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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.

 

* There's a scene in ''[[Hate]]'' where a whole bunch of people at a nighttime party stand in a line and light their farts.

* In ''[[Gorsky and Butch]]'' Aliens parody, two marines use this to blow a flock of man-eating sheep ([[Makes Sense in Context]]) in a [[Taking You with Me]] attack.

 

* ''[[Dumb and Dumber]]''

* ''[[Wet Hot American Summer]]'' does this at the talent show.

* In ''Weekend Warriors'' they settle a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMIObEwzbYI bet] with this.

 

* Dave Barry's column "Apocalypse Cow" tells of a university professor who set fire to methane emitted by cows for classroom demonstration purposes.

* [[Played for Drama|Not played for laughs]]: In [[Stephen King]]'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.

* Elmer the Fire Farter in a ''[[Stephanie Plum]]'' spinoff, ''Plum Spooky''.

 

* A fantasy-version of Rygel the 16th as the Black Knight uses this as a weapon in ''[[Farscape]].''

* The ''[[MythBusters]]'' tried it (in a segment they [[Executive Meddling|could not air]] in the USA but did overseas...and the US execs finally relented for the anniversary "Top 25" special). Although the flatulence was flammable, the flame itself was fairly unimpressive and it didn't remove the smell at all.

* [[Stephen Colbert]] attempted this to demonstrate how to fix the oil spill in the gulf. It didn't go so well and we instead got some [[Relax-O-Vision]] as the stagehands put him out. On the bright side, he doesn't need to worry about that waxing appointment anymore.

* A segment of a [[Mind Screw|bizarre German game show]] featured a sort of "word of the day." The clue was as follows: [[Ms. Fanservice|A woman in lingerie]] bends over, and the camera does a close-up of her butt. A flame is brought near it, and the result is something like a Bunsen burner. (The word of the day was, of course, "gas.")

* In the ''[[I'm in The Band]]'' episode "Don't Date the Principal's Daughter", [[Gasshole|Burger]] does this {{spoiler|on Derek after Ash, who pulls his finger in order to make him burp fire}} (because he accidentally discovered earlier that pulling the wrong finger will result in a burp when it's Burger), but [[Epic Fail|fails hilariously]]

* Happens at least twice in ''[[1000 Ways to Die]]''.

* Happens in ''[[House MD]]'', when the team is operating on a [[Hikikomori]] with an intestinal blockage. A doctor goes to cauterize a bleed... "Hey, wait! The gas..." *''FOOSH!''*

 

* [[Hammerfall]]'s "Hearts on Fire" is commonly [[mondegreen]]ed into this [[Trope Namer|very trope title]]. "Burning, burning with desire," indeed.

 

* ''[[The Far Side]]'' may have been [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] by showing the fantastic variation of young dragons lighting their sneezes.

* This was the closest category. A cartoon book called ''The Bunny Suicides'' has a bunny using several cans of beans, strategic ductwork, and a match. The book itself is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Dragon Age]]'', if you try to tell [[Boisterous Bruiser|Oghren's]] ex-girlfriend Felsi that he's more fun than other men she probably knows, she'll say "If by 'more fun' you mean 'more likely to light farts on fire.'" And this isn't even the dumbest of his antics that she recalls. . .

 

 

* Because [[Truth in Television|it's possible to light a fart]], there are hundreds of videos on [[YouTube]] that demonstrate the act.

 

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

* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]] [[The Movie|Do America]]''. It causes a mushroom cloud.

* Despite her usual demure manner, ''[[Kaeloo]]'', in her [[One-Winged Angel|Bad Kaeloo]] form, [[It Makes Sense in Context|lights one of her farts with a match]] to burn a pile of skin mags and comic books.

 

* In [[Real Life]], 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.

 

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Television Is Trying to Kill Us]]

[[Category:This Index Is On Fire]]

[[Category:Nothing Butt an Index]]

[[Category:Tropes Examined by the Mythbusters]]