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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* From ''[[
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'''Izzy:''' I'd settle for a small cow. }}
* I distinctly remember Ash from "[[Pokémon (
== [[Comic Strip]] ==
* One ''[[
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'''Teen #2''': "I'm so hungry I could eat a rhino!"
'''Teen #3''': "I'm so hungry I could eat an elephant, including trunk and tusks!"
'''Teen #4''': "Now I lost my appetite!" }}
== [[Film]] ==
* Played with in ''[[Apollo 13]]''. Astronaut Fred Haise is getting sick during the flight; Jim Lovell asks if he'd like to skip the next meal, and he responds, "Are you kidding? I could eat the ass end out of a rhinoceros."
* In ''[[
* Pappas of ''[[Point Break]]'' gave us "I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhino!"
* In ''[[
* ''[[Flight of the Navigator]]'' gave us this conversation:
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'''Max:''' Back in time to when I picked up my creatures. By now they're so hungry, they could eat a zigzog.
'''David:''' What's a zigzog?
'''Max:''' Kind of like a hippo, but with feathers. }}
* An unusual variant by Vic from ''[[Neighbors]]'': "Ramona and I haven't eaten all day. We could eat a baby's butt through a park bench."
* Fred from ''The Foot Fist Way'' gives another strange variant: "I'm so hungry I could eat a grown man's ass right now!"
* ''[[
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'''John McCabe:''' Well, at Sheehan's place you probably will.
'''Mrs. Miller:''' Ah, the frontier wit, I see. }}
* Phido the Vulture in ''[[The Thief and
* Itchy from ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]] 2'': "I'm so hungry, I could eat a shoe."
* Roy from ''White Lightning'': "I'm so hungry I could eat the tail-end out of a hobby-horse."
* Nan from ''The Bad Mother's Handbook'': "When's tea ready? I could eat a buttered frog."
* From'' Sweet Land'':
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'''Inge:''' I could eat a horse.
'''Brownie:''' Well we could find dat. }}
* [[Cheech and Chong]] - ''The Corsican Brothers'': "I'm so hungry I could eat a bowl of lard with a hair in it!"
** A squickier version from ''Things are Tough all Over;'' "I could eat the crotch out of a dead horse!"
* In (at least) the [[Rankin/Bass Productions]] adaptation of ''[[The Return of the King (
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* ''[[M*A*S*H (
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* ''[[
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'''Gomez:''' I am so hungry I could eat a wolf.
'''Morticia:''' Gomez, you guessed it! }}
* ''[[The Waltons]]'' ("The Homecoming: A Christmas Story"):
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'''Grandma:''' If this depression gets any worse, you may have to. }}
* ''[[Gunsmoke]]'' ("Custer"):
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'''Marshal Matt Dillon:''' This is all the hog you get this morning. }}
* Toby from ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]]'' ("Rock Solid"): "I'm so hungry, I could eat the Oldies section."
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[
** This gets a callback in a later episode, "Dave and the Giant Pickle". This time, since the Gourds are playing the parts of ancient Israelites, the conversation plays out rather differently:
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'''Jerry:''' Oh yeah? Sometimes I get so hungry, I could eat a whole ''[[Anachronism Stew|spaceship]]!''
'''Jimmy:''' What's a spaceship?
'''Jerry:''' …I have no idea. }}
* In ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' episode "For Lunch", Arnold begins to insist "Not hungry? But I could eat a..." before Wanda, inside his stomach and pretending to be his conscience, cuts him off and forces him to drink instead.
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'''Tails:''' I'm so hungry I could eat our dust! }}
* ''[[
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* While stranded on an island on ''[[The Simpsons (
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