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* In ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'', Nobue and Miu are pretending that Miu's dead. One of Nobue's "proofs" is that Miu, despite "having been" very ticklish, doesn't react to the most severe tickling. Except that she does, of course.

* Ryo-ohki unintentionally does this to Sasami after being scared into hiding by [[Our Ghosts Are Different|Mirei]] in [[Tenchi Universe]].

** In ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', Tai gets tickled by his teacher after remarking that he could be an evil digimon

** In ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', Growlmon gets tickled while being painted in an attempt to hide him.

** In ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'', Kouji is briefly tickled by Takuya and JP.

* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', Natsu does this to Erza after rescuing her from Jellal the first time.

* During the season finale of season 2 of ''[[Sonic X]]'', after Rouge and Knuckles [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|get into a fight]], upon seeing Sonic has returned Knuckles cracks a joke on Rouge's ruffled appearance, leading Rouge to do you know what... offscreen

 

== [[Film]] ==

* Near the beginning of Disney's ''[[The Rescuers Down Under]]'', After [[Cheerful Child|Cody]] frees Majestic Eagle Marahute from a trap set by Mcleach, The eagle flies him around for a ride across the sky. During the event, Marahute catches Cody in her tallons and tickles his tummy while in her grasp

 

== [[Music]] ==

* "Tickle Time", a song on the [[Sandra Boynton]] album "Rhinoceros Tap", is basically a song about this.

So let's all get together, and we'll goochie-goochie-goo.'' }}

 

* ''[[Mr. Men]]'': Doing this to people is the whole of Mr. Tickle's character.

* Happens repeatedly in the [[CHERUB Series]] to various characters, by various characters. James and Kerry seem to particularly enjoy it.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* This is how the Ruth Buzzi episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' ends, with a few of the Muppets tickling her.

* Quite a bit in ''[[Zoboomafoo]]'', particularly used on Zoboo himself

* In one episode of ''[[Road to Avonlea]]'', Felicity makes a scathing remark about Sara's father to her face, instigating a fight between them. The boys tickle them to break it up.

* In an episode of [[Spin City]], James is trying to demonstrate (to a bullied Paul) a fighting move called The Crane, in which he raises his arms above his head. James confidently states there is no defensive move against The Crane. Janelle simply walks up to him and tickles him under his arms. James collapses.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. In "Gone" [[Invisible Main Character|Buffy is turned invisible]] and uses it as an excuse to engage in [[Invisible Jerkass|irresponsible behaviour]]. This includes tickling Spike and gnawing on his earlobe while he's talking to Xander who has turned up looking for Buffy. As Xander has already walked in on Spike doing '[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|naked pushups]]' in bed, this odd behaviour as Spike twitches and giggles for no apparent reason convinces him that Spike [[You Need to Get Laid|needs to get a girlfriend pronto]].

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* In one comic of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin's mom tickles Calvin in hopes of tiring him out into falling asleep, {{spoiler|the plan backfires and only hypes him up while she falls asleep.}}

** When Calvin is stuck hanging from a tree, Hobbes removes his shoe and tickles his foot. Unfortunately for Hobbes, this ends up making Calvin fall on him.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* All ''[[My Sims]]'' characters seem to enjoy this; it's an action that may be performed if you click "Be Nice", and as such, NPC Sims will only do it to each other if they consider each other friends.

** Additionally, in ''[[My Sims]] Kingdom'', it's a possible option in some Socialization attempts. It seems to help get things back on track sometimes if you take the wrong path along the Socialization tree.

* This can be done in various other sims games too, including [[The Sims]] and [[The Sims 2]]. For some reason, though, it was left out of [[The Sims 3]].

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=129 The Ticklebug] between Sarah and Rachael in [[Las Lindas]].

* Used in this [http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/10/09/funny-pictures-tickle-tickle-tickle-2/ Lolcats] page.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* Pretty common in Internet "baby videos." Since these are all about the cuteness of the babies, it is very likely that when you are watching, you'll see the hand of the camera(wo)man giving this to the baby (or babies) onscreen in order to elicit laughter from the little tyke(s).

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* One ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' Quickie (and therefore probably a U.S. Acres/Orson's Farm strip) has Orson and Bo trying to tickle Roy and Lanolin in an attempt to cheer them up. No reaction, aside from deadpan snarking when they leave.

* The cartoon ''Maisy'' has a mini-episode titled ''Feather'', at the end of which Maisy and her friends take turns getting tickled with said feather.

* ''[[Baby Looney Tunes]]'' has a quick tickle between Lola and Bugs.

* The episode "Butter's First Check-Up" of ''[[PB and J Otter]]'' has various characters getting tickled throughout as part of a game.

** Spike tries to tickle Twilight Sparkle while she's trying not to move; she resists for a while, then sends him flying. This results in her looking a bit more like her future self...

** Lois does this to Stewie in two episodes, once after Stewie escapes from Peter after shrinking down and entering him while Peter and Lois have sex.

** In a different episode, Peter tickles Lois and she retaliates by hitting him in the face with a frying pan and breaking his nose.

** Peter get tickled by the wife of a family that's moved into his house when it's threatened to be taken away by the back. She gets him again at the episode's ending as well.

** In an episode where Meg and Quagmire are dating, Quagmire gets Meg by surprise while they're watching TV. {{spoiler|Then she farts.}}

** Subverted for Brian during a deleted scene. Peter tries to cheer him up, but Brian only sarcastically remarks that it's sexual harrassment.

* One episode of [[The Simpsons]] has Homer do this to Bart in order to get him to dance at a stadium event and cause him to pee himself.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

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