheese blast in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge''. RJ opens a bag of potato chips, [[DistantReactionShot causing a mushroom cloud of nacho cheese dust the size of a continent]].

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* The coke-sniffing scene in ''Film/AnnieHall''. One SneezeOfDoom from Alvy, and tens of thousands of dollars' worth of cocaine are scattered all over the room.

* A RunningGag in ''Film/HouseOnBareMountain'' is Granny Good getting a faceful of dust every time she tries to use the speaking tube in her office.

* Shows up in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', if you can believe that. Will Whitfoot, mayor of Michel Delving and the fattest hobbit in the Shire, is caught in the collapse of the Town Hole and emerges covered in chalk, thus earning the nickname "Flourdumpling". It happens off screen -- er, off page -- but still, there you are.
* In ''Snowy, the Little White Kitten'', a mother cat cleans her kittens based on how much dirt is visible rather than how dirty the kittens actually are, and, as such, has most trouble cleaning the white one, Snowy. This makes him feel bad about being white, so he rolls in ashes to make himself grey, then in soot to make himself black, but this just makes his mother angry.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Blossom}}'', Blossom and Six use this trick (blowing powder under the bottom of a window) to blind what they think is a homicidial maniac attempting to break into the house on Halloween. It actually turns out to be one of Blossom's brothers.
* A running gag on ''The Milton Berle Show'' was for someone to holler, "MAKEUP!", resulting in someone running on stage and smacking the victim in the face with a big, soft, loaded powder puff. Copied by many others.

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* In the ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'' episode ''[[Recap/RWBYChibiS1E1RubyMakesCookies Ruby Makes Cookies]]'', when Ruby tries to get the flour out of its bag, it won't come out. She shakes it until it all falls out, sending flour exploding everywhere. The camera goes into white-out as it becomes covered in flour.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "Drumforgiven", Louise plans to send a music shop owner a glitter bomb disguised as a present, as payback for banning Gene from playing with the instruments in his shop. She has to abort the plan when Gene arrives to confront the owner himself. After all has been settled, Gene sees the bomb in Louise's hands, thinks it's a present for him and opens it, covering everyone with glitter.

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' has done this more than once, at one time this was the complete disguise for the [[MonsterOfTheWeek villain of the week]] who covered himself in flour. Must have been very convincing because when Shaggy and Scooby get covered in the stuff he thinks they're ghosts.

* A running gag on ''The Milton Berle Show'' was for someone to holler "MAKEUP!", resulting in someone running on stage and smacking the victim in the face with a big, soft, loaded powder puff. Copied by many others.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9552519/25/Reboot Reboot]]'' when Snape's son was two he spilled cocoa powder on himself, ending up brown from head to toe.

* The nuclear cheese blast in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge''.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13880078/7/Out-of-the-Mouths-of-Babes Out of the Mouths of Babes]]'' about an hour after Harry proposes to Ginny, they announce that they've leaving to get married. Mrs. Weasley spins around in shock while holding a flour bag, resulting in Hermione and the other Weasleys being covered in it.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Blossom}}'', Blossom and Six use this trick (blowing powder under the bottom of a window) to blind what they think is a homicidial maniac attempting to break into the house on Halloween. It actually turns out to be one of Blossom's brothers.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': In "Four Star Spectacular", 'Mazing Man causes a fireplace to collapse, covering himself and the homeowners from head to foot in soot.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "Drumforgiven", Louise plans to send a music shop owner a glitter bomb disguised as a present, as payback for banning Gene from playing with the instruments in his shop. She has to abort the plan when Gene arrives to confront the owner himself. After all has been settled, Gene sees the bomb in Louise's hands, thinks it's a present for him and opens it, covering everyone with glitter.