Farts on Fire: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"In China it's considered perfectly good manners to talk with your mouth full and to burp after your meal. Farting seems to vary according to the situation and your current company, so ask ahead of time. Lighting the fart is frowned upon in almost all provinces."''|'''[[Cracked.com|Cracked]]''', [http://www.cracked.com/article_16335_7-innocent-gestures-that-can-get-you-killed-overseas.html#ixzz1dXz1TwkU Seven Gestures That Can Get You Killed Overseas]}}

 

This ''does'' work in [[Real Life]], though [[Reality Is Unrealistic|not always, and not very impressively]]. Despite the fact that it ''is'' [[Truth in Television]], [[Don't Try This At Home]].

 

 

[[Fartillery]] is this taken to its illogical extreme.

 

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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.

* ''[[Tremors]] 3'' takes this trope to the extreme. The Assblasters are capable of propelling themselves to flight at high altitudes by igniting their own farts. One even used this technique to try and burn through Burt's bomb shelter.

* In the 1993 Live-Action film of ''[[Dennis the Menace US|Dennis The Menace]]'', when Dennis is (unknowingly) held captive by a burglar, and he is accidentally handcuffed by Dennis, Dennis accidentally drops the release keys into a cooking pot of beans, since "Food is not wasted" Dennis force-feeds him the ''entire pot'' making him to fart near the fire causing a big flame.

* In the comedy ''[[Caveman]]'', one of the rival cavemen gets his butt lit on fire, he runs around farting and emitting jets of flame.

* In ''[[Black Sheep]]'', the fact that their fart contains large amounts of methanol is used to blow up the {{spoiler|flesh eating sheeps}}

* In ''[[Superhero Movie]]'', Rick's sleeping aunt farts next to a candle, resulting in a huge, flamethower-sized jet of flame shooting between Rick and his girlfriend.

* In ''Joy of Sex'' the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hy-NvoSyhA Blue Flamers] at the drive-in.

 

* 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]].''

* In ''[[The Young Ones]]'' episode Cash, Vyvyan thinks he's pregnant, backed up by his [[Balloon Belly|rapidly expanding gut]]. Turns out it was just gas. Right after it's released someone(I think Rik), lights a cigar, and blows the house up.

** It was Mike. When Vyv started 'going into labour', he left the room because he didn't want to watch, and came back after the fart had filled the air to congratulate Vyv. Clearly from this scene, Mike has ''no sense of smell''.

* [[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.

* 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 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!''*

 

 

* ''[[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]] ==

* '''[[Splosion Man]]'' seems to 'splode like this from time to time.

* Chimchar from ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'' has a flame coming out of its buttocks whenever it's awake.

* 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.

* In ''[[Evan Mather|Kung Fu Kenobi's Big Adventure]]'', several cans of beans are used by the titular character to blow up Jabba the Hutt, and his palace with him. And that's the least bizarre part of that particular short.

* Accidentally used in ''[[Duckman]]'' to fuel a campfire.

* A ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'' short tuned this [[Up to Eleven]] for a hilariously disastrous fuel-air bomb when Lazlo was invited to a ceremony right after a bean-eating contest. The beans caused gas to build up and overload Lazlo's tummy. The moment the ceremonial torch was lit, [[Potty Failure|he let it all go]].

* 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.

 

** 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.

* This was given in ''The Book of Heroic Failures'', listing an episode in which a vet attending a cow in a barn stuck a tube into "that end which is not capable of facial expression" and struck a light. The resulting jet of flame set fire to the barn.

 

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

[[Category:This Index Is On Fire]]

[[Category:Spectacle]]

[[Category:Nothing Butt an Index]]

[[Category:Tropes Examined by the Mythbusters]]